6-B THE PLAIN DEALER, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1976. Bugs Bunny has more mileage than re-runs WASHINGTON Bugs Bunny in prime time? That's what the man says. Starting on Tuesday, CBS will run the cartoon character every Tuesday night at 8 p.m. (EDT) for about five or six weeks. No doubt there will be those who will proclaim this to be a confession.
of programming bankruptcy. on the part of CBS. Sour grapes. Or as Groucho once said when Harpo produced a rabbit 3 from his coat: "Let's not split hares." We already have a great many cartoons on television and they ware not all scheduled on Saturday amornings. The big hit of the season just ending has been "Laverne and Shirley." They are Nothing if they are not cartoon L.A.
Post Service By Sander Vanocur characters. The hottest star in television these days is Henry Winkler, alias Fonzie or The 1 Fonz. He is right out of comic books. So is "Six Million Dollar Man' and "Bionic Woman." "Invisible Man," which proved this season on NBC to be a sore sight for eyes, will return next season as "Gemini Man," and could also be considered a comic book character. The same thing could be said of "Donny Marie," although in their case what they do might An ABC Afterschool Special BLIND :1 SUNDAY A shy boy who can see takes a daring step into the dark world of an exuberant blind step that brings them closer together.
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305th 944-1000 OPEN FRI. TILL 6, (7 at Solon) SAT. TILL 2:30 Member FSLIC Media be seen as an exercise in remedial singing. It is not fashionable to admit to a fondness for comic book characters and cartoons. And any discussion of television violence always includes mention of violence in cartoons.
Let this television critic make: a confession. I love cartoons. Often during the early morning, when I should be devoting my mind to the mass of news and information provided me by the morning shows on ABC, CBS and NBC, I switch to cartoons. However, they often are not as funny as some of the politicians and government officials I have been viewing. Consider some of the turkeys the networks have offered us this past season.
Can even the most ardent critics of the networks really admit that he or she would not prefer "Bugs Bunny" cartoons over re-runs? The early evidence this year is that people are not watching reruns the way they used to. Network programmers are not sure why this is so. Some suspect that people are just plain bored. It is very easy to say that the networks have only themselves to blame. They have predicated their programming on a 22-week series followed by re-runs.
That doesn't seem to be working any longer. It may be that they will have to start planning for 12-month programming. Even putting financial considerations aside, that is not something that you can crank up overnight. Ideas and talent are not in abundant supply. Rather than take this move by CBS as a confession of programming bankruptcy, it is possible to see in it a recognition on the part of that network that something changed this season.
Viewers said, in effect, that they wanted new and different ideas in programming. "Bugs Bunny" is probably not a long-range answer- -though it will be fascinating to see the ratings. But if we can look beyond the cartoons, we may see something more promising: a recognition by the networks that they are boring people with re-runs, that they have to break out of the present recycling theories of programming. That is why, if you tune in next Tuesday night and are asked "What's Up, Doc?" you will know that what's up is something more significant than a rabbit cating a carrot. May 21 City Club Forum is set for satellite beam from London Plans to broadcast the City Club Forum from London on May 21 have been completed.
WKSU-FM in Kent will be the flagship station for the broadcast of British Minister of State Roy Hattersley's address on the National Public' Radio network (NPR). The one-hour program, which wili originate from the Kensington Close Hotel ballroom, will be beamed, via satellite, by the British Information Service to New York where it will be taped by NPR. It then will be transmitted to. Washington for broadcast on the 180-station NPR network at Have you discovered 'Saturday?" Not the day, the Plain Dealer home magazine! 12:30 p.m., the usual time for the Forum broadcast. WCLV-FM here, which is the usual flagship outlet for the Forum broadcasts from Cleveland, will pick up the program from WKSU-FM at 12:30.
It will mark the first time a commercial station (WCLV-FM) has been permitted access to a NPR broadcast. The 17-station Forum network, fed by WCLV-FM, will air the program at the usual times. The Forum will be staged in London because some 140 City Club members and guests will be visiting there May 14-22. Tonight could be your lucky night! Find out if you're a winner. Watch the Ohio Lottery TV Show, live, 7:30 this evening.
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3: 44 Today's selections 10 P.M., HARRY CH. 5, 23 Small book could de. Means Black and White stroy many lives. Advertising 7 A.M., TODAY, CH. 3 Ruth Carter Stapleton, Bob 10:00 PM, EATON PRESENTS Woolf, Bob Lepsyte, George Stinson.
