On the Plank

A television season is a heartless voyage captained by fast-buccaneers. Last week, scarcely out of port, the following shows were set up on the plank and told to start walking:

>The Roy Rogers--Dale Evans Show (ABC), mercifully described as a variety hour, has run out of everything but saddle soap and sentimentality. It will disappear this month.

> The New Loretta Young Show (CBS), about a widow and her seven sickening children, has a firm hold on its air time until late winter, when it will be dropped.

> Fair Exchange, CBS's hour-long exercise in Anglo-American cliches (about English and American families who have traded teen-aged daughters), will soon gurgle its last. Or perhaps its next to last: there is some possibility that it will come back as a half-hour show.

> Saints and Sinners, the NBC series that pretends to be about the newspaper business, will end its press run in January.

> It's a Man's World, NBC's story of four boys who live on a houseboat in a Midwestern college town, has also been marked for liquidation in January.

Often, TV kills its best material and leaves the worst on the air. But all of the five shows that were fingered last week had fairly earned extinction.

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