Word: televisionland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...televisionland, summer comes a little earlier every year. Reruns that used to start appearing in June, now arrive practically in the shadow of the groundhog. Last week no fewer than six series, from CBS's Gunsmoke to NBC's Tuesday Night at the Movies, began their long cold summer of repeats. This week six more shows, including ABC's Garrison's Gorillas and CBS's The Lucy Show, break out the old film cans...
...dragon of televisionland is the Nielsen ratings service, and this spring its foes gleefully thought that they had found a white knight to slay it. Their champion was Richard ("Rex") Sparger, an ex-reporter and former Oklahoma state legislator, who boasted publicly that he "could make a hit of a show that was a failure." He also claimed that he had kited the ratings of four programs, notably last February's CBS special An Evening with Carol Charining...
There are millions of duffers in televisionland who delight in watching an expert at work - and if the expert muffs or fluffs, so much the better. The latest program with big duffer appeal is Championship Bridge, run weekly on film over 175 ABC stations by Bridge King Charles Goren (TIME cover, Sept. 29, 1958), and most of its ingredients are about as easy in TV production as a lay-down slam...