VIEWERS’ VIEWS
“THE WALTONS”
I watch little television, considering few programmes worth the time lost, but. I did see “The Waltons” on Monday evening, and it was a pleasant surprise to encounter • on ■ television a programme capable of arousing genuine emotion. But on Wednesday, your reviewer, R.T.8., attacked this programme furiously, mainly on the grounds that it was emotive. D. H. Lawrence once said of the men of Australia and New Zealand that they consider it “manly” to march from the cradle to the grave feeling nothing; and it looks as though some ancestor of your reviewer could have provoked Lawrence into such a generalisation. Other people I have asked liked this programme; and it disturbs me that “The Press” should have a reviewer who, on a rare occasion when the N.Z.B.C. selects something better than average, does his best to try to convince them that such a mistake should not be allowed to happen again. — MARK D. SADLER.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33426, 7 January 1974, Page 4
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