ONE Television New Zealand TWO
Today
10.00 a.m.: WHAT NOW? Leisure suggestions with the accent on beach activities. 10.30: THE MUPPET SHOW. With Milton Berle. (Repeat). 10.55: DON’T ASK ME. British experts answer viewers’ questions. 11.20: GOLFING WITH JACKLIN. Today. Odd Spots and Shots, Uphill and Downhill. (Final). 11.45: TOP OF THE MORNING. Replay of viewers’ favourite scenes. 12.00: NEWS. 12.02 p.m.: “THE WESTERNER.” (Film. UA. 1940, black and white). Cowboy epic about land disputes in the Wild West and the downfall of the tyrannical judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan). Also starring Gary Cooper, Dana Andrew’s.
12.00: SEARCH FOR TOMORROW. Continuing story.
1.40: SPORT ON ONE. Live coverage of the Air New Zealand Shell Golf Open at Titirangi.
1.00 p.m.: THE DUCHESS OF DUKE STREET. The servants’ ball takes place at the Bentinck and a young charmer persuades Louisa to invest her savings in a business venture. (Repeat). 1.50: “WOMEN AT WEST POINT.” (TV Movie, 1979). A fictional tale about three women who were the first admitted to the all-male military academy West Point in 1976. Starring Linda Purl, Andrew Stevens. (Repeat).
3.25: UNTAMED WORLD. A journey through South America, a continent cut off from the rest of the world for 70 million years and home of animal species unknown in other lands. 3.50: RHODA: Jack’s back trouble strikes again during a visit to Rhoda’s apartment and she is forced to play full-time nurse. 4.15: THE MONTE CARLO SHOW, Variety show with guests Larry Adler, Lola Falana, Hot Lips and Fingertips.
6.00: READY TO ROLL. Pop music's top 20 titles. 6.30: NEWS.
5.05: THE BROTHERS. Merroney succeeds in getting his own way without destroying his image. (Repeat). 5.55: NEWS.
6.00: NEWS REVIEW. Janis McArdle presents the week’s news for deaf viewers. 6.15: SPORTS REVIEW.
6.30: LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY. Laverne decides to change her personality in order to attract more men and seeks advice from Shirley. 6.50: I LIKE THAT ONE: TWO. Replay of viewers’ favourite scenes.
7.00: RADIO TIMES. Musical entertainment 19305-style with Billy T. James and friends. (Final). 8.00: M*A*S*H. Two pleasant surprises occur when a Korean lad brings fresh vegetables and a letter arrives from Radar, now a farmer in lowa. 8.30: “GUILTY OR INNOCENT: THE SAM SHEPPARD MURDER CASE.” (TV Movie, Universal, 1975). Based on the true story of a Cleveland osteopath, Sam Sheppard, convicted of murdering his wife in 1954 and retried 12 years later, a retrial that made defence lawyer F. Lee Bailey a courtroom superstar. Starring George Peppard, William Windom, Nina Van Pallandt, Walter McGinn.
7.00: FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT. 8.00: UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE. Canterbury and Otago universities compete for the title as supreme university quiz experts. (Final). 8.30: TWO’S COMPANY. Dorothy has been advised to purchase a moderately priced new car, but Robert is determined she will invest in a Rolls Royce. 8.55: LOU GRANT. Billie’s stories on a major firm’s clean-air standards open the paper to an expensive law suit.
11.20: THE JOHNNY CARSON SHOW. American entertainment show. 12.00: NEWS, CLOSEDOWN.
9.40: NEWS. 10.00: TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED. An antique dealer marries a big, booming woman for her money, not knowing she plans to outwit him. (Repeat). 10.25: HELLO AND GOODBYE. A 8.8. C. play about a young woman’s return home to a shack in Port Elizabeth where her brother and crippled father live. 12.10: CLOSEDOWN.
Sunday
12.00 p.m.: NEWS. 12.02: BIG LEAGUE SOCCER. Action from the world’s top soccer league. 12.55: TOMORROW’S WORLD. 1.00: FARMING TODAY. 1.15: DIG THIS. Home gardening. 1.30: SPORT ON ONE SPECIAL. Live coverage of the final round of the Air New Zealand Shell Golf Open.
12.00 p.m.: “FIVE ON THE BLACKHAND SIDE.” (Film, United Artists, 1973). A comedy about a black middle-class family torn apart over a dispute about women’s rights. (Repeat).
1.30: THE NEW DICK VAN DYKE SHOW. Dick has to choose between a lead in a stage production and television stardom as a toilet-bowl cleaner in a commercial. 2.00: JAZZ ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON. A portrait of Count Basie, through the views of friends and colleagues, vintage film, and his own reminiscences. 2.50: CHILDREN NO MORE. A documentary about the care of mentally handicapped children in a Devon Training Centre. (Repeat). 3.40: MARK TWAIN: BENEATH THE LAUGHTER. This film, based on Twain’s writing, conversation and letters, presents a little-known picture of the famous humorist. 4.40: WORLD ABOUT US. A 8.8. C. documentary about the reality of the American West, perhaps even more dramatic in fact than in myth.
5.30: SPOT ON. Magazine programme for the young.
6.00: PEOPLE LIKE US. A cross-cultural marae programme involving Polynesian, Maori and pakeha students from four Auckland schools. 6.30: NEWS. 6.45: WORLD WATCH. International news. 7.00: LOUISE AND FRIENDS. Louise Malloy introduces guests Harry Haythorne with the New Zealand Ballet Company and Jamie Bull with the Impulse Dance Theatre. 7.45: COUNTRY CALENDAR.
8.00: THE DEVIL’S CROWN. Henry has married Eleanor of Aquitaine and ascended to the English throne; now begins his fateful friendship with Thomas Becket, future chancellor and archbishop. 8.50: NEWS.
5.30: STARS ON SUNDAY. Featuring Dame Ngaio Marsh, Frank Ifield, The S.O.S. Girls, Pat Aldersley, Woody Woodhouse, Tracey Ryder, Helen Holmes, Ronnie Ronalde, the Salvation Army Band and Choir. 5.55: NEWS. 6.00: OUR WORLD. A look at the ancient African baobab that provides shade, food and shelter for many creatures in dry bush-country. 6.50: THE WEEK WITH TWO. Preview of the week’s television highlights. 7.00: THREE’S COMPANY. Chrissie sees her father with another woman and immediately jumps to the wrong conclusion. 7.25: "THE MOLLY MAGUIRES.” (Film, Paramount, 1969). A secret society of rebellious coal miners in Pennsylvania during the 1870 s. Starring Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Frank Finlay.
9.00: NEWSMAKERS. lan Fraser with people in the news. 9.30: OFFERINGS. 9.35: NAME FOR THE DAY. A 8.8. C. play about an unhappy married man who enters a mental hospital as a voluntary patient. He strikes up a friendship with a fellow patient who chooses her name according to the day of the week, but just as he starts to come to terms with life the hospital decides to give him electricshock treatment. 10.50: NEWS, CLOSEDOWN.
9.25: RADIO WITH PICTURES. Rock music. 10.10: CHARLIE’S ANGELS. Kelly may be the heiress to a massive fortune. (Concluding a two-part story final.) 11.00: CLOSEDOWN.
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