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22 THE CINCINNATI INQUIRE Friday, Janoatf ABC's 'Baltimore9 Looks Good, But Expect Flood Of Protest aeer. played by Richard seen by you. The man turns' out to be the hotel man-i ager's stepfather. What's funny is the reaction of the entire cast to the death and i I Most familiar rriay be Al Freeman Jr. of TV Emmy "My Sweet Charlie" fame.

He Is the show's black philosopher. Conchata Ferrell, who played April Green in the stage plays the same prostitute on TV. Jeannle Llnero plays the other, Colombian ball of fire Suzy.ahotLatin. Bergere and Henry Calvert play inseparable George and Gordon, a cou-. pie of mature bachelors who might give the appearance of homosexuals.

Craggy, grouchy and aged Mr. Morse is Stan Gottlieb. The only straight man in the cast is desk clerk Bill, played by James Cromwell. ANOTHER "WIERDO" is Mr. Alnsley, the hotel man- Morse's disposition and insults, for example, he loves to play checkers with "statesman" Charles Bingham (Freeman).

BY JUNE, the large cast and the show will be very familiar to TV viewers. The lines are too salty to escape tho most calloused ears. The ensemble cast has "character" stamped all over each performer. Oh yes, the second episode. Naive Millie has an aged lobby beau who nightly goes upstairs to Suzy's room to make repairs in her room for exactly 13-minute periods.

On one such "mission," he drops dead. Whether you see humor in a man's death in a prostitute's room remains to be a sex pervert Most of 'the show is spent on trying to tell the South American "coffee bean" her lover is trouble. YOU MAY get a kick out of a local line. One time, Suzy tries to explain to Southern belle April that her lover doesn't know she's from Colombia, despite her accent. He thinks she is LOS ANGELES Mid-season television's most-talked-about new series will fte "Hot Baltimore," another Norman Lear contemporary comedy, which premieres one week from tonight lor ABC-TV in the p.m.

slot. You will either love this takeoff of the off-Broadway hit or you will despise it. There will not be any on-, the-fence viewers. For starters, try this: How about a series headlined by two prostitutes? Yes, friends, that's what i "Hot Baltimore" the has dropped out of the hotel sign is, a rundown, once-' elegant hotel, now occupied i by two hookers and eight 'other colorful characters. Because of the ladies of the night and the day as well i the language gets I raunchy and racy.

AFTER PREVIEWING the first two episodes, I can for-see the mail from irate viewers as well as fans to the network, WKRC-TV and The Enquirer's TV-radio desk. "Hot Baltimore" is as close to "Brady Bunch" as Russia is to the U.S. Lear has an automatic hit to add onto his "All in the Family," "Maude," "Sanf ord and Son" and "Good Times." And, he may have another in CBS-TV's new "The Jeffersons," which opens 8:30 p.m. Saturday. This is Lear's first ABC entry.

Its immediate impact, because of Its subject matter, may be greater than TV-Radio Briefs Of DJs, New Series, Guest Stars, Visitors And from Cincinnati. The dialogue is today and snappy. It resembles Lear's other productions in that it takes on Presidents Nixon and Ford, the economy, racial problems, among its plethora of one-liners. Despite the occupations of the two women, the hotel residents, desk clerk and manager radiate a love for one another. Despite old Mr.

University of Hawaii and Rainbow Classic basketball games so far for radio and has 14 to go. In Honolulu, Kenny is still doing three afternoon drivetime radio sports shows and a 30-minute nightly phone-talk sports show For the latter, he had to get on radio at midnight in Cincinnati to do the 7 p.m. stopped here during' some mainland basketball games. Wilson said his advertising agency "is becoming more successful, making It tougher to leave Hawaii each time for other sports opportunities." True Friends That friendship between Fred Sanf ord and Bubba on "Sanford and Son" is not only true on camera. NBC-TV reports that Redd Foxx and Don Bexley (Bubba): have been friends since' they were teenagers 40 years'- General Has Determined Dangerous to Your Health.

pet cigarem. FTC Report Oct 74. ago. Foxx ran away from his St. Louis home at the age of 13 and Joined a Chicago tramp band.

Bexley at the time was a tap dancer In the Three Shades of Rhythm. The two struggled to earn work on the "chitlin circuit" black ghetto nightclubs across the U.S. when black acts were in little demand. In the 1940s, Bexley was emcee at the Creole Follies, Delair, N.J., and the Slappy White-Redd Foxx comedy act was on the bill. In '72, Foxx invited Bexley to move from Oakland, and Join "Sanford." ABC-TV9s 'Novels9 ABC-TV will celebrate the 1976 bicentennial with the adaptation of two American novels to mini-series.

