Shake-Out Time

This is the time of the year when the networks examine new-season schedules, take pulses, shake out the weaklings, and bring on shows that they hope will survive. Fatalities so far among the new programs: CBS's Dundee and the Culhane, NBC's Maya and Accidental Family, and ABC's Hondo, Custer, Iron Horse and F. Lee Bailey's Good Company. The biggest surprise is NBC's decision to dump the 3 1/2-year-old Man from U.N.C.L.E. after Jan. 15; the Nielsen rating had dropped from No. 3 in June 1966 to 68th last week. Among new shows coming up: a variety show starring Jonathan Winters, revivals of The Saint and The Avengers, and, replacing U.N.C.L.E., Comics Dan Rowan & Dick Martin.

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