... Strictly for the faithful viewer CROSSROADS ATV, Thursday, Mav 6 THIS series is strictly for the loyal and ever-faithful viewer. It lacks attraction for anyone who can watch it only occasionally. For instance, on Thursday afternoon I arrived smack in the middle of at least three puzzles so I watched the nexi instalment late tne same evening hoping for enlightenment. The chief of the ...

... Non-British flavour about Gideon GIDEON'S WAY ATV. Saturday. Mav 8 THIS particular story. The Great Plane Robbery by Alun Falconer, never lived up to the promise of its first few minutes. Film studio resources can provide exciting outdoor action such as is usually beyond the scope of the average television studio-produced series and it is in such moments that Gideon's Way excels. The series ...

... Dennis at his best in a good first play THE CONFIDENCE COURSE BBC-1, Wednesday, February 24 AS a first play for television, this was a good one. Dennis Potter has shown himself to be a writer of words worth listening to. He seemed, however, not to know what point he was making or how to end it off. Dean is Price played the Director of a confidence course, and his saleable assets were his own ...

... Taxi! BBC, April 11. AN evening of unsuccessful bird fancying is a miserable occupation. So is playing the clubs and pubs in search of fame and finding only failure. The first of these misfortunes happened to cabbie Terry Mills. The Scousers suffered the second. Misery, in tact, was the tneme throughout Saturday's Taxi. Let's catalogue the disasters which hit the unhappy Scousers. First their ...

... The Logic Game BBC-2, Saturday, January 9 IT is now coming to be accepted by many people in the theatre that words are an inadequate means of communicating precise thought and emotion. It is also coming to be accepted that--television being a visual medium--we can make up for the deficiency of language by substituting images. At its simplest, there can be no disputing the truth of this. One ...

... Dermot Walsh, Lyn Ashley and Viola Keats in On A Clear Day You Can See Canterbury at the Royal, Stratford East. ...

... 'Tonight' need have no worries about this rival HERE AND NOW THIS column first reviewed Here & Now in mid-November when the programme was still very new. The opinion ventured then was that if it were intended as competition to Tonight, then BBC-tv need have no worries. And now, three months later, there is no reason at all to change that opinion. By switching channels after Here Now ...

... Worst so far in G & S series BY JOSEPHINE HAWORTH The Gallon and Simpson Comedy. An Extra Bunch of Daffodils. London Weekend, May 24. NOT even Galton and Simpson can be relied upon to produce something superlative every time, as this mixed bag of half-hour comedies on Saturday evenings has shown. The latest offering, An Extra Bunch of Daffodils, was the worst so far in this series and ...

... Conversation piece BY ANN PURSER And Was Invited To Form a Government, BBC-2, May 22. CHARLOTTE and Denis Plimmer wrote a neat little thirty- minute play some time ago about an assassination plot, with an ingenious twist at the end that no one could have anticipated. Last week they had another political half-hour with And Was Invited to Form a Govern ment. Set in the future (but not too ...

... SO LONG, CHARLIE BBC tv June 2 THE relationships between people who inhabit bed sitters continue to occupy television writers. Few cover the exact same ground but most try to put over a mes sage. Some of these dramas have relied heavily on interpretation from the viewer and others on the straightforward introduc tion and delineation of char acters. Alan Plater's play on Sunday somehow fell ...

... 'Armchair' series ends with a BANG! THE RANK AND FILE ROD SERLING'S drama about racketeering in an American union--the last ABC Armchair Theatre production until the Equity strike ends certainly saw the present series out with a bang. The disturbing thing is that though the play is fictional, its theme is very much fact. Senate investigating commit tees have been just as power less as the one ...

... This production puzzles HOME AT SEVEN THAT the BBC should have chosen to revive R. C. Sherriff's indifferent and dated thriller for their Sunday even ing drama spot is a puzzle. It was a pity, too, that such a gifted and intelligent actor as Alec Clunes should have been cast in the part of the hum drum little bank clerk who fears he has committed rob bery and murder during a bout of amnesia. ...