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...Combat, and CBS's Marshal Dillon on the theory that he can divert millions of viewers from shooting to scholarship. His "Jefferson High," founded at MGM's Culver City studios, is based on research at 50 live high schools. In real life Novak is Actor James Franciscus, 29, onetime flatfoot on Naked City. He went to Taft and Yale and never attended a public school, but he is handsomer than TV Hardin and can speak real English out of both sides of his mouth...
Producer Neuman says that later shows will break the rules more freely, deal with such pressing problems as cheating, rebellious teachers, race prejudice, and at least one ten-minute drill in the classroom. This may not keep the boys away from Combat, but if Actor Franciscus can hold the girls, Mr. Novak will graduate with honors...
Back to Quiz. NBC will also begin a drama series about a blackboard-jungle Tarzan, Mr. Novak, with James Franciscus as the muscular teach. Then the viewer can graduate to ABC's Channing, a university with ivy and all-"a world in microcosm," says ABC, "reflecting an alltime interest in the college scene." Thus prepared, the viewer is at last ready for the first big-money quiz show in five years. ABC, figuring TV has outlived the shame of its scandals, has plunged on a new quiz program named for its top take, 100 Grand. The network nostalgically insists...
...harried Van der Beugel. who had already cut his payroll by 2,000 men. was not up to any more slashing and one cold morning early last week he submitted his resignation to KLM's prestigious board of directors. As a stopgap measure, flinty KLM Board Chairman Franciscus den Hollander, former boss of the Dutch railroads, took over. In the first 24 hours of Den Hollander's regime, three longtime executive vice-presidents resigned. The KLM board is expected to go outside the company to find a new president, but with the example of able Ernst...
...Investigators (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). PREMIÈRE. A new adventure series starring James Franciscus as an insurance investigator, James Philbrook as his partner, and Mary Murphy as their girl Friday...