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...found on one network, ABC, on a single night, Tuesday. The schedule is the apotheosis of prime-time entertainment: viewers can spend three hours in front of the set without changing the channel and see the most popular series back to back. The evening begins with Happy Days, a sitcom about teen-age kids in '50s Milwaukee that is now No. 2 in the Nielsens. Next is TV's highest-rated series: Laverne & Shirley, a Happy Days spin-off about two female beer factory workers who also live in '50s Milwaukee. After that comes Three...
Henry Winkler is the biggest star on prime-time TV and understandably so. As Fonzie, the motorcycle-crazy greaser of Happy Days, he raises '50s cool to the boiling point. The Fonz is no different from the hero of any other ABC sitcom, but Winkler does not settle for mugging his way through the role. Instead he galvanizes the tube with shrewd comic timing and swaggering sexuality he gives the audience Bugs Bunny crossed with James Dean, and each week some 47 million Americans go wild...
Edward Asner, who plays Lou, has been developing the character for seven seasons. On Mary Tyler Moore he first played his role as another gruff but lovable TV sitcom boss-like Lucy's Gale Gordon. By the time that series concluded last season, Asner had given Lou three dimensions: he was still a comic figure, but he was also a lonely, somewhat self-destructive man. Now Asner takes the character still further. In the new series (billed as drama, not situation comedy), Lou has left Minneapolis for a job as city editor of a Los Angeles newspaper...
Carter Country (premiere: Sept. 15, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T. on ABC). In this ridiculous sitcom, TV does its cynical best to cash in on the popularity of Jimmy Carter. The action takes place around the police station of a small Georgia town, where the cracker sheriff (Victor French) must cope with a New York-trained black sergeant (Kene Holliday), a dumb racist deputy (Harvey Vernon) and a sex-crazed policewoman (Barbara Cason). There's also a politically ambitious mayor (Richard Paul) who looks like Bert Lance and, in the opening episode, an off-screen visit by the President himself...
...Betty White Show (première: Sept. 12, 9 p.m. E.D.T. on CBS). One of the major inspirations of the Mary Tyler Moore Show was to cast sweet, motherly Betty White against type-as a two-faced bitch. In this promising new sitcom from MTM Enterprises, White is as bitchy as ever and on-screen almost all the time. It might be too much of a good thing...