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Even as it stands there are moments; Liat looking shy and beautiful; Steve Cotler (Billis) shouting orders like a half-pint Sergeant Bilko; Jeanne Klein, a freshman Cliffie, reincarnating Bloody Mary; a chaotic chorus-line finale to "Wonderful Guy"; a lovely, half-drunk kiss between Nellie and Emile; Stolber singing "This Nearly Was Mine." But then there always are moments, and last night they were few and awfully far between...
...week for two seasons, and for the first time reveled in the feel of live audiences. Danny soon took off for Hollywood. But Doc stayed behind, bitten by those immediate theatrical laughs. Too security-minded to abandon TV, he went on writing for it-some 40 episodes of Sergeant Bilko, a year and a half with Garry Moore. But he used his nights and weekends to write Come Blow Your Horn. Then, with $250,000 rolling in from Hollywood for the movie rights to Blow Your Horn, Simon set himself up in a 57th Street office and began working...
...Bilko to Baron. That career began during his U.S. Army service in the Philippines in World War II, when he supplemented his lieutenant's pay with some off-duty wheeling and dealing that enabled him to drive a Cadillac. After discharge, Lieut. Bilko decided to stay in the Philippines, where the living was easy. He made a nest egg selling Christmas cards, soon graduated to army surplus. When import restrictions went up on U.S. cigarettes, Stonehill began growing Virginia tobacco in the hills, became the Philippines' biggest cigarette baron. His own brand: Puppies...
...helps a bit, but nothing can be done with a script that sets its sights along "the hippopotamus of a right triangle.'' And Car 54, Where Are You? is a question that does not deserve an answer. An NBC show written by Nat Hiken (who wrote Sergeant Bilko), it lionizes two New York cops named Toody and Muldoon (Joe E. Ross and Fred Gwynne) and reaches its pinnacles with such dialogue as "Where's Toody?" "Toody's on doody...
...Where Are You? (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). PREMIÈRE of a new weekly comedy series about those thigh-slapping side-busters, the cops of New York. Written by Nat Hiken, creator of Sergeant Bilko...