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Page 19, Wednesday, uly 31, 1974 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS TELEVISION HIGHLIGHTS Wednesday tv programs Jemad ln progress lailarn Standard Tlmt Getting On The A Line Real Ben WTTV WB.TV-NBC WISH-CIS WIWI-AIC 4 6 8 13 Mike Douglas Bonanza Sfar Trek Money Movie "Sullivan's Empire" Debbie's Place Brady Bunch News To Tell The Truth Beverly Hillbillies Comer Pyle John Chancellor Walter Cronkite Smilh-Reasoner Hogan's Heroes Andy Griffith News loyal Opposition News Democratic Response News New Price Is Right Chase Hudson Brothers News Trulh Or :00 7:15 1:30 The Cowboys Wednesday Movie 01 TELEVISION TODAY 6:30 WISH Democratic Response: Official Democratic party response to President Nixon's economic address of last week. 7:00 WISH The Hudson Brothers Show: Premiere of a music and comedy mini-scries starring three brothers billed as a cross between the Marx Brothers and the Beatles. McLean Stevenson and Danny Thomas are the guest stars. BD Hollywood Television Theater: "The Typists." Eli Wallach and his wife, Anne Jackson, recreate their 1963 off-Broadway roles in a comedy by Murray Schisgal, the author of "Luv." Repeat. 9:00 WISH Kojak: A series of burglaries puzzles Lt.

Kojak because the clues contain personal items stolen from him. Repeat. ED Firing Line: Host William F. Buckley Jr. discusses "What Should Come Out of the Next SALT Agreement?" with retired Adm.

Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. (B Wide World Special: "Academy of Country Music Awards." Roy Clark, Loretta Lynn, Charlie Rich, Tom T. Hall, Donna Fargo and Conway Twitty are the entertainers in a repeat of a program telecast last March honoring top country artists. Roger Miller is the host.

Tomorrow: The subjects are cryogenics (the freezing of living beings) and male menopause. RADIO TODAY (90.1) Options: With William Channey, grand dragon of the Indiana Ku KIux Klan, and a couple who spent 117 days adrift in a life raft. (99.5) Old-Time Radio: Mystery Theater presents "My Brother's Keeper." RADIO TOMORROW (1590) Dave Lctterman Show: Studio call-in guest is Roy Jones, legal adviser to the Indianapolis Police Department. Cannon Channel 6 Wednesday The Week: "Last Angry Man" :00 8:30 :45 What's My line! Merv Griffin Night Movie: "Angel Kojak Doc Elliot Wore Red" :00 Q1S 7:30 By RICHARD K. SHULL Many years will pass before commercial television develops sufficient bravura to do biographies of the real bomb throwers of the American Revoluton.

Poor old Tom Paine may have to remain in a shadow for another 200 years. But, progress, albeit ever so slow, is being made and there are indications the networks will progress beyond the Washington-and-the-cherry-tree strata of myths before July 4, 1976. For the 1975-76 season, for instance, public broadcasting will have a series on the Adams family, including "Snowball Sam," the Boston coffee house provocateur. But more immediate, CBS this winter will have a dandy biography of Benjamin Franklin done in four 90-minute dramas. The CBS project will have Franklin drawn in full dimension, including his free-wheeling sexual mores which caused him to father 13 illegitimate children and engage in dalliances even after he'd passed the three-quarter century mark.

FIVE BENS The achievements of Franklin in all fields were more than a single actor possibly could handle, and that's why CBS has hired five actors to portray him in the four dramas. Beau Bridges and his father, Lloyd, will work as a team entry, portraying Franklin from early manhood to middle age. Richard Widmark will be Franklin in his 60s when the statesman went to London for one last best effort to head off revolution in the colonies. Eddie Albert portrays Franklin in his 70s, when Franklin went to France on behalf of the revolution and seduced the entire nation figuratively and many of the women literally. Finally, Melvyn Douglas will portray Franklin in his 80s, aged, ailing and dying.

The series is being produced by Lewis Freedman, with Glenn Jordan directing. The four scripts are by different writers. Mod Squad News Tonight Show News Name Of The Game News Mission: Impossible :00 103 4S :00 Untouchables Wide World Special THURSDAY TV PROGRAMS eastern Standard Tim IP Joined In Progress Eddie Albert and Alexis Smith Freedman held an advance screening in Hollywood of the show starring Albert which Freedman will use to lead off the series even though it is chronologically third. "I dislike biographies that start off with little boys," Freedman said in brushing aside objections to showing the series out of order. So how was the show? It's loaded with production values including a big-scale reception at the court of Versailles and a giant leap forward for Hollywood in creating authentic historical drama.

