Ross reports -- television index. (1958)

Spring Bylngton makes way on July 7 for re-runs of Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre under the summer title, Frontier Justice on the CBS net, while a half-hour earlier an ironic note was set for TV with 13 episodes of the old I Love Lucy start¬ ing a summer run under the title, The Top Ten Lucy Shows. The twist is in the fact that the Lucy series is coming in as a summer replacement for The Danny Thomas Show and it’s in the same time spot where it was the top-rated show on the nets during a five -season first -run career . Not re-run, hut a first-run quiz whose career has been in doubt since it was first a mere rumour. Bid ’n 1 Buy, with Bert Parks as m.c., debuts on July 1, next Tuesday as the summer replacement program for The $6^,0C0 Question, which will move to Sundays, 10-10 :30pm NIT, when it returns in the fall. The new quiz will also be sponsored by Revlon, Inc., through Warwick & Legler, Inc., for 13 weeks. Bid 'n' Buy, an auction-puzzle game, will be co-produced by Robert Stivers and Irvin Atkins and directed by Perry Lafferty. The Lawrence We lk Show will get a new title when it returns to live TV after a two-week kinescope hiatus on July 12. The Saturday music show on the ABC net will be called Lawrence WelkTs Dancing Party. The programs of June 28 and July 5 will be on kine during the vacation period . Screen Gems, riding high with a succession of network sales, has sold the first all -animated half-hour show produced specifical¬ ly for TV. The Kellogg Co thru Leo Burnett Co has bought Huckleberry Hound, with the title character acting as m.c. for three segments in each show, as well as filling the hero spot in the first segment. The other two segments will feature a character named Yogi Bear in the second and Pixie and Dixie in the third. The series will be produced for Screen Gems by H-B Enterprises (William Hanna and Joseph Barbera), who also produce the Ruff and Reddy cartoon series for the company. Although Omnibus is still in negotiation with both CBS and NBC for a nesting spot for next season's program series, the program has announced that its first 90minute show for next fall will present Gene Kelly; dancer, actor and director; in a full -program examination of dancing from the male point of view. The program will be titled, "Dancing — A Man's Game," and it will utilize noted sports personalities to Illustrate the similarity of movements in various sports to steps in the dance. Omnibus will be returning for its seventh season on the air. Its erstwhile alternate week partner this season. Wide Wide World, has been cancelled by General Motors and no other sponsor seems interested in picking up the tab for NBC after the long ident¬ ification with the motor manufacturer. This means that whichever net lands Omnibus, the alternate week program will have to be a first-class showcase to carry the load. . CBS hasn't announced a project for his services, but the net has signed Norman Jewison, considered Canada's leading producer-director of variety shows . Stanley Poss as producer and Frank Satenstein as director will handle the new Jackie Gleason Show, returning to CBS on Cct 3* Friday, 8:30-9pm NYT. Buddy Hackett will be the chief comic foil for Gleason, with former regular Art Carney written in for several guest appearances, undoubtedly in several of the characterizations developed during former Gleason seasons. The CBS professional football telecasts, returning for their third season over the net, starting Sept 28, Sunday, will cover 6k games on a regional network basis, including as many as six different games on a given date with the national net divided into ten regional networks for the games' coverage. The games will use 2k announcers for play-by-play and color reporting, and more than 168 people will be in the produc¬ tion crews during a single day's coverage. During the season, 12 affiliate stations will supply technicians and equipment for the net pool. MID-WEEK SPECIAL 6/25/58 Page 2