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DIED. Jack Barry, 66, smooth founding father, producer and host of TV game shows, whose many creations included Concentration, The Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough; of a heart attack; in New York City. By 1958 he had four popular quiz shows on TV, among them the superhit Twenty One, with $129,000 Winner Charles Van Doren. Then investigations revealed Van Doren and other contestants had been coached. The resulting scandal wiped quiz shows, and Barry, off the air for years until he came back from near penury with Joker and others...
...local stations: All in the Family stands to bring in about $100 million in syndication fees. This season, Dynasty (Dallas in Denver) has hit its form, and Bob Newhart's new comedy series broke into the top ten, but the networks have not come up with a superhit since Dallas and Mork and Mindy, both of which premiered in 1978. Says former TV Producer Norman Lear (All in the Family, Mary Hartman): "A show becomes a big hit because it is dynamically different. But the networks are afraid of different. They want carbon-copy television." To the programming chiefs...
...liveliest action on the TV screen these days is not interrupted by commercials. It does not involve cops, medics, superwomen, paterfamilial farceurs or country-rock carolers. It is not even rated by Nielsen. Television's new superhit is Yourself, the Athlete (or Racing Driver, or Op Artist, or Blackjack High Roller). The name of the game -which is provided by a wide and wildly competitive assortment of electronic contests that can be simply hooked into any TV set-is Jocktronics...
Until now, the commercial results have surprised eager entrepreneurs by their failure to attain superhit status. It may be that there is less to Bruce's legend than meets the enthusiast...
Some movie executives argue that despite his thorough knowledge of marketing, Yablans will not really be tested until he has to run Paramount without benefit of a Godfather-power superhit. Yablans may not stay around to prove himself. He has five more years to go on his contract and is already wondering aloud if he could break it to go into politics. "I'd like to run for elective office," he states with his customary candor. "And there is no sense unless you go all the way. Yes, I'd like to be President of the United States...