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1 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL' Friday, December 30; mf-A f' Book Is Trove of Trivia Today's top television shows ire previewed by TV Key's staff of experts who attend rehearsals, screenings, and analyse scripts in Sew York. TV Previews life there are no easy solutions. "Studio drama is costly to produce and inevitably varies in quality from program to program. Networks and advertisers can never be sure how large an audience an original play will attract worthwhile. They play Jim.

Rockford's prison-mate anoV parole officer, respectively' who make his life a mockery once he gets them together. Theyare bothconmen. p.m. (Channel 4) market, (8:30 p.m., Channel 5) THE ROCKFORD FILES. Composer-singer Isaac Hayes and Lou Gossett make this nonsensical caper WASHINGTON WEEK IN REVIEW.

Discussion of week's news by veteran Washington journalists. (8 p.m., Channel 5) WALL STREET WEEK. Explores the investment FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE. "Zorro" This European version of the popular story about the masked Mexican crusader known as Zorro has lotsof actionbut nothing new or exciting to recommend it otherwise. Alain Delon stars as the ineffectual governor who dons a black cloak and mask to fight the corrupt aristocracy.

(7 p.m., Channel 13) EDavid ia, ranging from the fairness doctrine to license renewal to an essay on public television. Particularly interesting is an article on the "Golden Age of Television Drama," in which Brown offers first a history and then continues: "No one can say for certain what caused the wave of drama to pass, but there are several theories. According to one, drama was practical in the years when the wealthier and better-educated families owned most of the television sets, but impractical when sets proliferated to virtually every home in the country, defining a new mass audience. Another holds that advertisers, dealing as they do in their commercials with instant solutions to problems, found it inconsistent with their purposes to sponsor serious plays on human conflicts, which revealed that in real a must, but flipping through its pages is fun for anyone who likes to pick up odd facts and confound friends. You'll find yourself recalling programs long forgotten some also best forgotten.

Who remembers the 26 weeks of "Channing," described as a series of campus dramas featuring Henry Jones and Jason Evers. Some of us don't even remember Jason Evers. How about "The Felony Squad," which ran from 1966-69 starring Howard Duff, Ben Alexander and Dennis Cole? Remember competing with the college kids on "G.E. College Bowl," a show that ran Sunday afternoons from 1958-72, first moderated by Allen Ludden, and then by Robert Earle. The encyclopedia covers serious subjects as well triv By JOAN HANAUER NEW YORK (UPI)- Who played "Boston Blackie" on television? which was the firstof the "adult" westerns? what was the first animated cartoon to be carried in prime time? Anyone who digs media trivia and what could be more trivial then television at its worst can find answers to those questions and many more flipping through the pages of Les Brown's "New York Times Encyclopedia of Television" (Times Books).

(The answers, incidentally, are: Kent Taylor played "Blackie:" ABC's "Cheyenne" with Clint Walker was the first of, the adult westerns, and "The Flint-sones" originally was a prime time program.) For serious students of television, the encyclopedia is Brown also points out that drama permits fewer commercial breaks and demands advertising that doesn't collide with the presentation. The problem with writing a reference work on television is that changes of programs and network personnel can make the industry look like a giant revolving door. Brown set May 1, 197 as the deadline for information, and as a result his listings for president of NBC-TV and CBS-TV are out of date. Maybe an encyclopedia of television should be published in a loose leaf binder. POTATOES $4.00 and up SPUD FACTORY 2424 Candalaria CM Associates, bbs: Jewelers If POST-CllftlSTMAS SALE MELE JEWELRY BOXES 25 off CROSS PEN SETS 25 off EVERWED DIAMONDS 25 off ALL 1978 STATIONERY ITEMS 25 off ALL TURQUOISE 25 off ALL TURQUOISE JEWELRY 25 off 14 KT.

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