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Bobbi makes fantasy come true 1 1 -I I Pilot Bobbi Teitel, creator of "Fantasies Fulfilled," airing next Friday on Channel 23, is hostess and Peter Marshall is host. Raymond Burr has told CBS executives they'll have to come to Fiji, where he lives, if they want to film another series after he finishes "Ironside" next year. The network has agreed, but there's no format for the show yet. Sally Struthers (All In The Family) made her debut in a Las Vegas singing and dancing act Carroll O'Connor (Archie on Ml in the Family) wrote the closing theme, Remembering You, for the show. By Charles Witbeck Although outsiders almost never sell a television series idea to networks, a young Chicago girl, Bobbi Teitel, beats formidable odds next Friday night on ABC's late show, "Wide World of Entertainment," with an imaginative pilot, "Fantasies Fulfilled." Game show man Peter Marshall plays host with creator Bobbie alongside such stars as Walter Matthau, Clint Eastwood, Janet Leigh, Peter Graves and Dick Butkus, the renowned Chicago Bear linebacker, among others enact their secret fantasies.

For instance, Walter Mat- thau, a devout horse player, has always wanted to call a race, invoking styles of announcers like Clem McCarthy. Well, at Santa Anita Park before show cameras, Matthau realized his ambition as he took up the mike, his head buzzing with entry names and varied jockey colors. Numerous scratches because of a muddy track, however, thwarted Matthau's homework, but he manages to sound fairly professional until the horses enter the homestretch. Then, in the excitement, a photographer stands up to capture his subject and blots out the announcer's view. Horse players who witness the footage may figure the script was really planned in this manner with the old Hol- lywood trist, but according to Bobbi, it just happened that way.

"Spontaneity is the key to this show," said the young Chicagoan. "I pleaded with people not to use a lot of heavy direction." Matthau's dream, which is something of a nightmare, turns out to be a solid act, good for laughs. An the burly Dick Butkus, the mammoth pro football star who's been known to eat opponents alive, sings behind Closed Doors on a Las Vegas stage and also rates chuckles. According to Bobbi, Butkus, "a good sport," works hard for his vocal debut, and the audience clearly likes the athlete willing to make a fool of himself out in public. The idea of having celebrities and fans enact their fantasies before cameras happens to be based upon Miss Teitel's Lifestyle Experiment Program, in which for a fee, Bobbi puts customer fantasies into action.

Back in 1971, an initial ad in a magazine provoked over 100 replies. One came from a 19-year-old boy who wanted to be a singing teenager of the '50s. For $15, Bobbi arranged a small role for her customer in the musical, "Grease," during its Chicago run. A Sacramento mailman dreamed of becoming a nightclub comic; and, for $350, Miss Teitel booked him in a San Francisco's bistro on a one-night stand. Another couple under Bobbi's encouragement engaged in an ice cream fantasy, building ice monuments; and a remorseful convict expressed a desire to hold a dinner party for bank employees he had robbed.

Miss Teitel lost out on this one when the prisoner's warden refused to cooperate. With over 5000 letters pouring in, Lifestyle Experiment Program flourished, and its founder began to attract attention in Chicago papers. Last June, a year ago exactly from the recent show taping date in Hollywood, Bobbi appeared on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show," and soon had Don Rickles revealing his dream of being a psychiatrist. Idealist Zev Bufman, producer of "Story Theater," and "Jimmy Shine," happened to see the show, and thought Bobbi's project might be the making of a TV series, the show, and thought Bobbi's project might be the making of a TV series. Soon Bufman and ABC were mulling over pilot possibilities; and, Bufman began filming "Fantasy" segments, sending cameras out to Santa Anita to catch Matthau's announcing act.

An elated Bobbi quit her job of dreaming up ideas for new products to concentrate on the pilot, working The TIMES-REPORTER I June 21,19 74 DOVER-NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO closely with Bufman. "We shot nine fantasies and are using six," she said. "I'm very strict about certain basics. People are the stars, and the fantasies must be desires. As for predicting which fantasies will make the most interesting visual acts, I've discovered that you can't tell in advance.

Some are more visually exciting, and some give an insight into personality. All are filmed exactly as it happened." The personable Chicagoan, who won't be pushed around because she's a TV newcomer, claims she's never been scared by the pressure or the people. "I've never been on film before," she said, "and it's traumatic to say the least. I'm not an actress, and when I see myself on the screen it appears to be somebody else. She's not bad.

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