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los angrltfl Cimrg Sept 22, 1976 -Port IV 17 WEDNESDAY TV NBC SENDS YOU MORNING Lm 7:30 Tto OOO Host Tom Kennedy FXnrrrKK vi challenges players MElBTlSr ft. to name melodies, mmr jj Dfg1, for ten years as the OI VHi biggest prize! "TH! A i iTS, Tune Uj Freddie Prinze in "The Million- 9:00 Movie-Drama (1967) "Wings of Fire." 55) Sanford wk Son Gallery-Discussion AM Los Angeles-Report Nine in the Morning I Love Lucy-Comedy QD I Dream of Jeannie ED New York Stock Exchange; Bond Income Report HP QD Sesame Street 03 Big Blue Marble Dating Game So Celebrity Sweepstakes 0 Mayberry R.F.O. 0 Green Acres-Comedy 19 Romper Room-Swan Market Update-Fisher QD The Word; Behind Scenes KD Cover to Cover; Bread and Butterflies 10:00 Gambit-Game Wheel of Fortune Movie-Adventure 11959) "Masters of the Congo Jungle," Narrated by Orson Welles. Cross-Wits-Game fQ Collage-Variety CD Market Coverage; Jeanne Palmer Show QD Electric Company G3 Backyard QD 58 Focal Point 10:30 -O CD Love of Life-Serial Soj Hollywood Squares Happy Days-Comedy Good Day-Film ED New York Stock Exchange, Market Update QD "A New Leek at Math with Wilson Riles" 03 Let's Praise the Lord QD Washington Week in Review 11:00 CE Young and Restless 55J The Fun Factory Hot Seat-Game Movie-Drama (1957) "Island In the Sun." News-Terry Mayo ID McHale's Navy-Comedy ED Market Update QD Movie-Drama 11961) "The League of Gentlemen," (Repeat) QD World Press-Report CD Search for Tomorrow The Gong Show CD Family Fend Let's Rap-Discussion (0 Naiay aad the Professor ED Law for the '70 QD Let's Praise the Lord QD Over Easy-Discussion 8:00 Get ready for a brand-new Freddie, as the fast-moving leader of a gang of four beautiful girls -with a beautiful scheme to rip off a big-city transit Rvstpml Dollar HpoH" First time on TV! CD Guiding Light-Serial Qi The Doctors Serial (3D One Life to Live Beverly Hillbillies ED Charting the Market 09 Inside Israel QD At the Top-Music 2:00 S3 All ii the Family 59 Another World-Serial Oaie and Harriet Movie-Western (1965) "Apache Rifles." CD News-O'Donnell QD Greener Earth-Film SD La Senorita Elena 09 The Wonder of the Word 93 53 General Hospital 2:30 -O S3 Match Game '78 Father Knows Best 0 Mickey Mouse Club CD Get Smart-Comedy CD Villa Alegre Children CD Li Senorita Elena 09 Spirit Song QD Drawman; Wordsmitn 3:00 Tattletales Game Somerset-Drama Popeye-Cartoon S3 Edge if Night Valley if the Dinosaurs; Jet-sons Cartoon CD Speed Racer-Cartoon CD Only Thee Regale My Eyes CD Ahora Los Angeles 09 Let's Praise the Lord QD International Aeimation Candid Camera Mike Douglas Movie-Drama (1967) "Games," Simorte Signoret 19 Yogi and Friends CD Cartoonville S3 PTL Club-Religion CD Cococtrila Children Of) QD Mister Rogers Political-Carter 4:00 Price Is Right Big Valley-Western Phil Double Show CD New Howdy Doody Snow CD Heckle and Jeckle CD Mister Rogers CD Muidi de Jigiett 09 Let's Praise the Lard ES Uncle Waldo-Cartoon QD Villa Alegre Children Bigs and His Buddies CD Begs Benny-Cartoon CD GD Sesame Street CD PTL Club-Religion CD Uia Mucbaca Hamada Mila-gros ED Tennessee Teiede QD Carrascoleidas 5:00 News-Chung, Benti News-Jess Marlow Bonanza-Western News-Hambrick, Henry Space 1999 Sci-Fic FliitstMies Children CD Batman-Adventure CD Movie-Spanish 09 On Way Gam 09 QD Electric Company g) Kimba-Cartoon Tie Moekees-Comedy CD Superman-Adventure QD Electric Company 69 Film CD Li ImperdMubli 09 Behind See The Word 09 Villa Alegre-Children 09 Addams Family-Comedy QD Zoom-Children at fr7jm-m ii AFTERNOON 9:30 The Quest A rouqh, brawlina New Series! CECIL SMITH Bunkers Join 'SoapV Derby Already you begin to wonder just how extensive serialized drama or nighttime soap opera is going to be this season. Not only Executive Suite and Rich Man, Poor Man II but Rhoda seemed very soap operaish in its opening stanza.

