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9 S'v 0 Chicago Tribune, Thursday, June 29, 1972 Section 2-17 OU STAGE DON'T GfeT IT. WELL its cuiy ASUKT, BUT HOW CAM rW AFFORD A TOWN HOUSE IN GREENWICH EVEN SO, YOU'RE IT'S TOO RICH Petersen FOR MY POCKETBOOKJL LIL-ii If i 1 WE'LL WVf IT'S NOT THAT EASJUNIOR! ANP THAI'S KEEP BITING OFF ACRE THAN )OOT, POPEtf I'M TOO CHICKS TO PUCK WHY YOU I CAN SWAllOWi I'M BEING GET A P1ACB OUT ON THE (SUY WHO OWNS PRESSURED FOR THE lWr YOU CAN THIS HE'S KINP OF A As- JA RENT MHT j3 Banacek: A Polish-American Hero The viewer will hot know bow the crime was committed. In some cases, but not all, the viewer may be able to solve the crime from the clues presented. "But we can't do that all the time." said Peppard, "because in the case of the football game, one clue and you'd have it all." NBC-TV, the network under heaviest criticism for "Polack" jokes, particularly those seen and heard on Laugh-In and on a recent Bob Hope Special, may find itself the favorite network of protesting Polish-American groups when the Banacek series next fall. Thomas Banacek, played by handsome motion-picture-star Peppard, is television's first Polish-American detective hero.

A high-priced bounty hunter, he will be seen every third week as part of NBC's 90-minute Wednesday Mystery series. As described by Peppard, Banacek is everything the "Po Peppard would not pass on the solution or any clue to either of the two puzzles, and I wouldn't ruin the suspense for Today's TV Highlights Chess Title Match Coverage Restricted you even if he had. Peppard is one of very few movie stars hired by the TV networks after last season's movie star converts mostly failed in the ratines. Peppard probably does not need the money. His movie career has been very successful.

"But ever since The Carpetbeggars' in which he played Jonas Cord," says Peppard, "I've played the iron-jawed, cold- eyed killer, and that gets to be a goddamn bore. "Acting is not the most creative thing in the world, and when you play a man of action, it gets to be a long day," said Peppard. "Banacek is the best character I've played in a long time, and when it was decided to do Banacek as a 90-minute series, I was delighted because there is more time for charac and Harry Lansman, executive vice president of Kemper Insurance Co. 10:30 p. m.

11 Playhouse on the '30s Rj. Ralph Meeker, Drew Snyder, and Susan Bracken star in Millard Lam-pell's drama "Hard Travelin'." It relates, the unhappy picture of the common, dishonest politicians, and other elements of society that further oppressed the victims of the Depression as seen thru the eyes of an embittered young man. CHICAGO AREA AM FREQUENCIES ter development." American challenger. He said newsmen would be required to sign a pledge to abide by the agreement in order to obtain accreditation. Spokesmen for AP and United Press International said they were lodging protests against any curtailment of news coverage.

Meanwhile, Fischer failed to make his scheduled flight for Iceland tonight and gave no indication when he would depart for the match. Fischer did not take his place on a Pan American Airways jetliner that left for Reykjavik. The next scheduled flights to the Icelandic a i a 1 are on Thursday and Saturday. lack" jokes never envisioned. A contemporary man, "he is intelligent, athletic, and cultured," says Peppard, a man of judgment and.

taste." He lives in a home of quiet opulence in Boston. Network executives, as well as Peppard, deny that the series was created to appease Offended Polish-Americans. "Banacek is the son of an immigrant and I'm the son of ao immigrant," says Peppard, 'd I think it's important that we remind ourselves that we're all immigrants. The Poles are a minority in this country, a distinct minority, so he really represents all minorities." Bancek's Polish extraction will be clear but will riot be rammed down anyone's REYKJAVIK, Iceland, June 28 AP-Organizers of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world championship chess match will restrict move-by-move coverage and photographs of the contenders inside the contest hall, it was announced today. The announcement brought protests from news wire services and from two television outlets which are planning in-depth accounts of the 24-game match based on move by move reports from The Associated Press.

