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Gary Deeb

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Kung Fu: Season 2 (1973) EDIT “Kung Fu is a violent TV show that insidiously exploits the mass audience's craving for blood and guts, and yet astonishingly wraps it all up in a pretty package topped by a stylish ribbon that proclaims the Golden Rule.” – Chicago Tribune Oct 5, 2021 Full Review Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 (1978) 43% EDIT “Lome Greene and Richard Hatch star in the futuristic series that promises to be thoughtful, imaginative, and slyly humorous from time to time.” – Chicago Tribune Sep 2, 2021 Full Review Mork & Mindy: Season 1 (1978) 80% EDIT “[Robin Williams] infuses this lame comedy with enough energy and raw creativity to keep even a discriminating viewer from automatically dialing out... Call it a winner, with reservations.” – Chicago Tribune Aug 31, 2021 Full Review CHiPs: Season 1 (1977) 40% EDIT “In the style of "Emergency," the program consists of several vignettes per episode. Also in the style of "Emergency," the dramatic value of CHiPs is invisible.” – Chicago Tribune Aug 24, 2021 Full Review Lou Grant: Season 1 (1977) 93% EDIT “The opening episode of Lou Grant is a psychological pick-me-up for anybody who might have suspected that wit and sophistication have become foreign words in television.” – Chicago Tribune Aug 18, 2021 Full Review Diff'rent Strokes: Season 1 (2025) 44% EDIT “A disastrous piece of junk that ought to be wiped out before it spreads.” – Chicago Tribune Aug 13, 2021 Full Review Taxi: Season 1 (1978) 81% EDIT “It's a touching portrait of a tiny slice of life's underside. And putting that sort of a program on the air in 1978 is one great accomplishment.” – Chicago Tribune Aug 5, 2021 Full Review EDIT “[Little House on the Prairie] is a soupbone -- a meatless sausage of cloying sweetness, padded dialog, and soap-opera background music.” – Chicago Tribune Jul 16, 2021 Full Review Alice: Season 1 (1976) 56% EDIT “Linda Lavin is perfectly credible as the young widow with son, waitressing in Phoenix, and perhaps looking for Mr. Goodbar. But too often the program goes for the easy laugh or the loud, cheap remark at the expense of realism.” – Chicago Tribune Jul 14, 2021 Full Review Archie Bunker's Place: Season 1 (1979) 50% EDIT “O'Connor's penchant for mugging and leering always seemed an almost endearing quality. But now that he's virtually the whole ball of wax, his flaws stand out like the stench of a cheap cigar.” – Chicago Tribune Jun 8, 2021 Full Review Roots: Season 1 (1977) 77% EDIT “The TV version is an almost vulgar trivialization of Haley's massively researched bestseller. The script is woefully pretentious; direction is plodding; each character is either totally noble or thoroughly despicable.” – Chicago Tribune May 4, 2021 Full Review Planet of the Apes: Season 1 (1974) 55% EDIT “As in the various "Apes" movies, you sometimes have to strain to understand the actors through all those gobs of monkey-masking on their faces. But unlike the better "Apes" films, virtually everything in the TV opener is implausible and childish.” – Chicago Tribune May 4, 2021 Full Review EDIT “The only piece of this hour-long twaddle that's worth catching is the opening theme as sung and played by country star Waylon Jennings.” – Chicago Tribune Apr 30, 2021 Full Review Good Times: Season 1 (1974) 78% EDIT “While Good Times is probably the most eagerly awaited new midseason series, the premiere is a brutal disappointment, a missed opportunity of the first magnitude.” – Chicago Tribune Feb 19, 2021 Full Review The Jeffersons: Season 1 (1975) 53% EDIT “The Jeffersons comes on with smooth professionalism and an unmistakable aura of self-confidence. It's as if the show were an old veteran instead of a rank beginner.” – Chicago Tribune Feb 18, 2021 Full Review Happy Days: Season 1 (1974) 68% EDIT “Happy Days is mostly lightweight fun -- cheery entertainment -- and if subsequent scripts are as lovingly crafted as the premiere, ABC may finally have a situation comedy that couples healthy escapism with a reasonable dose of truth.” – Chicago Tribune Feb 10, 2021 Full Review
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