The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • 37

UT -i iW ri -i Ur SsESy DQ TEST Cricket and the World Series Cricket will be fighting each ether for viewers whea telecaete of both Cameo begla tomorrow Friday Decembers And making it a three-way tuo ole for viewer allegiance will be direct coverage of the Davie Cup tennis final between Australia ana Italy versus The West Indies WSCgame being played in Melbourne The World Series commentators' will be Richie Benaud Freddie Trueman Bill La wry Keith Stack- pole and Tony Cozier Although out of ratings fair to assume that the Nine Network will hold some kind of private sur- vey to assess the size or the follow-! ing attracted by the World Series games ABC radio LO will also provide coverage of Test cricket from 1155 am (starting Friday) on Sunday December 4 the station will also split its sport coverage between Test cricket the Davis Cup finals and the Pacific Conference Games (athletics) HSV-7's Davis Cup coverage will commence at 1245 pm on Friday -December 2 145 pm Saturday and 1245 pm Sunday (F fit day) ABV-2 will telecast the first play of the first Test between India and Australia being played: 'in Brisbane The all-day coverages of the Test will continue every day but' ABV-2 will interrupt Sunday's coverage at 2 pm for a half-hour coverage of events at the Pacific Con-' ference (athletic) Games Fierce competition is expected from the Indian team as the last time it toured Australia in 196768 it was beaten by the Australian team four nil Commentators for the Test cricket coverage will be Norman May Keith Miller and Frank Tyson GTV-9 will only show the final session of play (from 4 pm) on each day of the Australians ertv ham-fisted FressKy (HI Maynard) Miss McKensta (June Salter) addressing the school assembly on speech day In The Restless Years the new Australian serfs! starting on TV this week "'3 52 A rival for Charlie Drake By PATRICK McLOUOHUN (Nick Hedstrom) the school's troublemaker and rebel Their decision seems even worse preceded as it is by another young decision to leave school marry and have their baby Ironically Miss McKenzie is also forced to leave the school the same day and suffers the trauma of re-establishing herself outside the school environs' Miss McKenzie's concern is at least S'" artly justified by the fact that she is eepfy involved with Bruce and Penny Russell havihg kept them together as a family after their parents were killed in a car accident and having helped Bruce through medical school The Restless Years Is written and tduced by Reg Watson and directed Peter Bernardos Ian Coughlan and Rowling Other writers contributing to the series include Betty Quinn David Phillips Maureen Moran Lyn Foster and Ian Coughlan Becnuse of duplicating hold-ups at ATV-0 a preview of the programme was not possible for the Green Guide Peter ATV-0 JOINS the twice weekly serial club with The Restless Years a programme dealing With the lives of four young students who decide to prematurely 'terminate their formal schooling Grundy Proserial will be Svaeen on Tuesday and Wedn at beginning December 6 Bach of the four teenagers have 'vv'itroni reasons for deciding to leave school and hold to their decision des- Tv pite strong opposition from parents and £ljriends The strongest objections come from their teacher Miss McKenzie (June falter) who sees their decision waste of their education 1 The students taking the plunge are: Penny Russell (Deborah Coulls) the sister of Miss McKenzie's doctor Ali-- son Clark (Julieanne Newbould) one 1 of the brightest students Barry King (Graham Thomburn) determined to make his first million before he turns 30 and Peter Beckett June JUDGING from the first episode addition to its Friday evening line-up Oh No Selwyn Froggitt won't exactly cause a ratings explosion But it is likely to quietly carve out a niche of regular viewers who prefer its earthy -and unpretentious brand of British humor Produced by Yorkshire Television the six-part series will premiere at 8 pm Friday December The lead role is played by Bill Maynard as Frogg- itt a balding middle-aged bumbler whose harmless child-like qualities are constantly overshadowed by an inexplicable bent for causing accidents De-arming one-arm bandits cracking urinals bursting council water pipes all accidentally mind yon are typical incidents which punctuate Alan Pater's light script This North England council laborer makes an interesting comparison with London-bound Charlie Drake (remember him?) with bursts of thick local brogue beaming smile bulky size and those frustrated good intentions that in sense can provide a sad base for humor Unlike the popular Charlie however he finds support in his mother (Megs Jenkins) and brother (Robert Keegan) These actors integrate well into the slapstick style of the comedy and their general rapport thankf the'canned lav rapport thankfully offsets the that Trnrrr Children and TV DANGER IN FANTASYLAND 2 besets such productions like BELSON REPORT Op MR BRUCE DESK 01 storyline wyn himse'f is simple with action revolving around the-froggitt work-ingrclass cottage and the pub The first episode sees into Selwyn tricki iii'fS Jit -Am' 1 ing a fictitious game I.