UNROTTEN TV

The executive producers of Silver Spoons (Calendar Letters, Dec. 23) should know that a child psychologist and high intentions do not necessarily make good entertainment.

Raising and solving problems within the context of a comedy show requires more than cardboard characters and unreal dialog set against an improbable background and winding up with trite and glib solutions.

I strongly suspect that many of their viewers are made up of people like my late neighbors, a gentle, childless elderly couple who frequently bemoaned that the kids in the block didn’t behave like those “nice children” on TV.

I must say that to add insult to injury, the show isn’t even funny. ANNETTE D. KUEBER Los Angeles