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log angflrs. 'CfaiHt frf.tlVar.29,I974-PartlV 25 FRIDAY'S TV PROGRAMS Movie Drama (J966) i KWHY (22) Hwi larry McCormick "The Oscar," Stephen Boyd, Milton CD 63 Girl In My lift KVCR (24) Berle, Tony Bennetr, tike Sommer. (2hr.) GB $9 The Brady Bunch Girl-hater Bobby is kissed by a cute CO Ghost and Mrs. Muir Comedy Q4) Thi City Gams Discussion ED Yofi lor Health Exercise (50) Electric Company Children 3:00 Tattlitales Game Truth or Consequences Game Highway Patrol Drama KNXT KEYT KNBC KTLA XETV KABC KFMB KHJ KGTV KTTV KCOP KPBS (2) (3) (4) (5) (6). (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (13) (15) (mL SMITH The Script and the Role Are His Of all the oddities of the springtime pilot madness, the oddest this spring is to find Buck Henry in it Since "The Graduate," I thought Buck Henry had outgrown such nonsense.

The other day as Buck was explaining how he felt he had really got a handle on Strindberg by sitting in on Ingmar Bergman's rehearsals of "The Spook Sonata," I asked what he was doing back in television. "Well," Buck said, "Pauline Kael in her New Yorker review of The Day of the Dolphin' said she thought both Mike Nichols and I should get out of films. I can't speak for Mike, but I'm. accommodating her. KCET KHOF KMEX KMIR KCST KLXA KPLM KOCE KBSC KLCS (28) (30) (34) (36) (39) (40) (42) (50) (52) (58) little "miss" and he fears he has the mumps.

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"The Fruits of Love" is back. It involves a sudden financial crisis which threatens the Bellamys and their staff. But Elizabeth's lover comes to the rescue. 0 QD The $10,000 Pyramid Came UJ Jeopardy Game Movie Gene Autry Western Movie Comedy (1963) "Under the Yum-Yum Qj Movie-Drama (1959) Bernadette Peters joins Buck Henry in "The Owl and the Pussycat' a pilot for NBC. "And where would 1 go but television? Some years ago, A Summer Place," Richard Egan.

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I didn't have, the talent r. "So I got into television. Steve Allen. Garry Moore. That Was the Week That Was.

Ah," breathed Buck reverently, "that was the program that The best excuse for being television ever had. "If TW-3 was still around, I'd go back to it like a shot. Think of what we could do with Watergate But his pilot is no TW-3. It's a comedy for NBC out of Screen Gems based on his script for the Robert Redford-Barbra Streisand movie, "The Owl and the Pussycat," from Bill Manhoff hit play. Buck not only devised the series, but he's costarring in it with Bernadette Pe-.

ters, playing the Owl to her Pussycat. Movie Drama (1955) "Upstairs, Downstairs." Sarah is pregnant, again and Watkins offers to make her an honest woman. The Bellamys are persuaded that the happy couple would be better off far from Eaton 11:10 Firing Line William F. Buckley, Jr. discusses "Catholicism and Socialism in Ireland" with Noel Browne, psychiatrist and former Irish Minister of Health.

10:00 Bill Moyers' Journal, Tonight's edition of this informative interview show features historian Henry Steele Com-mager. "No Way Back." (6) Run for Your Life Drama The Morning Show Discussion CD My Favorite Martian Comedy QD Mulligan Stew Comedy G3 New York Stocks 64 Book Beat Report GD Educational Programming Place. CD It Is Written Religfon 83 La Criada Bien Criada Comedy Q3 News Rene Irahola Oh Oku; Forbidden Palace 9:30 CD TV Pilot-Comedy See Best Bets. 4 WILD Fun with BRIAN! MAD Race Saves BO WEN 5:00 News Jess Marlow The Big Valley-Western CI I Dream of Jeannie Comedy Leave ft to Beaver Comedy Ciq) News White, Beatty CD Bewitched Comedy 0 Gilligan's Island Comedy Q) Simplemente Maria Serial 03 QD fj Mister Rogers Children 89 Black Buffalo's Pow Wow Children 83 Leyendas de Mexico Serial 69) News Harold Greene QD Huggie Boy Entertainment (50) Sesame Street Children Kimba Children 5J0 -O News-Bill Stout Courtship of Eddie's Father QD News Smith, Reasoner The Lu? Show Comedy-CD The Flintstones Comedy (0 I Dream of Jeannie Comedy ED OS) Electric Company Three Stooges Comedy Don't miss Membership Week tonight through March 31 10:30 -(8 Love of Life Serial (TO; Hollywood Squares Game Dennis the Menace Comedy L.A. Woman Discussion Business News; It's Only Natural Cover to Cover Education IliOO QT) Young and Restless Serial (To) Jackpot Game The Fugitive Drama News Terry Mayo -Gomer Pyle Comedy -New York Stocks CD 0 a CD CD No Better Than She Should Be As you perhaps remember, the Ow is Felix Sherman, a self-professed intellectual and totally failed author (his rejection slips come air mail).

