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NEW YORK TV Teletype Bob Sta hl reports; JACKIE GLEASON has built a profitable parlay for himself In his newest deal. Besides a half hour telefilm version of "The Honeymooners" each Saturday night, which will continue to star him, ART CARNEY and AUDREY MEADOWS, he also sold Stage Show for the half hour Immediately following. This is the 1!)0R;^EY BROTH - ERS' show produced by Gleason Enterprises. In addition to the DORSEYS, Stage Show will feature the JUNE TAYLOR Dancers, and JACKIE himself maydo an occasional guest chore. * * * SAMMY DAVIS, JR., will do his first TV entertaining since his recent auto accident on a special Comedy Hour show originating from Clro's In Hollywood Jan. l6 . . . MILTON BERLE recently put In his first stint as an NBC production consultant, sitting In with top NBC executives on program planning for 1955. * * * SID CAESAR is slated to star next summer In a feature-length movie, which will be written by TV Playhouse author PADDY CHAYEFSKY. It's to be a comedy, of course, but with sympathetic overtones, a la CHAYEFSKY's "Marty" script, on which Hollywood filming was recently completed . . . CAESAR, meanwhile, plans to swing more toward musical review for his Caesar's Hour . Seems viewers complained about too many "Commuter' sketches. * * * That new Adventures of the Klngflsh telefilm series, to be telecast Tuesday nights, will Include some reruns of the original Amos 'n' Andy films . . . It's said that plans originally announced for PHIL SILVERS to move Into that spot fell through because of PHIL'S reluctance to work opposite MILTON BERLE. * * ♦ Look for JACK CARTER to Join the Imogene Coca Show as a per¬ manent foil for IMOGENE. She reportedly feels she needs a side- kick to take the place of her erstwhile partner, CAESAR, same as SID added NANETTE FABRAY to his cast to replace IMOGENE . . . A new telefilm show to star LEE BOWMAN Is In the works, ten¬ tatively titled The Bachelor. * * * Omnibus will devote the entire 90 minutes of Its show at the end of this month to an analytical study of TV's first eight years. Columnist JOHN CROSBY will write the script . . . With MAX LIEBMAN extremely en¬ thusiastic about PAT CARROLL, look for PAT to do bigger and better things on LIEBMAN's upcoming "spectaculars." * * * Burlington Mills is planning a big super-spectacular In March, a la the Ford show In June, 1953, to launch a new stocking product . . Comedy Hour hopes to telecast an aqua-show from Miami on Jan. 25 . . . Another comic strip goes TV—a pilot film was recently completed on Beetle Bailey , a King Features strip. *Trade~mark, Teletype Corp. (Hollywood Teletype on Inside Back Cover)