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43 'Dayton Daily News Jn. 7, 1976 Tonight's TV Movies TV Tonight Tom Hopkins i V. i A 71 i 'K i- 'The Neighbors' is new low for game show masocliists For the new year, I have resolved to find a psy-chiatrist who can explain to me why some people are perfectly willing nay, eager to go on national television and make horse's Richard Chamberlain and Taryn Power Hermann Prey TV highlights THE GLASS KEY 4:00 1942 (black and white). Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd and Brian Donlevy. Politician's daughter plays up to a political boss so he will back her father, but murder arrives before election time.

Tough whodunit. TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN" 11:300 1956 (color). James Cagney and Vic Morrow. Cagney at his best as range-hardened man whose passion for his horses costs him the love of air those close to him. THE GREAT ICE RIP-OFF' 11:30 12:30 1974 (made for TV, color).

Lee J. Cobb and Gig Young. With $4 million in diamonds tucked into their suitcases, a quartet of semi-professional thieves use an interstate bus as a getaway car and find their caper complicated by a fellow passenger a retired cop with a passion for solving mysteries. Delightfully entertaining. OWLWD-TV, Dayton, NBC I OWHIO-TV, Dayton, CBS I WOET-TV, Dayton, PBS 63 WKEF-TV, Dayton, ABC S) WLWT-TV, Cincinnati, NBC I WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, CBS WKRC-TV, Cincinnati, ABC WMUB-TV, Oxford, PBS QWXIX-TV, Cincinnati I 'Eagle' traces fateful steps to war rear ends out of themselves.

I refer to the modern game show, which has elevated masochism to a level it has not enjoyed since Uncle Miltie put on lipstick and a frock and blew kisses at the fellows in the front row. The granddaddy has been "The Dating Game," although I suppose "Let's Make a Deal" isn't far behind. "The Dating Game" thrived onsuchques-tions of public interest as "Will your wife say you sleep with your toes pointed toward the fig Philbin 4:30 63 Afterschool Special: "The Secret Life of T.K. Dealing." (rerun) A charming and humorous story of a young girl who develops a sensitive relationship with her grandfather and learns that being too old has almost as many problems asr being too young. Jodie Foster and veteran character actor Eduard Franz star in the one-hour ABC rebroadcast.

8:00 63 Special: "Suddenly an Eagle." In this one-hour ABC News Bicentennial special, Lee J. Cobb and British actor Kenneth Griffith are seen alternately in both. American and England as they show step by step formance as the Count, imprisoned as a young man, finally escaping, then seeking vengeance. The two-hour NBC special also stars Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan, Donald Feasance, Tony Curtis and Taryn Power. Excellent, lavish entertainment.

9:00 Great Performances: "The Barber of Seville." Rossini's delightful comic opera comes to the home screen. Claudio Abbado conducts the orchestra and chorus of La Scala in this production which features Hermann Prey, baritone, as Figaro; Teresa Ber-ganza, mezzo-soprano, as Rosina; and Luigi Alva, tenor, as the Count. (2'j hours). how key events, ideas and people combined to set the Colonies and the Crown on a collision course. There are no costumes.

The sets are the actual locations on both sides of the Atlantic where pivotal events occurred. 8:00 Special: "Music from Aspen." The first of two one-hour shows that blend the performance of some of the country's best student and professional musicians with the beauty of the Colorado Rockies. This program takes a behind-the-scenes look at the Aspen Music festival. 9:00 Special: "The Count of Monte Cristo." (rerun) Richard Chamberlain gives a most impressive per 4:00 Somerset Family Affair Mike Douglas: Guests are co-host Jerry Lewis, Buddy Rich Archie Griffin, Mike Reid, Jane Chastain, and The Nor-Isle Miidget Football team and cheerleaders. Movie: "The Glass Key." Max B.

Nimble Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Flintstones 09 Mickey Mouse 4:30 Robert Young, Family Doctor (D Bev. Hillbillies IS) 63 Afterschool Special: "The Secret Life of T.K. During." See Highlights. (Q Sesame St. Gilligan's Island 5:00 CSAdam-12 Mod Squad Brady Bunch 5:30 Newsroom Editon CD Hollywood Squares Local News Electric Co.

