Drew's claims fueling all kinds of fires. And as you can imagine, people went nuts over this assertion on both sides of the party aisle, with Dr. Their conclusion was that she is receiving "sort of 1950-level care" from her regular physician, name-checking certain problems mentioned in the reports and some reportedly outdated practices and medicines, eventually saying that the healthcare she's receiving may be a concern. Drew Pinsky appeared on the KABC radio show McIntyre in the Morning last week and spoke about how he and another physician had recently gone over some of Hillary Clinton's publicly released medical records. Every fifth week, the time period will be given over to “The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.To address the second point first, Dr.
On Sundays, from 7 to 8 P.M., in place of the already canceled Bill Cosby variety program, ABC will offer two children's adventure series on an alternating basis, drawn from the “Nancy Drew” and “The Hardy Boys” series of books. Blansky's Beauties,” the network is also adding a spinoff of the “Barney Miller” series, featuring the character portrayed by Abe Vigoda and named for that character, “Fish.” Both new situationcomedy series have been scheduled for Saturday evenings. Just like that.”Īcting first among the networks in revising its primetime schedule at midseason, ABC‐TV has canceled not only “The Nancy Walker Show,” but also “Holmes and YoYo,” and has announced a new lineup that will include several shortterm series to occupy Monday nights between the football and baseball seasons.īesides “Mrs. He points to the parking spaces reserved for the show. “Boy, those people can be cold,” he says of the networks. bad news has traveled fast, and the parking attendant for Tandem's 500 cars makes a gesture of a knife across his throat. Lear-who suffered through two earlier failures, “The Dumplings” and “Hat L Baltimore"‐may not appear unduly marked by the death of “The Nancy Walker Show,” but at 2:12 P.M. Lear hardly looks paternal enough to be the father of what he insists is not only “the largest television independent there ever was” but a family “of 91 actors who want everyone else's shows to succeed and everyone else's ratings to be good.” ‘All's Fair’ grew out of that.”Īt 54, Mr. In order to get Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf to come back ‘for a third year of ‘Maude,’ we gave them a development deal. ‘Here I am with my 150 television shows!’ In order to keep good people, we had to ,promise them they could try to develop new shows for us. You'd have to be nuts to make that a life goal. People ask me, ‘How many shows will you be satisfied with?’ As if I had set out to get 10 shows. This year I wanted to do it again and there was no way to fit us all in. Lear, “I invited all 65 of us to a Thanksgiving dinner at a Chinese restaurant. Communications Company remain television's largest independent contractor, with 91 regular actors in their series and 579 other employees to invite to the annual Christmas party. As it is, the number remains at nine, with “A Year At The Top” joining “All in the Family,” “Sanford & Son,” “Maude.” “Good Times,” “The Jeffersons,” “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.” “One Day at a Time” and “All's Fair.” Mr. Lear's 10th show on the air in the 1976‐77 season. If “The Nancy Walker Show” had not been canceled, “A Year at the Top” would have been Mr. Communications Company will introduce “A Year at the Top,” a situation comedy about selling souls to the devil, on CBS.
a character well known as the exgirlgriend of Fonzie on “Happy Days.”īut television is television and what ABC taketh away, CBS may giveth. One of the showgirls will be played by Roz Kelly, cast as Pinky Toscadero. Blansky's Beauties,” portraying a “den mother” to 12 Las Vegas showgirls. Lear.īy Thursday, ABC was ready to announce that Miss Walker would be back at the end of next month in “Mrs. Norman Lear has had a failure- and read silverman, ABC's chief of programming, has already arranged for Nancy Walker to meet with the network's hottest producer, Gary Marshall ("Happy Days,” “Laverne and Shirley") to discuss a new showwithout Mr. And for the first time he has been told the bad news instead of reading it in the trade papers. At least the telephone calls-of which there have been 14 in the last hour-are now over. The corridors of television power have been awash in blood for the last two weeks, so if Norman Lear is not exactly happy, he is resigned. Wednesday, and “The Nancy Walker Show” has just been canceled by ABC.