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a monthly look at the world-wide black community World Press a weekly roundup of commentary on major international events Misterogers and Sesame Street the award-winning programs and Book Beat featuring weekly interviews with contemporary authors New Series Exciting Diverse Sprinkled between these returning prime time series will be an interesting variety of new show's of relevant and contemporary nature Realities a series ranging the concerns of mankind will replace the highly acclaimed NET Journal of previous seasons The series will deal with subjects from politics and the humanities to the arts and physical sciences in a variety of film styles The program which will debut at 8 Monday w'ill open with a divergent look at sex education Other Realities programs will include a profile of Christy Browm Irish poet painter and author a look at the relationship of some banks with slum housing and companies New an examination of changing racial relationships and Business of an investigation into the world of professional athletics its commercialism violence and popularity Our Vanishing Wilderness which will be telecast at 7:30 Sundays will offer a comprehensive filmed account of how Americans are endangering their welfare by destroying the natural environment Created by naturalists Shelly and Mary Louise Grossman and John Hamlet Our Vanishing Wilderness w'ill be based on six study in the American wilderness and will present evidence of destruction from the Everglades to the Alaskan Angeles Times as host the series will offer various performers and their music The first program will be in the featuring Mundell big band sound Other programs will include musical performances by John Hartford Doc Watson the Mitchell-Ruff Duo the Bill Evans and Ilowlett Smith trios and the Gariy Burton quartet Ranging from barrelhouse blues to classical guitars the music of the Middle Ages to a radio play of the Thirties Homewood will provide a wide range of musical background knowledge Flick-Out a new' film series premiering at 9:30 Monday will serve as a showcase for the visu-- al works of new filmmakers Presenting innovative films along wdth statements by the filmmakers the series will feature films rang'ing from social commentary to visual abstraction San Francisco Mix which will make its PBS debut at 9 Tuesday will study people and the way they live through a variety of visual techniques including animation and film collage documentary and still photography color video recording and Videospace techniques The opening Tuesday night program will be built around the themes of coming together in greeting in marriage in a country fair in a blood bank and in a Synanon game Subsequent shows will include looks at such basic human activities as playing eating running sleeping dancing worshiping dressing dying courting and laughing and crying Fanfare a NET-produced series like will offer a series of programs for every musical taste from opera to acid rock from ballet to bluegrass Highlights of the series which will debut at 9 Sunday October 11 will include: Rock performances by The Jefferson Airplane Santana and The Grateful Dead Folk country and blues music by Earl Scruggs Joan Baez "Bob Dylan Oscar Brand and King Operatic productions of The Abduction from the of and and Ballet productions by the National Ballet of Canada in a new version of Lake" and appearances by the Alvin Ailey and Paul Tayler dance troupes Kukla Fran and Ollie a series which will see the return of Burr Kuklapolitan Players to videoland has also been added to this season's list of new PBS programs With the cast of 20 years ago unchanged Kukla Fran and Ollie will debut at 7 Sundav October 11 The Nader Report which will feature Ralph Nader his and other consumer advocates will investigate deceptive advertising pesticides food additives pollution and public interest law Originally scheduled to debut at 8:30 Wednesday the series will not premiere until November due to production difficulties Another show Politics '70 will be aired in the Wednesday night time period At midseason both The Nader Report and Civilisation will replaced by Wednesday Night a magazine format show similar to commercial 60 Minutes and First Tuesday In addition to its regularly scheduled series the PBS network this season will continue its special coverage of major news stories And as in the past Presidential speeches Senate hearings hearings by special commissions and sessions of the United Nations will be televised and analyzed by PBS experts Thus entering another season of television American public television promises to offer a more colorful and broadened spectrum of informative entertaining and provocative programing rarely presented by any other video source Public Television Is Off to Colorful Start With Impressive Program Schedule By The Television Editor The new fall season for non-commercial public television will begin Monday on KCSD-TV channel 19 and KTWU-TV channel 11 when the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) begins operation as the public television network Replacing NET (National Educational Television) which will now serve solely as a program production unit PBS through its connection of public TV stations will offer a diversified programing throughout the next nine months Although the PBS fall season does not begin officially until Monday KCSD and KTWU will offer two specials tonight A special Three Magical with Shari Lewis as hostess will take young viewers on an hour-long fantasy trip into the world of classic heroes The program will be telecast at 7 and is the first of several specials scheduled for this season At 9 the stations will present Unicorn The Gorgon and the Gian Carlo madrigal-ballet recounting the story of a strange man in a castle who yawns at town meetings shuns the parties and refuses to go to church on Sundays (The other specials to be aired on PBS at a later date this season are: and the the ageless musical classic for children which will be narrated by Cyril Ritchard and feature the choreography of Jacques as performed by the New York City Ballet Boy and the Turtle" an adventure drama filmed on location in the rugged Yucatan peninsula which featuring Gilbert Roland and Katy Jurado will explore the adventures of a 12-year-old Mexican boy who becomes friends with a giant sea turtle and a fantasy version of evolution as dramatized by the Paper Bag Players) Many Series Return Most of the PBS series of previous seasons will be returning this vear One of the returning shows will be The Advocates which will enter its second season of questions cross-fire and hot debate A Peabodv award-winning show The Advocates will examine subjects ranging from draft dodgers to the use of drugs in sports to federal support of private schools The program will be aired every Tuesday at 8 Also returning to PBS this season will be NET Playhouse which in past years has offered an impressive selection of dramatic comedy and satirical productions Soul which debuted last season and will again offer a wide range of black entertainers writers and artists The French Chef which features Julia Child doing her campy chatter-cooking thing in the kitchen Black Journal which will offer The Black Frontier which has been produced by the University of noncommercial television station will be telecast as a series of four hour- long Accurately portraying the role of black men and women in opening up the Great Plains The Black Frontier will study black fur traders and explorers who broke the trails beyond the Mississippi black cowboys and the former slaves who went west to seek new lives after the Civl war William Marshall will serve as host-narrator and actors appearing in the series will include Rafer Johnson Olympic Decathalon winner Lincoln Kilpatrick Ford Clay and Virgil Fry Civilisation a 13-week series written and narrated by Lord Kenneth Clark for the British Broadcasting Corporation will offer an assessment of the ideas and events which have shaped the last 1600 years The series filmed in Europe and the United States ill span time from the fall of Rome and the beginning of the Dark Ages to a period w'hen again future of civilization does not look very Presented by PBS under a grant from the Xerox corporation Civilisation will be telecast at 7:30 Wednesdays and repeated at 8 the follow'-ing Sunday Homewood a gallery of the performing arts will make its PBS debut at 9 Wednesday With Charles Champlin entertainment editor of the Los.