Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successor to the late George Szell, who died in July 1970 at 73, the Cleveland Orchestra last week chose 41-year-old Lorin Maazel. Endowed with stamina, sensitivity and intelligence, Maazel is a former child prodigy who at the age of eleven was guest conductor of Toscanini's NBC Symphony. One day, when he showed up to rehearse the NBC, he found all 100 or so musicians sucking lollipops. That might have finished any other child right then and there. Not Maazel. "I was a pretty tough kid," he recalls...
...NICHOLS (NBC). A $40,000-a-week salary and a $1,000,000 TV-movie guarantee lured James Garner (Maverick) back to the comedy-western business. Cast as a sheriff in need of vocational guidance, he emotes with accustomed facetiousness, his eyes flecked with fear and with understandable lust for the bosomy barmaid (Margot Kidder) who is the town's tease. The second episode took a clumsy swipe at U.S. jingoism and even Viet Nam (a 1914 cavalry officer notes: "Sometimes to save a town, you have to destroy it"). But there is a loco charm and potential intelligence...
...JIMMY STEWART SHOW (NBC). At 63, the still-winning old star finds himself in a not very winning extended-family situation. Stewart plays an idiosyncratic anthropology professor who wears a hairpiece and a ten-gallon hat, says grace with a gag punch line, and plays the accordion. His younger son and his grandson, as it happens, are both eight year olds ("Now you know what's meant by an absent-minded professor," Stewart comments). The level of script and wit is such that Stewart even delivers contrived asides and winks to the audience, appealing for sympathy...
...GOOD LIFE (NBC) and THE CHICAGO TEDDY BEARS (CBS) are the most annoying nitwits of the new situation travesties. In Good Life, a stockbroker and his wife (Larry Hagman and Donna Mills) check out of the bourgeoisie for the presumed comforts of becoming scrape-prone butler and cook to an anachronistic family of plutocrats (David Wayne and Hermione Baddeley). The plot smacks of those 1930s films that had fun with the Depression. Teddy Bears attempts to cash in on the nostalgia binge for the by-now-boring '20s, playing the gangland speakeasy scene for slapstick laughs. An apter title...
...FUNNY SIDE (NBC). This mating of Laugh-In and sitcom is at least topical. Each week, the stock company of five couples (one young, one old, one cosmopolitan, one black, one hardhat) lights into a subject. Last week it was sex, and most of the gags were past their prime. The premiere the previous week took on health and, without drawing much blood, did at least pink such vulnerable targets as Americans' hypochondria, overcrowded waiting rooms, and the inadequacies of health insurance ("At today's prices, the only one who can afford to be sick is Howard Hughes...