NEW TV SHOW OFFERS "CHAMPIONSHIP BRIDGE WITH CHARLES GOREN'
The battle of the pasteboards
begins again this Monday when
America’s one and only nation
ally televised show on bridge,
Championship Bridge With
Charles Goren. returns to the
air. Once again featuring the
“king of bridge,” Charles Goren,
as host and commentator, the
twenty-six week, half-hour ser
ies can be seen on KTVF. Chan
nel Eleven at 11:10 p m.
Matching wits and skills with the
world’s foremost bridge experts this
year will be such well-known chal
lengers as the late comedian, Chico
Marx, who appears on the opening
shew: stage and screen star. Alfred
Drake; band leader. Les Brown;
fcctball great. Forest Evashevski;
cerporation vice-presidents, sports
men and feminine competitors rang
ing from high-fashion models to
grandmothers.
Defending the near impregnable
fortress of bridge "expertness” are
outstanding luminaries from the
world of bridge—columnists Albert
Mcrehead, B. Jay Becker, Howard
Schenken, Richard Frey. Charles
and Peggy Solomon and world
famous personalities like Helen So
bel, Harry Fishbein. John Gerber,
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Jack Benny play a couple of muggs
liv:ng the good life in a model pri
son of the future on "The Jack
Benny Program" Sunday at 9:30 on
KTVF. Channel Eleven.
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All-Seeing Eye
Under the camera's "all-seeing"
eye. the two pairs of bridge ex
perts will bid and play four
hands, three of which are shown,
•‘in toto." on the half-hour show.
The result of the other hand is
capsuled graphically for the view
er and included in the score.
All hands are bid and played ex
actly as they are dealt, no hands
are pre-set. and the winning pair,
determined by total points over the
four hands, receives $1,000, while
the losers get $500. In addition
there are bonuses of $250 for small
slams and $500 for grand slams, bid
and made.
Winner of the coveted Radio-TV
Daily Critics Award, “Championship
Bridge” won its fanatically de
voted audience by being the first
and only show of its kind to capture
the immediacy, spontaneity, tension
: and “kibitzer's eye” view of the
game.
Utilizing four cameras in the revo
! lutionary “over-the-shoulder” tech
nique. and creating a new process
of graphic animation. Walter
Schwimmer, producer of the series,
has achieved for the viewer the
feeling of watching the personali
ties in his own living room—and for
the novice player, a readily grasp
able picture of the action and by
play.
No Novices
No novices themselves at the art
of creating and developing revolu
tionary television techniques, Wal
ter Schwimmer also pioneered the
award winning series “Champion
ship Bowling” (now in its eighth
year) and “All-Star Golf.”
Representing the viewer before
the camera is famed network news
caster and analyst, Alex “Man on
the Go” Dreier.
This then is the physical “set
up” of “Championship Bridge." It
does not describe the spontaneity,
the humor, the chagrin of a slam
bid and not made, the exquisite de
light of a completed finesse, the
mixture of personalities playing
each other under suet unique cir
cumstances — these and so much
more must be seen . . . and they will
be when Championship Bridge With
Charles Goren debuts next Monday
at 11:10 on KTVF, Channel Eleven.
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