The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 27

1 1 -'i 27- TTie Commercial Appeal Mumphin Friday March 4 1977 Television Schedule Dixie Friday March 4 1977 Wrestling Coming To Grips With Station Change 51 3 i 131 10 i WMC-TV WHEG-TV WHBQ-TV WK NO-TV morning programs Morning Kfcwt 500 30 :25 TV Chapel Dusty's Hon Good Morning America Today Show 700 :30 Good Morning From Memphis Com Bui Bd CWignn "It makes Serrao said looking at that very seriously" A spokesman for Beale Street Landing said the 1 promoters were told that the development would be used as the address an the FCC application and that Petry representatives had said the television station would -need 15000 to 16JM0 square feet Serrao said he to optimistic about approval of the -application which wu submitted after a "community need study" in which more than 230 Memphis business and community leaders were interviewed The independent station which his company wants he said would have a general format with some sports -broadcasts syndicated programs childrenoriented programming and special documentaries The Petry company to a national broadcast sales representative for about 28 stations and the station in Memphis would be the first for the company Captain Kangaroo 800 30 SywltasB Nmi 05 Straight Toil Scions 7-9 lt Popt 13 Ncohlhght 900 30 Sanford li San Dinah I Hoc Company 3-4 Kwm application with the Federal Communications Commission to broadcast on Channel 24 Indications are that if the construction permit is granted Petry Television Inc through its subsidiary Delta Television Corp will set up shop in the Beale Street lending development and try to adopt call letter! that designate the location John A Serrao vice president and director of operations for Petry and Delta said yesterday that if the FCC acts quickly the new station to prepared to invest about $4 million and be on the air in the Memphis market this fall Memphis to currently the largest television market in the nation that to not served by an independent station Serrao said and the city to the largest market without a UHF station He confirmed that the WBSL call letters "have been but noted that such a designation has not been cleared by the FCC Serrao also confirmed that his company is looking at the idea of locating in the cotton warehouse redevelopment which Beale Street Landing promoters hope will become a downtown concentration of shops offices and apartments 102 Doubt Dato lov of lit IS Hoi Stuff ChiW Ut 13 IIS Nam That Tuna tauorsffttondi Young and Soarch for Tom 05 Art SosameSl K-l Dsn Ho Show Byan'sHopo AFTERNOON PROGRAMS By ROBERT KELLETT Studio wrestling to apparently going to leave Channel 13 and find a new home on Channel 5 Spokesmen for WHBQ-TV confirmed yesterday that their Saturday local ra tings champ has only two more shows to go At the same time WMC-TV programmers acknowledged that it to probable that a new television wrestling show will turn up on Saturday broadcasts at that station "The only thing I can tell you is it will terminate here after the program of March 12" said Deane A Noel general manager at WHBQ-TV He declined to discuss rumors that the break came Jerry Lawler after personal disputes between some station personnel and figures involved with the television wrestling "Like every program it runs its Noel said "We have been approaching the idea of dropping the wrestling for sometime ana this Just seemed like the time to do it" Phil Slavkk program director WMC-TV said: "We are considering it we are in negotiations for it but we have not signed a contract as He said a new company to being formed which would be headed by Jerry Jarrett and would produce the wrestling package and sell it to WMC-TV Jerry Lawler headliner with the WHBQ wrestling program would be a part of the package he confirmed and the producers would provide their own announcer Unce Russell announcer of the WHBQ-TV wrestling program from 11 am to 12:30 pm will apparently continue to direct local programming at that station WILL IT BE WBSL Channel 24 in Memphis? A New York-based firm which wants to get into independent television in the Memphis market has filed an WORLD FASHION FACTORY DIRECT 3968 JACKSON 1VL IT WILES NATIONAL BRANDS 1ST QUALITY ONLY SHORTS-X 35 to 56 WKY HOT DRESS BEST FDR LESS? 9-9 Friday Other 9-6 Closed Sundays FREE ALTERATIONS SAME DAY Agency Names Dichtel Margaret Dichtel acting director of Family Service of Memphis since December was named executive director at the organization's board meeting yesterday Miss Dichtel has been with the agency since 1957 and appears regularly on WHBQ-TVs Straight Talk with Marge Thrasher She said she would continue to try to strengthen family life a goal the agency established in 1893 and has kept since "We change our approach but our purpose to still tow said Miss Dichtel to replacing Mrs Ruth Joyner who retired last year after 20 years as executive director SALE VINYL CUSHION FLOOR COVERING $98 