Word: showings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funding around 50 marijuana research projects, but only a few of them involve experimentation with human beings. Social Psychiatrist Joel Hochman of the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute goes so far as to charge that "the Government is giving legitimate researchers such a hassle because they are afraid our work will show no serious side effects, and if there are no serious side effects then there is no rationale for keeping the use of marijuana illegal...
Unprecedentedly, not one of those 23 new series is a western or an old-fashioned cops-and-robbers show. Instead, there is a swing back to the situation comedy and, for action, to the less lethal lawyers, teachers and, especially, doctors. Sex is out, but procreation is certainly in. The eight new situation comedies will introduce at least eleven kids among them, and some of the holdover shows are hugely pregnant. Samantha in Bewitched will bear her second child in November; Agents 86 and 99 in Get Smart are expecting twins...
...that the makers of this year's new situation comedies didn't innovate. They invented the instant rerun. NBC's The Debbie Reynolds Show, for example, is an instant rerun of I Love Lucy, and small wonder; it is the handiwork of Lucy Producer Jess Oppenheimer. The only reason Debbie doesn't scheme to get into show business like her husband is that Debbie's husband Lew (Don Chastain) happens to be in the newspaper business. The only reason Debbie does not pose as a drummer auditioning for a band is that she happens...
Once The Bill Cosby Show gets rolling on NBC, it promises to be an instant rerun of Our Miss Brooks, or maybe Mr. Peepers. Cosby is supposed to play a high school coach, although in last week's premiere he got nowhere near a school, a gym or a teenager. Instead, he jogged what might have been a good five-minute Cosby monologue into a 30-minute yawn about mistaken identity and false arrest...
...Favorite Martian, plays the widowed parent, and an accomplished seven year old named Brandon Cruz is the son searching for a mom -any old mom. By happy circumstance, Brandon is far less objectionable than Diahann Carroll's TV offspring, and he even seems to like his father. The show also appropriates a few gimmicks from contemporary cinema-stop-action photography, voice-over conversation and background bursts of rock music-but Eddie remains one of those programs that show the inherent dangers of borrowing from the neighbors...