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Family series on U.S. television have laugh tracks, Doris Day, cute kids, lovable ghosts, Fred MacMurray and hilarious situations. What they don't have with any consistency is writing, characterization, drama, style and insight. Except, this season, for The Forsyte Saga, which begins a 26-week series this Sunday night on National Educational Television. For a turn-of-the-century English family, the Forsytes have everything: a generation gap (in fact, a three-generation gap), extramarital lust, intramarital lust, rape, divorce, birth, death, intrigue...
...premieres will be NBC's . . . Then Came Bronson, with a peripatetic adventurer in love with his motorcycle; and ABC's The Brady Bunch, in which a widower with three sons marries a widow with three daughters. If that sounds like overpopulated plagiarism of My Three Sons, Fred MacMurray, the world's champion sitchcom widower, is getting married this season now that the boys are grown...
...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.). Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray hold the keys to The Apartment...
...single, and soon he turned up as a blackface emcee. Before he was 30, Bob (a name he thought sounded more "hiya fellas" than Les) was playing the Palace. Later, he was billed with another vaudeville hopeful, Bing Crosby. In his first Broadway show, Roberta, in 1933 (with Fred MacMurray and George Murphy), Hope played a Joe College-type bandleader. His best line was pure Hope: "Long dresses don't bother me; I've got a good memory." It was also in that year that Murphy took Hope around to a nightclub to hear New York City-born...
...Oscar-and they say history repeats itself." About all that anyone else remembers is the song that he introduced in it, Thanks for the Memory. In 1939, Hope, Crosby and Dorothy Lamour were signed for The Road to Singapore (two other comedy teams-Burns and Allen, and Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie-refused to touch...