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...Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf (ABC, 5-6 p.m.). A repeat of last season's charming take-off on the Prokofiev classic...
...Carney, as the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's Our Town (NBC). "Nothing should stand out about this guy," said Carney about his role, and he may have carried a good judgment too far, was sometimes too emotionless compared to the rest of the cast, directed by José Quintero with the same intensity that he brought to O'Neill on Broadway. The play itself once again emerged as an unfailingly touching, tender hymn to life...
...Carney Show (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). Thornton Wilder's modern classic, Our Town, with Carney as the stage manager who tells all because he knows...
...colonel was Comedian Art Carney, joined by Hermione Gingold in a parody of Separate Tables: Carney lost in Hermione's furs, and Carney in suicidal despair over having given the "wrong order" on D-day ("Desert!") was as funny as anything seen on TV. On his first of eight monthly shows this year, Carney was badly hampered by some dreadful jokes and a couple of high-school-level musical numbers. But in the skits he triumphed with his marvelously mobile face, his adaptable voice (he started in radio 17 years ago on a serious news show, impersonating Churchill...
...show's high point: Carney impersonating Ed Murrow impersonating the Delphic Oracle. In the manner of Murrow's Small World program, Carney conversed with a famous Riviera party giver ("It's really been one of the most divine and decadent seasons I can recall," gurgled Hermione Gingold); a twitch-lipped Hollywood star impersonated by Edie Adams, who did her too-familiar but still funny parody of Marilyn Monroe; and a Greek shipowner (Hans Conried) who has just bought a new Picasso-"his oldest boy." Throughout, Carney kept up the authentic Murrow atmosphere of portentousness and cigarette smoke...