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Waite , who plays the : .father in CBS's "The Waltoris," is \-i former clergyman who, feels | that he continues his ministry as 1 an actor and is "Very^ much ' aware in a personal anil private ; sense of God's power in his life. ' An interview with Mr. Waite1,45, t appeared in the February issue of ' A.D., the magazine 'published ,in New York by the United Church of Christ and the United

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' Sees Ministry! in Actjn Presbyterjair lurch.

In , the late 1950s, Aiter graduation {from the Yale University Divinity School, television's "John Walton" was part of a team ministry at the Garden City Community church, a United Church parish on long Island, ^1 leftithe parish mjn rtry with 'off icial^ orders as an evangefet," the, actor said] "I

suppose thai is still in effect. I „don't know)how the officials of; the United Church of Christ feel

' . . M do still consider that! have a ministry/'

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Waite is shown at right with Richard Thomas and Michael l earned w h o portray the son and mother, respectively, "in SThe Walton's" series. [RNS]

Saturday nights at our house w e watch "Mary jTylef Moore" and, "Bob N e w f i a r f ' f h u t t h e -second the latter 'show is over there's1 a mad dash to turn off the set orii switch the dial, because " T h e I Carol Burne t t Show" follows

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" The reasons for our aversion to this particufarvariety'hour differ-The head of the'house simply doesn't, like the star I o n - t h e other hand have been la- fan of-Carol Burnett since I wandered into an off broadway theater 13 or.14 years ago and saw her doing her original, enchanting version of "Once Upon a Mattress/'

T rouble is j t h a t this comedienne is only as] good as her material Arid in the case of 'her now' weekly TV hour "ffie material is generally lousy

I f s t b b bad because in addition to her own talented jself, Miss Burnett is buoyed each j week by the rather remarkable;, Harvey Kdrman, a most versatile second

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ZtGZAGlt970] j Friday, March 15 [CBS]

Business exec George Kennedy discovers he has a rhalignant brain.tumor |He sets himself up to

| be convicted 6t * an unsolved crime and arranges thatj his wife ireceive the reward offered by the Jinsurance company I There] is an [amazing amount of complication , [involved while he lays the phony clues leading t o his arrest and 'arranges for the t money , Eh Walfach as the lawyer and Anne llackson as Kennedy's yvife i are both lost in t h e jumble of events. «ind the incredibly contrived ending detracts f rom wha t merits the plot may have had Kennedy

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PAPER CHASE — Adults — uBpttorrj$, Lindsay Wa;

- , 1 u Timothy . aner, and!John

Houseman in a drama or a law student's ! battle between intellect j and emotions

As the professor. Houseman: is <stun-s ningly convincing. f 1 T >

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MURDERER'S R O W [19661 -Sunday;March 17[ABC] *

I ' ' { . * '• Dean Mart in as Mat t Helm, the

poor jman'sj James Bond vwho specializes less in espionage than

, in whiskeyL "and women • l The movie, whicht has Helm tracking

"down a kidnapped scientist,, is meant to be a spoof of ^ spy-movies- What ' i t boils down to is a , leer-f illed bag o f crude innuendo *-and puerire'naughtiness,^ with Mart in 's ] - lumber ing charac­terization providing a paltry few unintentional'guffaws B

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Monday, March 1 8 [ABC]

picture belongs ̂ "to Jean-Louis Trintignant as the magistrate who determinedly tries to untangle

1 the shadowy .affair in order to arrive -at justice In the last analysis Z 'goes beyond Greek politics and I party labels because at its heart i t is interested, in

i justice and j truth, at the same i t ime, criticizing severely any 'system oil government t h a t justif ies Criminal acts and violence in I attaining its jectives A- l l r

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•J suffered through a lot fof scripts with this lady, sometimes heading- up to the bedroom . to watch oh an old set with a wavy picture to spare the rest of the family J^ven I finally gave up I find her and Korman^'caricatures'

