The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 55

Thursday December 18 1975 THE MIAMI HERALD 11-C ASK Latest of Lear Comedies Fails To Reach His Usual Standards CQMCARE I Sj bettelou FOR NURSING CURE was a realistic and touching story but the names in the book were not used in the TV movie Why did they change the names if it was a true story? LK JACK ANDERSON i (- -j 2 Our professionally supervised staff of nurses aides are avail anytime anywhere 24 hr service 1 751-6280 CBS (Ch 4) brought in Day at a Time" another of its mid-winter replacement comedies Tuesday night an entry as ho-hum as most of the fare surrounding it on network The series is a production out of Norman comedy factory Which ought to make a quality creation but It has the assembly-line look of the work of a producer who is doing too much for too many clients With the premiere on Jan 26 of his comic soap opera "Mary Hartman Mary on PBS (Ch 2) and on Jan 28 on NBC (Chs 7 and 5) Lear will have no less than nine comedies on the air i i vr 1 "A Listen to RICHARD NEY on The Alan Courtney Show WIOD-Radio at9 PM tonight A protect the innocent" as Jack Webb used to say on Name changes are protection against possible legal hassles was a touching TV drama but it was not at all realistic Doris Lund the author of the book from which the movie was adapted was disappointed in the film She also found that it up (he realities of disease too much Franklin is the divorcee Ann Romano McKenzie Phillips is the older daughter Julie Valerie Bertl-nelli is the younger daughter Barbara and Pat Harrington is Dwayne the building superintendent smitten with mother Richard Masur is David steady beau and younger than she is all attractive performers with no discernible direction in which to go or at least no direction any other comedy of its kind already taken that even the best one-liner dialogue is going to make the difference The people and the situations are tiresomely over-familiar and for a Lear comedy it is devoid of any ideas At least Lear cannibalized one of his oldtimer series to create this one This is not one of his be-gats as another of his new ones is on NBC It might have helped if he had spun it out of another CBS KEPT its audience-rating lead again for the week ending Dec 14 with NBC in second place and ABC in third just like the old days It was a 21 for CBS a 174 for NBC and a 171 for ABC CBS also had five of its shows in the top 10 The standings went like this: "All in the was first as usual followed by the Hope (NBC) the Denver (ABC) the Martin (NBC) the Snowman (CBS) (CBS) the Davis (NBC) (CBS) in the repeat (CBS) and (CBS) The network standings for the 12th week of the season had CBS in front with a rating average of 19 NBC second with an 186 and ABC third with a 179 If you have $2000 to invest hoi? many stocks should you own? Can you tell me If Sam Jaf-fee is still living betting he is AD NO PRODUCER however ingenious and crafty can hope to sustain his own high standards with that kind of production schedule feeding a maw as voracious as Day at a is on a par with and resembles in a distaff way and which CBS has just canceled and had a widowed father coping with two teenage sons The new comedy has a grass widow coping with two teenage daughters As usual Lear has cast the comedy with mostly unknowns Bonnie A Collect Veteran actor Jaffe is 84 and rarely acts any more He turned up in the first of this season on NBC-TV He played the husband (and victim) of Janet Leigh in the drama IN THE OPENING episode the older daughter runs away from home because mother let her take off on a camping trip with another girl and two boyfriends While mother is coping with that problem she is fending off the su attentions and trying to convince the other guy they made for each other The possible plot variations seem as