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...screen, CBS's U.S. Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., E.D.T.) was showing how much wittier Playwright J. B. Priestley is on the stage. The TV adaptation of Laburnum Grove, under the title Counterfeit, came around slowly to Priestley's engaging idea. A kindly English mediocrity (Boris Karloff) wants nothing more in the world than to live a quiet life in a London suburb, devoting his spare time to raising tomatoes. But since he is incapable of earning an honest penny, he tries "the other thing." His business, as he describes it, is inflation. To get more money...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Counterfeit, with Boris Karloff, Jessie Royce Landis...
Spectacular (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). A Connecticut Yankee, with Eddie Albert, Boris Karloff, Janet Blair...
Elgin Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Sting of Death, with Boris Karloff, Hermione Gingold, Martyn Green...
...their nephew who believes that he is Teddy Roosevelt (and leads a spirited charge up San Juan Hill every time he gallops upstairs), while Orson Bean managed to bring fresh good humor to the part of the only sane member of the zany Brewster family. Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff made a satisfying pair of stumblebum villains. Few TV revivals of old Broadway plays have come off as entertainingly and inventively as Arsenic and Old Lace...