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...leaves behind millions of adoring fans--the current undergraduate population is the youngest to have munched at the feedbag of homespun lessons about life and laughter from Ed's wry rerun commentary. Who can forget Mr. Ed driving a milk truck down the streets of suburbia? Will the image of Mr. Ed at shortstop ever fade? And will the very name "Wilbur" ever be the same? For Ed's rolling cadences turned that pedestrian monicker into a symbol for everyman, a stable influence in a changing world...
...down Mem Hall mark exam period, the posturing, the hand-shaking, the favor-doing, the responsible-statesman tone of voice, the fund-raising, the denial of candidacy mark running for office. This year's field of contenders is even more of a National Lampoon parody than usual. Take the rerun of the '76 Republican dogfight (elephant fight?), for example, only this time Old Ronald McDonald Reagan is approaching the age of mandatory retirement for most jobs and Gerry Ford is still Gerry Ford, unfortunately more so. If that isn't a sick joke, I don't know what...
...series, which PBS's Masterpiece Theater began showing in 1974, finished its American run in the spring of 1977-to universal wailing and desperate cries of anguish from several million devoted fans. A Manhattan distributor, Group IV, picked up the rerun rights when the PBS deal ran out. Starting at various times this month and in the next several weeks, Upstairs, Downstairs will be shown on 46 commercial stations around the country...
Picture Researcher Rose Keyser visited the workshop where the Muppets are "born" and came away a true believer, like the rest of her colleagues. Says she: "Kids pick up the nuances in the Muppets. They enjoy the Muppets because everything else is a rerun. This is fresh, with universal appeal." And then she had a happy thought for the holidays: "I only wish that I could have all the Muppets to my house for Christmas dinner." As you'll see in this week's six-page story, that would guarantee a very merry Christmas indeed...
...results. This year the ratings from the A.C. Nielsen Co. ranked the election coverage in the bottom third of all prime-time shows aired during that week. In New York City, for example, at least 65% of the audience preferred nonelection shows, with the heaviest share going to the rerun of Peter Sellers' 1964 movie The Pink Panther...