TELEVISION PREVIEW

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 33, 5 February 1985, Page 11

TELEVISION PREVIEW

I've seen the Police special on Shazam, 5.30pm Television One, but as they are one of my all-time favourite bands with songs like, Don't Stand So Close to Me and Every Breath You Take, can't see myself missing this repeat. A documentary on One at 8.35pm features the creator of the Muppets, Jim Henson in Henson 's Place. My first sighting of the Muppets was when Kermit appeared in Sesame Street, a programme thoroughly enjoyed as a teenager. A new generation now watches the show daily on One. The movie tonight on One at 10.35pm is The Godfather, a film for which Marlon

Brando received an Oscar which a Red Indian received on his behalf as a form of protest at the way the United States had treated the American natives. I wonder whether TVNZ has censored that horrific horse scene which was repulsive enough on the big screen. Wednesday evening's movie on One at 10.05, features Clint Eastwood as Frank Norris in Escape from Alcatraz, the true story Of a man who escaped from the infamous prison (remember Burt Lancaster in Birdman of Alcatraz) but was never seen again. The Late Movie on the same channel stars the man with the big eyes, the late Marty Feldman in Silent

Movie at 12.10am. Only for the insomniacs amongst you unless you're fortunate enough to own a video recorder in which case you can watch it another time. Incidentally, a brickbat to TVNZ I'm amazed that there is no programme scheduled celebrating Waitangi Day on the 6 February itself although on Thursday evening at 8.50pm on One, a Te Karere Special looks at the celebrations of the past as well as the present one. Surely their task to do that in ten minutes is a monumental one! There 'sa clash of interest on Thursday evening for me. On Two at 8.35pm the first of a two part mini-serial starring Joanne Woodward and Sally Field in a supposedly true story of a

woman who has 1 6 different personalities. Sybil is based on the hook by Flora Reiter Schreiber and should prove very interesting. At 9.30pm on One, the true story of a Nazi in the Second World War who saved more than a thousand Jews from the extermination camps, by offering them work in his factory. Schindler is the work of one of those Jews, Leopold Pfefferberg who felt it was important that Schindler's story be told. Wanganui's favourite son, Peter Belliss, can be seen on Friday at 2.30pm on One in the International Bowls Classic, pitted against Robbie Parella of Australia, Omar Dallah (Who?) from Hong Kong, and Phil Skogland, winner of eight national titles here in New Zealand. Apparently, television patronage by the 55,000 male bowlers in this country, is very poor as they prefer to go to their own club for a roll-up believing they have nothing to learn from world class bowlers. The third cricket test between Pakistan and New Zealand starts at Dunedin on Saturday. Will Imran Khan be playing? Happy viewing.

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