BEST BETZ

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32554, 13 March 1971, Page 4

BEST BETZ

From the domesticity of “The Donna Reed Show” to the drama of the court room: Carl Betz comes back to CHTV3 programmes next Wednesday night in “Judd For The Defence.”

The advance publicity for the series does not suggest it is going to be an especially authentic sort of show. “Judd For The Defence,” the hand-out says, is the story of an internationally - known criminal lawyer, Clinton Judd. The hero is a man who accepts only those cases that are extraordinary and seemingly hopeless to defend. Judd defends the wrongfully iccused and the innocent without any thought of financial gain.

“His legal manoeuvres and his techniques are unorthodox and shatter the cases put forward by his most skilful opponents.” The producer is Paul Monash, who brought “Peyton Place” to television.

Whisker in Europe Alan Whicker meets some most interesting people in his “Whicker in Europe” series. Next Friday evening’s programme from CHTV3 has Whicker with another remarkable character —Count Robert-Jean de Vogue. M. de Vogue is a French tycoon-aristocrat who was once condemned to death, but who is now a jet-set millionaire with more than 30,000 bottles of champagne in his cellar. The count can also afford the eccentricity of having his farm stocked only with white animals. Whicker wrote the script for this documentary.