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The Year’s Biggest Rip-Off: ABC’s Battlestar Galactica, which tries to imitate Star Wars without characters or talent.

Greatest Source of Fear and Trembling Along Network Row: reports that TV viewing is off for the first time in history.

Second Greatest Source of F & T Along Network Row: appointment of ABC’S Fred Silverman as new chief of NBC.

Cleanest Sweep: Fred Silverman cancels within three months of their debuts all the new fall NBC series that he inherited.

Most Dependable Mother/Daughter Relationship: in both Pretty Baby and King of the Gypsies, Susan Sarandon is Brooke Shields’ mom.

Most Promising Newcomer: Robin Williams in ABC’S Mork & Mindy.

Most Promising Oldcomers: Mae West in Sextette, her first major movie in 38 years, and Lassie in The Magic of Lassie, her first film since 1963.

Most Predictable TV Trend: in the wake of the National Lampoon’s Animal House, all three networks have announced frat-house sitcoms to premiere in early 1979.

Longest Wait for Godot: Francis Ford Coppola’s Viet Nam epic, Apocalypse, Now, first scheduled for 1977, now due next fall.

Clearest Signs that the ’60s Are Dead: Bob Dylan’s Renaldo and Clara, the Bee Gees in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.