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Show ffii j o nzzzoj By LYN CONNELLY "PHIS Is the time of year when television is all but dead . . . It's the season of re-runs and the only thing Interesting about that for the average viewer is that he may get to catch a show he missed . . . More likely, however, he's likely to catch the show he's seen twice before and as for the late, late movies well, why go into that? They're dusting off the early 30' movies and getting them set for summer television but not on our set . . . It's difficult enough, heaven knows, to get interested in-terested in a 1948 movie, let alone some atrocity from 1931. Not only are they bringing back re-runs of the good shows this past season, they are also foisting on us the re-runs of shows long since gone after dying a slow, natural death . . . How we happen to be so honored is because of the economy kick the networks are on . . . They figure not many people watch TV in the summer months anyway so why waste anything any-thing original on them? They're right, of course, we can't help but feel sorry for the shut-ins who depend on TV for their only source of entertainment . . . Anything Any-thing repeated twice or more loses its spark and what fun is there watching mystery shows when you know the endings? One of the most popular shows this past season was "Victory at Sea" and another was Churchill's "The Valiant Years" . . . Both of these shows hadn't been expected to attract too much of an audience but they fooled all the experts . . . Churchill's show especially is a wonderful foundation for modern history if the high school and college col-lege crowd takes the same pains to watch it as they do "Dobie Gillis." |