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THE A I 1 i I I i a I 1 j'Auij Television In Review ByJOANHANAUER UPI Television Writer NEW YORK (UPI) The This week's national Nielsen television medium should be ratings are enough to make a getting a message these days vice president wonder. In the it must be doing something top spot Is ABC's new wrong. ne and Shirley," a spin off The message comes across from "Happy Days," which loud and clear in the Nielsen could be a comparatively mun- ratlngs viewers can take dane success story. ABC had their so-called favorite showsltested the concept on "Happy or a alone.lDays" and found it well whether network television received, gets the message won't be I The second spot In the Nielsens goes to "Happy Days," a popular show but clear at least until next fall. A major premise in network television scheduling holds that never this big a winner until "Laverne" renewed audience audiences find their program preferences and then build up a interest.

habit for a particular show. Next comes "All In The Few and far between are the Family," which had been on shows a audiences will top most of the season, followed rearrange their social commit- by "Rich Man, Poor Man," the menls to accommodate. nine-part, 12-hour mini-series But Ihe conventional wisdom 1 mM lh harbinger for maintains that once the audi- whole new dramatic form, ence more or less Is In place in which television certainly could front of the tube, it will be ruled vee Incidentally, each episode so far has been preceded by a synoposls of what has gone before, so the late-comer wooed to the series by word of mouth can catch up. Next comes a CBS special, "Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown," followed by the Friday night Winter Olympics, both of which are in the A category of special program- by watching habits and patterns. Court To Rule In Baby Case HOUSTON I i court judge has delayed a decision on whether a teen-aged mother who sold her baby to buy heroin still can claim custody of the boy.

Sherri Alton, 19, said she sold her l-month-old son, Ricky, for 11,600 to pay her rent and buy heroin. Although she is in jail on a robbery charge, she said she wanted the baby back. Judge Robert Lowery Tuesday ordered Ricky's court- appointed attorney, Barry Oil And among the top 20 in the Nielsen ratings, numbers 13,14 or 15 all are Winter Olympics. This would suggest that television's severest critics might be right that audiences watch what they find best in the of what's available, not that they find their best of all possible worlds. There's another message from the viewing public suc- lenger, to report on the case by cess in the so-called winter March 16.

The boy has been put second season may be even in the custody of the county more difficult to achieve than child welfare agency. hits in the fall. Rhonda Hovater, 25, took possession of the baby, but her attorney claimed there was no sale and the transfer was legal. Lowry ruled an affidavit giving up the baby and signed by Miss Alton was not legal because it was not dated. Miss Hovater, a secretary, said she will try to adopt Ricky.

But first the judge will hare to rule whether Miss Alton's Reading the Nielsens from the bottom up, the booby prize goes to CBS' "Popi," with a special "Inside" version of ABC's "Almost Anything Goes" coming; next to last. NBC's "The Cop and the Kid" and "Grady" also are right in thereat the bottom. claim to the baby is absolved. Beer Can Collection Profitable I I I A BEACH, a (UPI) Ronald Boyce, a veteran at turning junk into money, has climbed to the top of the heap in his specialty -collecting beer cans. Boyce set claim to a national record Tuesday when he turned over an estimated 230,000 crushed beer cans, weighing more than 10,300 pounds, to an area recycling center.

"I do it because its fun ana its also profitable," said Boyce, a K-year-old upholsterer. Reynolds Aluminum owners of the recycling center, paid Boyce J1.600 for the garage full of beer cans he collected over the past four months. ABC, which came out on lop for the fifth week in a row, still is unable to shake its Saturday night jinx. The 1 Winter Olympics offerings in genera! have been a pleasant surprise to the network, which never expected so much interest In Winter sports an American audience, particularly with the scarcity of American gold medal contenders. The ratings show that No.

59 in a field of 55 network programs was the Saturday i i Olympics, followed by No. 60, the regular a a i "Almost Anything Goes." The ten top-rated network television programs for the week ending Feb. 15, according to the A.C. Nielsen are: 1: "Laverne and 2: "Happy 3: "All In The 4: "Rich Man, Poor 5: "Be My Valentine, Charlie 6: Winter Olympic (Friday); 7: "Police 8: "The, 9: World of 10; "Rhoda." Our diamond solilaires and insert rings prove that qualify is never out of fashion. Diamond solilaire, karal gold.

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