Banner Graphic, Volume 11, Number 282, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 August 1981 — Page 6

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, July 31,1981

People in the news 'Father of TV' says it's 'awful'

The engineer often credited with being “the father of television" celebrated his 92d birthday yesterday and said that although he never dreamed TV would ever become so good from a technological standpoint, he seldom watches it because what appears on TV is •‘awful." Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin, who came to the United States from Russia after the revolution and patented his first TV tube in 1923 when he was working for Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, lives in retirement in Princeton, N.J. He said in an interview that he never expected TV to become such a pervasive force worldwide. “The technique is wonderful," he said. “I didn’t ever dream it would be so good. The color and everything. It is beyond my expectation." Zworykin, who invented the image orthiocon tube, which became the standard TV tube, said he was not pleased with television content. “The programs!” he said. “I would never let my children even come close to this thing. It’s awful what they’re doing." NEW YORK (AP> of the ratings' doldrums, Robert Mulholland has been named president and chief operating officer of the No. 3 television network. Mulholland’s boss NBC’s new chairman, Grant Tinker said he made the appointment Thursday so he could be freed "to help on programs in any way I can." Tinker himself became head of NBC only a month ago, succeeding Fred Silverman, who also held the title of president. Mulholland has been president of the NBC Television Network since 1977. Tinker said he would be succeeded by Raymond Timothy, executive vice president of the same division since September 1979. NBC has been third in the ratings' race since 1976. Tinker left his position as chief at MTM Enterprises producer of “The Mary' Tyler Moore Show,” “Lou Grant” and "Hill Street Blues” to take the NBC job. • Millions of very- young fans and grown-up former fans will be happy to know that Bob Keeshan, television’s “Captain Kangaroo” for the last 26 years, has returned home from Canada to continue his recuperation from a heart attack he suffered July 11. Keeshan, 54, checked out of Etobicoke General Hospital in Rexdale, a Toronto suburb, late Thursday and flew home to Babylon, N.Y. He suffered the heart attack when he was in Toronto for a personal appearance. “I’m very happy to be back home,” Keeshan said Thursday. “I’m extremely grateful to the people of Canada and the hospital. In spite of the mail strike up there, lots of young people came to the hospital with cards and strawberry jars filled with flowers from their gardens.” A spokesman for Keeshan said his office had received nearly 5,000 pieces of mail from young admirers of Captain Kangaroo. After a few weeks rest, Keeshan said, he plans to resume a full work schedule, including a new daily version of Captain Kangaroo, a daily five-minute TV spot in the afternoon, and a daily radio show-, all on CBS. • NEW YORK The gripping story of Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, which William Gibson dramatized in “The Miracle Worker,” will continue in Gibson’s latest play, “Monday After the Miracle.” It will open on Broadway shortly after the first of the year. Arthur Penn, who staged the acclaimed 1959 Broadway production of “The Miracle Worker,” starring Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan and Patty Duke as Helen Keller, will be the director. There is no cast yet, but Gibson met with Ellen Burstyn this week to discuss the Annie Sullivan role. The producers are Penn and Raymond Katz and Sandy Gallin, producers of the “Donny and Marie” television series. “Monday After the Miracle” is the story of Annie Sullivan’s marriage to the critic John Macy and Helen Keller’s place in their household. It takes place 20 years after the events described in “The Miracle Worker.” “It was a peculiar triangle,” Gibson says. “The theme of the play is Annie Sullivan’s efforts to arrive at a more normal life with her husband and children. I try to stay within the realm of fact, but nobody knows much of what went on inside that marriage. Annie Sullivan destroyed her letters. What went on inside is anybody’s guess. This play is mine.”

