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THE GUIDE TELEVISION SUNDAY MARCH 18 JE33 1250: Italian Soccer 8990. 6.00: BionkSix Cartoon. 630: Mass For You. At Home. 7.00: Rugby League School Boy Competition from Brisbane.

8.00: The Walsh Report Topical. 9.00: Video Hits Music. 12.00: Movies (Rpts, bws). Edison The Man (40). The inventions and trials of Thomas Edison.

Featuring Spencer Tracy and Rita Johnson. 2.15: The Challenge (39). A young Englishman realises his ambitions to be the first to climb the Matterhorn. Featuring Robert Douglas, John Gardener and Mary Clure. 3.40: Space Ace (Rpt).

4.00: Life's Most Embarrassing Moments Comical slip-ups. 430: Incredible Sunday. 530: News, Sport And Weather. 6.00: Rugby League Direct telecast from Leichhardt of the match between Balmain and Manly. 730: Ten's Comedy Hour Featuring Mark Mitchell and Kim Gyngell.

830: Movie Mask (S, AO, 85, Rpt). The story of a 15-year-old boy who suffers from a facial disease that inflates his head to twice its normal size. When he falls in love it seems his world is complete, but it is not for long. Featuring Eric Stoltz and Cher. 10.40: Rugby League Highlights.

11.40: Entertainment This Week -(PGR). Hollywood news program with Leeza Gibbons and John Tesh. 12.40: Private Eye (PGR). 1.40: Movie The Hindenburg (PGR, 75, Rpt). The story of the Hindenburg's first voyage to the United States.

Featuring George Scott and Anne Bancroft 4.00: Holiday Island (PGR, Rpt). 5.00: Dallas (PGR, Rpt). Drama. 555: Focus On Living. 6.20: Christian Television.

650: This Is The Life. 7.20: Point Of View Comment. 730: Turn Round Australia. 8.00: Business Sunday Finance. 9.00: Sunday Topical affairs show, presented by Jim Waley.

11.00: Wide World Of Sports Sunday Edition FAI Cup second semi-final, NSW SA, from Adelaide. 2.00: Newhart Comedy series. 230: Cricket FAI Cup cont'd. 6.00: News, Sport And Weather. 6.30: Our World Chimp Who Came From Nowhere (S).

Documentary filmed at Taronga Park Zoo. Presented by Joan Collins. (Earth Quest appears 6.30-7.30. 730: 60 Minutes Topical. 830: Movie Lethal Weapon (AO, Rpt, 87).

Police action thriller that focuses on two Vietnam veterans, turned Los Angeles cops, who find themselves partnered on a highly unusual case involving a massive international drug smuggling ring. Featuring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. 10.45: Nightline. 1050: Movies (Rpts). Your Place Or Mine (PGR, 83).

Comedy featuring Robert Klein and Penny Fuller. 1255: China Rose (PGR, 83). Drama about an American business man searcing for his son's grave in China. With George Scott and AH McGraw. 250: The Burglars (AO, 72).

A crook steals a fortune in emeralds, not realising that a dishonest policeman is out to get the jewels for himself. Featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Omar Sharif. 5.00: Beverly Hills Buntz (PGR). 530: The Young Doctors (Rpt). 5J0: Rage (Continued).

8.25: Cricket Coverage of the One-Day International match. 1035: Sports Explained. 11.05: Cricket (Continued). 330: World Of Worship. 430: Review The Arts.

5.00: Soccer The Big Match. 6.00: News, Sport And Weather. 630: All Creatures Great And Small (-S). James, Siegfried and Helen are all concerned about their sheep-farmer friend David Braithwaite, who sells his farm to an eager but inexperienced couple. Drama with Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy.

7.20: Arts Australia Culture. 730: Around The World In 80 Days (Part 3). Michael Palin arrives in Dubai, looking for the vessel that will sail him across the Arabian Sea to Bombay. 8J5: News. 830: The Accountant (S, PGR).

Lionel Ellerman, a London accountant, agrees to help a friend who has been foolish with his cash transactions. During his investgation, Lionel uncovers illegal off-shore holding companies leading to a well-known firm of accountants, and the Mafia. Drama featuring Alfred Molina. 10.05: Every Breath Yon Take -(PGR). A divorced mother's relationship with her new lover becomes strained when she learns that her son is a diabetic.

