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...Literate, funny, warm and tender" was Producer Hal Kanter's unblushing preseason review of his new NBC show Julia, the first TV series to focus on a Negro family. "Julia will be an opportunity to show the world how black people live," chimed in Diahann Carroll, late of Broadway (No Strings) and Hollywood (Hurry Sundown), who plays the title role...
FRANCIS ALBERT SINATRA DOES HIS THING (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Diahann Carroll and The 5th Dimension join Sinatra in a musical special...
...piece on the art of robbing a football stadium and getting away with the loot. The second half involves the problem, artificially created, of how to split that loot. As leader of the gang, Brown is allowed to take the take home to his former wife (Diahann Carroll). Enter James Whitmore, Diahann's evil landlord. He suspects what's up, but he also knows what he wants: Diahann. "Please," he pleads. "Please," she responds. When she refuses, he pulls out a machine gun and riddles her to death...
...later joins forces with Brown to shoot it out with the accomplices. Naturally, the accomplices all die, and the cop becomes a hero. As for good old Jimmy Brown, he is about to escape with his share, when he is called-symbolically-by the voice of the dead Diahann, summoning him-symbolically-to hell. And there, as they say in professional football, The Split ends...
...Julia (NBC, Tuesday, 8:30-9 p.m.). Diahann Carroll, in her own series, is a black registered nurse who is trying to make it in whitey's world. Widowed Julia has a five-year-old son Cory, played by a winning little fellow named Marc Copage. They are pretty well off, judging from the nifty apartment they occupy. Still, Julia needs a job. She is turned away by America's only personnel director who is not desperate to hire Negroes. Fortunately, she finds a protector in cantankerous Dr. Chegley (Lloyd Nolan), who doesn't care what color...