Sq Yd Flat Paste To Your Size From Seamless Rolls THE MEMPHIS RADIO DIAL TONIGHT AT 8t30 PM THC PCOPIC'S Business Moderator: DONNA SUE MUNSEY Guests: FRED DAVIS City Councilman MRS GWEN AWSUMB Director of Community Development Lays Without Cut Room 12 Ft Needs No Wax Guest Reporter: I Ml Summer Av I IM Sort 1 HeMnS OeanDuSrllS AM -MO PM MkN OwrfS I Dilemma 77 Opening Today JAMES PARKS Executive Editor Defender" UIKNOTV 10 CML458-2521 A WEEKLY WKNO TELEVISION PUBLIC AFFAIRS PRESENTATION TV Key Previews Cuba Is Revisited At 9 On Channel 13 Today's top television shows previewed and selected by TV staff SANFORD AND SON 7 pm Channel 5 "The Lucky Fred (days the odds and viewers end up the winners in tonight's diverting episode The hotel division of The Sanford Arms fares extinction unleu he can find a way to raise $4000 in a few days When the jovial junkman goes on a gambling spree confident he can parlay his $500 mid save the day tilings end up in typical Sanford disarray CODE 7 pm Channel 1 Suzy to excited at the prospect of her first day off in six months but doesn't get much time to relax She first hu to help a man trapped in the water in his dune buggy rescue a runaway hone and use her expertise in guiding the Coast Guard and lifeguard I to two unconscious boaters WALL STREET WEEK 7:30 pm Channel 10 "Can You Double Your Money in Stocks?" to asked of special guest Ira CoMeigh Host to Frank Cappiello SCIENCE FICTION SPECIAL 8 pm Channel 5 "Man From Science fiction from capable producer Herb Solow about a man with gills instead of lungs a survivor from the lost city of Atlantis The fellow named Mark Harris (newcomer Patrick Duffy) can't talk but he swims like a fish so the Navy puts him to work whereupon he finds a crazy scientist who lives under the seas and plans to do away with civilization Kids may dig the underwater business but the show's deadly serious approach may prove to be a handicap Chapter 2 is scheduled next month HUNTER 9 pm Channel 3 Using a little-known experimental mind-altering technique Russian agents program Marty Shaw to assassinate her unde brilliant Adm Carleton Young in a plot that also calls for the murder of James Hunter ABC NEWS CLOSEUP 9 pm Channel 11 "Cuba: The Castro Generation" Consistently interesting fact-filled tour of Castro Cuba 18 yean after he took over Free medical care free education little rent (scarce bousing) no taxes and full employment would seem to make the country a model state But Fidel's dictatorship held together militarily and economically only with Russia's billions to an absolute affair Although the Cuban government gave producer-writer Arthur Holch permission to film this documentary it put the military prisons and Castro himself off limits SPECIAL 11:30 pm Channel 13 "The Winter That Wu The Energy That ABC correspondent Tom Jarriel will anchor this report on the problems the cold and the energy shortages have created this winter and how they should or can be handled c3 bs Serious Blemish Medicine Regular Tinted or Vanishing Formula 65 oz 7 5t Clearasil Soap ffS5l $139 VALUE paper columnist at 3 pm in the amphitheater Paul Hemphill sports writer columnist and author at 7 pm in the gymnasium and Dr Robert Coles child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author at 9 pm in the gymnasium Tomorrow Coles will speak at 11 am in Roan 200 of Clough Hall Hemphill at 1 pm in the amphitheater Drummond Ayres III chief of the Atlanta bureau of the New York Times at 3 pm in the amphitheater Cleanth Brooks a Faulkner specialist poetry critic author and professor at 7 pm in the gymnasium and former U5 Sen Sam Ervin CD-NC) at 9 pm in the gymnasium Brooks will speak again at 1 pm Sunday in the amphitheater In case of bad weather the amphitheater session will be moved to other locations Tickets are required for admittance to the symposium One ticket covers the entire program Dilemma to an annual student-operated program centering around a particular theme Binaca' spray mint BREATH FRESHENER with coupon and proof of purchase of Re Blade Shaver Dassv by Gillette 50 13407 325 oz Political economic and social aspects of Southern life will come under scrutiny four speakers today launch the three-day Dilemma 77 symposium at Southwestern This year's program to entitled "The South: Heritage and Today's speakers are Aaron Henry Mississippi NAACP and Democratic Party leader at 1 pm in the college amphitheater Wilma Dykeman author and news- Arrest Termed Mistake A 58-yearold man wu arrested by mistake about 4 pm Wednesday after police said the license plates on his car had been reported stolen Samuel Hearns of 2890 Spottswood wu involved in a minor accident at Jefferson and Pauline As the police made a routine check of his license tags the tag number showed having been stolen on March 3 1976 from Foster Pontiac Hearu telephoned his home and asked his wife to bring his registration papers to police headquarters but the registration showed