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COMEDY-VARIETY/contInued In a more spectacular vein, NBC will offer two hour-long telecasts of the Ringling Bros, and Bamum & Bailey Circus—one, possibly in color. The situation comedy shows, long a staple item in the TV diet, are con¬ spicuous for their rarity, at least so far as major new entries on the networks are concerned. CBS has the new Phil Silvers show, You’ll Never Get Rich; It’s Always Jan, with Janis Paige, and Joe and Mabel, with Larry Blyden and Nita Talbot. NBC has a total of precisely one new situ¬ ation comedy series: People’s Choice, with Jackie Cooper. Our Miss Brooks will be the same old Eve Arden series when it returns to CBS Oct. 7, but in later weeks it will convert its English teacher at Madison High into a dramatic teacher at Mrs. Nestor’s Private School for Girls (headed by Gale (Gordon as principal); and will add Bob Sweeney, late of My Favorite Husband, Viola Roach and 10-year-old Ricky Vera to its cast. My Favorite Husband is undergoing changes, too—from live to film, with ex-Quiz Kid Vanessa Brown succeed¬ ing Joan Caulfield as the “My” of the title. Danny Thomas’ Make Room for Daddy will use Europe as the locale for some of its instalments, and The Goldbergs, back as a syndicated film, has swapp^ the Bronx for a mythical small town, Haverville. Other syndicated shows which should turn up in 50 or more cities will probably in¬ clude Behind the Scenes, with Sally Fraser and Jil Jarmyn; ◄ Perry Como goes from 15 minutes to weekly hour. Crunch and Des, based on the Philip Wylie stories, and The Great Gilder- sleeve, with Willard Waterman. There are others, but all still in the infant, or we-have-a-pilot-who- wants-to-buy-it? stage. Many of the veterans, of course, will be back in the same old time periods. I Love Lucy will be starting its fifth year. Jack Benny will be on alternate weeks this season, sharing his Sunday night spot with Ann Sothern’s Private Secretary. Bill Bendix’s Life of Riley will be back with two major cast changes. Also returning are Robert Young’s Father Knows Best, The Bob Cummings Show, December Bride, Red Skelton (still experimenting) Jimmy Durante (every week this year) Liberace, Burns & Allen, Mama, Ozzie & Harriet and It’s a Great Life. 'The casualty rate, however, has been little short of gruesome: Wally (Mr. Peepers) Cox and Red Buttons have nowhere to hang their hats; and Professional Father, The Imogene Coca Show and That’s My Boy are washed up. Such network shows as Hey, Mul¬ ligan; My Little Margie; So This Is Hollywood; Willy; Life With Father; Ray Milland; Ray Bolger; Dear Phoebe, and Mr. and Mrs. North have been siphoned into the film syndica¬ tion pool. The day of the we’ll-buy-anything attitude at the networks is about over. And the winner is you—^the viewer.