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3 September 12 1981 etc MB BSSEi of Eden ELEVISION FILMGUIDE tooth plus Virginia McKenna Bill Travers and George Adamson all happy to be upstaged Jesse James (HTV 330) Tyrone box office strength ensured that historical accuracy was thrown out of the window and the villainous Jesse James nprjimp nprn The Odessa File (BBC-1 715) Not one of Frederick better efforts and the movie is generally a lugubrious non-event There are compensations notably in the playing of Jon Voight and Maximilian Schell but the overall impression is one of disappointment Neo-Nazis and bubonic plague in there somewhere but you may not care The Migrants (BBC-2 1110) Emmy-nominated as the Outstanding Drama of the 1973-74 American TV season and there were also nominations for director Tom Gries actress Cloris Leachman cinematographer Dick Kratina and composer Billy Goldenberg Based on a story by Tennessee Williams a grim and gritty tale of migratory farmworkers set like John Grapes of Wrath during the hellish depression of the 1930s Co stars Oscar winner Sissy Spacek in an early crucial role LEN Guide for Viewers SATURDAY Have to Go (BBC-2 215) Better still all go before a goofy Bob Monk-house oozes his way into our homes via a plot to bump off (or even marry) a beautiful-cousin who holds the key to a fortune Meet Mr Lucifer (BBC-2 340) Supposed satire on tellymania with Stanley Holloway using demonic powers to frighten people away from the box This film should do that very nicely without any help from Mr Holloway McQ (ITV 915) John Wayne slamming his way around Seattle in search of the baddie who killed his buddy Not a nose is left unbroken The Prowler (BBC-2 1155) Rookie director Joseph Losey (this was 1951) getting a lot of help from veteran Sam Spiegel and the result is a strong gripping thriller Van Heflin excellent as the bent cop who falls for Evelyn Keyes and is then faced with killing her husband SUNDAY An Elephant Called Slowly (BBC-1 155) Family fare from the makers of Born Free and Ring of Bright Water Lots of amiable elephants a rhino with a sweet insatiable appetite for the readymade blockbuster is to be assuaged for the next four weeks at least by that mammoth to end all mammoths John East of Eden (ITV from Monday) The complete version this Not a character missed not a nuance ignored Contrast that with the 1950s film from Warner Brothers (directed by Elia Kazan and starring James Dean in his first big movie role) which concentrated on the last quarter of the book Screenwriter Paul Osborne sweated blood attempting to compress huge novel into a two-hour film Six times he tried six times he gave up in despair By the time script seven came into being he had decided that perhaps just a portion of Eden should survive The resultant screenplay was in the words of one of its stars Raymond Massey well-integrated and moving with just the right number of leading parts to keep the Warner accountants from tearing their hair out Television on the other hand with seven hours to play with has gone to the other extreme embracing the whole book And this time no author around to point out the inconsistencies if any For new readers basically the story of Cain and Abel time-warped to early 20th century America A sort of first generation Dallas with a great deal more class day) Snooker fans want to miss The Jameson International Open Championship which begins on Monday on ITV London Palladium is the setting for Beat the Carrott (ITV Friday) which comic Jasper Carrott hopes will help make him the funniest man in the world Final in The Krypton Factor (ITV Monday) Richie Benaud runs the rule over greatest hero Ian Botham (399 runs 34 wickets and 12 catches as the Aussies went under) on Tuesday (BBC 1) The Liberals descend on Llandudno for their annual assembly (BBC and ITV from Tues More POWER to your elbow! with a 1982 VOLVO 200 Amongst other improvements POWER ASSISTED STEERING is now standard on allf yV'V' i200 series Arolyosla Lyn Webster to set the record straight about the way our male-dominated society treats its womenfolk Says a raging Lyn: women in our department were sick of the stereotyped and sexist image of women portrayed in the typical television comedy show You know the sort of thing the daft secretary the horrid mother-in-law and the man-hating feminist decided we should redress the balance But not to say we want to make our show into one of role One for my wife to watch methinks provided of course finished the thousand and one jobs around the house that no self-respecting male chauvinist pig would think of tackling EAST meets West once again in Jonathan Dim-bleby's The Eagle and the Bear (ITV Monday) and this time the prize is the combustible and unpre- the first part ot an absorbing exploration into the making of air aces This was the beginning of the search for The Few of the 80s Such are the demands of flying the latest jets that most candidates will remain earth-bound They need an