Word: trappers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunday, the night when the greatest number of TV sets are in use. With the powerhouse 60 Minutes as a lead-in, such tired CBS sitcoms as Archie Bunker's Place, One Day at a Time, Alice and The Jeffersons are consistently near the top of the Nielsens. Trapper John, M.D., a dim hospital drama, is the season's biggest new hit, mainly because it caps CBS's winning Sunday lineup. CBS has shown other new signs of life: modestly successful shows like Dallas, WKRP in Cincinnati and The Dukes of Hazzard have started to build...
...Trapper John, M.D. (Sept. 23, CBS, 10 p.m.). This M-A -S-#spin-off is the most misproduced show of the season: a seemingly foolproof idea completely spoiled by, well, fools. The series picks up its title character (originally played on television by Wayne Rogers) 28 years after Korea. Nowadays Trapper John is chief of surgery at a San Francisco hospital, and he is acted with consummate world-weariness by Pernell Roberts. A few grafted-on references to M*A*S*H notwithstanding, the show turns out to be nothing but an inept Marcus Welby retread. The plotting is vague...
When cops dominate the tube, doctors and lawyers usually follow close behind. Both ABC and CBS have new medical hours: The Lazarus Syndrome (starring Louis Gossett Jr.) and Trapper John, M.D. (a M* A* S* H spin-off starring Pernell Roberts and set 28 years after the Korean War). ABC's sitcom The Associates, from the creators of Taxi, takes place in a Wall Street law firm. Other new sitcoms are built around fatherless families, in imitation of CBS's long-running Norman Lear sitcom One Day at a Time. Shirley Jones, years ago a single...
...Vinny Band and Trapper. July...
...Mankato, Minn. (pop. 32,000), Jim Chalgren, 27, and five other men were thrown out of the Trader and Trapper Discotheque in 1976 for dancing together. Now Chalgren occasionally dances with other men in bars and encounters nothing worse than name-calling. In fact, he has organized gay dances that are held every three or four months in hotel ballrooms, drawing crowds of as many as 130. But, he says, "there are people who meet at our dances who will avoid each other if they cross paths in a hardware store. It can still be a disaster to be identified...