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Chicago Tribune, Thursday, February 17, 1972 Section 3 -17 t'i 2i-r) I i '(Win Petersen Application of Governments Equal Time Clause Is Producing Some Ridiculous Results Someone better do something about the equal time provision of the Federal Communications Act because its applications, or actions based on fear of applications, are becoming ever more ridiculous. A few weeks ago NBC's owned stations division expressed unwillingness to telecast an episode of The Mouse Factory in which Pat Paulsen, a comedian and candidate for the Presidency, appears as host. NBC feared that President Nixon might demand and receive equal time. Now National Educational Television NET has withdrawn inn I 8 cv ri go' and to Rep. John M.

Ashbrook The two candidates will be seen during the network's Saturday Night at the Movie's program on March 4 unless they come to their senses. You may be wondering what all that has to do with Presidential politics. But there it is, friends and neighbors, and since it is happening, it must make sense to somebody. You Can't Go Home Again "Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman," a CBS special on Monday night that reunited Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, his co-star on the first long-running Dick Van Dyke Show, was disappointing. It was even pathetic, relying almost entirely on nostalgia for that great series but in no way recapturing the spirit of it.

These things never really work, and television ought to know better by now. If nothing else, however, it made clear that Van Dyke and Miss Moore have grown older, have established themselves in new. series that are quite satisfactory, and have no need to retreat to the security of an old hit. You can't go home again, as it were. Clarence Petersen vi it it i i Hi i 31 I .1 much for satire on what passes for public television in the United States.

Meanwhile, John J. Iselin, vice president and general manager of WNET, the New York public TV station owned by NET, has introduced a red herring into the argument. "It's a marvelously funny show," says Iselin, "but the 'intro' and exit deal entirely with comedy as an art form, which doesn't seem to go with the piece. I would like to see Mr. Allen redo those pieces with an 'intro' on the problems and prospects of political satire, sort of putting the piece into proper perspective.

"I think the show would be better for it," says Iselin. And maybe he's right, but it is a bit late to bring that up now. If WNET's lawyers decide that equal time is the only problem, however, the station will go ahead with the show, says Iselin, and give equal time to anyone who asks for it. Having eliminated its problems with the Allen show, PBS finds itself in another dilemma. It announced that the substitute program would be a satire called "Come to Florida Before It's Gone," starring Stanley Myron Handelman.

But now that program is in jeopardy too. It seems that one of the guests, appearing in three segments, is Pat Paulsen, the kid you all might have loved in the Mouse Factory. The FCC has, in fact, ruled that Paulsen is a legitimate candidate because he "has qualified to be on the ballot in New Hampshire and apparently is active in campaigning." As a result, Paulsen's TV appearances activate the equal time provision and thus guarantee free airtime for other candidates for the same office. NBC, which anticipated the FCC ruling in its Mouse Factory decision, said Monday that it had unwittingly fallen into the equal time trap on Feb. 5, when it ran a Doris Day movie in which Paulsen appeared for brace yourself 30 seconds.

An aid to Rep. Paul N. McCloskey Cal saw the film entitled "Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?" and requested equal time in behalf of McCloskey. As a result, NBC has granted 30 seconds each to McCloskey a program from distribution called "The Politics of Woody Allen," which includes satirical material on President Nixon, Gov. George Wallace, and Sen.

Hubert Humphrey. Woody Allen, like Paulsen, is a comedian. Unlike Paulsen he is not a Presidential candidate. James Day, president of NET, made the decision to withdraw the Woody Allen program after a complaint by the Public Broadcasting Service PBS, the distribution arm of national public television PBS had said it would pre-feed the Allen show to its 219 public TV affiliates, including Chicago's WTTW, and permit them to make their own decisions on whether to run it. FM Radio MORNING DAYBREAK.

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