Word: susskindly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celluloid gut-spillers were a rousing commercial success-about the only dramatic success in a season of frightful failure. Producer David Susskind's tenuous empire was tottering: his Witness was canceled in midseason, his fatuous debate with Nikita Khrushchev drew critical scorn. As Susskind's hair began to thin and his pockets bulged, his image as TV's angry young rebel became less convincing, but his influence still pervaded the industry, and his Open End consistently demonstrated that conversation, if intelligent, can be entertaining. Jackie Gleason was miserably miscast as the M.C. of an ill-fated...
Shows definitely dumped include Dan Raven, Riverboat (both NBC), and David Susskind's Witness (CBS), which turned into a shambles after a promising start...
Open End (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).* Network viewers' first look at a shortened version of David Susskind's spontaneous speakeasies, with Joey Bishop, George Burns, Jimmy Durante, Buddy Hackett and Groucho Marx trying to get a word...
Family Classics (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The first half of a David Susskind version of The Three Musketeers, with Maximilian Schell as D'Artagnan...
Family Classics (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The first show in a new David Susskind series is Part One of The Scarlet Pimpernel, with Michael Rennie, Maureen O'Hara and Zachary Scott...