Tasteful humor and subtle comedy will soon return to local television as Beyond Our Control, the weekly satirical revue, opens its gala fifth anniversary season. The program's lawyers are standing by for the season premiere Saturday, January 29 at 5:3O PM EST on WNDU-TV, Channel l6. Twenty-four area high school students and three advisers from the staff of WNDU-TV, more or less organized under the banner of WJA-TV, the Junior Achievement Television Company, produce the weekly electronic conglomeration of parody, music, experimental film and commercials.

A sampling of the public's enthusiastic reaction to Beyond Our Control's return to the air will open the first program of the new season. The sequence was filmed at a local shopping center with Kim Guidi interviewing various local denizens.

TV sports shows will be parodied as the cast moves into the Coach's Corral, featuring sportscaster Butch Manly and his special guest. In the Rock of Ages segment, an irregularly-scheduled reprise of vintage pop music, a lonely soldier pours out the tragic story of "Ebony Eyes" and the ill-fated Flight 1203 to a sympathetic bartender. Kim Guidi is the soldier and Kevin O'Brien is the bartender in the rendition of the song originally recorded by Dickey Lee

A local television station's presentation of horror movies is the target for parody when Beyond Our Control unveils "The Cretin Feature." This week's featured cretin film--"The Running Pile"--pauses for numerous commercial interruptions, with Jim Skwarcan portraying Will Darwin and Carl Thompson playing used car dealer Rudy Mazuma.

Commercial parodies for polka records, a Kitchen Perforator appliance, Virile Beer and others round out the first show.

Beyond Our Control is directed for Channel 16 by Mark Heller, who is frankly delighted with the assignment.