Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal Trade Commission was harder to sway. Last May it ordered Drug Research to stop claiming that Regimen could cause the loss of a predetermined number of pounds. After the FTC order, CBS carried Regimen spots for 13 weeks last spring and summer, then shed them. NBC continued them, mostly on Dave Garroway's Today show. But last week, 17 months after the FTC had complained that "those taking [Regimen] cannot lose weight without dieting," New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan seized a truckload of Regimen TV film commercials, books and financial records to determine...
...adapting Cervantes' work for last week's Du Pont Show of the Month (CBS), TV Writer Dale Wasserman caught the tragic essence of Don Quixote's comic role. In a tricky but effective device, he fused author and hero into one character, and let both proclaim: "To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, and never to stop dreaming or fighting-this is man's privilege and the only life worth living." Viewers and critics inclined to snicker at such idealism missed the point of a fine TV drama whose central theme...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Jolted by the death of his only son during a prep-school field trip accident, a widower harangues his son's teacher until he finds one of the boy's poems and learns the bitter truth about himself. The Last Autumn stars Pat Hingle and Alexis Smith...
Buick Electra Playhouse (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Another adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's famed short story, The Killers, featuring World Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson as the ex-heavyweight fighter and Dane Clark as a gunman hired...
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). The rise and fall of Murder, Inc., The Lepke Case casts Joseph Weisman as Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. With Lloyd Bridges and Sam Jaffe, and Gossipmonger Walter Winchell playing himself...