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Just how difficult this is to do is demonstrated by the Larsen family's travails on The New Land (ABC, Saturday, 8 p.m. E.D.T). This series is based vaguely on Jan Troell's beautifully photographed, movingly understated and intensely serious films about a family of Swedish pioneer farmers working the Minnesota prairies about 20 years before the Ingallses arrived there. Yet the atmospheric authenticity that sustained Troell's movies is apparently impossible to duplicate on a television snooting schedule. Worse, in contrast to Little House, which keeps a tight focus on a single family, thus stressing...
...more authentic accent than Maggie, but she is not nearly vicious and venomous enough. Charles Siebert's cigar-smoking Gooper is adequate. This couple is not up to the Madeleine Sherwood and Pat Hingle of 1955. Wyman Pendleton's Reverend Tooker is a deft sketch; and William Larsen has the unrewarding role of Doctor Baugh, who, like a messenger in Greek drama, is on hand merely as the bearer of bad tidings. The children and servants perform their bits admirably...
...remembered, is herself only 28 years old--Carole Shelley is not yet entirely at ease in her lines; but she looks fine in her red-and-black gown, and her straight back speaks a thousand words. Juliet's father, Lord Capulet, is a man in his sixties. William Larsen, sporting a white beard, makes this well-meaning crank fully human; he does admirably with the blustering scene in which he sputters torrents of monosyllables at his headstrong daughter...
...Larsen, in relief of starter Mark Linehan, picked up the win for the Crimson...
Reliever Bob Larsen had a hard time finding the plate as well, but the Tufts squad didn't let him off the hook so easily. Five walks and five runs later, Larsen gave way to Mark Linehan, whose inaccuracy helped three more runs cross the plate...