On the basis of last week's entries, the 1955 TV shows are out to set a record low for lovable cuteness. Some samples:
Norby (Wed. 7 p.m., NBC) stars David Wayne as vice president of a Pearl River, N.Y. bank and Joan Lorring as his giggling wife. Like all TV investigations of small-town U.S.A., it is suffused in the rosy, nostalgic glow more common to the Gay Nineties than the 20th century. Filmed in color by sponsor Eastman Kodak Co., Norby finds its humor in an uncritical succession of minor disasters for Hero Wayne: he gets his arm...
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