Caption: THE PROGRAM AND THE COMMERCIAL: For his first original teleplay, John Cheever wrote a comedy about American suburbia,"The Shady Hill Kidnapping," complete with commercial breaks.The hour-long teleplay will be broadcast over most PBS stations Tuesday, January 12, at 9:00 p.m. as the premiere of the new AMERICA PLAYHOUSE series. Shown at left are: (l to r)Judith Ivey, David Marshall Grant, Polly Holliday and George Grizzard as the Wooster family,and at right: Celeste Holm doing a commercial for Elixircol, "the true juice of youth," a product of John Cheever's imagination. (Photos by Don Perdue).
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