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I i Some of the programs be seeing in the coming year 1 Ken Howard end Blythe Danner in Rib ABC Fridays 2 David Swift as Napoleon in and Peace PBS 3 Pro football Sundays and Mondays i William Holden four-part movie The Blue Knight NBC and 5 Resident guest star Sammy avis Jr on NBC Follies While the upcoming melodrama may not cause much of a flap in Keokuk or San Jose it is indica- tive of the variety of entertainment heading for TV screens this season Anyone who can discover a trend in it all however ought to try writing fanciful scripts for the networks Because only somebody with a powerful imagination could hope to see a pattern in the welter of shows Superficially 1973-74 is the season of network oops and robbers as current polios and private-eye series get impressive reinforcements in the form of at least a dozen new police shows But if you look at TV from a different angle it appears that 1973-74 is the season of big movies Fair Lady" The Graduate" "Ryan's Daughter" "Planet of the Apes" Those are just a few of the biggies making their debut withe small screen this season Those who thrill to superstars might easily assume that this Is the year of the big-name bonanza as Frank Sinatra Barbra Streisand Katharine Hepburn and John Gielgud line up in the wings with other living legends Sport Surely Howard Cosell-Curt Gowdy types and the roar of the crowd are taking over the screen this season as the sports schedule expands to encompass more events than ever before And for the first time there is a big bonus because of the lifting of die traditional blackout of games within 75 miles of the stadium provided that all tickets are sold three days in advance of the game For theater lovers the season offers bright prospects The Public Broadcasting System will be airing a nine-part adaption of "War and Peace" along with a series of teledramas from the producers of Hollywood Television Theater The networks will be presenting plays by Shakespeare Arthur Miller Tennessee Williams and Clifford Odets plus original dramas on contemporary sub-fects News departments are ready to take on the world with promises of bigger and better coverage and lots of emphasis on specials Among the subjects owning up: Arab terrorists international money speculators the high cost of college black America American businessmen and -consumer protection-- But no matter how you look at TV it is diffi cult to find anything new on the children's screen The lineup of PBS children's programs remains! unchanged from the past season As for the ret-' works they are offering 15 new half-hour shows for what Variety calls the Saturday morning "lddvid ghetto" Fourteen of them are cartoons described by Variety's Bill Greeley as "cheap cheap cheap" Acclaimed as the most refreshing new addition is the single live show NBCs "Sigmund and the Monsters" Children's specials include a number of new Charlie Brown programs and other cartoons The big 1973-74 TV dinner msy appear exciting for a number of reasons depending on your tastes Maybe a fan of Diana Rigg who stars in her own series this season "The Diana Rigg Show" on NBC Perhaps nobody makes you laugh like Dom DeLuise star of the new Luck" series on NBC possible that you have a thing for shows derived from movies: "Bob Carol ft Ted ft Alice on ABC starting Wednesday or "Love Story" on NBC starting Oct 3 But beyond network situation comedies and other TV fare Long Islanders have special reason to or at least be interested The debut of Ch 67 should arouse the curiosity of even the most-jaded palates David Pollinger president of the station said that 60 to 70 per cent of the programming will originate in new studios built at the Intersection of the Long Island Expressway and Veterans Memorial Highway in Central Ialip Like Long Island's noncommercial Ch 21 in Garden City the new station is on UHF (ultra high frequency) rather than VHF (very high frequency) which is used by almost all commercial stations It will mean further educating' viewers to the use of the UHF dial but Pollinger thinks that is not a major problem He said the station's concentration on Long Is-and issues and interests is aomothing that the Mg New York stations with a mass-audience proach cannot compete with "I view New York as competition" he said The signal will reach all of Nassau and Suffolk Counties with the exception of the extreme i East -End and will penetrate part of Connecticut Continued on Page 36 A) jb Last of a series By heo Sellgsohn For the 1973-74 TV season lode forward to meeting widow Samantha Fairchild who with her daughter Priscilla 22 and son Richard 12 has Just moved to Oyster Bay from Santa Barbara Calif The Fairchilds are living temporarily with Sa- mantha's sister Margaret Atherton and her husband Ralph an accountant who commutes to work on the Dbng Island Railroad Somebody for reasons that cannot be revealed is trying to keep Samantha and her family from moving permanently into Oyster Bay! S' Long Island soap opera one of senes of new ideas turning up on TV screens this season Called "The the show is the brainchild of WSNL (Ch 67) scheduled to become Long hr first commercial TV station when it goes on the air early in November Aimed at Long Islanders "The will be the only soap opera' in the country produced by art independent station i aaoordtng to WSNL.