... TV BECOMES INTELLIGENT 'The Liberators' Has Something To Say THE LIBERATORS, the first of a cycle of four plays entitled The Promised Years, written especially for television by lain MaoCormick, is a thoughtful, human, competently written piece of work, basically concerned with a conflict between conscience and the expediency of war. The setting is an Italian farm house in 1945. The C.O ...

... BRISTOL OLD VIC New Season Opens THIS was the first production by the new company's new resident director, John Moody, and its success augurs well for what is to come later in the season. The Road to Ruin, Thomas Hglcroft's moralising comedy, which Revival of the plav by Thomas Holcrot't. Presented by the Bristol Old Vic Company at the Royal. Bristol, on August 30. Sellings and costumcs by ...

... 'Simon and Laura' at Manchester SOONER or later somebody was bound to write a play about the private lives of one of the well-known radio families whose daily studio adventures are followed so closely by the millions. In Simon and Laura Alan Melville has done just that, except Play by Alan Melville. Presented by H. M. Tennent. Ltd.. at the Opera House. Manchester, on August 30. Setting by ...

... In celebration of the 100th performance of The Duenna, with music by Julian Slade. at the Westminster, the management. Ralph Birch Productions, had is their guests last Friday Mrs. Gerald Legge. Lady Edith Foxwell, Princess Yuhara. Lord Ednam, Major Ivan Foxwell, Michael Denison. Dulcic Gray, Ursula Jeans, Dcnholm Elliott and the Spanish Ambassador, who was guest of honour, as the show has a ...

... 'THE TRIUMPHANT' AT.V.'s Theatre Royal presented The Triumphant, by James Parish, on Sunday evening under Dennis Vance's production and John Mitchell's direction. Building up to its dramatic climax, in which two women argue bitterly in defence of their own varied ideas of peace of mind, the play tells of the after effects on a woman acquitted of a murder which she has, in fact, com mitted ...

... A PLAN FOR MURDER PRACTICALLY the entire action of In Writing, a play of detection by Raymond Bowers, presented on BBC-TV on Sunday evening last, consisted of a thrilling battle of wits between Terence Morgan as a plausible swine and Bernard Lee as a detective who proved more than a match for him. A husband who married for money, jumped too readily to conclusions concerning his wife's ...

... 'SATURDAY SHOWTIME' I ICIIARD HEARNE is good I I value for money He made three appearances on commercial TV in four days last week Thursday in a prc-Klnieri Moulin Rouge show from Paris, Satur day in Showtime and Sunday in pantomime. Despite this, his Pastry neer got stale. On Saturday he appeared as Richard Hearne. only to find that the cameraman who was making a mess of his TV picture was Mr ...

... 'MOTHER GOOSE' WHILE a visit to the local pantomime is a number one priority just now in many homes up and down the country, those youngsters whose parents were lenient enough to allow them to stay up and watch Val Parncll's Mother Goose, on ATV's Sunday Night at the London Palladium, had an extra helping of the traditional Christmas enlcrtain- ment fare. Television's Mother Goose was a ...

... A WAR OF NERVES THE tarnished flamboyance of Agatha Payne, the ageing gipsy with the evil eye, provided Edith Evans with one of the most spectacular triumphs of her stage career in The Old Ladies, the fascinating thriller which Rodney Ackland adapted from the novel by Hugh Walpole. it is gratifying to know tnat this awe-inspiring performance has been magnificently filmed for tele vision ...

... ON Sunday. BBC Children's television begun a cycle of eight plays depleting the life of Jesus of Nazareth with the story of the journey into Jerusalem when Christ was 12 years old. The plays, to be shown weekly on Sundays, will culminate with the Resurrection. Obviously a great deal of delibera- lion and devotion have gone into the televis ng of this tremendous project, and the result, on ...

... TITLE seem familiar Arthur 1 Askey used it on his last BBC- TV series and retains it for his first all-live commercial series, pre sented by Jack Hylton. This Kicked off on Fridav and proved as funny as ever. It merited the sub-title Askey's Asides, as he was funniest when addressing viewers direct and going out of character to explain things that went wrong. Big was seen holding a mock- ...

... VT/HEN I say that the finale was the best thing in the latest Sunday Night at the Loodon Pal ladium, I do not mean to be rude. It is just a fact. Dickie Valentine. Bonar Collcano and Eve Boswell combined to make it a gay, lively affair, with Call the Whole Thing Off and Tender Trap. Up to that time the only outstand ing offering was from John Gilpin and Marilyn Burr, of the Festival Ballet ...