Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this slaughter and assault took place, respectively, on TV's Rocky King, Dragnet, The Mask, Front Page Detective, Martin Kane, The Big Story, Big Town, The Man Behind the Badge, and Foreign Intrigue. More people are killed each year on TV's crime shows than die annually by murder and non-negligent manslaughter in the six largest cities of the U.S. But, in one respect, television has a better record than the nation's police: every TV lawbreaker pays the penalty for his crime...
...crime seems to have reached a saturation point of about 20 network shows a week. Most abide by an unwritten rule not to go on the air before 9 in the evening, when impressionable moppets are supposedly in bed. But ABC's hour-long The Mask has broken the taboo by starting at 8 p.m. on Sunday nights. Only two future network shows are scheduled (a revival of Mr. & Mrs. North; and 21st Precinct, starring Paul Kelly) but they will probably do no more than replace other crime shows due to expire because of sponsor failure...
...Mask (Sun. 8 p.m., ABC). New adventure series with Gary Merrill, William Prince...
...mild morning last April, a band of dignitaries gathered before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. In the place of honor stood a tall old man whose somber mask of a face looked stiffly ahead. Before him, stretching to the hilltop, was an array of granite pillars, blocks and crosses - the graves of Americans who had died in two wars with Germany. Behind him fluttered the black, red and gold flag of the Federal Republic of Germany...
...sees. They plug an electric stethoscope into an outlet in the chair arm. Through this they hear the sound of the patient's heart just as the surgeon does. They also hear whatever the surgeon says to members of his team (picked up by a microphone in his mask) and comments by the leader of the seminar. The surgeon can hear these, too, if he chooses, and ask advice of a guest surgeon-for everyone in the audience also has a throat mike...