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Mary Martin earned most enthusiastic plaudits of TV season in two-hour 'Peter Pan^ The Year of Experiment Was A Year of Variety into one-hour-less-commercials. An¬ other once-a-month CBS extrava¬ ganza, Shower oj Stars, made news with Mario Lanza’s voice—or lack of it—and Betty Grable’s legs. Walt Disney brought to TV his magical fantasy and a new small-fry hero, Davy Crockett. Disneyland es¬ tablished ABC as a network to be reckoned with and clobbered Arthur Godfrey’s Wednesday night rating. NBC’s low-pressure George Gobel waltzed away with the title of “TV’s brightest new comedian.” The season also saw former comedy partners Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca set out on separate paths. Caesar started slowly, but with the addition of pert, multi-talented Nanette Fa- bray to his troupe, he hit pay-dirt, and Caesar’s Hour is now a joy to watch. Imogene didn’t fare so well, despite nonstop shuffling of producers, directors and writers. Red Buttons had almost identical problems. In its umpteenth attempt to pare down the rating of I Love Lucy, NBC conjured up a new series. Medic. Al¬ though some of the scripts verged on soap opera, they were basically in¬ teresting. Along the same semi-docu¬ mentary lines. Dragnet and The Line¬ up continued to merit attention. TV had plenty to brag about in the cultural and information fields: Mau¬ rice Evans’ excellent “Macbeth,” CBS’ The Search and Adventure, Edward R. Murrow’s See It Now and Person to Person. Some holdovers held firm. I Love Lucy injected new vigor—and guest New Disneyland's scope ranged from Mickey Mouse to underwater movie-making. ^