TELEVISION PREVIEW
In response to a recent survey conducted by the Waimarino Bulletin which indicated that a preview of forthcoming television programmes would be popular among our readers we publish the following guide to viewing some of next week's programmes by our TV critic 'Bifocals'.
Highlight of tonight's viewing (Tuesday) for me is Van der Valk on Two at 10pm. This programme was good first time round, even better repeated. It's worth watching the show just to hear that wonderful theme music which incidentally appeared in the pop charts about ten years ago. On TV at 8pm, Caroline McGrath interviews some new M.P's to find out how they have fared in their first four months in office. Switch across at 8.30pm for a disturbing documentary from the BBC about the trauma of losirig a baby in its first few weeks of life. Congenial host, Bob Parker can be seen on Wednesday evening on One at 7.30pm in a NZ version of 'This is your Life', a programme that is immensely popular in the UK where Irishman Eamonn Andrews has been embarrassing celebrities for well over fifteen years. I wonder which celebrity will get the treatment here. My guess is a sporting personality, say Richard Hadlee? The film at 8.30pm stars Peter Falk alias 'Columbo' in a re-enactment of a robbery in Boston on 17 January 1950, called The Brink's Job.
Thursday evenings without Magnum P.I would be too awful to contemplate. One of the guest stars this week is that magnificent British actress Hermione Baddeley (TV Two 8.30pm). A new serial for children starts on One earlier on Thursday evening at 5.25pm. Adapted from Frederick Grice's novel 'The Courage of Andy Robson'. This seven-part adventure series from Tyne Tees Television in the UK promises to be compulsive viewing. A new generation of children are now seeing Flipper (Friday TV One 3.35pm), Get Smart and Hogan's Heroes (Saturday TV One 10-1 lam). Y ou know you're getting old when you remember seeing them first time around! Friday evening on Two at 7.30pm, the feminists' delight, Miss World 1984 from London with those old favourites, The Drifters. Good luck Miss New Zealand, Barbara McDowell. Catch up with the gossip from Hollywood, Saturday on One at 10.10pm on Entertainment This Week. Sunday evening on One at 8.05 watch University Challenge and marvel at how much today's students know. We must be nearing the end of Dallas on Monday TV One 10pm. I hear from sources that someone (my guess, Katherine Wentworth) shoots Bobby Ewing. It was four years ago that someone shot JR ... remember the fuss that caused. Happy viewing.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 24, 13 November 1984, Page 2
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