Word: franciscus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Shadow Over Elveron, specially made for TV, is a drama of small-town corruption and its devastating effect on the lives of the town's inhabitants. With James Franciscus, Shirley Knight, Leslie Nielsen and Don Ameche...
AMERICA'S JUNIOR MISS PAGEANT (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A genuine slice of Americana, this beauty contest searches for "the ideal high school senior girl" and is broadcast in color with TV Teacher James Franciscus (Mr. Novak) as host...
Wouk described his hero as a cigar-smoking Kentucky coal trucker, huge, thick-featured and rustic, "a hulking sloven of twenty-six who had written an ugly bellowing dinosaur of a novel." In the slender person of James Franciscus, schoolteacher star of TV's Mr. Novak, Youngblood's red corpuscle count seems low. Down home, Mama Mildred Dunnock no sooner scolds him about "wastin' yur time scribblin' stories" than the phone rings. Long distance. A famous publisher is plumb crazy about his book. He heads for Manhattan, meets a fetching editor (Suzanne Pleshette) whose first...
...Combat, and CBS's Marshal Dillon on the theory that he can divert millions of viewers from shooting to scholarship. His "Jefferson High," founded at MGM's Culver City studios, is based on research at 50 live high schools. In real life Novak is Actor James Franciscus, 29, onetime flatfoot on Naked City. He went to Taft and Yale and never attended a public school, but he is handsomer than TV Hardin and can speak real English out of both sides of his mouth...
Producer Neuman says that later shows will break the rules more freely, deal with such pressing problems as cheating, rebellious teachers, race prejudice, and at least one ten-minute drill in the classroom. This may not keep the boys away from Combat, but if Actor Franciscus can hold the girls, Mr. Novak will graduate with honors...