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... Slick professionalism was entirely lacking in this episode THE DICKIE HENDERSON SHOW Rediffusion, Thursday, Mav 20 IF The Dickie Henderson Show had not set itself out to be so determinedly mid-Atlantic it would not now be suffering so painfully in comparison with the Dick Van Dyke Show which in framework it resembles considerably. The indigenous family ute comedies like Meet The Wife and ...
... More comedy than suspense MRS. QUILLEYS MURDER SHOES ATV, Sunday, May 23 BILLED under Suspense Hour, Barry Thomas's play was longer on comedy than on suspense. It started propitiously, with Fenella Fielding, chic in furs and picture hat with veil, elegantly thumbing a ride in a hearse manned by crepe-hatted gentlemen and complete witn coffin. A suitable conveyance for a lady going to tea to ...
... Offers more entertainment than many spectaculars BY MARJORIE BILBOW Don't Ask Us We're New Here, BBC-I, August 15. LIVELY, varied, fast-moving, and unpretentious, this 25-minute comedy revue series produced for BBC-1 by John Ammonds offers more concentrated entertainment value than many star vehicle spectaculars that get the full publicity razzmatazz. Pace is the secret, with sketches that are ...
... Stronger production than script merited BY JOHN LAWRENCE The Stables Theatre Company, Wedding Night, Granada, August 18. WEDDING NIGHT, by Gert Hoffman, translated by Carey Harrison, was a play about how a young couple's wedding is ruined by the arrival of the wartime comrade of the bride's father during the reception. Basically, the theme was familiar. A group of men got together, ate, drank ...
... MORECAMBE AND WISE SHOW ATV July 20 WHAT a joy to see a programme in which everybody connected with it is so truly professional! The 'mixed mag' type of show all too often includes one or more items that fall below the rest and, once interest has flagged, it seldom can be revived to the same extent. tven wnen maiviuuai per- formers are equally good, some fault of script or of sound balance ...
... Maggie BBC. January 25. THE bit of grit that stuck in my craw when watching Maggie was what work did her husband do? A minor point? No because the search for a new job for him was the catalyst that set everything in motion. The family background. seemed to be that of the un skilled worker, yet it seemed un likely that even the most idealistic of jost down from- Cambridge welfare officers ...
... Magitic Vanessa Redgrave Maggie's mother Joan Hickson Norman Joss Ackland Christopher Jonathan Ceclt Uncle Robert Felix Felton Mrs. Phillips Mollie Sugden Gas-man John Barrard Judy Laura Thurlow Plumber David Drummond Mack Scott Forbes George Richard A vlen Tom Anthony Wager Barman Lew Luton Hotel maid Laura G raham Maggie's daughters Ysanne Churchman. Penny Morretl Written by Leonard Webb, ...
... Catherine BBC, January 24. TECHNICALLI speaking, mis was one of the most successful of the Teletale productions. It was a fascinating example of what James Mac-Taggart described in Television Today recently as pushing the studio walls back. To say the set was clever or ingenious would be to belittle an inspired scattering about of bits and pieces which, by a change of lighting or a ...
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... SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM A I V, January 12 SCREEN entertainment reached full circle with the introduction of caption card announcements at the Palladium on Sunday It was Bruce Forsyth's way of beating the Beatle-screamers. Sobering thought that the modern way of ing enjoyment for an act is to scream so loud that you can't hear it! The Beatles' real talent is for producing songs ...
... THE PLANE MAKERS The Smiler ATV, January 14. I HAVE never worked in a large manufacturing concern and have no idea at all whether the atmosphere created in the Plane Makers is accurate or not. But it certainly feels accurate. And I have seen enough of the manoeuvering that goes on when any under cover struggle for power is in volved to have found The Smiler both gripping and un nerving. Was ...
... Tense, dramatic start to Stendhal serial THE SCARLET AND THE BLACK BBC-2, Sunday, May 9 A TENSE and dramatic start heralded this new serial adapted from Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir by Michael Barry. A young man enters a church and shoots a woman almost on the altar steps. His life is told in flashbacks as the witnesses at his trial give their evidence. At first, when these flashbacks ...