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Friday, April 11, 197S Philadelphia Inquirer 9-C TVRADIO LISTINGS WINFREY LEE On television FRIDAY HIGHLIGHTS 9:00 AM. B3) MORNINGSIDE WITH EDIE HUGGINS Actress Shirley MacLaine describes her recent trip to China with several women selected by her as a cross section of American womanhood seeking their views on the structured, theoretically classless, Chinese society. Other topics are child care, lacrosse and fashion. (1 hour) 9 P.M. HOLLYWOOD TELEVISION' THEATER Cloris Leachman, Jane Wyatt, Barbara Baxley and Zorah Lampert star in "Ladies of the Corridor," Dorothy Parker's drama about the fortunes and misfortunes of a group of women living in a New York hotel.

(2 hours) 1:30 A.M. WIDE WORLD: IN CONCERT Charlie Pride is the host with Gary Stewart, Jerry Reid, Ron Milsap, Chet Atkins and Dolly Parton. (IY2 hours) Today's Television 5:40 GIVE US THIS DAY; NEWS 6:00 THOUGHT FOR TODAY, FARM, MARKET REPORT, NEWS 0 OPERATION ALPHABET (Jj) SUNRISE SEMESTER 6:15 AMERICAN PEOPLES Tues) WORLD OF THE MIDDLE AGES Fri.) 6:30 PERSPECTIVE WAKE UP 6:45 FARM, HOME, GARDEN; EYEWITNESS NEWS 6:55 f) NEWS 7:00 03) TODAY (News it 7:25 and 8:25.) 02) AM AMERICA 3) CBS NEWS EDUCATION REPORT (Tues.) 8:00 CAPTAIN NOAH (TJ)2 CAPTAIN KANGAROO 0 "VILLA ALEGRE (Tues.) 9:00 SOMERSET fl BRADY BUNCH 11:00 0Q) HIGH ROLLERS PASSWORD 3) NOW YOU SEE IT OJ DIVORCE COURT 11:25 Q3 TAKE KERR 11:30 OQ3 HOLLYWOOD SQUARES WHAT'S MY LINE7 S3) LOVE OF LIFE Q3 PEYTON PLACE 23 NEW ZOO REVUE 11:55 3) NEWS 12:00 QQD NEWS 03) JACKPOT 3) YOUNG AND RESTLESS INSTRUCTIONAL SHOWS QJ BULLETIN BOARD 03 NOT FOR WOMEN ONLY Q) BANANA SPLITS 12:30 03) BLANK CHECK Q3) SPLIT SECOND QNEWS, FARM REPORT 3D SEARCH FOR TOMORROW ROMPER ROOM Q3 GREEN ACRES (Jj) LUCY 12:55 03) NEWS 1:00 0 JACKPOT Q2) ALL MY CHILDREN 0 WHAT'S MY LINE? CONCENTRATION (gJOKER'S WILD (Q POPEYE 03 UNIVERSAL STAR TIME 23 MOVIE "Everybody Sing." (B-W) (1938) Allan Jones, Judy Garland Fanny Brice. 1:30 0O3) HOW TO SURVIVE A MARRIAGE QJ) LET'S MAKE A DEAL 3D AS THE WORLD TURNS THE ELECTRIC COMPANY PATTY DUKE 2:00 DAYS OF OUR LIVES 03) THE $10,000 PYRAMID 3) GUIDING LIGHT INSTRUCTIONAL SHOWS OZZIE AND HARRIET 05 FORMBY ANTIQUING SHOW 2:30 THE DOCTORS 7 THE BIG SHOWDOWN 3) EDGE 0F NGHT SEA HUNT QUICK DRAW McGRAW 2:55 Q3 TAKE KERR 3:00 HQ'S) ANOTHER WORLD 7J GENERAL HOSPITAL 03) PRCE IS RIGHT ONE STEP BEYOND 0 YOUR FUTURE IS NOW SUPER HEROES Q3 SPEED RACER 3:30 07) ONE LIFE TO LIVE 3) MTCH GAME 75 HITCHCOCK PRESENTS 53 THREE STOOGES 23 LITTLE RASCALS 4:00 MIKE DOUGLAS Cohost: Lily Tomlin. Guests: Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson, Betty Beaird, John Slonaker, Ronee Blakely, Victory Choral Ensemble.

