Du Mont, one of the oldest of the four TV networks, concentrates its heaviest fire on the youngest televiewers. Each weekday evening it tries to blanket the bubble-gum trade with Small Fry Club (6 p.m., E.S.T.), for three-to seven-year-olds; with Magic Cottage (6:30 p.m.), for the eight-to-twelve set; and with enormously successful Captain Video (7 p.m.), aimed at teenagers.
Small Fry and Magic Cottage lean toward whimsy and traditional fairy tales. Captain Video plunges the adolescent into the science-fiction world of interplanetary travel and electronic marvels. It features epic, if inconclusive struggles between...
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