Playhouse 90 Tops Critics Choice of Best TV Series
Critics from Action pick a top dozen from 1950s and 60s television with Playhouse 90 leading, Studio One close behind, and favorites like The Defenders Alfred Hitchcock Presents and I Love Lucy among the runners up. The list spans anthology dramas comedies and a western with Maverick noted for satirical Old West settings.
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Action
Directors Guild of America
Playhouse
Studio One
Judith Crist
Playhouse 90
James Garner
the Defenders
Phil Silvers
Jackie Gleason
Art Carney
Maverick
Mister Peepers
Philco-Goodyear Playhouse
East Side
West Side
Robert Montgomery
Andy Griffith
Untouchables
Caesar
Melodies Endure for the Sons of the Pioneers
Michael Harris reports from Los Angeles on the enduring appeal of the Sons of the Pioneers as their western musical heritage continues to resonate in early film history. The piece notes their influence on the genre and ongoing performances.
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Los Angeles
Roger Davis Steps Into Duel Shadow On Alias Smith And Jones
Roger Davis, rising star in voice work, replaces Pete Duel on ABC's Alias Smith and Jones after Duel's January death. Davis, 10 years in the business, earned about a quarter of a million dollars last year as a toothpaste commercial voice. He learned of Duel's death while in Denver, heading to Aspen for a ski trip when police summoned him.
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Roger Davis
Roger
Duel
Ben Murphy
Davis
Denver
Aspen
Hollywood
Kmom-Tv
Pete
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Hannibal Heyes
ABC
Alias Smith and Jones
Sons of the Pioneers endure as Western music icons
The article profiles Lloyd Perryman and the Sons of the Pioneers, detailing their western sound, long lineage since 1934, and continued appeal across the North and West. Perryman recalls joining in 1936, the group’s blend, and their classic hits Cool Water and Tumbling Tumbleweeds.
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Lloyd Perryman
Sons of the Pioneers
Pioneers
Walla Walla
Wash
Perryman
Beverly Hillbillies
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Sierra Mountaineers
Nature
The
West
New England
East Coast
North
South
Bob
Roy Rogers
John Wayne
Republic Studios
Charlton Heston to Star in MGM Airborne Film
Charlton Heston will star in MGM's Airborne to be shot in Los Angeles from a screenplay by Stanley R Greenberg. The project marks his return to MGM after Ben Hur and the 1959 best actor Oscar. It will be his fifth collaboration with producer Walter Seltzer.
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Heston
Culver City
Calif
Charlton Heston
MGM
Los Angeles
Stanley R. Greenberg
Walter Seltzer
Perma nent remark sparks club idea for coffee lovers
A playful line about permanence echoes in a notice about forming a coffee club for friends. The group aims to bring the gang together over drinks and shared activity, inviting others to join the casual gathering. The item reads as a light community note.
Delphi Bureau adds brainy TV sleuth to lineup
TV critic notes Delphi Bureau on ABC features Laurence Luckinbill as a memory charged investigator in a James Bond style drama. The two hour pilot mixes chases, shootings and secret agencies as he tracks stolen military gear while audiences may see more such off beat police series next season based on current pilots like NBC’s Probe.
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Cynthia Lowry
NEW York
Law and Order
Delphi Bureau
ABC
Laurence Luckinbill
Presto
Delphi
Delphi Bureau boosts Next Season The Delphi Bureau set to lead series with high network interest
SIDE GLANCES sketches a hero largely steered by electronic directives from headquarters as The Delphi Bureau promises action warmth and humor next season. Awake and Sing on TV preserves Odets climate dramatizing a Jewish Bronx family with Matthau leading a robust ensemble in a tense two hour telecast. On this date in history Estes Leghorn set fire to his own paper in 1835.
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Clifford Odets
Bronx
Public
Walter Matthau
Berger
Odets
Copley News Service
Estes Leghorn
Perry Snell
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