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CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1968 Section 10 Coming fo Chicago Sunday A IV! Choices Totie Fields Tells Secret of Success CHICAGO FREQUENCIES New TV Series Puts Emphasis on Subtle Evil JOHNNY CASH AND HIS TENNESSEE THREE By Hal Humphrey Lo Angeles ahead as if that weren't the Mr id WAAF tSd WAIT 420 WBBM-7H WB EE 1579 WCFL 100 WCGO 1X WCLR 158 WEAW-13M WEDCx 1240 WEEF 143ft W-G-N 720 wgrt sa WGSB 14M "WILL Si WIND 560 WJJD 1 US WJOB 123 WJOL 13 WJRC 151 WKKO ISM WLS WLTH 137 WMAQ (7 WMBI WMPT 147 WMRO-12I) WNMP 15 wnwi loao WNUS VOP-14t WSBC 120 WTAO WVON 145 WWCA 127 BY EDWARD ROHRBACH 5:45 WCFL Religious Program. 7:00 WJJD The Bible Speaks. WLS U. of III. Med.

Center. WILL Sunday Serenade. WE AW Old-Fasnioned Revival. SONNY JAMES AND THE SOUTHERN GENTLEMEN ZSA ZSA GABOR to be the favorite guest of the talk show 'hosts on TV, but now it's Totie Fields, who's fat and funny instead of beautiful and cuttingly witty like Zsa Zsa. Singer-comic Totie Fields estimates that she's been on more than 200 of these shows, and now she's' worried about too much exposure on TV.

"In Philadelphia not long ago, I was pn Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, and the Virginia Graham Girl Talk, show the same day, the way it 11:00 W-G-N It's a Great Life, feature Jack Taylor. ILL Student Churches Church of the Nazarene. WJJD The World Tomorrow. WCFL Dick Biondl. 11:30 WEEF Melodies Italiano.

WJJD Illinois Medical WJOB Polish Varieties. 11:40 WJJD Social Security Casebook. WEEF Workshop. 11:45 WJJD This Age of Promise. 11:55 W-G-N Time to Reflect.

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5:30 W-G-N Afternoon In Chicago. EVENING 6:00 WJJD Stan Scott. W-G-N Sunday Spotlight Jack Taylor. WBBM John Callaway with nes and features. WEEF Harvey's Cave.

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8:58 W-G-N News. 9:00 WJJD Rich Osborn. CChicat Triton Pms Settle LONDON What evil lurks in the hearts of men? In case The Shadow never whispered you the answer, ABC-TVs new fall thriller series, Journey to the Unknown which premieres at 8:30 p. m. on Thursday over channel 7, should at least reaffirm your faith in man's inhumanity to man.

Take for example the episode about the nice, friendly American suburban community where the folks just love to go all out when a new neighbor moves in. Called "New People," the opening scene is a little party they're throwing for a recent arrival. Unfortunately, can't enjoy the fun because they've pulled the welcome wagon out from under him after they'd tied a noose around his neck. He's dangling from a beam while the neighbors pass the cheese dip at the other end of the rec room. WMAQ Catholic Hour.

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WILL Guest speaker Prof. Don K. Price. 9:30 WAIT Bible Speaks to You. WJJD Wings of Healing.

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You know, the worst thing that's happened to TV is this remote control gadget. You can come up with three good jokes, then one bad one and Bang! You're cut off by some guy lying in bed." Her first time on a talk show was with Joey Bishop when he was subbing for Jack Paar on the Tonight Show. Joey had met Totie at a benefit and liked her. Before that she'd tried to get on Paar's show, but the producer turned her down. "He was right, too.

I wasn't ready then," Totie admits. "I would have been pressing then, and you can't press on those shows'. I watched a comic do it. I was on the panel and he tried to involve me, but I let him bury himself." A good guest on a talk show never interrupts another cardinal rule followed by Totie. Also, she goes on because she enjoys doing these shows, not just for a plug.

I may mention where I'm working, but you don't see me plugging something every time I'm on, like an Art Linkletter does." Totie got her first big break in 1963 when Ed Sullivan caught her at New York's Copacabana. He booked her on his show and, since then she's made 40 appearances with Ed. Her favorite talk show seems to be the Mike Douglas one, on which she estimates she's made 50 visits, or more. "I think I'll hold it down now, tho, to just Merv in New York and Joey out here. There's too many talk shows, and they can get pretty dull.

