Names like Diamond Tooth Gertie’s and Black Mike's provoke

FO a

memories of gold-tush daysin ihe Klondike region. Here a colartully
dressed dance-hall girl participates in the Klondike Days parade in
“YUKON PASSAGE,’ a National Geographic Special airing over PAS

on Monaay. Dec. 5.

— BY JOEY SASSO

CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: If ABC-TV and the producers of
‘Charlie's Angels’ are planning to go ahead with their suit
to prevent Farrah Fawcett-Majors fram .working for
anyone else (she split the ‘Angels’ scene but is still
under contract), they better. think again. The lady's

manager Jay Bernstein says his gal is ready to ~

countersue the network for $40 million if she is prevented
from working in her new movie ‘Somebody Killed Her
Husband.’ Bernstein says that the show's suit would be
ridiculous in any case because the show continues to be
rated in TV's top five, thereby obviating any claim that
Farrah’s leave-taking caused any harcship for the series,
the producers or the network ... The film ‘Network’ was
less than kind to TV folks, so the industry is going to tell
its side of the story in a six-hour mini-series called

‘Television, scrinted by Howard Rodman for NBC. .

Rodman will also pen a ‘Television’ novel to be published
simultaneously with the series’ airing. Both will take a

EVENING

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LITTLE HOUSE ON THE

PRAIRIE
BOBBY VINTON SHOW
Guests: Barbara Mandrell,

Willie Tyler.
MACNEIL LEHRER
REPORT

‘ 7:30
@ HOLLYWOOD SQUARES
HEADLINE HUNTERS
Guest: Tom Patterson.
@ BATTLE LINE

8:00

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE
PRAIRIE
@)THE BETTY WHITE SHOW
@ (THE WALTONS Olivia
mystifies the entire Walton
family when she suddenly
sinks into depression: and
becomes extremely short-
tempsred. (60 min.)
SCHOOL DESEGREGA-
TION HEARING

((monday)) |

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€) SUPERSPECIAL: MICHEL
LEGRAND AND FRIENDS
@ GRAND OLD GOUNTAY
Guests: Jody Miller, Larry
Gatlin, Terry Christenson.
(9 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

SOAP Peter Is in for the
surprise of his tife when an
unexpected visitor calls at his
apartment.

10:00
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GP SWITCH "Go For Broke”
1857 Fred MacMurray,
Dorothy Mafone., (7 hr, 46

min.) NLINE
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QaOnens |

11:30
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11:3
60 MINUTES Host: Peter
Gzowskl. .

12:00
@ DICK CAVETT SHOW
; 12:10
MOVIE "This Earth ts
Mine" 1958 Rock Hudson,
Jaan Simmons. (2 hrs., 30
min.)

12:30
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EDIN PROGRESS)

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@ MOVIE *Quantez" 1957
Fred MacMurray, Dorothy
Malone, (7 hrs., 45 min.)

3a?

NETWORKS AND STATIONS
RESERVE THE RIGHT TO
MAKE CHANGES

STORYTELLER: .

Academy Award winner Martin
Balsam stars as a veteran
television writer who is troubled
by a mother's charges that his

i teleplay motivated actions by her
son that resulted in his death in

‘The Storyteller,’

a world

premlere drama on 'NBC Monday
Night at the Movies’ Dec. 6.

Ira Davidolf

(Balsam) is

disturbed and puzzled after

learning

of the death, Did his

script contribute to the tragedy or
was the boy a_ disturbed
youngster who would have acted
irrationally anyway? Seeking the
answer, Davidoff goes to the
boy's hametown, where he talks
& with his parents and a newspaper
reporter who covered the story.

Patty Duke Astin,

Doris §

Roberts, Rose Gregorio, James

Daly,

David Spielberg,

Tam

# Aldredge and James Staley
round out the cast. -

Briefs

DOG KILLED

LONDON, Ont. (CP) —
A doberman pinscher
was put to death Tuesday
despite threatening calls
warming against de-
stroying the dog that

mauled a three-year-old |

Thamesford, Ont., girl
nine days ago. Al Smith,
operations manager of
the London Humane
Society, said Monday that
the society had been
inundated with calls,

some of them abusive and
threatening.
BALLONISTS MAKE
PLANS

LONDON (Reuter) —
Pilots Don Cameron and
Mark Yarry announced
Tuesday their plan to
make the first British at-
tempt to cross the
Atlantic next year using a
helium and hot air
balloon and _— sealed
capsule designed to
ensure their survival for
40 days if they land in the
sea. The balloon will be
launched from the east
coast of the U.S. or
Canada in Jate summer,
1978, they said. ;

WANT AGE
LOWERED

STOCKHOLM (Reuter)
— The Swedish govern-

ment asked parliament
Tuesday to lower the age

Of consent for homosex-

ual relations to 15 years
in most cases—the same
as for heterosexuals. At
resent the age of consent
~for homosexuals is 18 in
most cases.

