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...SITCOM has two new entries from Norman Lear and one from Mary Tyler Moore's mill. As might be expected, the most sophisticated, All's Fair, is a Lear production for CBS. The story about a conservative Washington columnist in his late 40s, played by Richard Crenna, and his affair with a young, radical chic photographer, gives saucer-eyed Bernadette Peters a long-overdue opportunity to close in on an identifiable personality. But All's Fair is not for all viewers. In the damning words of one West Coast handicapper: "It's a thinking...
Lear's other new sitcom, The Nancy Walker Show, has the inspired notion of casting the crafty comedienne as a high-powered Hollywood agent married to a Navy officer who decides to retire from the sea. (Lear's low regard for TV brass is reflected in the character of a network executive whose eight-year-old son makes all his programming decisions.) A likely...
...Dinner. Only one thing spoils this family-sitcom idyl: Conrad's older brother is dead, drowned in a boating accident that Conrad survived. Survival leaves Conrad feeling so guilty that he attempts suicide and has to be sent to a mental hospital, passing on his guilt, in turn, to father and mother...
...Entry. By the numbers, at least, this forced separation has been a success. Since The Bionic Woman first appeared in mid-January it has become, along with ABC's sitcom Laverne and Shirley, the TV season's hottest late entry. Big with the bubble-gum crowd that also dotes on Lee Majors, it has also drawn a sizable adult audience stuck on Lindsay Wagner's sexy looks. Her show has consistently been among the top 15 in the ratings, although Majors' program often edges it out by a point...
Stratified Sitcoms. One reason for his long reign has been Lear's almost teleological ability to have at least one new talk-provoking show on the air before his last hit has settled into acceptance. In January 1972, just a year after All in the Family made its debut, Lear produced Sanford and Son, his first black sitcom, and watched it soar into the top ten rated shows. It was followed that September by Maude, a spin-off from Family, whose mercurial, politically liberal protagonist taught a nation's housewives the imprecation: "God'll getcha for this...