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... The Room BBC, February 21 IM ALWAYS filled with admiration for the way James MacTaggart and his Merry Men attempt the impossible and so often achieve it. Unfortunately for them, co matter how much freedom they gain from tearing up the rule books they are still. trapped by the need to fill the half-hour slot. I should like to see The Room repeated, with about five minutes edited out from the ...
... Club Time BBC, February 21. CLUB entertainment is the northern re-emergence of music hall in modern dress. The chairman is now a compare but the beer is still beer. After Stars and Carters, Club Time must be a cert. It is as successful as one entertainment medium can hope to be in creating the atmosphere of another and the ratings thrive on people watching other people watching a show and ...
... Funny dialogue not enough in uneven comedy--but Diana gives it some style The Hothouse ABC, Sunday, December 13 LIKE The Cherry on the Top, which was a product of the same team of writer Donald Churchill, director Guy Verney and producer Leonard White, The Hothouse proved? to be an amusing tritle that was never quite as amusing as it was always promising to oe. mere must oe a wnaiy iunny ...
... Frankie Howerd BBC-1, Friday, December II A RED letter week for the BBC: Frankie Howerd set out single-handed to save the BBC for the Tam ratings-- or the Tam ratings for the BBC. Not quite single-handed, for he is assisted by Alan Simpson and Ray Gallon, that protean writing? team who did the job before with Steptoe and Son, and before j that with Tony Hancock's show. They should succeed too. ...
... A Day by the Sea BBC-2, Thursday, December 10 I HAVE to confess that I am never in sympathy with plays in which all the characters accept failure and drift along with it. I can admire the writing. I can admire the acting. But I look all the time for the spark of hope and when it doesn't? come I look for other reasons for disagreeing with the message. I know we were supposed to see hope for the ...
... Re-enter the good ghost story REVIEWS Realm of Error ABC, March 1. NOW I know what I've been missing for a long time! A good strong ghost story with enough credibility to have me biting my nails and jumping at the creak of a chair. Add to that an equally strong story of human relationships. and you have the bonus treat of Realm of Error. Did Jerome Linder really succeed in calling up the ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...