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THE SUMMER DAILY

JAY SHARBUTT:
Tele vision in re view

NEW YORK - This month's
televised Watergate hearings and
those that June may bring pose
two problems for the World of
daytime TV. One is a small but
growing backlog of game shows
and soap operas taped in advance
of thei actual appearance on the
tube.
The other is far more serious.
Network staffs have gone on red
alert to make certain they keep
in correct sequence the d a i I y
soap operas pre-empted by live
TV coverage of the hearings.
IT WOULD never do for a sap
opera couple to end the day'n
saga with pledges of eternal love,
only to reappear after three days
of Watergate hearings embroiled
in a fistfight over child custody.
When the hearings aren't on,
the CBS, NBC and ABC net-
works are broadcasting a total
of 31 soap operas and game
shows each weekday - 15 soap-
ers and 16 games per day.
All but two of them are taped
t.v,
tonight
6:00 2 4 11 13 News
9 This Is Your Life
20 Temple Baptist Church
50 Star Trek
56 Para MiPueblo
6:30 2 II CBS News-Roger Mudd
4 13 NBC News-Garrick Utley
7 24 Reasoner Report
9 Singalong Jubilee
20 Ozzie and Harriet
56 Consumer Game
7:00 2 Truth or Consequences
4 GeorgePierrot
7 News
9 Untamed world
11 50 Hee Haw
13 Lawrence Welk
20 Movie
"Konga" (nglish, 1961)
24 Call of the west
56 Get Together
7:30 2 Young Dr. Kildare
4 Johnny Mann's Stand Up
and Cheer
7 Town Meeting
9 Flipside
24 Johnny Mann's Stand Up
and Cheer
56 Acupuncture: Medicine or
Magic?
8:00 2 11 All in the Family
4 13 Emergency
7 24 Heere we Go Again
9 Movie-Drama
"A6eidet"" (English 1967)
56 Movie
"The Rise of Louis XIV,"
50 That Good Ole Nashville Music
8:30 2 11 Bridget Loves Bernie
7 24 A Toch of Gae
20 Little Leage Hokey
50 Nitty Gritty
9:00 2 11 MarcrTyler Moore
4 13 Movie
"The Devil's Brigade" (1968)
william Holden, Clif f Robertson
7 24 The Strauss Family
50 Black Omnibuss
9:30 2 11 Bob Newhart
"0 want to Be Alone"
15:00 2 11 Mission: Impossible
74Assignment: Vienna
9 Gallery
The Daytona international 500
50 Seven Hiundred Club
56 Advocates
Saving the Nation's railroads
50 Lon Gordon
Does violence on TV affect
children?
10:30 9 Document
11:00 2 7 11 News
9 CBC News-George Finstad -
24 ABC News-SamDonaldson
56 Conversation with Mrs.
Coretta King
11:15 7 ABC News-Sam Donaldson
9 Heritage Highway
24 Flipside
Steie Wondee
11:20 9 News
11:30 2 Movie-Drama
"San Francisco Internationl
Airport."(1970)
7 Movie
"The Wreck of the Mary Deare"
(1959) Gary Cooper and
Charlton Heston
9 Movie
"Hurricane Smith" (1952)
11 Movie
"A igh Wind in Jamaica"
(English 1965)
50 Movie
"Monter Zero." (Japanese
190)
11:45 4 13 News
24 Rollin'
12:15 4 Johnny Carson
13 Movie "Jigsaw" (1968)

1:30 2 Wagon Train
7 Movie
"The Last Voyage" (1960)
Robert Stack
01 Death Valley Days
0:41 4 03 News
2:00 11 News
3:00 2 7 News

in advance - one day to two
weeks for the soap operas, a
week to a month for the game
shows - and network officials
late last week said production o
them still is proceeding apace.
IT MEANS that with few ex-
ceptions, each day tho Watergate
show is televised live, another
batch of daytime ohowa is ba,.k-
lng up in the vaults, owaitinb the
days live coverage of the hear-
ings isn't planned.
With only five televised hear-
inga son far, the videotape back-
log situation is far frocm acute,
according to network officials.
It's the future number of tee-
vised Watergate sessions Ohat
worries them.
"We don't like to get t o o
many shows ahead becaiise there
are all kinds of problems that can
pop up when you do that," says
Lin Bolen, NBC's director of day-
time programs.
"IN THE SERIALS," she says,
referring to NBC's five soap
operas, "you like to tie the story
lines to current situations and
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want to run a summer piece at
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"I'm exaggerating, of courso,
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The hearings, which begai May
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There was no sense having their
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