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...practical joke in history. For 13 years, the program (known as Candid Microphone in radio days) has kicked about on the networks, intermittently joined the Jack Paar, Steve Allen, and Garry Moore TV shows. This season. Candid Cameraman Allen Funt is back on the air (CBS) with a new half-hour show that features Ar thur Godfrey and Singer Dorothy Collins (the girl in the motorless car) as fellow cards, plus innumerable new gimmicks. In a season in which the canned far out weighs the candid, Camera has grabbed one of the highest ratings...
Eyewitness to History. A weekly half-hour designed to fill one of the more obvious gaps in TV news coverage. While TV can be on the air quickly with late news, and while it has shown its ability to summarize longstanding problems (as in Murrow's See It Now), TV in general has often failed to handle a big current event with analytic depth. To meet that need, Eyewitness will cover a major news story of each week, is pledged to change its story within hours of air time if necessary. So far the show has been effective...
...speech, and the question-and-answer period that followed, were designed to lay the religion issue to rest for the remainder of the campaign. Instead they were being used to keep the Kennedy side of the question alive. Last week, to the surprise of some local Democrats, a half-hour film of the Houston meeting appeared in prime time on eight California TV stations, distributed by Democratic headquarters in Washington. It was shown three times in the State of Washington. It appeared in Colorado, Wyoming, Minnesota. Michigan, New York, Vermont. It has run again and again across the South...
...part of the crusade, Billy mingled with 123 leaders of East Harlem gangs and their henchmen, gave them a tough-talking half-hour that ranged from sex to the United Nations. Said one leader when it was over: "My gang will go to church tomorrow - or else...
...with the half-hour weekly Flintstones to keep going, the whole company is going off its rocker trying to think up Stone Age puns. Sooner or later they may have to introduce a new character called Spelunk-head, the village idiot. Mrs. Flintstone could ask her husband to please pass the basalt and pepper, and in redoing the kitchen, she could be for marble table tops, while he is for mica. In the next few weeks the Flintstones and their neighbors will be in and out of a jazz palace called Rockland and a movie set where The Monster from...