... MY VIEW by BILL EDMUND ASK ANY NEIGHBOUR THE moral of this story by Tony Williamson from ABC last Sunday is that if you have a housewarming party as Linda and Michael Dawson did 'Jack Hedlcy and Angela Browne) you should bolt the door against such guests as Joe Kendrick (Ronald Lewis) and Martin James (Barrie Ingham) And hard as it would be to slam the door in the face of such an attractive ...

... By KARI ANDERSON PAMELA FRANKLIN, Teddy Green and David Griflin are engaging young people, Colin Bell plays one not so engaging, and all turn in good performances in the new BBC-1 early Saturday evening serial. Quick Before They Catch Us. Pamela's accent does little to convince as that she is a bus-driver's daughter from Bristol, but she looks mighty fetching. The first four-part story, ...

... BY BILL NORRIS WHEN you look at the long list of those appearing in Redilfusion's Five O' CIock Club, you wonder how director Daphne Shadwell is going to fit them in. That she does so and very smoothly is a tribute to her direction. The edition I watched was on May 6, and Muriel Young was back as com- mire. One of the best singers I have heard for many a day- on this sort of programme -is ...

... BY MARJORIE NORRIS AT first sight it seems a daring experiment to slip three half hour plays by N. F. Simpson into BBC-2's schedules in the guise of a comedy series. But is it so daring? There has been no set pattern about the comedy shows that have turned up in mat *uuroay evening v.iu spot, and the audience which has welcomed Not Only Bui Also should take the topsy turvy logic of N. F. ...

... LONDON PALLADIUM TOP of the bill on last Sunday's production were Phil Ford and Mimi Hines making a return visit to the show. They start out by being quite funny, but then Mimi overdoes the doggy impersonations bit which strains the act at the seams. But they seemed to amuse the Palladium audi ence all right. The zany antics of Tommy Cooper were put on view again, and whatever might be said ...

... 31 BACKYARDS DEING given the role of an un-Australian-like Aus tralian. Ray Barrett made the most of it in a thoughtful production from A-R last Thursday (May 16). That he was outshone by a very good performance by Susan Hampshire was no disgrace. Beginning by taking a rise out of Australian men, it got down to the serious busi ness of examining the rela tionship of a young couple living ...

... Happy union of comedy and actors MARRIAGE LINES BBC-1, Sunday, August 22 LET us be grateful for the reappearance of Richard Waring's accounts of life in the Starling family. What's in a Name introduced the new member of the household, six-month-old daughter Helen, and the problems incident with planning far her christening. George (Richard Briers), that struggling young professional man. ...

... The Good Old Days BBC. February 14 I ONLY date back to weekly variety at the Lewisham Hippodrome, so I can't comment on the authenticity of the Good Old Days from experience. Certainly I think accuracy is vital there seems no point in screening a fake. For this reason I wonder whether puppets like Andre Moons' belonged to the old music hall. Suitable as they are for television, surely they ...

... Fast, funny and full of surprises Not Only But Also BBC-2, Saturday, January 23 NOT only was this the funniest, but also, surely, the shortest 45 minutes of light entertainment of the current television season. Number followed number at racing speed, and at the end we yearned for more. But it was, of course, just the right length. Dudley Moore and Peter Cook had control of the whole ...

... The Image Rediffusion, Monday, Jan. 25 KENNETH HILL'S idea is good although not newthat most people create or try to create images of themselves to present to the world, false fronts to hide behind or to impress other people. And by correlating the general practice with the particular front of the salesman he could give the idea specific forms and the charac ters sharp outlines. ...

... Big contrast in styles BY ANN PURSER Val Doonican, BBC -I, November 30. Star of the Week, BBC -2, December I. I WATCHED two musical entertainment shows at the weekend-- Val Doonican's and Johnny Harris's-- and they couldn't have been more different. Val Doonican's style is not un like that of Andy Williams in fact it is very like and this has not gone unobserved by pro ducer John Ammonds. The ...

... BY MARJORIE BILBOW Show of the Week, BBC -2, May 26 ONE thing's for sure. Roy Hudd's versatile but hitherto undisciplined talent has matured remarkably during recent months. His 50-minute show demonstrated that he has acquired the self-control that he lacked before, and with that self-control has come poise and a command of his audience. This command was particularly in evidence when he ...