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The Lowell Sun from Lowell, Massachusetts • Page 51

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Tyrone's daughter Richard Chamberlain and Taryn Power, daugMer of Jhe lole Tyrone Power, slar in "The Counl Of Monle Crislo." "Count of Monte Cristo" repeat excellent, lavish By TV SCOUT BEST PET The Count of Monte Crislo is repeated and it is excellent, lavish entertainment. Richard Chamberlain gives a most impressive performance as the Count, imprisoned as a young man. finally escaping, then seeding vengeance. Trevor Howard and Donald Pleasenue are also fine. Tony Curtis plays Tony Curtis in costume.

The women are Kats pv'elligan and Tnrvn Power, the daughter of the late Tyrone Power. 9 11 8 9 S3 CD ABC New Special "Suddenly. An Eagle." Lee Cobb will appear in this innovative documentary which presents parallel stories of the people and events in America and England that triggered the American Revolution. 9 (D Danny Thomas and Georgia Engel join Tony Orlando and Dawn. Georgia will delight with her song and dance turn.

8 9 (33 Michael Landon wrote and directed a simple, touching story for Little House on the Prairie, focusing on Mr. Edwards' (Victor French) relationship with his new stepson (Rademes Pera), a boy who prefers writing and poetry fo hunting. ft Conclusion 3S College basketball Holy Cross vs. As sumplion. 1D CD Cannon (William Conrad) helps a corruption combating Journalist defend himself against a murder frame up.

it's entertaining and empty. 9 10 S3 A brutal version of Baretta has Tony (Robert Blake) take on a murderous motorcycle mob and a determined D.A. Guess the final score! 9 11:50 (B Rossini's delightful comic opera "The Barter of Seville" comes to the home screen on Great Performances. Claudio Abbada conducts the orchestra and chorus of La Scala in this production which features Hermann Prey, baritone, as Figaro; Teresa Bcrganza, mezzo soprano, as Rosina; and Lufgt Alva, tenor, as the Count. 10 11 OKI Starsky and Hutch (Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul) deserve better stories than this rehash of the old wife being held haslage plot.

10 31 CD The Blue Knlsjit is at Us best in the street vignettes. This tale has enough of those for interest as Bumper (George Kennedy) becomes involved in drug traffic. Ina Balm is a designer who employs ex cons and also has a planned buy coming down. ABC rated third but closing in on the leaders By JOAN HANAUER UPI TV Writer NEW YORK I DPI) ABC television network President Fred Fierce says his nelworlt will make its announcements for the fall season early in Ihe spring, but premiere the shows late in September. The Nielsen figures far the three networks for the fall season through Dec.

20 put ABC in its accustomed third place, but much closer (o the leaders than in previous vears. CBS rated 19.2. NEC 18.2 and ABC 17.7, which is quite respectable, and ABC was gratified with Us showing. "ABC is up 10 per cent." Pierce said, adding the network's share of the audience also Is up. He called Ihe whole matter "very What Pierce found unsatisfactory before the season began last September was that the other networks refused to go along with his suggestion to delay the season premieres until late in the month so that new shows could be properly polished.

This year the networks appear lo agree on a later schedule. He pointed cut that announcements of the fall schedule once were made as early as Washington's Birthday, but last year for a number of reasons were not made until first week in May. "Togedier with that, the premiere of the new fall season began Sipl. 8," Pierce said, "shortening the lead time for the creative community. Subsequently, quality suffered lo a degree." Pierce estimated that six months should provide creative people with a proper lead time, which would lead to "belter quality" programs, ile said he thought ABC would make its announcements on the fall season by March 26, with the premieres going on the air between Sept.

21 and 27. He also predicted Ihat increasingly the networks would veer away from the strict "season" concept and bring in new programming throughout the year. Both CBS and NBC did Ihis last season, not out of creative impulse but because of the dismal ratings of some new show 5. ABC has a number of new shows scheduled to pop up during the spring season. The nation's television stations increased their work force by 2 per cent In the past 'Hit the proportion of minority employes increased by only .3 per cent, according to a study by the Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ.

