--- title: Television: The Coming Season description: Enter the graveyard. Read the small stones: Frontier Circus, Oct. 5, 1961—May 24, 1962; Cain's Hundred, Sept. 19, 1961—May 8, 1962; Father of the Bride, Oct. 6, 1961—May 18,... canonical: https://time.com/archive/6623642/television-the-coming-season/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 1962-07-27T04:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-26T07:16:36.130Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Television: The Coming Season og:description: Enter the graveyard. 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The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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Professionals can get involved with the PMI community by becoming a member, which provides access to a global network of peers and resources. Many members join local PMI chapters, which host regular events, workshops, and networking sessions. Online, PMI's projectmanagement.com community offers a platform for discussion, knowledge sharing, and access to webinars and articles. Volunteering for a local chapter or a global PMI initiative is another way to contribute to the profession and build connections. #### What is the difference between PMP and CAPM? The PMP (Project Management Professional)® and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)® are both certifications offered by PMI, but they target professionals at different career stages. The CAPM is an entry-level certification designed for individuals with little or no project experience, validating their understanding of fundamental project management knowledge and terminology. 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Read the small stones: Frontier Circus, Oct. 5, 1961—May 24, 1962; Cain’s Hundred, Sept. 19, 1961—May 8, 1962; Father of the Bride, Oct. 6, 1961—May 18, 1962; Bus Stop, Oct. 1, 1961—March 25, 1962\. But curiously, there are fewer this year. The infant mortality rate among television shows has gone into a slight decline. TV’s mediocrity is apparently becoming institutional, and some programs are being kept alive for next season that would have been kicked into oblivion in the more ruthless years. Shows like Hazel, Margie and Mr. Ed (the corn-talking horse) are actually coming back next fall, and the new season will further reflect the old with such unforget table concentrations of dramatic power as Leave It to Beaver, My Three Sons and The Real McCoys. Even Car 54, Where Are you? has been granted a stay of execution, although no one has ever known where it really was. Vets & Psyches. There will, in fact, be some new things on television this fall. In a series called The Eleventh Hour (NBC), Wendell Corey will become TV’s first weekly psychiatrist, having analyzed already the remarkable 1961-62 success of Drs. Casey and Kildare (both returning, of course). There will be a program called The Nurses on CBS and, perhaps to satisfy a large segment of the mass audience, a new show about a veterinarian (NBC). Its cast includes all sorts of known animals and two unknown actors named Josh Peine and John Hubbard. But more than to medicine, TV’s new weeklies are turning to World War II. NBC will ship somebody called Ensign O’Toole out to the Pacific, while ABC will fight in both hemispheres and on all fronts: Combat will follow U.S. soldiers from Normandy across France and into Germany; The Gallant Men will campaign in Italy; and Ernest Borgnine, in McHale’s Men, will skipper a PT boat in the South Pacific as a sort of Marty Fitzgerald Kennedy. New situation comedies will be stretching further than ever for their situations. Perennial Loretta Young will be a widow with seven children. There will be rustic mountain folk living in Los Angeles (The Beverly Hillbillies), carpenters exchanging old saws (I’m Dickens . . . He’s Fenster), and Stanley Holloway as a British butler on the staff of an American family (Our Man Higgins). The producers of The Flintstones have a new family called The Jetsons, who live one century in the future. Mrs. Jetson has a high-IQ vacuum cleaner that can see, think and maneuver on its own. It dumps its load under the carpet. Comedy is having a comeback, and some of television’s great names are returning after doleful absences. Jackie Gleason will revive The Honeymooners (with a new supporting cast) as part of his resurrected Jackie Gleason Show. Both Sid Caesar and Lucille Ball are returning in shows named after them, and Jack Paar’s abdication ends with the new weekly Jack Paar Show. New westerns are rarer than ever before, but that is only because such old ones as Gunsmoke, Rawhide, The Cheyenne Show, The Rifleman, Wagon Train, Laramie, Bonanza and Have Gun, Will Travel have logged a combined total of 38 years in the saddle, and when a new hombre appears on the screen, they don’t aim for the knees, they shoot to kill. NBC, however, will offer “the first go-minute-western series ever to appear on TV”—a telerevised edition of Owen Wister’s The Virginian, with James Drury as Gary Cooper. NBC will also present something called Empire, which will be an oater with a contemporary King Ranch sort of setting, cowboys riding the range in helicopters. The Good Side. One out of every 18 hours of prime time next season will be given to regularly scheduled public-affairs programming, television’s most praiseworthy area of effort. Huntley and Brinkley (NBC) are practically as popular as gin and tonic. CBS Reports will begin its fourth season. Specials will treat everything from the Common Market to the America’s Cup. Herbert Hoover will write and narrate a program called The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson. President Eisenhower and Bruce Catton will collaborate on a similar program about Lincoln. And NBC’s superior Project 20 has in preparation studies ranging from the Old Testament to the Korean war. This sort of thing, plus TV’s superb coverage of great events as they occur, is what makes a television set worth owning. As Samuel B. Gould, president of Manhattan’s new educational TV station WNDT said in a speech last week, complimenting the best of commercial broadcasting: “The secret of solving our national television problem lies not so much in condemning what we know to be meretricious, superficial or outright ridiculous, but rather in lifting the level of expectation and appreciation on the part of an increasing number of the population. 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