Shakespearean director calls for equal TV time for better things
New York slate: John Houseman, artistic director at the American Shakespeare Festival Theater, argues for more champagne TV as payoffs lag. He cites low ratings for Shakespeare on TV and urges networks to balance public service with sponsor interests while using TV to aid actors without harming stage work.
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Dinah Shore Show Adds High Profile Summer Guests
Dinah Shore’s Sunday nine o’clock summer spot will feature top guests including John Raitt Janet Blair Edie Adams Rowan Martin Stan Freeberg Jonathan Winters and Dorothy Kirsten. Chevy sponsors expect strong auto buyer appeal and high identification with adult viewers. Raitt vows a song list heavy on less common tunes and hints at potential TV appearances with Bob Hope if permitted by his sponsor.
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New TV Series Focuses on Espionage Behind Closed Doors
NBC announces Behind Closed Doors a weekly filmed drama for next fall centered on espionage cases. The series draws on experiences of Rear Adm. Ellis M. Zacharias retired deputy director of Naval Intelligence in World War I who will narrate and serve as technical adviser.
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TV producer criticizes hysterical button pushers in shows
William Glover reports Paul Gregory, CBS contract producer, calls for TV to shed hysterical button pushers who push stars and agencies to time and mold. He vows to stop bending contracts, aims for bolder future projects, and shifts from film to Broadway after completing The Naked and the Dead.
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Play Your Hunch debuts with Merv Griffin as MC
A new daytime game show from Goodson-Todman, Play Your Hunch, features Merv Griffin as non singing host guiding married couples through intuitive choices. Contestants pick real items behind three panels to win a prize, with emphasis on relaxed humor and dialogue rather than questions.
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Disneyland Signs Tom Tryon for John Slaughter Series
Walt Disney has signed Tom Tryon of Hartford Conn to star in John Slaughter an eight part western adventure for the 1958 59 season on Disneyland ABC TV Tryon will play the real Tombstone sheriff Art Slaughter a famed fast draw and feared lawman Yale educated Navy veteran and Art Students League alum Filming of the one hour episodes starts late this month
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Don McNeill Reflects on Fish Yet Unnetted
Don McNeill commemorates 25 years of Breakfast Club on ABC Radio and muses on future promises. He speaks in his usual blend of humor and homely philosophy about inner space and fish not yet caught, imagining a healthier world free of disease.
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