Television one

Press, 27 December 1979, Page 11

Television one

SOUTH PACIFIC TELEVISION

12.00: NEWS. 12.05 p.m.: THE ODD COUPLE. Felix responds angrily to Oscar’s written criticism of New York as an unsafe citv. 12.30: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Talk programme. 1.00: THE YUGOSLAV WAY. A look at an ancient kingdom of the Slavs situated south of Belgrade. 1,30: SUTHERLAND’S LAW. A public inquiry is held into the death of a man on the operating table. (Repeat). 2.20: CROWN COURT. (2). 2.50: PLAY SCHOOL. Today’s story: “Do You Want to be My Friend?” (Repeat). 3.15: MALAKAPALAKADOO. SKIP TWO. The strang happenings of a fantasy kingdom. 3.25: TOPPER’S TALES. .3.35: C B BEARS. (Repeat). 4.05: LITTLE VIC. A Harlem-born orphan witnesses the birth of a colt. Beginning a six-part series. (Repeat). 4.30: ANIMALS, ANIMALS, ANIMALS. The Fish. 4.50: MUGGSY. A drama series about a young girl who lives in a trailerhome in a big city. 5.15: THE WALTONS. Grandma returns and Elizabeth joins the 4-H Club. 6.00: HAPPY DAYS. Richie is almost killed in a motor-cvcle accident. 6.30: NEWS. WEATHER. 6.45: HIDDEN PLACES. A study of the Black Stilt, a rare bird which lives in the Mackenzie Country. (Repeat). 7.00: CORONATION STREET. Len Fairclough is questioned by the police. 7.30: THE LONER. Les Dawson strikes up a relationship with a kindred soul of the opposite sex. 7.55: TOWARD TOMORROW. Rodney Bryant presents a new series looking at scientific innovations. Today: pictures, plants, boats and bullseyes. . 8.20: HAZELL. The cockney private eye works with the star of an X-rated film. 9.15: NEWS, WEATHER. 9.25: "THE HIRELING.” (Film, Columbia. 1973). An account of an alliance between an aristocratic lady (Sarah Miles) and her chauffeur (Robert Shaw), The relationship helps her recover from a nervous breakdown after her husband's death, but is doomed to 1 end 1 11.15: CLOSE DOWN. 1 1

3.00 p.m.: ROMPER ROOM. With Miss Yvonne. 3.30; “THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM.” (Film, MGM, 1962). A colourful montage of the fairy tales and lives of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm. The cast includes Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Yvette Mimieux, Terry Thomas. (Repeat). 6.00: NEWS HEADLINES. 6.03: TOMMY COOPER'S GUEST NIGHT. Tommy Cooper introduces Askey, The Three Degrees, Lionel Blair, and Lox Zafiros. 7.05: TABITHA. Tabitha is a modern witch who works in a publishing house. 7.35: EMERGENCY ONE. The paramedics suffer more hassles than usual when they deal with radioactive waste, a mysterious illness, a fat man trapped in a ceiling, and a cloud of acid fumes. (Final). 8.35: THE BEST OF PARKINSON. “The Magic Show.” 9.55: BODY HUMAN: MIRACLE MONTHS. Specially developed cameras probed into the secret world of the human embryo to follow a baby’s growth from it’s first formation to birth. 10.55: LATE NEWS. 11.10: JOE FORRESTER. A gambler helps Joe trap a gang who have been robbing poker games. 12.05: THE FENN STREET GANG. Yootha Joyce plays an older woman who thinks she and Dennis were made for each other. 12.30 a.m.: CLOSE DOWN.