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Mike: Okay. So he entertained the troops. But that doesn't make him funnier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Archie Bunker Looks at Flip | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...second thought, Such Good Friends might have worked better the other way. Preminger is usually funnier -remember Hurry Sundown?-when he's trying to be serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: D.O.A. | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

...Charlie Brown, Steve Harris keeps his "failure face" determinedly straight throughout the show, his shlemiel personality becomes more endearing the more he gets dumped upon. Like master, like dog. It would be hard to imagine a funnier and more appropriate piece of casting than Bill Nable's Snoopy. Not only does Nabel manage to look like a human facsimile of the darling dog, but he also has the gestures down pat, even to keeping his teeth bared while asleep. He surpasses even his master in over-sensitivity and sentimentality, and becomes, with his R.A.F. accent and adventure fantasies, the most...

Author: By Celia B. Betsky, | Title: Charlie Brown | 12/3/1971 | See Source »

This story examines the season's new drama series. Next week TIME will review the comedy shows, hoping that some of them will have grown funnier by then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season: I | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

...instance, seem like shadowy refugees from an earlier draft. The tone shifts too suddenly and too often-from comedy to com- plaint to rather fancy lyricism. Nonetheless, the author, a poet with four volumes of graceful, glib verse to her credit, has written a heroine who is sturdier and funnier than she perhaps intended. Diana is a girl with the courage of her own selfishness. A girl right out there doing her buck and wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wanting It Now | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

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