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...ratings-are not much different from the other networks' fare. ABC's top shows are only too familiar comedies such as Happy Days and its offspring Laverne and Shirley, sci-fi fantasies like The Six Million Dollar Man, from whose stainless-steel rib was cloned the Bionic Woman, and a lineup of crime that includes Starsky and Hutch and S. W.A. T. ABC has placed at least four shows in the top ten since the start of the second season...
...shot spiced up such oldies as Marcus Welby, M.D. with infusions of sex. By midseason, he recalls, "half our shows worked, but we had serious problems in the 8-to-9 period." These evaporated as soon as ABC spun off Laverne and Shirley and Bionic Woman from its two most successful "family" shows and introduced another hit, the teeny-bopper variety show Donny and Marie. In February ABC was ready to capitalize on its new-found strength. Rich Man, Poor Man, a sexy twelve-hour serial that could turn into a series, was launched. Then Pierce delivered the coup...
...Silverman who set up the CBS schedule against which ABC has done so well. It is too early to judge Silverman's real influence on programming. It was he who spotted the series potential of Laverne and Shirley, the two brewery workers on Happy Days, and suggested The Bionic Woman spinoff. Silverman's impact on ABC itself is obvious. Already the network exudes a No. 1 brand of confidence. Now the hot $m_ |f-entertainers want to be at ABC. More than 50 projects, including a new Norman Lear sitcom starring Nancy Walker and an evening soap...
Probably there is no need for THE BIONIC WOMAN (ABC, Wednesday, 8 p.m. E.S.T.) either, unless you are a Six Million Dollar Man looking for a mate. But there is more wit inherent in the new show's conceit than there is in that of the original model: superhuman physical prowess is unexpected in a lass as comely as Lindsay Wagner. On the opening program, for example, Wagner, whose cover job is schoolteaching, delivered homilies on peace and cooperation while abstractedly tearing a telephone book in half. One hopes the show's writers will keep this spirit...