Alex Haley's "Roots," tracing the history of U.S. blacks back to Africa, will be about 14 hours in length. John Dos Passos' "U.S.A." trilogy will YET MILDER. Civil War epic, "The Children of Pride," will be developed into a series of six one-hour. ABC-TV special programs.

Myers will write, them after putting In 17 years on the original literary work. "Children of Pride" won the National Book Award for History, the Cary-Thomas Award for 1972 creative publishing and was first among the New York Times' list of 1972's five significant books. It depicts the Civil War through the eyes of one family during a 14-year period. City Visitor Former Cincinnati Swords hockey radio voice Ken Wilson was in town last week. He admitted he talked to Avco Broadcasting officials about doing the 1975-76 World Hockey Association Cincinnati Stingers games on TV-radio.

"I am here to renew old acquaintances," he said. Ken has described 22 Warning: The Surgeon That Cigarette Smoking Is 19 nig. "taf.U'mg. nicotine iv. Radio Highlights DRAMAienka Peterson-and Elliott Reid, "Ghost Talk," WCKY-AM, 8:06 p.m.

FMRadio WLMH WMUB WCNE WRCJ WNSD WGUC WVXU WEZ TAKW WJDJ WCNW racH 88.1 88.5 88.7 89.3 90.1 90.9 91.7 92.5 93.3 94.1 94.9 95.9 WQMS WOXR WLQA WSCH WIIKK WKRQ WEBN WUBE WYCH WPBF WLYK 96.5 97.7 98.5 99.3 100.9 101.9 102.7 105.1 103.S 105.9 107.1 Ml We) fl's i iiuubuiuiw ibiMiiiibvuiiunkki hviv i to removing the body. MR. MORRIS manages to pump his scene dry. The crochety man, looking at the corpse; proclaims, "I hate dead peoplel They're so dull!" Afterwards, he bel lows to the smlllng-f aced dead man, "Better you than me!" How strong is "Hot Baltimore?" Channel 12 program director Gus Bailey may want to hire a girl to answer his phone com-1 plaints and praises on January 27. I know I will wish that day The Enquirer had such a person.

More be about six hours In total viewing. How many nights each will be slotted in has not been revealed. Also set for ABC's "novels" series aro Joseph Lash's "Eleanor and Franklin," Gore Vidal's "Burr," and Irwin Shaw'i "Rich Man, Poor Man." Flip Gets Cher Cher Bono, who gets her own weekly hour variety show in February on CBS-TV, will guest Flip Wilson's Thursday, March 13, NBC-TV special. Other guests have not yet been named. Flip's October 18 special earned 43 of all turned-on TV sets in the U.S.

and the December 11 hour had a 44 share, among the highest-rated variety specials this season. He will have a fourth special on NBC-TV later this spring. Flip's 1970-74 NBC weekly variety series earned two Emmy awards and a Peabody prize. Apes movies Vexterminator Another Super Bowl happening last weekend at New Orleans: CBS-TV signed Los Angeles Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully to voice its year-around sports offering. Robert Wussler, CBS Sports vice president, said Vin will describe pro football, tennis, golf and "Sports Spectacular" features when he is not busy with Dodgers baseball.

It isn't his first hookup with CBS: Back in 1969, he did the short-lived daytime game show, "it Takes Two." WUBEAddition WUBE general manager Bill Jenkins has filled his long-vacant deejay slot with Mike Millard; who starts here', after nearly two years at KERE, Denver, as program director and morning drivetime voice. Bob Roberts will move from the 6-10 a.m. WUBE slot into 6 p.m.-mldnight to make room for Millard. Larry Bee will yield the program chores to Millard to stress the music director's chores. Before moving to convert KERE from news-talk to country, Millard worked on stations in Miami, Dallas and Philadelphia.

He has been in fulltime radio 16 years. During his Miami radio tenure, Mike also hosted an hour talk-music show on WPLG-TV, a Post-New-sweek Stations sister of WCKY. Brother Actors Three brothers of three famous actors have key' roles in "The Hatflelds and the McCoys," an ABC Wednesday Movie of the Week, airing January 15. James Reach, brother of Stacy Keach, who will be starring in ABC's new series "Caribe," appears as Jim McCoy. Robert Carradine, younger brother of ABC's "kung fu" star David Carradine, plays Bob Hatfield, while Joe Estevez, Martin-Sheen's younger brother, piays'iroy Hatiieid.

