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Return to Mayberry is the latest example of time-warp television: vintage shows that, after a decade or two in rerunland, have returned as new TV movies. Raymond Burr was back grilling witnesses in last December's Perry Mason Returns. Kung Fu, the early '70s hit starring David Carradine as an Eastern mystic in the American West, resurfaced as a CBS movie early in February. Kojak, Peyton Place and I Dream of Jeannie are among the other series that have been resurrected in the past year...
...Burr said the parties had agreed to withhold details until the formal announcement...
...There is no merger," Burr said. "McLean will be operated exactly the same as before. It will remain non-profit and remain under the control of the same trustees...
...Burr said he did not want any misunderstanding about the new arrangement after hospital staff members two years ago protested the proposed sale of McLean to the Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America...
...part because of McLean's need for increased revenues, Burr and other trustees in 1983 had entertained a sale to HCA, one of the world's largest health care organizations. But strong faculty opposition to the move convinced the directors to turn HCA investors away...