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Show IB BY LYN CONNELLY AS LONG as the Senate is busy- lng itself investigating television, tele-vision, we wish they'd extend themselves a little and investigate investi-gate some of the commercials that beset the viewer . . . The extravagant claims of some sponsors who sell their products as though there was something mystical about them are just as suspect as some of the phony shows . . . And while they're at It, they might dig into the rating racket which guides sponsors . . . Many good shows have fallen fall-en by the wayside because they supposedly had a "poor rating" (which means In lay terms that one out of some four persons called was watching the show-it show-it never occurs to them that possibly pos-sibly all .of the next four called might be watching ... in other words, a handful of people decide the destiny of a show). Tuesday Weld was dropped from the hilarious "Dobie Gillis" show because of the unfavorable publicity the badly-advised youngster gathers . . . Tuesday and her agents feel that any kind of publicity Is good publicity publici-ty so they have proceeded to build Tuesday up as sort of a psycho case which can only be appealing to a limited idiotic crowd . . . The costly "Alaskans" series is in trouble with ratings and ABC may make the big decision to drop it. |