Evening Post from Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England • 33

Weekend Post 9 Come on down to the show where Leslie is the star prize guy IS Leslie Crowther happy to be doing another series of The Price is Right? delirious! "The Price is Right is just about the best thing to happen to he says sounding just as excited as the contestants who are plucked from the audience and come on down in the hope of winning big prizes This third run of the game show from Central kicks off tonight on ITV (700) and it looks like being as popular as ever with 15 million viewers expected to tune in And the lucky people who managed to obtain tickets 30000 applied and only 7500 were successful travelled the length and breadth of the country to the Nottingham studios often through the worst of the winter weather Six new games have been added to keep the sparkle one of them called Partners could prove a hit with contestants choosing an unknown partner from the studio audience to help him play and a new showcase elimination game called Showcase Showdown the immediacy of the show that is a big attraction with contenstants being picked during the warm-up in the studio rather than months ahead of filming And for hard-of-hearing viewers producer William Stewart has devised a games sheet in association with the Deaf Broadcasting Campaign that gives a guide to the games making them easier to follow This is in response to many requests from view- ers whose families or friends wanted to enjoy the show more Favourite Since the last series Leslie has taken The Price is Right to Blackpool for a summer season on stage as well as fitting in some cabaret work "The beauty of this business is that everything you do is a bit different from the he says "yOu get plenty of change" And be doing some more cabaret and after-dinner stints now that the 25-week series is in the can but take some time off in the summer to watch cricket one of his favourite sports Aquarian Leslie has a birthday coming up on February 6 but he's very open-minded about astrology all given certain attributes" he believes "and up to us to use And it looks as if in the great game show of life Leslie is a winner! The life is hostesses all right for Leslie Crowther pictured surrounded by the top game show's beautiful i ttf JggSS RoU up tor a Busman fs Holiday ATTENTION antique dealers waiters train drivers traffic wardens nannies florists and ballroom dancers You could be in line to win a Holiday well sort of It could also be the dream holiday of a lifetime The producers of popular quiz programme currently running on Tuesday evenings are looking for contestants from all professions -4' particularly the more unusual ones for the 1987 series Teams applying for the show must comprise three people who share the same occupation They will answer questions on travel geography and knowledge of their own and each jobs Applications must be in by the end of February and would-be contestants will be sent an application form Anyone over the age of 16 and in full-time employment qualifies to apply and unemployed or retired people can also apply to compete under their usual occupations So come on all you lighthouse keepers school-dinner ladies and lion tamers Send for your applications forms from: Holiday Granada Television Manchester M60 9EA IDENTICAL twins Sharon and Shirley Parker may never have entered the acting business if it been for a dare from their boss Both working for the same firm of estate agents they went along for an audition and were snapped up to play the parts of June and Jennifer Gibbons in the strange but true story of identical black twins who entered into a mysterious pact of silence screened on Sunday (The Silent Twins BBC-2 1010) Fashioning themselves into accomplished writers the original pair produced several novels and countless short stories But nobody understood why they did it and at the age of 19 they were both committed to Broadmoor after committing £180000 worth of arson and theft At 22 they are still there A matter of life or death! Geese on the wing MOTHER Goose only a pantomime also what naturalist Tony Woakes had to become in his quest to reveal the mysteries of migratory habits in Canada geese who regularly wing their way over thousands of miles This will be only one of the fascinating undercover stories unveiled in The Natural World (Sunday BBC-2 715) which this week is delving into a battery of new techniques designed to extract some mind-boggling secrets from the world of wildlife Tiny friends for the kids TWO kids Gerald and Philippa take a holiday with their granddad by the sea in 1899 and experience something completely different when they befriend three survivors from the shipwrecked Antelope For the three who are all washed up are Lilliputians the long and the short of Granada's new drama serial The Return of the Antelope by Willis Hall in the Sunday teatime slot (Central 500 Yorkshire 430) Apparently the boat had sailed from LilHput to discover the truth about Gulliver and many adventures with the children (Alan Bowyer and Claudia Gambold) and their diddy friends (Gail Harrison John Quentin and John Bran-well) are to follow in the coming weeks THE BAKER LIFESTYLE FOUR times married one of the first nude dancers at the Folies Bergeres active member of the French Resistance tireless civil rights campaigner intimate friend of monarchs and dictators mother of 12 adopted children Such was the lifestyle of American cabaret star Josephine Baker an illiterate black girl bom in the slums of St Louis in 1906 Channel Four documentary Chasing a Rainbow (845) looks at her career through film photographs paintings music and comments from those who knew her during her turbulent career Claudia Gambold and ANOTHER private eye? You gqt it And his son comes along for the de somewhat unwillingly the basis for Crazy Like a Fox (Sunday 845) a new series combining humour and mystery with a dash of adventure It features streetwise sleuth Harrison Fox senior played by Jack Warden and his lawyer son Harrison Junior what else portrayed by John Rubinstein The first adventure involves a dead wife Well supposed to be but the husband who is meant to have done the dirty deed reckons she is still aiive and kicking and he's just served 12 years for her Alan Bowyer in Antelope.