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Ernie Kovacs Show (Wed. 7 p.m., NBC). Strenuous comedy...
...Strenuous Life...
Reporters covering Margaret Truman's vacation week in London had not had so strenuous an assignment since Mrs. Roosevelt first came to town. Among the sights Margaret saw before beginning her first tour of the continent in The Netherlands: Winston Churchill at lunch, the Archbishop of Canterbury at tea, Prime Minister Attlee and the royal family at dinner, fellow Americans Spencer Tracy and Joan Fontaine on a nightclub tour...
...boats go out on the river once again for an even more strenuous workout which includes a two or four mile time trial...
Time for Ernie (weekdays, 3:15 p.m., NBCTV) undertakes the strenuous job of parodying the antics of daytime TV. Wearing a pitch helmet and waving a cigar, Funnyman Ernie Kovacs does a take-off on a weather reporter, plugs a nonexistent beer called Lost (for the sake of the slogan: "Get Lost!"). More slapstick than satire, the show, unsponsored for obvious reasons, winds up sounding dangerously close to the real thing...