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The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 48

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The Boston Globei
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THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE JANUARY 14, 1962 Forty-Eight which --wwr lagging last iA viewing; popularity last yeai (except for its news shows) and is challenging CBS fo first place this season. Itj moves were all the right ones, "Wasteland" or Just Waste of Time? Majority of TV Shows Rated Not Worth Watching in 1961 Happy Coincidence SAN DIEGO (AP) In answering help-wanted ad, Val McCashen dialed the wrong number. He got Bill Sharp's Hillcrest Auto Supply. Turned cut that Sharp did happen to need a man, though. McCashen was hired.

the two top-rated shows of the year, audience1 wise, are its "Bonanza" (shift ed from Saturday to Sunday) and "Wagon Train," although Hm a9lJ iwJttitjrij L- im the quality. Some of the finest series (like David Bnnkley's HABB1S STEVENS PLtSBtTTS OLIVIER BAINES DONALD FINAL CLEARANCE ON CUR iSemi-Annual By PERCY SHAIN Boston Globe TV Critic Was it really the "vast wasteland" that FCC boss Newton Minow called it in it will lose the latter to ABC next Fall. Now a number of other programs are trying the shiftiei to see if it will work: "Diclj Van Dyke," "Mrs. G. Goes ta of two new anthologies such a resounding hit in his never fated to finish anything.

Journal' and Show of the were in treuUe because of low Nielsen scores. Even highly rated antholo 62" and "Golden Christmas eve program that Among the half-hour con he is in line for regular ap tenders, the year's best, in the were lugged over bodily to become another pearances. College" (soon to be Called th that fighting speech some 3 Also coming Is a new batch "Gertrude Berg field of tragedy was The Stone Boy" on "Robert Her-ridge Theater," a Ch. 2 feature: in the field of comedy, weekly feature Night at the and spawned more new series months ago? gies like the UicK Lowell Show," (called the "hit of the year" by the nation's best known critic) and "Alcoa Premiere" failed to approach of war drama based on the 'Straightway," "Top Cat," etc.) ALE second world conflict The answer, in this final A The first major casualties of the introductory episode of the the audience figure of the sage Van Dyke Show" and the No, summing up of the television 4 Stop," "Father of the Bride," "Dr. to add to the likes of "Lassie," "National Velvet," "The Third Man," "Naked City," etc.

brush staples and aomedy corn 2 segment of "Car 54, Where the new season were the "Steve Allen Show" and "The Investigators." Allen found out that people aren't ready to year, must be Are in the field of that dot the week's program' ming. une Diggest lurorer nationally, that ugly "Bus Stop" episode with Fabian; locally that "Biography of a Bookie Joint" documentary that gave: this city another black eye. And Boston didn't get to see either of them. i So "banned in Boston" has come to have a new meaning and application. "Well, not really, but close enough to laugh at 7:30 (all the comedi humor.

Red Skelton's Christ mas Show. The surprise hits of the sea The public service shows, of The First Casualty ans are on late: Newhart, course, nave naa to ngnt tnis be Skelton, Moore, Benny). son were the two medical series, "Dr. Kildare" and "Ben lassitude for years. And it is interesting to note that the Several other limping entries are soon to follow them, SHAIN Let statistics network have taken dia There was also a surge of biographies (Hope, Billy Graham, Al Smith, Will Rogers, Rudolph Valentino) with even more to come, particularly when Ch.

7 starts running its tell the story. Casey," which of course means that we'll get an avalanche of such skeins next year, just as metrically opposite views in the "Roaring 20's," "Father of the Bride," "Follow the Sun," HOW TO F15HT 4 their efforts to perk up interest I The year's output of television columns by this reviewer we got a bunch of cartoons in this part of the program included reports of 727 shows. ming. this year (none of which were worth very much) because "The Flintstones" did so well new series, on Greatness," and David Walper starts marketing his half-hour Of these, only 68, or fewer than 1 in 10, received 4-star the Bob Cummings Show. And even some of the more venerable entries are starting to sag, notably "The Untouchables," "G.E.

