The Dead

The annual spring cleaning has been completed at the networks, and seldom has it been so thorough. Show after show is washed up--on the new and applaudable theory that TV is Novelty's Ville and a year is long enough for almost anything.

More than half the shows that were new last season will not return in the fall, including The Jetsons, Going My Way, The Gallant Men, I'm Dickens--He's Fenster, The Lloyd Bridges Show, Stoney Burke, Our Man Higgins, Stump the Stars, Fair Exchange, McKeever and the Colonel, Ensign O'Toole and Sam Benedict.

Oldtimers got it too. The Untouchables has been given the St. Valentine's Day treatment after four years. Have Gun, Will Travel and The Rifleman, six and five years old respectively, are headed for the last roundup. Car 54 will soon be roughly three cubic feet of crushed scrap steel. Naked City, the fine semidocumentary on New York police work filmed in the city streets, is finished too. The last vestiges of live, prime-time drama, the U.S. Steel Hour and Armstrong Circle Theater, are also passing away. Moreover, all three college-level educational shows are leaving the networks: Meet the Professor, Continental Classroom, The College of the Air.

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