Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICAN WONDERLANDS&151;THE NATIONAL PARKS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A National Geographic Society special on the beauty of the U.S. parks system...
...JONATHAN WINTERS SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests are Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ella Fitzgerald and George Raft...
...PAULSEN FOR PRESIDENT (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). A wrap-up of Comic Paulsen's apolitical presidential campaign; films show how he crashed the Democratic and Republican conventions, as well as his 89?-a-plate testimonial dinner held in a Beverly Hills cafeteria and a politically inspired flight in a biplane...
...days he tried to hitch a plane ride to the Biafran battle zone. Finally, he talked himself onto a decrepit DC-4 that took him to Port Harcourt. Along with CBS correspondent Morley Safer and 20 federal troops, Priya went looking for action. On a road outside Owerri, Biafran soldiers opened up from ambush, and Priya was hit in the arm and back. Safer and some of the Nigerian troopers carried him to an aid station, but he died an hour later...
Inauspiciously, the network slipped the show in at midseason 1967 as a replacement for the slumping Man from U.N.C.L.E. CBS's Lucy and Gunsmoke, two top-rated shows sharing the opposing time slot, never knew what hit them. Within twelve weeks, Laugh-In leaped from 48th to fourth place in the ratings and tripped off with four Emmys as the most successful program of the season. What brought that success was not only the partnership of Schlatter, Friendly, Rowan and Martin, but the group of bright, young, remarkably versatile comics who people the show. Among the regulars...