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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRANK SINATRA JR. WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). The family includes Dad and Sister Nancy, and the friends are Jack Benny, Sammy Davis Jr., Arte Johnson and the Doodletown Pipers on this musical-variety special...
Virtuoso Stock. Martin's patient is Lord Fortnum (Ralph Richardson), who lives in morbid fear of turning into a bed sitting room. He eventually does, of course. Just the way Penelope's Mum (Mona Washbourne) turns into a dresser and her Dad (Arthur Lowe) into a parrot, while Penelope herself (Rita Tushingham) takes 17 months to give birth to one baby and about 37 seconds to deliver herself of a second. All this goes on while the police (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) fly overhead in a rusted-out patrol car suspended from the end of a helium...
...Dad" Joiner, who just couldn't be convinced otherwise, and started drilling for oil in the arid wastelands of Eastern Texas. Undaunted by early failures, he finally discovered the oil that has made Texas what it is today...
Adapting his own 1963 autobiographical novel about growing up as a black boy in the Kansas of the 1920s, Parks recollects the characters of his childhood as the sort of stereotypes that usually appear in elementary-school brotherhood pageants. Dad (Felix P. Nelson) is slow-witted, humble and loving and Mom (Estelle Evans) is a gentle, worldly-wise philosopher who works as a domestic. Newt (Kyle Johnson) is about as likely an adolescent hero as Andy Hardy, waking Mom up in the middle of the night and listening wide-eyed as she dispenses such homespun homilies as "This town...
Part 3 became the cornerstone of the Wayne tradition. "When I came in," he claims, "the western man never lost his white hat and always rode the white horse and waited for the man to get up again in the fight. Following my Dad's advice, if a guy hit me with a vase, I'd hit him with a chair. That's the way we played it. I changed the saintly Boy Scout of the original cowboy hero into a more normal kind of fella...