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...average television series is created for an adult with the mentality of a twelve-year-old. This is an egregious affront to the American populace. When will the TV program planners realize that the "average" viewer does not identify with the antics of Petticoat Junction or Gomer Pylel...
FRIENDS AND NABORS (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Jim Nabors, star of Gomer Pyle hollered a "y'all come" to his country cousins for a special musical night. Answering the call are Andy Griffith, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Marilyn Home and Shirley Jones...
...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...
...wise, roll into town behind a screaming police escort or in a chauffeured limousine. The touring cast of the Beverly Hillbillies cannily commandeers the town's oldest car for its infield entrance. Jim Nabors, trained as an operatic baritone before he took on the title role in Gomer Pyle, cost the gate an estimated 10% by trying to sing classical arias at the Shelby County (Iowa) Fair in July. And Lorne Green's Shakespearean parody of one of his own Bonanza scripts-"That which we call a Hoss by any other name would smell as sweet"-fell prairie...
...marriage is a fading institution. Bonanza's Ben Cartwright is a confirmed old widower and likely to remain so. The Fugitive's Richard Kimble is a wrongly convicted wife-murderer. Combat's Sergeant Chip Saunders is a single sort, and ail-American rubes like Marine Private Gomer Pyle and Small-Town Sheriff Andy Taylor ain't hitched either. Lucy is now a widow, and Constance MacKenzie's single status is the talk of Peyton Place, what with her having a teen-age daughter...