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rA the new mcirvin hitman houiOO First run TV Movie not ratal unlau screened In advance Tues Morning if spinoff spins out Series reviewed are rated by the Kit-man Antenna System (Pat Pending): zero to four antennas "Tbe Jeff Breads" Starring Sherman Hemsley as George Jefferson Isabel San Ibid as Louise Jefferson Mike Evans as Lionel Jefferson Paul Benedict as Harry Bentley Ch 2 Saturdays 8:30 PM 1:30 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES bgrsnacresl MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY NEW 200 REVUE AMERICA (3 ROMPER ROOM 10:00 WILD CELEBRITY SWEEPSTAKES PETTICOAT JUNCTION DtAUNGFORDOLLARSL ROMPER ROOM I MAGIC GARDEN (B STORIES WITHOUT WORDS CD ART CORNER 8 PHIL DONAHUE 10:19 fS STEPPING INTO RHYTHM 10:20 ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS 1030 GAMUT WHKL OF FORTUNE MOTHERS-IN-LAW AM NEW YORK BACHELOR FATHBL BREAD AND BUTTERFLEE -B PICTURE BOOK PARK 10:45 ALL ABOUT YOU EXPLORERS UNLIMITED 11-00 NOW YOU SEE IT HIGH ROLLERS I LOVE LUCY PASSWORD ALL STARS STRAIGHT TALK BGETSMART IMAGES AND THINGS OTHER FAMILIES OTHER FRIBiDSL MOVIE WARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (Drama 1946V A domineering 1901 Century French mother tightens har hold on her son by involving hint with their ambitious maid 11:19 PRIMARY ART 11:21 COMPARATIVE GEOGRAPHY 11:31 LOVEOFUFESariaL HOLLYWOOD SQUARESL MIDOAY LIVE (90 min) bbbradybunch ABBOTT AND COSTELLO VILLA ALEGRE 11:41 YOUNG AFRICANS 11:55 NEWS Edwards MO a GIVE US THS DAY TOBEANNOUNCEDL MS SUNRISE SEMESTER CHALLENGE KNOWLEDGE MAKING IT COUNT LISTEN AND LEARN EIGHTH DAY 7:90 0 NEWS Rudd TODAY UNDERDOG Cartoons AMAMERICA IDREAM OFJEANNIL (D NEWSl (D YOGA FOR HEALTH 1:90 THEFUNTSTONES NEW ZOO REVUE NEWS (D TIMMY AND LASSIE (D MMAN RELATIONS AND SCHOOL DISCIPLINE MO 8 CAPT KANGAROO BBUGSBUNNY boamambuca RIGHT NOW UTTIE RASCALS (D AMERICA AND HER CRITICS MO MR ED JOE FRAMOJN SHOW PUERTO RICAN NEW YORKER BEGMUNG GERMAN bhathayoga MOBOWAHI NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL NOT FOR WOMBI ONLY DENNISTHEMBIACE MOVIE A FAREWELL TO ARMS (Drsmi 1957) The Hemingway novel of war and love that was done much betttf In 1932 The long overblown production cant hide ttm overacOng (Jennifer Jones) and the underacting (Rock Hudnn) Part II -B PHIL DONAHUE SfOW EQUALTIME SESAME STREET CD UN REPORTS 8 TENNESSEE TUXEDO like seeing George Jefferson attacked regularly They want to see an uppity person get his George is portrayed as the most obnoxious snob in the history of TV situation comedy got your nose so high up" Louise Jefferson explained Saturday night need a 10-foot pole to pick it" But George Jefferson is a bore a man whose philosophy wears thin easily Archie is an Intellectual giant compared to George You may not agree with Archie's views but at least fun and important to see the way a conservative mind works Mrs Jefferson laughs at her own jokes Lionel Jefferson is no but he is okay Unfortunately he has been delegated to a minority character in the first three shows Tom and Helen the inter-racial couple parents of Lionel's girl participated in the longest inter-re dal kiss In TV history in the premiere show But smooching usually do much for comedy The character of Harry Bentley alone seems like a slightly nal thought "Ihe as a show reminds me of the old of the Week" without the Gillette commercials Every episode George and Louise yell and scream At each other opening and slamming doors They yell a lot in in the Family" and and Times" too But these people seem to love each oihrr The Jeffereons express hatred The way they abuse each other is no fun to watch on the screen any more than it is in real life The function of Sand" according to the noted TV scholar Tim Ryan of East Fatchogue to prove conclusively that a mil loser of a show can in-deed fail even sandwiched between big guns cm Saturday night The function of The may be to prove conclusively that the greatest creative mind In television Norman Lear can only spin off three shows successfully As you can tell I have lost much of my awe for Norman work With his spinoffs he seemed to be evolving a super-race of comedy Any minor character his experiments were revealing could grow to HU 30 minutes if the conditions were right: fertile characters fresh out- rage and plenty of good jokes A similar process takes place in horticulture Luther Burbank also did spinoffs with his fruits and vegetables Eventually they named Burbank City after him for his experiments in grafting Perhaps what Lear should try next is a hybrid grafting either of the Jeffereons with somebody like Randolph Mantooth of or David Carradine of Fu" They have had amazing results with hybridization Norman On Jan 11 there was an unprecedented 30-minute proem for "The Jeffer-sons" disguised as an episode of "All in the Family" On Jan 18 therd was a 30-minute ahow