Sunday Telegraph from London, Greater London, England • 113

5 OCTOBER 28 SATURDAY FILMS RADIO The Dead Zone (1983) Halloween Ill: Season of Beckett Double BIll BBC1: 9.15 10.55 pm the Witch (1983) Radio 3: 10.25 11.00 pm Too many people jumped to the BBC1: 11.40 pm 1.15 am A couple of those familiar bonsai wrong conclusions about this film. Not a second sequel to Halloween trees of the stage by Samuel With a script taken from a Stephen but an entirely different story Beckett. In Stirrings Still, the King novel and director David shamelessly tagging on to a better author's latest play (which is Cronenberg at the helm, they film's coat-tails. Nigel Kneale receiving its first broadcast), Barry expected a gross-out. What they wrote the original script but had his McGovern ponders a heartgot was a thoughtful study of the name removed when it underwent stopping decision: should he get responsibilities of second sight.

substantial revision. Dan O'Herlihy up? Go out? Do we care? A Piece What would you do if you could see plays a mad toy-maker with a of Monologue features Ronald the future and knew that the pushy diabolical plan to murder millions Pickup as the narrator describing politico now on his way up would of children on Halloween; Kneale the life-cycle of an old man facing become the White House madman had wanted him to be a more death. who presses the nuclear button? mystical figure out of the Celtic Christopher Walken, in his most twilight bent on restoring the old The Spectre of Ernie Pike moving performance since The pagan ways. (USA). Radio 4: 2.30 3.

3.45 pm Deer Hunter, faces just this Comedienne Pamela Stephenson dilemma, with Martin Sheen The Boy Friend (1971) makes her radio debut in a frighteningly credible as the crazy BBC2: 10.20 am 12.15 pm dramatic slice of Aussie angst. She KOBAL politician. (USA). Sigourney Weaver wades in against Ken Russell's elephantine plays Diana Adair, offspring of a the monsters. Sky 1.40 am, Aliens translation of one musical pastiche charismatic father and a sluttish Lucky Jim (1957 into another, inappropriate, one.

mother. Is any rapport possible C4: 10.30 am 12.20 pm poundingly exciting. A tremendous Sandy Wilson's stage play was a with gloomy Ernie Pike (Denis An adaptation by the Boulting visceral experience and one of good-natured parody of 1920s Lill) standing in for dashing dad brothers (director John, producer those rare sequels that lives up to theatricals; Russell turned it into a (Peter Dahlsen)? Roy) of Kingsley Amis's best- the prototype. (USA). bloated Hollywood-style selling novel pillorying pseudery extravaganza la Busby Berkeley, Pop, Pap or What? and pomposity in the groves of La Femme (1981) sacrificing the show's delicacy and Radio 1:2.00 3.00 pm Academe through the character of C4: 9.00 11.00 pm charm.

(GB). Whatever happened to good pop misfit Jim Dixon, played here by Depardieu is a happily music? Does any true talent lurk Ian Carmichael. The biting edge of married suburban husband when, The Ambushers (1967) behind the tiresome special-effects Amis's satire, however, is blunted out of the blue, his lover of long BBC2: 3.00 4.40 pm videos, or are greedy promoters in the retelling and it emerges as an ago, Fanny Ardant, takes up The third of the Matt Helm interested only in rip-off marketing excuse for buffoonery. (GB). residence next door.

Passions are adventures, with Dean Martin and spin-off T-shirts? A brave rekindled and explode again playing the down-market survey of the state of play produced The Lineup (1958 uncontrollably, leading to public James Bond. Here he goes to by Roger Lewis, Radio 1's Head of BBC2: 10.25 11.50 pm rows, fainting fits and pistol shots. Mexico on the trail of a Music. Repeated on Tuesday at Director Don Siegel's later cult Built on an unlikely coincidence, disappearing UFO, but by this time 7.30 pm. reputation has lent a spurious this Truffaut melodrama the series was parodying itself.

cachet to some of the workaday slides inexorably into bathos. Director Henry Levin. (USA). Success assignments he once handled Subtitles. (France).

ALAN STANBROOK LBC Crown FM: 5.00 .00 6.00 am like this undistinguished picture. To be mobile at this hour, let alone Expanded out of the TV series San upwardly so, deserves a merit rise. Francisco Beat, it tells of two Roy Sheppard is on hand with tips killers, Eli Wallach and Robert for aspiring or insomniac tycoons. Keith, who are hired to recover a They'll be already clued-up, with consignment of heroin but start eyes all glued-up, having been earasking too many questions. (USA).

flapping the Dawn Traders hour every weekday also at 5am. (On Allens (1986) 97.3 fm). Repeated at 11.00 am. Sky Movies: 1.40 3.51 am Return visit by Sigourney Weaver, A Rossini Double BIll the only survivor from Alien, to the Radio 3: 7.30 10.25 pm planet that hatched the most Rossini with his L-plates on: two of horrific monster in sci-fi history. his early trial runs for the big time, Now, would you believe, there's a Il Signor Bruschino and La whole colony of them.

Under Cambiale di Matrimonio, in a director James Cameron there's South German Radio recording more emphasis this time on KOBAL taken from this year's weaponry and mechanical Schwetzingen Festival. hardware, but it's no less Depardieu and Fanny Ardant. C4 9.00 pm, La Femme LINDA O'CALLAGHAN 7DAYS OCTOBER 22 1989 39.