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...gave some ground to rival NBC last fortnight in the endless contest for network supremacy (TIME, Sept. 20). NBC's most expensive, ambitious attack to date was Satins and Spurs, starring Betty Hutton, the first of a series of $300,000 "spectaculars" (telecast in color). Most critics gave it restrained applause, but after comparing the Trendex ratings of Satins (16.5) and its own Toast of the Town (34.6), CBS confidently launched its counterattack last week...
...expensive ($35,000 a week) film series called Medic, and with the first of its $300,000 "spectaculars," the network hopes to convince viewers that they should twirl their dials NBC-ward. What viewers got in the spectacular line was a musical comedy, Satins and Spurs, starring tireless Betty Hutton in her first TV appearance, and produced by Max Liebman, who won his spurs over the five-year run of NBC's Your Show of Shows...
...Tuneful. Both Medic and Satins and Spurs (telecast in color) proved first-rate. The spectacular (a word detested by everyone at NBC, except the publicity department and President Pat Weaver) was big and tuneful. The book (by William Friedberg and Producer Liebman) contained the usual musical-comedy eyewash: Betty Hutton was cast as an untutored cowgirl who comes to Manhattan, falls in love with a LIFE photographer, falls out of love, falls back in love again. But it was a fine vehicle for the Hutton bounce and enabled her to do her brash singing and dancing against a background...
Satins and Spurs (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). First of the season's "spectaculars": musical comedy (in color), with Betty Hutton, Kevin McCarthy...
Divorced. By Betty Hutton, 33, brass-lunged Hollywood musicomedienne (The Greatest Show on Earth): Dance Director Charles O'Curran, 39. her second husband; after two years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica. Calif...