Word: pyles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like NBC and ABC, Steinberg's network devotes a lot of time to news, public affairs and respectable, "cultural" programs (Death of a Salesman, the Young People's Concerts series). But CBS's regular programming emphasizes situation comedy and old-wave adventure; the Lucy Show, Comer Pyle and Gunsmoke, all more or less tell "linear" stories. The NBC and ABC standard schedules could be called slightly more McLuhanesque-/ Spy, Man From U.N.C.L.E., Dating Game, N.Y.P.D.; their murky story lines are sub merged in frantic action or personal interaction...
...film, The Great Escape-CBS had shrewdly cut the 170-minute feature into two installments, and played them on successive nights. The rest of the leaders, in order: Bonanza (NBC), 20th Century-Fox's What a Way to Go! with Shirley MacLaine (NBC), Family Affair (CBS), Gomer Pyle (CBS), Paramount's Fun in Acapulco with Elvis Presley (NBC). No. 81 and last: Good Company (ABC), F. Lee Bailey's impression of the old Person-to-Person show...
...Nebraska citybillies, or malt-shop cowboys. Even when they are mildly suggestive, they seem as harmless as two choirboys sneaking a smoke behind the organ. Their style might be described as hokey hip, wholesome enough to trade hayseed one-liners with Guest Jim Nabors (TV's Gomer Pyle), upbeat enough to book such shaggy rock groups as the Jefferson Airplane...
...over Hollywood's Desilu Productions, the TV film maker controlled by Comedienne Lucille Ball, for $17 million in stock. Desilu produces four TV series (The Lucy Show, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek and You Don't Say), rents production facilities to 13 others, including I Spy and Corner Pyle. All of this earned Desilu $734,000 on revenues of $18.8 million in fiscal 1966. Charles G. Bluhdorn, 40, the Vienna-born immigrant who whipped G&W into a $317 million corporation (TIME cover, Dec. 3, 1965), sees "great potential" in the entertainment field, which now accounts...
...Comer Pyle-U.S.M.C., CBS, tied with Bonanza...