Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time Astaire appeared on-screen last week, the networks were desolate from days of embarrassment. It should have been a great week, with no fewer than eight "specials" scheduled, costing a total of $1,500,000. Yet most of them were disappointing. On CBS, the musical version of Little Women was a dreary mistake; the miracle of Bernadette was a sugar-coated bomb. Even with French Clown Fernandel to help him, NBC's Bob Hope was merely routine; the mute, moving eloquence of Julie Harris in Johnny Belinda was all that was meaningful in a moldy melodrama. Ginger Rogers...
...once the pride of Producers Jack Barry and Dan Enright, had sunk so far in the Trendex ratings (from a high of 34.7 to an alltime low of 10.9) that the sponsor (Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) decided to bow out, and NBC summarily took the show off the air. At CBS, The $64,000 Question was also on the sick list, but only Twenty One had a ready replacement: Concentration, another Barry & Enright quiz show, so complicated that the possibility of a fix is probably not one of its faults...
...Pursuit (CBS, 8-9 p.m.).*A new dramatic show founded on the premise that, given enough time, everyone will come to hate everyone. In the premiere, Macdonald Carey is a vengeance-bent detective trying to gum up Sal Mineo, who crippled Carey's son in a sidewalk...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). One of TV's best dramatic programs dispatches Edward G. Robinson, cast as a retired toy tycoon, to a small Vermont town, where the neighbors are right persnickety; with Ray (Damn Yankees) Walston and Beatrice Straight...
United Nations Day Concert (CBS, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.). In a taped recording of a U.N. Day ceremony held two days earlier, Charles Munch conducts the Boston Symphony in Honegger's Fifth Symphony; legendary Cellist Pablo Casals joins Mieczyslaw Horszowski in Bach's Sonata No. 2 in D Major for Cello and Piano...