Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 5

TV News And Entertainment Records SATURDAY DCCKMBER 10-1C IMS Teen-qge Sara Lane Seeking Image HOLLYWOOD Sara Lane Is Monde hair Her real name is Susan Russell Lane Her father is actor Russell Lane her mother is actress Sara Anderson (Lane) Sara lives with her in search of an image She has no problem being Elisabeth Grainger on colorcast Wednesdays on the NBC Television Network Hut she has a problem being Sara Lane producer says I should have an image" she said I kpow what kind What would be a good image for me?" Mention certain actresses and they evoke a definite image: Loretta Young Lucille Ball Shirley Booth Ann Davis Barbara Stanwyck Annette (Funicello) Debbie Reynolds Elizabeth Taylor Ann-Margret Joey Heatherton What of Sara Lane? 17 Years Old She is 17 years old five feet five indies tall blue eyes uMiia parents She is an expert horsewoman She made her film debut in Saw What You But statistics never get to the heart of the matter wish I knew what qualities Pm striving for as an actress' she said also wish I knew what looking for in life I like Susan Strasberg Nita Talbot Tammy Grimes Joan Hac-kett They seem real strong genuine They have integrity Hopefully one acquires integrity early I would like to be able to evoke the same feelings they There are other qualities she likes in people "The quality I like most is she said has it I like people who afaaid to commit themselves right or wrong Mr Bickford (who plays John Grainger in the series) is a very committed man I like gutsy people like Joan Crawford I like reliable warm sharing loving giving people who are willing to Mow their cool all over everywhere Pm tired of very cool cynical people fan for a little while but they become Already Ki Unlike most teenagers Sara already knows what kind of work she wants to-do and she have to worry about getting her first job want to act but I needed money for making clothes making jewelry and raising quarter BEST You have to choose between burlesque and a circus tonight with two lively pieces of entertainment competing for viewers Danny first special of the season is THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF BURLES III Once again he calls on a talented lineup of Carol Charming Wayne Newton and Mickey Rooney recall the days of CAROL burlesque when comedy and not strippers reigned Among famous old routines recreated: maternity ward skit with Danny as a worried father to-be Mickey as the doctor Carol as the nurse and Wayne as a carefree expectant father one in which Mickey is hired to paint house (very slapstick) a marriage counselor bit with all the principals and Sign of the a serious standby production number You Like to Rest Your Head Upon My Pillow' Wayne sings Can Always Find a Little Sunshine in the and For the Robert and the Saints Go Marching (8-9 pm Ch U) COLOR pm (42) Abba Eban Minister of Foreign Affairs will MEET THE PRESS on an interview from New York pm Two gentlemen one of whom will eventual ly wind up Governor of Georgia appear on ISSUES AND ANSWERS They are Lester Maddox (D) and Rep Howard (Bo) Callaway (R) neither of whom won a majority of votes in the recent elections pm (42) THE FRANK McGEE REPORT studies the race of airline manufacturers to be first with the best in the matter of the supersonic jet transports pm THE HILL' COUNTRY: LYNDON TEXAS is given a SHARING HER CHRISTMAS GIFT Mario Thomas who has her own ABC-TV series "That Girl" this season shares a Christmas present with her pet Yorkshire Terrier "Kiniche" SEARCHING FOR HER IDENTITY Teen age Actress Sara Lane who appears on NBC-TV's "The Virginian" each Wednesday night 'of all the Charlie Browns in the world he is file Charlie REPEAT 8-7 pm Several very good supense scenes heighten interest in Lost on VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA The Seaview is on a mission to pick up Cessium bomb and deliver as a deterrent to an underwater base Only as enemy sub shoots down the plane carrying the bomb the bomb winds up unexploded but active on the bottom of the sea It must be deactivated Capt Crane is a prisoner on the enemy sub and there is a traitor aboard the Seaview 7-8 pm (8) A sensitive performance from Frits Weaver as a tortured man who must agree to murder to cover up the fact that his company is shipping defective gyroscope components to Vietnam makes THE FBI well worth watching Adding in-story is the fact DIANE terest to the secret information who delights in playing foul tricks on CONTROL pm THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW is more romantic than ever Theme is the era of Currier and Ives which prompts such oldies as the Ball is for the Robert and Them Golden 8-0 pm MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE serves a rather delectable but hard to digest mystery Luna plays one of those inscrutable women lady who make up her mind As daughter of a former Latin-American president! she has suddenly switched sides and is now! working