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...MOD SQUAD," which is being billed as a daring taste of the way things are Now among the young, turns out in fact to be T.V. for the Wallace generation. Like the candidate himself it offers reassurance to a lot of scared people, it tells 'em what they want to hear. And, depending on how you want to take it, "Mod Squad" can be a good larf or an evil little phenomenon with nightmarish implications...
...Mod Squad in question is three kids, a white boy, a white girl, and a black boy. The girl, the run-away daughter of a prostitute, was picked up by the police for vagrancy. The white boy, who had been thrown out by his rich family, was arrested for car theft. And the black boy was busted during the Watts riots. The three have been given "a second chance" by the cops. They are trained by the police as undercover agents, so they can work for the cops on cases involving teenagers. The premise of the show is rich...
WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. A collection of short stories and essays in which the author, posing as a mod scientist at the controls of a literary time machine, explores the inner and outer spaces of the man-against-machine perplex...
...Mod Squad (Tuesday, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). This show, also integrated, offers a trio of attractive but unlikely soulmates: a tousle-haired beat from Beverly Hills (Michael Cole), a lithe Afro cat from Watts (Clarence Williams III) and a blonde waif (Peggy Lipton). As undercover agents for the fuzz, they sometimes find that the badge is not their bag. Nonetheless, they manage to balk a blackmail-and-kidnap plot involving a gubernatorial candidate (his daughter is on acid). The dialogue staggers to keep pace. Sample: "Ain't it the mother truth?" Despite the fresh faces-particularly Williams...
...tell it like it is. It's a comedy, and Watts ain't funny." Another Negro widow, played by Gail Fisher, will be a regular on the old private-eye series Mannix (CBS). A pair of new ABC adventure programs feature balanced tickets as well. The Mod Squad boasts three troublemaking dropouts who turn fuzz: one hip white chick (Peggy Lipton), one rebellious rich white boy (Michael Cole), and one ghetto black (Clarence Williams III). And The Outcasts are an odd couple of bounty hunters in the post-Civil War West. Don Murray plays a former slaveholder; Otis...