VIEWERS’ VIEWS
‘CLOSE TO HOME’ Sir, — I accept that to add some semblance of excitement to the long-run-ning soap opera entitled “Close to Home” (supposedly representing everyday life in suburban New Zealand) someone has to get into trouble or die occasionally, but for the scriptwriter to indulge his fantasies repeatedly on the only youth in the series, Gayle Pritchard, is unjust, unfair and uncalled for. If a few more young people were added to the programme the trouble could be shared out a bit. The possibility that one girl could burn down a school, have her boyfriend stolen by her MOTHER, write a libellous song and have it released, get a job in a hotel that we ALL know about and get caught at a pub — well, it’s . unbelievable. We kids — even (he worst of us — are just not that bad. So I call for support and say: “Leave us kids alone.” — Yours, etc., —G. L. MILNE (Miss)
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