for the enemy against her own people Why? Surely she has lost her senses up to Martin Landau to find out if she has been drugged In a prominent role is Renzo famnf who once was pm SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES presents Crusoe on BARBARA a science fiction tale of dubious merit Batman fans may be surprised to find Adam West as an astronaut whose helper is a monkey After landing on Mars West disappears but not his BEST The first of the football bowl games is on tap today ABC televises the LIBERTY BOWL from Memphis in a grid battle between Miami and VPI be in color TV kfofroff time is noon on Channel 8 2 pm THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE GAME is in Baltimore where the Colts meet the Green Bay Packers Ray Scott and Chuck Thompson provide the play-by-play: Frank Gifford is the analyst pm THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS focuses on the World Drag Racing Championship in Tulsa Okla for competitors in the Top Fuel Top Gas Top Stock Super reprat showing tonight This is that young and inno-a beautifully photgraph ed cent wife (Diane Baker) is an special in which the President (Diane Baker) old friend of FBI assistant director Ward (Philip Abbott) land she mind if he in Stetson and boots roams the land he loves making off the 0-10 pm William Shatner who Is now flying high as Captala Kirk oa Star Trek turns up as a curious villa ia on UNSMOKE On the lam he is rescued by a group of naive but honest Quakers who decide whether he or Roger Ewing is file tree deputy marshall So they keep them both and treat them equally fair AH goes weU until Shatner is smitten with jealousy The prettiest of the Arlane Quinn-has been making eyes at Ewing And this calls for a fierce separation of the men from the boys 0xTPcr(13) The Honeymooners on THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW wind up their excursion in the heart of Africa on a jungle safari Again and Art Carney show and a winning one at that Their broad comedy styles work just right as they play tag with a menacing gorilla and other assorted beasts The songs by Lyn Duddy and Jerry Bresler are fine too sees the Pedemales River as place where he put his feet when he was four and recalls that his grandfather fought the Indians In me of the more touching moments he takes reporter Ray Scherer to the family cemetery and points out where he will some day be buried A homey tour pm All those delightful warm and funny little characters are back for another go in A CHARLIE Junior Stock Eliminator categories Cameras move into Las Stardust Hotel where two of the greatest exponent of pocket Luther Lassiter and Joe Raii in a best of three 150-point game matches to decide the I960 National Invitational Pocket Billiards Classic Champion pm (13) If doubted the powers and SULLIVAN SHOW highlight- intelligenceofFUPPER tune in on happy dolphin doesn smile much in this episode He is forced by a pair of nasty film makers to tackle some toothy and hungry While the cameras roll Bud is on the sidelines tearfully screaming for help But up to Flipper to save himself pm (0) SHANE begins on a rather brutal note: David Carradine and little Christopher Shea find a dying man (he has been shot) hanging by his heels on a barb wire fence Our hero is then accused of murder by a kangaroo court and it looks as If Shane is going to meet a bitter end This stirs Jill Ireland Into fighting action Surely she can convince the homesteaders Is Innocent They will listen but are too afraid of doing any ting in this episode which ends on an hysterical note pm GET SMART wings in with a rather amusing trifle: in a Pet This is not one of the better efforts but there are some choice mejnents as Agents £6 90 and Fang try -to 'capture a -panot wfo'keepi- squawking ed by Diahann Carroll Morey Amsterdam Harry James Edward Villella and Patricia McBride Joan Rivers and the Obernkirchen Choir singing a seasonal melody or two pm (6) One Tennessee less successful stage plays is transform- erf tw niniiavifi rgnii xfnrov BROWN CHRISTMAS a show ed into a less than successful which deserves being repeated- movie and is Maying in your Wait until you see all those living room courtesy of THE Peanuts characters at the local SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE foe skating rink The problem of a kind pm THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE Is oddly memorable in- the sense thatit joins Jimmy Durante and Mrs Miller together for a duet of -Dinka Rest of the hour is moi ordinary Other guests are Peter Lawford who sing Elaine Dunn whosjnes and The Turtles who sing Also expeef jokesby -Georg CanGnand the Polack Brothers Elephants whs if ftYsV 3 for Charlie Brown: his depression at -all the commercialism he sees around him over Christ- of sick comedy with Tony Fran ciosa -Jane Fonda Jim Hutton and Lois Nettjeton as -a- quar- Jna which causes JAtcy io-sayi jwith a piixCd-yp Bfa KAOS forever! 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