Bewitched 63 Lucy Show 6:00 S) GQ Local News ABC News Zoom Andy Griffith 63 Hogan's Heroes 6:30 CD NBC News CBS News Room 222 Book Beat Star Trek 63 Adam-12 7:00 Bowling for Dollars (DTo Tell the Truth Total News Truth or Consequences Mike Douglas: See 4 p.m. Ch. 7. Romagnolis' Table 63 To Tell the Truth 7:30 Price is Right CD Match Game Match Game Juvenile Court Evening Edition with Martin Agronsky Love. American TVMailbag Movie: "Tribute to a Bad Man." FBI Monty Python's Flying Circus Ironside 63 Movie: "The 10:00 (l) B'ue Knight: During the police crackdown on drug traffic, Bumper arrests a suspected pusher and discovers that a high style fashion firm is the Great Ice front for a smoothly 12:30 Movie: "The Great Ice Rip-Off." wall or away from the wall?" with the audience, like some blood-thirsty mob at the Roman coliseum, apparently hanging on every word.

Last week ABC unveiled its latest and grossest venture into humiliation, "The Neighbors." If you dig this sort of thing, you can watch the show any week day at 2:30 p.m. on Channel 12 or 22. Don't say I didn't warn you. Regis Philbin, Joey Bishop's erstwhile sidekick, referees as five women who are actually neighbors someplace sit on a set resembling a front porch and hurl insults at each other. On the day I caught the show, two girls named Terri and Steffi were getting an earful from three of their alleged friends.

Questions revolved around such gossipy items as who would be the first in the neighborhood to (1) "entertain" another girl's husband whose wife was out of town, (2) pick up the phone and listen in on her husband's conversation, (3) give advice on something she knows nothing about and (4) crown herself queen in a neighborhood beauty contest. And which one wears a tennis outfit that draws praise from the others but actually looks ridiculous? Well, folks, it was Steffi. "You just looked awful!" revealed one of Steffi's ex-friends. "You were just hanging out all over." Replied Steffi, "I may have a bulge here and there, but since I look better than Vicki And which neighbor originated a rumor that Steffi made obscene cookies? Says Steffi, "I think it was Vicki because Joan could never think of anything that clever." We were spared a public description of the obsc ene cookie. Near the end, they were all looking daggers at each other.

I caught another show last week long enough to see one lady get so peeved at one of her pals she began to mouth the words, "You In this age of condom commercials, I suppose nothing is private anymore. 63 Good Morning, America 7:45 Lllias, Yoga and You 8:00 Captain Kangaroo Perspective 8:15 QH In School 8:30 New Zoo Revue 9:00 Phil Donahue: Psychoanalyst Ner Littner discusses family favoritism and how it can affect one's expectations of a marriage partner. Phil Donahue: Guest is Cliff Allen, a high school teacher from Portland, Ore. Match Game Mission: Impossible 00 Tomorrow: Dick Cavett is Tom Snyder's only guest. Tomorrow Morning operated narcotics trade.

63 Starsky and Hutch: Starsky and Hutch try to save the lives of a young armored car driver and his captive wife, both of whom will be killed after a fortune in cash has been delivered. Movie: "Prince of Foxes." 1:30 Days of Our Lives As the World Turns 63 Rhyme and Reason 2:00 63 $10,000 Pyramid 2:30 Doctors Guiding Light 63 Neighbors 3:00 Another World 0 AH In the Family General Hospital Adventures of Coslo Mickey Mouse 63 Clubhouse 22 3:30 Mary Hartman, MaryHartman Match Game One Life to Live Lllias, Yoga and You Popeye 4:00 Somerset Fam. Affair Mike Douglas Movie: "Whisper-ing Smith." Dinah Mister Rogers Neighborhood Flintstones 63 Mickey Mouse 8:00 Sunrise Semester Linguistics Composition Q. I just saw "Sweet Hostage" and I would like to know something about Martin Sheen. Rosemary Gudeli, San Jose, Calif.

