The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 61

0 3 I mswsiiiihii waldla OBI Xki liiilT if A HERE'S the best bit ot TV news since they announced the date for colour tele is'on a new deal for summer viewing. Holbrook, and Sharon Acker. A handful of episodes of Snake Gully with Dad and Dave, not yet screened. There will also be some previously unscreened episodes of UFO, held back until now because they could only be slotted in adult viewing time; new specials starring Rolf Harris and Harry Se-combe, and a string of first-run movies. Dates and times for the new run of summer shows will be announced shortly.

So much for what's coming up. New for what's winding down. All the live news, such as Today, Temptation, Three On a Match, and the Beb Rogers Show, will wind up the week ended December 10. They will be off for five weeks, to give cast and crews a holiday break. Summer, the traditional slump season for repeats, and pre-runs is about to get a shot in the arm.

And jabbing the needle is ATN 7, which plans to launch a summer promotion of new series, new shows, and first-run movies from November 12- The promotion, which will run through to the end of January, will be called Summer of 72. A channel executive said: "We are going to put value into summer viewing. "At least 80 per cent; of the shows will be first-fun' programs, in prima viewing The shows include: A new series of The Andy Williams Show. Marty Feldman and the Goldiegers, a comedv-variety hour prdduced in Britain, which has just finished a summer TV run in the States. It features 10 of the Golddigger beauties from the Dean Martin show.

A new series of Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, with John Bluthal. Alexander the Greatest, a situation comedy about a Jewish family with a teenage son. Girls About Town, another British comedy on two young marrieds trying to break out of the boredom of domestic life. Matt Lincoln, starring onetime Ben Casey (Vinca Edwards) as a crusading psychiatrist, and Chelsea Brown. A new series of Medical Centre.

with Chad Everett and James Daly. A new series of The Bold Ones, rotating stories on the lives of senators, doctors and lawyers, starring Burl Ives, Joseph Campanello, E. G. Marshall, John Saxon, Hal Sipi tte Li The desert is a haven for lizards, insects, nakes and gekkos. They live underneath the ground, in burrows.

An Aboriginal from Yue ndum shows skill at Lizard-catching in a scene from Shell's Australia ATN 7, Friday, 8 pm. "The Australian desert could be the last great wilderness area left on this planet in jtAlV I 1 "If there has to be tourist accommodation, let it be on the outskirts. If people want to see it, they can fly over it in things like hovercraft. "I would not like to see motels springing up all over the place. Our desert is quite extraordinary and unique.

It should be left completely untouched." Tilt Raymond team covered about 5,000 miles in the six weeks it spent filming. As well as bird and animal life, the special also shows aboriginal women digging up honeypot ants and other desert food. The series, filmed in colour, will years old. In fact, he was 25 at the time (1955) the movie was made. A Erop In The Ocean, a Sydney-made half-hour drama for children, starts on ABN 2 next Sunday at 6 pm.

Filmed on location around Bal-main Harbour, it tells of three children and their brush with the underworld. The children are played by Michelle Brooker, Carlos Merlo, and Matthew Crosby (son of actor Don Crosby). Kate Fitzpatrick and Don Barkham are the adult George Mallaby is the only one of the present cast who will stay with the show. Alwyn Kurts and Leonard Teale will leave at the end of this year. Two new names also signed are Gary Day, who has replaced Mike Preston, and Queensland-born actor John Stanton.

He has just finished a regular, role in Bellbird. TEN-10 has just bought a couple of TV blockbusters. The first is Four Days in November, and a 21-hour Wolper special which does a documentary reconstruction of the President Kennedy assassination 1 1 years ago. The special, which will be run in its entire length sometime next month, tells the story of the events leading up to the assassination, and the background of the people involved in it. It includes film clips taken at the time.

The second blockbuster is the Russian film version of War And Peace, an eight-hour production that used the Russian Army as extras and cost $100-million to make. TEN will screen it next year. IF THE Labor Party's got Bob Hawke, then the Libs have Don Chipp. For charisma and TV personality, he's easily the best thing they've going. His Perth-made special on TEN-10 Tuesday, Drugs, Sex and Censorship, was a beauty as an example of intelligent, articulate TV talking.

It should also be replayed so that every parent with a teenage child can hear it. Customs Minister Chipp had some pretty harsh things to say about the lack of communication in the home am appalled at the number of Australian families who don't even have an evening meal together -k TV Quote of the Week: Mum and dad are watching this hideous thing (television) for 21 hours a week Don Chipp, on Tuesday's show. Actor Charles "Bud" Tingweir has been signed for His appointment to the Homicide team was announced Thursday by Hector Crawford, head of Crawford Productions which produces the top-rating police series. Tingwell, one of Aiustra- CHARLES TING-WELL new man on Homicide. lia's best, known actors, returned recently from 16 years in England where he worked on stage, screen and TV.

His best-known TV role was as a doctor in the long-running Emergency Ward Ten, in which he appeared from 1957 to 1963. Tingwell will return to England next month to finalise personal and business matters, and will be back with his family after the Christmas holidays to start work on the 1973 season of Homicide. Homicide, which has been running for eight and a half years (it's seen on ATN Seven Tuesdays at 7.30 pm) has now made almost a complete sweep of its old team. eventually be sold overseas (the Japanese and the BBC are among those already showing interest). another 10 or 20 years" Bob Raymond, producer-narrator of Life in the Desert, the Shell's Australia wildlife special coming up on ATN 7 this Friday at 8 p.m.

Raymond shot the program in six weeks, moving north from Adelaide through the Simpson Desert, and then west to the Gibson and Great Victoria Deserts. The seven-man party included naturalist Vincent Serventy and reptile expert Eric Worrell. Says Bob: "Australia has a higher proportion of desert than any other country in the world. About 44 per cent is technically classified as desert. "It Van incredible feeling to get out there, with this great vast emptiness all round you.

It's so utterly peaceful and quiet. "And you are looking at scenery that hasn't changed in millions of years. "I would like to see it left exactly as it is, and not ruined by a lot of cheap and nasty tourist facilities. If we leave it untouched, it could become the most valuable aaacl WC juavw. Xiviw V.w 1amw tuv world as it was, before man laid his hands on it.

Half a mo! What happened to McMillan's moustache in last Tuesday's episode of McMillan and Wife (ATN 7 8.30 pm)? That's what a lot of other viewers want to know. In fact, they've been pounding the Seven switch-, board trying to find out how come the police commissioner is now clean shaven. The episode run last week was actually the first of the new American series, due for screening here next year. Seven slipped it in as a sneak peek. I I'm also tojd -1 that even the -McMillan' producers' didn't know Rock Hudson was going to shave it off.

He just turned up without it on the first day of shooting. Do dolphins have a language? A TEN-10 special this Tuesday (7.30 pm) takes a look at one of the world's most intelligent mammals, and investigates how they communicate. The special, made by Jacques Cousteau, explains the work done by scientists to try to decipher dolphin; talk. Did you get a look at Roger Moore in ATN Seven's Thursday midday movie Interrupted Melody, the story of Australian opera star Marjorie Lawrence? Moore, now on the same channel in The Persuaders, looked every day of 17 "1 MM 5 'i i .4 62 THE SUN-HERALD, OCTOBER 29, 1972 62.