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Bert Parks, professional smarty-pants, not only survives, he flourishes. This week, he adds a third quiz show, Balance Your Budget, to his string. His sponsors-Bristol-Myers, Campbell Soup, Sealy Mattress -will pay him more than $100,000 this year. Parks thinks the reason for his continuing success lies in his approach: "Mine is to be nice to people. Fun in the living room is the type of thing I do best-that way, you can bring out so many humorous angles." As an example, Parks cites a married couple on one of his shows who had a chance...
...Money (Tues. 10 p.m., NBC). New quiz show starring Comedian Herb Shriner...
...Helga Haier, 21, and her real cool partner Dieter Heidemann, 20, stomp, slide and swivel their way to first place in a style that, by comparison, made many a U.S. practitioner of the art look like a whirling dervish with lumbago. ¶In Paris, two great American institutions-the quiz program and the striptease-were ingeniously fused. Every night, in a nightclub called L'Academic des Vins, a model named Mile. Genevieve appears, tastefully clad, on the stage while a quizmaster flings questions at the audience. Each customer giving a correct answer is entitled to remove one piece...
What in the World (Sun. 5:30 p.m., CBS). Easily the best daytime quiz show...
...fabulously versatile Hickman was a television performer who really enjoyed performing on a quiz show last year, but who nevertheless was a football coach all the way through. A man does not have his championship background--all-American guard at Tennessee, and line coach of Army's great war-time teams--without becoming at least partially addicted to the game...