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Eddie Fisher and Perry Como visit the bedside of Allen Stuart, WJZ deejay.
wright (also a Pulitzer winner), Ben Hecht, to create a weekly series of halfhour dramatic television shows. The program, as yet untitled, will begin shortly, with Hecht supervising the productions, in addition to writing. Bob Stevens, who formerly produced Suspense, will direct.
This Is Charles Laughton is the name of a new weekly fifteen-minute video program, starring — of course — the famous actor. Laughton reads from the Bible and other classic works of literature and, in general, presents the same sort of narration he has been doing on his in-person tours around the country. This program is being filmed so that
the actor may continue his nation-wide appearances.
Alan Young and Ken Murray, who have been away from television for about a year or so, are back in action Sunday nights at CBS-TV. The two comedians will alternate programs, with Mr. Murray leading off February 8.
Seminar, the educational half-hour weekly show on ABC -TV, is all set with a new series of programs to last thirteen weeks. In this group they will cover the post-Civil War period to contemporary times. The program is produced by the network in association with Columbia University. Those of you who are interested in this show
can obtain a list of the books to be discussed during the series by sending twenty-five cents to: Dean Louis M. Hacker, School of General Studies, Columbia University, New York City. And, at the end of the thirteenth program, listeners may take an examination on the "course" and will be graded by Columbia, but without official college credit.
If you prefer your dramatic shows on radio, you'll want to listen to a new one called On Stage, over CBS on Thursday nights. This half-hour costars Cathy and Elliott Lewis, one of the most talented couples on the air. Cathy, of (Covtinued on poge 6)