Cop Bridges NBC-TV's "Police Story" will feature a 90-minute episode this spring, "The Metro Man," and Lloyd Bridges will star in the title role. Series story consultant niarK itoaeers nas nennprf 'the special drama about i Metro gauad.s. hlchiv mnhi- jlized, large metropolitan city units or 400 policemen quickly used in emergencies high crime areas. Bridges ihas already appeared In one Story" hour this season. His present-season credits also Include the CBS special, "Benjamin Franklin: The Whirlwind." Inviting Guest When Dennis Banks, co-, founder of the American Indian Movement, was a guest' recently on NBC-TV's "Tomorrow" program, he Invited host Tom Snyder to do a show on an Indian reservation.

has done three programs on contemporary life of the American Indian In the United States. ''4 1 Al Freeman Jr. most familiar face? any other previous Lear comedy. By Monday, January 27, four of every 10 Saturday night viewers, at least, will have seen "Hot" and taken a like or dislike to it. THE ENSEMBLE cast is! superb.

You won't recognize most of the names and you may find a few familiar faces. Charlotte Rae, the oven-cleaning commercial face, is among the 10. Lee Bergere, of wine ad fame, is another. AMRadio XFKRC 550 WCLU 1320 WSAI 1360 WMOH 1450 WCI 1480 WCKY 1530 WCNW 1560 WLW 700 WNOP 740 WPFB .910 WZ1P 1050 WUBE 1230 Channel 14-Miami University 7:30 School 4 30 Zoom 3:00 Mr. Rogers 7:00 Weather 3:30 Lia Yog 7:30 Black Pertn.

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huiiiil and a Chrysler Cordoba 18th 4:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M. 19th P.M. Masur, product of a hen-' pecked mother. Char-: lotte Rae is Mrs. Bellotti, excentric, overindulgent mother of a never-seen resident who covers.

hotel halls with butter and" does other unexpected acts. That's not all. Two other female residents, not part of history's oldest "profession," are Millie (Gloria Le-Roy), an aging-but-pretty--but-dizzy blond and pint-sized tomboy Jackie, also called Squirt, played by Robin Wilson. Both the first and second shows are "far out" and filled with laughs. Next Friday's finds hooker Suzy about to marry a "Hollywood producer," a man who turns out to be a phony and 'Fame9 Special Next season's 25th year for NBC-TV "Hall of Fame" will Include a 90-minute portrayal of George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra." Sir Alec Guinness and Genevieve Bujold will play the principals.

Duane Bogie and David Susskind produced it along with Clarion Productions, Talent Associates-Norton Simon, Inc. and England's Southern Television. It was filmed at Southampton, England. The tale covers the autumn 48 BC period to spring 47 in Egypt. At the end, Caesar promises to send Mark Anthony to help rule Egypt.

$250,000 Deal Perry Samuels, former Avco Broadcasting Corp. senior vice president-radio, reports that $250,000 in cash and stock is, Involved in his Perry Broadcasting Co. acquisition of WLYK-FM, Milford. Beautiful Island Broascasting's (WLYK) Andy Lehr, James Callahan and David Schneider have sold Perry 100 Interest In the good-music station. The merger gives Perry a second station, Joining his one in Lake Charles, La.

Perry also heads a sports package. Wilson Leaves St. Louis sources report that former WLWT-TV news anchorman Glenn Wilson will leave KTVI-TV, Channel 2, late this month to own and operate a Hous-' ton pancake restaurant Wilson, 53, has been at the St. Louis station since 1967. Before going there, he was a WLWT newsman and editorialist and WLW radio news voice for 16 years.

He was KTVI's acting news director from 1968 to 1973, succeeded by another former WLWT-Avco Broadcasting newsman, Don McMullen. Glenn told St. Louis Post-Dispatch TV critic John Archibald that trends to make news more entertaining prompted his exit. Country Como Perry Como's p.m. Monday, February 17, music-variety special on CBS-TV will be taped before a live audience in the home of country music, Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.

Chet Atkins, Loretta Lynn, Charlie Pride and Danny Davis' Nashville Brass will make up the guest list. Como's Christmas special December 17 captivated 43 of the prlmetlme audience that night, according to his sponsors. ABCs Specials Robert Manson Myers' Weekend Sports TV-Radio Schedule TV-TODAY PH BASKETBALL: Reading at Wy ffllng, Chano 41, 10 pm RADIO-TODAY NtE lASXETIALU Milford at Indian Hill, WC1N-AM; Fanwlck VI. Talawanda, WPBF-FM; Mlddtatown v. Hamilton Tatt, WPBF-AM; Rearing at Wyoming, WRO FM; Dayton at Baactiwood, WHKK-FMi Fairfield at Princeton, WCNW-FM; AJken it McNtchdai, WLYK-FM, al at I TV-SATURDAY COLLIOI BASKETIALLt North Carolina at North Carolina Slate, Channels 5 and 1 pm COLLIGI BASKETBALL! Indiana at Northwestern, Channel 3 pm COLLEGE basketbalu Kentucky at Mississippi, Channel 5, 3 pm f0 BOWLERS TOUR! Showboat Invitational from Las Vegas, Nevada, Channel 12, MO p.m.

