ONE Television New Zealand TWO

Press, 21 May 1988, Page 19

ONE Television New Zealand TWO

Saturday

7.00 MY LITTLE PONY AND FRIENDS. 7.30 FRAGGLE ROCK. 8.00 WHAT NOW. 10.00 THE MUPPET SHOW COMMAND PERFORMANCE. (R) 10.30 THE GOODIES. (R) 11.00 BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY. (R)

11.35 TAG ATA PASIFIKA.

12.00 NEWS. 12.03 THE HIGH CHAPARRAL. (R) 12.55 SPORT ON ONE. Today featuring Rugby League, Basketball, Racing, Rallysprint and Truck Racing. RUGBY LEAGUE: “State of Origin.” Coverage of last Tuesday’s first match between N.S.W. and Queensland, played at the Sydney Football Stadium. BASKETBALL: Highlights of last night’s Countrywide League match between Saints and New Plymouth. RALLYSPRINT: Action from today’s Dunlop Ashley Forest Rallysprint near Christchurch. RACING: Live from Te Rapa in Hamilton with the feature race the Waikato Hurdles. TRUCK RACING: One of Europe’s most popular motorsport events. Works teams racing giant rigs in the European Supertrucks Grand Prix from Brands Hatch in England. ALSO HOME AND AWAY, SPORTS NEWS AND RESULTS. 5.45 RUGBY SPECIAL. Highlights from this afternoon’s big match from Athletic Park in Wellington, between Wales and Wellington. Also a full round-up of today’s results from club rugby from the four main centres.

12.00 SMALL WONDER. A comedy series about the kind of child every parent dreams of having — a robot which is programmed to clean her own room and do all the household chores. 12.25 LOVE BOAT. 2.00 LOST IN SPACE. (R) 2.50 ENTERTAINMENT THIS WEEK. (R) 3.40 TAXI. LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS. 5.00 ALISON HOLST’S COOKING CLASS 111. A thirteen-part series based on Book 3 of Alison Hoist’s Cooking Class. No-Bake Treats: Sweets and confections made without baking. 5.30 HEAD OF THE CLASS. (Final.) 6.00 RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT.

6 30 NEWS. 740 PAUL DANIELS MAGIC SHOW. Today’s master of illusion in an eight-part series. 8.00 HOT-HOUSE PEOPLE. Is it possible, by intensively training human beings under tightly controlled conditions, to improve them — to make children into geniuses, or to help older people live longer? This four-part documentary follows particular case histories, with interviewees undergoing artificial acceleration or being artificially preserved. Does hot-housing work? Are the subjects happy? If so, should the technique be applied to everyone? 9.00 HARNESS RACING: THE ROWE CUP. Philip Leishman introduces live coverage of the 1988 Rowe Cup from Alexandra Park, Auckland. 9.25 ALAS SMITH AND JONES. The two comics with the suspiciously common names deliver more of their distinctively original humour. 10.05 NEWS. 10.20 TENKO. (R) 11.20 ROCKFORD FILES. A detective series with private eye Jim Rockford who operates out of a mobile home-cum-office and just manages to keep one step ahead of the receivers. 12.15 CLOSEDOWN.

6.40 TELETHON THIS WEEK. 7.00 THE COSBY SHOW. Clair invites Cliff to the first co-ed meeting of her book discussion group, but when she discovers he hasn’t read the whole book, she fears he will embarrass them both. 7.30 THAT’S FAIRLY INTERESTING. Stories about people and places that are weird, wonderful, or just plain interesting. 8.00 LOTTO. 8.05 MACGYVER. MacGyver battles an eccentric scientist whose bizarre biological experiments go out of control and threaten the environment. 9.05 SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE BLUES BROTHERS. (R) A comedy about two brothers trying to raise money for their orphanage by reuniting their old band — and nearly destroying Chicago in the process. Starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway. 11.35 WEREWOLF. The story of a nice college kid who is bitten by a werewolf and is tragically afflicted by the age-old curse. 12.05 HEARTBEAT CITY. New videos from: Icehouse, The Pointer Sisters, Eddy Grant, Johnny Hates Jazz, Robert Plant, Jody Watley, L.A. Guns, Indochine, Krush, Omar and The Howlers, The Tunnellers, Wendy and Lisa, plus flashbacks from ZZ Top and Sheila E. 1.00 CLOSEDOWN.

Sunday

7.00 TEDDY HORSLEY. The adventures of a teddy bear. 7.10 THE ADVENTURES OF PARSLEY. (R) 7.15 MUPPET BABIES. 7.40 THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. 7.50 DAVID, THE GNOME. 8.15 HUCKLEBERRY HOUND. (R) 8.40 THE MUPPET SHOW COMMAND PERFORMANCES. (R) 9.05 PRAISE BE. 9.35 AEROBICS OZ STYLE. A series of exercises. 10.05 BUSINESS WORLD. 10.30 WEEK-END

10.00 CHURCH SERVICE. From the Pitt Street Methodist Church in Auckland. 11.00 WAKA HUIA. A special programme on the proposed devolution of the Maori Affairs Department. Whai Ngata attends a hui at the Mohaka Marae in Northern Hawke’s Bay, where the Minister of Maori Affairs discusses the issue with local people.

