Tuesdays for repose

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32779, 2 December 1971, Page 4

Tuesdays for repose

For the quality of presentation, “International Golf” probably earned first place on Tuesday night, but the range and style of programmes made for an evening of unremarkable viewing; Tuesday night’s collection is not nearly as strong as that usually presented on Mondays. .

Even some viewers who have never hit a golf ball have expressed their enoyment of television golf, but they have been brought up on a diet of spectacular scoring. “International Golf” in which Tony Jacklin and Arnold Palmer, play over 18 holes selected as the best in Britain, is more of a fight for survival than a scoring spree. The wind-swept Scottish courses seen in the first two parts of the programme—the series ends next week—might have been designed by men who never wanted another golfer to score a par. With Henry Longhurst’s commentary, the series has a fine blend of history, humour and splendid golfing scenery. The little discussions among the three principals help. Ana of course there is the very high quality of the golf being played in extremely testing conditions. » ♦ * In “Column Comment” John Kennedy had some hard things to say about newspaper treatment of the failure of the visit to Britain

made by the Minister of Agriculture (Mr Carter). Mr Kennedy is a good speaker, with firm ideas which he expresses ably. * The lack of depth in the

“Room 222” stories was very apparent this week. “Room 222” is one of the weakest evening shows, but the only programmes which might make a desirable replacement are the plays which are scheduled quite regularly on Monday afternoons. If they were used, however, afternoon viewers would be left

with little more than a western, the medical stories, and repeats. So we are left with Walt Whitman High School for a good few weeks ahead. ♦ » ♦ “Gallery” coasted along quietly. Dr Charles Spivey, of the World Council of Churches, spoke eloquently on the council’s efforts to combat racialism and Geoff Walker was not much more than an interested bystander. Dr Finlay’s belief that New Zealand should recognise the Awami League and the Bangla Desh movement as representative of East Pakistan was also very well expressed, but here David Exel provided a couple of questions which made it rather more of a discussion.

But it was an unremarkable night’s television. And there would be some as grateful as this viewer for the acid superiority of Professor Loftus (Ernest Clark)

in “Doctor in the House.” He gave his role a punch which was a welcome diversion from tedium.—PANDORA.

CHTV3 2.00 p.m.: Headline news, weather. 2.03: On Camera. 2.46: The Doctors. Drama. 329: The Debbie Reynolds Show. Comedy. (Repeat) 324: Music Mosaic. 4.07: Galloping Gourmet. Cooking. 431: Wooden Tops. Puppets. (Repeat) 4.44: Doctor Doolittle. Cartoon. (New series.) 5.05: The Magic Roundabout 5.10: Skippy. Adventure. 538: Headline news, weather. 5.41: Here’s Lucy. Comedy. 6.09: Starlifter South Documentary. 8.40: In Your Garden. 7.00: Network news. ' 720: Weather. The South Tonight. 7.46: Coronation Street. 8.18: Lancer. Western. 9.14: Newsbrief. 9.16: Gallery. Current affairs. 9.44: The Gamblers—" The Bridge.” Play. 1042: Echo. 1034: Late news, weather.

NATIONAL LINK [lncluding 3YA Christchurch (690 kilohertz); 2YA Wellington (570 kilohertz); 4YA Dunedin (750 kilohertz); and 3YZ Greymouth (920 kilohertz)] 7 p.m.: N.Z.B.C. Sports News. 7.20: Gardening session. 7.30: In This Year of the Lord. 7.45: Echoes of Budapest. 8.0: The Land of the Heather. 8.30: Weather and News. 9.0: Men of Brass. Christchurch Metropolitan Fire Brigade Band. 9.30: The Archers. 10.30: N.Z.B.C. News, Comment and Weather. 10.45: Sing and Swing. 11.0: 8.8. C. News and Commentary. 11.15: (continuous). 3YC, CHRISTCHURCH (960 kilohertz)

7 p.m.: Jean Williams (soprano), Loretto Cunninghame (piano). Schumann: Nine Songs from the Songcycle Op. 39. 7.20: Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor (1830)—Ruggiero Ricci (violin), Royal Philharmonic

Orchestra under Piero Bullugi. 7.48: Conversations with Philosophers. 8.30: Robert Stijl: Symphony No. 3 (I 960 —London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Eugene Goossens. 9.0: Record. Review. 10.0: Black and White in Africa. 10.15: Salzburg Festival. Collegium Musicum of Prague under Frantisek Vajnar. Beethoven: Octet in E flat (c. 1793 10.36: Handel: Organ Concerto No. 7 in B flat, Op. 7 No. I—Simon Preston (organ of St Paul’s Girls’' School, Hammersmith, London), Menuhin Festival Orchestra under Yehudi Menuhin. 3ZB, CHRISTCHURCH (1100 kilohertz) 72 p.m.: Hit Wave! 82: World Records on the Air. 8.30: Thursday Night. 10.30: Looking Back. 3ZM CHRISTCHURCH (1400 kilohertz) 7.30 p.m,: Things are Swinging. 10.0: From the .Top Pops.