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Sarah Churchill (Sun. 5:45 p.m., CBS-TV) comes quietly and charmingly into the living room for a pleasantly informal 15 minutes of conversation and anecdote. As for the eventual shape of the program, Actress Churchill tells the audience, "You will have to help me with that." The star's first guest, Eleanor Roosevelt, kept the ball rolling with reminiscences of Winston, visas, passports, wartime security, then bustled off to dinner...
Crime Syndicated (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Since his standout performance as special counsel of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee last March, Rudolph Halley has become a political candidate (for president of the New York City Council), a Hearst columnist and a TV actor. In Crime Syndicated, his first sponsored show, Halley takes his audience on a Cook's tour of the underworld. Highlight: a dramatized sketch about dope peddlers, which came to the surprising conclusion that crime does pay, showed how a Government witness was intimidated by hoodlums in court and then murdered before she could testify again...
Next to Joe Miller's joke book, the best source of inspiration for TV entertainers has long been parlor games. Many of these excursions into musical chairs and charades have deservedly died off. Of those that remain, What's My Line? (Sun. 10:30 p.m., CBS-TV), piloted by an amiable newsman named John Daly, is one of the very few to win an audience rating up with TV's top ten shows...
...through Fri. noon, CBS-TV) has followed the familiar progression: novel to movie to radio or TV show. Betty MacDonald's saga of a city couple on a chicken farm is inspirational in tone, concerned with small problems, and played to the hilt by the cast, notably by a breathless actress named Pat Kirkland...
Search for Tomorrow (Mon. through Fri., 12:30 p.m., CBS-TV) is so clearly derived from radio's teary soap operas that its actors scarcely move anything but their lips and larynxes. All this choked-up sadness, punctuated by organ chordings, will make most televiewers feel as though they have been dunked in an emotional bubble bath. Search for Tomorrow dispenses with the synopsis of previous episodes. This adds to the confusion but permits the actors that many more minutes of suffering...