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...Green and Gilliam Barber. On one hour of ABC's Mickey Mouse Club last week, moppets saw a succession of wild hares, lemurs, hamsters, pythons, lions, leopards, pumas and sharks. At the same moment, NBC's rival Pinky Lee Show was knee-deep in lions. Lassie and Rin Tin Tin are dedicated to proving that a dog is a boy's best friend. CBS's Champion is about Gene Autry's horse, rather than Gene Autry. The newest kid show, Captain Kangaroo, is crowded with baby chicks, baby squirrels, lambkins, goats and assorted birds...
...horde of stagehands in the slack time. Warner's venture was only the latest. Among the others: ¶Columbia Pictures, facing up to the dollars-and-cents facts of its overhead, decided to grind out this year some 390 TV films, e.g., Ford Theater, Father Knows Best, Rin Tin Tin. The studio makes about $7,000,000 worth of TV films a year (as compared to $80 million for its regular theater releases). ¶ Republic and Monogram, once standard "B" producers, have turned almost entirely to TV filmmaking. ¶20th Century-Fox is spending $2,000,000 to prepare...
...Hollywood, TV producers were impressed by the high ratings won by two relatively inexpensive dog shows: ABC's Rin Tin Tin (co-starring James Brown), which scored a tail-thumping 30.4 Nielsen, and CBS's Lassie (co-starring Tommy Rettig) with 27.8. Since TV film makers love to run in trends, viewers can soon expect a flood of shows dealing with the lovable qualities of Man's Best Friend...
According to the Nielsen ratings, the nation's No. 1 TV drama show is Ford Theater (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Filmed in Hollywood by Screen Gems, Inc. (a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures and producer of such TV shows as Father Knows Best, Adventures of Rin Tin Tin and Captain Midnight), Ford Theater is in its third year on TV and attributes its success to 1) the use of Hollywood stars (Thomas Mitchell, Irene Dunne, William Lundigan, Ronald Reagan), 2) its technically perfect films, 3) its plots, which Screen Gems says defensively are of "more interest to audiences throughout...
...Theater starring Ray Forrest. Big Top and Super Circus supply acrobats and trapeze acts; some of the Saturday morning shows include education films dealing with the home life of otters and salmon. The CBS dog show Lassie is soon to get a canine rival in ABC's filmed Rin Tin Tin. ABC's Kukla, Fran & Ollie is seen every weekday, but its gentle humor probably has a larger audience among grownups than kids...