Tucson Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • 37

rrr1 tl Tdevisi Hello Larry I By Pam Noel Newsday divorced raising two teen-aged girls and the host of a crazy radio talk wow in Portland Ore He's Larry Alder the well-meaning but bungling title character of an NBC midseason entry that chugged its way through and won a place in next season's programming show was very slow at starting said McLean Stevenson who plays Larry Stevenson is perhaps best known for his role as Col Henry Blake in He was cast in Larry" (Fnday nights) almost immediately after the cancellation of ms last television show the Beginning" "This season I'm more excited about this than anything ever done since he added Stevenson who has shunned interviews lately because of the initial cool critical reception for seemed at ease speaking about the upcoming season of pilots are really not the way to judge a Stevenson said complaining that his career and Fred efforts to rescue NBC seemed to matter more to critics than the content of the show But all feelings aside "Hello apparently did need some work to make it more palatable to television viewers During the past season the series focus has slowly shifted from emphasis on Larry Alder the wise-cracking radio show host to Larry Alder the single father raising two daughters real-life situation is similar to that of the said Stevenson who like Larry Alder is divorced and the father of two children a bey and a girl Kim Richards who plays younger daughter Ruthie and Donna Wilkes who had played the oldest daughter 16-year-old Diane are from single-parent families Wilkes recently left the show for personal reasons according to NBC spokesmen She has been replaced by 16-year-old Krista Errick-son The shift in the show's emphasis from Larry's job at the radio station to his home life seems to have been a healthy move since the ratings have improved somewhat "The show is just getting off the ground and it had some shaky said Woody Kling the producer Although the format of the two shows may'appear to be similar Kling said Day at a seeks to illuminate the plight of the single parent raising two daughters and deals more with the problems the girls find living with one parent Besides Kling pointed out Day at a deals with more controversial topics than does However Kling said want to make the show more adult and The cast of an enthusiastic group readily admitted that the show needed work and hoped that the coming season would produce results Kim Richards 14 (soon to be IS as she was quick to say) said that while she enjoyed her role as Ruthie who gets to say the she hopes next season the writers will let the 13-year-old character grow up a little in her appearance Richards has been in show business since she was 4 months old Another cast member George Memmoli plays Earl the overweight station engineer Although Earl is usually the target or fat jokes on the show Memmoli said he mind they make you laugh it's all said the S-foot-7 240-pound actor nothing personal against New to the cast this season will be Meadowlark Lemon the former Harlem Globetrotter who is launching a career as an actor Lemon will play himself a well-todo owner of a sporting-goods store who buys air time on show There will also be John Femia as the 12-year-old neighbor and Ruth Brown who as Leona Williams a black school teacher who is neighbor and teacher will become a regular has been and will continue to be scheduled next to another mid-season entry is a comedy about two orphaned black brothers who are adopted by their employer a rich white lawyer and taken out of Harlem to the good life The two shows have seemed to work well together in the past although is generaly agreed to be the more popular Last season the two shows were featured in an hour-long crossover program wherein the Drummond family of went to Portland Ore where Larry lives to visit the Alders This premiere of will see the Alders traveling to New York City to visit the Drummonds i McLean Stevenson stars in "Hello which will be back this fall Co-starring with him are Joanna Gleason and George Memmoll Kling who previously was the creative consultant produced the last eight shows of the past season George Tibbies the former producer became executive producer replacing Perry Grant and Dick Bensfield Larry creators who were also responsible for Day at a Time" a CBS sitcom about a single woman and her two daughters Saturday TV schedule Songs take the theme of "county fairs "(1 hr) 6:30 PM OOO COUPLE VOICE Chuck Slone senior editor of the Philadelphia Dally News Investt-gatee with other iournakets current issues affecting American minorities William Webster talks about the state of the FBL