12.00 NEWS. 12.02 N.B.A. BASKETBALL 1988. 12.55 LIFE AFTER LIFE. This documentary making National Kidney Awareness Week features a number of people who have undergone successful transplants, and looks at a number of family donors. 1.20 SKETCHES IN DESIGN. An exploration of the ways in which art, technology, ergonomics, graphics and visual communication combine to affect our everyday lives both in the home and the work place. 1.40 MR BELVEDERE. 2.05 BLEAK HOUSE. Krook has perished as a result of spontaneous combustion; his property is inherited by the moneylender Smallweed. After caring for Jo, Esther becomes ill, and it is soon apparent that she has smallpox. 3.00 SUNDAY GRANDSTAND. 3.00 Sports Headlines. 3.05 Motor Racing — Rally sprit from Ashley Forest. 3.35 Soccer — Scottish FA Cup Final highlights. 3.45 Ice Dancing — from the World Championships. 4.15 Body Building — Pan Pacific Championships. 4.25 Rugby League — Premiership Final. 4.50 Keith Quinn with “The Write Stuff.” 4.55 Motor Racing — more Rally Sprint from Ashley Forest. 5.25 Latest sports news and results.

12.00 ANGELS. (R) 12.50 THE SUNDAY MATINEE: TO CATCH A THIEF. (R) French Riviera: The “Cat,” an exconvict, and ex-jewel thief, falls in love with a wealthy American girl and finds he is suspected of continuing his old thievery. Starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly. 2.45 OPUS. The New Zealand Chamber Orchestra with soloist John Wells performs Handel’s concertos 1,2, 3 and 5 from Opus 4. 3.35 EDUCATING MARMALADE. (Final) Bonzo Brown has escaped from Dartmoor and becomes Marmalade’s private tutor. Not knowing much schooling, he and Marmalade decide to form a tag-wrestling team. 3.50 SUPERBOOK. A children’s adventure series which uses some of the world’s best animators to bring people and events from the Bible to life. 4.15 A COUNTRY PRACTICE. 5.05 THE STREET. A series in which the “real” ’ experts have their say. This week seventh formers from Auckland Grammar School give their opinion on peer pressure. Then to Victoria Park Market where music, drama and humour continue the theme and ordinary people speak out.

5.35 NEWS REVIEW. 6 30 NEWS. FRONTLINE. A look at Australia-New Zealand relations. 7.45 KOHA. Maori history has often seen the truth altered by wrong media perspectives and bars Reporter Lawrence Wharerau investigates areas of conflict where this has occurred. „ ~ . . 8.00 DEAR JOHN ... John’s colleague and friend Ken has the seven-year itch. 8.30 MASTERMIND. The return of the annual battle of the brains. 9.00 FORTUNES OF WAR. January 1940. The Rumanian Prime Minister has been assassinated by the fascist Iron Guard and Bucharest is rife with rumour and counter-rumour. Guy, gregarious as ever, is at the centre of the city’s intellectual life, popular alike with the expatriate community of diplomats, agents, refugees, spies and politicians. Harriet is beginning to wonder when he will find time for her.

5.35 THE FLAXTON BOYS. (R) Jonathan and Archie watch an artist as he sketches the bridge at Carliston, near Flaxton Hall. The scene looks innocent and peaceful enough. Yet soon afterwards the boys find themselves in the direst of perils. 6.00 SUNDAY FAMILY MOVIE: WOMBLING FREE. The Wombles are cuddly, furry creatures who clean up after messy humans, and get involved with a family headed by David Tomlinson as they get on the clean-up campaign. 7.35 MY SISTER SAM. Comedy with Samantha Russell, an up-and-coming 28-year-old freelance photographer. 8.00 SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE: NAZI HUNTER — THE BEATE KLARSFELD STORY. Based on a true story, this drama depicts the life of a young German woman who became the conscience of her generation by her dedication to exposing and bringing to justice Nazi war criminals. Starring Farrah Fawcett, Tom Conti, Geraldine Page. 9.30 WOMEN IN PRISON. A comedy series in which Vicki Springer, who was set up by her two-timing husband who also happens to be her attorney, finds herself behind bars with a motley assortment of scurrilous characters.

9.55 NEWS. „ 10.05 FILM INTERNATIONAL: GOOD AND BAD AT GAMES. Set at a boys’ public school in the early seventies and in contemporary London, it looks at the lives of three boys at school and the way their paths malignantly recross 10 years later. Starring Martyn Stanbridge, Anton Lesser, Laura Davenport. 11.35 CLOSEDOWN.

9.55 RADIO WITH PICTURES. Robbie Robertson, The Triffids, Painters and Dockers, SPK, Mantronix, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Sinead O’Connor, Sweethearts of the Rodeo, The Warratahs, Nina Simon. 10.40 THE REFUGE. When Julia violates the most sacred rule of the house, appropriate punishment has to be found. 11.05 THE AVENGERS. (R) John Steed and Tara King battle with an assortment of bizarre baddies and schemers. 11.55 CLOSEDOWN.