With Connie Booth. 10.50: Ray Bradbury Theatre -(PGR). It's a fine mess when a couple base their romance on their admiration for Laurel and Hardy. 1135: Tales From The Darkside -(PGR). A man tries to communicate with an extra-terrestrial who holds a vital secret 124)5: Close.

6.00: Birdman And The Galaxy Trio (Rpt). Animated series. 630: The Super Sunday Show. 730: Tripods (Rpt). Sci-fi.

8.00: Butterfly Island (Rpt). 830: Saturdee (Rpt). Drama. 9.00: Sportsworld Highlights. 12.00: Basketball Winners of the northern division winners of the southern division.

From the State Sports Centre in Homebush. 2.00: Movies (Rpts). Mating Game (59). Comedy about a young tax agent who falls in love with a farm girl. With Debbie Reynolds and Tony Randall.

4.00: The Long, Long Trailer (54). A couple honeymoon in a very large caravan. With Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. 6.00: News, Sport And Weather. 630: The Magical World Of Disney Young Harry Houdini (Part 2).

With Wil Wheaton, Roy Dotrice. 7.30: Dame Edna Experience (PGR). Tonight Dame Edna's guests include heart transplant surgeon Dr Christiaan Barnard, singer Grace Jones and actor Tony Curtis. 830: Mini-Series All The Rivers Run II (PGR, Part 1). Delie and Brenton face tough times in the once thriving riverboat trade.

Featuring John Waters and Nikki Coghill. 10.30: Max Headroom (PGR). With Matt Frewer, Amanda Pays. 1135: Family Theatre (Rpt). 12.00: News Overnight Topical.

2.00: Movie The Stranger (AO, 72, Rpt). An astronaut crashes on a planet and becomes a fugitive from their structure. Glenn Corbett. 3.40: Science International -(Rpt). 4.00: Dream Street (PGR).

5.00: Bergerac (PGR, Rpt). 150: Italia News A review. 2.20: Spanish News A review. 250: The Cutting Edge A Class Divided (Rpt). Documentary.

(US). 4.00: Asia Report (Rpt). 430: Face The Press (Rpt). 5.00: Dateline (Rpt). 6.00: Hotline Viewers views.

630: News, Sport and Weather. 7.00: Vox Populi Current affairs. 730: Masterpiece Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Explores the Nobel Prize winner's work in both cinema and literature. The program also examines his role as the founder of the Foundation Of Latin American Cinema.

Documentary from the UK. 830: Tales Of Marquez From the pen of Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes six short love stories, filmed in different areas around the world. Tonight: Fable Of The Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier. A powerful and wealthy man living in a small Brazilian town begins having affairs with the wives of his best friends in an attempt to alleviate boredom. Drama featuring Ney Latorraca, Claudia Ohana and Tonia Carrero.

(Spain). 9.45: A Dream Of Red Mansions -Xi Feng incites an unrequited passion in the heart of her cousin, Jia Rui. In order to gauge his feelings for her, Xi Feng puts him to a cruel test. Drama series featuring Deng Jie and Ma Guang Ru. From China.

1030: The Movie Show (Rpt). 11.00: Movie Shining Lantern (83, Rpt). Drama which tells the story of the Georgian folk artist Vano Knod-japekian. Featuring Vladimir Kocharyan and Violetta Gevorkian. (Armenia).

1230: Close. Roller, wears Harrods blazers, smokes little cigars, buys the odd" Chippendale table as a retirement investment and is contemplating a villa in Cyprus. He has a habit of talking to himself and his furniture. Lionel agrees to help a friend who is owed a large sum of money. His routine investigations lead him to a distinguished firm of London accountants and from there, into all sorts of trouble.

At the same time, he is in the throes of organising his son David's bar mitzvah, an event central to the theme. Perceived to be a threat to the Mafia's infiltration of the City of London, Lionel is taken forcibly to Naples. He asks ingeniously of kidnappers, "Who are you?" and receives the reply: "This is Italy. We kidnap you. Who do you think we are?" The film is full of great one-liners.

'This is but one of them. Alison Stewart Sports Today. 6 Dorian Wild. 9 Patterns Of Your Life. 12 Mike Williams.

2KY 1017 4 Ron Connelly. 6 Richard Mercer. 7 Ron Casey. 12 Barry Ward. 2 Tad Pierson.