ON ENDANGERED
‘LIST 7
WASHINGTON

(Reuter) — The U.S, Fish
and Wildlife Service
placed a species of small
striped water snake on its
list of threatened wildlife
Tuesday. The species, the
Atlantic salt marsh
snake, lives in brackish
and salt water habitats on
Florida’s Atlantic coast:
The main threat to the
Atlantic marsh snake is
from _—ithe
destruction of its habitat:
by development, =: '"

THE TOWNSMAN, Friday, December 2, 1977, PAGE 5

more ‘positive’ view of tube types .. . Cheryl Ladd tried
to sneak into Studio 54 for a litte boogie the olher night
by putting her hair up. It didn’t work and Charlie's ‘Angel’
was mobbed by photographers and farced to split.

EYE ON TV: When Dick Van Dyke showed up at the CBS
Siudios to begin taping a ‘Carol Burnett Show,’ the
‘security guard didn't know who he was and refused to
admit Dick or call anyone to check on him. Since he
couldn't get the guard lo move off the dime, Dick took
one out of his pocket. went to a pay phone and called
Carol to have someone tet him in... Wheeling and
dealing. Rock Hudson and Lee Remick are paired in a
forthcoming TV mini-series called ‘Wheels.’ The 10-hour
series on NBC is based on Arthur Hailey's novel about
the American auto industry. Rock plays a top exec who
neglects his wife. Lee plays the wife. who retaliates by
having an affair and taking up shoplifling.

INSIDE THE TUBE: Gher has come back to Hollywood all
smites. even though she left husband Gregg Allman
behind at Silver Hill in Connecticut for further treatment.
They had a couple of happy weeks together in New York
and that spells reconciliation ... At 89, Dean Martin is
looking remarkably youthful: even those graying temples
have furned brown again...Qne of TV’s superstar
comedians faces a $3 million lawsuit brought by his
lormer weight-exercise expert who says. ‘I'm tired of
helping him to lose weight, only to have him turn around
and give all the credit to Weight Watcher's on TV."". . .
You know of course that cule Marie Osmond has been
dating one of the "Hardy Boys,’ Parker Stevenson. But
there she was in Swenson's, the Westwood ice cream
parlor, one recent night with the other one. Shaun
Cassidy. And holding hands. too! .. . Ed Asner of “Lou
Grant’ is on such a health kick, besides all the weight he
took off, that he's quit smoking aller 20 years of pack-
and-a-half a day. He credits Mary Tyler Moore with
persuading his wife Nancy lo cut ciggies last year and
then Nancy got busy onhim... ‘All my ex-wives know
that within me somewhere there's a pussycat."" Telly
-Savalas confides. The star of ‘Kojak’ would add even
more: “Some men can'‘l stand their ex-wives, and some
ex-wives can't stand their ald husbands. But all my ex-
wives love me. They adore me and want me back! i was
born. with a romantic nature and I'll carry it to my grave.
it's my mislortune | never stayed married. | have gorilla
luck when it Gomes to women.” . . . World famed racing
car ace Paul Newman has started a Tonka Toys racing
cars collection.

continued ;

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@ SEATTLE TONIGHT
MUPPET SHOW

STARS ON ICE Guests:
Suzanne Russel, Dan Henry,
Lisa Ilisly, Gherrill and Rabbie
Rae.

7:30
NAME THAT TUNE
LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY
@ SEARCH AND RESCUE
"Upstream"
@) RHAPSODY ON A THEME
BY PAGANINI

8:00 .
@ MAN FROM ATLANTIS
HAPPY DAYS In a boxing
match arranged by Fonzie,
Ralph Matph's pride over-
shadows his terror when he
gets Into the ring with a foot-
ball crulser.
MAN FROM ATLANTIS An
underwater explosion traps
Mark Harris in the past,
where he becomes involved
in the feud between the
families of the legendary
Romeo and Jullet, (8 min.)
@) PLUTONIUM: AN ELE-
MENT OF RISK

8:30
@ THE AENE SIMARD
SHOW

- 9:00
GPMULLIGAN’SSTEW.
W.AS.H. Hawkeye and
Hot Lips, grudging compa-
nlons on a special mission to

another MASH unlil, 6x
perience a wondrous
phenomenon under the

stress of enemy artiilery fire:
they. discover each olher
romantically. (Pt. | of a two-
part apisode)

@ MULUGAN'S STEW "Arh
Wilderness” ‘The Mulligan's
three-day backpacking trip
almost ends In tragedy when
Jimmie wanders away from
camp causing Adam to foliow
and they both get fost. (60
min.)

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&) 00 MINUTES Host: Peter
Gzowski.

@ MOVIE "Lady Takes A

Flyer” #958 Lana Turner, Jeff

Chandler. (2 nes
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MOVIE
Blacktop" 1971 James Tayior,
Warren Oates.

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