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Dear Phoebe (Fri. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Peter Lawford in a comedy series...
Dear Phoebe (Fri. 9:30 p.m., NBCTV) has Peter Lawford pretending to be the editor of an advice-to-the-lovelorn column. Most viewers can take it from there, as the expected foils march onstage in the expected order. There is the fiery girl reporter (Marcia Henderson), who "meets cute" with Lawford as both try to enter the same swinging door; the hardboiled, conscienceless managing editor (Charles Lane); the brash but dumb copy boy (Joe Corey). Faced with all these predictable characters and situations, Lawford still manages to infuse some wit and awareness into the stereotyped proceedings. But what little...
Dear Phoebe (Fri. 9:30 p.m., NBC). New comedy series, with Peter Lawford...
Married. Peter Lawford, 30, London-born cinemactor (It Should Happen to You) and Patricia Kennedy, 29, daughter of Millionaire Financier Joseph P. Kennedy and younger sister of John F. (Jack) Kennedy, junior Democratic Senator from Massachusetts; in Manhattan...
Miss Holliday and her two marquee running mates attempt to make up for what the plot lacks in coherence and pace. Playing a playboy with a turn for ear kissing, Peter Lawford is his usual suave self. Jack Lemmon breaks into celluloid as Gladys' camera happy boyfriend. The latter, star of the 1946 Pudding show, seems to have picked up a new habit of dress since leaving Harvard, but his acting ability is only hampered by some of the script's insipidly sentimental lines...