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Chicago Tribune, Friday, July 7, 1972 Section 2-15 Today's TV Highlighto Potorcon 7:30 p. m.U Film Odys A Whole New Look for Channel 44 Slg Sakowlcx, Mary Dee, Marty Faye, Jim Conway, and the very character of WSNS-TV-untll now known aa Myour friendly neighborhood TV station" will disappear from channel 44 at the end of the month. In a massive achedule revision that will rely heavily on movies, Edward L. Morris, the new general manager, hopes to erase some of the red ink from the UHF station's financial report, which now resembles a battlefield after a massacre. "At this point," says Morris, who replaced founding gener News of the Psychic World, and Warren Freiberg's Psychic World.

The Outdoor Sportsman will also disappear. The Big Story, Paul Harvey Comments, Northwest Indiana News, and Chuck Collins Underground continue on the Monday, thru Friday evening schedule but In new time periods. The Big Story will be seen at 8, Harvey at 8:55, Indiana News at 9, Underground at 10. Evelyn Echols Travel World will move to 6 p. m.

The shift In emphasis from local, live talk shows to movies and pre-packaged syndicated shows, including sports, reflecta a growing public disaffection for talk, sayi Morris. "The name of the game Is entertainment," he says, "and that does not seem to mean talk any more. When Dick Cavett Mlchele Lee and Ruth Buzzl as roommates who find an Inept but friendly burglar in their apartment. 8:30 p. m.

7 Odd Couple RJ. Hoping for a closer relationship with hii son, Felix bo-comes coach of the boy's football team, and soon makes it obvious to everyone but himself that he is tackling an assignment he isn't equipped to handle. Tony Randall and Jack Klugman cos tar. 8:31 p. m.

Big Story, The Rev. Francis Lawlor 50th Is among Warner Saunders' guesta for a discussion oa busing In Chicago. p. Cavett Tonight's program offers a variation on the usual talk al manager Yaw Roe In April, "nothing makes money except Action Sporti 44 which con- Action Sporti 44 wh sey. Tonight's offering in the Film Odyssey series li Luis Bunuel'i "Lea Olvidados," "The Forgotten Shown in this country as "The Young and the Damned," it is a look at alums and the slum children of Mexico City In 1950.

Bunuel has combined angry aoelal realism with strange surrealistic beauty to depict a life which seems to destroy both the weak and the ruthless. Repeated at ft and 10:80 p. m. p. Night Movie R.

Three original comedies are presented as tonight's movie. "The Living End," starring Lou Gossett and Diana Sands, Is the story of whether a case of the measles will keep a veteran pro football player out of a big game. "Oh Nurse!" stars Pat Carroll as a bead nurse a group of high-spirited student nurses. The. Singles" stars nightly, Ci the Rick Talley Vr'rAJ view program ports inter- apor which moves whicl goes off the air, Johnny Carson will bo the only one left" to 6 p.

m. nightly, and the If an outcry develops over the change in orogrammina. It late movie. The station now has one movie a week, at 10 p. m.

Siihday. Starting July 31 there will be 14, Including a Marvel in show format. Utilizing a split Is not likely to have much force. According to Morris, Sako wlcx's audience was too small even to show up in the ratings; the Mary Dee show was seen in only 8,000 homes, Marty Faye in 4,000, and Jim Conway In 8,000. "We lost money on every one of these shows," says Morris.

"Conceivably we could have changed that with heavier promotion, but there just wasn't any glue to hold the schedule together. "Now I think we've made the achedule mora cohesive, and I think you can see our strategy: Wo cant compete fnccisahd ous Midday Movie at 1:30 p. m. dally, Dinner Theatre at screen, dick cavett in New York and Michael Parkinson In London will talk to each Rob Harper and Beth Brlcell portray newly-weds who decided to go skiing on their honeymoon, with unfortunate results, in one of the comedy vignettes on Love, American Style at 9 p. m.

