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Summer Holiday Merv Griffin, Betty Ann Grove: like staying home on vacation. PROGRAM OF THE WEEK Without the vivacious personality of Betty Ann Grove, Summer Holiday would have to be written off as a well-produced, well-directed but routinely conceived effort whose pat¬ tern by now is all too familiar. It poses an increasingly annoying prob¬ lem; that is, how does one go about doing a “different” musical TV show? Perry Como, Dinah Shore and the Hit Parade set the original pattern—with such an impact that virtually every¬ thing else in the field has been dis¬ tressingly similar. Summer Holiday has taken a leaf from all their books and is trying to make a chapter of its own. The girl singer is there, the male singer is there, the dancers are there and the currently popular tunes get a good going over. While it’s all done very professionally and bespeaks a lot of hard work on everyone’s part, the net result can only be called a high¬ ly legible carbon copy of all that has gone before. It is perhaps the curse of the summer replacement that the proper amount of time and gen¬ uine creative thinking simply isn’t available. The next best thing, of course, is to play it safe and deliver the tried and the true, which is pre¬ cisely what the producers of this show have done. It’s like staying home at vacation time—no change, but no miserable experience with an untried resort either. Miss Grove, aided and abetted by Merv Griffin, does her level best to inject some punch into Summer Holi¬ day and almost succeeds by sheer force of personality. While her voice has no particular quirks of its own, she herself is a cute little elf with plenty of experience in front of the cameras. Unfortunately, she is not yet a big enough name to rise above the rou¬ tine format, although she just might be by summer’s end. Otherwise, this show is strictly for those who can’t wait to see how still another singer will handle “Three Coins in the Fountain.” For everyone else, it makes for pleasant background music at dinner time. 20