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...network abandoned many of the traditional shows that had given it clear superiority in rural areas and among the elderly. It concentrated instead on its idea of sophistication. That meant the cancellation of The Red Skelton Show after 16 seasons, The Jackie Gleason Show after eight successful years and Petticoat Junction after seven...
...bodies of rivals and girls. Inevitably, show business insiders recognized in Stone at least a passing resemblance to James T. Aubrey Jr., 51. As president of CBS-TV for more than five years, Aubrey ruled with a high hand and a low common denominator of programming (The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction) that for most of that time won CBS leadership in the ratings. After hours, Aubrey said of himself: "I don't pretend to be any saint. If anyone wants to indict me for liking pretty girls, I guess I'm guilty." Partly because of his after-hours...
Whenever a fresh idea comes on the air, TV programmers can be counted on to run it into the ground. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. spawned The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Shindig stirred Hullabaloo. The Beverly Hillbillies called forth Petticoat Junction and then Green Acres. Now it's the turn of Laugh-In and The Smothers Brothers...
Died. Bea Benaderet, 62, character actress, who starred as the folksy, warmhearted Kate Bradley in TV's Petticoat Junction; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. After years of bending her voice on radio into every accent from Brooklyn to the Ozarks as a comic foil for Fibber McGee and Molly, and Jack Benny, Bea finally got a chance to show her face on TV. In 1950, she appeared as Blanche Morton on The George Burns-Gracie Allen Show and in 1962, as Cousin Pearl on The Beverly Hillbillies, before graduating to Petticoat Junction...
...paper, the 1968-69 season, which opens this week, looks indistinguishable from 1967-68. Onscreen, viewers will find a few new wrinkles. Bonanza, Petticoat Junction, The Big Valley, The Andy Griffith Show and My Three Sons encouraged a trend by all featuring at least one character who was a widow or a widower. This year the trend becomes a stampede. In addition, the big, new angle is interracial - there is a vast increase in roles played by Ne groes. Whether all this signifies a vast improvement in entertainment is, of course, problematical...