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ALL EDiJiUhB fciJ L. I 1 mil miimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm'1" New Shows I4j; llfi'iWi''ifflPi'jti't-MI'ilfl" liWWSWillliM I "4 rtv llpllifil K- I 4 Mm A DATE WITH JUDY Departing from the customary format of her series. Miss Garland foregoes the company of guest stars to present a solo concert, a type of performance for which she has become internationally famous in recent years, on the Judy Garland Show at 7 p.m. today on Channel 12. LASILRIM GIRLS GO WEST Jack Elam, costar of "Temple Houston" I luirsday at 9 p.m.

on Channel 12, pretends to ignore the charms of Angela korens, Icli. and Tara Glynn, but he's only kidding. Curious about the girls' accents, he discovers that they were recent refugees from Hungary and Jugoslavia before they applied for work as extras and met for the first lime while appearing as Western saloon girls in a Houston episode. DESTRY ACOMING John Gavin stars in the new weekly, hour-long, laugh-filled Western "Destry," on l-'riday. at (: 30 p.m.

on Channel 3. Says Movies, Also Venal The Arizona Republic elevislon 'IT I II III HIIM-HJIHIIipHI ft ir If HkW III" I Actor Stage li HAL HUMPHREY HOLLYWOOD In an "Ar rest and Trial" episode seen on TV a few Sundays ago, actor William Shatner played 1 kzH 11 i' mini 'rl ii 1 an ambitious young executive who curried favor with his boss (Richard Carlson 1 by imitating him. During shooting of llus film there were conferences concerning what kind of personality quirks Carlson might have which Shatner could copy. Shatner suggested fus boss use a cigarette holder; then he would buy the same rypp for- himself. But Shatner was quickly informed that cigarette holders are taboo in TV especially when one of the participating sponsors on the show is a cigarette manufacturer.

A holder may Imply there is something in cigarettes that isn't good for you. and no one benefiting financially would be crass enough to use one, least of all a TV producer. Unnerved but not repressed. Shatner next suggested that his boss habitually employ the plirase "onward and upward" when directing those around him. This was a fine idea, and the director got so taken with it he changed the title of the episode to "Onward and Upward." Orginally the title was "('ame for an Indefinite Number of Players." According to Shatner.

however, the mistake we critics make is believing such in sidious commercialism is unique to TV. "ONE WOULD THINK." hp says, "that the stage is a vessel of culture, bm ir Let's take a lew rxamples. "Paul Osborne wroie 'Tin5 World of Suzic Wong' as poetic play about a voting man who never realized what, life was all about. But the producers saw the sex angle and pressured Osborne into cutting and rewriting it so the emphasis was almost totally shifted to the prostitutes. "The Broadway production received seven lousy reviews in New York, but the producers didn't care.

Pro-sold theater parties already had put SI. 5 million in the box office. Don't forget, too. there was interest collected on Ihat money during the nioiiihr was in the bank bet ore IHp show opened." Shatner had a ringside seat because he created and played the role of Robert Lomax in "Suzie Wong" for 18 months on Broadway. He is convinced the theater party agencies in New York are becoming the real producers of theater in New York.

"They even demand and get a say in casting many of the plays now," Shatner reports. When "Suzie Wong" was sold for the movie version, the producer got William Hoi-den to do Lomax because Im name is considered a built-in collateral as far as the banks are concerned. They do not care about any esoteric value a William Shatner might bring to the role. Phoenix. Sundaj, Feb.

9, l4 j. 1 1 iw CELLMATES OR guest star Susan Oliver is a temporary prisoner but Don Knotts is a permanent "prisoner of love," in "The Andy Griffith Show" on Monday, at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 10. Marshall Has Determined Regimen to Keep Healthy C-17 I'll 1 and sunny; Miami, high C- I ii 11 1 ii C3 "We get Hi nw.iHi!JH(i. iiiiMii iimiiii IlliilliJIIiililitw, WJWSWKiwy ft 1 uu go un iu ueu, uear, 1 11 uk in as soon as Johnny Carson is over." everything on it but Jackie Gleason." bicycle.