The first game is scheduled for Sunday. Gudmundur Thorarinsson, chairman of the Icelandic Chess Federation, said the restrictions were decreed because photographic and move After two previous summers of hearing dozens of stars speak hopefully of the quality of script and the opportunities for character development, one tends to be skeptical, but Pep- 7:00 p. m. 5 NBC Adventure Theater R. "The Highest Fall of All," stars Stuart Whitman, Terry Moore, Joan Hackett, and Gary Merrill in the story of a movie stuntman, working on location in San Francisco, who conceives the idea of doing a spectacular leap from the Golden Gate Bridge in the wake of a personal tragedy involving his wife and child.

7:00 p. m. 11 Vibrations. The program tonight includes a performance by the New York Pro Musica, guitarist Roy Buchanan playing "Ma-laguena" and "The Messiah Will Come," jazz at the Overseas Press Club, and an interview with mystic Rosemary Brown. 8:00 p.

m. 11 Firing Line. Host William F. Buckley Jr. discusses no-fault automobile insurance with Marvin E.

Lewis, president of the American Trial Lawyers Association, pard's claim may well be true. NBC has been particularly successful with its 90-minute mystery -series Columbo, McMillan and Wife, and McCloud-investing them with interesting characterizations, humor, and plausible or nearly plausible plots. George Peppard Chester Fox, an entrepreneur by move coverage rights had who has exclusive visual broad- been sold, NBC is as committed to this kind of programming as all the networks used to be to violent westerns and silly situation comedies. I haven't met so many detectives since I got off the police beat Banacek, Banyon, Hec Ramsey, Jefferson Keyes of Cool Million, and Hugh Lockwood of Probe-plus all the returning ones. NBC's executive vice president, Herb Schlosser, assures me that by the time the season is a few weeks old, we, shall be able to tell them apart, and maybe we will at that.

Clarence Petersen WTAQ T30O WEAW 1330. WML 1340 WITH 1 370 WNUS 1390 WilF 1430 WVON 1450 WMFP 1470 WGSft 1480 WAKI 1500 WJRC 1310 WBil 1 570 WKKO 15B0 WLTD 1590 WCOO-1600 WIND S60 WMAO 670 WON 720 WIIM 710 WAIT 430 WIVS SO WIS 490 WMT 950 WCH 1000 WNWl 1080 WMM 1110 WJJD 1160 wjotmo WCt 1240 WWCA 1270 WMROiasO cast rights to the match, said he had spoken to Fischer earlier in the evening but was unable to say when Fischer planned to leave for Iceland. Fischer was not available for comment. Thorarinsson said journalists would be allowed to transmit move-by-move reports only three times during each game between the Soviet world champion, Spassky, and the throat. TV's age of force-fed relevance ended after one dismal season two years ago.

"He's a Pole and he's not up tight about it," says Peppard. "It happens to be what he is, and he's proud of it." The series grew out of an NBC World Premiere Movie that was praised by Polish-Americans and by almost everyone else, but I mentioned to Peppard that there had been a quibble. The name Banacek, according to several viewers who wrote letters to me, was not Polish but Bohemian. Peppard said he understood the name was Ukrainian, but "if the name has been in Poland for 400 years, I don't care where it started. The point is that Banacek is the son of an immigrant." Banacek is also the center of a mystery movie series with an interesting premise.

The stories will not be "whodunits" but "Each show will start off with a caper," said Peppard. In the first episode the story will begin with a pileup on the field during the football game, and when it is untangled, the ball carrier will be gone. "All that is left is the helmet and the ball," said Peppard. "It's Banacek's job to find him, and to do that he has to find out how he disappeared- in full view of spectators and TV cameras." "In another episode there'll be a train traveling between, I think, Chicago and Pittsburgh, but don't hold me responsible for the cities said Peppard. "In the middle of the train there is a boxcar carrying something valuable.

The train does not stop, but when it arrives in Pittsburgh, the boxcar is gone." The viewer will be kept in suspense as long as Banacek is. Rich in Old-world Elegance, Crafted by Modern Masters! Sale Prices in Effect thru July 5th Sears Look Who's Talking Perspective! Ranlet Lincoln's Dr. Lloyd Ferguson and Dr. Morton Creditor of the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine, Hilman Sorey of the Michael Reese Ambultory Care Service, and James Dawkins of the Mid-South Side Health Planning Organization; 6:30 a. channel 7.

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