Presented by broadcasting legend Selwyn Toogood, this panel show screened on weekday afternoons from 1976 to 1985. Toogood and four female panellists answered viewers' letters, and took on issues big and small. "We tackle every problem, be it incest, love or tatting" as panelist Liz Grant says in a poetry reading. Regular panellists included Shona McFarlane, Heather Shanahan, Catherine Saunders, and Johnny Frisbie. This Christmas special screened on Christmas Day 1982. Toogood attempts a hula and sings Yes! We Have No Bananas.
From 1976 to 1985, the late Selwyn Toogood presented Beauty and the Beast, a daily problem-solving show featuring four women panellists. The series was produced out of TVNZ's Dunedin studios by John ...
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