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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
May 20, 1968
Page
7
The piece portrays life in far western Australia with the Barton family near Sterling Barton property as sheep are sold cheaply and drought challenges press on. It notes a lighter note through a debutante ball and a local race meeting offering comic relief in a somber rural setting.
Fred Astaire headlines a Channel 7 special airing Saturday at 8pm with Barrie Chase. The show features modern beat music, electronic distortion, and slowed tapes to give old songs a contemporary flavor. Guest stars include Simon and Garfunkel lookalikes, the Gordian Knot, and a Latin rhythm group.
American TV man Arthur Holch films a Western trip down the Danube aboard an air conditioned Russian steamer for Project '68. The program, narrated by Maximilian Schell, covers Vienna to the Black Sea via the Balkans and Eastern Europe, noting changes and contrasting youth at a Budapest party club with Western tourists at a Romanian Black Sea resort.
Station supplied programme changes and starting times are correct at press. Later adjustments are the stations’ responsibility and will appear in The Canberra Times on the relevant day.
The 1967 Australian National University programme on ABC TV at 4 pm Sunday surveys Canberra’s university achievements. It previews the School of General Studies and faculties, then centers on postgraduate research at the Institute of Advanced Studies. Topics include influenza viruses, eucalyptus species relationships, dating rocks, manuscript restoration, and New Guinea cash crop economics.
The Contemporary Dance Theatre will air a four night season and present a television sequence on ABC TV This Week at 6 15 pm Thursday The producer Bruce Allan recently returned from the BBC and aims for a strictly local image to complement This Day Tonight The new discussion panel hosted by Caroline Jones will become a regular feature with topics set just before airtime to keep spontaneity.
ABC TV introduces two new programmes this week with Not Only But Also starring Dudley Moore and Peter Cook starting a new eight episode run tonight. A BBC comedy Not In Front of the Children premieres Wednesday at 8 PM. Also BBC airs the five part serial Bat Out of Hell at 8 PM tomorrow.
Seven Days profiles itinerant carnival families who travel year round through Australia. Phillip Crookes and Bryan Quigley host It’s a Better Job than Yours Mate, exploring carnival life, costs of rides, and disassembling Australia’s ferris wheel. The program follows carnival daily routines from dawn to late night, noting generations keeping the lifestyle.
A direct telecast of the Federal Parliamentary luncheon honoring Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was planned for simultaneous viewing in Canberra with afternoon air times yet to be confirmed.
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