The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 106

To aid volley feeviewers Jko fee is roooiog hit tthedvlo iho principal prime-fine sfcowi cw lfc network Hatieng Fiction' KICU Hikes Effective Power are not complete but based on engineering data filed with the Federal Communications Commission KICU is transmitting a class A signal from Bakersfield to Merced The new equipment is part of the $250000 expansion program launched in July when a complete new program schedule was? started Newcomer NEW Y01K Beverlee Mc-' Kinsey whov understudied the lead in "Any on Broadway has taken over the new role of Diana Martin on "Love of weekday drama series on the CBS television KICU-TV 43 has begun oper- atkm of a new transmitter and antenna which provide 2130-000 watts of effective radiated power The new facilities make Channel 43 the most powerful station west of the Mississippi and second powerful in the United Stales Final testing and adjusting MuI( Offer HOLLYWOOD Ciany the is mulling tvera gold platbd offer from CBS tbbc-st a coast to ccast Sunday radio show Before Bob scored in he was Lee most popular "merning On KNX (CBS) for nine years KEN IRWIN i OWNERS AND Trek' Is By Charles Witbeck HOLLYWOOD A 400-man space ship the USS Enterprise trill cruise the TV universe on Thursday nights this fall in expensive full-hour science-fiction adventures series about puny man exploring thewild blue yonder Starring the talented Canadian actor William Sha trier as' space ship commander Kirkas- sisted by brainy'glfeared ML Spook (Leonard Nimoy) Trek" goes back and forth in time Jousting with alien spirits bewildering dinary human conflict a- never-ending trip to other worlds NBC hopes the science-fiction plots will not seem never ending and lays stress on the solid adventure approach not going to he like" the children's show in where characters battle villains in eerie said star Shatner coming back to earth on a lunch break deal with human conflicts against a science-fiction Using a Jekyl and Hyde plot In one episode Captain Kirk becomes two men as be battles against his vicious animal self which is about to take over and destroy the great ship Another show finds the space adventurers stricken by an insidious virus which eats away will Poor Mr Spock who is half Vulcanian (from the planet 1 a i s) and thus trained to control his feelings becomes a victim and undergoes a raging battle with himself fighting emotional displays which include crying scenes 8 TV THE FRESNO BEE Sunday September Jl J96S i 'Adult Science Other stories focus on outer space Inhabitants who are ab ways called aliens in this strange science-fiction TV world Them are alien ships which lock the Enterprise in space forcing It to bang motionless and all sorts of alien weapons designed to keep the local boys on their toes The earth-in en have a few dandy tools and gadgets on display all calculated to the fancy of young viewers Captain Kirk and crew make excellent use of laser beam -'itfhs Jolting ecemie the gsizzlf ol 'cutting ghtThey Jisteh ana understand 'various alien languages by way of walkie-talkie interpreters that translate foreign words in a' tflit second "You know a corporation is working on exactly the same a walkie-talkie interpreter" Shatner said the point of our science-'fiction projections into the future based on what is possible Judging from Shatner descriptions "Star appears to be one step up from "Lost in and "Voyage to the Bottom of the in the way of adult entertainment it is Sudsy Rolf Cicely Tyson who plays the feminine lead in the Sammy Davis Jr movie Man Called and who starred in the Broadway production Tiger Burning has taken a featured role as a registered nurse on "The Guiding a CBS television rt-work weekday soap opera and I BAXTER WATKIKS TECHNICIANS "Twilight decked out in the razzle-dazzle of space unR' forms brilliantly lighted control boards handsome hued space food and special effects visual gimmicks proven winners borrowed from Irwin adventure bits on modern man in the air and under watery i 'Air expensive series to begin with mus run two or more years in order to' recoup the original investment for co-owners Desilu Studios: and NBC Creator-producer Gene Koddenberry formerly with Gun Win Dick Powell and "The spent a pile malting a high class pilot only to have the network ask for another NBC wanted more adventure in show and they worried about the continuance of the high production standard -Koddenberry then made second pilot this time with star Shatner and It broke a Desilu jinx being the tint studio pi- lot: to find acceptance After turning out comedy pilots by the dozen only to fail Desilu president Lucille Ball has at last struck pay dirt with a big budget adventures series Competing against Three and Thursday nights is expected to more than hold its own Star William Shatner Jknowa-w for his Broadway roles and Shakespearian performances boldly goes all out in plugging his first Hollywood TV series he asserts "is going to be the best show on the tv DMrltwM by Kin FMmt 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