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...only new weekly TV comedian is Bob Newhart, who built his reputation on a handful of brilliant monologues. He has now committed himself to The Bob Newhart Show (NBC), which requires as much new material each week as he used to develop in months. Last week's premiére showed the strain, starting with a superb phone monologue and autobiographical sketch ("people thought I was taller than I am, but this is about as big as an accountant will get") and sliding slowly downhill thereafter...
Some of the more promising series and specials fell typically outside the usual categories. For Example. Alcoa Premiére began last week on ABC with an impressive dramatized study of group psychotherapy in the U.S. Navy (starring Arthur Kennedy). NBC's Theater '61, offering live productions of TV plays adapted from once popular movies, may sound like hybrid corn, but the first one, Robert Goldman's TV version of The Spiral Staircase, reminded viewers how good live television drama...
...Hathaways (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). PREMIÈRE. The problems of trying to bring up three young chimpanzees as if they were children. The chimps' foster mother is played by Jack Paar's Berlin playmate, Comedienne Peggy Cass...
...PREMIÈRE. Jack Lescoulie acts as guide to ten-year-old Richard Thomas in adventures around the world. Today's subject: mountain climbing. Guest: Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas...
Alcoa Premiere (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). PREMIÈRE. Fred Astaire as narrator and weekly guest stars in a new group of dramatic shows. "People Need People" concerns Navy Psychiatrist Harry A. Wilmer, who pioneered group-therapy techniques for mentally disturbed war casualties...