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Douglas Fairbanks Presents (Wed. 10:30 p.m., NBCTV) is a filmed drama series made in Britain with a high professional polish. But the competence of the first show, a playlet dealing with an insurance agent falsely accused of murder and attempted rape, was overshadowed by the glossy commercials delivered in pear-shaped tones by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. himself, and including asides on the Magna Carta and the American Revolution, and the suggestion that the international set is rapidly abandoning pink champagne in favor of the more dizzying delights of Rheingold beer...
...Hero (Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., NBCTV) stars Cinemactor Robert Cummings in a filmed series about Robert Beanblossom, a bumbling real-estate salesman who is "a sort of likable jerk." He sets the tone of the leading character in the first show as he barely holds to his job and desperately tries to earn some commissions ("Even my friends are making more money than I am, and they're unemployed"). The gags are broad (Cummings to a vamp: "Be careful, I'm already committed." Vamp to Cummings: "You may have to be, when I'm through with...
After a successful 15-year parade of singing mice, hermits, retired admirals, reformed criminals and such, We, the People (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBCTV) last month tried a change of pace. Jovial M.C. Dan Seymour was given a vacation, and Sponsor Gulf Oil set out to win a new kind of popular success. With the help of the editors of LIFE, We, the People is presenting a 13-week series devoted to the race for the Presidency. The story of the candidates and issues is being told in a mixture of live interviews, films, animated cartoons and commentary...
Sound-Off Time (Sun. 7 p.m., NBCTV) alternates three comics (Bob Hope, Jerry Lester, Fred Allen) and one dramatic show (Dragnet) each month. So far, Hope has been noisily funny; Lester, noisily unfunny; and Fred Allen still baffled by the new medium. Allen made his usual acid jokes about admen and television, presided over three skits that didn't quite come off, gloomily croaked a singing commercial for Sponsor Chesterfield, but was unable to approach the comedy highs he reached on radio...
...Star Revue (Sat. 8 p.m., NBCTV) brings Comedian Jimmy Durante back to the air in the first of eight shows this year with a walloping 60 minutes of gags, songs and malapropisms ("I have an apperntment with some NBC indignitaries"). Unlike most revues, this one is not cluttered with long dance sequences calculated to give the star a breather. Durante was on camera virtually all the time, sharing honors with Metropolitan Opera Soprano Helen Traubel and old-time Partner Eddie Jackson. Durante, as usual, tore a piano apart, but he was at his best in the short sketches. Samples...