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...stoutly maintain that they have no plans for big-money shows in a class with CBS's The $64,000 Question. But it was only a few months ago, TVmen were quick to recall, that CBS was denying stoutly that it would try to compete in kind with NBC's loudly publicized Spectaculars. This fall CBS will flood the TV screen with at least ten 90-minute Spectacular-type shows. Coming soon (check your local newspaper for time and station): Fort Knox or Bust...
...humor is low, the spirits high, and the kids still love it. Our Gang, the old Hal Roach series of one-and two-reel comedies, is back again, playing on TV in 61 U.S. cities. The success of the old films has been an eye opener to TVmen. In Manhattan, shown six times weekly in half-hour shows over WPIX, they have become the most popular afternoon feature for kids in the New York City area (almost a million and a half viewers...
Throughout most of the U.S. last week, the weather was fair and clear, but on television it snowed steadily. To TVmen, a Christmas without snow would be nearly as bad as one without mistletoe, carols, or Santa Clauses. In Manhattan alone, the four networks used enough artificial snowflakes to fill three railroad boxcars. After each winter scene, the snow was carefully swept up (it can cause serious trouble if it gets into TV cameras) and sometimes used again on the next program...
...nation's secret files may be successfully barred to Communists, and sometimes to just plain newsmen, but they are wide open to television writers. TVmen boast that they have their grubby fingers in the file cabinets of the Treasury Department (Treasury Men in Action), the Bureau of the Chief Inspector, Post Office Department (The Mail Story), the Los Angeles Police Department (Dragnet), the FBI (I Led Three Lives), the National Legal Aid Association (Justice). the Los Angeles County Medical Association (Medic), and the San Francisco Police (The Lineup'). Public Defender ranges from coast to coast in grabbing "actual...
...Wings. One of the reasons TVmen give for the summer doldrums is that they need the time for planning and preparing the big shows for fall. In Hollywood, TV producers were busy this week grinding out the reels that will make up 80% of the new season's film entertainment. Best of the new crop may be Medic, which takes a microscopic view of such medical problems as the birth of a baby and the operational cure of a cleft palate, and Hey, Mulligan, a new series starring Mickey Rooney as an NBC page...