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Fort Lauiimlalr Nrwn anal Sun-Sriilim-I, Saliirilav. Julv 31. 1976 41I Television Summer Season Not Over; Gleason Returning To TV Television By BOB KEATON Entertainment Writer With all the network hoopla going on about the fall. you'd think the summer season was over, except for more re runs. Fact is, it isn't.

There'll be other specials and mini-series coming up. "The Late Summer, Early Fall Bert Convy Show," starring the host of "Tattle Tales." begins a four-week run Aug. 25 on Channel 4. Four days later "The Johnny Cash Show," taped on the stage of the Bob Keaton i i SLA 5 1 i if 5 Jf 11 I 1 i 4 Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, premieres for four weeks, replacing "Sonny and Cher." And Diahann Carroll has a special coming up Aug. 21 with guest stars Betty White, Jim Nabors and jazz musician-singer George Benson.

CBS is proViding a glimpse of what its Saturday morning kiddie lineup will be like at 8 p. m. Tuesday, Sept. 7. The prime-time special, presented four days before the start of the season, will highlight the new series, as well as those returning.

Jackie Gleason and ABC have agreed on at least eight episodes of new series for "The Great One" to premiere in fall "77. i Jackie Gleason: New show Fernwood gang return in the 7:30 p. m. timeslot when the new season begins or switch to 11 p. m.

So far, the early timeslot is winning by a substantial majority. Re-runs of the series will be switched to 11 p. but the station still isn't certain when the returning series will air. Channel 2 will begin a new series titled "Meet the Candidates" at 7 p.m. Monday.

The live program will provide comprehensive coverage of the major 1976 local, state and Congressional races, and will air each week night from 7 to 8 p. m. More than 220 candidates from Broward, Dade and Palm Beach counties are being invited to appear. Early visionaries once foresaw television as becoming an extension of the Broadway theater, as it being the instrument to bring stage drama into the home. But that dream never materialized in any organized fashion, although over the years Broadway's best has been seen in film form on television.

Now comes a joint plan among 20th Century Fox, Four Star Productions and the famous Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio to produce three plays on Broadway per year, all for limited runs, and to have them videotaped for home viewing. Barbara Parkins, whose film career since her smoky role in TV's "Peyton Place" a decade ago failed to soar, will return in rare TV appearance as guest star in an episode of NBC's new series, "Gib-bsville." William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy are reportedly still trying to put together a financial deal for a Star Trek feature film. Paramount was reported on the verge of a Star Trek movie last year but plans never materialized. Going back to "Mary Hartman." Mary Kay Place (Loretta Haggars) is negotiating a recording deal with Columbia records. What would her first release be? "Baby Boy," which was a hit on the series.

NBC says being third in the ratings last season didn't hurt their sales The other two networks sold most of their air time early, leaving NBC to reap the benefits of those still clamoring for commercial time. And prices are soaring. Variety estimates the average prime time minute is selling for around $90,000. Most commercials these days are 30-seconds in length and the average costs to sponsors are $42,000 at NBC, $45,000 at CBS and $46,000 at ABC, but actual rates vary with each program's ratings. Sales are so good, in fact, that CBS vice-presidents are now reportedly allowed to fly first class rather than tourist.

Title and premise of the series is apparently the same as that announced last year with Gleason starring as a wealthy do-gooder who solves problems for his jet-set friends. But Norman Lear has bowed out of the "Panama Fargo" series. Monty Hall's "Let's Make A Deal," which has been dropped by ABC, will go into syndication. He'll tape 32 shows from the main show room of the Las Vegas Hilton for fall. ABC has been facing some real logistical problems.

While it's camera crews and technicians were in New York covering the Democratic Convention, it also had crews preparing for the Olympic Games in Montreal and the Republican Convention in Kansas City. Then crews had to be dispatched to cover the All-Star Football Game July 23 and others to prepare for the 24-camera-coverage of the PGA tournament in Washington, D. C. this month, all the while covering its weekend tennis tournaments and its Monday Night Baseball. To keep up with the movement the network hired 350 extra temporary TV technicians.

"Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" undoubtedly drew its largest audience last night as the soapy comedic series drew to a shattering close. Channel 2, which airs the Norman Lear show, has been asking viewers to call in as to whether they would rather see Mary and the Running isn't Telly's favorite sport Telly And Kojak Really The Same By JOAN HANAIER United Ptvm ImcniatloMl NEW YORK Telly Savalas, who greeted a woman reporter with a kiss on the hand and later blew a respectable sized bubble of pink bubble gum, insists his popularity lies in the dubious fact that he looks like everybody's Uncle Harry. "I'm just, a kid from New York who looks like everybody else," the actor said during an interview, his tinted glasses pushed back on his forehead. Savalas was relaxing between takes in his air-conditioned trailer on location in Manhattan, shooting exteriors and some Interior scenes for next season's "Kojak" on CBS. "Everybody's always telling me they have an Uncle Harry who looks just like me.

That's 90 per cent of my appeal." A lot of fans may argue with Savalas' description of himself, but there's no arguing his popularity, as fans thronged around him after a scene was shot and he signed autographs while his two bodyguards watched. "I'm not that sophisticated that I don't understand how they feel," he said of his fans. "I can remember when I couldn't catch my breath in the presence of Burt Lancaster." It was Lancaster who launched Savalas toward stardom when he signed the former television news executive for a role in "Birdman of Alcatraz." Lancaster remains among Savalas' favorite performers. "I'm always disappointed when a screen personality contradicts himself off screen there should be continuity of character. Take Lancaster or Frank Sinatra I'm impressed with them because they are what you see." The same goes for the Savalas-Kojak personality, which is going into its fourth season on the air.

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Of the ten shows named least violent, all will be back next year. They are Bob Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore, "Welcome Back, Kotter," "Chico And The Man," "Rhoda," "Doc," "The Practice," "the waltons," "Little House On The Prairie" and "Barney Miller." Not so for the ten top violence offerings. Four have been canceled for next fall "S.W.A.T.," "The Rookies," "Sara" and "Joe Forrester." Three are network movies and only three high violence series will return for another season "The Rockford Files," "Starsky and Hutch" and "McMillan-Colombo." Johnson, in presenting the violence study, cited studies that in "Of course, the character changes as we go along. If it didn't, I'd get bored and I'd quit ten minutes after that. nirectino is orobablv where he'd no If he ouit already he has Afternoon directed a number of "Kojuk" episodes, along with a heavy schedule of nieht club dates and a movie, "Theo Mati of which he is writer.

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