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This was the week NBC unlimbered its big guns to recapture network dominance from rival CBS. With an expensive ($35,000 a week) film series called Medic, and with the first of its $300,000 "spectaculars," the network hopes to convince viewers that they should twirl their dials NBC-ward. What viewers got in the spectacular line was a musical comedy, Satins and Spurs, starring tireless Betty Hutton in her first TV appearance, and produced by Max Liebman, who won his spurs over the five-year run of NBC's Your Show of Shows...
...Medic (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Highly touted film series, featuring the birth of a baby to a woman dying of leukemia...
...summer doldrums is that they need the time for planning and preparing the big shows for fall. In Hollywood, TV producers were busy this week grinding out the reels that will make up 80% of the new season's film entertainment. Best of the new crop may be Medic, which takes a microscopic view of such medical problems as the birth of a baby and the operational cure of a cleft palate, and Hey, Mulligan, a new series starring Mickey Rooney as an NBC page...
...Captain. To Captain Joseph Miller, Schine's first company commander, McCarthy was less friendly. Miller, a com bat medic in World War II, a platoon leader in Korea, described life with Schine in restrained terms, but showed signs of inward boiling when McCarthy baited him by calling his testimony "drivel...
...Rita Gam), a Moroccan's daughter, as the kaid (Cornel Wilde) pounds at her portal. The kaid commands. Saadia fearfully slides back the bolt. In rushes the desert chieftain. Has he come to print a searing kiss upon her lips? No, he has merely brought the local French medic (Mel Ferrer), who says that Saadia has acute appendicitis, and proceeds to cut her open...