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8 THE MORNING CALL, Allentown, Tuesday, February 15, 1977 Television Now 'Mr. Novak's' a -agent far A A I. i fr. if; III ill -f Brogger product got better each year. Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir Ralph Richardson appeared in "David Cop-perfield," "Jane Eyre" followed with George C.

Scott and Susannah York, then "Kidnapped" and finally Henry Fonda in "The Red Pony." Then the partnership dissolved and Jim went back to acting. "It became a grinding hassle," he explained. "Raising money is not my cup of tea. All the wheeling and dealing turned my stomach. I'm not that greedy I guess." cinch.

In shape partly because of charity tennis matches with Chad Everett, Charlton Heston and pick-up pros around the country, a series of sets sponsored by a liquor company with ads in national magazines, slim Jim can tense the jaw muscles in closeups, give the steely blue-eyed look, and run without effort in the long-shot action scenes. After all, it's work; and Jim doesn't fit in those pilots calling for leggy, lovely girls running about after bad LINDA EVANS movie director Howard Hawk's old estate nestled in the canyons Just behind Westwood, winding up episode number 13. Next week he will be in Australia for a movie titled "Puzzle." The actor was not looking beyond a 13-week winter-spring run for "Hunter." The Lorimar Productions property received the green light last spring, but CBS didn't care for the pilot. Jim Franciscus and Linda Evans passed muster, but not the format about an ex-con out for revenge, aided by lady of the evening, Linda. It was to be a reverse "Fugitive," with the hero doing the chasing.

During revisions, the hunting angle was retained, and the characters were cleaned up to become high-level government intelligence sleuths, James Hunter and Marty Shaw. In the first show, Hunter and Shaw match wits with a Communist agent Bluebird, supposedly working under an alias in a nuclear plant. For Franciscus, the assignment is a Tuesday, Feb. 15 9 to 9:30 p.m. on your Public Television Channel Tonight: "There's No Business Like Big Business." Is Big Business as good as it likes to think it is? Or as bad as some people believe it is? Why not tune in for half an hour and decide for yourself? Check local listings Una SSoffiUftrfto JAMES FRANCISCUS Best bets Today's top television shows as previewed and selected by Steven H.

Scheuer and TV KEY'S staff who watch screenings, attend rehearsals and analyze scripts in New York and Hollywood. 8:00 (BCD (5) HAPPY DAYS. "The Graduation, Part 2. The conclusion of this two-parter, about Fonzie's efforts to graduate with his friends by attending night school, is bright and funny. When Richie and his sidekicks discover that the Fonz won't be able to participate in the actual graduation ceremonies, they get up a petition to have the rules bent just a little.

Fonzie even has an opportunity to deliver a speech at the ceremonies. The subtle message that everyone is better off finishing high school is not lost here. 8:00 53 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIAL. "The New Indians." changes respect for a general who's looking for his personal medic a cushy job from all reports. The twist here, however, is that the general digs Hawkeye's attitude and comes around to check on the surgeon.

Edward Binns, who specializes in playing tough old birds, portrays the general, and Radar also earns attention taking care of a pal's lady. 10:00 CD GD S9 POLICE STORY. "Hard Rock Brown." Occasionally ingenious, always professional handling of a case that involves breaking a shrewdly run narcotics ring transporting heroin from Mexico over the border to an American buyer. Ricardo Montalban and David Groh star as investigators who have to put their knowledge together, to identify the Alvarez brothers Emilio the scientist, and By CHARLES WITBECK HOLLYWOOD r- Series star Jim Franciscus has played a schoolteacher a blind insurance investigator a cop and a country doctor Now he becomes a secret agent, along with pretty Linda Evans, reporting to the President of the United States" In "Hunter," the new CBS action series replacing "Executive Suite" on Friday nights, beginning Feb. 18.

This is the show the network boss disparaged in public as not ready for airing while speaking to the press in early January. And presto, here it is. Franciscus shakes his head over the advance knock. "I'm a wirvivor," he says. If one series bombs he will hunt around for another.