A. Sheen, who is 35, married and the father of four children, is one of the best young actors around. Interestingly, the flamboyant, romantic role he played in that movie has brought more mail about him than his great performances in pictures like "The Execution of Private Slovik" and "That Certain Summer" and "Catholics." He starred on Broadway with Jack Albertson in "The Subject Was Roses" and he repeated the role in the film version of the Frank Gilroy play. Q. Please tell us why "$25,000 Pyramid" has to be so loud.

It annoys us and also our neighbors. It's terrible. Also, Bill Cosby was on Johnny Carson's show. He's really nauseating. Not 10:30 Cross-Wits 11:00 Local 6:20 Farming Today Good Morning News Honeymooners 63 Love, American Style 11:30 Johnny Carson: Guests include Mac Davis and David Horowitz.

6:30 New Zoo Revue Dick Van Dyke Focus on Environment This is the Life 7:00 Today CBS News Uncle Al A.M. Cincinnati Cartoons 63 Movie: "In Old Chicago." 9:30 Medical Hotline: Topic is appendicitis with Dr. Ronald Segar. Movie: "Kissin Cousins." Flintstones 10:00 Dinah: Guests are Robert Blake, David one bit funny. And please tell Joan Rivers to slow down and not talk so fast.

We can't get her silly jokes. Mrs. L.B.L., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A. There's a simple way to keep the noise of "$25,000 Pyramid" from annoying you and your neighbors.

Don't tune it in. Some people think Bill Cosby is the greatest. If you don't like his comedy, you don't have to watch him. And if you think Joan Rivers jokes are silly, you probably wouldn't want to hear them. Q.

Who can I write to to find what it takes in looks and personality to be an actress? I also want to know what makes a good actress. Sandy Serdani, Great Falls, Mont. A. You have asked quite a question. Briefly, there is an outgoing quality that most performers generate.

Looks are no longer as important as they once were. Barbra Streisand, for instance, is barely "pretty." As for what makes a good actress, it's honesty, truth, freedom of expression, emotion, both internal and external, and lots of hard and, sometimes, painful work. Also, the knowledge that you can't appeal to all people all the time. Does that help Q. What year did "I Dream of Jeannie" premiere on TV? G.

Liceaga, Chicago. A. Jeannie first pop Radio Highlights Cable TV Listings Style 63 $25,000 Pyramid 8:00 Little House on the Prairie: Mr. Edward's bookish adopted son fails to appreciate his gift of an expensive rifle, and Edwards, who is illiterate, cannot read the boy's letter of explanation, fj (53 Tony Orlando and Dawn: Guests are Danny Thomas and Georgia Engel. 63 Special: "Suddenly An Eagle." See Highlights.

Special: "Music from Aspen." See Highlights. Maverick :00 0 Special: "The Count of Monte Cristo." See Highlights. GD Cannon: A crusading souoth-west newspaper editor, whose favorite targets have been police corruption and Niven, Lily Tomlin, the Spinners and Melissa Manchester. Celebrity Sweep- Merv Griffin: Guests are Roy Clark, Paul Anka and Larry Storch. Price is Right Green Acres 10:30 Wheel of Fortune Petticoat Junction 11:00 High Rollers Gambit 63 Edge of Night Andy Griffith 11:30 Hollywood Squares Local News 0 Love of Life Tattletales 63 Happy Days Electric Co.

0 1 Love Lucy TONIGHT 6:30 WMUB-FM BBC Goon Show: The radio dramas in burlesque features "Rommel's Treasure" starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secomb and Spide Milligan. 9:00 WYSO-FM Down the Road Apiece: Folk and rock music with Pat O'Neal. 10:00 WHIO-FM Music from the Classics: Features Don Juan, Opus 20 by Richard Strauss, and Symphony No. 2 in by Schumann. 10:00 WMUB-FM Retrospect: Jazz saxophonist Eric Kloss and his new album "Doors" will be featrured.

director of the Credit Union and Milt Sprowl, director of Credit Union National association. OAYTON STATIONS WAVI (1310) Tol! tew-phont talk ttvS ntwi all day. WOAO-FM (1077) soul OK. and nawi 74 hourt. WHIO 1290) CBS network.

