VIEWERS’ VIEWS

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33750, 24 January 1975, Page 7

VIEWERS’ VIEWS

“Cilla’’ The comedian in “Cilla” was Jimmy Tarbuck from : Liverpool. He is young, has ' made several television i shows and been on the I United Kingdom stage. He iis very popular in the i United kingdom. He is also a great soccer fan, with .Liverpool F.C. his favourite. — S. J. PETCHELL. Nudity We. as parents, do not parade naked in front of our children. Therefore. 1 find it embarrassing to watch on television in the presence of my teen-age children, men and women without clothes, doing what decent people do

in private. 1 also find films from England more violent and vulgar than others. — ANOTHER MOTHER OF SEVEN.

“Mother of Seven”, “Olympus”, and “Go to the Top” all express disgust at the screening on television of films portraying human relationships involving sex. and showing naked human bodies. Can these correspondents seriously believe the human body (created by God, according to Christian belief) to be indecent? It is particularly disturbing and astonishing that the programme “Country Matters” is singled out as an offender: this beautiful series included sex scenes only when these were relevant and necessary to the plot of the story; Sex was usually associated with love; and the stories depicted both human weaknesses and human strengths. One can only conclude that obscenity is in the eye of the beholder. Perhaps “Mother of Seven”, “Olympus”, and “Go to the Top” would prefer their children to watch good clean Westerns and murder mysteries, with plenty of shooting, bloodshed, and violent death. — MUTT AND HEPE. Perhaps I am a “voice crying in the wilderness” but there may be others who regret the ever-increasing occurence of nude scenes in otherwise well-balanced plays on television. From friends who have recently returned from Europe we hear that standards there have fallen in this regard and feel strongly that our dear country should not follow this decline in moral standards. — I. CARE.

“Buck House” 1 heartily endorse the remarks of “Now Married” who so pithily got to the nub of the problem regarding your television critic. How dare he criticise “Buck House” for its lack of humour when he obviously has narrow views and has never met the real dinkurn kiwis. I notice that the same reviewer has had the gall to criticise the programme on Von Tempsky when it is quite obvious that he was not alive in 1865 and furthermore, has never met any Prussians. Tn future, please ■ensure that your television critics have had first-hand experience of the programmes on which they comment before allowing them space in your newspaper. — C.A. McVEIGH Von Tempsky I was rather disappointed, a little sad and sorry to see Major Von Tempsky portrayed as he was on television. My Grandmother whose brother was married to Von Tempsky’s daughter told me he was a tall thin man with steel-blue eyas and a Germanic accent (slight) and why was he enacted by a dark huskily built person with a decided colonial voice: could it not have been a Tittle more authentic? — M.E.L. The Waltons If A.KG.. thinks he is funny, bv sneering this excellent programme, 1 assure him that he is not. I womd much rather have my children watch “Grandpa’s bad table manners” than ruthless bloodthirsty killings, close ups of sickening gum-suck-ing and naked males and females doing their thing. Hands off the Waltons please. — E.W. “The South Tonight”

I regret the transfer of “The South Tonight” to another TV organisation other than • Christchurch. More ironic also that the people of Christchurch will not be able to see the Christchurch — or South Island — based programme while othei parts of New Zealand take over our programme. Bryan Allpress and Rodney Bryant can rest assured that their programme .was very popu-i lar and I sincerely hope that these two personalities do not fade away from the Christchurch screen. — INTERESTED CHRISTCHURCH VIEWER.

Answers to Correspondents ALL SPORTS WANTED: Far exceeds word limit.

M. BUTCHER: Correspond-; fence closed. j