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CAMERAS. If a spy wants pictures to go with the dialogue he has bugged, all he needs is an unobstructed view of his target, a little quiet, and either a Starlight Viewer with a camera adapter or an Intensifier Camera, both made by Law Enforcement Associates, Inc., a New Jersey electronics firm. Compact handheld devices, they retail for about $3,000 and can be operated along with earphones and a parabolic reflector or "dish" that can pick up normal speech up to 800 yds. away in an open space or in a room across a noisy street. The Starlight Viewer...
...plays Anna is right, Anna Karenina can scarcely fail, and this production rides, like a Moscow sleigh, on Pagett's splendor and charm. Like many other Masterpiece Theater series, it is slow in starting, and Scriptwriter Donald Wilson has created inexcusable confusions in the first three episodes. A viewer will even be hard pressed to tell when and where Anna and her lover...
...largest roll-up rug, a 126,85 l-sq.-ft., zippered greensward of AstroTurf that the locals fondly call Mardi Grass. Also the biggest set of TV tubes: six superscreens, each 22 ft. wide by 26 ft. high, suspended from a 75-ton gondola, which afford the farthest-out viewer in the cheapest, loftiest seat a closeup of a cheerleader or an instant replay of a football fumble...
...nighttime decline is harder to explain, but there are probably several reasons. This year's emphasis on specials and miniseries-"stunting," as it is known on Network Row-has confused many viewers, leaving them uncertain when their favorite series will be on. "The old habit of most people was to think, 'If it's Saturday, it must be time for Mary Tyler Moore,' " says Tenebruso. "You can't assume anything any more. Shows are shuffled around like peas in a shell game." If a viewer misses the first episode of a miniseries, he may skip...
...contrast, almost all the current hit shows, like Laverne and Shirley and Three's Company, are written for those in their teens or early twenties. "The younger viewer has more say than the older one in what goes on television," explains Abbie Chapman, director of TV research for Columbia Pictures. "He has a greater vote." Partial proof that the more mature viewer may be alienated is the increasing popularity of public television, which still programs for adults with literate shows like I Claudius. "The public is smarter and wiser than the people who make programming decisions," says former...