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MORNING WEE TV guide PROGRAMS AUSTRALIAN WITH A WORLD Sean Scully is 27 and has had a wealth of experience in the world of acting. At 16 he even appeared on Broadway a rare distinction for an Australian-born actor. In a future episode of TEN 10's Matlock, "Nothing Man," he appears as a man without a past and very little future who sets the detectives off on a trail of murder and avarice. "I play a fellow who works for a mining company," said Sean last week. "With another, I go out to.

a property owned by two eccentrics and dig around. We unearth a stack of old gold coins of which only two before have ever fallen into the hands of collectors. One of the partners gets killed and I get clobbered and wander about for days in a comatose state." The two eccentrics, it seems, are about to toss him down a derelict well, when true to form, the Matlock police arrive and save the day. Sean Scully likes playing these off-beat characters. "They're much harder to find and much more challenging," he said.

He is not the only acting member of his family. His mother, Margaret Christensen, is an actress with a long list of credits behind her. Last week she opened at the Elizabethan Theatre in "Doctor In The House" with Robin Nedwell and Geoffrey Davis. On the other hand, his father "plays the fiddle" housewife," and his he "sister is a said with a hint of amusement. He was in London with his mother when he auditioned for Walt Disney's "The Prince and the Pauper" and won the dual role.

It is a film that most people remember from its frequent school holiday rereleases. It offered some memorable moments for Sean Scully, notably the splitscreen sequence which involved the cameras supposedly looking over "their" shoulders matching the movements in a mirror. "That involved 346 he said. He later did two more films for Disney one in England, the other in Vienna. Of Walt Disney he said: "I think his list of credits is most impressive.

He treated me extremely well. Of course he was a businessman and so he Sean Scully is star material Sean Scully with Monica Maugham in a scene from "A City's Child." had little to do with the authority of actors." In London Sean Scully auditioned for the New York musical "The Girl Who Came to a Noel Coward venture based on Rattigan's "The Sleeping "It was a year before the event, and Herman Levin said: 'Be in my office in New York on August said Sean with an American drawl. "The opening night on Broadway was for me a mixture of enthusiasm, control and nerves. And that would have to be the most unquotable quote of all times." He was back in Australia at 18 and from the list of shows in which he has appeared it would seem. he has not stopped working.

He found American theatre directors more authoritarian and more frightening than those on his home ground. "They stick to discipline. Well, that's because there is a hell of a lot of money at stake. Here, it is more or less one of our patronised arts." The most exciting thing he has done, he feels, is the role of the bent David in "Sticks and Bones" with the Melbourne Theatre Company. It was based on the American television series The Another he enjoyed was the part of the motherdominated blind boy in "Butterflies Are Free" at Sydney's Playbox Theatre.

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Surveys and Repairs. ALL Specialising WORK In GUARANTEED. NAME Musical highlights include Glenn Cardier singing his own compositions "The Darlings of Market Street," "I See a Comedy" and "Flat World Marian Henderson singing "Little Girl," "Rainmaker and Rings" with everyone joining in for the Cardier original "Oh Dear St Peter." Bernard Bolan in the musical comedy segment looks at the Toorak Tram. Sit Yourself Down, Take A Look Round, is produced by Peter Vendrell at the ABC's Sydney Studios. A $10 bet that he will not be able to seduce a shy, sad young girl has a humbling, tragic outcome for an arrogant, youthful Romeo in this week's Love Story: "A Great Big Crack In Heaven" on ABN 2 Sunday, at 8.30 pm.

Denny (Anthony Allen) loses his $10 because Sally is not that sort of girl. Even when he does manage to take her out, he finds that for the first time in his life his charm has failed. However, after losing the bet he realises to his astonishment that he really cares for Sally (Mary Parkin). Both find great happiness in each other's company and realise that they are deeply in love. But fate exacts a savage retribution.

F111 of their pilots talk work Fills at the RAAF base, Amberly TV cameraman Heinz Voelzer films the event from one of the defending F111s. "It's Just a. Big Cadillac" is produced and directed for ABC-TV by Tristram Miall. Richard Oxenburgh is the interviewer, and the executive producer of Chequerboard is Geoffrey Daniels. When a young Negro is murdered in ATN 7's The Streets of San Francisco: "A String of Puppets" (tonight at 9.

o'clock). a witness identifies killer but the man's parole officer confirms his alibi. Steve Keller takes on a dangerous undercover job to find the real guilty party. Karl Malden, Michael Douglas, Claude Akins and Hari Rohodes are the stars. TO WITH GUIDE ON RADIO Australia bought F111s at a cost of $13- million each just 18 months ago.

Three of the elite pilots who fly these controversial aircraft talk about their task in ABN 2's Chequerboard: "It's Just a Big Cadillac," tomorrow at 8 p.m. The pilots belong to No 6 Squadron stationed at Amberley in Queensland. Their commanding officer is Wing-Commander Ray Funnell. He explains that this is likely to be his last full-time flying job. He loves flying, but after 15 years of marriage his wife is still uneasy about it.