0 THE MOD SQUAD 03) SOMERSET 31 TATTLETALES QD15 SESAME STREET MOVIE "Zita." (1968) Joanna Snimkus, Katina Paxinou, Suzanne Flon. Q3 BATMAN 23 MICKEY MOUSE CLUB Q3 THREE STOOGES '23 FLINTSTONES 4:30 0 MERV GRIFFIN (JTJ DINAH! Guests: Nancy Sinatra, Hugh Lambert, Arte Johnson, Barry Newman, The Dramatics. BONANZA Q3 THREE STOOGES 23 FLINTSTONES 5:00 0 IRONSIDE EBffiS MISTER ROGERS Q3 BEWITCHED 5:30 0 NEWS ELECTRIC COMPANY 8IT3) VILLA ALEGRE 03 HOGAN'S HEROES 23 GILLIGAN'S ISLAND OQO3)3XZ) NEWS TODAY IN DELAWARE J3 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE FAMILY AFFAIR The Jeffersons' Doing Quite Well Since New Year's Day, 14 new prime-time series have been introduced on the three television networks. Among these, "The Jeffersons" are drawing by far the most viewers. It seems rather odd.

Eight million Americans are out of work and multiple millions more have lost overtime wages and other trimmings. Yet more than 35 million Americans weekly watch the Jefferson family, who are so rich that they haven't a single economic care. Feisty little George Jefferson used to live next door to Archie Bunker on "All in the Family." On Jan. 18, he and his wife Louise and their son Lionel got their own half-hour comedy show on CBS. Since then the Nielsen ratings have ranked them in the top 10 prime-time series every week.

It helps, of course, to follow "All in the Family" on the schedule. But that's no guarantee, for Paul Sand in "Friends and Lovers" faded like a salesman's promise in that same spot last fall. No, the Jeffersons must be doing something right. If it's George Jefferson that is making the show go, surely we're all in trouble. As played by hot-eyed Sherman Hemsley, he is conceited, rude, self 0)5) MERV GRIFFIN Guests: Eydie Gorme, Sergio Franchl, Slappy White, Dana Valery, Norm Crosby, the Weire Bros.

9:00 0O3) THE ROCKFORD FILES (R) 'The Kirkoff Case." 0 DIONNE WARWICKE SPECIAL With Wayn Newton, Frank Sinatra, Christopher and Lynda Day George, Greg Morie. 3) TELEMOVIE "Kate Mc-Snane." Anne Meara. Her role Is a lady lawyer. Costars: Charles Haid, Sean McClory, Cal Bellini, mons. 12 HOLLYWOOD TELEVISION THEATER "Ladies of the Corri-dor." Cloris Leachman, Jane Wy-att, Barbara Baxley, Zorah Lampert.

MOVIE "The Egyptian." (1954) Peter Ustinov, Gene Tier-ney, Victor Mature, Jean Simmons. 12 )r HARRY CHAPIN: A CONCERT OF MUSICAL SHORT STORIES 8:30 03) THE ODD COUPLE (R) "Our Fathers." 10:00 003) POLICE WOMAN (R) "The End Game." 02) GET CHRISTIE LOVEI (R) "Emperor of Death Street." OO NEW JERSEY NEWS 05 RANCH HOPE PRESENTS) ONE HOUR FOR CHRIST Q3 THE AVENGERS 10:30 MOVIE "The Year-Old-Man." Q)f FIRESIDE KITCHEN 11:000 0 0(0 3)3)3) NEWS 0 DAVID SUSSKINO SHOW (J) CAPTIONED NEWS OD JACK BENNY SHOW 2XD BEST OF GROUCHO 11:30 003) TONIGHT SHOW Rich Little is guest host. Guests: Pat Boone, Glenda Jackson, Pamela Mason. MOVIE "Ten Little Indians." (B-W) (1966) Hugh O'Brlan, Shir, ley Eaton, Fabian, Wilfrid Hyde-White. 12 3) MOVIE "It." (1967) Roddy McDowell, Jill Haworth, Ernest Clark.

