Word: nielsens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High-stepping Joel Grey led a line of go-go garter girls in a production number from Cabaret which, by TV standards, deserved the top Nielsen rating for naughtiness. Barbara Harris, star of The Apple Tree, sparkled as the scullery maid-turned-balloon-breasted vamp. Co-Hosts Mary Martin and Robert Preston harmonized about marital disharmony in a scene from I Do! I Do!; pint-sized Norman Wisdom sang the razzmatazz title song from Walking Happy. It was Broadway at its belt-'em-out best, a show with pace, style, wit, suspense, and the kind of well-practiced polish...
...SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). For an hour of togetherness, Jack Benny and George Burns join with the Brothers in an attempt to smother Nielsen's No. 1 Bonanza...
...complacent man himself, Sheen works an 18-hour day, and has given up his twice-weekly tennis game. The way he is going, he may be remembered as the best bishop Rochester ever had -instead of the man who rivaled Milton Berle in the Nielsen ratings...
...replacement series -Mr. Terrific and Captain Nice. Terrific is a Milquetoast gas-station attendant who takes a pill and becomes a sort of CIA Superman. Nice is a Milquetoast chemist who takes a potion and becomes a police-department Superman. The quest for originality, in short, stops at the Nielsen lists, and fresh ideas are in as short supply as fresh talent...
...many of the shows are being dropped, in fact, that Milton Berle, one of the victims, has proposed that all his fellow dumpees sign off together in one single special titled Exit Laughing or the Nielsen Follies. Berle's company includes Tammy Grimes, Jean Arthur, Roger Miller, Shane, Hawk, Twelve O' Clock High, The Hero, The Rounders, Run, Buddy, Run and The Man Who Never Was. All are going off the air, leaving the field to such high-type shows as Gilligan's Island, Green Acres and Peyton Place...