the so-called premiere for the new-old Jefferson It was an expanded version of the old Jeffereons act on in the Family" It was not in the tradition of outrage ous situation comedy pioneered by Norman Lear It wasrageoua Hie premiere episode Introduced the major theme of the new-old story George Jefferson as we all know has made it up the ladder He now wants Louise Jefferson to do nothing She wants to do something last Saturday the problems of the new Idle nouveau riche were explored again Hie episode was not unadulterated rot It was adulterated rot On Feb 1 in the third episode which I saw at a screening last week the theme of the role in the luxury apartment is reexamined George Jefferson explains earned the right to do what the white high-class ladies in New York do: nothing got to leant how to waste your time" No matter how many times I see Jeffereons" I keep coming to the same conclusion For this they canceled Sand in Friends and LoversT After one full-length promo and three episodes I am reasonably convinced that this Is the first show out of the Norman Lear shop which is certifiably the bottom of the barreL Examination of Norman gifted fingers would show splinters from scraping together this spinoff Why he do a spinoff based on the guy who works on the loading dock with Archie? I have the feeling that blacks probably COMMUNITY OF LIVING THINGS TYPEWRITING MOVIE T-MEN (Mystery 1947) Another late '40e docunwritary-style chase Involving a couple of undercover treasury agents end a Tues Afternoon 12:00 YOUNG AND RESTLESS NEWSL JACKPOT PASSWORD ALL STARS ACTION NEWSL -O NEWS Tom Dunn MOVIE FORBIDDEN CARGO (Mystery 1956) Customs agents and narcotics smugglers and eminently routine -except for Nigel Patrick BIOLOGY TOOAY MSIDEQUT 12:10 LIFE WORLD 2000 12:25 EYE ON WOMEN 12:90 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW BBLANK CHECK SPLIT SECOND JOURNEY TO ADVENTURE 1975 CARRASCOLENDASL 12:45 NATIONAL MULCH 12:55 NEWS Edwin Newman IJM PAT COLLINS SHOW MATCH GAME CONCENTRATION MOVIE WILDBLUE YONDER (Drama 1952) Traces the history olWWITa greatest otBatfls" from Bs inception to Its active campaign Phi Ham Wended Corey ALL MY CHILDREN MOVIE JQE MAC8ETH (Drama 1956) A gangster's chief lieutenant goaded by his wife slaughters his way to the kingpin's throne Paul Douglas ELECTRIC COMPANY CAREER AWARENESS DELLA REESE SHOW 1:15 PATTERNS IN ARITHMETIC U9 a AS THE WORLD TURNS HOW TO SURVIVE A MARRIAGE 8 LETS MAKE A DEAL GALLOPING GOURMET WORLD OF BJ VIBES CHILDREN OF THE WORLD 1:45 COVER TO COVER 2:05 GUIDING LIGHT DAYSOFOURUVES 51S000 RYRAMtDA DOS TWILIGHT ZONE WM tn WIMraH W1 and pertained Stay with it I OXeefe June Lockhart 2:29 ID CHILDREN AND THE LAW YOU AND EYE MOOD THE EDGE OF NIGHT THEDOCTORSL THE BIG SHOWDOWN FATHER KNOWS BEST 241 (D YOUNG AFRICANS BONJOURMESAMISL INBO THE PRICE IS RIGHT a ANOTHER WORLD SeriaL CASPER SFRIENOSJ St GBiERAL HOSPITAL BORIS KARLOFF PRESBfTS fD NANNY ANO THE PROFESSOR OMAN AND ENVIRONMENT MASTERPIECE THEATER: UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS 1:30 MATCH GAME a RANGER STATION HUCKLOERRY HOUND a ONE LIFE TO LIVE BILL COSBY SHOW BEHCA 1:45 THEONIE 4:00 TATTLETALES Game O-BEWITCHED SOMERSET THE HILARIOUS HOUSE OF FRIGHTB6TEIN THE MONEY MAZE MOVIE THE HELL WITH HEROES (Adventure 1968) You may agree after eeeing Rod Taylor getting Involved with smuggling and Claudta Cardlnale somewhere between Oran and Parts Harry Guard too (D THE ADOAMS FAMILY SESAME STREET CONSUMER SURVIVAL NT MOVIE Dubbed hi Spanish usa DIVORCE COURT WNTC-FM: While the City Sleep Classical Concert (Stereo) WRAI: Shu Song Mickey Waldman (Live) 1M WPU: Alev Ren-nett Talk and rock Stereo) Tsrsday 1:15 AM WOR: Rambling with (Gambling WXEW: (km Klavan WNIiC: Imua In the Morning WIJX: Contemporary Music Continuous all day WIILI: We RiehanL 11BM: Barry XnaL 7: IS WGSM: Bruce Herbert WVEW: dim Lena's New Verts Music and talk 1:13 WQXR-FMi Concert Program of works by Schubert Prokofiev (Stereo) WTFM: Masle ef America (Stereo) IVOR: Barry Farber Shew Also at 11:15 PM WEVD: Kan Israel Is Israel" WQXR-FM: Hasten Symphony Seiji Osawa conducts (Stereo) 9:15 WEVD: Special Over Matter: The Case for Psychosomatic Illness" WMCAr Barry Gray Show Interviews and talk 10:0 WUR: Reek Around the World (Stereo) IVQXB: Chaper Citron Shew Cliarle Terry the Japanese officer who spent 30 years after WW on i Philippine Island WMCAs Long John Nebal Shank Talk irdi0D lloaday Evening PM WFlVr Concert Program of works by Mendelssohn Holst Mahler Delius Copland Britten (Stereo) WNYO-FM: Master- work Hour Program of works by Met Rachmaninoff Nielsen (Stereo) 7:00 WRCX: Outline Radi 1M-1VBVB: Outline Kadi ai and Whistler" WBU: Jim Driscoll Top records 1M-1VGU: Oidtime Rada Lone Ranger" WKWZ: News Forum Phone-ins WRVRi Jau Live jtromtpe Village Cajf WNBC: Gsuaiu Bruce Seett RoUdiia 9- WBAB: Wlsard Mays Reels WOR: Sherrye Henry OK: Bob and Ray.