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Desert derring-do: Buster Crabbe and Arab cohorts prepare for action in the dunes. Captain Gallant PROGRAM OF THE WEEK • Sooner or later, television had to come up with a show about the French Foreign Legion. It’s as much a natural, internationally, as is the Western on the Stateside scene. And so, in a faithful transplanting of the Western to desert climes, we have the adventure-packed Captain Gal¬ lant of the Foreign Legion. The hero is Buster Crabbe, who now wears the uniform of the Legion in¬ stead of chaps and a 10-gallon hat. The mortgage stealer (bank robber, claim jumper, cattle rustler) is a sleazy representative (spy, secret po¬ lice member) of “the mother country,” which, of course, is never named. The supporting cowhands have become Arabs, and the sheriff is the Moroc¬ can chief of police. The ending invariably finds Captain Gallant slugging it out, bare-fisted, with the villains—and the faked fights here are even more transparent than TV wrestling, if that’s possible. Crabbe, an old movie hand who looks surprisingly young and vigor¬ ous, is a model hero—handsome, stern, devoted to his duty and ob¬ viously capable of handling each week’s crisis without the help of more than one or two Legionnaires. What the rest of the Legion does with it¬ self, besides answering roll call every morning, is not made clear. Crabbe is assisted by the inevitable comic sidekick (this one being Fuzzy McKnight, in the guise of an orderly), and a good-looking and impeccably behaved youngster, name of Cuffy, who is Crabbe’s real son.—D.J. 18