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Ion I II r. wi vr: i'-ul Mona.sh li. ri It to wnfe out Paul (Ix'she llHrnng- toa) and sent him a Ir'trr fo that effort. Rut he forgot to tell the legal department. who sent Langton a new contract The who figured Monash had changed his mind, siped the contract.

And so back in the series, temporarily The guest star policy may bring a part to Joanna Ryan wife There is increasing talk of the show going five-a- week. Monach and most of the actors are fighting this, the network (ABC) has the last say and they may insist it. Show Is Bonanza For Real Indians HOLLYWOOD Warner series for ABC is proving a windfall for Indian extras in Hollywood as it is the only TV show in which groups of Indians will appear regularly. A redskin tribe figures prominently in the frontier plot. Only about 25 real Indians w'ho look Indian are registered with the Screen Extras Guild and the studio plans to use these teepee natives whenever suitable, tefore calling in Mexicans and Hawaiians who portray Indians.

stars Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, Ken Berry and Melody Patterson. THE PALACE -Bing Crosby will be the first guest host for a color series this season, at 8:30 p.m. Saturdays on Ch. 12. Crosby will host seven other show's during the season.

LOTS CUT OUT NEW YORK Allen Funt discards enough footage on "Candid to make six full-length feature films each year, in selecting the best material for his NOW! MOTOROLA RECTANGULAR COLOR TV in a compact cabinet! Cabinet is so compact it could fit inside this Motorola round-tube Color TV cabinet space to spare Vo More Movies For HOLLYWOOD Robert Culp looked back five years. Three years as the star of the; television series Trackdown hadj put him in the "hot 1 category. It was time, hei thought, to make his move intoj feature motion pictures. That he did, announcing "No more and playing roles in three films, "PT and "Sunday in New What the films did for his ca- jreer, Culp now sadly regrets. "They did absolutely he lamented.

I should have saved my breath and made $500,000 doing another television scries. no place in movies today for someone like myself. I discovered that in the category. When they cast important films today, they give the top role to veteran stars like Frank Sinatra or John Wayne or Burt Lancaster and surround them with young people like Tommy Sands and Franlde It is the Robert Culp is returning to home screens this fall in "I an adventiire-comedy series debuting Sept. 15.

The premiere show of the series, with outdoor locations filmed in Hong Kong, Japan and Mexico, is a script Culp wrote. He has since written five other shows. What Robert Culp learned playing roles in three motion pictures he says he is now applying to his secwid TV series. Culp calls w'hat he learned and he believes it is the most important factor in an continuing success in show' business. "I was trained for he explains, "but once they started paying me to act, I I get a comedy role.

So I wTotc a television idea for myself and took it to Carl Reiner. It was about a government intelligence agent, fed up with his job, working as a teacher in a military academy for boys. To the boys he was a dope. It combined high adventure with family situation comedy. "Carl loved the idea and took me to see Sheldon Leonard, who was concerned about supporting the idea every week.

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PE 4-4251 402 CA 7-7278 111 S. Uono St. CA 6-5306 And thanks to Culp and his ideas about "prtiduct role will be as important as That was the idea in the beginning, Then writers fell into the old rut of losing Cosby in the woodwork, or as Culp described it, "making him the monolith in the With that Culp wrote some scripts, cutting the pattern for equal shares. "I be happy with him just in the he says. "When a team, it has got to be a team.

I predict big stardom for Bill. a natural. Because we are now a team becau.se of Bill finding it exciting to go to the studio Sweet Revenge For Roger Smith HOIXYWOOn Roger Smith is getting a piece of I sweet revenge now that he is I starring on NBC-TV as "Mr. 1 I When the movie version of I the Broadway hit was being filmed in Hawaii, Smith was on vacation there and became friendly with James Cagney, who played the captain in the movie. Cagney suggested Roger for a role in the film, but Smith was turned down for a strange reason.

told me I was too tanned to play a sailor and not tan enough to play a Rainmaker HOLLYWOOD When Robert Preston arrived in Dallas to start the fourth of his six "This Proud specials, Texans told him it rained for a month. "It he promised. It did. Even in the drought-stricken East, it rained whenever he shot outdoors. Box score since production began in Boston on June 2: 21 wet days out of 23 days shooting outdoors.

