Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 65

TODAY'S TELEVISION PROGRAM Family Comedy Small Fry Marge and Jeff: Marge Green and Jess Cain George Burns and Giacie Allen I Love Lucy: Lucille Ball Desl Arnez Mystery Jo Coppola Says: Life With Ugh! It must be the wise md liinbe non-existent television scriptwriter who knows his own father considering the rude balloon-headed old women that pass for fathers in the medium One Kicke) Ricardo outwitted by one Mrs Ricardo every Monday night is par for the comse at far as concerned But the Queen Bee community inhabited by the Erwins Rileys Nlc-Nutlcys Divs Coopers and Ovic and Harriet is getting terrible monotonous In these gay (father usual) breaks his leg while the studio audience rocks with laughter) mad (father loses his mind while-) on know -u hal doev-what) yarns about marital bliss fallur is a goose And I know if this unhealthy propaganda being spread too thick Marriage counselors point out that wedded bliss is a 30-30 proposition In the television the odds are closer to 95-5 in tavor of mother while the foe pciccntcr is usually a little shaver known as Junior father is left holding the hag (I don't mean mother) I know where but I once read an article in nlncli experts blamed the Alms for eontrilniting to disillusioned marriages among young couples These lialcnny hand-holders were firmly convinced on the evidence recreated endlessly in motion pictures that marriage was a mixture of romance and laughter with nary a diaper or electric light bill to dampen the atmosphere Considering that the word pregnant" was talxxi in niosie scripts diapers and (rabies must base come as a terrible shock to a hit ol wives a couple of generations ago Merry Mailman: Ray Henthrriun Gabby Hayes Show: Stones Howdy Doody: Puppet Star Magic Cottage: Pat Meikle News John Daly Douglas Edwards John Cameron Swayze John McCaffrey Barry Gray Allan Jackson Discussion left's Take Sides: Bob Cnnsldlne moderator Big Tsioie: "la Co-Kxistence Wit) Possible?" Answers for Americans: "Wlmt's Wrong With Our American Foreign Policy 7" Avereli News-O-Rama: Columbia Panel Keep Up To Date: Dr Robert Goidem-on of Hunter ho-t Chmnotr'tine: Chnrlcs Siigh NAM President guest Video Quiz Name That Tune: Red Benson with Margaret Truman guest Twenty Questions: Jay Jackson Orient Express: Racket -Sound: Reed Hadley Drama Jemie: Brandon DeWilde Ernest Truex Pollv Rowies Broadway TV Theoter: "Kind lvia Sidney Robert Montgomery Presents: "Soprano and Piccolo Player" Francis Sullivan Studio One Art Carney in George Axelrod's "Confessions of a Nervous Man" Adolphe Menjou's Favorite Story Mono-Drama "Sixth Jack Manning Screen Steps Out" David Bruce Sex" Lilli Piamer Dragons" Bela Lugosi Was a Barton Mac-lainr- Oito Kruger "Whispering Paul Luka Helmut Twniini' "Cond'-ntTV-d to Ralph Morgan MUr-ha Auer "Bridge of Sighs" Jack LaRue Onslow Sr evens "Hearts in Bondage" James Dunn "Piiisbmg Kid" Billy Conn Tean Pn-kt-r "Freddie Steps Freddie i wori of the Big House" Lynne Rub-rut Sports Today Boxing: Ft eddy Herman vs Brian Kelly Tomorrow Wrcviing: St Nick Arena Variety Fnve Emerson and Skitrh Henderson conduct interviews Gloria deHaven Show Ail hoc Murray Party: Dalil guest Como ShoA Arthur Godfrey Scouts Vo of Silver Anniver-sniy Show: Eleanor Steber Rise Stevens Jerom Hines Robert Roun-evilie Brian Sullivan Tiimrin I Thomas Red Buttons Show: Pearl Bailey guest New York TV Auditions: Talent show with Huy I-Bow Stove Show Here's Morgan: Hensy Morgan HI HI TV rhsniwl SHI -TV han't VVAHT hamifl I Hull thanurl HI I hannrl I writ I hmm-1 HMH It hwinrl VTY IbMnri (0) (4) (4) (5) 7:15 7:30 7:45 11:00 11:15 (7) 1 2) i4 4 5) (2) 7:00 (4) 8:30 (5) 9:00 7 an 10:30 7 11:00 (2 800 at (5) 6:30 (41 7 Oil 30 7 4) 7:43 (2 2) '4) 6 30 i2) (11) 11 -20 11:30 5 00 (4) (7) (2) 4) (5) (6) t7) (9) (11) 1 13l (4) (7) (6) 5:30 (4) (6) (13) (11) (2) (5) (11) (2) (4) (5) 515 8:45 5:55 6:00 (7) (9) (11) (13) (2) 2) (2) (7) (6) (4) 5) (6) 7) (13) (7) 6:05 6:10 6:15 6:30 6:35 6:40 6:45 (4 (6) (7) (4) (5) 6) (7) an (13) (11) (7) (5) 7 (11) (9) (9) (11) (2) 14) 7:00 7:10 7:15 7:20 7:25 7:30 5:00 5:15 5:30 