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Over the years, regularly scheduled programs have been getting longer. This season there will be 31 half-hour shows, 36 full-hour programs, three 90-minute extravaganzas and seven two-hour blockbusters. Even 30-minute comedies are being bunched in groups of three, for easy pre-emption by 90-minute specials. The long programs are so schedule-disrupting that they cannot help causing a fundamental change in the old 26-week parade of series episodes, since fewer programs will ride out a season uninterrupted...
...most eminent men in our cultural life will have free rein on a full-hour telecast on Channel 5 at 10 p.m. tonight...
...velveteen vibrato caressed the lyrics of Sentimental Journey and I'll Be Seeing You, and as she backed offscreen, her sign-off kiss floated out individually, so it seemed, to each of her 40 million or so viewers. A veteran of 444 quarter-hour shows and 14 full-hour revues on TV since 1951, Dinah is toiling now at the most ambitious project of her career: 24 live, full-hour color shows for NBC. Her longtime sponsor, Chevrolet, is delighted to pay the $145,000-a-show bill, considers its link with Dinah to be "one of the most...
...break with TV, and to the New York Journal-American gave two reasons: 1) "I never made any money in TV. I received $1,200 for Marty, and the most I ever got was a little more than $2,000 for a Philco script. One year I wrote nine full-hour shows and numerous half-hours, and made $12,000 altogether"; 2) "I ask a lot. I insist on veto power when it comes to casting. I ask for veto power on a director. I insist that nobody can change a line in my scripts except me ... Not many people...
...bone-chilling words of its participants The Galíndez-Murphy Case: A Chronicle of Terror. The skillfully fleshed-out version of the story, first revealed by TIME and LIFE, made an impressive documentary-in-sound-so impressive, in fact, that CBS rushed to rebroadcast this week the suspenseful full-hour reconstruction of how Columbia Lecturer Jesús de Galíndez, a Basque, was kidnaped from Manhattan, spirited out of the country and apparently murdered because of his opposition to Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo (TIME, April...