Theater" and "Have Gun, Will Travel," none of which will be back next season. The comeback of the year biographical series. ratings. Another 221 got 3 stars, which meant that under 40 percent of the programs appraised were rated "good or The success of "Sing Along with Mitch" will mean more musical shows in the future, last season. Which only goes to show that one year's successes may be another year's flops.

There was another trend. BR03CKIT1S ATTACKS At to first din of heilng. short breath, or coughing from recurring Bronchial Asthma er Bronchitis, stark taklnc New. quick sctint MKNDAOO. Ik vorks fast to sombat allersr.

relas bronchial tabes, thin and help remove thick, choking Dhlecra.Thli usually ease breathlnc fast, aUsn eonghing: thus promotes sounder sleep. Get MENDAOO at druggists. Feel better fast. CBS has tried to build a following by definite slotting a documentary every Thursday night at 10. NBC believes in hitting from all directions, bidding for new viewers by inserting its "fact shows" at irregular intervals, even though it often means preempting popular entertainment fixtures.

excellent particularly in the popular idiom. Fred Waring scored was that of the NBC network Old movies became the basis The vast majority, 354, fell in the 2 -star category and 84 were in the lowest lexicon. And this was after a conscious effort to watch only the DAILY 9:30 A.M. to 9:30 P.M. SATURDAY 9-6.

more promising efforts that ABC has been somewhere in between, spotting its "actuals'; NOW! AND SAVE! were 16.95 to 22.95 -5L BUY in various segments put witn a pattern of some regularity. Which method is best? no Yes. a wide assortment of oxfords, straps, step- came on. Think of all the clinkers I missed or didn't bother to comment on! The year as a whole, there-; fore, must be counted a dis-', appointing one, despite the i efforts to uplift the product that were noticeable after Minow issued his withering Indictment Nevertheless, there were NEVER AGAIN BE DUPLICATED- 4fHp THIS PRICE MAY one can answer that definitely, Perhaps ABC is on the right, track by trying to play it both ways. MADE BY A HUGE PURCHASE! POSSIBLE Certainly it has made some inroads in the documentary and news picture in which it was so weak a year ago, though some memorable telecasts and a few promising trends.

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i The new anthologies spawned a few first-rate dramas not many, but at least The CBS series is my an-! there was a start toward re versing the trend that has time champ in this department It probably garnered more 4-star ratings than any other show on the air (challenged only by Leonard Bernstein's two series) and in putting such been the blight of TV. Comedy Corn Flourished twtAMHi Sadly, the viewer ratings i didn't go hand in hand with outstanding personages as Wal-j ter Lippman, Carl Sandburg: INSTANT MOUNT" and ex-President Eisenhower, before its cameras, it manu-j factured more than its share' of news beats. I MlPSTt The Best Drama AIR CONDITIONER ABC. with its erratic but high minded "Close-Up!" gained stature with two stun-j Linn ovominatinns of the Negro problem, "The Red and! the Black," a glance at Airica.i land "Walk in My Shoes," a Stores glance at our own bourn. Thf same network also won Lplaudits for its "Winston 7 Churchill tne vauani ieais early in 1961.

This, incidental WE GIVE WE GIVE ly, may be repeatea soon. On the international irom, EM "Tntprtpl" scored with some thoughtful probing into the GREEN VSTAMPS, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Only! I GREEN I VSTAMPa mores and manners oi aisiam nations, particularly in "The Quiet War," an eye-opening report on South Viet in am. Locally, WBZ's "The Complex Community," generally a high grade effort iii 4 The best dramas oi tne yeai That's fairly easy. WE The most satisfying in all respects was- "Victoria Re-gina," the shining story of a revered British queen which may give "Hall of Fame" its second Emmy In as many years (last year it was and may catapult both Julie Harris and James Donald into the top acting awards. From the standpoint of Henth and development and sustained drive David Suss- kind's two-hour "Power and the Glory," a rare and daring rframa of redemption laid in UNCHALLENGED LECHMERE PRICE gg88 anti-clerical Mexico, starring T.aurence Olivier, whom some have called the world's best actor, is another worthy con tender for honors.

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