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Every desert has its oasis. Television has George Schaefer. Now that Playhouse 90, the Alcoa Hour, Kraft Theater and Studio One have gone, Schaefer's Hallmark Hall of Fame is virtually the only greenery left. The other directors spawned in the golden days of live and tape television-Arthur Penn, Sidney Lumet, John Frankenheimer, et al.-have all gone to graze in the lusher pastures of Broadway or Hollywood. Only Schaefer still does business at the same old stand. For him 60 feet of studio space still offer acres of opportunity and fulfillment, as he proved with last week...
...After some 50 wartime shows, including Macbeth and the G.I. Hamlet, Civilian Schaefer directed Civilian Evans in Hamlet on Broadway, went on to the Dallas State Fair for six seasons, co-produced (with Evans) The Teahouse of the August Moon, and then settled in for a long run at Hallmark...
...HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Melvyn Douglas as the defense attorney and Ed Begley as the prosecutor in Inherit the Wind, the Scopes-trial drama of Broadway and movie fame. Color...
...HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* Eagle in a Cage stars Trevor Howard as Napoleon in exile on St. Helena...
...Knack originally was a talky, one-act play (by Ann Jellicoe), and in opening it up, Lester set himself a difficult challenge, which he compounded by his non-naturalistic approach. Yet he is strikingly successful. His hallmark is a jumpy, free-association style of editing, and The Knack is made up of very short scenes like blackout sketches and several longer set pieces (such as the already-famous one in which Colin, Tom, and Nancy push, paddle, and ride a Victorian wrought-iron bed through London). To a wild, try-anything-a-couple-of-times sense of humor Lester brings...