I actually fell asleep once on a panel." While in Hollywood this time, Totie has been talking to several producers about doing her own TV series. Nothing has been set yet, but she has hopes. "I'll be back here in November to tape a Jerry Lewis show for December. I think he'll put me in a couple of sketches, which I want to do because I never have." After that she goes to the Las Vegas Riviera for nearly four weeks. "I just must do clubs.

That's where I get all of my feeling for this business," says the champ talk show artist of them all. Los Angeles Times Syndicate WITH CARL PERKINS THE STATLER BROS. PLUS THE FABULOUS CARTER FAMILY plus all ihe Western Gentlemen of WJJD A WJJD SHOWER OF STARS SUNDAY, OCT. 13th Two big shows 2:30 and 7:30 P.M. MEDINAH TEMPLE 600 North Wabash, Chicago "MOVE TOWARD FASCISM?" the lead, and uses an all-British cast for supporting roles.

Robert Reed, the Chicago-born actor who played in The Defenders, stars in "New People." Glamor in other episodes is provided by looks of the likes of Carol Lynley and Stephanie Powers. As Oxford-educated Miss Harrison explained it, the television audience must first of all be able to identify with the main character in each episode. "They must be able to think 'this could happen to she said. "They must believe it that's when they get involved in the story." EACH STORY WILL have in it some tantalizing element that viewers can't quite guess not necessarily the old Hitchcock-type twist-but something to keep them in suspense, she said. Miss Harrison, who teamed with Robert Sherwood to write "Rebecca," and later produced seven Hollywood features, including "Ride the Pink Horse" with Robert Montgomery, believes the appeal in horror stories is simply that people enjoy being scared "and then there is the relief people feel when the whole thing is over." The show, sort of a combination Hitchcock and Twilight Zone, downplays physical violence.

In only two of the episodes does the viewer witness a murder being committed. Miss Harrison says that the suggestion of violence is often more frightening anyway. "The emphasis is on evil-subtle evil the type of evil that rears Its ugly head in pleasant surroundings and contrasts with it," she said. The only episode that they decided for reasons of taste to kill if that's the right word dealt with political assassinations. Journey to the Unknown could itself be an early victim.

ABC is putting it in the time slot on Thursdays against Dragnet and the Dean Martin show on NBC, and a CBS movie. Miss Harrison admits she's not at all sure of her show's survival, but the battle plan it to use the best episodes first and try to win a regular audience quickly. These folks will have to be a hearty, fearless lot. After being terrorized by Journey to the Unknown, they've only got 30 minutes to get hold of themselves before the 10 p. m.

news comes on. a view from the radical left by RENNIE DAVIS MAT. 2.50 TICKETS: EVE i.r.o. 2.r,o Totie Fields worked out, altho I'd taped them at different times. But three and a half hours of Totie Fields on TV at one time is too much." During her current three-week engagement at the Century Plaza here, Totie has been the guest on one Joey Bishop show and has hosted one.

She also did George Jessel's and Donald O'Connor's new syndicated TV shows. There's a secret to being a success on a TV talk show, according to Totie. "You've got to be a real character, because you can't put people on any more about anything. Tell the truth, that's what you have to do. Honesty is the whole reason for my success.

I once told about a horrible trip I took with my family on a Provincetown to Boston excursion boat. The boat line sued me, but the story got howls from the audience," says Totie. Also, Totie never repeats herself on these shows, unless the host insists on her retelling a story. And it's all conversation with Totie. She never delivers her nightclub material on a talk show.

THIS EPISODE, typical of the "terror of the mind" the series wants to project, was written by the show's producer, Joan Harrison. For nine years, Miss Harrison, as nice and friendly a person as you could meet, was producer of the Alfred Hitchcock television series. In fact, this same "New People" storyline was turned down by the network when Miss Harrison first wrote it for Hitchcock. Actually, Journey to the Unknown does more than simply provide suburbia's answer to the street violence of the inner city. Other episodes range in subject matter from a ghost story to science fiction to a love story to a psycho-type plot.

Journey to the Unknown is being filmed in England at the M-G-M studios outside London. This is a first, at least for an American dramatic anthology series. A handful of continuing series shows, that is those using the same main actors in each instalment, have been filmed here. THE REASON'S are basically economic. Because of the low overhead, especially cheap labor costs, it's possible to film almost twice as long on the same budget.

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