ONE Television New Zealand TWO
Saturday
7.00 A.M. NESTOR THE LONG-EARED CHRISTMAS DONKEY. 7.30: THE MUPPET BABIES. (Repeat). 8.00: WHAT NOW REVIEWS. 8.30: THE MONKEES. (Repeat). 9.00: THE LITTLE RASCALS. 9.30: FAMILY CLASSICS. 10.00: THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES. (Repeat). 10.30: HOGAN’S HEORES. (Repeat). 11.00: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. (Repeat). Final. 12.00 NOON: SATURDAY MATINEE. “Vera Cruz.” Two adventurers become involved in the 1860 Mexican war for independence. Starring Burt Lancaster, and Gary Cooper. (Repeat). 1.40 P.M.: BARNEY MILLER. The parents of a runaway try to snatch their daughter from a religious cult. (Repeat). 2.05: WOODLAND WEB. 2.30: THE LAST OF THE GREAT EXPLORERS. 4.15: TRAPPER JOHN, MD. (Repeat). 5.05: HELP WANTED. 6.00: READY TO ROLL. JIMMY BARNES AND INXS, BILLY IDOL, HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS, RUN D.M.C., THE POLICE, WANG CHUNG. FINAL. 6.30: NEWS. 7.00: THE BEST OF COSBY. Cliff treats Claire to a night at a luxury hotel. (Repeat). 7.30: MACGYVER. Macgyver infiltrates a Soviet mental institution. 8.30: SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES. "Bronco Billy” (1980). A shoe seller takes over a run-down wild west show. Starring Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke and Geoffrey Lewis. 10.50: ENTERTAINMENT THIS WEEK. Featuring the Wizard of Christchurch in the first of two programmes containing material recorded in Christchurch. Leeza Gibbons spent a week in Christchurch and Queenstown and recorded a number of items with a crew from TVNZ. 11.50: NEWS. 11.55: LATE NIGHT MOVIE. “Sleep of Death” (1976). A young Englishman travels to France and gets involved in a series of strange events. Starring Per Oscarsson and Patrick Magee. 1.20: CLOSEDOWN.
11.00: THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY. (Repeat) 11.45: LIVING IN JAPAN.
12.00 NOON: OUR WORLD. South Georgia. The natural history of the island is narrated by Richard Briers. (Repeat). 12.55 P.M.: LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE. (Repeat). 1.55: SATURDAY AFTERNOON MOVIE. “Move Over, Darling” (1963). A woman who was believed to be dead returns on her husband’s wedding day. Starring James Garner and Doris Day. (Repeat). 3.40: THE PEOPLE’S COURT.
4.05: LOVE SONGS. 4.30: MADHUR JAFFREY’S INDIAN COOKERY. (Repeat). 5.00: EMMERDALE FARM. 5.55: NEWS.
6.00: SUMMER FLIGHT. All the luxuries of home can be taken along these days — even pot plants and lettuces. In a tongue-in-cheek expose, lan Taylor, as director, uses Peter Hawes, reporter, to point out similarities between the Christmas holidays migration and the penguins at Antarctica. 6.30: ALIAS SMITH AND JONES. (Repeat). 7.30: ROMEO AND JULIET. Shakespeare’s classic
is recreated on ice. 8.20: GEORGE WASHINGTON. (1). The life and loves of the first U.S. President, George Washington — from his childhood to the revolutionary war. (Based on a biography by James Flexner). 10.00: NEWS.
10.10: ARE YOU BEING SERVED? Mr Granger and Mrs Slocombe do battle. (Repeat). 10.45: SHOESTRING. Shoestring gets caught in the middle of a tug-of-war for a child. (Repeat). 11.40: CLOSEDOWN.
Sunday
8.00 A.M.: THE JETSONS. 8.20: WARNER BROS CARTOONS. 8.30: SING TO THE LORD. 9.00: BENSON. (Repeat). 9.30: BIG LEAGUE SOCCER. 10.20: BRITISH FOOTBALL RESULTS. 10.30: ROSIE. (Repeat). 11.00: GREAT RAILWAY JOURNEYS OF THE
WORLD. (Repeat). 12.00 NOON: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AN OLD LADY. Germaine Greer narrates a documentary about artist Paraskeva Clark. 12.25 P.M.: DANCE BLACK AMERICA. 1.45: SUNDAY AFTERNOON MOVIE. “In Old Chicago” (1937). The story of the events leading up to the great Chicago fire. Starring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche. Black and White. 3.50: EVERYONE’S BUSINESS. 4.00: OPUS. 5.00: KING’S COUNTRY. 5.30: SPOT ON. Final. 6.00: THE STREET. 6.30: NEWS.
7.00: PLANET EARTH. (1) The concept of plate tectonics. The surface of the Earth has been in motion for millions of years. 8.00: HI-DE-HI! Jeffrey decides that a change of voice is needed for Radio Maplin and Spike meets a femme fatale. 8.30: TENKO REUNION. Five years have passed since the end of WWII. The women who survived the Japanese prisoner of war camps in Malaysia return to Singapore for a reunion, only to become involved in treachery and murder. 10.15: NEWS.
10.25: THE AERODROME. A black comedy in which a sinister air commander announces that the air force is about to take over a quiet Cotswold village. 12.00: LATE NIGHT MOVIE. “Velvet” (1984). Four women spies pose as aerobics instructors as a cover for their real jobs. Starring Shari Belafonte-Harper, Leah Ayres and Sheree Wilson. 1.30: CLOSEDOWN.
11.00 A.M.: FAMILY HOUR FESTIVAL. (Repeat). 12.00 NOON: SUNDAY MATINEE. “The Late George Apley” (1946). A satire on blueblooded Boston families. Starring Ronald Colman and Peggy Cummins. 1.30: THE 808 NEWHART SHOW. (Repeat). 1.55: GOTTA SING, GOTTA DANCE. 2.45: TIME TO TIME. 3.05: SUPERGRAN. 4.00: THREE’S COMPANY. (Repeat). 4.25: AFTERNOON MOVIE. “The Christmas Coal Mine Miracle” (1977). A coalminer gets trapped underground after an explosion on Christmas Eve. Starring Mitch Ryan and Kurt Russell. (Repeat). 5.55: NEWS!
6.00: THE WONDERFULL WORLD OF DISNEY. 6.45: I LIKE THAT ONE. 2.
7.00: THE LOVE BOAT. A married couple celebrate their anniversary as they plan their divorce; a young woman on her way to meet her husband falls in love; and a divorced woman has a whirlwind romance with a
count. 8.30: GEORGE WASHINGTON. (2) The life and loves of the first United States President George Washington, from his childhood to the revolutionary war. 10.05: ARE YOU BEING SERVED? (Repeat). 10.35: THE SUNDAY HORRORS. “The Dead Zone” (1983). A man wakes from a five-year coma to find that he possesses the power of clairvoyance. Starring Christopher Walken and Brook Adams. 12.20: CLOSEDOWN.
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