PRO GOIF: Triple Crown Championship of Ladles Professional Goll Association, Channel 9, 4 p.m. WORLD OP SPORTS: Surfing Classic from Sunset Beach, Hawaii; International Professional Skiing Championships, from Aspen, Colorado, Channel 12, p.m. DEAN MARTIN-TUCSON OPENt Highlights of the finishing holes each day, Channels 5 and 2, 5 pm RADIO-SATURDAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL Miami at Central Michigan, WPBF-AM, 3 p.m. COLLEGE BASKETBALL! Franklin at Northern Kentucky State, WHKK-FM, pm PREP BASKETBALL! Kings at Mason, WPBF-FM; Onton-Massia at Sprlngboro, WPBF-AM, both at I p.m. TV-SUNDAY SPORTS SPECTACULAR! U.S.

VS. USSR Boxing Championships; Argentina Grand Prix highlights, Channel 7, 1 p.m. (Channel at 12:30 am) BPA KING OP BOWLINGt Local competition, Channel 1 pm THE SUPERSTARS: Women will compete In two groups of 12 with top six qualifying for finals, Channel 12, 2 pm PRO BASKETBALL! Portland at MHwau-'kee. Channels 9 and 7, 2:30 p.m. WORLD OP SPORTSi The Harlem Globetrotters; the Championship Mile from Los Angeles, Channel 12, 4:30 p.m.

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Hamilton Taft, WPBF-AM; Reading at Wyoming. WRCK-FM; Dayton at Beechwood, WHKK-FM; Fairfield at WCNW-FM; Aiken at McNicholas, WLYK-FM all at 8 p.m. 9 of the world's best women golfers have qualified for The CoIgateTriple Crown LPGA Championship. vvatchjanuary I8thand 19.th Friday 8 p.m. 12, NIGHT STALKER: Delving Into homicide, Kolchak uncovers story of living remnants of the Ice Age.

8 p.m., 5, 2, SANFORD AND SON: Redd Foxx sings, De mond Wilson dances, and Billy Eckstlne makes cameo singing appearance. 8:30 p.m., 5, 2, CHICO AND THE MAN: Ed's eyesight Is questionable when accident gets him involved in court 'testimony. 9 p.m., 5, 2, ROCKFORD FILES: Rockford's search for his girlfriend leads to fugitive syndicate chief. 9 p.m., 12, SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN: Man, whose wife thinks he's dead, is alive and working in foreign enemy's embassy. 9 p.m., 48, MASTERPIECE THEATRE: Rose decides to run away to Australia with man of her dreams in "Upstairs, Downstairs." (Repeat) 10 p.m., 12, BARETTA: Baretta (Robert Blake) is blamed by crime boss for staging raid and contract is put out on his life.

Season Premiere 10 p.m., 5, 2, POLICE WOMAN: Pepper poses as prostitute and Sgt. Crowley pretends to be client to nab team of robbers. 12:30 a.m., 12, WIDE WORLD: "In Concert" guests are Earth, Wind Fire and Kool and the Gang. I a.m., 5, 2, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL: Electric Light Orchestra hosts Ohio Players, Linda Ronstadt, and Ruf us. Friday TV'Radio sports PREP BASKETBALL: Reading at Wyoming, Channel 43,10 p.m.

lp.m,19,"TOBEORNOTTOBE,"(1942):JackBenny. i Corole Lombard. Actors in Poland pose as Nazi bltrwles to helpRAF pilot escape. 6 3:30 p.m;, 12, "IN NAME ONLY," (1969): Michael Callan. Ann Prentiss.

Couple in the marriage buXSSSSffi marriages they set up in the past are not legal. CBiUWW" 4 p.m., 9, "ESCAPE IN JAPAN," (1957): Teresa Wright Cameron Mitchell. Adventures of two youngsters as they' search for parents whose plane was forced down. 8 p.m., 9, 7, "BATTLE FOR PLANET OF APES," (1973): Roddy McDowall, Claude Aklns. Tale of man vs.

space revolves around cleaning up planet destroyed by insurrection. (CBS Movie) 9:30 p.m., 9, 7, "SHAFT," (1971): Richard New York street detective undertakes to free kidnapped daughter of drug trafficker. (CBS Movie) 11:30 p.m., 9, 7, "VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED," (I960):" George Sanders, Barbara Shelley. Story about supernatural children in an English village. (CBS Movie) The Colgate Triple Crown Championship may well be the toughest golf tournament on the women's circuit.

Only the top nine women golfers from three international tournaments will play for $50,000 in prize money CBS09 JAN. JAN. COlGArETRlPLE CROWN litis.