Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). "Big Sur,"Frank Gagliano's original fable, tells the tale of a middle-aged Midwesterner's drive to California. The role is played by Gene Troobnick; James Coco, Billy Dee Williams and Kate Harrington are some of the characters he meets along...
BROADWAY '69-THE TONY AWARDS (NBC, 10-11:30 p.m.). The cream of Broadway assembles to give and receive recognition for the past year's plays and performances; co-hosts are Alan King and Diahann Car roll. Among those presenting awards will be Dustin Hoffman, Gwen Verdon and Leslie Uggams...
WHITE PAPER: THE ORDEAL OF THE AMERICAN CITY (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). White society in a "crisis of spirit." The example here in microcosm, San Francisco State College, is examined by Frank McGee...
Centuries shuttled back and forth last week on NBC. Italian truck drivers be came Roman legionnaires; butchers were metamorphosed Into gladiators (one burly swordsman was nearly reduced to tears When he got a scratched ear); a woman switched from modern bourgeois matron to sadistic Messalina. These time-machine gambols took place on Fellini: A Director's Notebook, one program in the NBC series called "Experiment in Television" that had managed to escape from the usual Sunday-afternoon intellectual ghetto to prime time...
...Notebook got out of the ghetto because (briefly) it had a sponsor, Burlington Industries. When the Burlington people saw a preview of Notebook, complete with Bacchic frenzies and the ghostly prowl of transvestites in the night-shrouded Colosseum, they dropped the option even though it was too late for NBC to change the schedule. Notebook's love affair with Imperial Rome resulted from the fact that Director Federico Fellini made it while at work on a movie based on the bawdy remnants of Petronius' Satyricon. His declared intention in making the TV film was to portray "an exalted...