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Ogden Standard-Examiner Saturday February 21 1970 2TV 'TIM CONWAY SHOW1 Run 'Wavy Ad versanes World's Airlines orsf board for his own series self out of the cockpit so I have By EDGAR PENTON HOLLYWOOD Those good a adversaries of "Mo to figure how to fly the plane Peerless in sketch comedy one of his most and endearing sketches is of the from the passenger section Hale's Navy" Tim Conway and Or the control tower operator mistakes a bug on his window Joe Flynn are partners in the karate expert who hasn't quite mastered his art Vrv-'l? 1 4 J- a 1 4 for my plane and I have to make sense out of what he's At Chagrin Falls Ohio high school" Conway was active in telling me to do" HAPPY REUNION football basketball track and gymnastics world worst charter air service in "The Tim Conway Show" Fridays pm on CBS Channel 5 Conway is the chief (and only) pilot of the lone plane that makes up the Triple A (for Anywhere Anytime) Airline Flynn is the business half of the operation a man who hates The series is a happy reunion for Conway the naive Ensign A football injury Halted nis Parker of "McHale's Navy" and Flynn who played the athletic career and he majored in radio and television drama at Bowling Green Ohio state show's peppery Captain i g- hamton for its four-year run university A devoted family man Con "We found we got along great together regardless of the way way has a daughter and four sons He enjoys do-it-yourself projects at his home in Tarzana it looked on the screen" Conway says "When this show's format had been worked out I knew I wanted Joe as my boss to fly but who conquers his airsickness for a dream-rhe yearns to be a tycoon SETS UP SHOP Proudly displaying their slogan "We're Faster man a Bus" Spud Barrett (Conway) and Herbert Kenworth (Flynn) have set up shop in a tiny section of counter space at the Crawford Calif He also plays golf and likes again to write his own comeay "This time we're pulling to sketches gether more although Joe's temper still has a short fuse and I'm likely to set it off be Air Terminal owned and op LAW STUDENT While Conway made It to Hollywood in a hurry Joe Flynn took with a side excur AIRPORT SITUATION is surveyed by Tim Conway chief pilot of a one-plane air-line Joe Flynn as his boss Anne Seymour as the airport owner and Dennis Robertson as the control tower operator (left to right) in "The Tim Conway Show" Friday at 7:30 pm over Channel 5 cause I'm so inept" Both are natives of Ohio Con sion to law school a try at poli way from Willoughby and Flynn erated by the redoubtable Mrs Crawford (Anne Seymour) The Triple A workhorse is the Lucky Linda a beat-up twin-engine plane whose passengers tics and more than a few inci from Youngstown dents of winding up on cutting Conway says only half jok room floors ingly that he started show can expect to play second fid Flynn got the performing bug business at the top etworlcs Ponder New Shows dle to cargoes ranging from as an entertainer in Army spe He was a staff member on a Cleveland televison station in sacks of cement to exotic ani cial services during World mals War II 1961 when he was invited to be a guest then a regular on "The Triple A although not as well- He studied law at the Univer sity of Southern California and Steve Allen Show" After that 20 Old Ones May Be Doomed after graduation in 1950 ran for came "Mctiaie JNavy men the title role in the "Tango" the Ohio state legislature but heeled as a scheduled airline tries to preserve the amenities First-class passengers get a cushion and a glass of muscatel Tourist class is shown not movies but slides of someone's vacation at Niagara Falls lost by 600 votes western spoof series ana now "The Tim Conway Show" CBS has Andy Griffith and but lost the ratings race to NBC He returned to acting and in 1958 won a regular spot on "The George Gobel Show" Subsequently he had nmning roles on Mary Tyler Moore returning in By JERRY BUCK AP Television-Radio Writer NEW YORK (AP) In pri- TURNING POINT He says one of the most im two situation comedies "If that doesn't give yea the portant turning points of his "The Life of Riley" and "The vate suites and viewing roomsIC ST ppc MnnVtj I Thomas 'Make Room for at ABC CBS and NBC network for the first time in 14 years will begin to abandon its rural image Such shows as "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres" may be dropped Other shows in danger at CBS career has been his appearance Ad ventures of Ozzip and Har- idea" says Conway a master of bumbling comedy "just try to think of me at the controls of an airplane 'I do things like locking my- on more man 15 DroadcastS