5 Richard Wilkins-The Cutting Edge. 8 Hot Hits. 12 George Gibson. 2UW 1107 Sam Trevor Sinclair. 10 Greg Lambert.

2 Greg Riley. 6 Richard Perno request show (telephone 908 9000). 12 Andy Church. 2CH 1170 5am Mike Jeffries. 10 George llich.

3 Tony Featherstone. 8 Evening Service. 9 Jay Bacik Open Line. 12 Ian Walker. 2WS 1224 Sam Rob Neil.

10 Chris Cos-tello. 2 John Bond. 6 Greg Pace. 12 Graham Chapman. 2SM 1269 Sam Noel Miller.

10 Steve Murphy. 2 Terry Allen. 7 Geoff Rodwell. 9 Father Jim McLaren. 2RPH 1629 Information radio.

2EA 1385 Sam Greek. 6.45 Arabic. 7.30 Slovenian. 8.15 Italian. 9 Dutch.

10 Jewish. 11 Ukrainian. 12 Maltese. 1 German. 2 Polish.

4 French. 5 Turkish. 5.45 Italian. 6.30 Greek. 7.15 Hindustani.

8.15 Czech. 9.15 Spanish. 10.15 Croatian. 11 Special. Programs supplied by TV channels.

During the period of Sonny's closely monitored introduction to the females, disturbing events unfold. Three of the four baby chimps are wounded, two fatally. The third, whilst not badly injured, is rejected by its mother and all the other females and is as good as dead. Surveillance equipment points the finger at eight-year-old Mervyn. Could it be he has been engaged by Danny as a hit man, to bump off the new generation and keep his bloodline dominant? Westminster law doesn't apply to the chimpanzee hierarchy or any other part of the animal kingdom.

Should natural or unnatural selection prevail? Is it murder in any terms other than human? Ought there be intervention in the interest of the colony, the zoo or the public? This is a terrific if inconclusive story, the equal of any internecine nastiness you could hope to find in Dynasty. Doug Anderson Subtitles, for the hearing-impaired. THE ACCOUNTANT On ABC TV at 8.30 pm SLAPSTICK does not overtake good sense in this offbeat BBC production. The plot could very easily have trickled into absurdity. Instead, The Accountant is a finely woven comedy drama that manages to be amusing about morality, decency, honesty and devotion, while at the same time dealing a few gentle blows to English anti-Semitism, upper-class and otherwise.

There is a whiff of a younger, more benign Arthur Daley in Lionel Ellerman, the small-time but reasonably prosperous accountant who unwittingly gets himself tangled up with the Mafia. Alfred Molina (Letter to Brezhnev) plays Lionel beautifully as a warm-hearted, shrewd, overworked, strangely naive Jewish husband and father, who drives a THE CHIMP WHO CAME FROM NOWHERE On Nine at 630 pm NOT since Return To The Planet Of The Apes has there been such case of simian rivalry. Forget Godzillas in The Mist, this is a yarn that makes Don Corleone look like a nancy boy. The scene: Taronga Zoo, chimpanzee enclosure. Keepers decide new blood needs to be introduced into the colony to prevent the inevitable decline which attends a closed breeding circle.

If we must have these animals in cages for our delectation, we should have robust, lively specimens not mangy, clapped-out pinheads, right? Enter Sonny, a virile young male destined to replace the ageing but still actively dominant Danny. An earlier trial, with four-year-old, Snowy, produced four new offspring. EES Hughes. Radiothon. SUBJECT TO LATE ALTERATIONS.

GUIDE PREVIEW- Snowy a player in a a terrific if inconclusive story. RADIO Boheme: Che Gelida Manina; Verdi, Requiem Mass: Ingem-isco Tanquam Reus, Rigoletto: Questa Quella, Aida: Celeste Aida; Bizet, Carmen: Flower Song; Leoncavallo, I Pagliacci: Vesti la Giubba. 12 The Classic Jazz Era. Band Leaders. 1 Beethoven, The Creatures of Prometheus: overture; Mozart, Horn Concerto No 3 in flat; Sibelius, Symphony No 5 in flat.

2 Russian Choral Music. Rach-maninov, Kiev Chant; Ippolitov-Ivanov, The Pine Tree; Sackh-novsky. Feather Grass; Anon, Eulogy, Rejoice, Russian land; Diletsky, Solemn Song. 2.30 A Kumquat For Andrew Ford. Ford, A Kumquat for John Keats, Five Cabaret Songs, On Canaan's Happier Shore.

