Prime Time

FOUR MORE BEERS: The reason Call To Glory (ABC) bombed is because it didn’t deliver the militaristic thrills it promised—viewers who’d seen the show incessantly hyped during the Olympics tuned in expecting to see some flyboys in heat but instead got the same old cold war liberal morality plays (a cold war liberal is someone who is progressive, in a sodden sort of way, when it comes to social issues—Call’s civil rights episode was square in the tradition of the Kramer/Susskind school of soggy uplift—but just as phobic as everybody else when it comes to the Commie threat).