12 AVIATION WEATHER MOVIE "The Blood of Nostradamus." (B-W) (1960) Jermon Robles, Julio Aleman. 03 THE REAL McCOYS Q3 MOVIE 'China Clipper." (B-W) (1936) Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien. 1:00 O03) MIDNIGHT SPECIAL Hosts: Charlie Daniels Band and Wet Willie. Guests: B. J.

Thomas, John Mayall, Bonnie Bramlett. 1:15 BULLETIN BOARD 1:20 Qi) AFTER MIDNIGHT 1:30 0 IN CONCERT Host: Charlie Pride. Guests: Gary Stewart, Jer. ry Raid, Ron Milsap, Chet Atkins, Dolly Parton. NEWS 2:20 Qj) MOVIE "Fear Strike! Out." (B-W) (1957) Anthony Perklm, Karl Maiden.

2:30 0 NEWS 4:20 (jg DUSTY'S TRAIL MORNINGSIDE WITH HUGGINS jjjjg SESAME STREET INSTRUCTIONAL EDIE PRO- GRAMMING Q3 ALL ABOUT FACES 9:30 TODAY IN DELAWARE VALLEY 0 MONEY MAZE QJ PETTICOAT JUNCTION 10:00 0O3) CELEBRITY SWEEPSTAKES 0 DIALING FOR DOLLARS JOKER'S WILD 0J3) INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMMING IT'S A NEW DAY Q) GENTLE BEN 10:30 QQ3) WHEEL OF FORTUNE 5) GAMBIT (7J 700 CLUB 2) NEWSPROBE 10:45 2) DELAWARE VALLEY ish and crude. Archie Bunker in blackface, with the added fillip that rich enough to animate any wife, Louise, played with sul strength by Isabel Sanford, tries he I i he is vhim. His 1 41- len vainly a calls Some Change Made." (R) 07) KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER 3) FRIDAY COMEDY SPECIAL "Rosenthal and Jones." Stars: Ned Glass and George Kirby. 13) WASHINGTON WEEK IN REVIEW Washington Week in Re view. Trosl Investment Dept.

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Teddy Roosevelt I can do in maybe 90 minutes." His costumes are rented from a downtown firm, James Son, which keeps them available on what Joe dubs "the Earley pipe." On "Flashback," as on numerous talkshows, he ad libs his lines. That requires extensive research, and he has a library of biographical material at the Plymouth Meeting home he shares with former actress Kathy Tarras and 4 year old Christine. "There'll Be to keep George in line. She reminds him that he is the grandson of sharecropper and sarcastically him Paul Ghetto." But, now risen from Queens to the swank East Side of Manhattan, George will eat no humble pie. Joe Early Is One-Man 13) ELECTRIC COMPANY 03 PARTRIDGE FAMILY 23 BEVERLY HILLBILLIES 6:30 00 NBC NEWS 0 ABC NEWS (TTJ CBS NEWS 0 TAKE 12 LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE 8 YUR FUTURE IS NOW 03 ROOM 222 23 DICK VAN DYKE 7 00 tn lawrence welk show 0 TO TELL THE TRUTH 0 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES NEWS CONSUMER SURVIVAL KIT IS) ANDY GRIFFITH ggg AVIATION WEATHER O) THE FBI 23 STAR TREK 7:30 0 WILD, WILD WORLD OF ANIMALS 0 CONCENTRATION EYE ON 0 BLACK PERSPECTIVE ON THE NEWS Guest: Dr.

Kenneth Edelin. 7J LET'S MAKE A DEAL GET SMART fj) NEW JERSEY NEWS 23 DICK VAN DYKE 8:00 003) SANFORD AND SON Hall of "I also see no reason to do people who are still living. I've been asked to do Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon." Early does his own intricate makeup, using photographs, busts, paintings or drawings. When there's no certainty how someone like Marco Polo looked, he settles for plausible characteristics. He sculpts the features, using mortician's wax and sitting in front of three mirrors for as long as 3 hours at a time.

