Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Custer's Last Stand. Color...
...fellow to watch out for is Scott. Only last summer Scott was the dashing, heroic flyer in Leon Uris' sweaty saga about the Berlin airlift. Now here he is again, successfully making the transition to civilian life as an idealistic, heroic young automotive executive. His battles in Detroit, working for Author Gilbert, are as simple as when Uris used him in Berlin. He fights for honest salesmanship and for improvements in the product. He indignantly opposes a loudmouthed supplier who is bribing and blackmailing Tony. At the end it looks very much as though Scott will marry...
Tradition has it that each year the fellows at the Pud come together in inebriated and androgynous, bliss to put on a little waudeville faindy disguised as a saga of frustrated love. The usual pastiche of parody, hairy calves, sagging falsies, and the remnants of 116 other Pudding shows is made tolerable by loud music, exuberant dancing, a date, and lots to drink...
Last Stand. The defeat of the Armada is the historic climax of Hakluyt's saga; but the literary climax is attained in Sir Walter Raleigh's recreation of the bloodiest sea battle of the age: the last stand of the Revenge...
...SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "I, Leonardo da Vinci," a special documentary with Fredric March speaking for Leonardo. Color...