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mTELE-VUESNATIONALYoung or Old9Good is GoodBy GEORGE ERES TV- Radio Editor“I don’t know what Andy Williams is doing,” said Jackie Gleason in an interview printed in TeleVues Sunday. “I hear he’s goingafter the young people andif he does that it won’t bother me. I’ve got the older appeal.”I don’t know how tired you are of reading publicity material about the TV shows and their principals,or who is appealing to what generation. It’s mostly bunkum, and, in the case of Gleason, good copy, although his comments about appealing to the ‘’older” may havesoinB truth — especially his boozing syndrome. You want to drink, fine.The comic with a drink as a symbol of comedy is a bit dated. Maybe some oldersters appreciate the humor of it.I don't exactly get the idea behind drink as an appeal to generations. Dean Martin, for example, makes a big comic thing of this, hit I’m pretty surehis appeal, despite the age gap, is not solely to the older” set.11THE ANDY WILLIAMS Show's appeal last Saturday night, for example, didn’t seem particularly aimed at ’'age” or youth.” There were some»pretty old timers” on the show, and some youths and the show was a hugely entertaining hour. There were Victor Borge and DannyThomas, both o£ whom go back a way. Borge's comedy is still based in part on the piano as a comic instrument and seems to me pretty ageless.”Peggy Lee has been around for a while too and is so established that she will have a full-blown documentary on how she prepares for a show on Educational Television (Ch. 28) at 9 tonight. She's, they say, a perfectionist” — and everything must be just so, but she apparently can be thrown on stage by a fly which Saturday.night loused up her duet with Andy.The ’’youth” appeal was the Osmond Brothers and Ray Stevens — if you're going along with this youth” vs. age” entertainment appeal. There were some new age” numbers,-1 guess, but they seemed presented in a spoof fashion and obvious good humor that put down the sincerity” that accompanies “new music.” Some of the proponents of this vogue seem to think body -wiggling and unusualBy JERRY BUCKNEW YORK m - Ratings for the second competitive week of the television season released Monday showed that old viewing patterns are beginning to reappear.Such past favorites as “Laugh-In,” Bonanza,” Mayberry R.F.D,” and Gunsmoke” dominated the lop 10 after viewers had time to sample the rew shows. The rating • period is for Sept, 29-Oct. 5,The only news shows in the top 10 are Bill Cosby and Jim Nabors, whose Gomer Pyle” finished the season last year in second place behind “Laugh-In.” In the late-night competition, NBC’s Johnny Carson held firmly to firsts* place with an 8.5 rating.Mer\r Griffin on CBS had 3.5 and Joey Bishop on ABC 3.0.The national ratings once again reaffirm CBS’stage activity is an art form. I seem to remember that “progressive jazz” once was treated with the same reverence by the faddish.WHAT I’M trying to say is that good entertainment is neither “young”or “old oriented and Andy Williams’ show - - at least the one last Saturday night — j was just good entertainment.” I’d like to say the same for the Gleason show on the Honeymooners” that I took in the week before, but my feelings about the Honeymooners” is that it is an overrated piece of nonsense.r23-iN. RCA COtOR CONSOLE1
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