TANGLED PLOT IN NBC'S VANISHED'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300250002-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 10, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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I ather wish now that NBC and Universal had stuck
tQ one of their earlier notions to do "Vanished" as a iriul-
filyart filn dho;vn in a number Of weekly inst flnient , a
la "The Forsyte Saga."
It would have been i;ltere .tiilg to see such an C%-
p! r 1 in e n t would have
vision.
I have the feeling that
by the time its final chap-
tee a r r i v e d, the Show
would have attracted one
,
of I Ii o s c' uitr~I:c,lliC 1,
eirce-in a d::ead ctL'?I ien-
c , such as the one the
last episode of rlha i'11j
Live drew when the identi-
ty of th cue-armed roan
'%-as iev.ealcd. -
.Not. only 'the na(ural
suspell-e in I- letcher
bell best-se.ll.ing thriller
of dcri'irg-;:'o in lush intel?-
Mlord \Vid`i'.clrk
rl_at1oi1aqI political circles
would have built such an audience but I inlagii e half
the '1V-watching public would
;, l have begint llc:u?al,o,,lt?
the show, :,we.llim, Ulu audience still more :articular?ly
as the networks these lays offer so HLOU that is of more
than llholmentary illtel'est.
And. Knebel so complicated that immensely retie'slue
-plot which opens like Chin es : itll new rwTV
tioii , Siuspicions, innuendos and PM R1 11I plications at
every turn, that it seemed to he ideal for a &eria]iaed
? nr,rel on film.
Even thou6il tho 3U M, $3.1-million movie, which
NBC showcd in two pits 11onday- and Tuesday night,
' i'ANISIi?ii J'
A. t ri ;,in r , rc;u_ed ? UMv rs l a^d u,carlad ,'a::'a, and Tunny
WON an MEC, Tel_a!aY 611, e_~ I?.'^ {rem
Matcher Kr,?s-..,1 OIr_c.or ~ic ,;{ullk.~E~?ruhva c+.-
arnue=' Dav!d O'Ccrral. L' s'c L^ J ^cr. - ,;,, er Oav;d Vicier.
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5'ic; a'_t tVId rh and (a L; cell;) 5':yc .'.u ?: ev,~T?m ^s!:y. Jarr,mGFr.rc,i?
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;IY ti':ha t:a> es I,Atl:allY, s`.crc- ti:r ? ,..,_-o l.i; t;.', la,rr re:':a C0,11".
i:1 easily fl'. oil'It:: Lille' L' Ft a.,,tei ut d on
te1e ds!ou, I - felt'g ven even more time Dean Psis: ncr''
.
Script might have probed deeper that huge n aild faa:.111 at
in gallery of \Vash]ilgtall clia'r eels KIlebel CI'eated--.?
frolll Butter 'Nygaard, ti-;e I11yopic, pot-smoking CIA in-
iorrner, to Paul ]io ctebusll, Pre ident of the ilI hccl
t"ltates. ~1ostly % h".t we ]i. Cl ?, b..i f. , r? ,
P.'v..i ri-,Cc .a~1111i.]ill4, J11-
explored acreslay beneath the skins.
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