A quiet night

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33093, 7 December 1972, Page 4

A quiet night

There was little of substance about Tuesday night's programmes, but most viewers have come to accept the downs with the ups. The NJZ.B.C. has a trying task to find and buy enough good material to satisfy the demands of an Insatiable public appetite.

"Crime of Passion” Is a fair-to-middling series, seldom quite strong enough to make any sort of demands on the viewer, seldom so trifling that the switch can be turned off gladly. This week it had a story of two people with split personalities—not, one must hasten to add, a hospital story, but one of a strange love affair. Celine, played by Judi Bloom, was a demure secretary - typist who become the lover of a French-Canadian writer. But she was also a professional and playful mistress of another man.

It was as usual a murder trial with flash-backs, a story with some tender and telling moments, but not very many of them. Frederick Jaeger was satisfactory as the romantic writer with the brusque exterior. * * *

"Ironside” is a take-it-or-leave-lt series, and Tuesday’s tale did nothing to improve or diminish its stature, even if the redoubtable Robert managed to see the climax through in his wheelchair, with the assistance of a pitchfork and then a tommy-gun.

"Gallery” spent a lot of time on the unification of the Canadian armed services, no doubt in deference to Joe Cote’s stint on a ship of the line. But "Gallery” was more like a collection of news clips than a comment on current affairs. It did not Improve with its street poll about the return of the All Black footballer K. Murdoch, and the would-be funny bit with Father Christmas was in dubious taste.

Those New Zealanders — and there cannot be many of them—-who have no interest in the All Blacks must now be thoroughly tired of the amount of screen time given the tour. This viewer, personally, enjoys it all, and admires the nigh quality of camera coverage and commentary in most of the match reports. This game, against Gwent, however, had its lighter moments, in the unconscious humour of the Welsh commentator. — PANDORA.

CHTV3 2.00 p.m.: News. 2.03: On Camera ’72. 2.45: Lancer. Western., 3.35: Family Affair. Comedy (final). 4.00: Untamed World. Wildlife. 4.25: Play School. 4.50: Adventures of Rupert Bear. 5.01: Watch. 5.19: You Are There. History. 541: News, weather. 547: Rollin' On The River. Variety. 0.12: Hogan’s Heroes. Comedy. 640: In Your Garden. 7.00: Network news. 732: Weather. The South Tonight 745: Coronation Street 8.17: The Storefront Lawyers. Drama. 9.13: Newsbrief. 9.15: Gallery. Current affairs. 9.53: The Protectors. Drama. 1032: All In The Family. Comedy. 10.50: Late news, weather.

NATIONAL LINK (Including 3YA Chriktchurch (890 kilohertz); 2YA Wellington (570 kilohertz): 4YA Dunedin (750 kilohertz); and 3YZ Greymouth (950 kilohertz).] 7 p.m.: N.Z.B.C. Sports News. 7.20: Gardening Session. 7.30: The Old Curiosity Shop. 8.0: Kenneth McKellar in New Zealand. 8.30: Weather and News. 9.0: Lower Hutt Civic Band. 9.30: The Archers. 10.30: N.Z.B.C. News, Comment, Weather. 10.45: Hits of the Early Sixties. 11.0: B.B>C. News and Commentary. 11.15: Billiards. 11.18: Continuous. 12.6 a.m.: Stop Messing About. 1.0: Close Enough for Jazz. 3.3: Folk Song Cellar. 3YC, CHRISTCHURCH (960 kilohertz) 7 p.m.: Cilea: Sweetest image: The Weary Spirit (Adriana Lecouvreur); Meyerbeen O Paradise (L’Africana). 7.10: Glazunov: Finnish Fantasy — Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra under Yevgeny Svetlanov. 7.23: Peter Cooper (piano); Henze: Lucy Escott variations (1963); Schoenberg: Klavier-

stueck; Boulez: Sonata No. 1; Stockhausen: Klavierstueck No. 9. 8.0: Talking About Music. 8,27: Charles Ives: Overture: Robert Browning — Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Morton Gould. 8.48: Gliere: Coloratura Concerto—Joan Sutherland (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra under Richard Bonynge. 9.0: Cosmology Now. 9.14: Berg: Violin Concerto (1935) — Ernst Kovacic (violin), Austrian Radio Symphony under Reinhard Peters. 9.43: Verdi: Placido Domingo (tenor), Sherrill Milnes (baritone), London Symphony Orchestra under Anton Guadagno. 10.0: Music from Budapest. 10.37: Mozart: Symphony No. 28 in C (K. 200 — Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Max Rudolf. 3ZB, CHRISTCHURCH (1100 kilohertz) 7.2 p.m.: Hit Wave! 8.2: Thursday Night. 10.2: Looking Back. 3ZM, CHRISTCHURCH (1400 kilohertz) 7.30 pm.: Sound Centre Show. 8.0: Christchurch Top 40. 10.0: Top of the Top 40.