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C-7 Town Talk, Alexandria-Pineville, La Friday, December 23, 1983 GENERAL. CINEMA THEATRES A I ill 1 1) 1 1 1 hWSir (mom MATiNEEs-tioo'71 I 1 1 1 I JIJ MOM THRU SAT Ail SHOWS KFORf 4PM i TV Tonight i ww tvinu ipg) Starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton John Feature Time: VVAViK 1 Holiday Specials 10 EW YORK (UPI) CBS was the No. 1 prime time network last week with eight of its shows, including three Christmas specials, on the list of the top 10 programs. The A.C. Nielsen prime time ratings for the week ending Dec.

18 gave CBS an 18.5 rating with a 29 percent share of the viewing audience, ABC a 16.0 rating with a 25 share and NBC a 14.9 rating with a 23 share. CBS now has won the prime time ratings nine times in the 12-week-old season. For the second consecutive week CBS News' "60 Minutes" was the No. 1 program of the week. The Top .10 shows for the week ending Dec.

18, according to the A.C. Nielsen 1. 60 Minutes (CBS) 2. The A Team (NBC) 3. Dallas (CBS) 4.

Love Boat (ABC) 5. Magnum, P.I. (CBS) 6. Simon and Simon (CBS) 7. Falcon Crest (CBS) 8.

Circus of Stars Special (CBS) 9. Dr. Seuss Special (CBS) I 10. Charlie Brown Special (CBS) Today's top television shows, as previewed and selected by Steven H. Scheuer and TV Key's staff in New York and Hollywood: 7 p.m.

ABC Webster. Katherine goes undercover to investigate a complaint against a television game show host 7 pjn. NBC Movie of the Week. "The Invisible Woman." Newspaper reporter Sandy Martinson (Alexa Hamilton) comes into contact with a strange chemical substance that renders her invisible, and discovers that it's a help when she tries to write a story about a shady art collector (Harvey Korman). Bob Denver, David Doyle and Garrett Morris also star; George Gobel guest-stars.

8 p.m. CBS Dallas. J.R. tries to stop Miss Ellie from marrying Clayton Farlow and Peter steps up his pursuit of Sue Ellen. 8 p.m.

ABC Lottery. Flaherty and Rush deliver winnings to a couple who turns their small store into a giant supermarket and a choir leader who receives new meaning about the Lord's praises. 9 p.m. ABC Matt Houston. C.J.

and Matt assist F. Lee Bailey when he has to defend a man who's confessed to killing four teenagers. 9 p.m. NBC Mac Davis Special: The Music of Christmas. Mac is joined to Barbara MandrelL Ronnie Milsap and Gladys Knight and the Pips for an inspirational hour of Yuletide music NBC Friday Schedule Full of Failures newsmagazine.

Through mid-December, "First Camera," up against CBS' popular "60 Minutes," was this season's lowest-rated show. Even the paid-political program, "Mondale for President," had a higher rating. The original schedule favored by Brandon Tartikoff, president of NBC Entertainment, had "Fame" at 6 p.m. on Sunday. But, at the last minute, Tartikoff was overruled by higher-ups.

"The corporation has many different goals and objectives," said TartikofL The end result is that NBC now treats its newsmagazine as a second-class citizen. Whenever the preceding football runs past 7, some of "First Camera" is scuttled and the show is joined in progress. NBC's priority is for "Knight Rider" to begin promptly at 7, so it won't be disadvantaged against ABC's "Hardcastle McCormick." In contrast, no matter when CBS' football ends, viewers get every tick of "60 Minutes." "Mr. Smith." The series, from the creators of "Taxi," had the makings of a crackerjack satire, lampooning the bureaucrats and bigwigs in Washington. Sometimes, it hit the mark.

Other times, it was too much of a kiddies show. With a 7 p.m. time slot, Mr. Smith had to serve two masters the young audience at that hour and the more mature humor of the producers. It proved to be an unmanageable task.

But "Mr. Smith" did demonstrate the great advances in the art of puppetry. When Mr. Smith wasn't opening his mouth, he was played by C.J., the animal star of several Clint Eastwood films. But, in conversation, Mr.

Smith was not played by a midget in a monkey suit, as many viewers assumed. He was actually a puppet, from the same broad-branched family tree as the Muppets and the smaller characters on "Sesame Street." Now that this yappy orangutan is out of work, maybe "Sesame Street" could hire him to teach kids about the Hollywood jungle. "Knight Rider," one of NBC's few Top 20 shows, is succeeding on Sunday night But NBC programmers wonder how it would do without the deadweight lead-in of "First Camera," NBC's latest Slofnng CLINT EASTWOOD ond SONDRA LOCKE Executive Ptoducei FRITZ MANES Music by LALO SCHIFRIN Screenplay by JOSEPH C. STINSON Sloty by EARL SMITH CHARLES PtERCE Produced and Dnected by CLINT EASTWOOD wane commuicai.g: Technicolo' "Eastwood Is Back In His Best Role" Feature Times: By Fred Rothenberg NEW YORK (AP) What do a thinking car, a talking orangutan, a shapely ghost, a heroic dog, David Brinkley and James Arness all have in common? Since 1980, they've all been part of NBC's revolving-door Friday-night schedule. While CBS has successfully stood pat with "The Dukes of Haz-zard," "Dallas" and "Falcon Crest," NBC has tried every gimmick imaginable, tearing up its entire Friday-night slate each season, sometimes more than once.

This season's failures were "Mr. Smith," about an orangutan with an IQ of 256 who works as a consultant for the U.S. government, "Jennifer Slept Here," with Ann Jillian as a Hollywood ghost, "Mammal," about a crimefighter who transforms himself into animals, and "For Love and Honor," about military trainees in a parachute unit. The next batch of Friday replacements, starting in will be "Legmen," about two college students working for a detective agency, "The Master," starring Lee Van Cleef as an American martial arts expert, and "The New Show," a variety-comedy hour from Lome Michaels, creator of "Saturday Night Live." Two shows from last season's Friday-night lineup, "Knight Rider," starring the thinking-talking car, and "Remington Steele," did prove valuable enough to be moved to safer spots on NBC's schedule. Except for those shows, NBC's Friday schedule has been a programming graveyard.

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