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...fell short of smash ratings. Despite A.D.'s stars (James Mason, Ava Gardner), spectacle and heavy pretelecast promotion, it attracted only 19.2% of the nation's TV viewers. That is above average but no larger than the audience for a typical episode of Magnum, P.I. The most popular three-parter of the season, ABC's Hollywood Wives, drew an unspectacular 22.8 rating, much lower than the blockbuster numbers predicted for the glitzy tale of Tinseltown...
Undaunted, the program kicked off the new season with a two-parter on alcoholism, and in future will confront the Supreme Court's ruling on pornography (as it applies to a fund-raising show for Maude's local library). Later in the season Maude will even have a face-lifting, after conceding that she feels "like an old hen with a turkey's neck and crow's-feet-I could be the centerfold for the Audubon Society." Her on-camera rejuvenation will be accomplished with tape and makeup, but the idea for the show came from...
...takes a bum map from the most lovable crook in the world. Simon the Likable (Jack Gilford), and ends up in the middle of KAOS when he uses it while rushing Agent 99 to the hospital. Since this is the first of a two-parter, 99 will labor long before giving birth to twins next week...
...SCOPE (ABC. 10-11 p.m.). The first of a two-parter, "People of War," focuses on the villagers in a much fought over hamlet in South Viet Nam. Repeat...
CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). The first of a two-parter, "Sometimes I Like Even Me," that deals with the progressive Lewis-Wadhams School in upstate New York. Lewis-Wadhams, which has no compulsory classes, has been in operation for five years and is based on A. S. Neill's English school, Summerhill...