Losing his temper over bad time slots, poor publicity, or shows that just don't work, is not his bag. Jim was filming. with Linda in on TV today Except for an inspiring speech made by a young Indian woman lawyer during a hearing opposing gas projects which would exploit the Navajo people, this hour about the new Indians so called offers little more than the usual excitement any group of young people might feel going to a convention. In this case, the event is an Indian inter-tribal conference, held to give young Indians a sense of their ancient roots. To the non-Indian viewer, just participating in traditional songs and dances offered to them here, seems a far cry from cementing their relationships with their forebears.

Perhaps, an Indian viewer might be so moved. 9:00 (D IH) 22 MASH. More bite this week, an ingredient lacking somewhat in recent months. Hawkeye doesn't display the proper FCC head inquiry is MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Richard E.

Wiley, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, assured television executives Monday an FCC inquiry into network operations "is decidedly not anti-network." "Appointments to the special staff conducting the inquiry will be as competent, fair-minded and balanced as is humanly possible," Wiley promised in remarks prepared for an address to the National Assocation of Television Program Executives. Explaining the inquiry, Wiley said, "One obstacle which may interfere with the operation of competitive forces in the broadcast programing arena is the claimed dominance of the commercial television industry by the three major neworks. "To determine whether any practices of the networks are improperly restricting such discretion," Wiley Made possible in part by a grant from Bsthlshsm LethuhcJ I I tells TV executives not 'anti-network' A Princeton University survey reports the more interest a person has in news, the more he prefers to get this news from a newspaper. See the new Indians. Waleh The Sew Indians tonight on Public Television and see a new generation of American Indians who are recapturing the pride of their past and the glorv of their heritage.

Join series host G. Marshall. Tonight. guys. So you play a high-level intelli gence agent and move on.

For a while, Jim was in the produc lng business with Fred Brogger, film ine TV classics. The first "Heidi," with Maxmilian Schell and Jean Simmons, is famous for coming on the air before the end of a pro football game in Oakland, Calif. All stations, according to the actor, now have a "Heidi button for use when sports events run over, or stations want to cut in for bulletins After "Heidi," the Franciscus- Harry the businessman and track down their ingenious plan of opera tion. Absorbing. 10:00 GD GD 55 FAMILY.

"A Safe House." Farfetched, but fans of the series will want to see how Willie Lawrence faces a crisis of friend ship, when radical Sam Trask, on the run from police for a kidnapping rap three years old, returns to town and asks Willie for help in seeing his dying father. What simply doesn't ring true here is the old kidnapping Dusiness itself and Sam abuse of Willie even way back then. How ever, the situation involving giving shelter to a fugitive, compounded by tne tact that your father is a lawyer, is ot interest in and of itself. 1:00 CD GC TOMORROW. Flip Wilson is scheduled to discuss his career as Tom Snyder's special guest tonight.

"The FCC must continue to have the flexibilities it now has, and much that is in the act today should remain unchanged," said Don B. Curran, president of Kaiser Broadcasting. Joel Chaseman, president of Post-Newsweek Stations, said "continuing administrative reform and the study of policies and antiquated statutes are desirable. Change for the sake of change is not." "In short, so far as broadcasting and the public it serves are concerned, there is no reason to rewrite the act," he said. Bill Leonard, vice president of CBS in Washington, said he wasn't advocating the status quo change, but said, "We should be in no hurry to reinvent the wheel.

Particularly, when that wheel has and does serve us well." Aids handicapped Thomas McNelis of Macungie has been promoted to workshop director at Threshold of Berks County, Reading, a rehabilitation facility for the mentally and physically handicapped. "McNelis is a graduate of King's College with a major in psychology, and has taken courses in rehabilitation at the University of Maryland. Cemetery off icers Carl Fabian has been elected president of the Coplay Cemetery Association. Other officers are Allen Shoemaker, vice president, and Mrs. Grace Mohr, secretary-treasurer.

Surgeon honored Dr. Thomas B. Dickson Jr. of Allentown was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons at the group's 44th annual meeting in Las Vegas. Gets state post John Kanyak, driver-education teacher at Weatherly High School, has been appointed to the state advisory committee on pupil transportation.

Kanyak will represent secondary school teachers on the committee, which includes teachers from other levels, transportation supervisors and bus contractors. Legion awards The Tamaejiia American Legion's annual Americanism awards were presented to two 8th grade girls recently. Patti Agosti of St. Jerome's Catholic School and Emily Link of Tamaqua Junior High School won the awards based on recommendations by teachers and students. Miss Agosti is a daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Ermano Agosti of Arlington Street. Miss Link Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Link of Tamaqua R.2.

