Radio: The New Shows

TV Reader's Digest (Mon. 8 p.m., ABC-TV) is a good series or a dismal one, depending on which of its first two shows are considered. The opener, called The Last of the Old-Time Shooting Sheriffs, was a witty debunking of the classic western with its quick-drawing, deadshot badmen and goodmen. The veteran sheriff of the title, played with creaking excellence by Russ Simpson, was a gun slinger who preferred a donkey to a spirited stallion, avoided trouble when he could, and in a gun battle, always got his man by holding onto his revolver...

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