Listings
: The Red Arrows: Classic Manoeuvres
In 1983 the Royal Air Force aerobatic team, The RedArrows, were invited to take part in the American
Bicentennial celebrations with a 24-day tour of the United States and dazzling air displays throughout the country.
Written by CHRISTOPHER COOK
Executive producer LEE GULLICK Produced and directed by HOWARD HEYWOOD
(Produced for the Ministry of Defence)
Contributors
Written By:
Christopher
Cook
Directed By:
Howard
Heywood
: National Velvet
starringElizabeth Taylor Mickey Rooney
Velvet Brown wins a hunter in a raffle and decides to turn him into a champion racehorse with the help of her young friend Mi.
Screenplay by THEODORE REEVES and HELEN DEUTSCH
Based on the novel by ENID BAGNOLD Produced by PANDRO S. BERMAN Directed by CLARENCE BROWN
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Contributors
Unknown:
Elizabeth
Taylor
Unknown:
Mickey
Rooney
Unknown:
Velvet
Brown
Unknown:
Theodore
Reeves
Unknown:
Helen
Deutsch
Novel By:
Enid
Bagnold
Produced By:
Pandro S.
Berman
Directed By:
Clarence
Brown
Mi Taylor:
Mickey
Rooney
Mr Brown:
Donald
Crisp
Velvet Brown:
Elizabeth
Taylor
Mrs Brown:
Anne
Revere
Edwina Brown:
Angela
Lansbury
Donald Brown:
Jackie
Jenkins
: Harold Lloyd in Luke's Movie Muddle
Starting a short season of rare collectors' pieces starring one of the greats of silent screen comedy.Lonesome Luke , Harold's first solo comic creation, causes havoc in a cinema when his eyes stray from the screen on to the girls among the audience.
Music composed by LEE ERWIN Directed by HAL ROACH (Blackandwhite)
Contributors
Unknown:
Lonesome
Luke
Composed By:
Lee
Erwin
Directed By:
Hal
Roach
: Holiday Time
with Vicky Ireland Charles O'RourkeJeni Barnett , Harry Towb
Frances Kay , Francis Wright Vicky tells the story of a Christmas-tree fairy; Cosmo and Dibs get into trouble with paint. Today's musical story: The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
(Part 2 tomorrow at 2.5 pm)
Contributors
Unknown:
Vicky
Ireland
Unknown:
Charles
O'Rourke
Unknown:
Jeni
Barnett
Unknown:
Harry
Towb
Unknown:
Frances
Kay
Unknown:
Francis
Wright
: Mogambo
starring Clark Gable Ava Gardner Grace KellyVie Marswell , celebrated hunter and safari-leader, is none too pleased when his headquarters in the uplands of Kenya are invaded by a vivacious
American showgirl. But that is only the beginning of Marswell's worries.
Screenplay by JOHN LEE MAHIN Produced by SAM ZIMBALIST Directed by JOHN FORD
• FILMS: page 29
Contributors
Unknown:
Clark
Gable
Unknown:
Ava
Gardner
Unknown:
Grace
Kelly
Unknown:
Vie
Marswell
Unknown:
John Lee
Mahin
Produced By:
Sam
Zimbalist
Directed By:
John
Ford
Victor Marswell:
Clark
Gable
Eloise Kelly:
Ava
Gardner
Linda Nordley:
Grace
Kelly
Donald Nordley:
Donald
Sinden
John Brown-Pryce:
Philip
Stainton
Leon Boltchak:
Eric
Pohlmann
Skipper:
Lawrence
Naismith
: Telly Quiz
with Jerry Stevens who puts questions about television to three teams:The Ebleys, Pack Pendle, and the TV Mimics. BBC Pebble Mill
(Final round tomorrow at 4.30 pm)
Contributors
Host:
Jerry
Stevens
Teams:
The Ebleys, Pack Pendle, TV
Mimics.
Producer:
Bill
Jones.
Announcer:
David
Stevens.
: The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures
The Message of the Genes by Dr Walter BodmerDirector of Research, Imperial Cancer Research Fund
A six-part series on human inheritance and how it affects our health.