The second pilot is Flight-Lieutenant Chris Hancock, an instructor on a course for trainee pilots and an F111 pilot. The third is Bevan Pettit, one of the trainees. A fitter and turner until the age of 23, he discovered a love of flying when he took up parachuting as a hobby. The pilots demonstrate their skill and their aircraft's capabilities in a simulated air attack by Mirage jets on Darwin. Award-winning ABC- WEEK'S FILMS ON TV Diane Varsi (left) and Lana Turner in a scene from "Peyton Place." "PEYTON (1957) (A0).

Lana Turner, Diane Varsi, Hope Lange, Terry Moore, Lloyd Nolan. Grace Metalious' bestseller sizzles on to the screen full of adultery, rape, suicide, murder and innumerable skeletonfilled cupboards. Lana Turner gives a stellar presentation of Constance Mackenzie's character, smoking. voraciously throughout. ATN 7, Friday 9.45 pm.

(Repeat.) "TIGER BAY" (1958). Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz, John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell. At 12, Hayley Mills won acclaim for her role of a girl who witnessed a murder then protected the youthful killer from the authorities. Suspense thriller. TCN 9, Monday, 10.30 pm.

(Repeat.) "WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?" (1966) (AO). Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis, George Segal. Miss Taylor gives the performance of her career as Martha, a loud-mouthed, sloppy frump whose vulgarity covers up tumultuous frustrations. When guests arrive they have no idea of the nightmare ahead. TCN 9, Friday, 10.30 p.m.

(Repeat.) "A CHILD IS WAITING" (1963). Judy Garland, Burt Lancaster, Gena Rowlands. Judy plays a music teacher at a school for autistic children who wins the affection and trust of a 12-year-old whose problem appears to be lack of parental interest. The film develops a lot of poignancy particularly as actual retarded children are used in the cast. ATN 7, Monday, 1.30 pm.

(Repeat.) "THE SET" (1969) (AO). Sean McEuan, Rod Mullinar, Hazel Phillips, Julie Rodgers, Dennis Noonan, Elsa Jacoby. A young man goes to Sydney to start a new life, little knowing that. it was a step towards a homosexual affair and a suicide attempt. TEN 10, Tuesday, 10 pm.

(Repeat.) Vincent Ball guest stars in ATN 7's Homicide: "Snails for Dinner," tomorrow at 7.30 pm. The detectives wonder if Patrick O'Brien, played by Ball, is really as reapectable as he seems; are the threats to his life coming from someone who knows him a little better? Charles Tingwell, Don Barker, Gary Day and Dennis Grosvenor play members of the Homicide squad. Tasker and a leading lady such as Miriam Karlin it had to be enjoyable." Before that he did "Romeo and Juliet," "A Phoenix Too Frequent" and "Sergeant Musgrave's Dance" for the ABC and a play, "Forty in Melbourne. At the time he was also playing Ron Wilson in ABC's Bellbird. "It was a fairly ordinary character which I did for two Except of course when he was temporarily written out because of stage commitments.

While many child actors experience traumas and nervous dyspepsia making the transition to maturity, it was never like that for Sean Scully. "There were some moments of difficulty," he recalls, "but certainly nothing I could not cope with. It didn't drive me to heroin or anything like that." Currently he is appearing in the perennial radio serial Blue Hills, playing Steven Rossiter, the 45- year-old husband of Jackie. He has done eight or nine episodes of the series which is now well past its program. He recently appeared in a Brian Cavanough film "City's Child" with Monica Maugham.

"It was about a spinster whose parent died leaving her completely released from a cocoon of Victoriana. As she found it difficult to cope with the realities of life, she chose to live in a fantasy world. And I was part of that Looking to the future, Sean Scully, who is 6ft 24in tall, has a sneaking desire to play Hamlet. "It would be a fantastic opportunity for a young actor and I feel I could possibly contribute to it meaningfully. "Apart from that I hope to get plenty of hard work, plenty of easy work and most important of all, just plenty of work." Singer, songwriter, Glenn Cardier and the group Labas join Marian Henderson and resident humorist Bernard Bolan in Sit Yourself Down, Take A Look Round, on ABN 2 tonight at 8.30.

Printed and published by John Fairfax Sons Limited, of Jones Street. Broadway, at Jones Street. Broadway. Vera Miles plays June Wiley, a crime writer, in TEN 10's Journey To The Unknown: "Matakitas Is Coming," Wednesday at 10 pm. She goes to a library late at night to continue her research into the events leading to the exccution of a murderer then finds herself locked in the deserted building.

Vera is then the victim to terrors from both the past and the present. A live telecast of the Miss NSW Presentation comes to ATN 7, Friday at 9 pm, from Grand Ballroom of the Wentworth Hotel. It is the State finals of the Miss Australia Quest and a girl will be chosen to represent NSW later in the year. A score of the State's most beautiful girls will vie for prizes and the chance to compete in the Melbourne finals. ARTARMON Luxury 2 B.R.

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