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...share of series stuff (including Gilligan's Island) before graduating to feature films, thinks not. "There are no sacred cows in television," he says. "The medium is too young." Still, it's hard not to wince in anticipation of three projects based on '50s TV classics: Sgt. Bilko, from the Phil Silvers sitcom You'll Never Get Rich, Father Knows Best and The Honeymooners. These series, pretty perfect in their original incarnations, would seem hard to improve on and all too easy to debase. Yet Ron Howard's Imagine Films believes that casting Steve Martin as Silvers' wheeler-dealer sergeant...
...That 23-minute package has housed everything from the homey morality plays of Father Knows Best to the antiwar messages of M*A*S*H; from the social incisiveness of All in the Family to the scattershot farce of Police Squad! If the new TV season had another Sergeant Bilko or Mary Tyler Moore Show, critics would be cheering the revival of network TV, not lamenting its demise. No, there's nothing wrong with the sitcom that a good show wouldn...
...debuting April 1). From MTV comes cable's second network devoted strictly to laughs. But unlike HBO's Comedy Channel, which features MTV-style clips, this one will offer full-length shows: both new fare and reruns of everything from Sergeant Bilko to Saturday Night Live...
...vaudeville achieved Broadway stardom in High Button Shoes (1947) and Top Banana (1951), appeared in such movies as It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, but was best known for his portrayal of Master Sergeant Ernie Bilko, the glib, rascally hero of the 1950s TV series the Phil Silvers Show; in Century City, Calif...
...disabled star, saves a big musical, finds love and becomes a star herself. The little girl, this time around, is a whirligig newcomer named Wanda Richert; the laid-up star is Tammy Grimes, who puts over a song like a hybrid of Bea Lillie and Sergeant Bilko; and the hardbitten, long-suffering director is Jerry Orbach, who brings not only freshness but some unexpected bite into the show's title tune...