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...current success, North Carolina-born Soupy "scuffed around from one radio and nightclub job to another. I kept quitting because of illness. They got sick of me." Finally he came to roost at Detroit's WXYZ, where two years ago he was the summer network replacement for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, clobbering its rating in several cities. Outside an 18-hour workday at the studio, Soupy lives quietly in flossy Grosse Pointe with his attractive ex-vocalist wife Barbara, their two children, three and five, and a 3,000-disk record collection. There, instead of Vite-A-Minnies...
...Lawrence Welk, whose climb to the No. 5 position in the ratings began with a summer replacement spot two years ago, will obligingly tootle all summer long. Grand Inquisitor Mike Wallace, the chain's "biggest" new talent, will be around on Sunday nights. Already filling in for vacationing Kukla, Fran & Ollie is Sports Focus, a new show featuring sports news and interviews with top athletes. There will also be reruns of many ABC standbys...
Many Moons (Sat. 6 p.m., ABC). A James Thurber fantasy by Puppeteer Burr (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) Tillstrom...
...Super Circus supply acrobats and trapeze acts; some of the Saturday morning shows include education films dealing with the home life of otters and salmon. The CBS dog show Lassie is soon to get a canine rival in ABC's filmed Rin Tin Tin. ABC's Kukla, Fran & Ollie is seen every weekday, but its gentle humor probably has a larger audience among grownups than kids...
...Chicago, Kukla, Fran & Ollie found a new home on the ABC network. A standard NBC item since 1948, the gentle Burr Tillstrom show originally ran for half an hour, five times a week. Then it was cut to 15 minutes, and finally, limited to 30 minutes once a week. With a new sponsor (Gordon Baking Co.), the Kuklapolitan players will go back to their five-day-a-week format...