The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 58

nm rrnrr 1 yV 1) 10-D THE MIAMI HERALD Friday Sept 20 1968 Bumbling Gumshoe Just Another Slick Package 0 WHY NBC tPofett EwehJi AtC WAJA-TV UHF 0 WTVJ CtS (Paint Baactt) WTHS-TV Ed 0 WC1X-TV WEAT-TV ABC 9:00 The slight story line also served to introduce Lloyd Nolan as future doctor boss in an industrial clinic The abrasive medico has already dismissed the racial issue IMORHIN By JACK ANDERSON 6:30 This Day News lrUd laA 6:45 TV Editor Kanter fertile-minded craftsman though he is can keep his story moving should be one of the more interesting challenges to watch in the coming weeks Tuesday opener merely laid the premise and introduced the sustaining characters Kanter has picked his people well particularly in finding tiny Marc Copage a dusky tyke to play Miss Carroll's child He and a white youngster Michael Link who is his playmate are enough to disarm the most hardened hater of child actors 9:30 2:00 new season rolled into mid-week Wednesday night with the premiere of its new tough guy series The Outsider and one of its better Kraft Music Halls this one a musical tribute to Brooklyn The Outsider starring Darren McGavin is the series which spun off a World Premiere movie feature done on the network last winter The series worried NBC because of the national outcry last summer against TV violence And in its movie feature form The Outsider had plenty of it McGavin as a bumbling private eye was almost garrotted He was frequently beaten up and shot at Charlie Callas Strasberg and 7:00 Cotten Susan others Julia states the obvious that colored He asks color are and she replies He asks gruffly you always been a Negro or are you just trying to be The writing is speckled with sharp humor There remains now only the problem: where does the series go from here? 2:30 3:00 7:15 Movie (to 9:30) is the Name of the (1966) An thony Franciosa Jill St John Jack Klugman A reporter for a weekly mag finds the body of a slain girl Fair cliche 0 Untouchables (to 8:30) 7:30 3:30 7:45 4:00 CLASSES PERFORMING WORKSHOPS ALL AGE GROUPS FALL SEMESTER STARTS SEPT show Julia which has Di-ahann Carroll starring in her first non-singing dramatics series for the tube The show is also a first in current upgrading of the Negro as a performer Although black performers are now legion in the TV scene she is the first to have a weekly show of her own No more fetching choice could have been made Miss Carroll plays a widow with a small child (the format is a popular one this season) trying to make a living as a registered nurse and constantly baffled by mishaps both at home and at work FRIDAY FILM FESTIVAL two award winning films 3:00 The initial episode of the new series Wednesday night gave evidence that role as gumshoe David Ross has been softened In fact I suspect this installment was one of the later productions rather than the one originally Intended for the opener Movie (to II) a two-hour feature presents' tion of the new CBS private eye series stars Jack Lord Nancy Kwan and Lew Ayres Art of Seeing B-W Tonight photographer Ernest Haas shows how animate movements the only sources for the effect of motion 0 Movie (to 12) B-W Tin (1957) Henry Fonda Anthony Perkins Betsy Palmer A bounty hunter helps the sheriff to clean up the town Good western Will Sonnett REPEAT Will and Jeff arrive in a strange town to find that James Sonnett has just been there and made an implacable enemy Movie B-W Found a (1945) Sarah Churchill Vic Oliver About the life and loves of a theatrical producer Speaking Freely (to 1 1) B-W O0 Star Trek (to 1 1) Mr brain is stolen and transplanted to run a computerized civilization while Kirk and McCoy try to revive his body Judd (to II) REPEAT Judd defends a young can charged with the murder of three girls 30th RUTH FOREMAN Director 1603 NE 123rd St Off Biscoyne Blvd 891-1832 19th Season Register Now 8:30 Newsen Espanol Sunshine Aiman B-W CD Film Span News Popeye Playhouse (to 8) B-W QQ Today (to 9) Love Bob (Span) B-W 0 Fla Homemaker B-W 0 Rick Shaw 0 Sunshine Almanac B-W 0 Three Stooges (to 8:30) B-W Capt Kangaroo 9) Milton Monster B-W Dennis the Menace B-W Mike Douglas (to 10) Merv Griffin (to (0:30) Guests are Polly Bergen Mason Laura Green Jack Douglas Pamela and Marty Ingels Donald (to 10:30) Guests are Janet Leigh Mike Connors Lainie Kazan Johnny Mercer i Backus Connie Stevens and The Strawberry Alarm Clock Hazel Movie (to 10:30) B-W Laurel and Hardy 0 Real McCoys B-W Ed Allen 9:00 3:00 :30 While You Were A tea if we were still here 3:30 Movie (to 9:30) B-W Martial" (1955) David Niven Margaret Leighton A British officer in debt tries a dubious approach to get money Good drama Cineposium B-W Marian Dern and Pan-i dro Berman discuss the! 10:00 film "A Patch of Blue" NET Playhouse (to 