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Film, shown for the first time in colour, of the uproarious balloon race organised in 1965 by the BBC's Travel and Exploration Unit in which ten passenger-carrying balloons took to the air from a field near the Oxfordshire village of Stanton Harcourt and landed in various parts of the Cotswolds.

"(Television's) craziest piece of reportage... a wonderful spectacular feature bringing something excitingly different to the home screen... the compilation of the story, from a mass of mad or funny incidents as the nine competitors tried to follow a fox balloon was a masterpiece" (Daily Telegraph)
Written and produced by Brian Branston
(First shown on BBC-1)
(Colour)