Mik)lt-of-tn-road mulic. Hefccopttr traffic raoorl, raws on Int hour and hatf-hour, 24 hour! a day WHIO-FM Nil Traditional middW-of-lha-road mujic in tlerao. Ntwt on tht hour, claiucal music at 10 am, fxcapt Salurday. 24 hourt a day WING (1410) Conl.mporary music, news on the hour and half-hour Rush hour traffic reoorlt and instant traffic eitrts. 24 hours a day, 7 davs a week.

WONF. (M0) Modern country sounds, 24 hours a day with newt every half hour around the clock WTUE-FM (104 7) Contemporary Ouadraohonic stereo music 24 hours a day. Newt every hour on the haft hour WVUD-FM Itttl Contemporary Progressive music 24 hourt a day all stereo or quadraphonic. Newt every 15 minutes after the hour. OTHER AM STATIONS TTV TONIGHT 4:00 Mickey Mouse 4:30 Beverly HtltbiUiM 5:00 Family Affair 5:30 Brady Bunch Corner Pyle 0:30 Andy Griffith 7:00 Mod Souad 1:00 Truth ar Consequences 1:30 Concentration 100 Merv Critfin 10:30 News 11:00 Love, American Style 11:30 Movie: "A Taste of Evil." 1:00 Tips on Self Defense 1:10 Newt TOMORROW :30 R.F.O.

4 7:00 Flintstones 7:30 Janie 140 Phil Silvers 9:30 McHale's Navy 10:00 Petlicoat Junction 10:30 Dick Van Dvke 11.00 Studio Four 11:30 News 13:00 Chucbwaeon Theatre Movie: "The Secret ef Monte WUAB TONIGHT 4-M Little Rascals 5:00 Batman 5:30 Micke4y Mouse 4:00 Bewitched 4:30 Andy Griffith 7:00 Hogan's Heroes Movie: "Flyina Tioerj," 10:00 Love, American Style 11:00 I Love Lucy 11:30 Movie: "Wabash Avenue." 1:00 News TOMORROW 50 Newt 10-00 Jack Lanne 10:30 Coffee Shoppe 11:00 Romper Room 11:30 Barnaby 17:00 Magma GeriHa 12:30 1:00 Movie: "At Youn At You Feel." 3:00 Hilarious Housi of Fnontenstein 30 Flintstones 4:00 Lithe Rascals New wordgame more fun In a more conventional vein, we have "The Cross-Wits." It's a new syndicated offering from Ralph Edwards Productions airing on Channel 7 at 7:30 p.m. Mondays and Fridays. As an old Scrabble player from way back, I've always had a fondness for word games and it's fun to play along with this one. It's based on the venerable crossword puzzle, with celebrities and civilians teaming up to guess words that will fill in the blanks. These words, in turn, are clues to the answer.

On the debut show, for instance, host Jack Clark asked: "In electric plugs, when a male meets a female, you have this." The comic reply from Jonathan Harris, apparently supplied in advance: "Hanky panky." The actual answer was "connection." Other blanks In the puzzle were filled in with bullet, Dunaway, French, Bonnie and Oscar. They were all clues to the answer: actor Gene Hackman. It's nothing fancy, but the elements of audience participation and celebrity power Joyce Brothers, Bill Daily and Lynda Day George rounded out the panel make "The Cross-Wits" a tolerable entry into the game-show sweepstakes. Channel hopping Viewers in the Shelby-Mercer county area will be able to pick up public TV programming on two new channels beginning later this year or early next year. The Ohio ETV Network commission will install two translators in Celina and northeast of Piqua that will enable viewers to pick up Channel 16 programming on Channels 17 and 63...

Rowan and Martin have bombed out of their planned midseason comeback. A prime-time "Rowan and Martin Report" and a late-night variety series have both been dropped by ABC, apparently because of mediocre ratings for their Nov. 5 special Effective Thursday, "Grady" and "The Cop and the Kid" will switch time slots in a bid to boost the sagging ratings of both shows. "The Cop and the Kid" will air at 8 and "Grady" at 8:30 Cristo." Listings of Public broadcast channels carried on cable are. with few exceptions, the tame It those tor channels 14 and 14 wrich art published in the daily loos.

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