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the order of the summer. It’s rela¬ tively easy for a network or sponsor to schedule reruns of a film show, as compared to building an entirely new program and gambling on its be¬ ing as good as the show it replaced. Thus the two top-rated shows, 1 Love Lucy and Dragnet, will use re¬ runs this summer. By virtue of kine¬ scope, some live programs will also feature reruns, including Mr. Peepers and Ralph Edwards’ This Is Your Life. Watch The New Ones But don’t discount the new shows coming up. Several are completely new ventures, while others have served as replacements in the past and are being revived. Probably the most ambitious of the brand-new formats are Saturday Night Review, (about which there is an article, be¬ ginning on page 8) substituting for Your Show of Shows; and Stage Show, replacing Jackie Gleason. Stage Show will spotlight Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey and feature such guest stars as Rosemary Clooney and assorted variety acts. Another promising newcomer is Blue Angel, a variety show based on the famous New York night club of. that name and starring Orson Bean as emcee. It’s to replace Edward R. Murrow’s See It Now. Juvenile Jury will replace The Red Skelton Show, while Red and Vaudeville Show sub for Godfrey and Friends. A Sub For Jo And Jane Betty Ann Grove, one of Red But¬ ton’s TV girl friends, is teaming with Merv Griffen, onetime featured vo¬ calist with the Freddy Martin or¬ chestra, to replace both The Jo Staf¬ ford and The Jane Froman Shows. And Paul Whiteman is producing and headlining a new show from Atlantic City’s Steel Pier Sunday nights. Last year’s summer shows being revived for the 1954 season include Bob Eberle and Helen O’Connell, subbing for Perry Como, and Mas¬ querade Party, in for the Red Buttons Show. It’s News to Me, with Walter Cronkite as probable moderator, re¬ sumes to replace You Are There. Truth or Consequences already has started in The Fred Allen Show time- spot. Pantomime Quiz will be back in the period now held by Mama. Notice the comparative dearth this Two for one: Bob Eberle, Helen O'Connell replace Perry Como. summer of quiz and audience partici¬ pation fillers. That again is because telefilm reruns are getting the big¬ gest play, as witness: Groucho Marx Show, Burns and Allen, Make Room for Daddy, Meet Mr. McNutley, Four- Star Playhouse, the Ray Bolger Show, Topper, Playhouse of Stars, Our Miss Brooks, Private Secretary and others. Ford Theater will feature reruns, and a group of Ford films will replace Circle Theater —but under the title of Top Plays of 1954. Hour-long dramatic programs will remain in full force, but slightly modified for warm-weather viewing. Robert Montgomery is reviving his 6