Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!gregbo From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: Re: Call to Glory Message-ID: <919@houxm.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 16:55:16 EDT Article-I.D.: houxm.919 Posted: Fri Sep 28 16:55:16 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 09:13:54 EDT References: <4077@tekecs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 26 > After all the hype that ABC put into "Call to Glory" earlier, I find >it hard to believe that they would pre-empt the program after three >episodes without bothering to relocate it in a prime-time slot. Is this >schedule change due to our local programming, or is it the network? Or, >as another possibility, has it really bombed that bad? I have not seen the ratings for "Call to Glory", but in my opinion the show is not bombing. (However, it has been "critically acclaimed", and I am wary of any show which is "critically acclaimed" because "Two Marriages", which is somewhat similar to "Call to Glory", was "critically acclaimed", and then taken off the air due to bad ratings.) I find the show believable, somewhat along the plot lines of the book "The Great Santini" (but not the movie -- Dennis Weaver was NOT convincing as Santini). I didn't catch the last couple of weeks of it but the last episode I saw (the one about the racists) was well done. Perhaps "Call to Glory" is having problems competing with "The Scarecrow and Mrs. King". I don't know what you folks think of the show, but I find it to be somewhat amusing with a touch of excitement and suspense. -- Hug me till you drug me, honey! Greg Skinner (gregbo) {allegra,cbosgd,harvard,ihnp4}!houxm!gregbo