Television one

Press, 26 December 1979, Page 9

Television one

FAaF/C TELEVISION

12.00: NEWS. 12,05 p.m.: THE ODD COUPLE. Oscar runs for city council. 12.30: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Talk programme. 12.55: THE YUGOSLAV WAT'. An introduction to three Yugoslav communists with Moslem. Greek Orthodox, and Catholic backgrounds. 1.25: BILL, PEGGY, ROYAL AND FRIENDS. The role of London’s working horses. 2.00: RACING FROM ELLERSLIE. Th? Breeders Plate, the first of five races to be telecast live from the Auckland Racing Club’s Cup meeting today. 2.25: CROWN COURT. (1). 2.50: RACING FROM ELLERSLIE. Th? Queen Elizabeth Handicap. Ths New Zealand Derby races at 3.45 p.m.

4.00: FROGGIE AND ME. (Repeat). 4.15: RACING FROM ELLERSLIE. The Newmarket Handicap. 4.35: BEACHCOMBERS. 4.55: RACING FROM ELLERSLIE. The Christmas Handicap.

3.00 p.m.: ROMPER ROOM. With Miss Yvonne. 3.30: THE FLUMPS. “Where’s Grandfather?” (Repeat, final). 3.45: BUGS BUNNY AND FRIENDS. 3.50: BATTLE OF THE PLANETS. “Secret Island.” 4.15: “THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS.” (TV Movie). The famous adventure story of the French Indian Wars based on .lames Fennimore Cooper's novel. Starring Steve Forrest. Andrew Prine.

5.15: TABITHA. “Paul Goes to New York. (Repeat). 5.40: SHA NA NA. Rock and roll nostalgia. Special guest Chubby Checker. 6.00: HAPPY DAYS. Marion is worried she is losing her husband to another and younger woman (played bv Suzi Quatro). 6.30: NEWS, WEATHER. 6.45: HIDDEN PLACES. A look at the crater of White Island, an active volcano in the Bay of Plenty, and the colony of gannets which nest there. (Repeat).

fi.OO: NEWS HEADLINES. 6.05: SMALL TALK. The Australian children’s show for adults, featuring youngsters who are apt to say anything unpredictable. 6.35: MAX’S HOLIDAY HOUR. Max Bygraves hosts this Christmas show and introduces young Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni and the circus clown Charles Cairoli.

7.00: “KATE BLISS AND THE ‘TICKER TAPE KID’.” A light-hearted western adventure starring Suzanne Pleshette as a female private detective on the trail of an outlaw band. Also starring Don Meredith, Tony Randall, Burgess Meredith. 8.35: BARNEY MILLER. A dog bite leaves Wojo with the prospect of rabies unless he conquers his fear of the needle.

7.35: THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY. Despite Willoway’s foreboding, the the time travellers play the rides and games of a deserted carnival. 8.30: TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED. “Devil Pack.” A man leaves his family to hunt and kill a pack of vicious demonic dogs that have been terrorising his isolated community.

9.00: NEWS, WEATHER. 9.10: “TO ALL MY FRIENDS ON SHORE.” (TV Movie). Drama about a hard-working black man. his sacrificing wife. and their desperately ill son. Bill Cosby stars as an airport worker determined tn move his family out of the slums. (Repeat). 10.25: THE PRISONER. Love is the weapon now employed to break the Prisoner. (Repeat). 11.20: CLOSE DOWN.

9.30: TAXI. Louie makes a vow as he faces surgery. 10.90: LATE NEWS. 10.15: “ACE ELI AND RODGER OF THE SKIES.” (Film. 20th Century-Fox. 1973). Cliff Robertson plays a barnstorming pilot who flies with his young son Rodger over rural Kansas of the 19205. 12.00: CLOSE DOWN.