The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 32

"The Age-9 TV Guide, October 10-16, 1975 Page 2 Maurie Fields and Val Jellay are genuine "old troupers" of Australian showbusiness. After years of working apart they will combine their talents to feature in a new TV venture as husband and which they are in real life. Married off and on TV I jjjjr BRYAN PATTERSON inervews two pleasant people Both entered the heady world of entertainment in Mel-' bourne as children. Maurie was exhibiting his musical talents with his brother's drum set at the age of eight while Val was making her stage debut at four. Somewhere along the fabled road to" success neither will specify exactly when they met and married.

The partnership has proved to be a personal and business success ever since. The husband and wife team has just completed filming for a new ABC-produced series No Thanks I'm On A Diet. Maurie and Val play the parents of a girl (Berrie Cameron Allen) who has a weight prob- tan. The comedy revolves around the girl's unsuccessful attempts to place less strain on the bathroom scales. No screening date for the series has yet been announced.

"Working together in die television series was great and I think being married helped our Formances," Val said this week. "I knew exactly what" Maurie was going to do in front of the cameras and when he was going to do it. NORMAN GUNSTON dominated the box this week, with the start of new Gunston series (ABV-2, Mondays) and by appearing the Paul Hogan Show (HSV-7). The pocty-faced, Brylcreemed super mediocrity of the tele waves Has received more fanfare than accorded -o succession of Royal visits by his handlers, the ABC. With that kind of build up, one can only go one way down.

But for the present, let's hope he-continues to. make us laugh. The inflation- index demands it. His first show (since visiting America) contained amusing interviews with Muhammad All and Joe Frazier which, one suspects, were given for airplay before the rght, not after. A lively Lady Fairfax after publicity for.

her chanties, and a Winnie Arwell thumping Israeli music complemented Mr. G.f ready always wrth the information. v. Did you know an ethnic is a person, who hos met A Grossby? IN TV aahvy days was father fashioaahle cypres superiority ver. rhe predoct cfcamedr ear by Hector Crawford Hroso imitation cops and robber series tflrcy soid.

c- It was product tailored to an industry obsessed by transatlantic imports. With Matlock Police and0 Division Four; the Crawford Productions dutifully, filled the orders learned lot producing comparable programmes at a fraction of the cost of the origjnat-3. s- But of course, no-one con fight dumping. The suggestion that Crawfords receive some sort of State aid is sound because it will help preserve an expertise that should not be lost. -v It's a question of having eriough faith in the film industry to wait to rise from "the ashes of inflation.

--v THE USEFULNESS of television i pceseiitMs new Weos. peaked tbo inrer-eonnected Monday Conference odirtOBS of September 29 (on worker participation in managements os4 October 3 ton the Kefso Plan whicb mokes employ oes sbarebofders At a time when the capitalist system based on consumerism is, being questioned as a viable alternative Jo state-controlled communism, in the future society such programmes assure us there are still -potent, practical thinkers. WILL be or won't be sign, is of the part at tha TV channels. For instance. Den Lano one as enigmatic the rest of them at contract re-stflnina; time is saying he wiM sign on for another season of GTV-9 provided conditions ore reasonable.

An unheard of declaration by an established compere a year ago, when flying kites and keeping managements guessing were popular and sometimes -profitable pastimes. Lady Garnish in tnis year's stage presentation of Goodbye Ted by Jack Hiboerd and John Timlia Botn have had 'practical experience in most facets of Australian They have" danced, sung, told gags with the likes of Roy Rene and George Wallace and acted in most of the Australian drama series. "I remember doing shows on the road and then packmg up the tents and equipment after the audience had gone home," said Maurie. "They were the days when you had to do everything yourself and that gives you a lot of valuable MAURIE Field ami Val Jelky Mst fer ood f4 4urmg Hr9 cf their new ABC ri Thank I'm Diat. They play the parents af aa avatwaisht wit vrha is a campuhiva eatar.

"It's sad that actors today have little opportunity to do that sort of thing," said Val- "They tend to specialise in only one area. "Television is a specialised form of entertainment and it takes Top tennis night and day on ATV-O ATV-0 goes for tennis in a big way this week with direct coverage of the South Pacific Championships and highlights of the Indoor. Tennis Championships from The South Pacific Championships will be telecast live from the Royal South Yarra Club, Melbourne, from 12.30 p.m-, Saturday, October 11 and 1.45 p.m., Sunday, October 12. Players competing include Ken Rosewali. John Neweombe, Geoff.

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Chorus. Giurini. 2 LP set. 919.9w "In one episode he was supposed to ask for a beer and I thought he i had forgotten. I filled up-a glass and slammed A down on the table and he got the message." "We have artistic respect for each other's' talents so there is no problem when we have to work together," Mid Maurie.

Maurie is best known for his eight-year role as John Quifmey, the "village nasty" in the ABC Bellbird series. He was associated with variety and comedy shows in the early days of tele-vision. Val, one of tele-vision's original soubrettes in the Tip Top Tappers, played Era Tom Gorman, Brian Gottfried and Harold Soloman (USA). Other countries to be represented are Germany, Japan, New Zealand and Czechoslovakia, the country that knocked Australia out of the Davis Cup elimination finals. ATV-0 will also screen Seven will also show each full day's play in the Test cricket series starting in Brisbane on November 28.

It will also telecast the Australian Open Tennis Championship starting at Kooyong on Boxing Day, December 26. Other events to be covered by the network have yet to be announced. Mr. Ron Casey, general manager of HSV-7, said color television was expected to have a 15 per cent, penetration in Australian homes by late. November.

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