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...Jean Stapleton, 58, Sally Struthers, 34, and Rob Reiner, 38) left, O'Connor, 57, bought a neighborhood bar and turned it and the show into Archie Bunker's Place. But times had changed, and with few social bubbles left to burst, the program drifted into a tame sitcom limbo that disappointed old fans and failed to win new ones. It seemed to be kept alive through dint of sheer stubborn will by O'Connor, who, as star, producer and sometime writer and director, reportedly received as much as $5 million a season. Last week CBS canceled Archie...
Another quiz show currently exploiting TV nostalgia is Family Feud, whose host is the oleaginous Richard Dawson, formerly the scheming Cockney Newkirk on Hogan 's Heroes. This daily show has been featuring sitcom families such as the Bradys of The Brady Bunch and the Cleavers from Leave It to Beaver. During the program, the performers behave much as they did on their original shows, fostering the illusion that TV families never break up or die, but live on blissfully in real life as well as on reruns...
Prime-time television watchers at the University of Pennsylvania can now add another sitcom, "Menage a Quad," to the viewing schedules, The show is broadcast on UTV, the University's only television static and possibility the only entirely student-run station in the country...
...premier was aired at Smokey Joe's popular UPenn bar, which had sponsored the first episode, said Steve Tirpening, the sitcom's director. The second episode will be shown "soon...
...Enough, a Manhattan gallery owner (Frederic Major) instructs a brilliant, unknown painter (John C. Vennema) in the art of compromise; fortunately the lesson does not take. In Jeffrey Sweet's The Value of Names, Benny (Larry Block), a blacklisted actor who has revived his career on a TV sitcom, crosses rusty swords with Leo (Frederic Major again), the theater director who had testified against him before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The play's political prejudices are clearly on Benny's side; its emotional sympathies are subtle and shifting. Benny uses his aggressive...