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...initiative and daring, all three networks have sched uled fraternity-house sitcoms for 1979. Two of the entries, CBS's Co-ed Fever and NBC's Brothers and Sisters, are rip-offs of National Lampoon 's Animal House; ABC's Delta House is a spinoff. In the competitive circus of TV, where arcane distinctions mean everything, the ABC show has the decided edge. Delta House may not quite be Animal House, but at least it is the one genuine forgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Princely Palaces, Animal Houses | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...sexual fantasy in space? Why not? In television's latest Star Wars spinoff, The Star Wars Holiday Special, Nov. 17 on CBS, Diahann Carroll plays Mermia, a romantic vision from a water planet. She arrives on the screen when Attchituck, a 400-year-old member of the Wookie family, sits down at a special machine designed to enliven the imagination, closes his eyes and thinks X ratings. "I was very happy for him that at age 400 he could still have sensual, sexual fantasies," says Carroll, 43. "As a mere human, I was very jealous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 20, 1978 | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...courses before committing themselves. But many choose a more direct pitch. Taking a cue from TV executives, the University of Montana's history department made a three-credit hit out of "Roots: American Genealogy and Immigration"?a success story they hope to duplicate with another made-for-college spinoff: a three-credit course covering Nazi Germany. "We capitalized blatantly on Roots," confesses Montana History Chairman Dr. Harry Fritz. "Now we are trying to capitalize on the Holocaust TV show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hard Sell for Higher Learning | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Williams follows his free-form chatter with enough wacked-out characters to people a spin-off of his spinoff. There is the French waiter at Chez Chuck, moving like a spastic Keystone Kop and offering customers such delicacies as "chicken lips with rice." Mr. Rogers, a takeoff on the dim-but-lovable kiddie show host, says: "Welcome to my neighborhood. Let's put Mr. Hamster in the microwave oven. O.K.? Pop goes the weasel!" Other bit players include Ernest Sincere, a redneck used-car dealer; Joey Stalin, a Russian stand-up comic; Little Sherman, a perverse little boy; and Walt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Robin Williams Show | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...confused by the full title: The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists. You are not watching a movie or a TV sitcom spinoff, although you are not exactly reading literature either. The explanation is a) simple, b) to keep each of these hints short and punchy, given under rubric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Help for the Listless | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

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