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...MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). In this animated version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Mr. Magoo (the voice of Jim Backus) stars as Ebenezer Scrooge. Repeat...
Having left Illinois for Virginia, Rap Brown wound up behind bars after his white attorneys failed to convince Judge Franklin P. Backus of the Alexandria Corporation Court that he should not be held as a fugitive pending extradition to Maryland, where he is charged with inciting the July 24 Cambridge riot. Denied bail, Rap was hustled off to Richmond's escape-proof penitentiary, then to a nearby prison farm for what could be a month-long stay while the extradition battle is resolved. For light reading, he took along the little red book of Mao Tse-tung...
David B. Ansen of Beverly Hills, Calif. (English); Richard C. Backus of Goffstown, N.H. (English); Paul P. Hamburg of Great Neck, N.Y. (History); John A. Lithgow of Princeton, N.J. (History and Literature); James C. Pinney of Madison, Wisc. (Social Relations); Richard P. Rogers of New York (English); John M. Ross of New York (Social Relations); Christopher St. John of Weston, Mass. (History); Robert J. Samuelson of New York (Government) and David M. Schiller of Lynbrook, N.Y. (English), and Howard M. Slyter of Portland, Ore. (Social Relations...
Kudos for acting go without question to Dick Backus as Wilfred and David Cole as Point. Backus, looking like a Bil Baird marioneette, stole the show every time he was on stage, and even if G&S suffered a bit in the process, he was outrageously funny. Cole played his part with panache, executing the comic baritone's infamous patter songs with skill and incisiveness...
...THEATER (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). A recreation of Broadway's musical hit of the '50s, Damn Yankees, starring Phil Silvers, Lee Remick, Ray Middleton, Jim Backus and Fran Allison...