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The Mickey Rooney Show PROGRAM OF THE WEEK On paper, The Mickey Rooney Show shaped up as one of the best bets of the fledgling season. On film, it’s a situation comedy of quite another color. So far, anyway. The idea seemed a “natural.” Take a brash young comic of proved versa¬ tility and a ready-made movie audi¬ ence, add some half-hour comedy situations and a pinch of slapstick, shake well and dish out to loud cheers from all hands. Alas, during the blending, something went sour. It’s still much too early in the sea¬ son, of course, to write off the Rooney show as a lost cause. The pint-sized comic, an entertainer 32 of his 34 years, is a hep showman. And he’s coupled with some ingratiating peo¬ ple, especially Regis Toomey and Claire Carleton, who play his parents. All that’s needed, really, are a few writers with enough imagination to take advantage of all this talent and, perhaps, a hard-headed producer to keep the various components in line. The show’s slapstick is the type Mack Sennett discarded years ago. The plot lines—amateur actor Rooney making a shambles of a little theater drama; comic-book-trained scientist Rooney taking off for outer space in a homemade rocket ship—are hardly earth-shaking; but they could pro¬ duce some laughs if they weren’t com- Meet The Press Meet the Press may not be the oldest inquiring-reporter show, but it has certainly made more front-page news than any other. A Sunday evening program in which Washington, corre¬ spondents hurl questions—often em¬ barrassing — at political figures, it frequently elicits comments which make the Monday morning papers. Much of the show’s success lies in the caliber of the men who become willing targets — Cabinet members. Congressmen, etc. But it also has some of Washington’s most alert corre¬ spondents. Drawn from a pool of some 100 newspapermen and women, they’re selected because (1) they know the topic at hand and (2) ffiey’re good on TV. Three appear each week, plus anchorman Lawrence Spivak, who owns and produces the program. Meet the Press has had a number of imitators. But none has been able to match it. Meet the Press is a credit to the TV industry.— R.S. Introduction: Lawrence Spivak, right, presents reporters on 'Meet The Press.' 16