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...most drastic overhaul since the James Aubrey reign of the early 1960s. The network abandoned many of the traditional shows that had given it clear superiority in rural areas and among the elderly. It concentrated instead on its idea of sophistication. That meant the cancellation of The Red Skelton Show after 16 seasons, The Jackie Gleason Show after eight successful years and Petticoat Junction after seven...
...trailing NBC by 3% in prime evening-time audience. What is more, NBC, with its more urban-oriented schedule, holds a 29% edge in college-educated viewers and a 28% margin among those earning $10,000 or more. Since such demographic breakdowns are becoming increasingly critical for sponsors, Skelton and Petticoat Junction were dumped even though they ranked among the top 25 programs in total audience. CBS also dropped Lancer, Get Smart and the Tim Conway situation comedy...
...World and Welcome to It. In their place will go variety hours starring Black Comic Flip Wilson and Don Knotts (from the old Andy Griffith Show) plus Nancy, a sappy-sounding sitcom with Celeste Holm set in the White House. NBC has also taken on CBS Castoff Skelton, although for a half-hour at a time instead of an hour...
...been invited to the White House, as it were, to sing for their supper at a party for someone else. Under the new dispensation, the supper will be given to honor the artist himself. Nixon gave Duke Ellington a 70th birthday party last spring, more recently invited Comedian Red Skelton to inaugurate a series of "Evenings at the White House." The Wyeth show and dinner were Nixon's own suggestion, and nobody else...
...Nixonian court jester may well be Red Skelton. Last week, in the first of a series of "Evenings at the White House," Skelton gave the VIP-studded audience the kind of entertainment that has made him a sort of cultural hero to Nixon's generation. After all the belly laughs were over ("I played golf today and shot a 72; tomorrow I'm going to play the second hole"), Skelton displayed an old trouper's feel for his audience by dramatically reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag amid a reverential hush...