TV Guide (September 18, 1953)

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TV Teletype ^continued from page 3 HOLLYWOOD Dan Jenkins reports: ABC is replacing Date With Judy with a Hollywood film series, —Marjk Saber, Homicide Squad . . . Pantomime Quiz, first and oldest of the panel quiz shows, may switch to Du Mont for the winter following its summer run on CBS. * ♦ * Private Secretary has moved ba- k to CBS following its summer of repeats on NBC . . . The producers of Four Star P layhouse are now shooting no less than 13 pilot fili^ --which means, potentially, 13 new film series out of Hollywood. * ♦ ♦ A TV version of radio’s Nightbeat. starring FRANK LOVEJOY, is in the serious talking stage here ... And HOMER CANFIELD'S new NBC radio show. Confession, is definitely being converted to • TV . . . GROSS-KRASNE, producers of The Big Town series, are about ready to start shooting a new one. The Lone Wolf. They're looking for a CESAR ROMERO-type for the lead. ♦ * * NBC has a iditioned still another audience participation show. You'. Be Surprised, to star BOB ALDA and AILEEN STANLEY, JR. . . . Another radio show scheduled to make the switch to TV:CBS' Earn Your Vacation, now earmarked as a possible five-a-week daytime entry . . . The new JIMMY BOYD show, whose audition was reported here last week, also is being considered for a CBS daytime spot. * + ♦ JACK PAAR, who has signed a five-year contract with CBS, will do a morning show for the network . . . BRIAN DONLEVY, star of Dangerous Assignment. has made and sold 26 quarter- hour films. Find A Hobby. and is ready to go into production with 26 more . . . NBC is tailoring a new audience participation show for TALLULAH BANKHEAD. PHYLLIS COATES, who plays Lois Lane in the first 26 Superman films, now has the inside track for the Jane Stacy role in My Friend Irma . . . PETER LAWFORD and MARILYN ERSKINE have been set to co-star in a GE Theater film, "Woman's World" . . . Initial Comedy Hour lineup now has MARTIN & LEWIS set for the Oct. 4 opener, followed by JIMMY DURANTE Oct. 11, EDDIE CANTOR Oct. 18 and ABBOTT & COSTELLO Nov. 1. The Oct. 25 date is still open. * * * Watch for Life With Elizabeth, highly successful Los Angeles local show now being put on film for National syndication . . . LUCILLE BALL and DESI ARNAZ have scheduled a breather for themselves and will vacation in Honolulu for a month beginning Sept. 15 . . . PHIL CAREY, ELLEN DREW and WARD BOND set for a Ford Theater film, "Gun Job." ♦ ♦ * Revlon Mirror Theater's triple switch from New York live on NBC to Hollywood film via CBS took place Sept. 19 . . . Both My Friend Irma and Our Miss Brooks return to CBS Oct. 2.