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TV Teletype CONTINUED PACE 3 CBS radio's "Gunsmoke" is about to go into production as a TV film series. It could be described as a western Dragnet - and probably will be by everybody but the "Gunsmoke" people . . . Republic is releasing 27 of its top features to TV, films made between 1940 and 1948. Many of the stars appearing in them now have shows of their own on TV (EVE ARDEN, JIMMY DUNN, ANNE JEF¬ FREYS) which should make the contrast rather interesting. * * * DR. FRANK BAXTER has an actors’ union card plus a role in FRANK CAPRA’s pilot film, " Our Mr. Sun," in which he appears as a scientist named Mr. Science . . . PEGGY LEE will appear in a Disneyland TV film now shooting called "Academy Awards” . . T~NBC is planning to'do "The Women" as a Monday night "spectacular." * * * HUME CRONYN and JESSICA TANDY are bringing The Marriage back to NBC on Sunday afternoons after the first of the year . . . The voice in a current cartoon commercial is that of JIM BACKUS of I Married Joan, WASHINGTON Florence Lowe reports: Two producers here have hit on the same idea - an all-female panel show tagged Woman Wants to Know - and are racing to get it on the air. THEODOR^ GRANIK, producer of American Forum of the Air and Youth Wants to Know , registered the title months ago; has a local station commitment (WRCA-TV, New York), but no sponsor. MARTHA ROUNTREE, whose producing credits include Meet the Press and Leave It to the Girls , is pitching an almost identical program; has a sponsor, no network commitment. GRANIK plans to combine news, interviews and features for women. * * # MYRNA LOY, wife of HOWLAND H. SARGEANT, State De¬ partment career official, is ending a two-year retire¬ ment. She’ll soon start commuting from her Georgetown home to Long Island, where she’s preparing a TV film series co-starring ZACHARY SCOTT. She'll portray a professional lecturer. * * * Some of the Cabinet wives were offended by RED SKELTON'S rou¬ tines at MRS. EISENHOWER'S birthday party - and showed it. MRS. BENSON, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture, almost shuddered visibly during RED's takeoff of a drunken TV announcer. MRS. DULLES, wife of the Secretary of State, and MRS. HUMPHREY, wife of the Secretary of the Treasury, turned their backs during his drunk bit and a bathing-the-baby routine. SKELTON'S remarks brought blushes! * * * EDDIE FISHER, who visited Washington with his fiancee, DEBBIE REYNOLDS, to receive a Variety Club award, is interested in movie offers, will discuss "the right picture" during his night club tour of the West Coast.