Listings
: Tarzan's Secret Treasure
continues a festive presentation of films featuring the legendary jungle couple, starring Johnny Weissmuller Maureen O'Sullivan When Boy goes in search of adventure, he finds his life threatened by the savage Ubardi tribe.He is saved by a scientific expedition led by Professor Elliott, but it soon becomes clear that the expedition itself poses a threat to the peace of the jungle.
Screenplay by MYLES CONNOLLY and PAUL GABGEUN
Produced by B. P FINEMAN
Directed by RICHARD THORPE
('Tarzan's New York Adventure' tomorrow 1. 00pm)
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Contributors
Unknown:
Johnny
Weissmuller
Unknown:
Maureen
O'Sullivan
Unknown:
Myles
Connolly
Produced By:
B. P
Fineman
Directed By:
Richard
Thorpe
Tarzan:
Johnny
Weissmuller
Jane:
Maureen
O'Sullivan
Boy:
Johnny
Sheffield
Professor Elliott:
Reginald
Owen
O'Doul:
Barry
Fitzgerald
Medford:
Tom
Conway
Vandermeer:
Philip
Dorn
Tumbo:
Cordell
Hickman
: The Admiral's Cup
From the Solent to the ChannelIn August, yachts from 15 countries gathered at Cowes on the Isle of Wight for the British Grand Prix of ocean racing. The first of five races brought the 45 boats into action at close quarters in the confined waters of the Solent. Bob Fisher reports on this race and, from his own yacht Barracuda, where he joined the fleet for the second race in the English Channel.
Contributors
Unknown:
Bob
Fisher
: News
Weather followed by The Natural WorldAspen -A Dance of Leaves Narrator Sian Phillips Where the prairies of America meet the great northern forest lies a natural parkland in which one tree is dominant - the trembling aspen. Here, creatures of the forest live within a stone's throw of their grassland counterparts.
Through the heat of summer and the cold of the long
Canadian winter the aspen is food, home and refuge. Filmed and directed by ROBERT J. LONG
Produced by PELHAM ALDRICHBLAKE BBCBristol(R)
Contributors
Narrator:
Sian
Phillips
Directed By:
Robert
J. Long
Produced By:
Pelham
Aldrichblake
: Holiday Outings
St Wolfgang in Austria is straight out of Hansel and Gretel, where, as Gillian Reynolds discovers, the hills are alive with the sound of music.Producer PATRICIA HOUUHAN
Contributors
Unknown:
St
Wolfgang
Unknown:
Gillian
Reynolds
Producer:
Patricia
Houuhan
: News
Weather followed by Jacqueline du Pre MasterclassJacqueline du Pre died on 19 October after a long illness. In 1979, though already severely crippled, she made a series of cello masterclasses at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama before an audience of music students. For the next four afternoons, viewers have another chance to enjoy these programmes; today the work which, above all others, Jacqueline du Pre made particularly her own: the Elgar Cello Concerto. With Faye Clinton and Christine Jackson
Accompanist Clifford Benson Directed by KEITH CHEETHAM (R)
Contributors
Unknown:
Jacqueline
du Pre
Unknown:
Faye
Clinton
Accompanist:
Christine
Jackson
Accompanist:
Clifford
Benson
Directed By:
Keith
Cheetham
: News and Weather
Regional News and Weather: Fred Astaire Dances: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Continuing a season of films featuring the dancing and acting of Fred Astaire who died earlier this year.Today also starring Ginger Rogers.
In their last RKO musical teaming, the true life story of a husband and wife dance team provides an excellent platform for Astaire and Rogers to perform some fabulous dance numbers, to songs including "Only when You're in My Arms", "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "The Yama Yama Man" and "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee".
("Flying down to Rio" next Tuesday at 3.50pm)
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(Ceefax subtitles)
Contributors
Screenplay:
Richard
Sherman
Producer:
George
Haight
Director:
H.C.
Potter
Vernon Castle:
Fred
Astaire
Irene Castle:
Ginger
Rogers
Maggie Sutton:
Edna May
Oliver
Walter:
Walter
Brennan
Lew Fields:
Himself
Papa Aubel:
Etienne
Girardot
Mrs Foote:
Janet
Beecher
Emile Aubel:
Rolf
Sedan
Artist:
Leonid
Kinskey
Dr Foote:
Robert
Strange
Student pilot:
Douglas
Walton
Papa Louis:
Clarence
Derwent
Charlie:
Sonny
Lamont
Claire Ford:
Frances
Mercer
Grand Duke:
Victor
Varconi
Hotel manager:
Donald
MacBride
: Cartoon
: Jack High
The Gateway Masters Bowls Tournament from Beach House Park WorthingTonight's programme features a match between two of the best bowlers from the Commonwealth,
DENNIS KATUNARICH of Australia and ALF WALLACE of Canada.
