The Wichita Beacon from Wichita, Kansas • 112

BY DOROTHY WOOD BEACON TV WRITER Dr Kildare--Simple Dramatic' Strong Young Doctor Kildare the fellow- who years ago started all these television medical shows will be back on the air next fall younger than ever coping with medicine and people and being taught and bullied by a new Doctor Gillespie And in the background bringing the doctors and their work to life is an enthusiastic producer Joseph Gantman who once wanted to be a doctor himself I was very young and know any better I actually went through pre-med in Gantman said from his offices at MGM Television in Culver (Sty Calif where the new series will be filmed starting in June It will be on prime time beginning in September "I often thank the Lord I go on with it a really brutal profession tough on Gantman who has produced such shows as Mission: Impossible and Hawaii Five-O is eagerly explaining that the new Young Doctor Kildare will be different from other medical shows When Kildare left television screens about five years ago he had worked his way up the medical ladder to a residency -with a certain amount of professional skill Gantman is sending him back to an internship many of the medical shows have doctors who are older all able and expert I decided rather go back with a young doctor who is facing medical problems tor the fust THE STORIES will focus on basically human problems instead of going into exotic medical situations The pilot for instance is about a little girl who has lockjaw a very simple Gantman said It deals not Just with the illness but with the human relationship between the child and her mother wlxr has overlooked giving the girl the attention she needed mother is a marvelous character We were able to build her up into a part good enough and strong enough that it appealed to Clans (Miss Leachman who plays the mother Just won an oscar tor her performance in Last Picture the kind of story we plan to do simple but dramatic and And Gantman is of course enthusiastic about his two principal actors (whom he selected himself Mark Jenkins who plays Dr Kildare and Gary Merrill who is Dr Gillespie on the new half-hour series been talking to everyone about Mark: I'd like to tell you about Gary he said Merrill is JOSEPH GANTMAN formidable or moody but warm with nh a sharp wit I never realized until I started working with him what a great person he GANTMAN HAS WORKED with many of the best actors One of them was Charles Chaplin but he even try to see the comedian when Chsplin came to the United States last month just that dose to Gantman said The brief association came when Gantman was very young and just out of the service after World War IL He joined the Circle Theater a small innovative group in Los Angeles son Sydney was a member and another sob Charlie did some work with them Chaplin after his regular work was ended would' come down and work with the youngsters was amazing be at It from 8 to three or four in the morning and when the rest of us were exhausted he never stopped The word is thrown around a lot but really' almost inadequate to describe Charles From the Circle Theater Gantman went to the Yale University School of Drama I had this wild Idea that I wanted to be a He came out realizing that teaching for him CBS hired him as an intern to their talent development program and Joe Gantman has been producing television shows ever since INDEX IS 20 22 Wkkrti WkMta WkMta Wldta rtat BanS Taka Sapariar HaaHma Taka Amiga Hay PHhWri Stations Listed Eff ABC ivc I NBC ABC I NBC I Eli ABC CBS ABC NBC I ABC NBC NBC i ABC ABC CBS NBC CBS NET ABC ABC CBS ABC CAS NBC KAED NETS KAKE KTVH KCKT KTEW KHTL KHAS KOTV KTVC KAYS KOAM KOAM KOMC KTUL KLOI KGLD KOLN KTWU KODE WIBW KUPK KUMI KTSS TWaa Sunday Logs 6 Friday Logs Monday Logs 10 Saturday Logs Tuesday Logs 12 Daytime Logs Wednesday Logs 14 TVTeaser 4 Thursday Logs 16 Sports on TV 5 Program listings in TV Week are provided by tiie stations which reserve' the right to change their schedules at any time Consult daily Wichita Eagle or The Beacon for ast-minute changes and Page 2A of the' Sunday Eagle -and Beacon for changes made after TV Week has -jfoneto press Pag 2 City UacalB Wichita Japtt arSn Cit Japlin All listing! tre Daylight Saving Two Stan () Indicate an Advertisement TV Watk.