The New Shows

The Egg and I (Mon. through Fri. noon, CBS-TV) has followed the familiar progression: novel to movie to radio or TV show. Betty MacDonald's saga of a city couple on a chicken farm is inspirational in tone, concerned with small problems, and played to the hilt by the cast, notably by a breathless actress named Pat Kirkland.

Crime with Father (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC-TV), a new mystery series, teams Rusty Lane, a police lieutenant, with Peggy Lobbin, his bouncily helpful daughter. The opening episode had a mild surprise in a murderer who was eager to confess, but soon lost its way in a maze of overacting and rattling gunshots that sounded like small boys firing cap pistols.

Search for Tomorrow (Mon. through Fri., 12:30 p.m., CBS-TV) is so clearly derived from radio's teary soap operas that its actors scarcely move anything but their lips and larynxes. All this choked-up sadness, punctuated by organ chordings, will make most televiewers feel as though they have been dunked in an emotional bubble bath. Search for Tomorrow dispenses with the synopsis of previous episodes. This adds to the confusion but permits the actors that many more minutes of suffering.

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