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SWITCH (CBS, Tuesday, 9 p.m. E.D.T.) has Robert Wagner as a sometime conman and Eddie Albert as a onetime cop linked up as private eyes specializing in bunko cases. The former is smooth, the latter crabby, and a four-year-old child could see through their schemes. Happily, they are all in bed by this hour, and older siblings and parents will be delightfully taken in. It would be an act of mercy to send the bunkobusters over to Doctors' Hospital or Kate McShane's office to expose their shabby fraudulence...
...less Christian aspect of John Hough Jr.'s novel is the unravelling of the mystery and the pursuit of the murderer, the account delivered unsentimentally by Gifford the old policeman, turned sleuth by only the second killing in his town in 40 years. Gifford joins in with state cop Tommy O'Rourke and traces the woman to her unhappy past in Boston and to the men to whom she was more devoted than they to her. The two cops' dogged pursuit--through what can only be termed a grim and desparate picture of urban civilization, and countless discotheques besides--nets...
More significant−though scarcely startling after decades of dashed hopes−almost all the new programs are the smallest possible variants on well-established genres−ethnic sitcoms, cop and doctor shows, revivals of such time-tested media favorites as Ellery Queen and The Invisible...
Gunsmoke Rhetoric. Such volleys, delivered in surprisingly temperate tones, have won U.S.C. Grad Davis the enmity of civil libertarians and the politicians who are his targets. They have also earned him the uncontested ranking of toughest talking big-city cop in the U.S. Today's police chiefs generally take a less inflammatory public stand as they try to deal with intractable urban crime. Ed Davis' gunsmoke rhetoric revives memories of Birmingham's Bull Connor and his L.A. predecessor Bill Parker, who once said that as far as he was concerned any suspect picked up was guilty until...
Security Company Executive Tom Reddin, whom Davis succeeded as L.A.'s top cop, thinks his protégé's bark is worse than his bite. Says Reddin: "People may remember him by his statements rather than his accomplishments." City Attorney Burt Pines certainly will. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, a 1964 classmate of Davis at the police academy, recently had to negotiate a truce after Davis attacked Pines for being "soft" on pornographers, and Pines struck back, questioning the chief's professionalism in making charges without evidence. Last week Davis zeroed in on bigger game. Democratic...