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...half-part swivet. On the premiere, he was finished off by his continuity writers, lusterless Songstress Joey Heatherton, and Comic Richard Pryor, whose contribution was a tasteless impression of a Negro preacher. Even more painful is The Queen and I (CBS), a situation comedy whose plot is Bilko at sea. Very much at sea- the Queen being an ocean liner headed for mothballs. Keeping it afloat is a moronic purser (Larry Storch), whose schemes, like catering bar mitzvahs in port, are always being thwarted by the prissy first officer (Billy De Wolfe). The boat is shipshape; the gags are strictly...
...played Fleischman in Sargent Bilko...
...played the main role in the original, is the sometime narrator slave whose desire to buy his own freedom starts the whole thing rolling. Nearly every Kerrish adjective in the book has been ascribed to him--sufficeth to say he deserves them all and more. Phil Silvers is still Bilko, but why not Bilko as a Roman whoremaster? Jack Glifford as the servile slave ("I live to grovel") would steal the picture were it not for the fact that Mostel so overshadows everything. He becomes Mostel's accomplice in a far-fetched scheme when Mostel reveals he knows about...
...Beck was a perfect choice for Mrs. Irving. He played her, properly, as a lady Bilko. Oddly enough, he wasn't a knock out. I still can't figure...
...comedies. Car, Smothers and Jeannie are only three of the 18 new shows that will be tickling the ribs of laugh machines next year. The most promising of the situations seems to be occupied by Hogan's Heroes (CBS), a sort of World War II P.O.W. version of Bilko's bunch who use their prison camp as an Allied headquarters for spying and plotting escape routes for downed pilots. As usual, though, it looks like old tricks for most of the other new dogs...