Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bulk of the new season's shows premiere this week, along with more not-yet-purchased pilot offerings that NBC will air as it continues its series of Hollywood-style sneak previews...
...pilot of a possible series based on Franklin W. Dixon's never-ending (1927 to present) procession of boys' books...
SHERIFF WHO?? (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). A satiric comedy with a constantly changing cast of sheriffs, as one after another is shot or run out of a Texas town aptly named Blood. Dick Shawn, John Astin and Jerry Belson take their lumps in the pilot, "sneak preview...
...Commander. Rockwell came upon his tortured creed by accident. Born in 1918, the son of a vaudeville co median, he dropped out of Brown University in 1940 to become a Navy pilot because, as he later said, he believed "all that hooey about Hitler." Recalled during the Korean War with the rank of commander, he got his first glimpse of racist literature from a Navy couple in San Diego. At first he skimmed, then read deeply. Soon he had graduated to a secondhand edition of Mein Kampf. "I was hypnotized, transfixed," said Rockwell. "Within a year...
...flying aerodynamics laboratory, is the survivor of two prototypes. Needle-nosed, delta-winged and resembling two giant praying mantises, both of the 6-engine jets had attained a speed of Mach 3 in tests. Then the second and more sophisticated of the two crashed in June 1966 after Test Pilot Joe Walker's F-104 Starfighter jet brushed the giant plane's wing, then tore through a rudder during a publicity flight. Since then, tests of XB-70 No. 1 have contributed aerodynamic and thermodynamic knowledge, including studies of the sonic-boom problem that are being used...