Word: docs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a certain sameness about them. Universal is responsible for 8% prime-time hours (out of 22) on NBC alone this year. Some of the good independents like Norman Lear and Mary Tyler Moore are also overextended -and overimitated. This gives viewers a narrow range of choices: cop and doc shows, ethnic sitcoms, nice-girl sitcoms. It has become harder to tell good from bad in this small spectrum. Still, the suspicion lingers that TV's real-if possibly temporary-trouble springs from precisely the opposite condition...
Once is more than enough, however, for the likes of Big Eddie (CBS, Friday, 8 p.m. E.D.T.), The Montefuscos (NBC, Thursday, 8 p.m. E.D.T.) and Doc (CBS, Saturday, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.). People like these must have existed once so that the movies and television had something on which to base their models. For decades now, however, these characters have only existed as TV cliches. The predictability is not just unfunny, it is infuriating. Big Eddie (Sheldon Leonard) is the semitough owner of a sports arena cut off the loud-checked Damon Runyon cloth. As a nod to more recent...
...them hit friend Seager rather than his own political fervor--on his gaiter strop. But the adds still when an old number comes up--he's still the Gibraltar of the band. And it's a fine band, particularly now that Randy has become as good a picker as Doc Watson: it gets awesome to think of where he'll he when he's more than a handful of years past his teenage. Gary, the bass player and singer, has a gritty, semi-Dylan voice that fits perfectly and unassumingly with fast-clip rock/bluegrass, but which in blues-ballads grinds...
What's Up, Doc?, 6:30, 8:15, 9:55, tonight; The Passenger...
William Larsen is a shrewd Doc Gibbs, and makes the first act's most touching moment--in which he gently chides his son for allowing Mother Gibbs to chop the wood--a memorable vignette. Eileen Heckart, with her always expressive face, is a dotingly solicitous Mother Gibbs, and is carefully to speak of her husband's hobby as the Civil Waw. Lee Richardson and Geraldine Fitzgerald, as Mr. and Mrs. Webb, are all right but not outstanding...