Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CBS-TV brass sat down and privately took in a video-taped Person to Person interview with aging (66, maybe) Sex Goddess Mae West, promptly canceled the earthy program because parts of it "might be misconstrued." Had Author West (Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It) said or done anything naughty before the cameras? "Certain minds always misconstrue everything," said the past mistress of double-meaning ribaldry. "I have a very big public that understands what I say." Exactly what happened when CBS Interviewer Charles Collingwood came up and saw Mae in her Hollywood apartment? One of the droller exchanges...
...been made crystal clear that the American people hold the networks responsible for what appears on their schedules." With that belated recognition of the obvious, CBS President Frank Stanton announced that his network will no longer permit "games whose major appeal is the winning of large sums of money or lavishly expensive prizes." CBS followed through by axing The Big Payoff, Top Dollar and Name That Tune...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.).* A live TV adaptation of Graham Greene's The Fallen Idol, in which a seven-year-old English boy (Jacques Hirschler) faces the destruction of his private world when he discovers that his male baby sitter (Jack Hawkins) is having a clandestine affair with a well-endowed "niece." With Jessica Tandy...
Armstrong Circle Theatre (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A semi-documentary dramatization of last March's prison riot in Walpole, Mass., during which the warden, chaplain and guards were seized as hostages, soaked with gasoline and threatened with fiery death...
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). With some TV sheriffs it's conscience that forbids pulling a gun; with Lloyd Nolan it's arthritis. In Six Guns for Donegan, Nolan plays Sheriff Darrow, whose reputation might have been salvaged more easily by a visit to the town doctor...