The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 140

i mm, Km i Valda niUll 7f I Marshall on TV IF Geraldine Ricca takes over as hostess this Thursday on TEN-10't Tonight Italian Style (10.35 p.m.). Geraldine (pictured), a former panelist on Beauty and the Beast and His and Hers, is filling in for the show's regular hostess Anne Luciano, who has just had a baby. She is married to an Italian (her husband, now in London, was manaaina director of Fiat in Australia) a 9me of 9of with ATN 7 Bob Moore, don't blame "J1? a th 19th hole. He had a tough year. and has an eight-year-old daughter, Angelique.

Said Geraldine: "Doing this show is like going back for a few hours to what I call my other country. "I was born in Melbourne, but for the past nine years I've oent two months every year in Italy. "I hold dual citizenship, and so does my daughter. "Five weeks ago I came back from Italy, expecting to go back to my job as a panelist on His and Hers. I found the program had been dropped.

"I thought to myself: 'That's charming no show A week later Anne rang me and asked me if I'd like to take over for her." In between TV shows Geraldine is also a professional hostess. She organises functions and parties for business firms, plans the menu and drinks, organises the entertainment, and then acts as hostess. 111 ATN 7's Tempta- tion star Tony Bar- ber is off to mingle with the stars he's been invited to Cannes He leaves in May for a trip of 10 days to a fortnight as a guest of Warner Brothers. Tony will join a special charter plane in Hollywood, and then fly with the big names to Cannes where he'll meet the movie stars and interview some of them. A camera team will record his stay in Cannes for a TV special which Seven plans to screen around July.

On the way home Tony plans a quick stopover in London. No showbiz this time he is hoping for a look at the British Open golf championships. NOLA Dekyvere will be a Euest on With Gerald Stone today (ABN 2, 7.30 pm), along with Lady Clarke, of Melbourne. The subject: High society in Australia. GERMAINE Greer, who slipped in quietly last week, will make four programs for TEN-10.

The four will be titled Sex In Australia, Marriage in Australia, Men In Australia and Women In Australia. Two will be taped at TEN-10 studios next Saturday, and two on Sunday, with specially selected audiences for each one. The shows will be done in the round, with the JUDY LYNNE a hat she holds a degree In theatre from Northwestern University. The Killara Community Theatre role is her first time on stage for four years. Two years ago she came to Australia with her husband on a look-see.

They i r- PCttO Dfifl to see stars audience taking part. Producer is John Cornell. TALKING of Temptation the big cliff-hanger comes up tomorrow (ATN 7. 7.30 pm) with Peter Herlinger after the $30,000 prize. When he wound up on the show Friday he had $534 in the kitty and needed another $16 to break the bank.

If he wins it, he takes home cash and goods that include a trip to London, a car, a houseful of furniture, a diamond ring and a fur coat. A SERIES of six one-hour Plays, Wicked Women, based on case histories of notorious female criminals of the Victorian era, begins on ABN-2 on Wednesday at 8.45 pm. The stories are compiled from police files, newspaper records and records at the British Museum. Starring in the female criminal roles are Joanna Dunham, Anna Massey, Vivien Merchant, Jane Asher, Nicola Pagett and Billie Whitelaw. GERMAINE CREER trick both liked the country and are now here to stay.

They live in a unit at Cre-morne. At the end of this week her parents will join them for a three-week holiday "iust in time to ee Boney." i i BOB MOORE "You go out somewhere and you're introduced to someone, and you can see the puzzled look on his face. "We're completely different operators. Bob's a current affairs man and I'm an entertainer. We don't even look alike.

"But it's not as bad as it was when Bob and I were both working together on the ABC. "I like to say I'm the first one. I was with tho ABC for about 15 years, and Bob came after I started. He used to go on TV as Clifton Moore. "Just to make things more confusing, there's a Bob Moors with an in Melbourne.

He's also in show business he's an entrepreneur. The ABC also had a Bob Moore in Adelaide. So far as I know, he's still there." TONY BARBER does ar For lust nn tnnntti. nes been a non-stop commuter between Adelaide and Sydney flying to Adelaide on Sundays to tape six shows of Three On A Match and then back to pick up his Tuesday to Saturday radio job with 2CH. Just recently he whacked up the pace to 1 1 shows in two days to stockpile programs so he could host an overseas tour in April.

The tour has since fallen through. Bob's long-distance slog began last year when Reg Grundy offered him the job of compere on the new daytime game show Three On A Match, produced in Adelaide. Just die' Since then he's been shuttling 1,500 miles a week between the two capitals without a break. "I usually get home again Monday nights, sometimes Tuesday morning," says Bob. 'Then I babysit for my wife while she goes in to her job with the ABC as a radio producer.