6:00 0 ffi NEWS O WELCOME BACK, KOTTER O ABC NEWS o CBS NEWS (E) © NBC NEWS S 3 SNEAK PREVIEWS Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel host an informative look at what's new at the movies. © THE ODD COUPLE ffi JIM BAKKER(I HR.) 6:30 ffl M*A*9*M O all in the family O FACE THE MUSIC O P.M. MAGAZINE A school for training performing dolphins; a convention of miniature house enthusiasts. © P.M. MAGAZINE A school for training performing dolphins; a convention of miniature house enthusiasts; Jerry Baker on bonsai tree cultivation; Capt. Carrot on salt; Joan Embery introduces two Himalayan black bear cubs. ffi © FAMILY FEUD © MACNEIL / LEHRER REPORT ffi PRISONER. CELL BLOCK H 7:00 Q © ffi HARPER VALLEY PTA Rumors start flying when Stella works with a handsome and married English teacher ori her acceptance speech for an award (R) O LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE O ffi BENSON Benson s 10-year-old ward falls out of a tree and has to be rushed to the hospital. (R) O (D THE INCREDIBLE HULK A former science reporter trying to make a comeback outmaneuvers McGee to get an internew with the Hulk (R)(1 hr.) ffi WASHINGTON WEEK IN REVIEW ffi FATHER JOHN BERTOLUCCI INTERVIEWS POPE JOHN PAUL II ® MOVIE Bronco Billy" (1980, Comedy)

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7:30 ; O ffi ffi COMEDY THEATER "Pals" A man and his brother-in-law go to Mexico to buy a painting O MATCH GAME 0 © DR. SEUSS’S PONTOFFEL POCK, WHERE ARE YOU? Animated A good-natured but goofed-up pickle packer with on-the-job problems gets some help from an unusual source (R) ffi WALL STREET WEEK “Option Strategies" Guest: Kenneth F. Dolan, options specialist, Shearson Loeb Rhoades 8:00 Q ffi THE ROBERT KLEIN SHOW Comedian Robert Klein is joined by Rodney Dangerfield, Jane Curtin and sportscaster Marv Albert for a satirical look at some American foibles (1 hr.) o JOKER’S WILD O ffi MOVIE ** "Kingdom Of The Spiders” (1977, Science-Fiction) William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling. A species of mutant tarantulas run out of food and attack an Arizona town in search of human prey. (R) g (2 hrs.) 0 ffi THE DUKES OF HAZZARD The Dukes try to help an old family friend break a moonshining habit (R) (1 hr.) © MOVIE * ★ ★ "A Big Hand For The Little Lady" (1966, Comedy) Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward. A perpetual loser's wife manages to win back their lost savings in a carl) game. (2 hrs.) ffi EXCHANGE “The Third Coast" The style of life in Texas and the effects of rapid growth on Houston, the state's largest city, are explored p(1 hr ) ffi LESTER SUMRALL TEACHING "Face Of Bitterness" 8:30 O TIC TAC DOUGH ffi TODAY IN BIBLE PROPHECY 9:00 Q ffi STEVE ALLEN COMEDY

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ANNE BANCROFT: Back on Broadway

Anne Bancroft has just signed to star on Broadway in Tom Kempinski’s drama “Duet for One.” Miss Bancroft will play a violinist stricken by a crippling disease in this two-character British play, due to open Jan. 7. Ellen Burstyn, who was originally announced for the role, dropped out, citing artistic differences. The producers are trying to sign Max von Sydow for the other role, which is that of a psychiatrist. “Duet for One” will be directed by William Friedkin, the film director who will be making his Broadway debut. PEORIA, 111. (AP) Local Masonic lodge officials are looking into various charities to determine which ones should get a share of a $50,000 donation from comedian Richard Pryor. Ronald Brown, past master of a Masonic lodge here, said he received the check this week from Pryor, a Peoria native who asked that the money be distributed to charities in his hometown. Brown said SIO,OOO has been earmarked for a special school, and another SIO,OOO has been set aside for a drugabuse program. Pryor was critically burned last year in a fire at his Los Angeles home. • Bob Hope lost a hat one year, and over the years so have Bing Crosby, Jack Dempsey and Johnny Carson. That puts this year’s loser, Joe DeNardo, in good company, but DeNardo is a meterologist and should have known that it rains in Waynesburg, Pa., on July 29. That, as John Daily tried to tell him, is why they call it Rain Day. But DeNardo bet Daily a hat that there would be no rain in Waynesburg this July 29, and Wednesday at 12:29 a.m., he lost. According to Daily, 71, a retired Waynesburg magistrate, rain has now fallen on the town on July 29 in 93 of the last 106 years. DeNardo, the latest in a long list of Rain Day victims, was not surprised by his loss. “I assumed I was going to lose,” he said. • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Author James Michener, who has penned stories about the South Pacific, Colorado, Chesapeake Bay and Israel, is considering writing a history of Texas, state officials say. Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby told the state Senate on Thursday that Michener, 74, “was considering taking on a history of the state of Texas as his next project.” “It would be a very nice thing to have happen if we can make it happen,” said Gov. Bill Clements. • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Cynthia Baker, daughter of Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, is being urged to follow family tradition and run for Congress, according to published reports. Both Gov. Lamar Alexander and Charles Overby, state chairman of the Republican Party, have talked to Miss Baker, 26, about running for Congress in 1982 in the new 4th District seat. “She’s very interested in the idea,” Overby told the Banner. “She said it is too early for her to make a final decision on this, but she also said the idea appealed to her a great deal.”

