Word: premi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...première of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, Coventry, England...
...première of Polish Composer Krzysztof Penderecki's Si. Luke Passion, Germany...
...première of Italian Composer Luciano Berio's Sinfonia, New York, 1968. Popular...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES-WORLD PREMIĒRE (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). In Rod Serling's trilogy of strange human relation ships, Night Gallery, each tale focuses on a painting and the people involved with it. The first picture is of a tortured Jew in a concentration camp; Richard Kiley stars as an ex-Nazi. The second features Joan Crawford as an art-collecting blind woman who will do anything for a few hours of sight. The last painting shows first one, then several open graves, after Roddy McDowall decides to hurry the death of his rich uncle...
Curiously, yet another ABC première last week, Movie of the Week, led off with a plane crash. In this one, seven blind people survived, only to be done in by the tricky, pseudopsychological script. That disaster may or may not have been a harbinger of ABC's remaining 24 movies of the week, since they will come from many different producers. Generally, they will run cheaper (all 25 cost $16 million) and shorter (80 minutes without commercials) than conventional features. Films specially made for TV can develop into series, witness last season's Then Came Bronson...