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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consumption comparisons can be dramatic; most drivers manage to save 20% to 40%, and some as much as 48%. Though Energy Secretary Charles Duncan Jr. did not take the time to go for a test spin when he visited the exhibit in Washington last week, he did promote ARCO's effort by sitting behind the wheel of the Malibu. Motorists, he said, can cut fuel consumption by as much as 10% "without inconvenience or sacrifice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fuelish Myths | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...already glorified by NBC'S CHiPs, will now be featured in both ABC's 240-Robert (from the creator of CHiPs) and CBS's Paris (starring James Earl Jones). Joe Don Baker plays the New York City chief of detectives in NBC's Eischied (a spin-off of the TV miniseries To Kill a Cop); Claude Akins is a smalltown Southern sheriff in the same network's The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (a spin-off of B.J. and the Bear). ABC's Hart to Hart stars a jet-set husband-wife sleuthing team (Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: 1 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

When cops dominate the tube, doctors and lawyers usually follow close behind. Both ABC and CBS have new medical hours: The Lazarus Syndrome (starring Louis Gossett Jr.) and Trapper John, M.D. (a M* A* S* H spin-off starring Pernell Roberts and set 28 years after the Korean War). ABC's sitcom The Associates, from the creators of Taxi, takes place in a Wall Street law firm. Other new sitcoms are built around fatherless families, in imitation of CBS's long-running Norman Lear sitcom One Day at a Time. Shirley Jones, years ago a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: 1 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

E.D.T.) Scheduled behind Laverne & Shirley, this Soap spin-off is one of the season's few sure hits. Unfortunately, Writer Susan Harris has not capitalized on her secure ratings position by creating a daring and witty show. Benson is another sitcom dedicated to the tedious proposition that servants and children are smarter than employers or parents. In this case the employer is a moronic Governor (James Noble) who hires black Butler Benson (Robert Guillaume) to run his household and, by inference, his unidentified Eastern state. Except for Benson and the Governor's unspeakably precocious subteen daughter (Missy Gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: 1 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Poor last-place NBC is pinning its big hopes on such stale items as Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (from the same folks who launched the crash-landed Battlestar Galactica) and From Here to Eternity (a spin-off of a miniseries). As Johnny Carson put it in an opening monologue this summer, "The NBC peacock looked at the fall schedule-and he's not so proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: 1 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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