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Ernie Kovacs Special (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A series of improvisations, including sketches on TV and movie stars, written, produced and directed by Kovacs. The star: Kovacs.
When TV added sight to sound, the hope was that the comic scene would be enriched with visual as well as verbal guffaws. Instead, the Big Eye seems to transfix comedians into frozen-faced patter-pushers. Visual gags, when they happen, are a cut below Charley's Aunt. With...
Subsequent foolery had Kovacs in a Cecil B. DeMille suit, grafted by trick camera work on antique film clips as a furious and futile director. The joke dragged on too long. But it was followed by one inspired bit of mockery: an immense, grossly fat ballerina staggering to the first...
Kovacs plans to do three more midget spectaculars to substitute now and then for the Silents, Please program that he, in the idiom of the medium, hosts. The odds are that they will be the only shows on the air whose credits lists will flash the appealing message; SEE THE...
The Ernie Kovacs Special (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Dutch Masters Cigar sponsors one of its best customers, Comedian Kovacs, in a "visual interpretation" of music from Haydn to Weill.