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his audience: Every once in
that's part Of our business. :"
And then with a grin, But
why did it have to happen to
me?" Perry's fans aren't going
to be too good-natured.
To the Robert Morley viewers
who inquired: The earlier
poet" quoted on his brilliant
Festival show Wednesday was
Alexander Pope, the poem his
Essay on Man" What
Morley did was to recite about
IL lines from the First Epistle
of Essay on Man" and then
round 1t off with the two fam
Gus lines which begin the Sec
ond Epistle:
"Knop then thySelt, pre-
sumo not God to scan;
1.-THE proper study OF man
kind Is man."
The show will be repeated
! Sunday, 8 pm, on WTTG-5,
and a number of English in
structors have already made
this required viewing for their
students.
Many TV producers, I'm con-
WINGED, haven't the foggiest
idea when they've come up
with an exceptional episode in
a series. From all reports,
Wednesdays Naked City was
a dandy. yet it was the pre-
vious weeks disappointing pro-
gram which came highly rec
commended. One OF the
curiosities about MICS fall
lineup, which is generally curl
GUS, returns Mitch Miller's
show to a 10 pm. time slot
on Mondays. The fans
wanted an earlier time so the
youngsters could watch, too,
and the switch this year was
expected to zoom its ratings.
Obviously, it didn't.
Some of the new shows on
CBS's schedule next fall look
promising-Specifically George
C. Scott in an hour series re-
volving around a social worker.
What do you think of
these, though:
My FavOrite Marian: A half
hour situation comedy dealing
with the adventures Of a Mar
tan on earth.
Whistle Stop: A new comedy
series by Paul Henning, creator
of The Beverly Hillbillies.
- S.
WMAL's bright crew Of TV
public affairs specialists had a
puzzle to work out for their ex-
cellent Sunday night study (7I
o'clock on alcoholism, the Ma
tons No. 4 problem. The
puzzle: How to usually repre-
sent an Alcoholics Anonymous
- and keep the men,
bership anonymous? The
solution provides the
most dramatically gripping mo-
ment of the show. A speaker
is introduced. an empty chair
is turned as If a person is
rising. and you hear her speak
in the empty room. 1t is
eerily effective in its use of
YOUR imagination - and that
Is first-rate television on any
body's network.
. =
Radio special: WMAL will air
a discussion of the D. c. delin-
quency- dropout problem by Su-
perintendent Carl Hansen and
District School Board President
Wesley Williams tomorrow night
at $3.50 O'Clock. They'll dis
cuss both the Shane MacCarthy
report on the D. c. Stadium
riot and Hansen's report in an
Swer. incidentally. the Mr..
Novak series scheduled by NBC
for Tuesdays at 7::30 in the fall
stars Jim Franciscus as a high
school teacher in Southern CAL
ifornia and the pilot" - which
sold NBC on 1t - purportedly
explores the school dropout
problem. =. Dean Jaeger plays
the principal.
A letter from Joyce S. reports
that it was Edith Davis of
THE Elephant Watchers" (the
Mans World fan club who
said that ABC was interested
in the Cancelled Peter Tewks-
bury series. THE People
Look at Television: A Study of
Audience Attitudes" a book
long report by Gary A. Steiner
on a detailed research. Is out