9:30) B-W presentation deals with the struggles of a teenage boy to find out the truth about his suicide GomerPyle REPEAT Gomer unwittingly sets out to repair the getaway car of two men who have held up service station in Mayberry No first episode is ever indicative of the worth and durability of a TV series It is usually the pilot that was produced with meticulous care to Jure the sponsors The real trial comes in the weekly script grind that follows Many Splendored Q0 Days of Our Lives Newlywed Game Guiding Light 00 The Doctors Dating Game Secret Storm 00 Another World General Hospital Edge of Night White Baron O0 You Say One Life to Live House Party 0 Gilligan's Island Batman 0 Dialing Dollars (to 5:45) Land Seas (to 5) Frontier 0 Dark Shadows Stock Mkt Review B-W Steve Allen (to 6) Guests are Mort Sahl John Byner and Pat Harrington Talya Ferro and Christine Jorgensen 0 Sunset Strip (to 5:30) B-W Mike Douglas (to 6) co-host is Gordon MacRae with guests Vincent Price Bobby Goldsboro Bob Keeshin and Tony and Joan Costa 0 Merv Griffin (to 6) Huck and Yogi (to 5:30) Time for School B-W Ken Taylor News Misterogers B-W 0 News Gardner Dial Dollars Movie (to 7) for a Badman" Audie Murphy Darren McGavin Ruth Lee A Texas Ranger turned bandit leaves his wife but swears revenge when a former friend marries her A baddie Beaver B-W 0 Dateline JOHNNIE MACK fT IAUDERDAIE EU 1 P500 msassmMmmsm And whether Producer Hal Not that McGavin has been turned into a panty-waist In his assignment to uncover a Palm Springs card shark he was theatened by a dame with a rifle (unloaded however) a security man took a shot at him and he landed at least one haymaker on a minor member of the cast But compared to what happened to him in the original version he ran no more risk than a Miami Beach councilman in a zoning variance fight The show has slick production values McGavin is virile and believable as a faintly off-color investigator but Producer Roy concept offers nothing new in the way of private eye adventures that haven't already been thoroughly explored in scores of other TV series to say nothing of movies It's simply another of those neatly wrapped weekly packages that offer the viewer derring-do and dames of no discernible support 9:30 3SW1IK 5:00 10:00 Look What PLYMOUTH Is Up To Now Watch The NAME OF THE GAME! 5:30 The new season's here-exclusively on NBC! Adv 10:30 A i 09 Name of Game (to 10) Music Hall Has Good Start 0 Snap Judgment 0 Jack laLanne Stock Market (to 4) B-W 0 Hillbillies B-W QQ Concentration Cavett (to 12) Guest is Maine Senator Edmund Muskie Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Andy Griffith B-W QQ Personality Dick Van Dyke B-W 00 Hyw'd Squares Robinson Report Wayne Fariss News News Wthr Sports News-Ken Taylor News Wthr Spts B-W 11:30 Perry Mason (to 12:30) B-W Q0 Tonight (to I) Joey Bishop (to I) Guests are Robert Wagner Bob Gibson Marilyn Maye and Sammy Shore Bold Journey B-W I a News en Espanol Late Movie (to 2:30) B-W in the Streets" (1950) Richard Wid-mark Jack Palance Paul Douglas A doctor is taken captive by murderers and discovers that one of them carries' a dangerous disease Fair drama News Engl Span 12:30 11:00 11:30 5:45 Fear of High starring Antho-j ny Franciosa is the I opening drama in this series of 90-minute pro-j grams Franciosa gets into a complicated mess once given a compromising picture of a top government official 0 Man in a Suitcase (to 9:30) REPEAT McGill is framed for murder and set up as the victim of another after a scared private eye comes to him for help THE MUSIC HALL hour had Don Rickies as the cheerleader for a rah-rah-rah for Brooklyn It was a tuneful hour with deft blending of studio segments with filmed outdoor ones in actual Brooklyn locations Rickies a notable product of the borough himself was a good choice for the hosting role but he seemed a bit hobbled by having to follow script a device the swiftly changing segments of the production demanded He normally works with nothing more than the gratuitous insults his nimble mind can improvise GEORGE JESSEIS HERE COME THE STARS 12:00 News at Noon 00 Jeopardy Bewitched B-W 0 Search for Tomorrow 12:30 Walter Matthau joins host George Jessel hour of and for an Let Wallace Join TV Debates Says House Committee However there was no lack of enthusiasm in him for what was a labor of love in taking us for a tour of his old stomping grounds and in his rapport with fellow Brooklynites Steve Lawrence Joan Rivers Robert Merrill and that marvelous old Dodger Roy Campanella 1:00 Room for Daddy B-W News--Whitcomb Eye Guess News--Harnish Divorce Court Love of Lite News Movie (to 3:30) (1953) Charlton Heston Jack Palanco Katy Jurado Trouble develops in the Southwest when a Cavalry unit tries to sign a peace treaty with the Apaches Good western 0 Match Game 