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Quite a while, no doubt. Already in the works is a one-hour special on Duke Ellington. Lear is preparing yet another sitcom series for a possible January debut on CBS, this one about a black family named Jones. "Sanford isn't trying to reflect real ghetto life," Lear maintains. "Compared with ghetto dwellers, those two men live very, very well. What I would like to do is a real black-ghetto family show...
...none of the network's news teams were the real winners. At hours when NBC and CBS were broadcasting the convention, ABC was cornering a greater share of the audience than either with reruns of series like Marcus Welby (38%) and Mod Squad (30%). Even a feeble sitcom like The Super attracted 27%. Network coverage of the Republican Convention later this month will once again be furiously competitive. But public taste being what it is, Round 2, like Round 1, will be a battle only for the runner-up positions...
...adaptation of one Neil Simon play that the author might like to forget. The heroine, an aspiring Olympic swimmer, is a jabbering pixy whose notion of Americanism Dr. Carl Mclntire might find a tad overzealous. The premise-a little flimsy even for a half-hour episode on a TV sitcom-is that this young lady drives two underground California journalists into transports of romantic ecstasy...
...PARTNERS (NBC). Don Adams, the nutball hero of Get Smart!, a golden oldie of the sitcom form, returns as author and star of a derivative series with the same lunatic intensity and sporadically hilarious style. This time, Adams and a new partner, droll black Actor Rupert Crosse (The Reivers), are bungling plainclothesmen. Inevitably, they do not play as freshly or score as often as old Agents 99 and 86, but would you believe...
...FUNNY SIDE (NBC). This mating of Laugh-In and sitcom is at least topical. Each week, the stock company of five couples (one young, one old, one cosmopolitan, one black, one hardhat) lights into a subject. Last week it was sex, and most of the gags were past their prime. The premiere the previous week took on health and, without drawing much blood, did at least pink such vulnerable targets as Americans' hypochondria, overcrowded waiting rooms, and the inadequacies of health insurance ("At today's prices, the only one who can afford to be sick is Howard Hughes...