A BOY AT WAR DAKTARI

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32361, 29 July 1970, Page 3

A BOY AT WAR

DAKTARI

Sixteen-year-old Michael Howe is the star of “Tom Grattan’s War," a children’s adventure story which will start from CHTV3 in midAugust. The story concerns a young London boy, deprived of both his parents during the 1914-18 war. He is too young to join in the war himself and is sent to a small Yorkshire farm, the home of Major and Mrs Kirby. The Major and his son, Robert, have gone off to fight the war in France and left behind to tend the crops and livestock are Mrs Kirkby (Connie Marigold), their teenage daughter, Julie (Sally Adcock) and the farm's handyman, Stan (George Malpas). Everyone believes that the Major has gone to France but Tom knows definitely that he i caught sight of a man sulking i about the moors when he first ’arrived. Tom managed to get a good look at home and later recognises a photograph of Major Kirkby as the same Iman. The adults tell him not to be so foolish, but Tom [knows there is a mystery somewhere out on the moors. And what is the strange rumbling noise coming from; the disused mine near the farm? Tom intends to have his questions answered and quickly finds that what was originally intended as a working holiday is turning into an exciting, war-time spy adventure.

“Daktari,” an adventure series for the whole family begins again soon. It introduces two new faces—Ross Hagen as Bart Jason and Erin Moran as Jenny. It also stars ! Marshall Thompson as Dr , Marsh Tracy, Cheryl Miller as ■Paula Tracy, Hari Rhodes as Mike Metula, Hadley Mattingly as District Officer HedI ley—with Clarence the cross--eyed lion and Judy the chitnp.

Viewers’ View CAR RALLY Who decided to put the film on the car rally to Mexico on television on a Friday night —and why? On Friday nights half the people are working, and many of them would have liked to see it.—ESCORT.