the proper license number to be 1-ST633 A check of police records however showed that another car sold by Foster Pontiac had that set of plates The set Foster had reportedly sold to the other mo-toorist had been stolen Finally at 10:35 pm Wednesday police officials decided that plans and paperwork had become mixed up in processing and that Hearu should be released from the City JaiL He returned to police headquarters yesterday to explain the confusion to auto theft detectives "He had bought a new Pontiac from Foster about a year ago and 1 think the firm obtained his license tags for him Apparently someone messed up the paperwork at that time and it had never been straightened a detective said VOUR KEY TO VALUE 2833 UMAR mrnrn plaza QUINCE NT PERKINS (321 SUMUR FRAYSER IN NORTHCATE HWY 72 COlllERYILlE One Gets Away In Real Puzzler Hillman 51 of 4168 Kingsway Drive lost his 14-foot aluminum fishing boat about 2 pm yesterday on Interstate 240 at Union Hillman said a motorist flagged him down at Thomas snd Stage and told him the boat had fallen off his trailer back on the interstate Hillman went back and looked for the boat and its outboard motor but could find neither Police couldn't either Hillman said last night he didn't know what happened He said he still has the trailer and the nylon rope he used to tie the boat down but has no idea where the boat could be "It wu raining real bad at the Hillman said TODAY AND TOMORROW ONLY! Buchwald To Speak Humor columnist Art Buchwald will speak during Memphis Hebrew Academy's 27th annual scholarship banquet at 6:30 pm March 13 at the Holiday Inn-Rive nnont Buchwald' column to syndicated in more than 400 newspapers including The Commercial AppeaL See an exciting display of the latest styles in sport and fishing boats A large selection of boats motors and trailers complete rigs for family fun! FREE LIVE ENTERTAIHMEHT ALL DAY SATURDAY MARCH 5 Famous LUCY OPRY Bluegrass In Person! Talented musicians playing continuously all day long It's foot-stompin' music everybody loves Ya'II come! "It wu a meu dowa there" said Hearns had never been involved in anything like that before The longer it went on the more confusing it became I'm just glad it all got worked He said he wu "awfully mad at Foster while all this wu gong on but I've settled down now I guess things like that just happen sometimes" TVMoviesToday Today's TV movies listed for all Memphis stations with the year the film wu released and rated from one stir (poor) to four stars (excellent)bytheTV Key staff: 9 a-rn "SUSPICION" (1941) Channel 13 Cary Grant Joan Fontaine Shy English girl marries a charming gentleman then begins to suspect him of murderous intent Thrilling Hitchcock melodrama excellently acted many suspenseful moments 3 pm- "WE'RE NO ANGELS" (1955) Channel 3 Humphrey Bogart Aldo Ray Three escaped convicts from Devil's Island take over the store of a French shopkeeper right some wrongs Comedy has its amusing scenes but the stage origin is too evident in its talkiness lack of movement 10:30 pm AND PEACE" (1956) Part Channel 3 Audrey Hepburn Henry Fonda Tolstoy's clusic Tale is clumsily brought to the screen with the stress on spectacle and romance The meit of Tolstoy's narrative about the Russian aristocracy during Napoleon's march oa Europe is translated into Hollywood terms and the result to an overlong ornate costume epic Conclusion immediately fxiow-rg I LA AND (1956) Piri Channel 1 Audrey Hep-Ni-V Heary Foods Concluding part of the tPA) pm movie A What to the average weight of the cute young female start on TV aeries? I think Fm overweight but my bey friend says my figure to at good any of the TV Mars 1 want to have him facts to compare with Holly Springs Mtoa Without pounding away too hard in an in-depth otiidy of the matter say the avenge weight for a young female TV star or slightly shorter to 116 pounds WeU the verdict? Do you start eating candy hors or carrot sticks? Is William Katt who played Tommy In the movie going to star ta any TV shows? -TV Katt hu done some TV work but to not currently on TV The girls discovered the handsome lad in the film and hell probably be seen in other films soon Incidentally Katt's mother to Barbara Hale TV's Delia Street from Perry Mason His father wu the late actor Bill Williams When will The Waitona lose John-Boy to the Mg city? Will it be at the rod of this reason or rext? I love Richard Thomas snd I win miss Um so tha shew Kosciusko Mtoa Sorry but the final new show for the current season will be about John-Boy's leaving the old Walton homestead for his job oo a big city newspaper For an answer to your question about any TV program or actor write to TV Key Mailbag to care of The Commercial Appeal 495 Itt'an Memphis 3810L Mid-South's most glamorous Fashion Mall Poplar Ave at Germantow RA QCUV0I OOUUTS tUkff IfltSM NAiOdtol Hf OF OXP vcrn KP3F00 rKAUDCB nceoom WiDOilM IMHN1Y it Barnaul FNItfOflOMiPIMI ocean kxp KiTUIQG2Ci icuAFCiwcia A.