1: We're All Different
There are roughly five billion people alive today and, apart from identical twins, we're all different. What explains our extraordinary variety and the fact that beneath all our differences we're all homo sapiens?
Director STUART MCDONALD Producer MAX WHITBY
Executive producer DAVID PATERSON
Contributors
Unknown:
Dr Walter
Bodmer
Director:
Stuart
McDonald
Producer:
Max
Whitby
Producer:
David
Paterson
: Chaplin: Modern Times
starringCharlie Chaplin as the tramp
In this brilliant comedy about Man versus the Machine, Charlie is shown at work on the production line in an automated factory. Apart from a comic song in gibberish, Charlie remains as silent as ever, though the film was made several years after the coming of the talkies.
Charlie's own boisterous music provides the accompaniment to this masterpiece among comedy films.
President of Steel
Corporation... ALLEN GARCIA
Written, produced and directed by CHARLES CHAPLIN
0 FILMS: page 29
Contributors
Unknown:
Charlie
Chaplin
Directed By:
Charles
Chaplin
Gamin:
Paulette
Goddard
Cafe proprietor:
Henry
Bergman
Mechanic:
Chester
Conklin
Burglars:
Hank
Mann
Burglars:
Stanley
Sandford
Burglars:
Louis
Natheux
: New Year in Vienna
The traditional New Year's Day concert from the Grosser Musikvereinssaal , which this year marks the start of European Music Year.Lorin Maazel conducts the Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra in the music of the Strauss family.
Also appearing are the Ballet of the Vienna State Opera
Introduced by Richard Baker Choreography GERALDINE DILL Directed for ORF/ZDF by HUGO KAECH
Contributors
Unknown:
Grosser
Musikvereinssaal
Unknown:
Lorin
Maazel
Introduced By:
Richard
Baker
Introduced By:
Choreography
Geraldine
: Meryl Streep at the National Film Theatre
The director of Kramer vs Kramer describedMeryl Streep as 'one of a handful of really great actresses'. She discusses with lain Johnstone some of the roles which have led to her screen success.
Film extracts include Sophie's Choice, The Deer Hunter, The French Lieutenant's Woman and Kramer vs Kramer. Director TONY TYLEY
Producer ALLAN KASSELL
(The Deer Hunter follows at 9.10 pm)
Contributors
Unknown:
Meryl
Streep
Director:
Tony
Tyley
Producer:
Allan
Kassell
: The Deer Hunter
A special presentation of the Oscar-winning epic starringRobert De Niro
Christopher Walken Meryl Streep
Clairton, Pennsylvania, the 60s. Three close friends from the steelworks, Mike, Nick and Steve, prepare to leave for service in Vietnam, but not before Steve's wedding is celebrated in grand style. The festivities turn into a painful farewell as the three men are embroiled in a war in which there are no rules but survival, and the enemy have devised a deadly game of Russian roulette for their prisoners....
This moving and sometimes disturbing film received huge critical praise, breaking new ground in its realistic depiction of the effect of the Vietnam War on the American people. It won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Screenplay by DERIC WASHBURN Produced by BARRY SPKINGS
MICHAEL DEELEY , MICHAEL CIMINO and JOHN PEVERALL
Directed by MICHAEL CIMINO
(First showing on British television)
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Contributors
Unknown:
Robert
de Niro
Unknown:
Christopher
Walken
Unknown:
Meryl
Streep
Play By:
Deric
Washburn
Produced By:
Barry
Spkings
Produced By:
Michael
Deeley
Produced By:
Michael
Cimino
Produced By:
John
Peverall
Directed By:
Michael
Cimino
Michael Vronsky:
Robert
de Niro
Stan ‘Stosh’:
John
Cazale
Steven:
John
Savage
Nikanor 'Nick' Chevotarevich:
Christopher
Walken
Linda:
Meryl
Streep
John:
George
Dzundza
Axel:
Chuck
Aspegren
Steven's mother:
Shirley
Stoler
Angela:
Putanya
Alda
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