Lear’s Mary Hartman soap opera satire proposed for TV
Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family, plans a half hour satire titled Mary Hartman Mary Hartman for 1976. He has two completed episodes and is pursuing station group sales after networks rejected the project. The show features Louise Lasser as a housewife in Fernwood Ohio with brisk, deadpan humor and a mass murder subplot unfolding in a domestic setting.
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New York
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Mary Hartman
Fernwood
Ohio
Diately
Louise Lasser
Debbie Scott
Mary
Loretta
Mary Kay Place
Caster
Calif
Bobby
Alcohol auction in San Antonio draws bidders for seized liquor
More than 200 people packed a city motel in San Antonio to bid on 10,000 cases of liquor seized by the Texas comptroller for alleged tax nonpayment. Bidders were told they must accept the contents of each case, with lots ranging from half-pints to half-gallons. Sale prices varied from $50 per case for lesser brands to $110 per case for premium labels.
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San Antonio
Tex
Texas Comptroller’s Office
Television Guide Night Schedule Collage
A fragmented list of TV airings and program titles across channels. Notable items include The Price is Right, The Tonight Show, Dick Van Dyke, Hollywood Squares, Match Game, Gunsmoke, The Beatles? No, Grumpy. Local station previews show news segments and movie titles such as Graveyard Horror and Cops and Robbers with various hosts and times.
Hints From Heloise’s Pepper Shaker Tale
Reader letters reveal a playful kitchen mystery about swapping salt and pepper shakers and a witty note on pepper’s boldness. The column includes audience questions, domestic tips, and an invitation to a humorous “Hard-Headed Headshrinkers Club” for homemakers.
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Heloise
Mothersm Law
Flower children revive at Golden Gate Park Unity Fair
Tens of thousands gathered in fog shrouded Golden Gate Park for a free Unity Fair headlined by the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Starship. Organizers estimate 40 000 to 50 000 attendees with revelers in Lundsey Meadow and along hillsides as soap bubbles balloons and marijuana smoke drifted through the fog. A festival mood contrasted with news of Patty Hearst and the attack on President Ford. Steve Serverdia of San Anselmo called the scene ideal if every day were like this.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate Park
Patty Hearst
Ford
Grateful Dead
Jefferson Starship
Lundsey Meadow
Steve Severdia
San Anselmo
Today in History highlights for September 29 1975
On this date events include William the Conqueror's invasion of England in 1066, the US Army's 700-strong regular force in 1789, Allied WWI breakthrough in 1918, Britain’s 1923 Palestine mandate, aid to the Soviet Union in 1941, a 1957 train disaster in West Pakistan, Vatican II's second session opening in 1963, Castro and Cuban emigration comments ten years earlier, Nasser's death mourning, a Moscow art show, plus birthdays for Stanley Kramer and Michelangelo Antonioni.
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Associated Press
England
US War Department
Germany
Britain
United States
Soviet Union
West
Pakistan
Paul
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Cairo
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Moscow
Stanley Kramer
Moi
Michelangelo Antonioni
Television Schedule Fragment from Daily Calendar
Readable fragments show a morning to evening lineup with classic shows and game programs. Mentions include Sesame Street Captain Kangaroo Batman The Tonight Show era morning talk and test patterns with several soap operas like The Young and the Restless and General Hospital alongside game shows and children's programming.
TV Listings and Show Schedule Montage
A dense page lists daytime and evening television programs and movie slots featuring The Ambushers Dean Martin Gilligan's Island Popeye Merv Griffin Star Trek Underdog Petticoat Junction Mickey Mouse Club and many others across stations and times with notes on airings and related film titles in a crowded country-wide schedule section.
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General Hospital
Villa Alegre
One Life
Underdog
Petticoat Junction
Mickey Mouse Club & Movie
Jerry Lewis
Flintstones
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