1 of old people in jbad taste Once . in a i great while1 she hits ft with

her soap opera take-off and a little more frequently with her c o n t e m p o r a r y housewi fe skit with Harvey as her husband and yicki'aslher younger sister jChns The i old movie scenarios are consistently unfunny anjd over— long land the other skits rely on slapstick in place of ingenuity

f ,' .i " „ 1 recently tuned in to a, Dick Cavett Show where she! was the

sole guest and ^uccurr bed to her, being her charming self Perhaps if she cannot find r the < right vehicles she should stick to that

During the interview she said she was infrequently unhappy with the material she was given to do but said she understood \ the „ difficulty 'variety show writers had in coming up with new ideas week after week 1

- Maybe excess l o y a t y - t o i t h e same group of writers is 'her

- problem It certainly Ss when it comes to her guests Does ishe really ever ask anyone other than s

Tim Conway, Steve f Lawrence, Edyie Gorme arid Nanette Fabray to'appear?

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Much as I like her I think] it's t ime she movecLover and gave someone else a^hancq Or at the least bring in someone] with some hew ideas '

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The Catholic Woman's Club and its business women's group wjll give a cardpartyjatj St Ann's Home Friday evening, ^iarch t l 5 r

to raise money- for the club's scholarship fund Theiparty will begin at 7 p m with a sbcial hour and songs ,by the Mother ,of Sorrows folk group In charge are Mrs Charles Crayton j and Mrs Donald Tyrell Two-dol ar tickets may be bought at the d oor or by calling the c lubj iousej 275-9173

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ROBIN HOOD — Everyone — Disney a I alive and well with this Inew fuMength cartoon version of Robin and his merry m e n f I i i

1 t ' ' i SCALAWAG — Adults and adolescents —

i Kirk Douglas steps into director's shoes, , and gives us ah old-fashioned yarn o | pirates" and buned treasure _, [

SECRET Of THE ANGEL - L Evetyone l2. [Originally titled; "From[the Mrxed-Up I Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler," the I low-budget mystery concerns two jyoungsters who happen upon- a [fascinating statue Ingnd Bergman's performance s fu l l 'o f , humor, and

ipathos i \ | I l SERPIGO — Adults, with reservation* —

!Could be the best cop movie ever, with \K\ Pacino extremely convincing as the ptainclothesman who refuses to oend to corruption . ' ,

SEVEN U P S t - Adults - , Car chase sequences have become the hal mark of 'director Phil LTAntonT (Bullitt French Connection} After this one, his most iprotracted, he should begin thinking more about conserving gasoline- '

JSUEEPER - Adufo _ ' Woody Allen's ^ masterpiece Go see it , t ,

} STING — AdMh. ; - ButcJrarid Sundance j (Newman and RedfordJ are back

tt>gether, this time in- a furt-fillfed, jfltm-

jflam nostalgia trip. Solid >

\ T A t l BLOND MAN WITH ONE

taut, .intensely thriller is well worth/vatchingf even if you don't agree with "rilm maker Costa-Gavras' political message. {The plot revolves around a , "fictionalized" assassinatiorr in Greece occurring a few 'years ago Yves Montana stars as the leftist government minister who becomes the victimr

and Irene! Pappas is, his' suspicious, grieving wife But the

' CALL ME BWANA1963] Monday, March 18 [NBC]

' In this generally* funny but mindless comedy, Bob Hope is cast as a space! scientist recruited b y the U S . i Government to retrieve a space capsule that has landed in the African jungle What the government doesn't know is that Hope is really only interested in chasing girls But the "foreign power" also-after ttfe capsule does, know — and therefore* sends agent Anita Ek--berg ' to distract Hope from completing his mission. Plenty of laughs, onerlrners^ doub le -

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, from every generation that merely 't amounts to a showcase forSteisand and

Redford Yet somehow, ifs thoroughly enjoyable , ,

UvESTWORLD — Adote !— yul Bryrmer f Mays a robot gunslincer Too bad Gary I ]> Cooper isrVt around to show hmrf how

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