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SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "I Am A Soldier," John Secondari's excellent documentary, follows Captain Theodore S. Danielson as he leads Company A, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment in combat against the Viet Cong. Repeat...
SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). "Christ Is Born" re-creates the wanderings of the Jews from the time of Abraham to the birth of Christ. John Secondari and John Huston are the narrators...
SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The story of the Pilgrims, recreated by John Secondari. Color...
...Secondari, an experienced novelist (Coins in the Fountain), wrote no Emmy winner in The Commentator, but the script is better than many and unique in coming to grips with a problem of backstage TV at the topmost level. Secondari's commentator creates a crisis by blasting a demagogic Congressman. The network backs him up (as CBS backed up Edward R. Murrow in his celebrated 1954 editorial against Joe McCarthy). But in the end-after speeches deriding the network board of directors as "careful coupon clippers'' and the advertising agencies as "prudent dispensers of panaceas and happy endings...
...Secondari, who works as a newsman for a network that encourages commentators to editorialize, wrote his play for NBC's Alcoa Hour about a year ago. Producer Herbert Brodkin bought it, but NBC refused to put it on the air. NBC's candid explanation, as given last week by a spokesman: "In making it appear that sponsors or advertising agencies have any influence on network news shows, the script was simply untrue." The rights to the play then reverted to Secondari. When Producer Brodkin moved over to CBS's Studio One, he bought The Commentator again, paying...