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...FORRESTER (NBC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.) is a Police Story spinoff, starring shrewd but compassionate Lloyd Bridges as a detective walking a beat in uniform, trying to clean up his old neighborhood. He appears to like everyone he meets, never steals apples from the fruit stand and is respected by the locals. Even when he is responsible for the death of both sons of a woman he has known for decades, her admiration for him remains unsullied. He is, in short, the peace officer who passeth all understanding. So does his show...
DOCTORS' HOSPITAL (NBC, Wednesday, 9 p.m. E.D.T.) has George Peppard as Ben Casey redivivus-another resident neurosurgeon who sprinkles ground-up interns on his crunchy granola for breakfast, gnaws on the leg of a hospital administrator at lunch and fries incompetent colleagues for dinner. Hospital-show scripts are as predictable as hospital menus-and bear precisely the same relationship to real drama as institutional food does to haute cuisine...
...there is a trend no bigger than a program director's soul to be discerned here it is two half-hour comedies that deal with fortyish women trying to start new lives. Fay (NBC, Thursday, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.) is played by Lee Grant, and she is a divorcee. Phyllis (CBS, Monday, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.) is a newly widowed Cloris Leachman. Both, coincidentally, are trying to work things out in overused San Francisco...
Once is more than enough, however, for the likes of Big Eddie (CBS, Friday, 8 p.m. E.D.T.), The Montefuscos (NBC, Thursday, 8 p.m. E.D.T.) and Doc (CBS, Saturday, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.). People like these must have existed once so that the movies and television had something on which to base their models. For decades now, however, these characters have only existed as TV cliches. The predictability is not just unfunny, it is infuriating. Big Eddie (Sheldon Leonard) is the semitough owner of a sports arena cut off the loud-checked Damon Runyon cloth. As a nod to more recent...