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Senior on the superannuated list is Ozzie and Harriet, which has persisted for 13 years. Perry Mason will sign off after nine years, Donna Reed after eight, and Hazel and The Flintstones after six. The top-rated Dick Van Dyke Show is the only one retiring-after five years-of its own volition. Explains Van Dyke: "We wanted to quit while we were still proud of the show...
...stuff of life he would some day find a way to can the stuff of the soul-laughter. Canned laughter is everywhere; TV has become a robot talking to itself, giggling at its own jokes. Even the few truly humorous shows-Get Smart!, The Dick Van Dyke Show-cannot fulfill the demand to be funny and original week after week. "It's not surprising," says S. J. Perelman, "that people who do weekly comedy shows on television are reduced to drivel...
...almost like old times-distressingly so. There in the Nielsen top ten last week were the old familiar faces, from NBC's Bonanza, in first place for the second year, to Gomer Pyle, The Farmer's Daughter, Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, The Beverly Hillbillies, Walt Disney and Bewitched. There was Red Skelton, now in his 12th year and ranked No. 6. And back into the lead surged CBS,* which is still indebted to its fired ex-president, James Aubrey, for almost all of its current programming, including six out of the top nine...
...acres of Hollywood real estate, he is king. Nine sound stages sound the alert when his footfall is heard; five companies now shooting television series await his Brooklynese benediction. He controls three of TV's top shows: Corner Pyle, Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke. I Spy, a rising comedy-adventure show, he owns outright. Yesterday, however, it was a different story. Producer Sheldon Leonard's climb has largely been from rags to rags; the riches are a very new addition...
...tried combining the U.S. fascination with cars, sex and Mom. But something happened in casting: the car is a 1928 convertible; Mother (who returns to earth from celestial regions, using the car radio as a voice box) is an invisible Ann Sothern; and as for Hero Jerry Van Dyke, he has finally answered the question, what is it that Jerry hasn't got that Brother Dick has? The Smothers Brothers also tried to cope with the Great Beyond. Tom Smothers is drowned at sea, returns to visit his brother Dick as an inept angel. It was better than coming...