The American Parade 8 A.M., MORNING EXCHANGE, CH. 5 Dr. Lendon "STOP, THIEF!" Smith, pediatrician; Carter Heyward, woman Episco- Boss Tweed's Downfall (8) palian minister, discusses women in the clergy; Ralph Jennings, citizen's rights over the air waves. "Stop, Thief," historical drama revolves around a jour9 A.M., MIKE: DOUGLAS, CH. 3 "Special Week: Salute nalistic expose and subsequent downfall of New York to W.C.
Fields." City's infamous, greedy 19th-century Tammany Hal political boss "Boss" Tweed. Howard Da Silva, 4 P.M., AFTERSCHOOL SPECIAL, CH. 5 "Blind Sunday," sensitive story of how a blind girl and a sight- 11 P.M., I LOVE LUCY, CH. 43 Lucy's dream for her ed boy seek to give more meaning to their train trip to be filled with intrigue rings true when friendship. she hears there's a jewel thief on board.
4 P.M., ALL IN THE FAMILY, CH. 8 A surprise visit from Edith's favorite cousin and her husband be- 11:30 P.M., THE TONIGHT SHOW, CH. 3 Mclean comes an eye -opening experience for the Bunkers. Stevenson, guest host. Repeat.
1 A.M., TOMORROW, CH. 3 "Baby Selling and the 4:30 P.M., MERV GRIFFIN, CH. 8 Eva Gabor, Jack Myths of Private Adoption." Cassidy, Tom Bresh and Professor Irwin Corey. MOVIES 5 P.M., DINAH CH. 5 Sammy Davis Jack Jones, Mike Neun, Hal Needham, Bill Davis Jr.
and Marilyn 1 P.M., CH. 1957. plus. Color. Pat McCoo.
Boone, Terry Moore, Janet Gaynor, Dean Jagger, P.M., MONTAGE, CH. 3 "Rape," program fea- ter Abel, James Drury. Musical comedy about a stutures interviews with victims of rape and with volun- dent who is persuaded to allow his older brother on teers who staff the Rape Crisis Center in Cleveland. leave from the Air Force to take care of his girl friend while he studies for his exams. 7:30 P.M., OHIO LOTTERY, CH.
5 "Buckeye 1000," with host Don Webster. 9 P.M., CH. Horton and the Scottsboro Boys," 1976. No rating. Color.
Arthur Hill, Vera Miles, 8 P.M., MAC DAVIS SHOW, CH. 3 Musical- Lewis Stadlin, Ken Kercheval, Ellen Barber, Susan show starring singer- songwriter Mac Lederer, Barry Snider. Judge presides over a trial in 8:30 P.M., BARNEY MILLER, CH. 5, 23 One of Bar- which nine young black men are accused of raping ney's detectives is accused of extortion by a mem- two white women. ber of the gay community.
Repeat. 9 P.M., CH. Queen: Don't Look Behind THOMAS REMEMBERS, CH. 25 You," 1966. plus.
Color. Peter Lawford, Harry P.M., LOWELL gan, Stefanie Powers, E. G. Marshall, "1944," MacArthur does return to Philippines: Coleen Gray, nature delivers her contribution to the violence of Morgan Stern. Ellery Queen sets out to find a New York City strangler whose victims form a telling the war Mt.
Vesuvius erupts. pattern. 9 P.M., STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO, CH. 5, 23 Mike Stone has serious doubts after proposing mar- 11:30 P.M., CH. The Young Men," 1960.
riage to a beautiful inspector who has been assigned plus. Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier, James Darren, Mort to work with him in homicide. Repeat. Sahl, Glenn Corbett, Ana St. Clair, Ingemar Johannsson.
Korean company, losing their commander, re9 P.M., HAWAII FIVE-0, CH. 8 The Five-0 unit sent black sergeant being given command over searches for a missing English tourist who apparently professional sergeant, broke in rank, whom they feel has drowned in the Waikiki-Beach surf. Repeat. could lead them to securing their objective. 9 P.M., MAO'S CHINA, CH.
25 Documentary on the world's most populous nation from the perspective of MIDNIGHT, CH. Jackpot," 1950. plus. James the man' who led Communist China to its position of Stewart, Barbara Hale. Radio prizewinner becomes world power.
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