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Sunday, Sept. 12, 1971 Austin Autmratt-g'tatfsmau Austin, Texas Page 15 Local TV Season Historic Occasion in Austin I BOX OFFICE OPEN 7:30 SHOW STARTS AT DUStT WEST SCREEN SOUTH SCtHN I "RED BIVFB "STAGECOACH," AND 'ifA iwvv WW WW I I BUT WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT WAS REALLY WON THIS WAY NOW JOHN RUBENSTEIN AND HIS GANG CONQUER EVERYTHING IN A WESTERN THAT IS AHEAD OF IT'S LAST YEAR THIS YEAR Ahead of Ws time The new television season, which generally starts on a more promising note than the one it finishes on, will be getting under way this week, and in Austin, it will be a particularly historic occasion. For the first time since video began to flicker across local living rooms, Austin televiewers will be able to choose their TV shows from among the complete offerings of all three networks. This," of course, is the result of the city's third and latest TV outlet KVUE's Channel 24 whose weekend debut on the air as a fulltime ABC network affiliate means that the two existing commercial networks will be aligning themselves with th schedules of the networks with which they have been primarily affiliated. In other words, KTBC-TV and KHFI-TV, which have sometimes appropriated ABC program items, will now become fulltime local Plimpton, Cars Team NEW YORK When the Italian Grand Prix auto race is run at Monza, Italy, this Sunday, the pit crew of driver Jackie Stewart will be assisted by the willing and reasonably able hands of George Plimpton.

Plimpton, in the latest of a long series of escapades for television, delves into the compelling mystique of professional auto racing. His work with Stewart will be filmed for television and Stewart is preparing him for the climax, in which Plimpton takes the wheel as copilot during the Mexican 1000, a gruelling endurance race to be run in October. The TV special, sponsored by DuPont, will be one of three Plimpton specials aired during the 1971-72 television season over the ABC Television Network. The other two will deal with George's adventures while training with, and playing quarterback for, the World Champion Baltimore Colts, and tracking down a legendary bull elephant in Africa, while on assignment for Life magazine. "WOODSTOCK" ROLLING STONES "GIMMIE SHELTER" S0UTHSIDE SOUTH SCREEN ZACHARIAH Affair," plus CBS' durable daytime serials.

Network programming in this case, NBC's will be the order of the evening for KHFI-TV. For its newly vacated 6:30 p.m. spots, Channel 42 will use "The Partners," a new-Don Adams comedy crime series, on Mondays (delaying this show from its regular Saturday slot), "The Good Life," a suburban situation comedy, on Wednesdays, "Mister Roberts," reruns on an earlier comedy series, on Thursdays and Johnny Mann's "Stand Up and Cheer," a musical variety show, on Fridays. Other new program features on Channel 42 this fall will be expanding the "Midday" show to a full hour (from 12 to 1 p.m.) and giving Ed Brandon, a "Midday" co-host, a half-hour for "The Night Show" every Friday at 9:30 p.m. Brandon will also resume his 5 p.m.

show Mondays through Fridays. Syndicated items include "Wagon Train" reruns on Saturdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m., "Wild Kingdom" Sundays at 6 p.m. and "Perry Mason" at 4 p.m. daily. wrestling will be seen Saturdays at 10:15 p.m.

and pro football will be on tap Sunday afternoons. Night owl movies are set for Fridays at 12 midnight, Saturdays at 11:15 p.m. and Sundays at The Channel 42 daytime slate continues with Dinah Shore, "Concentration," "Hollywood Squares" and some afternoon serials. JOHN BUSTIN r-J" BOX-OFFICE OPEN 7:30 SHOW STARTS DUSK STARTS WEDNESDAY Ginger Rogers Ray Milland Barbara Eden Elliott Gould AND affiliates for CBS and NBC, respectively. KVUE, the second JL'HF station here, announces a program schedule that pretty closely follows the ABC slate announced, along with the CBS and NBC lineups, in this section last week.

There will be, however, some significant local embellishments. One of the Channel 24 characterisitics win be old movies available not only on a daily "Matinee Theater" at 3:30 p.m. and in the late show slots on Saturdays and Sundays but also at 1:30 p.m. every Saturday and 11 a.m. every Sunday.

Also on tap is. a double -feature movie program Sundays from 2 to 6 p.m. and a "Humphrey Bogart Theater" that will screen old Bogart classics Mondays at 6:30 p.m. Syndicated shows (that is, programs not originating either in a local studio or on a network) on Channel 24 will include "Safari to Adventure" (Saturdays at 6:30 p.m.), "Death Valley Days" (Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.) and "Lassie" Fridays at 6:30 p.m.), along with "The Movie Game' and "The Galloping Gourmet," which will be regular morning features from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. In the sports department, KVUE will carry the Frank Broyles show (Saturday at 12:30 p.m.) for Arkansas football fans and the Jim Carlin show (Monday at 11:30 p.m.) for Texas Tech followers.

The slate also includes ABC's Monday night football card plus the "College Football 71" recap Sundays at lp.m. The only departure from the ABC network slate is to delay "Nanny and the Professor" to Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. to make room for the Monday night Bogart movies. Daytime programming on KVUE will consist of such PLUS! CO ABC features as "That Girl," "Bewitched," "Password," "The Dating Game" and "Love, American Style." KVUE will also put another late night talk show before the local public by programming Dick Cavett at 10:30 p.m. each week night.

The KTBC schedule this fall follows the CBS schedule and uses its locally available prime time of 6:30 p.m. to program syndicated reruns of "Dragnet" (Mondays, Wednesday and Thursdays) and "Hee-Haw" (Fridays). Another program of interest to country-music fans will be "That Good Old Nashville Music," a 30-minute snow to be aired Saturdays at 10:30 p.m. KTBC's "Cinema 7" attractions are scheduled for Saturdays at 11 p.m. and Sundays at Darrell Royal's popular run-down of Longhom football action is set for 9:30 p.m.

on Sundays this season. The Channel 7 sports slate also includes football on Saturday afternoons and pro ball on Sundays. Daytime programming remains more or less unchanged, including reruns of "Lucy," "Beverly Hillbillies" and "Familv 'Stunts' Director NEW YORK Gene Wilder, who stars in Paramount pictures' David L. Wolper Production of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factor)-" as the unpredictable candy-maker supreme, was asked to try his hand at acrobatics for the first scene in the film. He surprised both producers Stan Margulies and David Wolper and director Mel Stuart when he agreed to "a little without a Wilder then stepped out and did a complete somersault.

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