Word: seasonally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a couple of notable exceptions, the second week of the new season was about the same as the first: depressing...
...Beatle John Lennon put it this way: "All you've got to do to prove your manhood is lay a woman." Group grope is very much in vogue and the choreographer who can animate a stageful of writhing, slithering, intertwined bodies stands a good chance of winning this season's Laocoon Award...
Family series on U.S. television have laugh tracks, Doris Day, cute kids, lovable ghosts, Fred MacMurray and hilarious situations. What they don't have with any consistency is writing, characterization, drama, style and insight. Except, this season, for The Forsyte Saga, which begins a 26-week series this Sunday night on National Educational Television. For a turn-of-the-century English family, the Forsytes have everything: a generation gap (in fact, a three-generation gap), extramarital lust, intramarital lust, rape, divorce, birth, death, intrigue...
With similar insensitivity, ABC publicized that its new situation comedy, The Brady Bunch, will deal with "the most difficult integration of them all, that of the sexes." In the premiere of the series, which is perhaps the most cynically commercial offering of the season, a widow (Florence Henderson) with three daughters and a cat, wed a widower (Robert Reed) with three sons and a dog. The rival pets and siblings reduced the wedding to a sickening chaos that was about a thousand decibels less hysterically amusing than the show's laugh track suggested...
...harbinger of ABC's remaining 24 movies of the week, since they will come from many different producers. Generally, they will run cheaper (all 25 cost $16 million) and shorter (80 minutes without commercials) than conventional features. Films specially made for TV can develop into series, witness last season's Then Came Bronson and Marcus Welby, M.D. TV fans who watch the TV flicks of 1969-70 will probably get a foretaste-and a forewarning...