Viewings TV with Herb Brodkin nets $5 million sale deal
Hollywood producer Herb Brodkin sold Plautus Productions to Paramount Pictures for about $5 million. Paramount acquired The Defenders The Nurses and Espionage plus Brodkin's talents. Espionage was moved from NBC to other time slots amid network shifts. Brodkin criticizes TV trends and recalls past CBS cancellations while stressing CBS's current success. State of Ohio highway bid notice appears in same clipping.
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TV producer Herb Susskind on record and limited chances
Herb Susskind discusses network resistance to Washington themed series and his attempts to revive projects. He cites The Senators and The Lawmakers as rejected and bought respectively, notes CBS cancellation of East Side West Side, and suggests only risks or comic walkouts could revive Espionage or new work. His wife Petrina Montgomery criticizes his tactics.
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TV tonight features Outer Limits with a scientist turning mutant during a life on another planet search at 8:30 on channels 2 and 12. Wagon Train presents a man repaying a debt by saving another from lynching at 8:30 on channels 2 and 9. Lucy Show offers wordplay and laughs at 8:30 on channels 7 and 9. Danny Thomas introduces a teen singer from Italy at 6:30 on channels 5. Hollywood and the Stars spotlights Paul Newman at 9 on channels 7 and 9. Andy Griffith Show at 9:? on channels 7 and 9 has Andy save Gomez from a fire. Bonanza repeats Hoss in trouble after a bank robbery arrest at 10 on channels 7 and 9. An early 20th century sales pitch touts conn pills claimed to protect against Haley's Comet poisons due in 1910.
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