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...Ready Rifleman. But the Secret Service had long since started taking corrective measures against the lax habits for which it was criticized by the Warren Commission...
...containing one dead soldier and five live ones, who almost casually share the vehicle with the corpse. On a canal bank in Chuong Thien province, the body of a Communist guerrilla sprawls among the water lilies. On a track through a swamp in Hau Nghia province, a young Vietnamese rifleman happily plucks a duck for supper, white feathers sticking to his mud-spattered battle dress. At an isolated Special Forces post near the Laotian frontier, a supply helicopter arrives carrying, in a sling under its belly, two bewildered cows...
Oldtimers got it too. The Untouchables has been given the St. Valentine's Day treatment after four years. Have Gun, Will Travel and The Rifleman, six and five years old respectively, are headed for the last roundup. Car 54 will soon be roughly three cubic feet of crushed scrap steel. Naked City, the fine semidocumentary on New York police work filmed in the city streets, is finished too. The last vestiges of live, prime-time drama, the U.S. Steel Hour and Armstrong Circle Theater, are also passing away. Moreover, all three college-level educational shows are leaving the networks...
...other hand, New York Journal-American TV Critic Jack O'Brian found coverage "reverent, respectful, thorough and amazingly informative," but he added that it "seemed sacrilegious" when ABC followed a documentary on Pope John with "a fairly revolting fusillade of violently noisy shots at the start of The Rifleman...
...broke into the early talkies as a baby-faced crooner, later retyped himself as a good bad guy in a dozen movies, none as successful as his co-ownership (with David Niven and Charles Boyer) of Four Star Television, which had as many as 13 shows (among them: The Rifleman, Richard Diamond) going at one time; of cancer; in Hollywood...