Return Of Ironside

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32322, 13 June 1970, Page 3

Return Of Ironside

Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside will be with us again next week, and most viewers will welcome his return. Raymond Burr will have the earlier “Ironside” team with him —Barbara Anderson, Don Galloway and Don Mitchell.

Looking back down the years, the “Perry Mason” series, which first made Burr a very familiar figure on New Zealand screens, had the most settled pattern of all the( many series which are utterly predictable in format and: content. If television had I not been comparatively new in this country, the set scheme of an investigation and a court scene, allocated half each of the running time, would have palled even more quickly than it did. Poor old Hamilton Burger, people began to say, after a while: how could a District Attorney who lost every case keep his job? “Ironside” was an improvement, if only because the audience was not forever being locked in that, courtroom, waiting for Perry Mason to be provided with that last, damning,, dramatic, damaging bit of evidence which led to so many confessions in the witness box. The

8.30: Heather Taylor (soprano); Maurice Till (piano). Grieg: Morning Dew; The Princess: In the Boat; Solveig’s Slumber Song: The Poet’s Heart; Margaret’s Cradle Song. 9.2: Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor— Mstislav Rostropovich, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan (new record). 9.43: Chopin: Nocturne No. 14 in F sharp minor, Op. 48, No. 2— Adam Harasiewicz (piano). 9.50: The City of the Year 2000. What will the cities of the world be like a quarter of a century from now? 10.17: Beethoven. The Nine Symphonies in their original versions played by the London Symphony Orchestra under James Loughran. Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 36 (1802) (8.8. C. 3ZB, CHRISTCHURCH (1100 kilocycles)

7.30 p.m.: Steptoe and Son. 8.2: In Person: Sandie Shaw. 9.2: The Gentlemen Back in League. 9.45: Terry Gray Trio. 10.15: Doug Caldwell’s Continentals. 11.45: The Epilogue. 3ZM, CHRISTCHURCH (1400 kilocycles) 7.30 p.m.: The Boston Pops. 8.0: Marian Michaels. 8.30: Ivor Novello Hits. 9.0: Sunday Concert

(first “Ironside” series held; jits measure of excitement and a sprinkling of philosophy; the next one should: prove just as acceptable. Raymond Burr replaces Andy Williams, whose series! of musical shows has not; been the talk of the town. 1 They have certainly not been a failure, either. He, too, changed his style from earlier series to this; recent one. Remember him.j spending most of his time on a high stool, wearing a pull-! lover, singing sweet songs?' The latest series made an; (attempt, and a very success-: ful one, to provide something, for everyone, and not havingenough of any one line of goods to persuade those who did not appreciate it to I switch off their sets.

The “Andy Williams Show” discovered a valuable flair for comedy, often in an extra- 1 vagant form, it offered the! youngsters in the modern: idiom as well as allowing the (principal to sing romantic (and melodious ballards. It 'was an easy-going, entertaining performance. ; "Gallery” on Thursday ! night was unremarkable, for anyone looking for a display (of verbal pyrotechnics. But (Jean Fairfax, of the National ! Association for the Advance'inent of Coloured People, was. (remarkable. Her calm.j detached recital of her views; I was extremely impressive, and it was to the credit of ! Brian Edwards that her personality was able to come; (through so strongly.— ! PANDORA.