Terrible Things My Mother Told Me is a 1988TVfilm starring Nicole Andrews, Ita DeMarco, Carol Goodheart, Beth Howland and Stephen James. It was directed by Susan Rohrer and written by John Alan Palmer, Christopher Whitesell and Susan Rohrer. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band European networks National In much of Europe television broadcasting has historically been state dominated, rather than commercially organised, although commercial stations have grown in number recently. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Elizabeth Beth Howland (born May 28, 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American actress, best known as Vera on the TV show Alice. ... Christopher Whitesell is an American soap opera writer. ...