"Television Station Employment Practices, 1976: the Staius of Minorities and Women," is Ihe fourth such annual report the church group has published by analyzing the official employment Tcporls filed with the Federal Communications Commission. The A.C. Nielsen Co. rating of the top network television programs for the week ending pec. 28, delayed because of the holidays, put them in this OTder: "All In Ihe 2: 3: "World of 4: "Rcckford 5: A 6: 7: 'Police "One Day at a fl: "TheJef 10: Mary Tyler Moore.

Morning Monday to Friday 5:40 CD Greater 5:45 CD Farm and Market Report 5:50 5:50 (D Sunrise Semester (E News 6:15 Cf) Seminar 6:20 CD The Boh Hilton Show BiSJ5 Cfl News For The Deaf 6:30 CB News 6:45 CD Dally Almanac 6:50 News For The Deaf CD Las Notlcias De Hoy CD CBS News The Three Stooges 43 Flinntones I 7:25 S3 Eyewitness News 7:30 S3 Today CD Leave It To Beaver 53 Flinistones II 8:00 Good Morning, America CD Captain Kangaroo Movie "Angels Alley" (Mon.) "Angels in Disguise" (Tues,) "Blonde Dymamite'' (Wed.) "Blue Busters" (Thurs.) "Bowery Battalion" (Fri.) 38 The House of Frightens lein Gilllgan's Island News 8:30 CB Today Pop eye rS Yogi Bear 9:00 S3 Family Affair CB Good Morning! CD Dinah! (39 Nuity Squirrels S3 The Morning Movie "To The Ends of The Ear lb" (Mon.) "Til We Meet Again" (Tues.) "Marked Woman" (Wed.) "To The Victor" (Thurs.) "Island of Love" (Fri.) 8:30 Somerset (7 Phil Silvers Show as Wally Gator and Friends 8:50 US News 10:00 S3 Celebrity Sweepstakes CD The Price Is Right PTL Club The Jack LaLanne Show CH Take Kerr 10:30 Romper Room 35 Tom Larson Show 11:00 33 The Edge of Night CD The Bob Hilton Show CS Tim my And Lassie Not For Women Only 33 The Hollywood Squares IB H3 Happy Days CD Love Of Life Hazel ES New England Newscene 11:55 CD CBS Midday News Afternoon Monday to Friday 12:00 (D S3 CD News CB Let's Make A Deal 58 The Daily Mass AS Andy Griffith Show I Love Lucy 12:30 33 Woman '76 CE CB All My Children CD The Young and The Restless (SS Matinee Movie "Remarkable Mr. Pen nypacker" (Mon.) "The Oregon Trail" (Tues.) "Cluny Brown" (Wed.) "Island of Los Women" (Thurs.) "The Mudlark" (Fri.) THE SUN. LOWELL, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7. 1976 51 OS The Beverly Hillbillies Movie Matinee "Best of The Badmen" (Mon.) "The Big Steal" (Tues.) "Embraceable You" (Wed.) "Four Daughters" (Thurs.) "The Silver Whip" (Fri.) 1:06 CB CD Ryan's Hope CD Search For Tomorrow (S The Rifleman 1:30 Days of Our Lives CDS) Rhyme And Reason CD As The World Turns as McHale'a Navy 2:00 CB CD tio.MO Pyramid Bullwinkle New Zoo Revue 2:30 The Doctors CB The Neighbors CD The Guiding Light SB Galloping Gourmet OS Porky Pig and Friends US Banana Splits 3:00 CD Nova CD Psychology (Tues.) CD Masterpiece Theatre (Thurs.) CB Ourstory (Frt.) CO Another World CB J) General Hospital CD All In The Family S3 Maverick 38 Bus Runny 8 Yogi Bear 3:30 CD Consumer Survival Kit (Tues.) CD Erica (Wed.) CB CB One Life To Live CD Match Game '75 SB Popeye S3 Casper Cartoons 4:00 CD Sesame Street S) The Mike Douglas Show CB Bonania CD The Merv Griffin Show CB The Edge of Night Felix The Cat Fri.) 57) Timmy And Lassie Thurs.) 99 Mickey Mouse Club 3S The Flintstones I 4:30 (B ABC Afterschoot Special IWed.) CB The Uncle Gus Show CB) Troop The Three Stooges Flintstones II 5:00 CB Mister Rogers CB The F.B.I.

