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...PRUITTS OF SOUTHAMPTON (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Phyllis Diller as the widowed head of the poor but proud Pruitts of Long Island. The first episode, "Phyllis Goes for Broke," chronicles Uncle Ned's (Reginald Gardiner) efforts to marry Phyllis off to moneyed stuffiness, General Cannon (John McGiver). Gypsy Rose Lee plays a noisy neighbor...
...Wrong Number!" The marriage of convenience between movies and television can a'so unleash such misbegotten progeny as a sex farce with two heads. Here, one head belongs to Bob Hope, the other to Phyllis Diller, and Wrong Number demonstrates what a pair of fine stand-up comedians have to do to stretch out an idea that might comfortab'y fill four minutes of prime time. The body hustled hither and yon to take up the slack belongs to Elke Sommer, cast as a European sex queen who suffers an attack of artistic integrity midway through her umpteenth...
...inhabitants of the rugged Pennsylvania mountain country around Shade Gap (pop. 140), he was known as "Bicycle Bill" because of the battered, red bike he always rode, head down, carrying one of his mongrel dogs in a handlebar basket. His real name was William Diller Hollenbaugh. Short, skinny and stooped, missing five front teeth, he had spent six of his 44 years in prison, 13 in an insane asylum. Since moving to the Shade Gap area several years ago, he had lived as a hermit in a two-room hilltop shack, subsisting on wild game and state relief checks...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.)* Hamming it up with Bob are Guests Lee Marvin, Jonathan Winters and Phyllis Diller. Originally scheduled for March 16, but postponed for Gemini...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A daring mixture of unlike comic elixirs-Lee Marvin, Phyllis Diller, Jonathan Winters-which may blend into a palatable draught...