And All in the Family tonight is straight out of the sudsy syndrome. Television's No. 1 show opens its seventh season in its new Wednesday night berth (Channel 2 at 9) with a special hour-long episode which is the continuing story of Archie Bunker's hesitant step into infidelity. He doesn't get very far. As he notes in his inimitable malapropist manner: "The sexual act wasn't constipated." Nor does he really fool Edith.

In Archie's words: "Edith is full of women's intermission." It's a very funny show but also quite a poignant one. In fact, when Edith begins to suspect, I think you'd better keep the Kleenex handy. Paul Bogart, a masterful director of drama as well as comedy, pulls every ounce of emotion out of his brilliant players Jean Stapleton and Carroll O'Connor. The web that snares Archie is woven by 'Janis Paige, the leggy beauty of yesterday's musicals who plays Denise, a waitress who regards Archie as "my superburger with everything." One of the most astonishing things about the production is the reaction of the studio audience to the moment Archie and Denise kiss. There's an "Ooooohhhh" of indrawn breath like kids spying on classmates playing post.office.

The Bunkers have been in serialized stories before but never so blatantly soap operaesque. Mary Hartman, move over. Bouton's Ball Four Debuts Though I am among the most dedicated of baseball fans and. generally, admire the writings and wit of Jim Bou-ton. the former Yankee pitcher.

I can't say that Ball Four, the new CBS comedy wrought from his locker room tales (Channel 2 at 8:30) tonight, is anything I would undergo spring training for. Not that it's a bad show. It has its funny moments. It's just highly forgettable. Bouton himself in his haystack haircut plays the leading role of a pitcher for the Washington Americans who is writing articles about his teammates and other ballplayers for Sports Illustrated "telling it the way it is." Like the ballplayers in the back of the bus playing kissing games.

Like Plunkett. who greets a teammate with: "Well if it ain't the jolly green Negro!" Like the time the guys got drunk and "Damn Yankees," it ain't. In this opening episode by Herbert Hartig, directed by Jay Sandrich, Bouton (as Jim Barton) is hauled up before the baseball commissioner to answer for the things he's writing as being "detrimental to baseball." Prominent in the large cast are hulking. Ben Davidson as a dim-witted catcher, Lenny Schultz as the Birdman who spends every off-field hour in the whirlpool bath, Marco St. John as the loud-mouth racist and Jaime Tirelli as a Latin infielder who tells Bouton: "I'm behind you i It's not easy to understand why a program about baseball would be done on a stage in New York, but that's the way it is.

The Quest Premieres on NBC The new western The Quest opens tonight on NBC (Channel 4 at 9:30) with a brawny 90-minute adventure by Mark Rodgers, directed by Barry Shear, that is as traditional as a 10-gallon hat. It's also a hell of a show. Tim Matheson and Kurt Russell as the Baudine brothers Quentin and Morgan (the latter known also by his Cheyenne name of Two Persons) in their eternal quest for their sister join a cavalry troop in its raid on a Cheyenne village where they hear a white girl is living with the Indians. The raid under the command of Richard Egan is a merciless bloody business in which women, children and the aged are shot down effortlessly. The braves of this tribe are away hunting.

The white woman (Susan Dey) is not the missing Baudine girl but the two brothers rescue her and her half-breed son from the murdering soldiers. They take her back to a frontier town where the people, who hate and fear the Indians, greet her with hate and hostility. Even her little boy is attacked by the town kids. She tries to go to church but the minister is told that if she's allowed to attend, his congregation will desert him. Meanwhile, she discovers relatives in the East have appropriated her modest estate.

She's caught between worlds she can't go back to the Indians, not after riding with whites; her own people will have no truck with her. She can't afford to go back East and begin anew. Her only friend, aside from the Baudines, is a shy and bumbling trooper named Callendar (Chris Connelly). Plus the town pimp, slickly played by Chris Cole, who offers her a berth in his brothel. A sadistic trooper who hates Indians (Russ Tamblyn) gets drunk with some buddies and breaks into her house and rapes her before the Baudines and Callendar can free her.

She turns to the pimp; what else is left? But the Baudine brothers will have none of it. And there's still the faithful Callendar The one departure from the westerns of two decades ago is the graphic manner of the rape scene and the sympathy for the Indians. It's doubtful if ever in a western movie the American soldiers were shown in so grim a light as in the opening sequence of the slaughter of Indians, of screaming women and running children. But the promise of the series is to offer a realistic and honest treatment of the West, to move it away from the legends and fairy tales. Yet Callendar and the rapists are standard figures the bashful hero, the black-hearted villain.

