Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classic opener was carried a step further -the long street, the shot of the marshal entering. The marshal takes a quick draw and fires and fires and misses." By the end of the evening, Hargrove and Orr had worked out a rough plot, chosen their title. Hargrove picked NBC's Gunsmoke as his target, he says, "because it is a tremendously solid show. The characters are sharply defined. It is easier to spoof a good western. A bad western doesn't have anything to get your hands on." Ungrateful Gunsmoke producers, when they got wind of the forthcoming...
Counteroffer. Convinced that this was too little, Reynolds sent its General Counsel Joseph H. McConnell, onetime NBC and Colgate-Palmolive president, to London to work out a better counteroffer. McConnell got together with Tube, a moneymaker with interests ranging from bicycles to nucleonics, agreed to set up a new company to buy Aluminium. Tube would hold a 51% interest, so keep the new company nominally British; Reynolds would hold the other 49%. Tube-Reynolds asked Lord Portal to hold up the Alcoa deal, promised to pay his shareholders an "attractive" price, even promised to retain the Portal management...
...Music Shop (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Conductor Buddy Bregman introduces the country's top recording artists...
General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Lightfoot Fred Astaire, who triumphed in his NBC song-and-dance show last fall, comes back to television in a straight acting part. His vehicle: Man on a Bicycle, a comedy about a gallant rogue...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Adventures in Music, with Harry Belafonte, Renata Tebaldi, Maurice Evans, Duo Pianists Gold and Fizdale, the New York City Ballet and the Baird puppets...