Television: More Class

To brighten the cultural luster of daytime television, ABC last week added two new shows:

SUPERMARKET SWEEP, a Talent Associates creation, lets housewife contestants choose anyone they like (provided, say the rules, "that he is between 17 and 40 and in good physical condition") to dress in numbered jerseys reminiscent of the late Roller Derby. Thus properly attired, the delegates run down supermarket aisles like thieves, grabbing up goods in a race against the clock. The contestant whose champion has snatched the most valuable mer chandise in his basket returns the next...

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