I'm nothing but an invitation to attack to a pair of bull dogs 1 encounter." E. positively absolutely refuses to reveal what the initials stand tor-had a long, extremely successful ca-, rcer in theater and films as a character actor. He was much in demand as a featured player in television long before "The Defenders" made him a star. t'ulike younger, less exper-enced players, he evidences none of the restlessness that often accompanies playing the same role over a long period. "It's hard work," he says, "but there are rewards, besides, when 1 signed for the series, I agreed to do it for four years." Unlike Raymond Massey.

who has no more interest in medicine today than he had before he started playing Dr. Gillespie in NBC's "Dr. Kil-dare," Marshall has become fascinated by the law. So much so, in (act. that for the last year or sd he has been attending weekly a course in constitutional law at night school.

"IT'S NOT at. all unusual." he said. "George C. Scott told me that he had become so interested in social work through his series he was reading books on the subject and talking to social workers every chance he had." Marshall, like Raymond Burr of "Perry Mason," is in great demand as a speaker at bar association meetings. He usually talks about "The role of Television in Our Society, and the Public's understanding and Misunderstanding of It." By CYNTHIA LOWHY NEW YORK (AF) The business office of the team of Marshall and Rued, known to the Saturday night; television audience as Preston and Preston, counsellors-al-law, consists of two tiny cubicles in a big, rambling dirty-white stucco building in unfashionable Harlem.

The building is home studio for CBS' ''The Defenders," the prize-winning courtroom series now in its third-and definitely not last-season. Just about the only resemblance between the series' principal characters and the actors who play the starring roles is the fact that they share a secretary, a Miss Lola Shumlin, a dark-haired young woman who assists in clerical matters, orders plane and train tickets, and also makes Bulgarian yogurt and jellied consomme, which, with raw carrot rounds, constitutes the usual mid-day repast of K. G. Marshall, the senior member of the firm. ON A RECENT working day, Robert Reed was working in a scene involving a marine court martial on the bam-like sound stage occupying most of the building's first floor.

Marshall, not needed until later, was in his shirtsleeves, lounging comfortably in his second floor dressing room. It is a small room with scarcely room for the basic furnishings-chair, cot, dressing table and mirror, plus a corner in which to hang clothes. It also contains a number of items designed to hftlpfill tedious hours between shots-books, including a number on law, and a collapsible contraption called a yoga wheel which has occasioned so many questions that Marshall has a mimeographed explanation of its use and function: "IT UNFOLDS and resembles a cot suspended on four legs." the explanation reads. "You strap yourself on the cot and by moving your hands from your waist to over your head one is able to rotate in a complete circle. "Your blood circulation is increased, and by turning upside down your organs also are exercised.

This relaxes you at the same time giving your innards the exercise they need" Marshall's determined regimen suggests a man committed to keeping his muscle-tone high and his weight low in spite of the sedentary and confining requirements of his job. He is in the studio about 12 hours a day-7 to 7--five days a week. To help lick the actor's ever-threatening spectre of surplus poundage (the camera makes everyone look 10 to 15 pounds heavier than he isi, Marshall usually rides a bicycle to and from bis mid-Manhattan apartment. "I used to ride up Third Avenue," he said, "but even at that early hour in the morning, there were problems with traffic and pedestrians. "I'VE SWITCHED to the East River walkway, and now I'm having dog trouble.

People are out early walking their animals-and there's nothing more attractive to a German shepherd than a man on a Now the moment we've ail been waiting for KILDARE CONCERNED Dr. James Kildare be comes concerned over novelist Helen Scott, played by guest star Gena Rowlands, who visits Blair Hospital to do research on her next book in "To Walk in Grace." on "Dr. Kildare, Thursday at on Channel 12. "Phoenix, 0 high of 76 of 72 ond clear.