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'My name is James Moser; I'm a writer of TV shows': first Dragnet, now Medic. of lighted matches. “There was that routine call to do a one-shot radio summer show, and four years later somebody remembers it and all of a sudden I’m the guy in Medic" The latest of a long line of NBC shows thrown against CBS’I Love Lucy on Monday rughts. Medic seems to have made the grade against the Lucille Ball-Desi Amaz powerhouse. Asked about Medic's prospects for its second season, Boone raises his eyebrows and says matter-of-factly, “Poor Lucy.’' As a working actor, Boone is partic¬ ularly enthusiastic over Medic as a springboard for his working brethren, the unknown actors and actresses still looking for their break. “We seldom iise a player twice,” he says, “and can parcel out roles to a lot of different people. Other shows do that too, of course, but Medic now has a terrific impact. People in the trade watch it, and it’s become a good show on which to be seen.” Boone himself can be seen frequent¬ ly at the local fight arenas, the fight game being his particular spectator sport. “I have to take a lot of kidding about being a doctor and getting up there to fix those cuts,” he groans. When he’s not off to the fights, he’s home with his wife, Claire, and their 20-months-old son, Peter. Boone re¬ cently bought a rambling house in Pacific Palisades, 17 miles west of Hol¬ lywood and Vine, and keeps it in a constant state of remodeling. Medically speaking, Boone is quick to admit he hasn’t learned too much as Dr. Styner. “Mostly what the vari¬ ous diseases are. If you’d asked me a year ago about post-parttim psychosis, I wouldn’t have known what you were talking about. People stop me on the street and call me ‘Dr. Styner’; I tell them quickly that I’m just an actor.” Something has rubbed off, however. Nobody gives Boone a simple “pain in the neck,” anymore. It’s a “compulsive coronary” he gets these days.