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MAYBERRY R.F.D. (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Ken Berry, the bumbling cavalry officer of "F Troop," returns to play a boondocks farm er from Mayberry, N.C. The series inherits the locale and some of the cast of last year's Andy Griffith Show. Griffith will make guest appearances. Premiere...
...paper, the 1968-69 season, which opens this week, looks indistinguishable from 1967-68. Onscreen, viewers will find a few new wrinkles. Bonanza, Petticoat Junction, The Big Valley, The Andy Griffith Show and My Three Sons encouraged a trend by all featuring at least one character who was a widow or a widower. This year the trend becomes a stampede. In addition, the big, new angle is interracial - there is a vast increase in roles played by Ne groes. Whether all this signifies a vast improvement in entertainment is, of course, problematical...
...berry R.F.D. (CBS) is a revised version of The Andy Griffith Show. The new star, Ken Berry, carries on in the tradition: he is a widower in love with a bakery employee (Arlene Golonka). Here's Lucy (CBS) is just a new title for the old Lucy Show, except that Lucy's two real-life kids will be around; naturally she is a widow. So is Doris Day (CBS), who is making her TV debut in The Doris Day Show. She portrays a singer who leaves career and city after the death of her husband and goes...
...paid $45 each in tuition to learn that motivation. The educational effort was the work, appropriately enough, of a Franciscan priest who sent businessmen, skilled laborers, housewives and church workers into the slums of one of the nation's otherwise most serenely sunny cities, Phoenix. The Rev. Gavin Griffith, 31, ran his poverty war college with the strategic aim of simply stirring the conscience of his students. Some of the outsiders shed their uniforms (ties and suits), strolled the streets on the wrong side of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks, where rickety houses lean against each other, and whiffed...
...teams - Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, New York and Washington - and the loss of those games is likely to be reflected in gate receipts. To be sure, the Twins and White Sox will have only each other to beat for the western-division championship. But, says Minnesota Owner Calvin Griffith: "Teams have won pennants before -and lost money doing...