She does two days a week my mother-in-law baby sits the other day. "I enjoy Three On A Match, but I've got to be honest. Working on a schedule like this makes you tired. When I fall into bed at night I just die." Bob, who lives at East-lakes (a couple of strokes from the golf course) has five children three girls and two boys. Does he ever get confused with TV's other Bob Moore the one on Monday Conference? "All the time," says Bob.

Judy JUDY Lynne is about to perform a hat-trick three separate shows in the one week. Two are on television. She has a guest role in ATN 7's Boney series, plus her job as a regular on TCN 9's A Current Affair. She is also on stage at the Killara Community Theatre as a teenage hippy. In her Boney role (Boney And the Kelly Gang, ATN 7 next Sunday, 7.30 pm) she plays the daughter of a couple of American tourists who is kidnapped by three young men in Kelly armour.

While making the episode, Judy and fellow guest star Jack Thompson had a close escape from serious injury. The car in which they were travelling skidded on loose gravel jc. 4-(Si A WORD of nmisp for the ABC's Certain Women, which wound up its six-part series! on Wednesday. It has gone from strength to strength each week and thoroughly deserves the decision to carry it through for another 13 programs. It should also keep the women's libbers happy so far as I know, it's the first TV series made here specifically as a starring vehicle for women.

THEY all want to be Abigails. Since it was announced that No 96's busty blonde Bev Houghton was to be written out of the show, producer Bill Harmon has had umpteen telephone calls from girls wanting to know if they can join the cast. They all say they're equally busty, blonde and beautiful. The catch they also nave to be professional actresses and members of Actors' Equity. That usu- He rnHa ii columns in the paper.

If he not in it, he gets up Tommy Trinder on Tuesday's Bob Rogers now, talking about Stanley Holloway, 82, We were going to have tte Yugoslav PM. Somebody from another channel told him it was a bomb of a show Bob Rogers, wn night. reign revue You Can't Say THAT On Television, says his King's Kitchen may be back on TV shortly with a possible change in channels. Which should be good news for all bachelors. There hasn't been a male cook on television here since Graham Kerr went to Canada.

Yesterday, Bernard flew to Lismore to guest on a new TV interview show run by Gold Coast radio-man Barry Ferber. A JACQUES Cousteau special is usually good value, and TEN-10 has one coming up this Tuesday (7.30 pm). It's The Smile of a Walrus, a documentary on the annual spring migration of walruses through the Bering Strait between Siberia and Alaska to the north polar cap. The cameras follow the migration as the walruses catch free rides on north bound ice slabs, only to run into another annual event, the eskimo's walrus hunt. The writer is Rod Sterling.

GOOD NEWS for middle-of-the-road music lovers Eric Jupp's Magic of Music is coming' back. He begins production next month and will be seen on screen in a Sunday nighttime slot in May. Resident singers will be Neil Williams and Shirley McDonald (Mrs Jupp). Eric will fly over from his home on Norfolk Island to make the series. ally stops them dead in their tracks.

Meantime No 96 actor Joe James (killed off as Gordon Vansard just Before Christmas) has now turned writer for the show. His first effort comes up this Thursday. MARK it down this Wednesday (ATN 7 8 pm) for the full two-hour telecast of this year's Academy Awards presentation in Los Angeles. Seven will also replay it next Saturday at 1 pin. THE ABC Plans to repeat that Monday Conference made in Papua New Gii-nea with Chief Minister Somare and Opposition Leader Toliman.

It will rescreen it on April 23 Easter Monday. BERNARD King, currently at Bonaparte's in the EM We are not a government-in-exile. We are in Opposition. It's a different situation to which we must adjust Federal Leader of the Opposition, Mr Snedden, on the ABCs Monday Conference. I've lost count of the number of times I've been blown up stuntman Derek Ware in He Who Dares, ABN 2 on Tuesday.

and ran out of control. "It was a minor accident, 31," says Judy. "But it could have been worse. "I was blindfolded in the back seat, with Jack Thompson alongside me. The back wheels hit gravel, the car skidded, went up on two wheels, and just missed hitting a tree by inches.

"The worst part was not being able to see what was happening. "When they took off the blindfold, there was Jack alongside me with blood on him. He had a cut on the head, and I was just shaken up a bit." It was the second time Judy had worked in a TV series with Jack Thomp. son she also had a guest role in Spyforce. And she has made two episodes of The Evil Touch.

Born in Gary, Indiana, ARE ffl PACE 72 i 77 THE SUN-HERALD, MARCH 25, 1973 77.