6:00 The lv'tli announcement was nid is usually hmJled in tin's 1 fashion in films: Wife Darling 1 luvi Miinctlimg to tell sou Husband (looking up from the newspaper I What? Wife: (holds up knitting) No dialogue Husband tollap-as her arms I once knew a woman who aftei seeing this routine scene )cirs ago at a very )Oimg age was convinced that the lmkmd collipw'J became he discovered that the wife had knitted him a pair of socks three sies too small and Winter was coming on later she found out differently Well these days as Kinsey says tilings are a lot different hut still the family situation comedies on television have no relation whatsoever to real life (1 am not petitioning for reality either because a couple of dozen realistic television programs cut horn the same cloth would put me to sleep too) T1IK trouble with the present situation is 1 think the influx of oor 1 imitations of I Lose Lucy There is a good deal of liumor to be milked from situations arising out of the feminine saying: chased me until I caught But while 1 found Lucy hilarious back in 1951 1 must admit that I laugh less often lately More and more family eennedies are coming to the medium Pride of the Family starring Fanl Hartman and Fay Wray as his wife is another synthetic and mediocre program filled with slapstick and trite situations My Favorite Husband based on Isabel Scott and Mrs scries which was later made into a movie is somewhat better but the humor is heavy-handed and the situations labored Joan Caulfield is the good-looking wife and Barry Nelson is the stupid husband last time I looked in a friend was advising the wife: "Mjyle lie (Fd note: husband Nelson) was a man when you married him but sou's worked hard on him for five years and now only a Uven when the industry gets its hands on superior material the end result rotten Life With Father came into being as Clarence Day recollections of a warm humorous tum-of-thc-century family dominated by a sincere 'but warmly despotic father The Day family gained immortality in the Vcw Yorker books as a record-breaking Late Matinee Atom Squad Saddle Scout Meet the Star TV Newspaper Merry Mailman Dance Time Junior Frolic Gabby Hayes Bar i Ranch Fun Dancing Howdy Doody Fun Time Kartoon Klub New Revue Toy Show News News Superman Magic Cottage What One Person Can Do Rootie Kazootle Theater Film Western News Feature Sports TheEarly Show Jolly Gene Variety Club Faye and Skltch Sense or Nonsense Sporls Ann Rutherford Weather Les Paul A Mary Ford News News Bob and Ray Let's Take Sides Captain Video Film Gloria deHaven News Film Weatherman Weather Marge and Jeff John Daly Jimmy Power Bionngg News News Rain or Shine Arthur Murray Party News Weather Girl Eddie Fisher Jamie B'way TV Theater First Show Newa Business Report News: Swayze You Can Do It Too Perry Como Burn and Allen Name That Tun Twenty Queatlona Sky King Mis Television Talent Scouts Voice of Firestone Lurme Tuttle and Leon Ames "Life With TUESDAY BEFORE 5 Today Give lT This Day New Laugh Tim Kovacs Margaret Allen What You Eat Morey Amsterdam Yankee Peddlers Be My Guest News News Arthur Godfrey Ding Dong School Film Glamour Girl Window Shopper Chapel News Weather Broadway play fashioned by Howard Iinday and Ruvsel Crouse and as a motion picture Father Day- came to television (CBS-TV Sunday 7 PM) and 1 fear the end is here In an inept implausible and routine script he emerges as a rude humbling arrogant man completely devoid of the warmth and humor Mrs Dav is no longer spirited and understanding As played by Lurenc luttle completely miscast in the role she is sort of a coquettish ingenue Leon Ames as the father might not be too bad in a ecnpt that stuck to the ong Fletcher Nlarkle who once produced Studio One performs the same chore on this fiasco which originates from the coast Lindsav and Crouse are listed as "editorial If they caught the fir't show 1 hope they start giving out advice real fit Because father Day may be immortal elsewhere but television is liable to wnte his obtuuv (2) (5) (6) (7) (9) (11) 7:35 (5) 7:40 (5) 7:45 (4) (6) 5 (2) 2) (4) 6) (5) (7) (13) (2) (4) (6) 61 Monday November 30 1953.