Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 277,887 playable programmes from the BBC

Children's Television

on BBC Television

View in Radio Times

The Friday Western: Dead Man's Shoe
The Range Rider finds a secret plan for a gold mine that belongs to a girl living on a nearby ranch. Bad men capture the plan, but the Range Rider foils the gang.

The Nelson Touch
One-hundred-and-fifty years ago today the British Fleet, commanded by Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, won the Battle of Trafalgar, but Nelson was killed. This play in his honour tells how he took command of the Fleet.
Adapted by George Nash of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and Naomi Capon from a play by David Scott Daniell.
(Michael Aldridge is in "Salad Days" at the Vaudeville Theatre; Donald Eccles is in "Kismet" at the Stoll Theatre; Wolfe Morris is in "The Teahouse of the August Moon" at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)

(to 18.00)

Contributors

Author (The Nelson Touch):
David Scott Daniell
Adapted by (The Nelson Touch):
George Nash
Adapted by/Producer (The Nelson Touch):
Naomi Capon
Designer (The Nelson Touch):
Lawrence Broadhouse
Captain the Hon Henry Blackwood:
Michael Aldridge
Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson:
Barry Letts
Lord Barham, First Lord of the Admiralty:
Laurence Hardy
William Marsden, Secretary of the Admiralty:
Donald Eccles
William Pitt, the Prime Minister:
Andre van Gyseghem
Captain Thomas M. Hardy:
Norman Mitchell
Powder Monkey:
Richard Palmer
Old Salt:
Wolfe Morris
Bo'sun's Mate:
Gilbert Vernon
Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Calder, Bt:
Eric Phillips
Lieutenant-John Pasco:
David Aylmer

BBC Television

Appears in

Suggest an Edit

We are trying to reflect the information printed in the Radio Times magazine.

  • Press the 'Suggest an Edit' button
  • Type in any changes to the title, synopsis or contributor information using the Radio Times Style Guide for reference.
  • Click the Submit Edits button.
    Your changes will be sent for verification and if accepted, will appear in due course More