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Show TV2 THE HERALD.Provo, Utah, Monday. November 20, 1978 Likes Old Shows Reader Welcomes Television Station formers and writers have to shock you just to be able to hold your attention. Red Skelton could make you fold up with laughter while watching him try to ing of Channel 20 with so much anticipation. In many ways, I think I tie a tie. Now, young girls have to marbelong back in the era when "Father ry old men and not marry at all and Knew Best," and Ricky loved Lucy. there have to be crude words and There once was a time, I must admit, shocking scenes to just hold an when I wondered if I would ever be able audience past the commercial. to look back at the 50s with nostalgia. Perhaps it is this longing to relive But now, at least for me, (he time has some of the best of the past that made come. I long to share the joys and sorme look forward to the coming of Chanrows of the "Honeymooners," and the nel 20. My visits to California of recent "Life of Riley." As a television date have been crammed with delicious watcher, I liked it better when life was television. All of the best of the old shows can be seen there on UHF at any simple, when Dennis was the greatest menace we had to worry about and you time of day. And what a marvelous could always just sit back and "Leave selection of excellent old talent! It is like watching Gaslight Theatre twenty It to Beaver." four hours a day. the for of the My longing simplicity So it was with the antenna and on past, for the innocent joys portrayed in with the old up shows, when I learned that television family comedy, is only partUHF was finally coming to Utah. And, ly satisfied by those modern TV comthus far it has not been a complete disedies with the 50s setting. Somehow Last Sunday, for inappointment. and "LaVerne and "Happy Days" was Gordon McRae singthere stance, Shirley" don't quite recapture the ening the soliliquy to "My Little Girl" in of innocence old shows. the joyable Just when I start to laugh at their an- gorgeous color right in the middle of tics I find them doing and saying things my front room. The movie was that put me ill at ease and remind me "Carousel" and it was shown right in that I don't fit in the chic society of to- prime time when we were all alert enough to enjoy the wonderful mixture day I have learned that innocence is not a of talent, idealism and poetry! Each night, too, we can return to question of setting, but of attitude. The wholesome enjoyment of a good life is May berry and enjoy the folks from that not created by the style of couches and friendly town. And Maverick is back. the kind of drapes. It must radiate from It's like reading a favorite old book over and over again! within. But there has been some disappointAm I alone in the feeling that much of ment. Why so much time devoted to the today's television radiates only emp"Gong Show"? That's the kind of slick tiness? So often I have come home silliness that is already too available on from a day of problems anxious to the other stations. And why all the old relax, tuned in to TV and suddenly westerns? It makes you wonder if the found that its jarring atmosphere only station is not owned by someone from increased my tension. the East, because only the Easterners Chester and Gillis talked about swapcould swallow that bunk about the West ping houses. Maude and Arthur argue for very long. I think that if they tried about swapping mates. Ricky us rating .wise, they would find many Ricardo sang when he learned that Utahns starved for the very old, very Lucy was going to have a baby. Maude good reruns. discovered she was expecting and then Still, it's nice to be able to have decided to get an abortion. The Nelson another channel on the dial. UHF does family enjoyed an promise to be an interesting and Christmas that got better the day after welcome alternative. So I say, the holiday. A modern TV comedy tried "Welcome Channel 20." And, while to mix Noel with suicides and vasecwe're at it, how about someone spontomies and still give us something to soring Channel 21? laugh about. The list could go on and George G. King on. 930 N. 475 E. It almost seems that modern per Orem The New Look in Convection Heating Editor, TV Weekly: Perhaps it is because I am a Lucy Lover that I looked forward to the com- MODEL 479T quake, burning buildings, all help scenes at sea tell the story of "The - Immigrants." During this week, banker and as wealthy Tom Seldon. on stations participating in landowner, Anderson Operation Prime Time will air the four - hour both "The Man" dramatization of Howard novel, Fast'i "The Immigrants." 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