It was only a half-hour show, done in the commercial-cut format of the western and the soap opera. Yet it was one of the most effective shows on TV this season.
A Trip to Czardis, on Manhattan's WCBS-TV, told of two small boys in the Florida pine woods who go with their mother and uncle to see their father, sick in a nearby town. As it turns out, he is not really sick; he is in prison, and a crowd is already collecting to watch him hang. He says goodbye to the boys, giving...
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