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...befits its success, CBS will do little tinkering with its formula. In a surprising but vastly appreciated decision, it will drop the atrocious Bridget Loves Bernie. Though the show began the season with high ratings-the result of following No. 1, All in the Family-it dropped steadily and was beginning to hurt the popular Mary Tyler Moore Show, which followed it. Viewers tend to stay with one network through the evening, and Bridget's continued presence, the programmers figured, was endangering CBS's ratings for all of Saturday night, which the network now dominates. In keeping with...
...last day of 1972, like many other engaged couples round the world, Oliver Boyce, 25, a carpenter, and Bridget Porter, 21, set out to celebrate New Year's Eve together. They never returned to their homes in County Donegal, a few miles from the Northern Ireland border. Around 2 a.m. a local farmer heard about 15 shots and a scream. The couple's bodies were found later side by side in a ditch next to a lonely lane. Boyce had been stabbed in the chest and genitals; he had also been shot once through the head, once through...
Most tiresome repetition of a single gag: BRIDGET LOVES BERNIE...
...needed bolstering on Saturday night, where CBS has a virtual viewer monopoly with All in the Family, Bridget Loves Bernie and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Dropped were Alias Smith and Jones, a western inspired by the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and The Sixth Sense, a pseudo-mystery about extrasensory perception that showed absolutely no prescience about what viewers wanted. As replacements, ABC has scheduled a new comedy starring Shirley Booth called A Touch of Grace-based, like several recent TV successes, on a British series-and a sitcom titled Here We Go Again, starring Larry Hagman...
Since all the jokes are basically one joke, however, the same question applies to the series as to Bridget's and Bernie's marriage: how long before numbness sets...