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By Bill Douglas
Qamtcock Staff Writer
NBC-TV, the much dogged
network that provided Johnny
Carson with much of his
monologue material, could once
again be the butt ot many jokes
after their new shows hit the
airwaves.
The network is trying to salvage
its pride by resurrecting the NBC
peacock, like resurrecting a
Phoenix from the ashes.
Program director Fred
Silverman, since joining NBC, has
brought into your homes BJ and
the Bear, Supertrain, Different
Strokes and the little-watched
Hello, Larry. It's enough to make a
peacock look forward to hunting
season.
Silverman's programming
genius will continue this fall with
the introduction of new shows A
Man Called Sloane, The Misadventures
of Sheriff Lobo, Shirley,
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,
Eischied, Kate Columbo and From
Here to Eternity.
A Man Called Sloane will star TV
tough-guy Robert Conrad as
Thomas Kemington bioane ill, a
James Bond-type character who
reports to the President directly.
Like Bond, Sloane will be
equipped with a fancy car,
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By Cindy Dean
Qamacock Staff Writer
With a turn of the knob or a tap
on the automatic control,
television junkies can again tingle
their senses dulled by a tedious
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tinglers start off with 240-Robert
on Monday nights at 8.
Deputy Theodore Roosevelt
Applegate, AKA "Trap" (John
Bennett Perry), Deputy Dwayne
Thibideaux (Mark Harmon) and
Deputy Morgan Wainwright
(Joanna Cassidy) are members of
the Los Angeles Sheriff's Search
and Rescue Unit, and the
California coast is their beat.
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sophisticated weapons and a super
computer. He will also have a 6foot,
5-inch assistant with an oversized
stainless steel hand.
Sloane seems to be a com
bination of The Man From
U.N.C.L.E., The Wild, Wild West
and every one of Ian Fleming's
Bond movies.
The show is slated for 10 p.m.
SflturdavK (WIS-TV). which is
probably NBC's strongest night
with CHiPs opening the evening
and Saturday Night Live closing it.
Sloane could survive in that time
slot since ABC's Fantasy Island
has moved to Fridays and CBS is
also airing a new show, Paris, in
the 10 p.m. Saturday slot.
The Misadventures of Sheriff
Lobo, believe it or not, is a spin-off
from the flop BJ and the Bear.
Claude Akins will star as the
slightly crooked southern sheriff of
Orly Hot Springs.
This, show hat the luxury of
airing "at 8 p.m. Tuesdays, which
could be a weak time period for all
three networks, with Happy Days
entering its seventh season and
showing a slow decline in last
year's ratings. CBS's contribution
to the time slot is California Fever,
a mindless comedy-drama about
upper-middle class California kids
who can afford to buy hot rods in
order to waste 95 cents-a-gallon
lowsh
When disaster strikes, whether
it's a lost blind boy, or the crash of
a small plane into the ocean, the
call goes out to "240-Robert" ?
radio code for deputies Trap and
Thibideaux and their partner, jet
chopper pilot Morgan. This new
one hour action/adventure series
has the badge and seal of the Los
angeies <^ouniy anenn s uepariment
? a television first.
The Lazarus Syndrome airs at 10
Tuesday nights. Louis Gossett Jr.
as MacArthur St. Clair, M.D., and
Ronald Hunter as Joe Hamill star
in this realistic dramatic series
about a dynamic heart surgeon
and a reporter whose life he once
saved.
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boulevard.
Maybe 8 p.m. would be a good
time to study.
Shirley features former Partridge
Family mother Shirley
Jones as a recently-widowed
mother of four children who leave
New York to find happiness in a
California small town. In their new
home town, Shirley buys an old
Victorian home and works as a
substitute teacher to meet the
payments.
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where it could die facing CBS's
Incredible Hulk and Fantasy
Island.
