Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shot in the Dark and The Pink Panther, Gallic gumshoe Jacques Clouseau was played by Peter Sellers with his overfamiliar banana-peel approach to comedy. In Inspector Clouseau, Arkin follows meticulously in his predecessor's flatfootsteps, but the result is only a parody of a parody...
...AVENGERS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*The last adventure for Mrs. Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), who discovers that her husband, long presumed dead, has been found in the Amazon region. In to replace her as John Steed's (Patrick McNee) partner: Tara King (Linda Thorson), who will take a more curvaceous approach to sleuthing than did Karate Expert Emma...
...point most educators agree: Video Boy is becoming a sort of peewee pundit. He knows, for example, the finer points of docking in outer space, can distinguish Bach from Bartok, and is a storehouse of such miscellany as the fact that whales' backs get sunburned and peel. When he enters school, his vocabulary will be at least one year ahead of the pre-TV child. On the nursery-type show Romper Room, a teacher once asked her toddlers if anyone could think of a word beginning with u. "Ubiquitous," piped a kindergartner...
...AVENGERS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)* Charging into the program lineup, those English invincibles, John (Patrick Macnee) Steed and Emma (Diana Rigg) Peel, meet the inventor of a shrinking machine and wind up "livin' dolls" during "Mission: Highly Improbable...
...proved with the Flint films, Coburn can cut a wide peel from some mighty small potatoes. But this enterprise makes him seem less a star than a character actor who needs smaller roles in order to regain his comic stature. In part, the blame may lie with a bland, spiritless script that fancies itself original in lampooning western cliches, yet has the temerity to steal Jack Benny's most famous joke: "Your money or your life." Pause. "Well?" "I'm thinking." Theft and rape may sometimes be forgivable; plagiarism never...