Viewers’ Views

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32233, 27 February 1970, Page 3

Viewers’ Views

Letters on television topics are subject to the rules applying to general correspondence. lAN CROSS Poor lan Cross! Apparently now that he “approaches middle age” he should 'restrain himself. Show his i maturity. Leave any mild jabs {at tradition, ceremony, involvement in other foreign { policy, etc., to the young, immature, dissident, questioning portion of our society. As one who is middle-aged herself, I object to this attempt to stamp out flickers of youth flaring up even in the “mature”. Yahr Down with the stuffy old definition of maturity!—OLDlE. TOO MUCH TOM? I wish you would cease praising Tom Jones and so encouraging the N.Z.B.C. to give him the week’s best television time. 1 know noone in my age group (40-50 the stay-at-homes on Saturday evenings) who has not had sufficient by now. Why not change his evening again, or put him on in the afternoons since he is supposed to appeal most to women—but not this one.—GEORGIA.

CHTV3 2.00 p.m.: Headline news. 2.03: The Defenders—“V Blacklist." 2.51: Let Me Speak—“ Humanists.” (Repeat) 3.21: Lawman—“ The Salvation of Owny O'Reilly." 3.45: In Japan. 4.05: The Beverly Hillbillies —“The South Rises Again.” 4.31: Filopat and Patafil. 4.35: Trumpton—“The Bill Poster.” 4.50: Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table. 5.14: Marine Boy. 5.36: Headline news, weather. 5.38: Cool McCool. 5.59: The Flying Nun—“ The Crooked Convent.” 6.26: Hereward the Wake —“The King’s Vengeance.” Fifteenth of sixteen parts. 6.50: Sports magazine. 7.00: Network news. 7.15: Weather. The South Tonight. 7.35: Julia—“ Matchmaker, Break Mr a Match.” 8.00: Department S—“ Death on Reflection.” 8.49: Whicker—‘Meets the Trainers.” 9.12: Headline news. 9.14: Film (1950), “Odette” (Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring, Peter Ustinov). 11.07: Late News, weather. 11.14: Rugby—South Africa v. Ireland.

NATIONAL LINK [lncluding 3YA, Christchurch (690 Kilocycles); 2YA, Wellington (570 Kilocycles); 4YA, Dunedin (780 Kilocycles); and 3YZ. Greymouth (920 Kilocycles). J 7 p.m.: N.Z.B.C. Sporting Service. 7.30: Time For Music. 8.30: Weather and News. 9.0: Music of the Maori. 9.15: World of Science. 9.30: The Jazz Hour. 10.30: N.Z.B.C. News. 10.45: Strings in the Night. 11.0: 8.8. C. News. 11.14: 1970 Highland Pipe Band Contest at Wellington—Results. 11.17: All Night National Programme. 11.30: Heather Mixture. 12.0: N.Z.B.C. News and Weather. 2.30 a.m.: Sing It Again. 4.9: Music in the Sun. 3YC, CHRISTCHURCH (960 kilocycles) 7 p.m.: Columbia Symphony Orchestra under Igor Stravin-

sky. 7.33: John de Lancie (oboe), London Symphony Orchestra under Andre Previn—Symphonie concertante for oboe and strings (Ibert). 8.1: John Ogden (piano). 8.59: We all come to it in the end, by Don Haworth. 10.25: London Symphony Orchestra under Andre Previn—Symphony No. 2 (Richard Rodney Bennett). 10.44: Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Paris Conservatoire Orchestra under Rafael Fruehbeck de Burgos—Cinco canciones negras (Montsalvatge). 3ZB, CHRISTCHURCH (1100 kilocycles) 6.10 p.m.: Our Changing World. 9.5: Sound Out. 3ZM, CHRISTCHURCH (1400 kilocycles) 7 p.m.: Cities of the World. 8.0: Film Themes. 9.0: Orchestral Only. 9.30: Peter, Paul and Mary. 10.0: Nice ’n’ Easy.