Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...producers of television shows can make such boasts with any accuracy, but as creator and producer of Star Trek, Roddenberry is well aware of the power of his show. Before cancellation by NBC in 1969, the show received unprecedented critical acclaim including an Emmy, an International Hugo Award and the Image Award from the N A A C P. When NBC announced cancellation of Star Trek, over a million letters poured in demanding that show be kept...
...Changes. NBC, which finished up the current season* slightly behind CBS, announced the biggest changes, with the introduction of nine new shows. Its old Tuesday night lineup, which included a movie and rotating news and documentary specials, will be thrown out entirely, and three crime-oriented hours will take its place. Four half-hour situation comedies will go into the schedule to replace such shows as Laugh-In, which is now only a tired reminder of the hit of the '60s, and Circle of Fear, which tried to be ghostly but was never more than ghastly. In The Magician...
...Savalas won acclaim this year in a similar role in CBS's The Marcus-Nelson Murders. Another thriller will bring Perry Mason back in a new series. Another Perry has to be found, however, since the old one, Raymond Burr, is busy fighting crime from his wheelchair on NBC's Ironside...
...imaginative disguises" to bring the varlets to justice. Every fourth week ABC will even give the viewer science fiction cops and robbers. In Cyborg, Lee Majors will play a test pilot whose body is rebuilt after a crash to make him a superman-and a super crimefighter. Since NBC put its long-running Western Bonanza out to pasture last year, Lome Greene has taken off his spurs. Next season he will don a business suit to play the star of Griff for ABC. In keeping with next fall's guns and chuckles accent, Griff will be a former...
...NBC, of course, was nowhere near broke. Ten days latter, it sent correspondent Douglas Kiker to the reservation, probably in anticipation of a possible bust. But no bust materialized, and Kiker delivered a report on "NBC Nightly News" that emphasized that Wounded Knee had indeed become somewhat boring...