Television Hits Carry No Weight In Show Business HOLLYWOOD "Television ic lieutenant of the cargo ship is a popularity contest the The Reluctant with its reluctant- popularity is a whim of station Tor-combat of laugh get- tuning. To be successful in tele-Ters. vision means nothing in realj The idea of Smith thinking of show business where you must'giving up show business sound- pay to see a ed incredible. Roger Smith talking. For five years handsome Rog- Roger Smith admitting he er was one of top favorites learned this truth the hard way.

as the star of the popular "77 that he had to "fight my way Sunset When the strenu- back from a point where I had ous series ended, he took a six- almost decided to give up act- month vacation "happy not to I be His fight back paid off this; Then, eager for movies he season witb another Tv series, playing the title role uiM.uvwy "Mr. based on i Populanty. movie, which debuts Sept. 17 on he tells you, NBC-TV. Roger plays the I had made an impact on ithe public but not on the 20 or jso people who run the movie i business.

Their reaction to my five years on TV was, what? never proved yourself as a ticket "Really, I get arrested. I realize my posi- jtion because things came so leasy for me when I first ar- I rived in Hollywood. I signed a Itwo-week contract and it lasted i eight years. I thought, is I'd cinch But it 'You can fall as fast as you rise. I one point I debated wheth- ier to continue as an actor or to I become a professional pilot, a duster.

The job pays well and I had learned to fly. I had spent almost a year out of work. But I shake show business and I accepted the challenge of fighting my way Things started to happen when Roger landed the lead in a road company of "Sunday in New Then he worked up a night club act. which he debuted at a small dub 10 miles outside of Milwaukee. "I had sung and played the guitar before, but never professionally.

Well, this act changed everything for me. To be in show bu.siness I discovered you have to work at it. what I did playing the hungry in San Francisco, even playing in Mexico City, where I did the whole show in Spanish. During seven months in night clubs, I made more than I did in a year of Mr. Roberts will be seen on the same night (Friday) and in the same spot once occupied by his early 77 Sun.set Strip hit.

"A good he smiles. H0LLV5A00D Ma.w^ell Smjirt is a buniiiing espionage agent Secret 88 who works for CONTROL in "its ceaseless conflict with the nefarious agents of KAOS Smart is aided by a feminine assistant Secret Agent 99 and Fang, a dog. The dog IS as cowardly as Smart is incredibly inept. Like James Bond. Smart lives in a world of unreality created by CONTROL.

A tiny telephone, hidden in the heel of his shoe, rings at the strangest times. While, for instance, he is attending a symphony concert. The heavies of KAOS are as incredible as Smart is inept. Sinister Mr. Big of KAOS is a midget.

Another villain confronted by zealous inefficiency is a ballet sUir. Among Secret Agent big collection of deadly weapons is a gun silencer (which produces the roiir of a cannon) and an invisible shield which he seldom can locale lic- cause it is invisible even to him. Comedian Don plays ibe role of Maxwell Smart in new weekly series, Get Smart, debuting Sept. 18. Last year Don played Gliek, the worst house detective, on The Bill Dana Show.

The creator of Get Smart is Mel Brooks (with Buck Henry), one-time comedy writer (five years) for Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. also the writer, with Carl Reiner, of the 2000 Year Old Man, which he plays, in the hit comedy album. Get Smart is by NBC as "a of cloak and dagger It is closer, howewr, to being an outrageous triple spoof. Since the first James Bond movie. Agent heroics have i i)een cloaked in satire.

A satire on this satire has lieen the key to the success of The Man From U.N.C.L.K., staiTing Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo. Now Get Smart will spoof lK)th Bond as 007 and Vaughn as Solo. Is it possible to successfully spoof a spoof of a spoof? Creator Mel Brooks th is. He says: "We are simply translating the James Bond hitoi our terms in adventure comedy. We hope to become dessert for laughs.

not going to edify or illuminate. Our character of Smart is so overearnest I think maybe hei will be compared to Harold Lloyd in his early comedies. not just tongue-in- cheek. We jam our tongue in cheek. We spent four months writing the original script.

We gave it the same care Tolstoi gave Anna Karenina. Get Smart as massive a work as Anna Karenina, grins Mel, Of all the new fall shows. Get Smart is the mo.st-talked about in Hollywood TV circles these days. A cinch hit is the verdict. Mel Brooks worried about this, either.

"Living up to a preseason prediction can be he admits, "but not worried. fat. got bread for a year, at thinks it One of Seven HOLLYWOOD Tommy Norden, who plays Bud on is one of seven children, ranging from 4 to 17, all actors. Recently Tommy and his mother made a trip to New York, leaving the other children at their home in Florida. But the children are such heavy sleepers the only way Mrs.

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