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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
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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
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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
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>ject every tliree years. j j N
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: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= '
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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. Like I I
tial qualities dominating com- I 8 T
ige and violence. Yet, for a 1 1
1 human experience, you may I
lowbiz for a chunk of humanity.
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