Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 171

FJ20M COMIC STRIP TO TV TV Marshal Matt Is Marked As Merciless Murderer Saturday, September 13, 1958 WSUN-TV WFLA-TV WTVT Channel 38 Channel 8 Channel 13 Steve Canyon Hits The Air OS IS 3 30 4J 00 IS JO 10 4S INSTEAD of a bow-legged sheriff drowing his six-shooter, viewers, for a change, will see an F-100 Super Sabre jet scream across sets when Perry Como's Saturday night shows end. "Steve Canyon" takes off this week. Television is producing a big jump in rank for: Sr IT 00 IS 30 11 41 -123 (I I 00 IS 1 30 45 100 ris 2 LittI Hawaii Papeye't Navy little Rascals Popeye't Navy little Rascalt Capt. Kanqaroe little Raicalt Capt. Kanqaroe Howdy Doody Capt.

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Rascal. TlTitoW oPe" HUM Humphrey art Tim Holt Open House Now Showing. Former Al Felfa News, Weathe 0tey Star Pertormoncn Annie Ookley pick Powell- JaloSI SeeVe, SerqeorTpTeT" Jalopy Races Glenn Reeves of Tha Vuko. heS" nS-U 5how Art Lmkletter "Case of Tha '30 4J A- 5 Dean Fredericks. A former Army sergeant, he has become an Air Force lieutenant colonel in the title role of the new adventure series, "Steve Canyon," which will start Saturday, Sept.

13, 9 p.m. WFLA-TV NBC) Fredericks is the living image of the comic-strjp hero, according to the man who should know, cartoonist Milton Caniff. He created the Canyon character 11 years ago, and personally helped in selecting Fredericks for the TV role. AS CANIFF SEES CANYON, he's 34, six feet two or three, blond, rangy, weighing about 190. Dean Fredericks met those specifications, and was chosen over 150 other actors.

Fredericks, experienced in filmed TV shows and in movies (his latest was as an Indian in Walt Disney's "The Light in the is a Purple Heart veteran who was wounded in the Philippines. A shrapnel-torn leg almost kept from his chosen career of acting in 1946, when a Veterans Administration official turned 100 yrav it lis i a 3 30 too Ji Ll is 30 45 09 Kitty (Amanda Blake, left) and Doc (Mil-burn Stone) are wondering how Matt Dillon will manage to escape from bis own jail cell. 100 4 5 1 1 IS 130 45 00 15 uuvaiiuu mi ttuiui' naming unaer tne ui bill with the advice that "you'd have a rough time making a go of acting with that leg." A letter-writing assist from movie star Ray Milland tventually gained Dean the tuition grant, and exercise 30 45 too lis DEAN FREDERICKS, HARRY TOWNES portray Air Force adventurers (30 45 Perry Como Show Fiery Robert Preston Finqers" Do Pron Dancers Wonted ttad Ray Charles Sinqers Or Alive Jubilee, U.S.A. Jubilee, U.S.A. Jubilee, U.S.A.

8 9 .09 15 430 EeTT- or Show 0eaB Frederieke "Oh! Susanna" Rocky Rockwell Turn.nq Point Hove Gun Lennon S.sters Kevin McCarthy Will Travel 45 Midwestern Ted Mack's Hoyride Amateur How Early Bird Theatre Brains and Brawn "Gunq Ha" Jack Lescoulie Gunsmoke James Arness Harbor Command Wendell Corey 00 IS 30 45 00 15 11 Randolph Scott Newt Newsroom Vnth MG" Premier. Th. Be" ot HoTywooT Early Bird Theatre "The Devil "My Darlina Early Bird Theatre It A Sissy- Clementine" 30 45 Gunsmoke. 10 p.m. (WTVT) James Arness, Dennis Weaver.

Matt Dillon is accused by self-styled cattleman Red Samples of murdering his partner, and Samples produces a witness to "prove" it. Matt is suspended as U.S. Marshal. His friend, Wild Bill Hic-kok, arrives to arrest Matt but together they catch the real slayer Perry Mason, 7:30 p.m. (WTVT) "The Case of the Fiery Fingers Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale.

Mason finds himself involved with a charming old lady who feels her employer is about to be slain. The Perry Como Show, 8 p.m. (WFLA TV) Perry's back along with regulars the Louis Da Pron Dancers, the Ray Charles Singers and Mitchell Ayers-and his orchestra. Tonight's guest will be Robert Preston Wanted Dead Or Alive, 8:30 p.m. (WTVT) "Fatal Memory." Steve McQueen.

Josh Randall goes to the aid of his former commanding officer whose life is endangered by a faked "wanted" poster Steve Canyon, 9 p.m. (WFLA-TV) "Operation Towline." Dean Fredericks. Story of an important and dangerous mission to develop an anti-missile system of towing Convair F-102 fighters from a "mother" KB-50 tanker. The Gale Storm Show, 9 p.m. (WTVT) "Happy Birthday, Captain." Gale tries to throw a surprise birthday party for Captain Huxley but is thwarted at every turn by none other than the captain himself Have Gun, Will Travel, 9:30 p.m.

(WTVT) Richard Boone. Hired to find a young killer. Paladin gets his man, but the young outlaw forfeits his life when he tries to outdraw his captor Brains and Brawn, 10:30 p.m. (WFLA-TV) Jack Lescoulie and Fred Davis star as co-emcees. Sam Snead and U.S.

Open Champion Tommy Bolt teamed with two rocket-missile-space experts will clash head on in a match of golf mastery in a "live" remote TV pickup from Winged Foot Country Club. SUNDAY TV-Rodio Diol, September 7. 1958 Page 15 especially water skiing over the years has returned the wounded leg to normal A proficient horseback rider, he has used his ability in the saddle in cowboy roles in such TV shows as "Wagon Train" and "Gunsmoke." Dean was born Frederick J. Foote Jan 21 1924 in Los Angeles, but grew up and now lives 75 miles north in Lancaster, in the Antelope Valley. He met his pretty wife, Myda, at an alumni reunion dance at Antelope Valley High School.

Living with them in their new rambling ranch home is Nancy, Myda's daughter by a previous marriage. When not studying his TV scripts (with Myda's help). Dean keeps busy with several hobbies riding, water skiing, tinkering with sports cars and cooking and with assisting in the operation of a gasoline products distribution firm started by his late father. An active member of the Elks Club and Chamber of Commerce, Dean keeps his Lancaster life apart from his Hollywood career, and hopes his neighbors continue to think of him as a quiet young man who sells gasoline and barbecues steaks, rather than as a TV star. Make Your Money Work For You 3i Masks' ST.

PETERSBURG FEDERAL SAVINGS 33 SIXTH STREET SOUTH LT. COL. STEVEXSOX B. CANYON' actor Fredericks ready for takeoff Poo. i SUNDAY TV DJ.

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