Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missed fighting with Mike Wallace," says Harry Reasoner. "Safer and Rather are also top professionals, and I'm sure I'll learn to fight with them too." One of the original co-anchors of CBS's 60 Minutes, Reasoner is back now as the news show's fourth correspondent, following eight years at ABC. Wallace is ready for Harry's return: "I don't know why he's so anxious to fight with me again-in years v past he always lost. Besides, I ' no longer fight lightweights...
...season gets under way, TV's best show remains unchanged: it is the daredevil, off-screen saga of Master Programmer Fred Silverman. Newly enthroned as president of third-place NBC, Silverman just will not sit still. Last week on the eve of the new season's first premieres, he upstaged the entire industry by ripping up his own previously announced schedule. Silverman changed the prime-time lineup on five out of seven nights, shifting the long-running Saturday Night at the Movies to Wednesday and announcing a smorgasbord of "stunts" (movies and specials) for the fall. Says Mike...
...good series is Lifeline (Sept. 7, 10 p.m.), a breakthrough show that uses documentary techniques to record the dramas of real-life doctors and their patients. Though marred by heavy-breathing narration and a worshipful view of American medicine, the first episode does present an affecting portrait of a surgeon at work. The show's closeup depiction of operations and lack of continuing characters ensure bad ratings, yet that didn't bother Silverman when he announced Lifeline last spring. "You've got to take chances," he told NBC's skeptical affiliates. "Lifeline could be the single...
...premiere. If it returns, it will be in a new and tougher time slot (Sundays at 10 p.m.), when it will be opposite Kaz and ABC movies. Says one NBC insider: "Silverman has little hope for Lifeline; he's taking the coward's way of introducing a show." So much for taking chances...
...most competitive in years. ABC is returning with its winning (and largely Silverman-created) schedule, along with five new series. In Battlestar Galactica, premiering Sept. 17, it has the fall's only sure ratings blockbuster. An elaborate space fantasy starring Bonanza's Lome Greene, the show's special effects are the work of Star Wars Wizard John Dykstra. But CBS has its strongest lineup since Silverman left that network in 1975. It remains to be seen whether ABC'S new and untested programming chief, Anthony Thomopoulos, can beat back a serious challenge from his competitors...