NEW SERIES FOR TV

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29791, 6 April 1962, Page 18

NEW SERIES FOR TV

Two major series of te’evision programmes are about to begin on Channel 3. The first of them, a play in the Robert Herridge Theatre series, will be broadcast this

evening. The second series is a documentary record of naval battles in World War n, “Victory at Sea.” Both are programmes produced in the United States.

The Robert Herridge Theatre series is noted for its experimental ideas in producing material especially for television. It attracted much

attention, and some criticism in its early stages, when shown to Auckland viewers.

The first play is “A Trip to Czardas,” by an American playwright, Edwin Cranbury, and concerns the visit of two boys to see their absent father in a Florida town. Next week a Eugene O'Neill play will be televised, and there is a special programme for Good Friday. “The Easter Story," a feature using famous paintings and original music to describe the trial, death and resurrection of Christ.

The most widely known contribution to “Victory at Sea” was the Wagnerian performance by Richard Rodgers in composing 13 hours of narrative music to accompany the telling of an American view of the naval war.

This series of half-hour p-ogrammes was drawn from six million feet of film from agencies and governments, and includes many feet of German and Japanese film. The first broadcast win be C«n Monday evening,