0 Ripcord B-W Dream House 0 As World Turns 0 Girl Talk a Deal It's Happening comparable time on another program STAR TREK The show also tied in the movie premiere in New York of one of most celebrated daughters Barbra Streisand A filmed segment had New Mayor John Lindsay chatting briefly with La Streisand before she hurried into the theater for the initial screening of her first film But by a vote of 21-10 it amended the measure Thursday to invite Wallace to appear on the same program with the other two making it a three-way debate among the major candidates NEW TIME 1000 WASHINGTON (UP1) The House Commerce Committee changed its mind Thursday and voted to invite George Wallace to participate in any special television debates between presidential nominees Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon Last week the committee voted to suspend the provision of the federal broadcasting code to permit Nixon and Humphrey to debate with the stipulation that Wallace would be given High drama IN COLOR 1:30 that tells it like it will be-200 years from now William Shatner Leonard Nimoy star Can 6 Julia9 Stand Pace? ON TUESDAY night NBC brought in its much heralded The Best On Radio -w i iuus mm inn COLOR TV CALLS ta Tear HmiIIN 9 PM SMSIUCKftWIfnTVIftUJ FACTORY WTHORIHI SiLU ft SCKVKK Channel 6 Hearing Set By FCC RELIABLE LUjl TV 22 1 I Mwts (ml (jMi ttatar CmmcI Such a suspension of the equal time provision would make it possible for Humphrey Nixon and Wallace to debate without various minor candidates of obscure parties having the right to demand equal broadcast time It was under a similar suspension of the code that Nixon debated with John Kennedy in the 1960 presidential campaign As amended the bill would make it possible for the networks to arrange which incorporate the same program opportunity for equivalent appearances by all presidential or vice presidential candidates who have been qualified by applicable state law to appear on the ballots of at least two-thirds of the several B-W traces the life of Abraham Lincoln from age fourteen through his school years Death Valley Days 0 What's My Line? Huntley-Brinkley 0 Movie (to 8:30) B-W Favorite (1951) Bob Hope Hedy Lamarr Hope plays a bungling spy on a caper in Tangiers A few laughs Honeymooners B-W 0 Treasure Isle McHale's Navy B-W 7:30 EricHotfer B-W The philosopher-long-shoreman discusses! tonight the idea that aspiration for! freedom is most human of human quali- Wild West (to 8:30) 0 Movie (to 9:30) (1959)! Richard Widmark Tina Louise Lee Cobb A mob leader trying to leave the country isolates a small town in the southern California! desert Average crime flick SAME DAY SERVICE MING IN AND SAVE COLOR TV TAPE STEREO AUTO US I FOREIGN Foctory Authorized Service 5805 SW ST M0 7-2574 TRAIL TV And tomorrow: Premiere of Adam-12 Hide with two motor patrolmen whose job it is to reach the action first IN COLOR TONIGHT ON 6:00 9:00 AM Personality Profile WGBS Featured is George Jcssel 8:00 PM Football WKAT Miami vs Northwestern 8:00 PM Larry King WIOD Guests are comedian Jackie Mason and Miami Herald Food Editor Virginia Heffington 8 10 PM Prelude WKAT- FM Featured work is Strauss' Symphony" 9:00 PM Symphony Hall WWPB-FM Selections are Domino and No 10:00 PM Alan Courtney WIOD Guest is Paul Bethel director of the Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba 11:30 PM Night Call WAME Guest is Dr Ed Carrulhcrs of the Methodist Board of Missions Midnight Hy Gardner WGBS Guests are Tony Martin Joey Ross and Lionel Hampton WASIINGTON (AP) The Federal Communications Commission has announced it will conduct a hearing to determine whether there has been unauthorized transfer of control of Coral Television Corp The company holds a permit for television station WCIX-TV (Ch 6) Miami An FCC order of Feb 8 1967 authorizing modification of permit was remanded to the commission by the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia The court acted on an appeal by Wilson Inc licensee of WLBW-TV Miami The hearing the commission said is to determine the facts and circumstances surrounding the acquisition of Coral stock and convertible debentures by Terence Clyne and his transfer of stock to Hy Gardner No date was set for the hearing NAME OF THE GAME NEW SHOW Frn Every week "COURT MARTIAL" IN COLOR This covers Nixon the Republican nominee Humphrey the Democratic candidate and Wallace candidate of the American Independent Party a ninety-minute movie about the high-powered magazine world Gene Barry Tony Franciosa Hobert Stack star i GOP opponents of the measure used parliamentary tactics to delay until next George Jessel (to 8:30) PREMIERE Jessel "roasts and the week's guest of honor Walter Mat-(jfau guests are Joseph i week a final committee vote on sending the bill to the House floor rr.