Prime Time
FOUR MORE BEERS: The reason Call To Glory (ABC) bombed is because it didn’t deliver the militaristic thrills it promised—viewers who’d seen the show incessantly hyped during the Olympics tuned in expecting to see some flyboys in heat but instead got the same old cold war liberal morality plays (a cold war liberal is someone who is progressive, in a sodden sort of way, when it comes to social issues—Call’s civil rights episode was square in the tradition of the Kramer/Susskind school of soggy uplift—but just as phobic as everybody else when it comes to the Commie threat).
Prime Time
ACID IS GROOVY
Richard C. Walls
FOUR MORE BEERS: The reason Call To Glory (ABC) bombed is because it didn’t deliver the militaristic thrills it promised—viewers who’d seen the show incessantly hyped during the Olympics tuned in expecting to see some flyboys in heat but instead got the same old cold war liberal morality plays (a cold war liberal is someone who is progressive, in a sodden sort of way, when it comes to social issues—Call’s civil rights episode was square in the tradition of the Kramer/Susskind school of soggy uplift—but just as phobic as everybody else when it comes to the Commie threat). People tuning in to get a dose of “standing tall” didn’t want this kind of equivocation....
If the networks really want to cash in on the conservative trend (and they’d better hurry) they’d make a series out of Red Dawn. An unbeatable premise: each week a different small town in America is taken over by forces from a different hostile country. It could run forever.
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