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...PARTNERS (NBC). Don Adams, the nutball hero of Get Smart!, a golden oldie of the sitcom form, returns as author and star of a derivative series with the same lunatic intensity and sporadically hilarious style. This time, Adams and a new partner, droll black Actor Rupert Crosse (The Reivers), are bungling plainclothesmen. Inevitably, they do not play as freshly or score as often as old Agents 99 and 86, but would you believe...
...Webb pointed out, law-and-order is this season's watch-or don't watch -word. More than half of last week's new shows concerned private or public eyes, or the crusade against crime. Even Larry White, an NBC programming vice president, confesses that the proportion represents "an overdose." But there are a few potentially diverting series and a few harbingers of reform...
...morning programming on the three networks, 9 hours and 10 minutes are unchanged. CBS offers only 2 hours 20 minutes of new programs, and more than half of that time is given over to cartoons on the order of Pebbles and Bam Bam and Archie's TV Funnies. NBC offers two hours of new children's programming and ABC 2½ hours, plus one new half-hour on Sunday morning...
Poisonous Stone Fish. NBC's Barrier Reef is yet another underwater adventure series. The first installment dealt with an attempted murder involving a poisonous stone fish. Another NBC show, Mr. Wizard, is back after a six-year hiatus. The première half-hour was concerned mainly with the elaborate preparations necessary for setting up a color-camera magnifier in order to view underwater life on a giant video screen. Science could be exciting. Not, unfortunately, on this show...
...most adventurous idea is NBC's Take a Giant Step, which, sadly, stumbles and falls the hardest. It aims at being a spontaneous and live talk show, dealing with specific topics (happy/sad, money, evolution). The three guest hosts, aged 13 to 15, are different for each show. They have six weeks of preparation supervised by Scholastic Magazine and four weeks of program briefing by NBC. When they hit something that needs clarifying, they can order up a film and the problem is explained away on a giant screen over their heads. More confused than spontaneous, the show...