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Tom D'Andrea and Hal March; their sad-sack roles are typical of the whole program. The Soldiers PROGRAM OF THE WEEK Tom D’Andrea and Hal March created The Soldiers several seasons back as an occasional act for the Comedy Hour. Apparently encouraged by an overwhelming lack of critical acclaim, they have expanded the idea into a half-hour series that NBC gambled on this Slimmer as a Saturday night replacement. The idea in its original shorter form was never much, and spreading it to a half hour has only compounded the felony. That NBC itself isn’t too excited about The Soldiers is proved by the fact that the show was pre¬ empted twice this summer for one- shot programs. D’Andrea and March play a couple of GI sad-sacks whose abysmal ignor¬ ance about all things continually gets them into scrapes with Army brass, their girl friends and practically every¬ one else. There’s nothing wrong about basing a comedy show on the Army— witness “No Time for Sergeants.” But D’Andrea and March play such stupid dolts that there’s little humor left. We might assume that both D’Andrea and March have been around long enough to steer clear of such shows. D’Andrea, a veteran TV and radio comic, played Gillis in The Life of Riley. March portrayed Marie Wil¬ son’s boy friend on My Friend Irma and Imogene Coca’s boy friend last season and is currently doing a fine job as 6mcee of The $64,000 Question. Despite their track record, the boys certainly have flubbed this one.— R.S. 18