O NEWS (1 HR.) o © DALLAS J.R. takes a series of actions to re-establish his power and increase the Ewing wealth. (R) (1 hr.) ffi FREE TO CHOOSE "How To Cure Inflation" Dr. Milton Friedman visits a ghost town and a tobacco grower to show what money is and how it works. (R) g (1 hr.) ffi TODAY WITH LESTER SUMRALL ( 1 HR.) ® MOVIE "Blazing Saddles ’ (1974, Comedy) Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder. 10:00 Q O O ffi ffi ffi ffi NEWS O NEWLYWED GAME ffi DICK CAVETT Guest: John Mills. (R) ffi THIS IS THE LIFE 10:30 0 ffi ffi TONIGHT Host: Johnny Carson. Guests: Anqie Dickinson, Dorn Deluise. (1 hr.) O STARSKY AND HUTCH (1 HR.) O ffi ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE O NIGHTBEAT ffi THE NIGHT STALKER A robot that has been programmed with a survival instinct learns it is about to be deactivated and kills its creator. (1 hr.. 10 min.) ffi CAPTIONED ABC NEWS ffi AT HOME WITH THE BIBLE ® MOVIE "The Long Riders" (1980, Western) James and Stacy Keach, David and Keith Carradme 11:00 0 BENNY HILL 0 MARY TYLER MOORE ffi MACNEIL / LEHRER REPORT ffi FRIDAYS Guests The Bus Boys (R) ffi PRAISE (1 HR.) 11:30 0 © SCTV NETWORK 90 O MOVIE * * Vi "The House That Dripped Blood” (1971, Horror) John Bennett, Denholm Elliott A legendary Gothic house appears to influence its inhabitants adversely (2 hrs.)

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0 FRIDAYS Guests: The Bus Boys. (R) (1 hr., 10 min.) 0 HOGAN’S HEROES ffi DAVE ALLEN AT LARGE 11:40 CD MOVIE *Vfc "Castle Rock" (1981, Drama) James C. Burge, Cindy Girling. A young governess arrives at an old estate and becomes caught up in a series of strange occurrences and unexplained mysteries. (1 hr ,20 min.) 12:00 0 WILD, WILD WEST ffi SCTV NETWORK 90 ffi NEWS 12:10 ffi BLUE JEAN NETWORK "Alice Cooper" (1 hr., 30 min.) 12:30 ® MOVIE “Honeysuckle Rose" 12:40 O MONTE CARLO SHOW 1:00 0 ffi NEWS 0 RUBY POWELL 1:30 O MOVIE *V4 "Dr. Cyclops" (1940, Horror) Albert Dekker, Janice Logan A fiendish jungle doctor concocts a device that will shrink his assistants to miniature size. (2 hrs.) O NEWS © RAT PATROL 1:40 0 MEDICAL CENTER ©NEWS 2:00 ffi NEWS 2:30 ® MOVIE "Blazing Saddles" 3:30 O WRESTLING (1 HR.) 4:00 ® MOVIE "Bronco Billy" (1980, Comedy)

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