He's foiled in a suicide attempt by a very earthy lady named Doris her last name is immaterial; she changes it every week. She was a hooker in Manhoff play; she's a would-be actress, but no better than she should be, in Buck's movie and the series. 'Y the, pilot," said Buck, "I did on purpose. Acting in it was an accident. manager, Mace Neufield He paused and wrinkled his mouth as if he'd tasted something sour.

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Stars Tony Randall, Jack EVENING Mugman. (Repeat) News Fishman, Lopez, Williams (0 Fishin' Hole Discussion That Girl Comedy 11:30 -O (T) Search for Tomorrow Serial Jo) Baffle Game Movie Drama (1949) "Roseanna McCoy." OS) Brady Bunch Comedy CD Let's Rap Discussion (0 Petticoat Junction Comedy S3 Sesame Street Children 8 World Business News S3 Mister Rogers Children SD Search Religion. 83 la Hiena Serial CD Premier deUO Variety 10:00 fL CBS Reports: Tha Colleges Milwaukee I special See Best Bets, 6:00 News Jerry Dunphy QD News-Bill Huddy News Tom Snyder NBA Playoffs (live) Los Angeles Lakers vs. Bucks. See Best Bets.

astiEllintt stairs as America's sreat est "That sounds so stupid. What the hell is a writer doing With a manager? I sound like some punch-drunk fighter we moidered dem wid dat last script! What a world. "Anyway, Mace heard NBC was interested in a series about 'The Owl and the Pussycat' and we came in to keep them from. screwing it up, simultaneously being unemployed. I wrote it and Mace produced it.

We cast it there's' one thing I hate about show business, it's casting. It was sheer agony for me to listen to girl after girl after girl read the same lines over and over for the part of Doris. It seemed an eternity before the network, the studios and everybody agreed on Bernadette. we were to start tlje entire process over to pick srFelix. I said the hell with going through that again-Ill play it! To my astonishment, they all agreed.

"It was fun making the pilot with Daryl Duke directing," said Buck, "but if it goes to series, I have this Da-moclean sword hanging over my head that I'll have to do it every week. Maybe we'll get lucky and it won't sell." Kid Actor on Broadway ii; Buck' was before he started writing he was a kid actor on Broadway in "Life With Father" and "Ber-I nadine." He toured in "No Time for Sergeants" and AFTERNOON Dean Martin Comedy Hour See Best Bets. News Clete Roberts (6) Night Gallery Drama 6 CB Toma-Drama Dave impersonates the former cell mate (6 Hogan's Heroes Comedy News Hambrick, Morris Beverly Hillbillies Comedy (lb) News John Chancellor Night Gallery Mystery TD Zoom Children El Pobre Gonzalez Serial 5 (50) Family Risk Management 8D Hodgepodge Lodge Children 83 Faith of Today Religion 83 News Cruz, Nervo of a young ex-con suspected of mur dering a policeman who accidentally 12:00 Noontime News and interviews Three on a Match Game Super Bingo Game GD Password Game News Shirley Clum Dr. Joyce Brothers Conversation News Jack White Movie Western (1950) Killed the youth's girlfriend during a rjg CD drug raid. Stars Tony Musante, Simon Mission: Impossible Drama Rene Irahola "The Outriders," Joel McCrea.

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Players, which spawned Mike Nichols, Buck was a performer as well as a writer with Steve i Allen and on TW-3, but during the days when he was I vising such series" as Capt. Nice and Get Smart, he stuck to writing. It was after he began writing films for Ni-I chols, notably "The Graduate," "Catch-22" and the curr 1 rent "Day of the Dolphin," that he began. playing parts; I in them. He starred in -the recent -film, "Taking fj) As the World Turns Serial 5S) Days of Our lives Serial Truth or Consequences Game -QO Split Second Game Youth and Issues John A.

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Linda Cristal and Dana Winter. minister of health in Ireland, guests. ITV Pilot: "Evel Knievel," 9 p.m. (2) Hollywood Squares Game Taped in Dublin. News Jesus Mares News Harold Greene- 11:30 Movie-Comedy (1955) Resurrection of Zaehary Wheel- When Evel puts his world car-jumping title on the line in a $100,000 battle of the sexes, the situation becomes explosive! Ctaiisiel AViacom Presentation leslie Nielsen, Bradford Dillman.

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