It takes him almost an hour just to shape and trim a beard. "Some characters I've be fh tup shows hosted Johnny Carson, Mike Douglas, Dave Garro-way, Steve Allen and Dick Cavett and in his own syndicated "Come Along" series. He hopes to keep adding great figures from the past, "as long as they're not outlandish." Some he rules out. The fact that he's S-fceMl'j and weighs 230 pounds "limits roles to an extent, depending on the costuming. "I couldn't play Abraham Lincoln, who was a gaunt 6-feet-4, or Toulouse-Lautrec, who was a dwarf though Jose Ferrer did.

"But I played Grant, who was also short sagging in a frock coat, bending my head, I got down to 5-8 and I can straighten up. For Washington, with two-inch heels outside my boots and four pads inside, I added inches. "I also wouldn't want to do characters who immediately invite comparison with other actors. Lincoln, because of Raymond Massey and Hal Holbrook. Mark Twain, again because of Holbrook.

Unless it was within the framework of a play. SHERMAN HEMSLEY ar- the effect 0" their, sn Lionel does not appear to be good. On at least two shows so far, copying his father's overbearing ways, he has come off as a brat. That is a hard role for Mike Evans to play, for he is naturally likable, so when he does these bits they are not altogether convincing. But then, after all, the general premise of the show won't bear much closer examination.

With only one exception, the supporting cast is undistinguished. The exception is Paul Benedict as the effete Englishman, Harry Bentley, a consistent pleasure whenever he appears. It helps, of course, that the show is produced by Norman Lear, TV's most successful contemporary creator. But Lear's only other midseason offering, "Hot 1 Baltimore," doesn't seem to be going anywhere, except maybe into cancellation, so even Lear's touch doesn't mean automatic audience success. After muttering my way along this far, I reckon it's past time to confess that the reasons for the emphatic success of "The -Jeffersons" basically escape me.

The three principal players are all strong, some of the one-liners zing nicely, occasionally a guest star will strike sparks. But there are several shows stronger than this "Mary Tyler Moore," to name only one that are drawing fewer viewers. Maybe just a lot of folks enjoy watching at least one black man who possesses and wields economic power. None of the blacks on the other three prime-time black shows "Sanford and Son." "Good Times," "That's My Mama" -have any significant loot. Or maybe, in a time of pinch and shortage, a lot of us in all colors just like to look on and dream.

By HARRY HARRIS tnquuer TV tt'rt(er Every actor earns his living pretending to be other people, but Joe Earley specializes in REAL ones. Since 1967 when, as a busy free lance actor, he was picked by writer-producer-director Ed Fryers to play the title role in a Channel 12 special for the Eastern Educational Network, "Will the Real Ben Franklin Please Stand Up," Earley has become a one-man Hall of Fame. Three of the "22 or 23" portraits in his gallery will be on Channel 10 view on six of the next seven days. He'll be Alexander Graham Bell, who preceded Don Ameche as the inventor of the telephone, in the premiere of "Flashback," a series of 13 hour-long Gene London "interviews" with Earley-enacted historic figures, Saturday at 8 A. M.

Monday through Friday, on 6 P. M. and 11 P. M. newscasts, he'll accompany Jack Jones through Philadelphia streets as two famed Phila-delphians, Franklin and William Penn For Earley, one at a time is relatively easy.

In one 1970 Channel 10 special, "A Company of One," he was simultaneously thanks to camera trickery Teddy Roosevelt, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and Sitting Bull, A native Philadelphian who is an alumnus 'of LaSalle College and a former Philadelphia teacher, Joe has limned historical characters in WOT' with gfalo Radio Today MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS" WFLN (900, 95.7) Haydn Symphony 6 1 (Dorati) Strauss 4 Last Songs (Janowitz) Yellow River Concerto (Vered) Kodaly Symphony 1961 (Whitney) 5-9 WWDB (96.5) F. SINATRA WUHY (90.9) DINNER Franck Symph. Vanalions (WattE) Dvorak Symphony 7 (Kubel k) 8-9 WUHY AMERICAN MUSIC Carpenter Skyscrapers Suite; Kiazy Ka! Suite Sowerby Prairie, tone poem Taylor Casanova muS'C WFLN-FM TOSCANINI Verdi Luisa Miller Overture Beethoven Symph.

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