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Kraft TV Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC). Repeat of last month's dramatic hit, Patterns, by Rod Serling, with Richard Kiley, Ed Begley, Everett Sloane...
...level stress in a big corporation, the play had areas of strength and persuasiveness that made Executive Suite look like Little Women. The plot dealt with the arrival at the multimillion-dollar Ramsey & Co. of Richard Kiley, a young Midwest engineer who was being groomed to replace Ed Begley, veteran vice president. The sun around which both revolved was Bossman Everett Sloane, a tough, intelligent operator who handled power as if it were his own invention. The drama lay in the meteoric but uneasy rise of the young engineer and the spent-rocket fall of the aging vice president...
...Echelon Job. Producer-Director Fielder Cook gave Patterns just the proper elaboration of office gossip, politics and detail and, as often happens in a soundly built play, all the actors turned in superlative jobs. Top honors went to chunky Ed Begley, one of TV's most valuable utility actors, who brought to his role of a businessman hagridden both by his boss and his ulcer a fine pitch of stubborn and despairing dignity...
...long-standing taboo by cheerfully portraying a village freethinker who was at his happiest mocking the beliefs of his neighbors and making life miserable for the new minister. What was more impressive, he stayed consistent throughout and was even given the play's last, defiant line. Ed Begley was brilliant as the cranky iconoclast who stuck to his principles in the face of overwhelming Christian charity and forgiveness on the part of his fellow men, while Joe Maross made a believable young preacher who was both uncertain of and delighted by the results of prayer. The show was wittily...
...lives in a house whose physical foundations are being eroded by the river that flows by it, which no one in the family bothers to do anything about. The family's personal relations stand also in need of attention. Willie's father (Ed Begley) blusters from not knowing how to deal with people; his good-looking married sister is too cheaply self-centered to want even a family of her own; his sweet, bumbling mother goes around wearing rose-colored blinkers. Only his crippled older brother (John Kerr) has feeling enough for the kid to help him build...