(S ABC Af lerschool Special (Wed.) (Ei Tarzan The Monkees 5:30 Q) Sesame Street CO News CD Candleplns For Cash CB Robin Hood 0i 1 Dream Of Jeannle as Gilllgan's Island 6:00 S3 CB CD S3 News S3 The Lone Ranger 01) Bewitched The Brady Bunch 6:30 The Electric Company (B ABC Evening New IS Early Show "A Killing Success" (1963) Jan Claude Briarly, Louts De Flunes. A young man rises to the presidency of his company by the artful removal of his superiors by any means. 39 Hogan's Heroes The Partridge Family 7:00 CD Zoom CB NBC News (S ABC Evening News CD CHS Evening News CB Gilllgan's Island as Adam 12 That Girl 7:30 Q3 Nova CB Name That Tune CE Big Money CD Match Game P.M. Wild Kingdom 39 Dick Van Dyke Show Love, American Style 8:00 CB Little House on the Prairie The LlEe and Times GRIZZLY ADAMS The Tf uft ttory of a mn Cirllfld In ihe I Ida rut i and haw he learn Feaiu ng Cm Higgtrt it Jj i AoV PicAjci3 br Chirhi E. Striar.

Jr. cirpiy br Lirvy Dobkini IAjsc by STARTS TODAY His father's Son" Mr tldward's bookish adopted sou fails to appreciate his gilt of an expensive rifle, and Edwards, who is illiterate, cannot tead the boy's letter of explanation. CB CD ABC News Special "Suddenly An Eagle" Lee J. Cobb will appear in this innovative documentary which presents parallel stories of the people and events in America and England that triggered the American Revolution. CD Tony Orlando and Dawn Guesls; Danny Thomas and Georgia Engel.

88 College Basketball Assumption Greyhounds vs. Holy Cross Ironside The 8 O'clock Movie "Cisco Pike" (1971) Gene Hack man, Karen Black 8:30 CB Crockett's Victory Garden Sergeant Bilko 8:57 (D Bicentennial Minutes Narrator: Jackie Cooper. 0:00 CB No, Honestly "The Barber of Seville" The La Scala Opera with Claudio Aobadrj conducting. S3 Bell System Family Theatre "The Count of Monte Cristo" Richard Chamberiin, Trevor Howard, A man unjustly imprisoned for 14 years escapes, gains a fortune and seeks revenge on the conspirators who framed him (R) (D (B Baretta "The Lert Hand of the Devil." After hiding a frightened informant and infiltrating a motorcycle gang which specializes in low. priced "hits," Tony Baretta learns he has to risk his life to save that of (he informant.

CD Cannon A crusading Southwest newspaper editor, whose favorite targets have been police corruption and gangland vice, is found unconscious in a hotel room with a dead girl and ar rested. 89 Nine O'clock Movie "The Guilt of Janet Ames" (1047) Rosland Russell, Melvyn Douglas. 9:30 2) Monty Python's Flying Circus Movie 10:00 CB 95 News CD CD Starsky and Hutch "The Hostages." Starsky and Hutch try to save the lives of a young armored car driver and his captive wife, both of whom will be killed after a fortune in cash has heen delivered, CD The Blue Knight During the police crackdown on drug traffic, Bumper Morgan arrests a suspected pusher and discovers that a high style fashion firm, headed by a shrewd woman designer is the front for a smoothly operated narcotics trade. Night Gallery 10:30 (D Elliot NDrlon Reviews CIS Big Money 11:00 (I) CB CD CB News The Saint The Best of Groucho 11:30 S3 The Tonight Show Guest: MacDavis. CB CB Wed.

Movie of the Week "The Great Ice Rip Off" Lee J. Cobb, Gig Young. With 4,000,000 in diamonds tucked info their suitcases, a quartet of semi professional thieves use an interstate bus as a getaway car and find their caper complicated by a fellow passenger a retired cop with a passion for solving mysteries. CD CBS Late Movie "Tribute to a Bad Man" (1956) James Cagney, Irene of Thou PCt ONE WEEK ONLY! jBHBfe'lKi immmmm mi srn Chelmslofd Rt. 3 CINEMA 256 0511 7 9 PM Only Sun Clmic Piclurci' nfttsi will bq jeefpred Papas.

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Years Available:
1893-1977