Forsyth’s new game

Press, 27 May 1978, Page 13

Forsyth’s new game

Bruce Forsyth and his .wife, Anthea Redfern, will return to TVI tonight with a new series of “The Generation Game.” Bruce Forsyth presides over demonstrations by experts in Greek glassbalancing, dressing a crab, flamenco and apache dancing, stuffing a haggis, and playing the bagpipes. The experts are followed by competitors, who try to survive a string of zany competitions which leave the winner memorising a line of gifts as they pass on a moving conveyor belt. There are also brief plays by the Forsyth Repertory Company. Historical characters libelled by the cast include the last of the great lovers, Casanova, and

the German spy, Mata Hari. Among the guest players are a New Zealander, Nyree Dawn Porter, and Lionel Blair, Liz Frazer, and Philip Madoe. A very unlikely line-up of Black and White Minstrels includes Alvin Stardust and Windsor Davies. In tonight’s episode of “Duchess of Duke Street,” from TV2, Bulstrode (Thorley Walters) a newspaper proprietor, pries into Louisa’s past, looking for scandal. He comes up with a dangerous conclusion. The self-control of Louisa (Gemma Jones) is tried beyond restraint by a whinging, dissatisfied guest, Charles Buckhurst (Andrew Knox). He is accused of

causing a disturbance at the Bentinck and a minor court case ensues. The case threatens to become a major scandal when Buckhurst’s uncle, Bulstrode, intervenes. Perry Como, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Flip Wilson, Dorothy Lamour, Lee Marvin, Barbara Eden, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Durante and Olivia Newton-John. What have all these people in common? All have starred, either in television specials or movies, with Bob Hope. “Highlights of a Quarter of a Century of Bob Hope on Television,” on TVI tonight, is a flashback extravaganza of Hope’s television career.