CREEMEDIA
The 1981-82 television season may well be remembered for decades to come as the year the networks dumped all the gimmicks, bucked all the trends and opted for the Total Desperation method of programming. Here are just a few of the viewing highlights you can expect this fall:
CREEMEDIA
TV’81: Make Room For Doody
by Rick Johnson
The 1981-82 television season may well be remembered for decades to come as the year the networks dumped all the gimmicks, bucked all the trends and opted for the Total Desperation method of programming. Here are just a few of the viewing highlights you can expect this fall:
* Lots more people get shot!
* Two former football stars get their own shows!
* An epidemic of widowed fathers with ten-year-old sons!
* Tony Randall confirms that Felix was gay!
* A possible use for Elaine Joyce!
* Still no Chipmunks tour!
*The triumphant return of Tom Ewell!
You get all the above, a combination babyfood warmer/ chainsaw, two free spatulas and enough bankable names to stuff Montana. Any moderately successful male lead of the past 15 years is fair game in ’81. Apparently, somebody hollered “haul in them tuna, matey” and sooner than you can say sooner, everybody from Gabe Kaplan to Yoshio Yqda was back on the screen.