Word: sitchcom
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...Sept. 21 Fair Exchange (CBS, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). PREMIÈRE of a new sitchcom that involves two families, one English, the other American, who have switched teen-age daughters for a year...
...difficult feat of lowering their own standards. From precooked oatmeal to precast bullets, everyone is importing packaged pap from Hollywood by the case. But above all, the 1961-62 television season may go down in history as the year that canned laughter made its greatest comeback. Every new sitchcom (adspeak for situation comedy) is a masterpiece of electronic control: three hees and a hah for a cracking knuckle or a lifted eyebrow, a two-decibel avalanche for a two-bit joke...
...Rounded Cliché. Although the competition is fierce, no sitchcom is quite so cute, cute, cute as Ichabod and Me (CBS), wherein a metropolitan newsman (Robert Sterling) buys a small New England newspaper from owner Ichabod (George Chandler) Adams. The town is peopled by rounded, well-realized, three-dimensional clichés with names like Widow Ruskin and Cousin Martin, played by actors steeped in basic quaintsmanship. From ABC's Margie (1920s flapper) to CBS's Father of the Bride, the other new sitchcoms come close to the icky standards of Ichabod. Actress Shirley Booth has been caught...