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TV Teletype y^oNTiNutD f«om pagi 3 HOLLY’W^OOD Dan Jenkins reports: CBS wants GINGER ROGERS to do NOEL COWARD'S "Dancing on Air" as a "spectacular" — for |50,000 . . . DISNEY Is now planning a feature film, "The Great Locomotive Chase," with FESS PARKER . . . PARKER, Incidentally, can be seen In a Dragnet rerun as a policeman, playing his entire scene kneeling on the floor—to avoid towering over JACK WEBB and BEN ALEXANDER. « * » JONATHAN WINTERS, comedian on the GEORGE GOBEL summer replacement. And He re's the Show . will be a regular on The Perry Como ^how on NBC In the fall . . . The GOBEL show. Incidentally, will be seen on 25 Canadian stations next season. * * * GALE STORM has signed a recording contract with Dot Records and Is now negotiating with HAL ROACH, JR., for a new musical comedy film series of her own. She also has signed to do a Ford Thea^r episode. "Johnny, Where Are You?" Meanwhile, she and CHARLIE FARRELL stand to make around $400,000 each on the reruns of My Little Margie. * * * Zlv Is getting ready to film the pld HERBERT MARSHALL radio show, "A Man Called X" . . . When LIBERACE woxmd up his first feature picture, "Sincerely Yours," at Warners, he tossed a party not only for the cast and crew but the whole darned studio. Which Is one way of unloading a lot of moola. * * * NBC's new hour-long, flve-a-week dramatic show. Matinee, will employ 10 directors, 100 writers, 4000 actors — and $106,000 a week. All In the bright new name of daytln« TV ... TV film over the past, six years cost $304,000,000, to which can be added another $93,000,000 for next season's output. * « « ^seum , the film series based on vintage sllents, will be shown In the Nickelodeon Theater at Disneyland Park — doesn't that amount to pay-as-you-see TV? . BOB HOPE will do a Christmas TV show on film. * * * MAX LIEBMAN plans to repeat some of his Saturday night specta¬ culars, those shows which appeal to children ("Babes In Toyland," Heidi ), on the following Sunday afternoon — If time can be cleared ... He also Is planning two half-hour comedy shows, one to star BUDDY HACKETT; the other, PAT CARROLL. * * * The recent sale of RKO to General Teleradlo (vdilch controls Mutual Broadcasting System) probably means the ultimate release of some 700 "new" old movies to TV— but only after theater demand for the films diminishes. * * * ROLAND REED will make three color pilots for a projected new Biblical film series. His Way. His Word . . . There have been shake-ups on the new Johnny Carson Show , Including a new pro¬ ducer and a new director. 23