ONE Television New Zealand TWO

Press, 30 December 1980, Page 9

ONE Television New Zealand TWO

12.00: THE McLEAN STEVENSON SHOW. Mac puts the brake on family spending when money troubles occur. (Repeat). 12.25 p.m.: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Talk. 12.50: FAMILY. “Acts of Love.” (Part two of a two-part story, repeat). 1.30: “THE BAMBOO SAUCER.” (Film, Columbia, 1968). The world’s great powers begin a dramatic search in China for a U.F.O. which will give whoever finds it control over the earth. Starring Dan Duryea, Lois Nettleton.

3.25: JOIN IN. “Sailing.” ‘ ' 3.40: CHIC CHAT. 4.15: BALLET SHOES. A six-part dramatisation of Noel Streatfield’s . story about three orphan girls’ adopted by an absent-minded professor. (Repeat). 4.40: GEMINI MAN. Sam Casey tries, to get top-secret information from the unsuspecting ; secretary of a dead scientist before enemy agents do so. (Repeat).

5.30: SAM. Sam and Mike search for a thief whose life is in danger from a diseased monkey he has stolen from a research lab. (Final). 6.00: DAVE ALLEN IN AMERICA. Dave Allen looks at unusual aspects of life in the U.S.A. 6.30: NEWS.

7.00: CLOSE TO HOME. There are no happy endings. (Final). 7.30: THE REAL MR PATTY. A wildlife film which captures the character of the water vole, a tiny, elusive riverside creature. The study, filmed in the West Country of England, is narrated by David Attenborough, and includes extracts from “The Wind in the Willows.” 8.00: TELFORD’S CHANGE. On his first day at the bank, Mark faces the prospect of bankrupting a local builder. (Repeat). ■

9.00: THE HONG KONG BEAT. A ninepart 8.8. C. documentary series looking at the role of the Royal Hong Kong Police, a British colonial force working among more than four million Chinese. 9.40: “BETRAYED.” (Film, MGM, 1954). Routine spy tale set in war-torn Europe and starring Lana Turner as a Dutch Resistance spy suspected of betraying secrets to the Germans. Starring Clark Gable, Victor Mature. (Repeat). 11.35: NEWS, CLOSE DOWN.

2.30 p.m.: CROWN COURT. “The Ladies Man.” (1). 2.55: THE ICE PALACE. Entertainment on ice with Lesley Uggams, the Cowsills, and skating stars. ■ (Repeat). • . ’

3.45: “IN THE MATTER OF KAREN ANN QUINLAN.” A dramatisation of the baffling, true-life tragedy of a young American girl’s lapse into an endless coma. Starring Brian Keith, Stephanie Zimbalist. (Repeat).

5.30: THE GOODIES. Comedy. (Repeat). 5.55: NEWS. Further bulletin at 9 p.m. 6.00: OH BOY. Rock ‘n’ roll nostalgia, 6.30: THE BIONIC WOMAN. Jaime accompanies an art forger to Paris to, recover valuable paintings from a master criminal.

7.30: MIND YOUR LANGUAGE. Jeremy tries to unravel a tangled web that extends beyond the classroom.

8.00; CHARLIE’S ANGELS. The angels are hired to find an accused jewel thief who has jumped bail.

9.00: THE ORACLE. Beginning a ninepart Australian series about a top radio talkback announcer, Steve . Black. A journalist who is granted a rare interview is determined to get beneath his popular image and discover the truth about his strained private life. 10.00: NEWS. 10.00: DAVE ALLEN AT LARGE. Comedy with Irish wit Dave Allen. (Repeat). 11.00: LOU GRANT. Lou’s concern about a number of Skid Row stranglings deepens when he learns that his former doctor is a down-and-out. 11.45: CLOSE DOWN, i