on channel 7. 6:30 p. m. nightly, and The Last Movie, featuring repeat! of the 6:30 movie, at 11:30 other and to each other'a I guests as the two shows are p. m.

nightly. linked via satellite. ly In prime time, so we're working around It, prograuimmg the On channel 44 movies where they have a chance to get the audience." 0 will telecast double feature! from 7 to 10 p. m. with a repeat of the evening! cmmusLj 1 -Lcan kwv mwt uAum 7 Si III cmibtimia wm I -u nXt a mim I wnw thai oatu Some of the movies to be seen in the first two weak! of the new achedule are: "Letter from aa Unknown Woman," "Western Union," "Lillian RusseU," "Rashomon," "Fallen Angel," "Heaven Can Wait," "Man in the White Suit," "The Green Man," "The Winslow Boy," "MUi Bishop," "The Late George mm MM l.mn.fn first movie at 11:30, and from m--rdtmmvutmWFdWunBesuirr i is si 1 1 rve mVintmtyUk0r mm mur- 6:30 to 10:30 p.

m. Sundays, Edward Morris with a repeat of the evening'! Appley," and "The Private Life of Henry VTA." first movie at midnight Altho some local live programming will continue, WSNS-TV will quickly assume a new Image. Counting repeats, the total amount of time devoted to will increase from 90 minutes a week to 31ft hours, or nearly one-third of the new schedule. "Well, honestly, I'm regretfuL" says Morris, "but Chicago is a big city in which cracker-barrel programming does not work, and the deraographica of the other station! prove it It was a noble experiment and aa interesting one, but it lust To accommodate the new movie block! and additional children's and sports programs, the station will double its Monday thru Friday broadcast time, signing on at 11:30 a. instead didn't seU." 018p.m.

Clarence Petersen The new Monday thru Friday achedule wQl open with Kim ba, the White Lion, an animated cartoon series about an or phaned cub confronted by such menancee to "the balance of nature" as "trappers, poachers, and greedy aiamond miners. Prince' Planet, an animated adverture-in-space featuring "wonder boy" In the title role will follow at noon, WhirhrWrds, run an ancient action-adventure series about helicopter pilots will follow at 12:30. "Mightly males and long-liberated ladles" win battle daQy at p. m. In a new Roller Game series.

Anotner iiouer uame will ba seen on Tuesday nights and Championship Bowling on Monday nights in the Action Sporti 44 block, from wnicn Jai Alal and Tennis will ba dropped. Football, wrestling, and boxing win be seen Wednesday! thru Fridays. Other program! to be dropped from the current achedule included such limited-interest snows as wee Trace news, PKJ LPGOOJjS 0B0Q0D5 Hollywood Today OPCIM VCEKMITCS TIL 10 PSX by Norma Leo Brownjng HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Television will be a quarter of rr SUNDAY TIL 6 IX century old this fall and a supcr-ulute to the medium is being Buumed bv ABC for sent 10. me special is cauea -zenun tr- Presents a Salute to TVs 25th Anniversary" and it will feature cuati irrocuei the superstars who have had the moat dramatic Impact on TV over the rears, like Lucille Ball. Dinan Shore, ltuton Bene, Twin Wndea far SMoeaher trim, einafler II 8 Robert Young, Perry Como, Bob Hope, Lome Greene, Ed Sum- anal Ratear webjlw Plp-svar II van, and many others.

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Added Bote for stereo owners in Chicago, New York, Dallas, and Los Ange les, la these four cities only, a local TU nation win ooer a simulcast sa full stereo. In Chicago, will be WsSsL-FU. MOVIES ON TV: Some of the moat bnportant and most popular movies of recent years win be shown on ABC In the faD. It must hare cost the network a fortune but among them are Tatton," okt3ager," "True Grit," and "Lawrence of Arabia." We Just may watch (be tuba mora this UJL ANOTHER SONNY CBS has bopse that the EzzhaDzzkcp David Steinberf Show, which wemkree ea July If aa a 1 aumner reolacement for Carol Burnett. WQl take Off a la Sonny Cher.

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