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1953 SEASON Danny Thomas: reviewers ranked his Make Room for Daddy among best of new shows. A ll things considered, TV viewers didn’t fare too badly in 1953. While it’s difficult to catalog programs as to quality, a breakdown of 74 shows reviewed in TV GUIDE since April indicates 10 rated poor; 22, fair; 37, good, and five, excellent. Unfortunately, 1953 will not go down in history as a year when TV producers struck out on new paths to bring viewers fresh ideas and original programs. The overwhelming major¬ ity of new shows that entered TV as summer replacements were either quiz or panel programs. Most of these were removed from sight when the fall season started. But the fall fare was hardly better. Instead of quiz- zers and panel shows, we had situa¬ tion comedies and more situation comedies, some well worth telecast¬ ing, but few offering anything new. This is not to imply that a family comedy is arbitrarily bad because it falls into an old-hat rut. One of the five shows rated excellent is Danny Thomas’ Make Room jor Daddy, which certainly is a situation comedy. But “Daddy” is enlivened by original dia¬ logue and situations and by the tal¬ ents of Thomas, Jean Hagen, and others in the cast. It is not only the best show of its type, but one of the best of any category. The emphasis in reviews, of course, was on new shows. Yet the season continued to be highlighted by old favorites—such as Jackie Gleason, Show of Shows, Kukla, Fran and Ol~ lie, Mr. Peepers, Toast of the Town, Bums and Allen, I Love Lucy, Studio One, Milton Berle, Kraft Theater, 13