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18 loaflnartrtCfiMrf fivnlf TV REVIEW m7r Set March 21 thow will stretch It 12 minutes beyond its regular 11:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. slot. Blips have also been In-serted to remove obscene expletives made by the studio audience. NEW YORK Wi a niMf uneartnmg the Use of Jack the Ripper BY GREGG KJLDAY Timsmiwnur Cavett talk show featuring radical leaders of the 60s refused by ABC-TV Feb.

7 has been remodeled and scheduled for broadcast March 21. In blocking broadcast of the show, the network claimed comments of the once headlining radicals Abbie Hoffman, Tom Haydcn, Jerry Rubin and Rennie Davis lacked ideological balance. Comments by a panel of conservatives added to the debating the truth of each account, the scene flashes back to the alleyways and courtrooms of Victorian London. There isn't much in the way of gripping dramatization here. Television's morcd sense of discretion as wen as the need to strine out th mvst forces the camera to treat In 18S8.

between Aug. 5 and Nov. 9. five women, all battered denizens of the streets, were murdered in Whitechapcl. London, their throats slit and their bodies disemboweled a most grisly set of occurences that gave rise to the.

legend of Jack the Ripper. Now, in 1974. as if there weren't already enough unexplained mysteries to muck about in on the contemporary scene, the BBC has deciacd to unearth the case. The result is a kind of pop masterpiece theater offering titled "Jack the Ripper" which begins tonight at 11 on KTTV (Channel 11) and continues nightly at the same time through its conclusion on Saturday. The construction of the six -part series is at least as ingenious as its discoveries about the case.

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