SHORT TAKES : ‘Twin Peaks’ Cans Recap Show

NEW YORK — What would seem an idea right out of “Mission Impossible”--a one-hour recapitulation of last season’s many plot twists on “Twin Peaks”--has been canceled, ABC said Thursday.

ABC originally planned to air on Sept. 29 a show that would have recapped important points in the surreal saga of sex, murder and doughnuts in a small logging hamlet in Washington state. The series now is in summer repeats.

But the network and the show’s makers, Lynch-Frost Productions, mutually agreed to call off the special and concentrate all their energy on the show’s second season, said ABC spokeswoman Janice Gretemeyer.

“Twin Peaks” will begin its second season with a two-hour Sunday broadcast on Sept. 30, then appear regularly on Saturday nights.