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SHERIFF WHO?? (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). A satiric comedy with a constantly changing cast of sheriffs, as one after another is shot or run out of a Texas town aptly named Blood. Dick Shawn, John Astin and Jerry Belson take their lumps in the pilot, "sneak preview...
...picture of this quality the point is hardly worth arguing. The script, based on Howard Fast's pseudonymous potboiler about a light-fingered socialite, soon degenerates into a droll call of ancient wheezes that add up to a 97-minute heh. The actors (Natalie Wood, Dick Shawn, Ian Bannen, Peter Falk, Lila Kedrova) try hard to laugh it up, but most of the time they look the way the audience feels: like geese stuffed with chestnuts...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The Master of Memories invites a collage of comics as his guests: Milton Berle, Red Buttons, Johnny Carson, Jack Carter, Bill Cosby, Wally Cox, Bill Dana, Jimmy Durante, Shecky Greene, Don Rickles, Rowan and Martin, Soupy Sales, Dick Shawn and Jonathan Winters...
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? Daddy, it says here, invaded Sicily. It also says here that the invasion of Sicily, as veterans of the 1943 operation may or may not recall, was really just a million laughs. Like, haha, the pointy-headed captain (Dick Shawn) who went by the regulation book right down to the last typographical error. Or the takeover lieutenant (James Coburn) who possessed a unique gift for bringing disorder out of chaos. And remember the no-neck sergeant (Aldo Ray) who hollered so loud he scared the roaches out of the popcorn...
...Jacob's Pillow, near Lee, Mass., where Ted Shawn's dance festival features a cross section of ballet, modern and ethnic dance in a barnlike theater. Twelve new works will be seen...