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'TQwuw / Where’s Raymond ? lolger dancing Sylvia Lewis. PROGRAM OF THE WEEK R AY BOLGER’s writers had prob¬ ably the most difficult task in television when they set out to create the new Where’s Raymond? program (ABC). Bolger is a person apart from the usual TV comedian, possessing an off-beat, elfin type of spirit that is charming to behold on TV but diffi¬ cult to evoke on the show from week to week. In trying to transmit that warm, quaint quali.ty of Ray’s to TV, his writers have succeeded only par¬ tially. They’ve preserved the quality, but forgotten the show. Bolger made his TV debut last win¬ ter as a star on Comedy Hour and immediately caught the fancy of mil¬ lions of viewers with his sprightly dancing and humor. On that show, though, he ran through most of the skits and routines that had sustained him for years in Broadway musical comedies. The TV writers, conse¬ quently, were confronted with the age-old problem of show business: “What can we do for an encore?” Their answer is a situation comedy in which Ray is cast as a Broadway musical comedy star, with a com¬ pletely winsome personality but one major fault—he continually arrives at the theater at the last possible mo¬ ment for each performance, driving his agent-brother and the rest of the cast wild. Seems like a thin story line on which to base a 39-week series. The situations on each show project Ray’s off-beat type of humor to the fullest. In capturing the elusive qual¬ ity of their subject, though, the writers have permitted the show to drag. But Ray has plenty of chance to give out with his singing, his won¬ derful dancing and his delightfully warm humor. This should be enough to please most viewers. 22