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...TIME (CBS, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.), Lear makes the same mistake that the producers of the late Fay did. Instead of the humor inherent in the show's situation-a formerly married woman's adjustment to the single state-he has chosen to cram it with familiar sitcom gags...
Sean Potts and Sean Keane work for the Irish post office. Martin Fay is a purchasing agent for a Dublin electronics company. Paddy Moloney is an administrator. Derek Bell has been an orchestral harp player for ten years. Peadar Mercier is a construction foreman and the father of ten children. Michael Tubridy is a consulting engineer. They are, in short, about as average a bunch as any country can produce and not the usual candidates for pop stardom. But when they sit down together to play, they are something else again: the Chieftains, Ireland's leading folk band...
...years since Fay Wray was strung up in a delightfully sadistic way as bait for the huge ape, only to conquer his marshmallow heart. Universal will follow the original faithfully. Wray's part has not yet been cast, but Fay herself, now 68, will have a cameo role...
...like, "You'll make it, Georgie, I know you will." McCaire Henderson as Agnes has a sweet voice, but she's far more persuasive as a stage-frightened girl from Worcester, Mass. than later on as Georgie's second wife. Kathy Evans also has a few good moments as Fay Templeton, an aging star who fumes sarcastically at back-handed compliments...
...compounded this upset with lineups filled with new programs that turned out to be heavy losers. Beacon Hill has already been leveled on Tuesday, and Switch! and Joe and Sons seem destined to go. The story is the same on Thursday at NBC. The Montefuscos and Fay were dispatched with unseemly haste; Ellery Queen and Medical Story will probably follow...