Breakfast With Les and Bess TV Adaptation Review
Elyria Chronicle-Telegram notes PBS presents a TV version of Lee Kalcheim's 1982 play Breakfast With Les and Bess starring Dick Van Dyke and Cloris Leachman. The piece, directed for television, treats the work as a pure TV sitcom about a fading breakfast-nook couple broadcasting from home. The review highlights the performers' chemistry and the adaptation’s shift from off Broadway to a 90 minute televised format. Leachman jokes about dialogue while praising Van Dyke’s lines, stressing the pair’s enduring TV prominence.
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PBS
American Playhouse
Dick van Dyke
Cloris Leachman
Lee Kalcheim
Les and
Bess
Les
van Dyke and Leachman
Bess Dischinger
Dischingers
Davia
Shaun Cassidy
Shelby
Wendel Meldrum
Keith Charles
Holland Taylor
Sam Weisman
Perry Rosemond
Ment Channel
van Dyke
Leachman
Mary Tyler Moore
Los Angeles
Kalcheim
TV Highlights Evening Schedule Now: Notable Movies And Shows
A dense TV guide lists 5 PM to midnight programming across Showtime Cinemax HBO TMC WGN WTBS and more. Highlights include Unfaithfully Yours Jinxed Every Which Way But Loose Psycho II The Ice Pirates Surf to Midnight and Soggy Bottom USA with guest segments featuring Barbara Walters Kate Allie and Donahue plus sports and culture segments.
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Clint Eastwood
Sondra Locke
Barbara Walters
Boy George
Neil Diamond
Barbara Mandrell
Scarecrow
Mrs. King
Amanda
Lee
Wonderworks
Rosalind Cash
Richard Roundtree
Elinor Donahue
Catrina
Paul Williams
Tammy Grimes
Ethel Merman
Dan Dailey
Showtime
Tess Harper
Leslie Nielsen
Cinemax
David Knell
Steve Bassett
Fort Lauderdale
TMC
Bill Cosby
HBO
Max Dugan
Marsha Mason
Jason Robards
Film and TV Schedule Highlights From a Busy Day
A crowded grid of cinema and cable listings features classic titles such as The Dresser and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, plus TV specials and kid friendly fare. Notable names include Angela Lansbury Laurence Olivier Peter OToole Jessica Harper and Bob Barr. Events span 11 A M to 4 30 P M with numerous time slots and networks noted.
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Showtime
Angela Lansbury
Laurence Olivier
Cinemax
Albert Finney
Tom Courtenay
King Lear
HBO
Peter Falk
Warren Oates
Bellamy’s early TV crime roles include Man Against Crime
In the early 1950s Ralph Bellamy starred as the first Man Against Crime on CBS 1949 to 1953 with DuMont and NBC carrying the show 1953 to 1954. He later appeared as a psychiatrist in The Eleventh Hour and a criminologist in The Most Deadly Game, among other crime TV roles.
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Ralph Bellamy
A. Bellamy
CBS
DuMont
NBC
Frank Lovejoy
Mike Barnett
Bellamy
William Shatner
Studio One
ABC
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Fountain of Trevi
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Yoko Takahashi
Tokyo
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Elite
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