Word: nbc
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...premieres of NBC's and CBS's new shows last week (ABC held its fire until this week) suggest that life in televisionland is no more real this season than it ever was. It is just more earnest. The Beverly Hillbillies lit out for the White House to donate $95 million for pollution control. Lassie taped a show battling the same cause last week. Not to be out-involved, other series are tackling the grievances of migrant workers, the excesses of twitchy-fingered National Guardsmen, the spread of gonorrhea, the need for penal reform, the problems of abortion...
Most pretentious of the new shows is The Senator, which will appear every third week on NBC's catchall The Bold Ones series. But except for an authoritative performance by Hal Holbrook and a patina of knowingness (terms like "Evans and Novak" popped up without explanation), the premiere was just another action show about an assassination plot...
...Cover: Photo montage. From the top: jetliners at desert airstrip (by Nik Wheeler); commando press conference (Wheeler); burning 747 at Cairo (Rachad el Koussy for NBC News...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Sock-man, 80, famed radio preacher who propounded Christian verities to millions of Americans each Sunday from 1928 to 1962 over NBC's National Radio Pulpit; of cancer; in Manhattan. Sockman was minister of Manhattan's Christ Church, Methodist, and the author of numerous inspirational books (The Higher Happiness, How to Believe). But his largest audience was on the air waves, where, as he once put it, "I pitched my sermons on a level somewhere between Reinhold Niebuhr and Norman Vincent Peale...
...couldn't hurt to ask. So last April, when President Nixon urged the TV networks to help fight narcotics, NBC turned right around and asked him to appear in an antidrug episode of The Name of the Game. Thanks, said the President, but no thanks. Instead, Presidential Adviser Robert Finch, who once considered an acting career, starred in the segment. And waiting in the wings is Spiro Agnew. The Vice President will introduce Red Skelton's new fall show on NBC. Lest he carry this show-business gig too far, Agnew then nixed a Laugh-In stint-even...