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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head has now suffered the same fate. With a little help from his makeup man, Comic Winters ripens into a big jack-o'-lantern on the set of Walt Disney's special, The Halloween Hall o' Fame. The show, scheduled to air Oct. 30 on NBC, stars Winters as a bumbling night watchman who swaps heads with a talking pumpkin. The tricks and treats are vintage Disney, and Winters loved it all-especially his costume. "I was secure with my head," he says. "I knew I was a pumpkin mentally. There's a lot of seeds...
...real message in your cartoon depicting the ABC logo in hot pursuit of NBC and CBS [Sept. 5] was not who was chasing whom, but that all three were heading downhill...
Stokowski had little more success in his co-conductorships. His tenure with the NBC Symphony ended after two years because the joint director, Arturo Toscanini, felt that Stokowski's musical ideas were too divergent from his own to make a joint directorship possible. Toscanini, the purist, had only a mite of sympathy for Stokowski's revolutionary ideas about adjusting acoustics and reseating orchestras. The problems were almost exactly duplicated and Stokowski ousted exactly seven years later, when he was hired to co-direct the New York Philharmonic with Dmitri Mitropoulos. The flamboyant Stokowski, whose glamorous life was already shrouded...
CHiPS (premiere: Sept. 15, 8 p.m. E.D.T. on NBC). Since this series about the California highway patrol is the only new cop show of the season, prime time will soon have to live without a new cop show. Up against The Waltons and the Osmonds, CHiPS may not last out the month. Erik Estrada stars as a motorcycle cop named Poncherello ("Ponch" to friends) who bears an all too obvious resemblance to both Baretta and the Fonz. For an hour, he and his partner (Larry Wilcox) ride the Los Angeles freeways arresting or aiding motorists. Occasionally they take a break...
...Caesar and Imogene Coca, the lovable lunatics on NBC's zany '50s hit Your Show of Shows, have long been going it alone, she on the dinner-theater circuit, he in the movies. This week they are dusting off their old tricks to open in Las Vegas. "I've never figured out why we work so well together, except that we both laugh at exactly the same time," says Coca, sixty-fiveish. Caesar, 55, is optimistic about resurrecting old skits like the satire in double talk called "The Bicycle Thief." Says he: "Don't forget. There...