But that still leaves it considerably behind the British, who are the masters of historical pieces. The script by Howard Fast is laced with humor and an interesting level of naughtiness. In the drama, 72-year-old Franklin is living with a beautiful widow, Madame Helvetius (played by Alexis Smith), in Paris in a style entirely too fine for the tastes of many of the revolutionary leaders over here. Zealots are supposed to suffer, you know. But behind the veneer of flirtations and socializing, Franklin was busy conniving and Intriguing.

In 15 months, he managed to maneuver the French government into open participation in our revolution. Were it not for Franklin, George Washington might still be marching his little army around the boonies of New York and New Jersey in a game of fox and hounds with the Redcoats. Under heavy makeup, Albert did a fine job of creating the wily Franklin. And Miss Smith made Madame Helvetius' affair with the aged diplomat seem credible. In those days, there wasn't the awful premium on youth of today's society.

And bless Freedman and Jordan, they had Victor Buono creating King George III for what he was a Germanic slob haunted by personal devils. After the screening, I asked Alexis Smith, a mighty handsome woman in anyone's century, how she managed to get herself psyched up to portray a woman in love with a balding, paunchy, stooped, gout-ridden septuagenarian. "We rehearsed for three weeks," she said. "And Eddie Albert as he usually is looks pretty good. Then we went into makeup and I took a look at Eddie in that wig and pillows and I said, 'Get yourself a new As an actress, I had a lot to overcome." SHULL'S MAILBAG WTTV WKTV NBC WISH CBS jwiWI AIC 4 6 8 13 V.

Still Going? Today's Movies On Television Has Lucy retired altogether from TV or will she still be on again sometimes? I know she won't have "The Lucy Show" this fall. E.M.D. She's scheduled for two specials this coming season. The first will be a book comedy with Art Carney and Nanette Fabray as her costars. (0 "The Last Angry Man" (made for television, repeat) with Pat Hingle, Lynn Carlin and Tracy Bogart.

Dedicated doctor drama based on the Gerald Green novel. "The Angel Wore Red" (1960) with Ava Gardner and Dirk Bogardc. Spanish Civil War romance. Black and white. TOMORROW 9 a.m.-WTTV "Night and the City" (1950) with Rich-ard Widmark and Gene Ticr-ney.

Crime drama. "Rio Con-cbos" (1964) with Tony Fran-ciosa and Jim Brown. Western. "Copper Canyon" (1950) with Hcdy Lamarr and Ray Milland. Western.

Lucille Ball funny and so clever and so Not Sally there's never anything vulgar about her show. Why couldn't they drop that horrible, vul Surely CBS is not going to drop "Dirty Sally" from the Friday night programs. She is News Today Captain Kindergarten 7:15 Kangaroo College 30 Janie Your World 45 00 CBS Morning Paul Dixon Newt :30 :00 Hollywood Dinah's Place Indy Today 9:15 Movie: :30 "Night And Winning Gambit Phil Donahue The City" $treak iOO Concentration Now You See :30 Hollywood love Of Password Squares life iOO Studio Four Jackpot- Young And Bob Braun Restless :30 News Afternoon Search For :45 Channel 6 Tomorrow :00 Chiickwagon News 44:15 Theater :30 Jeopardy As The World let's Make A -AS Turns Deal :00 Channel Four Days Of Our Guiding light Newlywed 1:15 Hollywood lives Game :30 Movie: The Doctors Edge Of Night Girl In My M5 lite i :00 Conchos" Another World New Price Is General 2:15 Right Hospital :30 How To Survive Match Game One Life To 45 A Marriage '74 live :00 Flintsfones Somerset Tattlefales $10,000 3:15 Pyramid :30 Debbie's Place Mike Douglas Money Movie Bonanza :45 gar, loud-mouth "Maude?" If the viewers like "Maude." it only shows how low our mor als have dropped. L.A.D. Does seem a shame that OOO bally" was dumped after such a short trial in an im possible time slot.

As for "Maude," television follows, it VJE'EIE CIEAMUG OUT EVEftVTfllfJC ALL FIRST QUALITY-ALL FAMOUS BRAND Listing of TV programs is published as a service to reader. The schedule is compiled from information furnished by the TV stations. Stations occasionally make last-minute schedule changes end fail to notify The News in time for the change to be made in the published log. The News regrets any inconvenience caused by these late changes. doesn't lead, public taste, so draw your own conclusion.

Whither Is "American Bandstand" taped in Philadelphia, New York or Los Angeles? Where are the beach locations Florida or California? A.E.J. It's taped in Los Angeles and environs. That Line Again We watch "All in the Family" pretty regularly, but none of us can figure out the last line of the last verse Edith and Archie sing at the beginning of each show. It sounds like: "Gee, are all the salred great." D.M. Doubleknits Dacron-Woos Seersuckers UHF Television Regular to Plaids, Stripes, Checks, Mini-Checks and Deeptone Solids is: ran Once again, here it "Gee, our old LaSalle great." H7S WHMB, INDIANAPOLIS (Channel 40) WEDNESDAY P.M.

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