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...BIONICS are multiplying like Texas Instruments' common stock. In addition to the Six Million Dollar Man and its automated rib-out, Bionic Woman, ABC has Holmes and Yoyo, featuring a robot programmed to do cops' work for kids' amusement. NBC recycles The Invisible Man as Gemini...
VARIETY COMEDY, that standard entry, will include the engaging Bill Cosby, with a comedy hour on ABC in prime kiddy time. He faces tough competition from the perennial Wonderful World of Disney (NBC) in the 7 p.m. Sunday slot, known in the trade as "death alley." The Captain and Tennille, a.k.a. Pop Musicians Daryl Dragon and Wife Toni Tennille, are a) lackluster, and b) up against Rhoda and Phyllis from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays, and may have to go bionic to survive. The same thing goes for Van Dyke and company on NBC, which...
SPECIALS, those traditional one-shot blockbusters, will feature Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope, Charlie Brown, Neil Diamond, Johnny Cash, Bing Crosby and many others. This kind of show is virtually the property of NBC this year. The network has scheduled 190 hours of nonseries specials programming, plus 45 hours of a weekly spectacular it calls The Big Event. TBE is an amalgam of movies, novels-into-books and such nonhappenings as a 4½-hour special-during its worst rated year ever-in honor of NBC's own 50th anniversary. Highlights: the first network TV showing of Gone With...
FILMS are, of course, a diminishing species, and even fewer of them can be blue-penciled for TV. So, though all three networks carry on with movie nights (NBC has four, in addition to the superflicks on The Big Event), many of the films are made for TV. Among them: Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, based on the best-selling book about John F. Kennedy (NBC); and inevitably, Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby with Ruth Gordon...
ADVENTURE as a category looks upward. Two shows celebrate the wild blue yonder. Spencer's Pilots (CBS) records the adventures of two young pilots who work for an independent aviation company; against ABC's Donny and Marie and NBC's Sanford and Son, they may never get it off the ground. Baa Baa Black Sheep (NBC) expands the feats of scrappy Pappy Boyington, the celebrated World War II Marine Corps fighter pilot, in Dirty Dozen fashion...