Bright Ringing Morning, A Martian Sends A Postcard Home. Chamber Concerto No 2. 4 Of All The Birds. The Nightingale. Trad (Rumanian), Ciocirlia; Anon, Le Rossig-nol; Borlet, He tres doulz Roussignol joly; Anon, Rossin-yoi; BBC London, Woodland and Garden Birds: Nightingale; Tracer, So Singen unsere Vogel: Nightingale; van Eyck, Der Fluy-ten Lust-hof: Engels Nachte-gaeltje; Janequin, Le Chant du Rossignol; Morula.

12 Warsaw Canzone: La Lusignuola; Rameau, Hippolyte et Aricie; Rossignols Amoureux; Rebel, Les Elemens: Rossignols; Cou-perin, 14e Ordre: Le Rossig-nol-en-Amour; Granados. Goyescas: Quejas, la Maja el Ruisenor; Respighi, Gli Uccelli: I'Uscignuolo; Trojan, The wa- 0 Emperor's Nightingale Noble, minor; Tasted; and 42. 43, Webber, Anon, Unknown; Soul; the Unknown Idyll. Dreams Epiphany. Your Ancient and Sam 7 2GB Short 11 Conference Pederson.

Hymns 7 St Religious Christian 11 'Obbs. 6am Hammond. Greg Sam Newcastle Earthquake direct from Newcastle City Hall. Donations on (008)023 004. 12 CricketBL Sport 7 Coodabeen Champions.

Direct from Newcastle City Hall. 10 Sunday Night John Cleary. 12 Beyond Midnight Smith. 9 Glenn A Baker-Back to the Future. 10 Ron Sparx.

2 Andrew Peters. 105 Live. 6 Take 40 Australia. 10 Vinyl Fetish. 12 Trevor Jackson.

2JJJJ-FM 105.7 Sam Karen Gough. 10 Mark Dodshon. 2 Andy Glitre. 6 Gayle Austin. 9 Ambience Show.

1am Broadcast from Melbourne. 2SER-FM 107.3 Sam Country Roundup. 7.30 Irish Heritage. 9 Radio Broadside. 10 Razor's Edge.

12 Crystal Set. 2 On Screen. 2.30 The World Of Radio. 5 CBR. 6 Teacher's Forum.

6.30 Vietnamese. 7 Payam-E-Pars. 8.30 The Voice Of Indo China. 9 Felix Austria. 9.30 You Don't Have To Be Jewish.

10 Just Jazz. 11.30 Chile: Towards The Future. 1 SER Punk. 3 Country Music. RADIO NATIONAL 576 S.30 Sunday Morning.

Incl News at 6. 7 From The British Weeklies. 7.15 News. 7 JO Correspondents Report. Encounter Consumerism: A Christian Point Of view (Rpt).

1.45 Ock-ham's Razor. 9 News. 9.10 Background Briefing. 10 Music For Pleasure. 12 The Europeans.

12.30 News. 12.40 Report From Asia. 1 The Food Program. 1.30 Sunday Feature Rags, Sticks And Wires. Part ling On A Fresh, Clean Uniform.

2 Fictions The Guardian Saint, by Miklos Gyarfas. An aging philanderer is sued for breach of promise. Memories Of Ralph Richardson. Michael Meyer reads from his book Not Prince Hamlet. The Rector Of Hawthorne, by Denys Hawthorne.

The life of the Reverend Patrick Bronte. Poetry The Poetry of Emily Bronte. 4 Sunday Concert News. 5.10 Insights Religion. 6 Sacred Music Third In Lent Irish Composers.

7 News. 7.10 Books And Writing. (Incl Letter From America). 8.15 Radio Helicon -A Night With Hamlet A dialogue in free verse between the poet Vladmir Holan and Hamlet 10 News. 10.05 Jazzmakers.

11 Music To Wind Down By. 12 Radio Australia Overnight EI 6 FM For The God Lent. To birth. Gott Tutt Your Birds; and Towards Symphony No Fantasia on Tallis; No 6. 11.30 Melbourne 12.35 Queensland.

Tasmanian, West Orchestras, Wind Vituosi. Concerto violins; Koehne. Nightingale: The Nightingale's Concert; Zeller, Song. 5 Evensong. Evening Service in Rose, Surely Thou Hast Finzi, Welcome Sweet Sacred Feast; Psalms: Nos 104 and 61; Lloyd Requiem: Pie Jesu; My Song Is Love Sibelius.

