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Daytime Inlas Dts Attractions, 00 Si 1 i- i i 1 Special camera cart facilitates filming of adventures of five-inch mouse in NBC's "Stuart Little." afternoon special for kids. and the Nurses" on the same Monday, at 2 P. M. It's "The Nurses" again, making it a fitting companion piece for NBC's "The Doctors." which continues at 2:30. Another sudsy saga on ABC's agenda, aimed at teen-age viewers, will debut the same day at 4 P.

as a lead-in to the repositioned-now-that youngsters are back in -school "Where the Action Is." A possible mid-season ABC attraction is "Supermarket Sweepstakes." in which contestants race against the clock scooping up merchandise. A new Channel 3 game show, beginning Monday at 9:30, PDQ." requires Hollywood celebrities' guessing of words or phrases while teammates post clues a letter at a time. Youngsters get some specials of their own, like the "NBC Children's Theater" production of "Stuart Little." about an urbane urban mouse, plus new weekly educational and just-for-fun items. A promising newcomer, Saturdays at noon, beginning early next month, is NBC's "The First Look." Based on Jeanne Bendick's "First Book of volumes, it will try to stimulate youngsters' imagination and curiosity via the world's wonders. Cast regulars will include guitarist-story teller Tom Glazer.

folk singer Jackie Washington, dancer-mime Neil Jones and protean musician Sally Sheffield. The same network's "Exploring" returns next month on Saturdays, at 12:30 as a half-hour devoted solely to the United States. ABC's Sunday morning "Discovery '65," on the other hand, will go abroad for at least 13 of its programs. New cartoon characters include ABC's rock 'n' rolling "The Beatles." arriving Sept. 25.

and "Milton the Monster." whose Horror Hill cronies are Prof. Weirdo and Count Kook. Oct. 9. NBC adds ultra-powerful "Atom Ant" and "squirrel from U.N.C.L.E.," "Secret Squirrel," due Oct.

2 after presenting them in an hour-long special Sunday at 6:30 P. M. Long-time movie stars "Tom Jerry" finally make their TV debut on CBS Sept. 25. ists attempt to identify the signer of a fictitious letter.

In "Fractured Phrases" contestants try to ferret out familiar titles, phrases or sentences concealed by being written phonetically. Former Temple student Keith Andes co-stars with Marion Ross in "Paradise Bay," about the manager of a Southern California seaside community's radio station and his busy, busy wife. "Morning Star," about a tragedy-plagued miss, will star Elizabeth Perry. ABC will launch a half-hour version of the nighttime series that was originally dubbed "The Nurses" and subsequently became "The Doctors NEW-SEASON ferment at the networks isn't' limited to the prime hours. There will be innovations, of sorts, for children, teen-agers, housewives and other daytime set-watchers, too.

NBC overhauls its entire daytime line-up Monday, Sept. 27. New entries (some of which may be bypassed here, now that Channel 3 is no longer NBC-owned-and-operated) will include two games and two soap operas, or if you prefer detergent dramas, or if the network prefers daytime serials. "Let's Play Post Oflice" isn't a smoochathon, as the title suggests, but a Merv Griffin project in which panel in iw ii imiwinwiwi in mi ii mi i urn i i iiwwiuiwnii ni -r'r -i iwi ir-rrv t- -'rc i -v r.mjivmmM r-w More Local Stations Mean More Shows VIEWERS in and near Philadelphia have never had it so good. Or, at least, so bountiful.

With the arrival of another UHF (ultra-high frequency) station, WPHL-TV, Channel 17, Friday at 2 P. the number of stations tuneable hereabouts rises to a record eight: Channels 3, 6, 10 and 12 on the VHF (very high frequency) band; 17, 21). 35 and 48, on UHF. Program choice has been increased considerably by the advent of the UHF stations, provided your set is a post-Jan. 1, 1965 purchase or equipped with a converter.

Programs pre-empted or rejected by the network outlets here are now, under FCC fiat, being grabbed by the show-hungry newcomers. And the recent reacquisition of Channel 3 by Westinghouse means that local viewers are no longer denied Group projects. The "commercial" UHFers, WPHL-TV, Channel 17; WIBF-TV, 29, and WKBS-TV, 48, are relying mainly on canned products, at least temporarily, but each offers some local origination. Channel 17, for instance, will present John Trent, Georgie Woods and "Wee Willie" Webber daily, Monday through Friday, as hosts of a movie twin-bill, a live rock 'n' roll "Seventeen Canteen" dance party and a kiddies' cartoon show, respectively. A two-and-a-half-hour Saturday afternoon dance party, featuring Philadelphia disk jockeys, bows Saturday at 1:30 P.

an hour-long live "Bar 17 Ranch Party," Saturday at 5:30 P. "Chamber of Commerce Review With Thacher Longstreth," Sunday at 7:30 P. and Sid Mark's "The Mark of Jazz," a Channel 12 attraction last season, now expanded to an hour, Thursday, Sept. 23, at 9 P. M.

J. Joe Niagara hosts Channel 29's hour long teen-show, "The Rockin' Bird," Sundays at 7 P. beginning Sept. 26. The VHF stations are readying premieres, too.

"Ranger Rex," a children's show featuring animals and farm lore, filmed at Rex Morgan's farm near Newtown Square, will be aired on WFIL-TV daily at 7:30 A. beginning Monday. "The People Watchers," co-hosted by Patti Taylor and Norman Curtis, a series designed to stimulate children to think about meaningful subjects, is due on WCAU-TV Sundays at 8 A. M. in November.

KYW-TV's "Pop," Tuesdays at 7 P. beginning Sept. 28, will appraise current topics ranging from new dance crazes to new movements in art. WCAU TV's "Middle Ground," Sundays at 1 P. beginning Sept.

26, is a discussion program in which teenage and adult guests compare their outlooks. WFIL-TV's "Ladies Be Seated," a distaff discussion session with celeb- rity guests, will be a daily-at-11 A. M. entry. A number of local specials are planned.

WHYY-TV will air at least two film documentaries on Philadelphia problems. WCAU-TV will offer on Oct. 3 the first of four half-hour first Sunday in alternate months classical string orchestra concerts conducted by Philadelphian James De Priest, assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Also on Channel 10's agenda are documentaries about Philadelphia-area GIs in Vietnam and a pair of Philadelphians doing humanitarian work in Malaysia. Plus a satirical drama, "The Incredible Incident at Independence Square," starring Philadelphia-born Imogene Coca.

Meanwhile, local news, sports and weather reports, variety shows, documentaries and discussions continue, to be augmented soon by a dramatic upsurge in live sports coverage. II THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER 12. I5.