The New Shows

Jessie's TV Notebook (Tues. 12:30 p.m., ABC-TV) features Jessie De Both, a veteran of newspaper cooking pages, who sports high-fashion hats while up to her elbows in flour, and wears the determinedly jolly air of a police matron speeding a departing inmate. When not badgering stray males from the studio audience by tying skillets to their shirttails, Jessie hammers home the virtues of her sponsoring products. Sample kitchen hint: don't sew up your turkey after stuffing it, use safety pins.

Juvenile Jury (Tues. 8:30 p.m., NBCTV) has a panel of five moppets who solve such special problems as what a little girl should do with a horse she won on a giveaway show (the consensus: sell it). After five years on radio, most of the juvenile jurymen are sufficiently grooved in show business to upstage each other, mug heavily at every wisecrack, and slip effortlessly into a Scotch Tape commercial.

Rayburn & Finch Show (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS) belongs in the radio comic tradition established years ago by such zany funnymen as the late Colonel Stoopnagle. After five years as Manhattan disc jockeys, Rayburn & Finch have come to their unsponsored network show with a handful of records, a good deal of acerbic humor and a better-than-usual collection of puns. Starting off with a fictitious award called a "Ludwig," from a fictitious radio & TV magazine called See Hear!, the comics go on to rib educational shows with "Science Speaks," a program designed to "push back the frontiers of science--right back to where they were."

Silver Jubilee (Sat. 11:15 p.m., NBC) is a five-month series celebrating NBC's 25th year as a radio network. On the opening program, Veteran Announcer Ben Grauer interviewed Bandleader Vincent Lopez, whose orchestra was the first on the network air, and the recorded excerpts from the past quarter-century included a joke by Ed Wynn, the first news flash of Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt proclaiming the "rendezvous with destiny."

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