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xamfttJ Saturday December 12 HOME ENTERTAINMENT ENTERTAINERS BOOKS MUSIC etcetera Storefront Lawyers: Total Devotion COMPLETELY TV SCHEDULE 1970 DECEMBER 19 legal aid groups who provide free advice to clients unable to pay for services These include the long functioning Legal Aid Society Southern Community Law Office a federally funded organization in West Los Angeles administered by the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Western Center on Law and Poverty also federally funded which is administered by the University of Southern California School of Law and is located in Los Angeles Several of the stories of Storefront inaugural season are actual case histories from legal aid group files dramatized for television A further assurance of accuracy on the hour-long dramatic series is the aid of the technical adviser secured by producer Gast He is John Miner Deputy District Attorney of Los Angeles County The image the producers (the executive producer is Leonard Freeman who also produces the series) hope they convey is that of three dedicated young lawyers who though they are in the employ of a prestigious law firm in the Century City district of Los Angeles to the are chiefly concerned with supplying legal advice to the needy and deprived in the community It was on condition they could be involved in this type of poverty law that they accepted their employment on Way a life of complete honestly rather Is Tom the popular one-hour music variety series starring the multitalented Welsh singer will be presented on a monthly basi3 in various time periods for the balance of the season Five new series introduced by ABC this past faU Thomas in Make Room for Young Partridge and Odd will remain on the schedule in January Current ABC television series which will not be seen after January are Young Silent in the and Most Deadly STARS in Storefront seen Saturdays at 10:30 pm on the CBS Network (Channel 5) are Robert Foxworth and Shelia Larken The series deals with the dedicated practice by three young attorneys dedicated to their profession FOR WEEK OF DECEMBER 12 TO jr tures as of the Love You Alice and the current comedy hit On television he has been seen on Meticulous attention to authenticity and realism are hallmarks of Storefront produced by Harold Gast the producer of earlier legal series for the To ensure that stories are factual Gast has personally researched a number of prominent a metropolitan police force Sgt Smith Is portrayed by Henry Fonda one of the outstanding actors of our time and we are proud to welcome him to ABC this new Mr Starger described Pearl Bailey in terms of Pearl Bailey: is a star in any medium Her new series will center on her enormous talent and charismatic personality The series will also feature guests of the highest caliber We are delighted to present Mis3 Bailey in her television series Smith and Mr Starger said a western series which features a combination of action and humor Pete Duel and Ben Murphy play respectively Smith and Jones two trying to be but who find Santa Claus Is Coining On Sunday Santa Why do you have whiskers? Why do you live at the North Pole? Why do you leave presents in stockings? Why is your sleigh pulled by reindeer? Why do some people call you Kris Kringle? Why? Why A sackful of questions about Santa Claus is answered in Claus Is Coming to a special one-hour Christmas musical fantasy airing on the ABC Television Network Sunday at 5 pm (Channel 4) Featuring the voices of Fred Astaire Mickey Rooney Keenan Wynn Paul Frees and Joan Gardner it is the story of Kris an abandoned baby brought up by Tanta Kringle and the toy-maker elves The toys accumulate over the years and as Kris grows up he decides to scale the Mountain of the Whispering Winds reigned over the raging Winter War-lock and deliver his playthings to the children of Sombertown When Kris reaches his destination he discovers that the tyrannical old Burgermeister has declared toys forb'dden in the town Kris and his penguin companion Topper are consigned to the town dungeon PRODUCERS DIRECTORS Claus Is Coming to was produced and directed for ABC by Arthur Rankin Jr and Jules Bass the team responsible for such perennial favorites as The Drummer and the Red-Nosed which will make its eighth annual apearance this year Claus Is Coming to was written by Romeo Muller Music was composed and arranged bv Maury Laws with lyrics by Jules Bass The designer is Paul Coker Jr The title song Claus Is Coming to was composed by Fred Coots with lyrics by Karen Gillespie The song is copyrighted by Leo Feist Inc New York Claus Is Coming to is presented in a three-dimensional animation technique exclusive to Rankin and Bass Young normally scheduled for this time period Is preempted on that date lege which numbers among Its alumnae Carol Channing and studied under Herbert Berghof in New York before making stage appearances at the Front Street Theater in Memphis Term and the Seattle Repertory Theater David Arkin who stars as lawyer Gabriel Kaye is a UCLA theater arts graduate who launched his show business career with The Session an im-provisational comedy group and has appeared in such motion pic- By EDGAR RENTON HOLLYWOOD Where would you find three youthful lawyers who were brilliant law students ranking near the top of their classes and who had their pick Oi lucrative practices but preferred to devote their talents to law that concerns itself with the problems of the poor the nonwhite and the disenfranchised? Many places in real life and the story of these dedicated persons is spun-out in Storefront CBS Saturday evening at 10:30 Channel 5 Robert Foxworth the actor who plays promising young attorney David Hansen in the series easily could have been Robert Foxworth the lawyer in real life always argued so much around the house and was so contentious that my parents said I would become a says the soft-spoken Texan who began his theatrical career as a child actor in Houston community theaters ROTTEN STUDENT For several school years Foxworth actually considered taking up tiie study of law I was such a rotten student in high school that I decided I be a rotten student all the way through Later Foxworth was to prove his ability as a college student but not in law school His longstanding desire to an important began to take form as he earned his bachelor of fine arts degree in acting from Carnegie-Mellon University But another member of the Foxworth clan who passed the bar and curiously enough is involved in the same type of poverty law which becomes a cause and a crusade for the young attorneys on Storefront George Griffith uncle heads the Alexandria Va branch of the Legal Aid Society and has often said to his nephew: going to keep my eyes on you and make sure you do it right on Foxworth boasts an outstanding stage background and received critical acclaim for his role in a CBS Playhouse production last December In three seasons at the Arena Stage in Washington DC he appeared in 20 productions CREDITS GALORE Sheila Larken who stars as Deborah Sullivan the feminine member of the legal team has television credits galore She received her BA degree in drama from Bennington Col- CHANGES AT ABC Three New Series HOLLYWOOD Three new television series the move of several proven programs to new time periods and the introduction of an impressive package of recent feature films highlight changes in the ABC Television prime-time program schedule to take effect in mid-January The three new series will feature Henry Fonda starring in a half-hour comedy-drama titled Smith Pearl Bailey in an hour variety program and a one-hour Western comedy Smith and which will star Pete Duel and Ben Murphy Martin Starger Vice President in charge of Programming for the network said Smith is a comedy-drama about a family whose head is a sergeant-detective on.