Be Still My Bach JS. St Matthew Passion: Chorale; Stainer, Litany of Passion. Antill. The Land suite; Evans, 6.30 Quitter, I Arise From Of Thee; Britten, Nocturnal after John Dowlard; Wolf, 7 Music Weekly. 8 On Selection.

10 Aspects Of Music. German Church Secular Music cl 500. 2CBA-FM 103.2 Arthur Deane. 6.15 News. News.

7.30 Bishop Ken 8 Frank Mclnnes. 3 Devotions. 9.30 Dr Jansen. 10 Drama. Hospital Hour.

12 News. 1 Address. 2 Stan 3 Alan Russell. 5.30 By Request. 6 2GB News.

John's Cathedral. 8.30 News. 9 Piano. 9.30 Way. 10 Chuck Wagner.

BBC News. 11.30 Mrs 12 For Light Sleepers. 2DAY-FM 104.1 Greg Vincent 10 Mike 2 Nick Bennett. 6 Dimon. 12 Greg Vincent 2MMM-FM 104.9 The Bridge.

6 Trevor Benjamin, Overture to an Italian Comedy; Butsko, Symphony Suite; Boyd, Wind Across Bamboo; Francaix, Wind Quintet. 6 Sunday Bon Bons. 7 News. 7.06 Divertimento. Lully.

Le Div-ertissment de Chambord; Cor-rette. Divertimento No Leclair, Violin Concerto in Blavet. Flute Concerto in A minor; Guilmant. Caprice No Bizet arr Haislip, Carman Suite; Chabrier. Capriccio.

S.30 Direct Broadcast. Adelaide Festival. Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Festival Chorus. Berlioz, Beatrice And Benedict (based on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing). Beatrice: Elizabeth Campbell, soprano.

Benedict: Anson Austin, tenor. Hero: Gillian Sullivan, soprano. Ursula: Lauris Elms, mezzo-soprano. During the interval. Professor John Davies of Adelaide University gives his perspective on Berlioz.

10.45 Dreamtime. 12 After Midnight. 2MBS-FM 102.5 12 All Through The Night 6 Sunday Morning Music. 9 Voices, des Prez, Missa de Beata Virgine; Chapi, La Chavala: Can-cion de la Gitana. Las Hijas de Zebedeo: Carceleras; Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov: Prologue and Coronation Scene.

10 The ACO. Mozart, Piano Concerto No 18 in flat; Beethoven, Groose Fuge; Barber, Adagio for strings; Mozart, Symphony No 40 in minor. 11.30 Half-An-Hour With Luciano Pavarotti. Puccini, Tosca: Recondita Armonia, La ABC-FM 92.9 Breakfast. 7 News.

7.05 Who Sings. Third In celebrate JS Bach's BachJS, Cantant: Was Das 1st Wohlgetan. 8 Choice. Resphighi, The Aibinoni, Adagio for organ strings; Broadstock, the Shining Light; Vine, No Lovelock, Concerto Grosso; Benjamin. Symphony Vaughan Williams.

a theme by Thomas Williamson, Symphony Direct Broadcast. Brass. 12.30 News. Symphony Australia. Adelaide.

Sydney, Melbourne and Australian Symphony and the Australian Includes: Vivaldi, in minor for four Bracanin, Cello Concerto: McCabe, Fire at Durilgai; Gallery ballet: Three Nocturnes; Conyngham. Streams: Gilbert. Certain Lights Reflecting, settings of poems by Sarah Day; Bernstein. Facsimile ballet; Beethoven. Concerto in 2KA 783 and 1476 Sam Tad Pierson.

10 Tim Williams 2 Richard Mercer. 6 Hot Hits Non-stop. 2GB 873 5am Bruce Barnett. 10 Classical Reflections. .12 Occasional Jazz.

2 Barry Eaton Take One. 4 Bailey's Backtrack. 6 Body Talk Dr Sandra Cabot. 8 Rev Gordon Moyes. 12 Music.

2UE 954 5.30 Gary O'Callaghan. 7 Burke's Backyard. 10 Dr James Wright. 12 Owen Delaney. 5 ZBL 702 5.30am Australia All Over.

10 Sunday John Clarke and Bob SMH The Guide, Monday, March 12, 1990 1 Ss.