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...Galloping into London for a personal theater appearance, TV's Hugh (Wyatt Earp) O'Brian was bushwhacked by the critics. They spoofed his six-gun William Tell act of shooting balloons off a man's head, charged that some other hombre backstage reached out with a long pin. "Course I shoot the gun," drawled the punctured marshal. "I just don't use live ammunition." But even worse to the critics was Earp's de-Westernized act of crooning love songs in top hat and tails, plus some other "sissy stuff" of smooching with leggy gals...
Steely-eyed customs lawmen at London Airport prodded the carpetbags of TV Horse Operactor Hugh (Wyatt Earp) O'Brian, got neither whimper nor glare from the traveling guntoter as they took temporary custody of three Colt .45s, one 14-in. long-barreled Buntline Special, 850 rounds of blank ammunition. On hand to keep Britain's cowpoke fans in the saddle by starring in a wild West hootenanny, the frisked visitor jovially drawled an apology for appearing in grey flannel: "Shucks. I'd feel rather ridiculous riding around in the marshal's outfit...
Collins put a verve into British T that BBC lacked-and viewers ate it up. He built up ATV's early audience with variety shows, brought over big American stars (Liberace, Pat Boone) and shows (Cheyenne and Wyatt Earp), went in for such serious topics as abortion and the U.S. recession, only last week featured Sir Laurence Olivier in his first TV play, a performance of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman. Collins' forward-looking programing has put five of ATV's shows among England...
...Nielsen rating service. Latest western reading: four of the top five nighttime shows, eleven of the top 20. The roundup: Gunsmoke (37-7), Wagon Train (32.4), Danny Thomas (32.1), Have Gun, Will Travel (30.8), Wells Fargo (30.2), Desilu Playhouse (30.1), I've Got a Secret (29.5), Wyatt Earp (29.2), Ann Sothern Show (28.7), Cheyenne (28.2), Peter Gunn (27.8), Real McCoys (27.5), Rifleman (27.5), The Price Is Right (27.4), Want-ed-Dead or Alive (27.3), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (27.1), Father Knows Best (27.0), General Electric Theatre (26.6), Texan (26.4), Maverick (26.3). Of the top 20, CBS has 11, ABC five...
Adult Western. In Wichita, Kans., Denver Bland won the Democratic nomination for Sedgwick County sheriff, soundly defeating Candidate J. Wyatt Earp...