And Susan Dey in a fine performance is a traditional figure in western lore. Richard Egan is highly effective as a soldier obeying distasteful orders; Tamblyn, Cole and Bill Fletcher etch memorable moments. However, the stars of the series, Russell and Matheson, are rather static figures, little involved. The film, produced by David Gerber Productions for Columbia Pictures TV, with author Rodgers and James H. Brown producing, has a spectacular look in the photography of Al Francis western vistas, sweeps of sky, soldiers and Indians charging through a shimmering river, etc.

A Big Screen look. KTLA Giving First TV Transmitter to Museum KTLA will donate its first transmitter to the California Museum of Science and Industry as a permanent exhibit, according to John T. Reynolds, president of television division of Golden West Broadcasters and general manager of KTLA. TV pioneer Klaus Landsberg, who headed KTLA in its first nine years, hand-built the transmitter in 1946 for experimental station W6XYZ. On Jan.

22, 1947, with the start of KTLA, it became the first commercially licensed television transmitter west of the Mississippi and the first to be situated atop Mt. Wilson. According to Reynolds, the transmitter, in service for 20 years, helped the station achieve some of its top broadcasting moments, including the first extended live news coverage; the 27V-hour remote of the Kathy Fiscus well tragedy in 1949, and the first telecast of an atom bomb blast, from Yucca Flats, in 1952. big scale Vfestern in the grand tradition as two brothers join forces in an adventure-filled search for their Indian-held sister! Kurt Russell and Tim Matheson star. If is 12:00 NoMtime-News Te Tell the Trite Movie-Drama (1949) "The Heiress." S3 $20,000 Pyramid Movie-Comedy (1944) "Once Upon A Time." Q) I Dream of Jeamie CD Concepts in Commodities; Market Update 6D Mamela-Serial QD Miss Deaf America Pageant As tie World Tires Days of 0 Lives S3 All My Children CD Courtship if Eddie's Father CD New York Stock Exchange; Aister CmflNdities QD International Aeimation QD Oral Roberts-Religion 1:00 (D Ryan's Hope News-Victoria James CD Major Adams-Western ED Market Closing; Dow 30 ED Upstairs, Downstairs S3 ElShowdelal 09 Tree if Life-Religion QD Medix-Education EVENING 6:00 News-Walter Cronkite News-Paul Mover Star Trek-Drama News-Dunphy, Lund Giisnwki-Western Please Turn lo Page 18, Col.

1 THE NEW SEASON Baseball, 7 p.m. (11) From San Francisco, live coverage of the game between the Dodgers and the Giants in Candlestick Park. The $100,000 Name That Tune, 7:30 p.m. (4) Tom Kennedy hosts this musical quiz, played with new rules that will now allow contestants to win up to $100,000. Good Times, 8 p.m.

(2) (Season Premiere) As the fourth season dawns, it looks like the Evanses will finally get out of the ghetto. Then word arrives that throws a damper on everything. "The Million Dollar Rip-Off," 8 p.m. (4) Premiere presentation of NBC Movie of the Week stars Freddie Prinze, in his first dramatic role, playing a young electronics genius who plots a payroll heist. (See separate review.) The Bionic Woman, 8 p.m.

(7) (Season Premiere) Conclusion to the story that started Sunday on the Six Million Dollar Man finds the Bionic Woman attacked by Big Foot as she attempts to save Steve Austin's life. Ball Four, 8:30 p.m. (2) (Debut) Former major league pitcher Jim Bouton heads the cast of this comedy series centering on the lives of ballplayers off the field and on the road. (See separate review.) All in the Family, 9 p.m. (2) (Season Premiere) An hour-long episode airs tonight as this series starts its seventh season in a new time slot.

Janis Paige guests as a waitress who flirts with Archie. (See separate review.) Baretta, 9 p.m. (7) (Season Premiere) The father of a slain Japanese girl dedicates his life to punishing everyone directly or indirectly involved in tonight's story, the third season opener. The Quest, 9:30 p.m. (4) (Debut) Kurt Russell and Tim Matheson star as brothers searching for their sister in this new western series.

(See separate review.) The Blue Knight, 1 0 p.m. (2) (Season Premiere) A trigger-happy cop (guest Gary Lockwood) horns in on Bumper Morgan's carefully built relationship with a snitch on this second season premiere. Charlies's Angels, 10 p.m. (7) (Debut) Kate Jackson, Farah Fawcett-Majors and Jaclyn Smith star as private detectives who work for a boss they never see in this hour-long drama series. (See separate review.) Jrtt it ji mm 1 1 1 A i If nf iL 4v 1 MaaHaaaaaaiaaiaiaaiaiaaaiiaiaaijaiaHBBMWllaaiaalaa.