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Nosyp* limit -kaAc. By Glenn Rawls car Qamecock Staff Wrlf?r Hal There is an old story that tells hov about a group of network sho executives looking for some the) Saturday morning programming, are William Hanna and Joseph Bar- tele bera show up and begin playing T some of their old Tom and Jerry inci cartoons, considered classics bv lud some. The network men are knc practically on the floor with tel< laughter, so the lights come up and is i the network president turns to F Hanna, still laughing with tears ani rolling down his face, and says: of "They're great, but we can't use fin 'em. The PTA would kill us." Stu So they would. The PTA is a ani group of public-spirited mothers pre who run about the country, pre screaming about violence in PRC JL MUTK-J JJI C short stor Pauline Collins an By Mark Che1 Oamtcock Staff I have to confess I am a Masterpie( thusiasm continues to grow with each may have still lingered within my min put to rest by the follow-up productio Unlike movies or commercial television both BBC and PBS tend to remain as fait and structure of the original work. Th< Short Story also bears witness to thi dramatic integrity. The producers of Masterpiece Theai siderably from each new production. I see the likes of a production such as Up length, yet continual story-line alienate bewilderment, myself included. None of these problems found their w series The Duchess of Duke Street. A stantial duration (15 episodes), one coi first, the seventh or even the fifteenth joyable. This ability to "self-contain" developmental story-line, was fully rej Country Matters, the new Masterpieci p.m. and as always, is rebroadcast th Critical acclaim has been lavished on and it has twice been voted the best dn successive seasons. PBS calls Country Matters a mini-ser making it the shortest Masterpiece Tti Another aspect differing this from p individual shows relate only in them development. The five segments are ta Coppard and H.E. Bates and focus on li part of this century. The series stars two Masterpiece vet< Wynn Owen, both from Upstairs, Dow bright young star of Equus fame, both i ? 1 T % _ A. n! Al_ W T A ? piay, feier rirui. ne appears in two o Simple Life" and Coppard's "The Sull Country Matters begins Sunday with the story of a young woman confined to a has robbed her of her one chance at man For those of you who have missed th Theatre, I strongly recommend you gn most PBS productions, the two esseni mercial television are absent: cleav* penetrating and realistic look at actua have to be willing to sacrifice a tad of sh irents ;vision t of i\ toons and even daring to tell terta ina-Barbera animation studios Wedn / many pictures a minute they 7, at til/l ttriA \Ta?*am Uamm r%*%+ A uiu . ncvu mum wiicit; | ozi. M se bird-brained mothers' kids I are ii ; the ladies are out to run ??? ? vision and save their children. hese women fly about causing H redible pressure and creating icrous conditions in a field they >w nothing about. And ^^?ul ivision, being the field that it is, f 19 nuch too scared to talk back. hi i| 'or example, sky-rocketing j p mation costs have made the use | || less pictures per second a i pi ancial must. Walt Disney h p dios, in fact, no longer produces I R mated short subjects and only ^ p ruut.t i/iic 1U11-1U115U1 aiiuuauuii r 1 >ject every tliree years. j j N See T.V. page 10 B mieres 11 Do y series ?^ %sl: I mM id Peter Firth ! j Sn< waiter [ Writer 11 Stc :e ineatrc lanatic, and my en- 1 |Du new program. Any doubt that d after I, Claudius was quickly '' n of Tolstoy's Anna Karinina. adaptations of great literature, | hful as possible to both the form XA b PBS program The American .KfJB s oddly unique expression of B Jga tre seem to have learned con- ] [ strongly doubt if we will again atairs, Downstairs. Its massive. |PV id many viewers into a state of f M ray into the recently completed I lthough the series was of sub- I B :;a uld easily have turned into the I and found it considerably en- 11 P* each episode, yet continue a j j ilized in this production. II C e production, begins Sunday at 9 e following Friday at 10 p.m. the show since its introduction, amatic series in Britain for two K ies; it is only five episodes long, CJl leatre presentation yet. jfi revious productions is that the I e, not in characters or story l^yK; Irpn frnm chnrt ctnrioc hu A IT t= ' n?v?i mm v??? uiavi v u ivu J ' ' gi f-:: ... fe in rural England in the early | j j* * . J erans, Pauline Collins and Meg f-j h - ? nstairs. Also of interest is the I HrfiPJ in the movie and the Broadway M t i f the productions, Bates' "The [J ens Sisters." jj Coppard's "Crippled Bloom," I , wheelchair who feels her sister | | |j e previous joys of Masterpiece I I re Country Mutters a try. 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