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...William Ackerman of Chicago is no Arthur Godfrey fan. In fact, Ackerman, international director of the World Home Bible League, which gives away close to 400,000 Bibles a year, feels that Godfrey is occasionally "suggestive." But when, while he was switching channels one night, Godfrey's humble face swam onto the screen, Bibleman Ackerman stopped to stare. "The Redhead" was pouring the commercial...
Televiewer Ackerman promptly blew his top at this novel use of Holy Writ. With William A. Chapman, founder of the World Home Bible League, he tore off telegrams to Godfrey and Lipton's: "Shameful, sacrilegious . . . intolerably obnoxious . . . loose disrespect . . . one of the lowest notes in television history...
...sold direct by the film-makers to individual stations. Not wanting to be pushed out into the cold, the networks have fought back. NBC's Vice President John K. West says of TV film: "Keep it the hell off the networks." CBS's Vice President Harry Ackerman says: "We are primarily in the live TV business. We definitely wanted to shoot I Love Lucy live...
Based on Isabel Rorick's 1940 book, Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, Husband had a two-year run as a radio show starring Lucille Ball. In moving the show to television, CBS's West Coast vice president in charge of network programs, Harry Ackerman, searched hard and long for a properly glamorous pair of young marrieds. He finally decided on Hollywood's Joan Caulfield ("She has some kind of half-woman, half-gamin, half-childlike quality that is perfect") and Broadway's Barry Nelson "He's the handsome, rugged American male"). Like most family comedies, Husband...
...Ackerman believes that "this is the type of show that can go on forever . . . Most people are married, most people have been in love, so it follows that most people will like our program, because here is real, recognizable domesticity." But there is no real drabness in this domestic life. Over everything is the rosy glow of a perpetual honeymoon. Explains Ackerman: "It isn't sex [that keeps the show going], though that's implied. What it is, really, is a certain quality of love and smooch...