Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BRIGADOON (ABC, 8:30-10 p.m.). A return engagement for that outstanding special, first shown in October: Robert Goulet, Peter Falk, Sally Ann Howes, Edward Villella doing Lerner and Loewe's fairy tale about a Scottish village that comes to life once every century. And may all good programs reappear every 100 days...
...windmills and gin mills, chastened Bourbon Street's once-famed B-girls, scourged the judiciary and battled with the mayor. More recently, he added the Warren Commission report to his mandate. Predictably, Garrison's investigation of "several plots" to kill President Kennedy has yielded the most rococo tale yet to emerge from that tragic day in Dallas...
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A musical transplant of the fairy tale sets real people (Gene Kelly and Bobby Riha) and cartoon characters dancing to the jaunty songs of Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen...
...tale tells of the "conceited, but nice" Mr. Toad whose penchant for motorcars and accidents lands him in jail for twenty years. However, thank God, he escapes and with the solicitous aid of his friends Badger, Waterrat and Mole is resorted to the lordship of his ancestral Toad Hall...
...Everything) that have sold 32 million copies around the world. His fans will know just what ingredients to expect in his newest novel: busy, well populated pages, a swift and intricate plot, strong characters, believable dialogue, a surfeit of sex and violence. The late Ian Fleming, no mean tale spinner himself, said, "I automatically buy every John D. MacDonald as it comes...