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In fart, in the dayume drama (oh, all right, the soaps), several figure it dressed glamorously who actresses. play M-n- SUNDAY treacherous, manipulative characters, are a mobbed and adored as movie star of the golden age whenever they appear in public. Petite, strawberry-blondFilers Fallon, has for circa e drawn the two decades now to As the kind of tune-iWorld Turns" (CBS) that rates O'Neal onscreen Is all suave her such perks bryood a big salt-arin pepper charm. salary as a chauffeured he ts a devoted and con- limousine when she lived in cerned father. the suburbs. Re continued, "It's the first Then there's the less than d time I've said this, but I want Iris on NBC's to do one picture, at least. In Another World. Beverlee which my two sons will like McKinney has endowed the me and want to root for me. role with such devious charms Maybe It should be a Western that Iris spins off to a new with me riding a horse. series ("Texas) next month, Sophisticated villains, be add- which, it's reported, ups ed quietly, werent the worst Beverlce's already substantial characters he's played. The checks to a degree that proves image be most wants to coun- ft isnt always the meek who teract in the minds of his do well on earth. flagman, who is himself an lime. fatrick 0Nrl, who extremely gentle soul, theorized in a recent television even when he's interview that J ft is a power casual always look n Olfs-cree- swcaier-and-slack- noble-hearte- f VA r i ': 1 M TVs new video games offer limelight, prizes M Most Americans are familcomiar with the video-typputer games, like tennis, baseball and space battles, but chances are youve not yet experienced firsthand the video challenge of a new game-shoe iuWlfcMIWTOl "TV-Poww- w Is the boneymooo over already? Bride and groom Cybill Shepherd and Charles Frank seem to bear a dirge behind the wedding march in "A Guide for the Married Woman, Sunday, June 29, on ABC (REPEAT) innovation. turns a TV set into a video game, but one doesnt need a $30 game cartridge or $150 dollars worth of "TV-Poww- w there are currently games seven different formats is part of programming in $8 cities. The first round of options were all action games, like bowling or baseball; the next round will include some educational games, like math and spelling for kids, since about half the stations play the game with youngsters during their cartoon shows. In San Francisco, station KTVA uses to draw kids to their p m. cartoon show. According to Bob Roth, studio supervisor, the game pulls in 3,000 to 5,000 pieces of mail every P special equipment to play. All that's needed is a TV set, a telephone, some postcards and an area TV station that has bought the technology from the M.A. week. Kempner Company of British comedy strip Island with Ricar- - pano Beach, Fla. the viewer The game is going great do Montalban and is consider- - launches the torpedo, shoots s of the ing two movie scripts. But the the baskets or blasts space guns in Baltimore, too, Seventy BBCs hit comedy TV show, big news is that Lana is get- - blips by simply yelling pow according to WMAR vice "Morecambe and Wise," being ting ready to decide which big (or the station's call letters) president Bill Horick. The first week that they flashed released for syndication in TV commercial shell under- - into the telephone, the station number and invitIts comparable to Dialing- ed September by Time Life Tele- take. Offers have come from viewers to play, the local vision, have already been pre- MGM Hotels, Lincoln Mercu- - for Dollars, but in the cornsold in nine major markets. ry and Clairol. fort of your own home, says phone company recorded The comedy team, which Marvin Kempner, president of 70,000 attempts in the first 60 chronicled seconds. The station finally Gangsters survivthe calls the Variety only company and a TV veteran, who has patented had to take the game off the ing doubles act of any emiThe Gangster Chronicles, his concept and sold the game air between 4 and 4:30 nence that derives its inspirafact-base- d tion from the music hall an intimate, to more than 50 television sta- because the phone lines were from the point tions across the dramatization so jammed that entire areas ACROSS New in seen be will tradition, country. of view of the men who conActress of Baltimore were unable to York, Los Angeles, Chicago, trolled Hartman Prior to the development of raise a dial tone. organized crime in the San Francisco, Denver, Bell5 Polly HollUnited States for 70 years home video ingham, Minneapolis, Oklahoiday's role written by Emmy Award games like Atari or Odyssey In New York, the game is ma City and Tucson. (Other and winner Richard Alan Sim- allowed players to aim imagi- called x and is 128 Bridge coup markets are currently being mons Sun disk will begin sometime nary laser guns at electronic broadcast on WPIX, naturalnegotiated.) In addition to this fall on NBC (var.) and could run spaceships or volley electron- ly. Producer Susan Null says will duo the routines, comedy 100 hours over ic tennis balls on their home the station has received more 13 Actor welcome guests such as Rob- for more than Howard Production begins screens. On those toys, play- than 300,000 postcards since ert Morely, Diana Rigg, Glen- five years. 15 in the New York City ers issue their commands to. the game was started Oct. 1, 14 Ebb or neap July GlenElton da Jackson, John, area. Said Simmons, whos the screen through buttons 1979. Broadcast four times 15 Actor da Jackson, Andre Previn, done Connery 10 years of research on and knobs on hand-hel- d devic- during afterschool programHelen Reddy, Shirley Bassey, 16 Be obligated We will the examine control to es the wired 3:30 subject, to WPIX 5:30 games ming, 17 Seep Sir Laurence Olivier and p.m., the whole phenomenon of unit. Kempner took the video-gam- e offers such prizes as 18 Narrows Rudolph Nureyev. organized crime from the technology and modi- tote bags, tickets to roller 20 Cartoon charinside looking out rather than fied it for broadcast use. He discos and amusement parks acter: The New Duke? from the outside looking in Road replaced the buttons and and portable radios. Its been been has it that with knobs a always real ratings booster for our 22 equipment and crafts John Schneider, the big ,joneway before. It will be from responds to voice commands. station's childrens program24 Myself blond hunk of guy on The of of the view piont people ming, says Ms. Null. Its 25 Recent opera Dukes of Hazzard, is said by involved in organized crime. I It works like this: Viewers also star Beverly a good-wi- ll kind of CBS insiders to be asking for dont think this has ever been of a locally produced show thing. such an astronomical raise done before on TV. are invited to send in post28 Parrot that there is a casting call out cards with their names and is 30 Priestly garKempner Currently, for tall handsome Nordics more One or ment phone numbers. about to introduce equipment cards is drawn during the that will allow two telephone 33 High cards possibly to replace him, rivPAwiv New of the Smith Liz and the viewer called. contestants to compete 34 Favorite reports lf you can remember the show electronic York uauy News Amer. dessert game is then one another. tjme when a mans lmpor- - The 35 Portico for one or two against As for the future of Lana agrees tance was judged by the size broadcast and 36 Actress Santhe viewer of his key ring youre older minutes, Kempner says, dra moves the blip or ball by yellThe nature of the television Legendary Lana Turner has than youll want to admit, ing pow! into the telephone. industry is numbers. Were 37 Actor finally said yes to the Black-gam- a Knotts If the viewer achieves a cer- going to sell the top 25 mink people and let 38 Actress tain score, he or she wins cash markets. Then the next 5 them photograph her recently Susan or prizes. will come along. Its a simple 39 what in California as Family memSo far, the called Follow the becomes a legend most. 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