Clinton News-Record, 1974-09-05, Page 39PAGE 23
The new land
•
Wednesdays, 9 p.m. on the Global
Television Network,.
THE NEW LAND is the story of
a proud Danish immigrant and his
young family as they battle the
elements and hostile fellow coun-
trymen to carve out a rich new life
for themselves in the Scandinavian
community of Solna, Minnesota in
the mid-19th century.
The main characters are
Christian, played by Scott Thomas.
Thomas has made his name as a
stage actor, and was seen recently in
"St. Joan" at the Ahmanson theatre
in Los Angeles. His television
credits include appearances in
"Bonanza", "Land of the Giants"
and the ABC movie "Shadow on the
Land". He has also appeared in
motion pictures .. "Kona Coast",
"The Thousand Plane Raid" and
"Guns of the Magnificent Seven".
Bonnie Bedelia plays his wife An-
nna, Bonnie appeared in the Broad-
way production of "My Sweet
Charlie," In a two-part "Bonanza"
episode she "married" Little Joe.
Amond her many other TV credits
are the ABC-TV movie "Sand
Castles" and the pilot film for
"Hawkins". She has also made
several motion pictures, including
"The Gypsy Moths" "They Shoot
Horses Don't They" and the
Canadian-made "Goin' Down the
Road."
Kurt. Russell plays the part of Bo,
Christian's friend from the old
country who helps him with the
logging and lumber work.
Christian and Anna have two
children, Tuliff, played by Todd
Luckinland, and Anneliese, played
by Debbie Lytton.
Other series regulars are Donald
Moffat as the Lutheran Pastor Rev.
Lundstrom and Gwen Amer who
plays his wife, Molly.
THE NEW LAND reflects the
trend towards nostalgia in
television. It combines old-'
fashioned values of hard work and
high ideals with rugged outdoor ad-
venture stories,
The series which is produced by
William Blinn and Philip Leacock
makes its debut on Global Wed-
nesday, September 11 at 9:00 p.m.
World of Wicks
Sundays, 6:30 p.m. on the Global
' Television Network •
Saturdays, 8:00 p.m. on the Global
Television Network
Cartoonist Ben Wicks' zany inter-
view show WORLD OF WICKS
returns to Global this fall for a new
season.
Ben haa , again been travelling
around the world to gather material
for his show. This year celebrities
include an arm-wrestling match
with Charlton Heston, Ben burying
James Garner in the sand of Malibu
beach, a discussion with Robert'
"Marcus Welby" Young, and an in-
terview with actor 'McLean Steven-
son of "M.A.S.H." who had a
giggling fit in the middle of the
filming session. Ben also visited
San Francisco to meet the Human
Juke Box and a painter working on
a San Francisco trolley car.
Ben's cartoons, syndicated by the
Los Angeles Times, are now seen in
135 newspapers in the United
States. The Toronto Sun sells his
work to 56 papers in Canada and to
others in Australia, England and
• the West Indies.
Born a Cockney, Ben left
England for Canada in 1957 where
his first work in Canada was
published by the Saturday Evening
Post. He has appeared as a guest on
many radio and television shows
and in August 1967, Time magazine
devoted a full page to his work. Ben
has written a number of major
magazine articles and he has been
thr vo.sothor of a 'number of honks,
including "The Naked Gourmet".
Ben has always enjoyed
travelling, and for last season's
shows he covered thousands of
miles in search of interesting and
unusual guests for his show. He in-
terviewed such celebrities as Ingrid
Bergman, Michael Caine, David
Niven, Sir Edmund Hillary and
Christopher Plummer. He also
discovered such eccentric per-
sonalities as Morris the Button
Man, the Las Vegas maddm, and
the owner of a Toronto bodyrub
parlour.
Currently travelling the world in
search of guests for this season's
shows, Ben promises that WORLD
OP WICKS will be just as zany and
unusual as it was last season,