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The World Is Yours Just Hop Aboard Maurice Copeland's Magic TV Carpet Now is the time of year when dad fid¬ gets at the office, mom mopes through the housework and junior pulls out his baseball glove—in short, it’s the eve of summer. By the same token a show that jumps in the ratings about this time of the year is WGN-TV’s The World Is Yours. This Friday night (8:30 P.M.) travel show is beamed for easychair tourists. Although it’s pitted against potent net¬ work opposition, such as Our Miss Brooks and Dear Phoebe, the show is rounding its third year on TV. Host and narrator of these half-hour film travelogs is Maurice Copeland, a suave, free-lance actor. A veteran Chi¬ cago thespian, he’s most prominently known for his role of Dr. Cory in Hawkins Falls. It may have been fate that Maurice wound up as host of The World Is Yours. He claims to have been a bug on geog¬ raphy as a boy. Ironically, his travel experience is almost nil. He’s never been beyond the borders of the United States. Like most of us, he can squeeze only two weeks of vacation freedom out of each year. And he spends these precious weeks roughing it on a ranch out West or plying his favorite sport, fishing, on the Northern Lakes of Wis¬ consin. As host of The World Is Yours he gives his viewers a perfect illusion of a seasoned globe-trotter reminiscing about his travels. This illusion is a tribute to the dramatic skill he has acquired during his 20 years of experi¬ ence in the theater, radio, and televi¬ sion. Maurice’s job is made easier by the expert production know-how of Jack LaFrandre. Jack unreels the show at a relaxed pace and varies the films enough to hold a steady audience. These films are not, as you might suppose, old travel epics exhumed from musty Hollywood vaults. Most are relatively new, acquired from such sources as railways, airlines, international tourist offices, etc. The show’s surprising appeal can be written off simply to mass wanderlust. Sometimes, however, the show touches a deeper chord. After a travelog on Scotland, this poignant letter was re¬ ceived from a South Bend woman: “Both my husband and I come from Scotland and we were thrilled by your movies. “We even saw the very spot in Edin¬ burgh where my husband proposed to me. It saddened us a little for we are I both old and know that we will never see Scotland again.” Except, perhaps, aboard Copeland’s magic TV carpet. A-2 TV GUIDE