constricted as the tiny apartment in which the trio lives and I doubt Richard Ney answers this and other vital questions in MAKING ITINL Till MARKET Richard Low-Risk System for Stock Market Investors $8 95 Tell me about Chief Dan George whom seen in movies and on TV? What tribes does he belong to? RuN TELEVISION- McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY photo by Mel'Lel OWPBT-PBS OWTVJ-CBS WPTV-NBC OWCIX-TV OWCKT-NBC WPEC-TV ABC WLTV UHF CD WCIX-UHF 0 WFCB-TV UHF WKID UHF A Chief Dan George 76 is a hereditary chief of Salish tribe of northwestern North America His family lives on the Burrard Reserve in North Vancouver British Columbia in Canada His son who worked in Canadian TV got him started acting in a TV series "Caribou in 1961 The chief went ta Hollywood to do a Disney movie based on one of the TV episodes He is best known for the role of Old Lodge Skins in the 1970 Dustin Hoffman movie Big BEST BETS Morning Tell me about Johnny Mercer and where I can write to him? Mrs LRC Ay 3 '5 a TV 1 -M I I -O' I -ie 'mu iwmwwpn imi WPLG Movie Special 7:30 pm C0 the first of the and happy news Alistair Sim is Scrooge in this the 1951 British version of Christmas classic Classic Theater 9 pm 0 A little savage wit for the season is also available as PBS brings back George Bernard once-scan-dalous comedy Its shocking days are over but the play will still amuse Lola Falana 10 pm (D Or join singer-dancer-actress Falana in a variety hour shared with guests including Hal Linden and Muhammad Ali Lots of in this one A Lyricist-singer Mercer is 66 and has been ailing He underwent brain surgery in mid-November Georgia-born Mercer was actor-singer first but in 1930 he started writing songs It was 1933 when he met Hoagy Carmichel who had music for a number he called Mercer wrote words and the songs became Mercer worked with most of the best-known composers won Academy Awards in 1946 Topeka and Santa and 1951 the Cool Cool Cool cf the Write him in care of ASCAP 6430 Sunset Blvd Hollywood Calif 90028 Grady A birthdayChristmas surprise is planned for him hut Grady show up Barney Miller Your Future Is Now 0 Song of Solomon Spanish Movie Cantor del Pueblo 2 hrs 8:30 BO Cop and the Kid On the Rocks Gettin' Over Super Show Goya 9:00 Classic Theater See Best Bets Hawaii Five-0 Deranged youth uses lethal nerve gas as weapon of vengeance 1 hr Ellery Queen Mystery writer is killed immediately after winning a writing prize 1 hr Movie Take Sweden" Bob Hope Dina Merrill Tuesday Weld 2 hrs Poor Jack Jones Special Singer Jones in concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra 1 hr Streets of San Francisco Typing MSL wr-: )k Jr CAREER! Andy Griffith All About You Selected Short Subjects 5:45 As the Twig Is Bent Tips on buying Christmas toys for children GUIDANCE AND APTITUDE TESTING 532-4848 Lola Falana Is known as a grenade of a Tonight teamed up with special guest stars MUHAMMAD ALI and HAL LINDEN for a spectacular hour of singing laughter and dancing Special CE110 Evening jOCOOO MIAMI ON FT LAUD RENTAL CARS SCQOO NO MILES From 09 rttk CHARGE OCM MIAMI 633 5237 FT LAUD 763 7908 i 9:30 Dollar Data Pobre Clara 10:00 5:30 University of Florida 6:00 Sunrise Semester Open College Next Generation 6:20 0 New Zoo Revue 6:30 New Zoo Revue Bullwinkle Sunshine Almanac Noticiero Observador 6:45 South Florida Almanac Community Report Job Line Sunshine Almanac 7:00 Skipper Chuck 03) CBS Morning News OS Today Segments include Gene movie reviews 2 hrs Arthur and Company Good Morning America 7:30 AM Miami Elliott Wigginton author of 8:00 Captain Kangaroo 03) Community Close-Up Good Morning America 8:30 OCD Fran Carlton Exercises 9:00 Mike Douglas Co-host: Petula Clark The Temptations Rod McKuen Eddie Lawrence Philadelphia Boys Choir 90 min Mission: Impossible OS) Manna The Big Valley Let's