Of riet" In 19fi2 hp wpnt intn "Mr Granddaddy" and has signed Tony Randall and Jack Klug- "me uaroi burnett snow" Halp's Naw" executives are making the final decisions on the program schedules for next season They are looking at dozens of wmcn ne views as the spring- He has also made more than 20 movies Flynn is married and has two include "Lancer" "Get Smart" "When in Rome" and Tim Conway's midseason replacement NBC has fewer candidates for oblivion Besides Debbie Rey pilot films and presentations from among which they will se man for "The Odd Couple" A show is being readied for Pearl Bailey but it may be held over until next January Possibly as many as 20 shows may be scuttled by the networks to make room for the new pro sons He maintains his interest I in politics and enjoys art and lect next fall's new shows The reading selections probably will be an SEEKS PROFIT nolds and "Jeannie" shows in nounced by the networks this grams In "The Tim Conway Show" trouble are "Then Came Bron- week TL? most likely candidates it will be Flynn's hard-eyed are those in the bottom third pursuit of profit that will land SIX SHOWS Six shows have already been him and Conwav trouble the Nielsen ratings although inked into the new schedules much of the time one or two with potential may NBC is replacing Debbie Rey oe saved 'I'm cranky about practical son" "Bracken's World" "Daniel Boone" and "My World and Welcome To It" The latter may be a show saved by the network in hope that its ratings will improve It's possible too that "The Virginian" may be shaved from 90 minutes to an hour nolds and "I Dream of Jeannie" An active report in the indus ly everything because I'm so anxious to get rich" Flynn says with a Don Knotts variety hour try is that CBS which has all I push Tim into projects and of course he bungles them and I blow up" SATURDAY TV LOG A mam character the se NBC also has waiting in the wings 13 completed episodes of a comedy starring Millicent ries will be played by veteran i avhahjm A I i lauuess Amie oeymour who pur Martin trays Flynn nemesis and some ABC has the most shows with time romantic interest Mrs IK Crawford anemic ratings Among inem are "Land of the Giants" "Pat As Mrs Crawford she owns the Lucky Linda's home port Paulsen" "Paris 7000" "The Flying Nun" "The Ghost and where she operates the flying the Movies "Samson and Delilah" with Victor Mature Hedy Lamarr Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters 0 Carol Burnett Show 8:30 Camera 4 9:00 Ghost and Mrs Muir 0 Jackie Gleason Show 9:30 Death Valley Days 10:00 0 TV2 Saturday News Here Come the Brides school and gasoline concession rents out the coffee shop and Mrs Muir" "Here Come me Brides" "The Brady Bunch" "Love American Style" and En- has a financial finger in everything else gelbert Humperdinck "SFX-San Francisco Airport" Denotes Color SATURDAY FEB 21 4:00 College Basketball Kentucky vs LSU (In Progress) Wide World of Sports' 0 Porter Wagoner Show 4:30 Your All American College Show Roger Mudd News 5:00 Flying Nun 15 Channel 5 News 5:30 0 The Bold Ones Let's Make a Deal 0 Hee Haw EVENING 6:00 Newlvwed Game SATURDAY FEB 21 She doesn't hide her distaste is mentioned as a likely replace for the Triple A and leans hard a j- "A MMmn on it to make it pay its bills ment for "Daniel Boone" and a Flip Wilson variety hour for UNPLEASANT SON 0 Channel 5 News Bracken's World" A number of situation come Her unpleasant son Ronnie 10:30 Saturday Night at the is played by Johnnie Collins III dies are being shown to the networks including an all-black a veteran of more than 100 on-and off-Broadway productions version of "Barefoot in uie Park" When his mother isn picking on the Triple A Airline Ron CBS in line with reports it nie is Lawrence Welk Show will shuck its old image is look Romantic interest is provided 6:30 Andy Williams Movies "The Enemy Below" with Robert Mitchum Kurt Jurgens 0 Mannix 1100 CI Weekend News and Sports 11:30 The 11th Hour Movie "The Kentuckian" with Burt Lancaster Walter Matthau 0 The Country Place 12:00 0 AH Star Wrestling ing at a number of one- dramas of people are involved my orunette Jtmiiy Banks as Lawrence Welk Show with the times such as btore- Becky a passenger agent for Crawford Airlines Miss Banks roni Lawyer" "Crisis Clinic WHICH WAY? Airlines boss Joe Flynn (left) asks this question to his and pilot the blundering Tim Conway on the new half-hour comedy pjx: 5 0 The Governor and JJ 700 Andy Williams Show Andy Griffith Special 7:30 0 Saturday Night at a Miss Rheingold beauty contest winner calls herself the ard "Shepherd's FIock latter is about a minister involved in social work show's only straight man.