elusive combination of qualities which not even the best public school can guarantee to produce so among the hopefuls at Biggin Hill were a zoologist a male nurse and men from the ranks Early casualties were heavy This was a promising lift-off for the series which will follow the successful intellectual psychological and physical trials until they are airborne Flavour of the month Pamela Stephenson must have tarnished her image a little in Behind the Scenes with (BBC 1) As gorgeous as ever she talked a load of twaddle How she could equate the Queen with the Playing one of the star roles in the production is our very own Jane Seymour whose stab at malevolent beauty Cathy (described as having face of an angel and the soul of a should be worth at least an hour of time the most sensational part ever says Jane like playing a dozen people I think nothing greater than playing a BAD woman and this character is totally filled with Among the co-stars are Sam Bottoms (in the role made famous by James Dean) and there are juicy morsels for stalwarts such as Warren Oates Timothy Bottoms Bruce Box-leitner Anne Baxter and Lloyd Bridges to get their expensive dental work into Revolting Women (BBC 2 Friday) is a series of five feminist comedy shows designed says producer Win lose or bore motive being recognised you are somebody Anywhere in the world people have heard of he said David documentary was not entirely the eye-opener I had expected the most valuable moments being captured in the dressing room before and after unsuccessful comeback fight against a crude brawler There was one telling pre-match shot when the camera looked into his eyes and found pools of last-minute doubts and fears Afterwards bruised and cut the gladiator sat with hanging head like a bereaved puppy His handlers were straight out of Damon Runyon and more than matched coach for four-letter words If nothing else the film confirmed that controlled violence still has immense appeal Presumably there is a combative element in those young men featured in Fighter Pilot (BBC 1) dictable Persian Gulf Consider at stake Each week 130 million barrels of oil are shipped out into the Indian Ocean to satisfy the insatiable demand Japan relies on the area for almost all its oil Europe for well over half while it makes up one third of imports No wonder the Russians would like to get their hands on the oil tap STAR BRIEFS Liverpool political agent Val Law aims for the Grand sic British fantasy of I do not know And she seems to have reached that stage where she is beginning to take herself seriously while decked out in silly clothes She finished off this 30-minute basket of trivia with a song about God which even I an agnostic found tasteless Lifeless seemed to be the right for new drama series Diamonds a sort of Hatton Garden version of Dallas John Stride was the plotting son to whom his father said you Frank you make me Hildegarde Neil played his wife waiting for him to arrive at their ultra-posh home in his ultra-posh car then offering him a cup of cocoa I ask you Cocoa! that for a bit of glossy escapism? The whole thing was as dull and unpolished as the uncut stone over which everyone was spatting There was a lot of dialogue which would be understood only by the denizens of Hatton Garden It had all the pace of an athritic slug negotiating heavy grade emery paper Another flop was the new sit-com Never the Twain (ITV) in which Donald Sinden and Wind sor Davies do themselves a disservice The basis of all good humour is credibility woefully in short supply It was all very contrived with only the occasional good line: good caning the middle classes half of them enjoy And cocoa too 1982 VOLVOS a- NOW I SICKENING sight of the week was a brief clip of English football devotees performing a tribalistic ritual clearly meant to express displeasure This primitive custom apparently peculiar to our sceptered isle involves viciously assaulting other tribes whose teams unreasonably refused to bow to soccer superiority Surprise event of the week was that ITN chose to lead off their early evening coverage of global events was the announcement that a cricket player had been dropped from his side ITN had obviously had been persuaded by the Yorkshire tribe that Boycott really can traverse oceans without the aid of flotation and perform spectacular catering feats with a few loaves and fishes This despite the fact that when Willis and Botham played the Australians Boycott produced only one innings of any note Sport (what a misnomer that has become) has suffered badly from a surfeit of money and egomania especially since TV cameras have often transformed ordinary men into tin gods What they did in Minter (Granada) was to reveal the macho pride of a defeated champion determined to again wallow in the glory of victory No doubt this popular boxer is also spurred on by the prospect or earning big money but his sense of identity seemed a prime wall work Fox St Liverpool L33HG Tel: 051-207 4364 VOLVO.