tonight ARIZONA SCENE "Indian Legends" DOLLY PARTON SHOW 7:00 PM chips Pooch struts his stutf on the disco floor in his repeatO hr) FACES Of COMMUNISM Robert Kee is the reporter-narrator of this four-part sens on tour countries reflecting different aspects of prsctlcal Marxism Tonight: "Maly: Lenin la Sometimes Puzzled "(t hr) CAROL BURNETT More skits and variety with regulars Tim Conwsy Vickie Lawrence Kenny Mars at al with Penny Marshall joining in the fun as guest per-formerO hr) 0 Fabulous Summer Funl CAROL BURNETT with Penny Marshall AuaHawaj THAT NASHVILLE MUSIC BAD NEWS BEARS 1 the case of the e-fitting uniforms for the Bears when team manager OgHvie has the playing garb Improperly washed Repeat 7:30 PM "Little Lord 1936 drama starring Freddie Bartholomew as the Brooklyn lad who goes to London to live with his aristocratic grandfather A ctassic(2 hrs) CBS brings back a kind of super- nostalgia trip In Entertainment The 1974 release contains scenes from nearly 100 aid MGM musicals and dramas Guiding you along the way are Frank Sinatra Fred Astaire Gene Kelly Mickey Rooney James Stewart the late Bing Crosby Elizabeth Taylor Donald Debbie Reynolds and Liza Minnelli (2 hrs 30 mine) 8:00 PM BJ AND THE BEAR They've linked together two episodes of the past season to feature the antics of Sheriff Lobo a a Claude Akins (2 hrs) MEETING OF THE MINDS Major figures from history come alive to debate thek achievements In this episode President Ulysses Grant clashes with Kart Marx Jayne Meadows appears as Queen Marie Antoinette and Bernard Behrens as Sir Thomas More Originator-writer-moderator is Steve Allen (1 hr) LOVE BOAT Two hours' worth of romantic adventures repealed with Michele Lee and Fernando Lamas playing a pak of millionaire superstars celebrating thek newest honeymoon with Harold Gould John Schuck Larry Slorch and Karen Valentine right behind them Stephanie Zknballst and Deal Amaz Jr one-time students at a blind school meet again aboard ship but he doesn't tell her he can now see other vignettes star Julie Mills Dan Rowan Adrienne Barbeau 9:00 PM SUMMERFEST79 The Charlie Daniels Band performs at the Saratoga Arts Center everything from "Orange Blossom Special" to a tribute to Elvis Presley Janis Joplin and Ronnie Van Zandt(2 hrs) 9:30 PM TALK IT OVER 10:00 PM ft siL iiw -i ahsweL 'n ii iri eri r'lf The 54th edition of the £00000 Hambletonian trotting classic will be shown at 2 pm Saturday on Channel 4 ADAM-12 10:30 PM SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE Avant garde musician-composer Frank Zappa is the host Re-peat(90 mine) MOVIE NEWS "Tycoon" 1947 adventure starring John Wayne as an engineer trying to bukd a railroad through the Andes Larame Day co-stars (2 hrs 30 mins U8 OPEN TENNIS HIGHLIGHTS 10:45 PM HAWAII FIVE-0 Wo Fat (Khigh Dhtegh) reappears In Hawaii in pursuit of a visiting foreign minister who is being protected by the Flve-0 unlt(70 mms) 11:30 PM 11:55 PM ff MOVIE Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" 1970 adventure starring Robert Stephens as the famed detective 12 MIDNIGHT' MOVIE 1972 espionage drama starring Max Von Sydow as a Russian official seeking asylum ki Beirut 12:30 AM BIG VALLEY 1:00 AM MOVIE "The White Cliffs of Dover" 1944 drama starring Irene Dunne Alan Marshal Frank Morgan Love story set between World Wars I and It 3:30 AM ABC NEWS Continued on page 6 Saturday afternoon OPEN TENNIS Livi coveraga continues from Corona NV 1:30 PM Move 'The 1971 love story with Julie Christie Alan Batea Dominic Guard and Margaret Leighton Set at the turn of the century In the English countryside (2 hrs) 200 PM OSPORTSWORLD Hambtetonian Trotting Classic from the Duquoin State Fair (lll)NBC wdl continue SportsWortd on Saturdays during the NFL seasonal hr) WORLD OF SPORTS The kitematlonal Special Otympica from Brockport NY where mentally retarded people young and old take part United Statee vs West Germany In amateur boxing at Rapid City Iowa (90 mms) 3:00 PM multiversity UA professor Harris Sobin discusses "Architectural Restoration in Florence" COMEDY SHOP 3:30 PM WOMEN TOOAY MAGIC METHOD OF OIL PAINTING THE FBL 0 OUTER UMTS LAST OF THE WILD "The World of Flight" 4:00 PM HEE HAW ADVOCATES 4:30 PM THE RACERS PRESS BOX CBS NEWS 5:00 PM NBCNEWS MASTERPIECE THEATER THIS IS THE NFL 5:30 PM NEWS KGUN SPECIAL A look at desegregation In the Tucson schools NFL GAME OF THE WEEK FACE THE ISSUES Saturday evening 600 PM MARY TYLER MOORE OUE PASA U8A7 "The Garage Sale" Grandmother Pena figure out how people can appreciate the ok) and the past when they are constantly coming up with new ways of discarding It SHA NA NA POP GOES THE COUNTRY LAWRENCE WELK Tucson Citizen Saturday September 1 1S7S Page 5.