Make a Deal 9:30 OS) 700 Club Truth or Consequences 10:00 OO Celebrity Showoffs Stocks 10:30 New Price Is Right OO Wheel of Fortune Ryan's Hope Bonanza Investment Digest 11:00 OS) Not for Women Only The Edge of Night 11:30 Love of Life OS) On Your Own OO Hollywood Squares Happy Days 6:00 Carrascolendas News 03) Family Affair Entre Brumas Tele-Bingo 6:30 Classic Theater Preview Comments and interviews on News Dream of Jeannie Conversational Spanish 0 Pow Wow Dick Vance 7:00 NEW BARNABY BEST CAPER! Barnaby Jones Medical Story News FALANA! Songs Dance Fun! Ha! Linden Muhammad Ali! i 1:00 i Young and Restless 03) Movie Sailors and a Jane Powell Gordon MacRae 2 hrs Fair Noonday See 12:30 pm Ch 5 Phil Donahue Rich Little 1 hr Ryan's Hope 1:30 As the World Turns QO Days of Our Lives Let's Make a Deal 2:00 $10 COO Pyramid Investment Advice 2:30 Guiding Light OO The Doctors Rhyme and Reason 3:00 All in the Family 03) Three Stooges OO Another World General Hospital Stock Market Today 3:30 New Match Game One Life to Live Investment Roundup 4:00 Misterogers Tattletales Movie Conclusion Earth Is 90 min Fair Mickey Mouse Club Somerset Brady Bunch Edge of Night Q) Magdalena Stock Market Close 4:30 Sesame Street Merv Griffin Dolly Parton Mull Natalie Kenny Rankin 90 min 03) Flintstones Dinah! Rod McKuen Petula Clark Dr Joyce Brothers Norm Crosby 90 mm Adam-12 Gilligan's Island Selected Short Subjects 5:00 OS) I love lucy Ironside Green Acres Bread and Butterflies Sube Pelayo Greyhound Racing 5:15 Ripples 5:30 Electric Company News 03) Bewitched In Recital Guitarist Christopher Parkenmg is featured on works by Bach Villa-Lobos Ravel Debussy and Albeniz Lawrence Welk Truth or Consequences Hogan's Heroes -O News The Night Before Christmas Animated story of the writing of the Christmas poem Visit From St Volunteer Insight Exitos Musicales American Album Let's See the Races 7:30 Charlie Chaplin Charlie is masquerading as nobility again in Jitney America: The Young Experience Little Match Girl" Love American Style Hollywood Squares Movie See Best Bets Jack Benny Money Tree Mundo de Juguete 0 Spring Street USA 8:00 War and Peace forces have finally reached Moscow but the city is deserted 1 hr Lola Falana See Best Bets Antiques 10:30 Best of Groucho Su Futuro Tele-Noche 11:00 000030 News Burke's law 11:30 Movie of -Cliff Gorman Joan Hackett James Brolin Woodrow Chambliss Interesting characterizations in story of classmates gathered for 10-year college reunion Made for TV 90 min Good OO Tonight Show Betty Garrett Steve Allen 90 min Wide World Special A group of 21 persons hires Mannix to probe a suicide Also: Mike winds up the witness to the slaying of a waitress Sunshine Show 12:00 Alfred Hitchcock All-Nite Show Richard Egan Constance Dowling 2 hrs Good Beast of Hollow Guy Madison Patricia Medina 2 hrs Poor Also: Selected short subjects 12:30 Alfred Hitchcock 1:00 Mission: Impossible Night Owl Show OQ Tomorrow Afternoon it 12:00 News OS) Bugs Bunny High Rollers Showoffs 1 The Government defines Vodka as a spirit without distinctive character aroma taste or color 2 Compare the clarity and quality of Whitehall Vodka versus other brands and judge for yourself THE WALTONS OUTWIT BIG CITY SLICKERS! ur 12:30 Search for Tomorrow Noonday Discussion: Beauty 1 hr OSD Duck Duck Goose News All My Children Stocks 3 You will be in clover when you make this comparison as Whitehall is offering a substantial saving on every bottle you buy It should normally sell for over $500 a quart but we are offering it at $399 per quart as an incentive for you to make the test of Whitehall Vodka against your brand The Waltons Adam-12 Movie Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Ann Sheridan 2 hrs Good WHITEHALL DISTILLERS COAUBURNOALE FLA SO PR OOF DISTILLED FROM NEUTRAL CANE SPIRITS I IjLiW 4A BAruiTii.