They produce a match where the result is in doubt right to the end.
Commentators DAVID VINE
DAVID RHYS JONES
Producer JOHNNIE WATHERSTON
Contributors
Unknown:
Dennis
Katunarich
Unknown:
Alf
Wallace
Commentators:
David
Vine
Unknown:
David
Rhys
Producer:
Johnnie
Watherston
: The Wizard of Oz
The family favourite starringJudy Garland with Frank Morgan Ray Bolger Bert Lahr
Jack Haley
Follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful world of Oz. There you'll join the Tin Man, the vulnerable
Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion. Plus, of course, the enchanting Dorothy, as the foursome battle with the Wicked Witch of the West. In Hollywood's ageless movie, the incomparable Judy plays Dorothy, who discovers the other side of the rainbow - while also realising that there's 'no place like home'.
Screenplay by NOEL LANGLEY . FLORENCE RYERSON EDGAR ALLEN WOOLF
Based on the book by FRANK L. BAUM Songs by E.Y. HARBURG and HAROLD ARLEN
Produced byMERVYN LE ROY Directed by VICTOR FLEMING (Colour and black and white)
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* CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Contributors
Unknown:
Judy
Garland
Unknown:
Frank
Morgan
Unknown:
Ray
Bolger
Unknown:
Bert
Lahr
Unknown:
Jack
Haley
Play By:
Noel
Langley
Unknown:
Florence
Ryerson
Unknown:
Edgar
Allen
Book By:
Frank L.
Baum
Songs By:
E.Y.
Harburg
Produced By:
Mervyn
Le Roy
Directed By:
Victor
Fleming
Dorothy:
Judy
Garland
Professor Marvel/Wizard:
Frank
Morgan
Hunk/Scarecrow:
Ray
Bolger
Zeke/Cowardly Lion:
Bert
Lahr
Hickory/Tin Man:
Jack
Haley
Glinda:
Billie
Burke
Miss Gulch/Wicked Witch of the West:
Margaret
Hamilton
Uncle Henry:
Charley
Grapewin
Nikko:
Pat
Walshe
Auntie Em:
Clara
Blandick
: A Little Piece of England
Charles Strachey , fourth Baron O'Hagan, MEP for Devon, inherited Sutton Court in Avon in 1973. The house, owned by the family since the 17th century, had suffered from neglect. Dry rot and damp were a threat to oil paintings, glassware and books.Nothing on the 850-acre estate had changed for years. This is the story of Lord
O'Hagan's fight against time to preserve his inheritance. Narrator Anthony Quayle Film editor ROB HARRINGTON Producer SARAH PITT
Contributors
Unknown:
Charles
Strachey
Narrator:
Anthony
Quayle
Editor:
Rob
Harrington
Producer:
Sarah
Pitt
: Two Loves
Poetry and Music from the Age of Elizabeth ICompiled and presented by Peggy Ashcroft and Julian Bream
Today is the 80th birthday of one of Britain's most celebrated and best-loved actresses, Peggy Ashcroft.
This evening she joins Julian Bream in the elegant Long Gallery at Penshurst Place in Kent for a programme of Shakespeare's poetry and Dowland's music. Besides such famous poems as Orpheus with his Lute and Come away Death, Peggy Ashcroft includes extracts from Othello, Venus and Adonis, Phoenix and the Turtle and, of course, some of the sonnets.
Julian Bream 's lute solos include John Dowland's haunting Lachrymae, a galliard dedicated to 'the most Sacred Queene Elizabeth', settings of popular ballads and a fiendishly difficult Fancy.
Sound JOHN CAULFIELD
Lighting DENNIS BUTCHER
Producer RON ISTED
Contributors
Presented By:
Peggy
Ashcroft
Presented By:
Julian
Bream
Unknown:
Peggy
Ashcroft.
Unknown:
Julian
Bream
Unknown:
Peggy
Ashcroft
Unknown:
Julian
Bream
Unknown:
John
Dowland
Unknown:
John
Caulfield
Producer:
Ron
Isted
: Yes, Prime Minister: A Conflict of Interest
starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds.Jim gets wind of a major financial scandal in the City which is bound to have damaging repercussions on the government. With the party conference coming up, it is time for firm action by a decisive prime minister ... but not in Sir Humphrey's opinion!
