The Parsons Sun from Parsons, Kansas • 19

A Critic's Life Isn't Always Great Fun think of something interesting to say about it At least you can turn the set off when Bert appears on ABC on Saturdays at 9 pm Or you can change the channel to Carol Burnett or the last half of the NBC movie But I had to sit there and watch it all the way through For goodness sake have some pity Bert is By JOHN CAMPER (C) Chicago Daily News CHICAGO You think it must be great fun being a TV critic you? Sitting around watching TV all day Probably sounds like the life of Riley Well let me tell you something Buster It ain't all that great You believe me? All right YOU watch Bert YOU try to Maimdlm'ni MARCH 1 second by stabbing A dope dealer has witnessed the strangulation He decides to blackmail the strangler The strangler shows up with a briefcase supposedly full of money The dope dealer holds him at gunpoint Does the strangler hit the dope dealer with the briefcase and then kill him? Is grass green? Does the sun rise in the east? Bert is called because he is so good at solving crimes And how! With practically no evidence he intuits the entire convoluted murder plot by the end of Act IV Does the show end with a chase? Why are you asking me these silly questions? Do you think I like this any more than you do? Look not doing this for my health got a wife and kid to support Does the show end with a case? Does a chicken lay an egg? Sheesh Saturday night at the tube will never be a total disaster however as long as we can watch Saturday Night This 90-minute blend of comedy satire and music is the only show on television that I make a special point of watching each week (It's on every Saturday night except the first one of each month when NBC runs Reuven monthly magazine Weekend which also is good) the 27th police-detective show of the -current television season right the 27th You know how you feel when some bore tells you the same story for the 27th time? how I felt watching Bert But not interested in my problems You want to know all about Bert You want to see me suffer All right Bert is produced by Quinn Martin Productions which gave us The FBI Barnaby Jones Streets of San Francisco and a lot of other great shows You can tell by Quinn Martin because it says etc after each commercial break is played by Paul Sorvino who looks like a cross between James Coco of The Dumplings and Tom Bosley Public TV Channel 11 SATURDAY FEB 28 Soundstage Three of the top names in country music present an hour of down-home songs Waylon Jennings his wife Jessi Colter and Johnny Rodriguez each sing a set with an-opening duet by Jennings and Rodriguez 9 pm SUNDAY FEB 29 Nova Why do birds sing? 7 pm MONDAY MARCH 1 Anyone for Tennyson? Longfellow: A rediscovery 6 pm TUESDAY MARCH 2 Consumer Survival Kit A look at glasses contacts and eye doctors 7:30 pm Adams Chronicles John Quincy Adams and his wife Louisa Catherine live in St Petersburg where he is who plays Richie Cunningham's father on Happy Days is a New York cop who apparently solved every crime in Fun City and decided to look for more action in San Francisco He ran into Stone and Keller on The Streets of San Francisco and was so good that he spun off into his own series Robert Pine plays his young naive sidekick which every veteran street-wise TV detective must have and Dennis Patrick plays his superior with whom he continually argues as does every TV detective Patrick is a professional TV villain so his role represents a casting breakthrough But give credit where due There IS not a single shot fired in the premier of Bert The first murder is by strangulation the at a Glance minister to Russia and later heads a peace commission that ends the war of 1812 8 pm WEDNESDAY MARCH 3 Cooking? Fish an appetizer main course and one-pot dinner 6 pm THURSDAY MARCH 4 Lowell Thomas Remembers 1935 Hauptman judged guilty sentenced to death for the murder of the Lindbergh baby Mussolini warns other powers to leave Ethiopia to Italy social security bill signed: Will Rogers and Wiley Post die in an plane crash in Alaska 7:30 pm Theater: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial A1 Freeman plays black panther Bobby Seale Cliff Gorman re-creates the role of radical leader Abbie Hoffman and Morris Carnovsky plays Judge Julius Hoffman 8 pm CABLEVISI0N OF PARSONS Call 421-2510 2211 Main Parsons MEMBER Of THE NATIONAL CASH TRFVBJOa Assocumoa U-Oklahoma Week 12-Lawrence Welk 13-Truth or Consequences Hollywood Squares Beverly Hillbillies 7 pm 2-7-Rich Little 6-13-16-Rhoda 8-9-12-Movie: Young Pioneers 11-People and Politics 41-Gunsmoke 7:30 pm 6-13-16-Phyllis 11-National Geographic 8 pm 2-7-Joe Forrester 6-13-16-All in the Family 41-Movie: The Court Jester 8:30 pm 6-13-16-Maude 11-Public Affairs Forum 9 pm' 2-7-Jigsaw John 6-13-16-Medical Center 8-9-12-Rich Man Poor Man 9:30 pm 11-Kup's Show 10 pm News weather sports 41-Dick Van Dyke 10:30 pm 2-7-Johnny Carson 6-13-16-41-Movie: Letters from Three Lovers 8-Ironside 9-Mary Hartman 11-Oklahoma Review 12- Bonanza 11 pm 9-Ironside U-Captioned ABC News 11:30 pm 8-12-Country Music Awards (Midnight Channel 9) Midnight 2-7-Tomorrow 41-Movie: Harlow 6 pm News weather sports 2-Concentration 11-Anyone for Tennyson? Heroes 41-Andy Griffith 6:30 pm 2-let's Go to the Races 7-Wild Kingdom 8-Adam 12 9-Bowling for Dollars Specials SATURDAY FEB 28 Grammy Awards Topliners of the recording industry are honored 9 pm channels 6 13 16 SUNDAY FEB 29 Sound of Music The hills are alive with the sound of music as Julie Andrews stars in the most popular musical in movie history retelling the true and tender story of the Trapp Family Singers 6 pm three hours 25 minutes channels 8 9 12 MONDAY MARCH 1 Country Music Awards Marty Robbins is host scheduled entertainers include Loretta Lynn Conway Twitty Tom Hall Billy Crash Craddock the Country Current and comedian Jerry Clower 11:30 pm channels 8 9 12 TUESDAY MARCH 2 Massachusetts Primary 10:30 pm channels 2 6 7 8 13 midnight on channel 12 FRIDAY MARCH 5' Bob Hope All-star comedy presentation with scheduled guests including Mike Connors Angie Dickinson Telly Savalas Abe Vigoda Don Adams Jack Anderson George Burns Jerry Colonna Groucho Marx and others 7:30 pm channels 2 7 Come in and register for Garden Cultivator to be given away Sunday March 21 No purchase necessary need not be present to win Winner will be announced in Friday March 26 ad GYPSUM MILORGANITE LIME SHEEP MANURE 10-20-10 FERTILIZER SEED POTATOES WHITE ROCK BULK GARDEN SEED PEAT MOSS LAWN FOOD VERMICULITE PEARLITE ONION SETS DAISY PINWHEELS I 1 WANTED: Good Home for RCA Color Trade-In's i Reconditioned in our own shop Written I guarantee MANY MANY to choose irom i 10-6 Daily Closed Monday 1-6 Sunday GARDEN TIME LAWN ANDGARDEN CENTER Southwest Corner of Gibson's Parking Lot Parsons 421-4300 Williamson Stores I 21 Parsons Plaza I I -I.