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youthfully spirited treatment and some coarse-grained comedy that clicks as often as it misses. The boisterous camaraderie of the "Satellites" promises well, though it gets side-tracked by all those reverent tributes to such hit parade guests as Helen
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doing nothing and we think they ought to build something. So they put up a lot of rubbish as they always do a few potted plants and bits of hardboard with wallpaper on them then filled the place with extras looking bored."
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