3:30 p.m. 48 THE BRADY KIDS replaces The Little Rascals. 4:00 p.m. 48 THE FLINTSTONES HOUR replaces The Monkees at 4 30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.

39 GOVERNOR MILTON SHAPP'S BUDGET MESSAGE. Direct from the State Capital in Harrisburg, Gov. Shapp presents the 1977 Budget to the General Assembly, where a tax increase is expected to be proposed. This replaces Crockett's Victory Garden. 7:30 p.m.

11 THE LUCY SHOW replaces The Dick Van Dyke Show. 9:00 p.m. 6,7,16 RICH MAN, POOR MAN. "Chapter XVIII." Rudy's affair with Kate is further complicated when Maggie Porter reenters his life, and Wesley Jordache marries a happy Diane. 10:00 p.m.

39 GOVERNOR MILTON SHAPP'S BUDGET MESSAGE. Repeat showing of the Governor's message, which took place earlier this evening. This re- places The Goodies. 2,10.22 KOJAK. A young member of the police force, addicted to gambling and in debt, falls prey to a powerful crime figure who uses him unscrupulously.

6,7,16 THE FAMILY. (See Best Bets for episode information). Moravian alumnus is consecrated The Rev. Albert H. Frank, a Moravian College and Moravian Theological Seminary graduate, has been consecrated as a presbyter in Third Moravian Church, Philadelphia.

The service of consecration was conducted by Bishop Allen W. Schat-tschneider of Lititz. Rev. Frank, formerly a student pastor of Grace Moravian Church in Center Valley, did Moraviao mission work on the Island of Tobago, West Indies, 1971-76. Presbyter is the second Personalities Tbnight The excitement of discovery The National Geographic Specials Gulf Oil Corporation -d" "i said, "the FCC recently initiated our first over-all network study in two decades." He said the inquiry will cover the question of whether the network practiced an ti -competitive policies restricting program outlets.

And the inquiry will include relationships between networks and their affiliates and between networks and program suppliers, he said. Wiley said it is "of course, fashionable to criticize the networks as the root of all the problems of American television. But, "I suspect that if we didn't have networks we would want to invent something which looks very much like them." In an earlier panel discussion, several television executives cautioned against any wholesale rewriting of the Federal Communications Act of 1934. taught problem children at Interim School in Bethlehem. She taught at Canadian Academy International School in Kobe, Japan, where she also taught English conversation and American culture at a Japanese language school.

On commission Allentown School Board President Judith Klein was named to a statewide to strengthen relationships between boards and superintendents. Also appointed to the 28-member panel was Robert Bookbinder, superintendent of the East Stroudsburg district. The group is sponsored by the Pennsylvania School Boards Association. Yacht club Joseph E. Biro of Allentown was installed recently as commodore of the Miles River Yacht Club in St.

Michael's, Md. He is president of Biro Joseph E. Biro Associates, a mechanical-electrical engineering consulting firm in Wescosville. Biro is adjunct professor of mechanical-electrical engineering at Northampton County Area Community College and a consultant to the American Institute of Architects in Washington, DC. Biro, who resides with his wife Janet in the Regency Towers Apartments, in Allentown, is a graduate of Lafayette College.

The yacht club, oldest on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, is the host for the International Gold Cup ice boat races. Produced by the National Geographic Society and WQEDPittsburgh. Made possible by a grant from Gulf Oil Corporation. order the Moravian ministry. BITZ IIBM T'jGoI.

Sale Come A GOLD RUSH Wliumr Allentown Fairgrounds Foundation director Paula Ruth Litt has been named administrative director of the Larry Jarret Foundation, Easton, succeeding Paula Litt Linda Weiss who has returned to California. The Larry Jarret House, 419 March is a "demonstration home" established to help families of hearing impaired and deaf children, who go to the Helen Beebe Speech Center. Ms. Litt attended City College of New York and Cedar Crest College, receiving a bachelor's degree in sociology. She worked with deaf children at Camp Bronx House in New York and Veteran.

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