Best of Ernie Kovacs on PBS Tonight
PBS launches a ten week retrospective of Ernie Kovacs with black and white kinescopes films and TV bits from 1953 to 1992. The program highlights Kovacs pioneering style and classic characters like Percy Dovetonsils and Nairobi Trio, and notes his influence on later TV comedy despite budget busts and tough reception.
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Dickens' Novel to Be Serialized on Television
New York reports a trend of serializing novels with Dickens as the focus. The cast includes Patrick Allen, Timothy West, Alastair Dobie, and Michele Dubois in roles such as Thomas Gradgrind, Bounderby, Stephen Blackpool, and Sissy Jupe. The program features commentary on Dickens by American critics in the final minutes of each instalment.
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Evening TV Highlights Include Several Classic Chase Dramas
A slate of 1960s and 1970s programs airs tonight on channels 3 13 and 25. Highlights include BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP The Displaced Person and Police Woman as well as MASH and Kojak with guest stars and repeats. An array of films Mary land After Pueblo So This Is Love and Too Many Girls also screen, featuring stars from Connery to Ball and Desi Arnaz.
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Captain Exchange
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Alan King hour hysterically funny on Channel 5
New York review notes Alan King’s 10 pm ABC hour “Alan King’s Final Warning” as a catharsis for televiewers battered by modern life. With Abe Vigoda Angie Dickinson Linda Lavin and Don Knotts as guests the stand up mocks supermarkets airlines phones insurance and auto makers while calling for restraint and laughter. King channels Heat in a satirical punch at pollution television networks and social quirks in a fast paced break with audiences.
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Linda Lavin
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Arlene Golonka
Sam Denoff
Elliott Reed
Alex Rocco
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Eddie Barth
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Rojak skit show features Abe Vigoda and King sketches
A lively two part Rojak episode opens with Geraldine Page as a powerful New York County Chairwoman amid a grandsons protection cover up. Abe Vigoda stars in a supermarket sketch while Don Enous parodies airline security. Linda Lavin, obit pages, and punchlines about insurance and widows highlight rapid fire satire.
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China Reforming TV Listings On Page Five Schedule
People's Daily published a television broadcast schedule for the week of April 1997 breaking with tradition by moving the schedule to the international news section. Peking's station airs color and black and white programs seven days a week from 7 p.m. plus a three hour block from 9 a.m. to moon. most sets are owned by clubs and farms, with few individuals owning receivers.
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