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...year when the networks examine new-season schedules, take pulses, shake out the weaklings, and bring on shows that they hope will survive. Fatalities so far among the new programs: CBS's Dundee and the Culhane, NBC's Maya and Accidental Family, and ABC's Hondo, Custer, Iron Horse and F. Lee Bailey's Good Company. The biggest surprise is NBC's decision to dump the 3½-year-old Man from U.N.C.L.E. after Jan. 15; the Nielsen rating had dropped from No. 3 in June 1966 to 68th last week. Among new shows coming...
...refusal to accept the fact that the Chinese Communists wt:e massing for their invasion. "This wholly human failing of discounting or ignoring all unwelcome facts," writes Ridgway wryly, "seemed developed beyond the average in MacArthur's nature." He adds: "I cannot help drawing a parallel with Custer's behavior at the Little Big Horn, when the commander's overriding belief that he alone was right closed his mind to all counsel...
...most suffer from hoof-in-mouth disease. High Chaparral (NBC) standing just south of Bonanza's Ponderosa, features Rancher Leif Erickson against Apaches, marauding Mexicans, and a disappointing son who whimpers while he works. ABC has Hondo, an Army trucemaker, some of whose best friends are Apaches, and Custer, which takes scalps from history and Indians in equal number...
Colonel George Armstrong Custer (Wayne Maunder) is the hero of this new hoss-sol-diers-and-Injuns adventure. Premiere...
Wednesday, September 6 CUSTER (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*Lieut...