Buck Rogers is NBC's answer
for those who will miss Battlestar
Galactica and 'Star Wars. Gil
Gerard stars as Rogers, who
awakens during a deep space
probe. Once defrosted, Rogers
saves Earth from those who wish
to conquer it. The show could face
stiff competition from ABC's
lineup of Laverne * Shirley and
Benson.
The tough-talking, butt-kicking
cop, long since aDseni irom iv, is
back in the form of Joe Don Baker
as Eischied.
Eischied is a spinoff from the
NBC mini-series To Kill a Cop anc
is produced by Police Story's
David Gerber. NBC has had e
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Dr. Mac Arthur St. Clair is a
brilliant heart surgeon who encounters
a tough newspaper
reporter, Joe Hamill, who has
suffered a coronary. Their
bruising relationship during the
reporter's recovery develops into
mutual respect and, finally, their
decision to run the hospital
together.
Benson, the acerbic butler in
Soap now has a series of his own,
which Hpvplnns thp antic character
of this ...servant? His new calling
finds him in the employ of Jessica
Tate's cousin, a newly-elected
governor who needs all the help he
can get.
Benson hopes to persuade the
Governor that by putting his own
household in order, which means
dealing with a dictatorial maid,
Miss Kraus, and the Governor's
precocious daughter, Katie, he will
be taking the first important steps
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law in the state.
Robert Guillaume stars as
Benson, the unseen master of the
Mansion. The half hour comedy is
written by the creator of Soap and
can be seen on Thursday nights at
8:30.
In Hart to Hart, Robert Wagner
and Stefanie Powers star as
Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, two
beautiful and wealthy people who
' are very much in love. Jonathan is
I a very successful businessman,
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author. But their greatest interest
is a (Mission for danger and high
adventure.
In their roles as private detectives,
they frequently find themselves
jetting across the continents
to some of the world's most
glamorous locations as they in!
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On the lighter side, James
Di ugau sutrs in uui %jj i ne Blue, a
| comedy-fantasy about an angel
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j returning hope to youngsters who
have become cyrifcal and
suspicious of the world around
them. Disguised as a high school
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CBS's Dallas and the ABC Friday
Night Movie.
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family of orphaned children who
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housekeeper and tries to get things
back on track.
Starring as the angel is stand-up
comic James Brogan, discovered
by Charles Joffe and Jack Rollins,
who also brought to public attention
the talents of Woody Allen
and Robin Williams. Out Of The
Blue airs on Sunday nights at 7.
Following at 7:30, Eileen
Brennan will star in A New Kind Of
Family, ABC's new comedy which
centers on the homelife of two
women and their children, all of
whom have distinctly different
lifestyles and interests. Forced to
share a home when it is accidentally
rented to both, the
women and their families learn to
have a give and take relationship.
Besides the crop of new series,
1 ABC is also showing a large
i number of fall specials. Masada is
> an eight-hour novel for television
! recreating the heroic three-year
rebellion of 960 Judeans against an
enslaving Roman Army in the
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rumpled raincoat."
Kate Mulgrew stars as Kate
Columbo, an inquisitive reporter
on a small weekly newspaper. The
series has been revamped in order
to eliminate the "Mrs. Columbo"
stigma from the series, which
might be hard to do with a last
name like Columbo. This show
may not last the season.
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and Peter Strauss star.
Women Of Crisis ? Lives Of
Struggle And Hope is a multi-part
nonfiction novel chronicling the
lives of five women who struggled
against and broke through the
chains of poverty to begin a new
life.
Eaat Of Eden is a six-hour
adaptation of John Steinbeck's
masterpiece of fiction, and The
French Atlantic Affair is a six-hour
motion picture based on Ernest
Lehman's novel ? a suspense
thriller counterpointing the
rootless pleasure-seeking of the jet
set with the fanatic singlemindedness
of a religious cult.
In addition there will be specials
headlining John Travolta. Goldie
Hawn, John Hitter and Donna
Summer, as well as the 52nd
Academy Awards, the American
Music Awards, a new John Denver
Christmas special, new editions of
Battle of the Network Stars and
Barbara Walters' interview
specials.