Ceefax subtitles.
Contributors
Writer:
Antony
Jay
Writer:
Jonathan
Lynn
Title sequence:
Gerald
Scarfe
Lighting:
Ron
Bristow
Designer:
Gloria
Clayton
Producer:
Sydney
Lotterby
Director:
Sydney
Lotterby
Jim Hacker:
Paul
Eddington
Sir Humphrey:
Nigel
Hawthorne
Bernard:
Derek
Fowlds
Sir Desmond:
Richard
Vernon
Dorothy:
Deborah
Norton
Sir Frank:
Peter
Cellier
High Commissioner of Buranda:
Louis
Mahoney
Secretary:
Miranda
Forbes
: The Home-made Xmas Video: A Video de Dad
It's full of lots of things about Christmas. What we did, where we went, what we ate, how much we all drunk and everything. You'll see Gran and Grandad, me and Mum, me as Santa, Len and Shirley and the nipper ... oh, and Peter me nipper and the turkey.It's a great stuff!
(The turkey, I mean.) But no, seriously ...
I'd like to thank the following people for helping me with my Arc de Triumph:
Griff Rhys Jones
Mel Smith
Diane Langton and Robin Driscoll for helping me to do the writing bits.
Plus, everyone else who got roped in.
Dorothea Alexander
Brian Coburn
Frankie Cosgrave
Janice Cramer
Nigel Harman
Jenny Jay
Raymond Mason
Pete McCarthy
Walter Sparrow
Rebecca Stevens
Stan Young
Very special thanks to Len's probation officer for keeping out of shot and to John Kilby and Jamie Rix for arranging to have my work premiered by the BBC.
Contributors
Dad:
Griff Rhys
Jones
Len:
Mel
Smith
Mum:
Diane
Langton
Writer:
Robin
Driscoll
Grandmother:
Dorothea
Alexander
Alan:
Brian
Coburn
Hospital sister:
Frankie
Cosgrave
Policewoman:
Janice
Cramer
Shirley:
Jenny
Jay
Baby:
Bruce
Kilby
Neighbour:
Raymond
Mason
Policeman:
Pete
McCarthy
Grandfather:
Walter
Sparrow
Ambulancewoman:
Rebecca
Stevens
Mrs Aldershot:
Joanne
Noble
Pub landlord:
Stan
Young
: Catch a Fallen Star
A 40 Minutes specialA portrait of Jessie Matthews
with Dirk Bogarde, Lord and Lady Elwyn Jones, Catherine Countess Grixoni, Chili Bouchier
Dirk Bogarde believes she was more talented than Ginger Rogers. The public adored her: she was a star. John Pitman tells the bitter-sweet story of Jessie Matthews who rose from the backstreets of Soho to become Britain's leading lady. Her films - Evergreen, First a Girl - and songs - Over my Shoulder, Look for the Silver Lining - weave through the memories of the people who shared the private life of a public figure. (R)
('The Good Companions' Holiday Monday 12.30pm)
Contributors
Interviewee:
Dirk
Bogarde
Interviewee:
Lord Elwyn
Jones
Interviewee:
Lady Elwyn
Jones
Interviewee:
Catherine Countess
Grixoni
Interviewee:
Chili
Bouchier
Presenter/Producer:
John
Pitman
Research:
Sally
George
40 Minutes Editor:
Edward
Mirzoeff
: Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry Wrong Number
continues a Christmas film season featuring the great Hollywood actress. Tonight also starringBurt Lancaster
Ann Richards
Wendell Corey
A faulty telephone connection plunges a bedridden woman into a nightmare of terror when she overhears a murder plot, and realises she is the intended victim....
Screenplay by LUCILLE FLETCHER Produced by HAL WALLIS
Directed by ANATOLE LITVAK
('There's Always Tomorrow' tomorrow at 12.20am)
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Contributors
Unknown:
Burt
Lancaster
Unknown:
Ann
Richards
Unknown:
Wendell
Corey
Play By:
Lucille
Fletcher
Produced By:
Hal
Wallis
Directed By:
Anatole
Litvak
Leona Stevenson:
Barbara
Stanwyck
Henry Stevenson:
Burt
Lancaster
Sally Hunt Lord:
Ann
Richards
Dr Alexander:
Wendell
Corey
Waldo Evans:
Harold
Vernilyea
James Cotterell:
Ed
Begley
Fred Lord:
Leif
Erickson
Morano:
William
Conrad
Joe (detective):
John
Bromfield
: Weather
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