Godfather TV epic to air on NBC in 1976
NBC will broadcast a nine hour, 15 million epic reassembling The Godfather saga in chronological order. Coppola plans four 90 minute segments with previously unused footage. Paramount says the project will be a new, definitive portrait of the Corleone family from turn of the century to 1900s.
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Corleone
Francis Ford Coppola
Paramount Pictures Corp
Epic
Nbc-Tv
Paramount
NBC
Coppola
Don Vito Corleone
United States
Michael
Mario Puzo
Yla
Puzo
Robert Howard
Howard
Ken Howard to star as Abe Lincoln at Williamstown Festival
Tony Award winner Ken Howard returns to Williamstown Theatre Festival to play Abraham Lincoln in Abe Lincoln in Illinois July 29 to August 9. The production marks the festival’s first to run two consecutive weeks. Curtain times vary with multiple matinees and evenings. tickets range 2.50 to 6.50.
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Williamstown
Mass
Ken Howard
Abraham Lincoln
Abe Lincoln
Illinois
Nikos Psacharopoulos
Howard
Reese
Theatre World
Thomas Jefferson
Peter Hunt
Kilroy
Achilles
Iphigeneia
Aulius
Jerry
Otto
Manhunter
Blythe Danner
The Mary Tyler Moore Show Viewed as Fairy Tale Entertainment
A UPI essay argues The Mary Tyler Moore Show promotes a middle class fairy tale. It criticizes Mary as a contrived, unthreatening heroine, praising Archie Bunker’s realism while warning about TV’s powerful cultural influence on youth and perceptions of society. The piece contrasts dream endings with harsher reality.
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Frank S. Sweatlow
New York
UPI
Mary of
Mary
Doris Day
Mary ‘Tyler Moore
Uncle Tom
Mary Tyler Moore
Robert Young
Archie Bunker
Ken
TV Highlights Offer Broad Weekend Slate Across Networks
Saturday lineup features NBC baseball and World Team Tennis from Los Angeles, CBS Sports Spectacular and Mary Tyler Moore on CBS, ABC British Open final round from Carnoustie and diverse here: Keep on Truckin, Emergency, The Philadelphia Folk Festival, and Keep on Truckin comedy. Also PBS programs Evening at the Pops and Masterpiece Theatre plus films and specials including Strange New World and Union in Space.
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NBC
CBS Sports Spectacular
White Plains
N.Y
Los Angeles
ABC
Carnoustie
Scotland
PBS
World Press
All
CBS
Mike
Archie
Whip
Johnny
David Bromberg
Arlo Guthrie
Emergency
Adam West
Mary Tyler Moore
Phyllis
Lars
Sandy Dennis
Anthony Newley
James Cagney
Coca- Cola
Berlin
Billy Wilder
Bob Newhart
Jerry
Bob
Moses the Lawgiver
Burt Lancaster
Eric Sevareid
John J. McCloy
Ferrante and
Teicher
Earth
Joey
Dad
Sherman Hemsley
Frankie Valli
Greta
Kojak
PBS Masterpiece Theatre
Edward
Lord Charles Seymour
Natalie Tewksbury
Mike Wallace
Morley Safer
William Buckley
Russell Peterson
White House
Council On Environmental Quality
ABC News
Union In Space
U.S
U.S.S.R
Jeanne Wolf
Peggy Lee
Encore Opens Fourth Season With Gingerbread Lady
Encore Playhouse launches its fourth season with Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady at Dover's Encore Theater July 1 to July 19. Betty Spalla stars as Evy Meara with Paul Norton, Laura Shuman, and Peter Bubinski. Director Daniel Levi.
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Dover
Encore Playhouse
Neil Simon
Evy Meara
New York
Jimmy Perry
Toby Landau
Evy
Polly
Lou Tanner
America
Simon
Betty Spalla
Ms. Spalla
Paul Norton
Jimmy
Spalla
Norton
Laura Shuman
Shuman
Peter Bubinski
Daniel Levi
Sunday TV Highlights Featuring Laver and Gunter Match
Sunday afternoon network guide notes a 4:30 p.m. CBS tennis feature with Rod Laver facing Alex Mettevelli in a men’s singles first round and a women’s 13 point sudden death event titled Pressure Point featuring Nancy Gunter.
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Rod Laver
Alex Mettevelli
Nancy Gunter
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Sam
Bennington
Vermont
William Fredkin
Bradford
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Bennington, Vt
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Bryanston
Jack H. Harris
Mel Brooks
Sera
Clint Eastwood
Magnum Force
Dirty Harry
Main St
Nickelodeon
Spring St
Williamstown, Mass
Ken Russel
Tchaikovsky
Richard Chamberlain
Glenda Jackson
Peter Davis
Hearts and Minds
Viet Nam
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Hoosick Falls
METRO
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Flash Gordok
Ev Arsay
Ken Shapiro
George Roy Hill
Lia
Caaaanl i Yemeneneey Enmcee Om
Waldo Perrer
Manchester
Williamstown and Conservatory
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Arnold Ridley
CBS Radio
Woody Allen
Diane Keaton
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Dino DE Laurentiis
James Mason
Susan
Matinee
George Perry King
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