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Within a month or two, A.C. Nielsen, the Grim Rater, will probably have cast down at least a few of these new comedies. But the networks have already groomed such summer-tested replacements as Sonny and Cher and British Comic Marty Feldman. Also waiting in the wings at CBS is splenetic and iconoclastic Don Rickles, who in the pilot for his next TV incarnation is cast as an advertising executive presumably with executioner power over TV shows. Given the quality of the new-season series to date, Rickles will not want for real-life material on which to exercise his spleen.
—Richard Burgheim