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Billy Smart's Circus

on BBC One London

A special performance for Europe from the ring of the world's largest tenting circus.
Frank Bough, behind the bars of the big cage introduces

Eleven huge Polar Bears gently presented by Charles Illeneb

Mexico's star aerialists The Five Ibarras on the flying trapeze

Comedy in a box
Hugony and Partner

Springboard, trampoline, and clowning blended by Spain's Six Alcaraz

Four-footed footballers from Vienna Conrad Nello and his Soccer Dogs

Teeth-held slack wire
A unique presentation, defying description and gravity, by The Four Cuellas

Double-bass buffoonery (or who put the soup in the timpani?)
by Joe, Jac, and Johnnie

Fifteen Elephants, Ten Circus Show-girls, Birma's Walk of Death, Baby Elephant Leap-Frog, The Beatle Elephants all presented by Billy Smart Jr.

The world's greatest solo trapeze artist Gerard Soules

The Grand Carousel
A salute from performers around the world.

Also appearing:
Clown and Augustes
Spuggy-Alby Austin-Harty Pompeu-Abdeslam
and The Robertis

Fire-Eating Genie
Barry Walls

(Billy Smart's Winter Circus is appearing at the Queen's Hall, Leeds)
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Contributors

Presenter:
Frank Bough
Polar Bear act:
Charles Illeneb
Aerialists:
The Five Ibarras
Comedians:
Hugony and Partner
Entertainers:
Six Alcaraz
Dog act:
Conrad Nello and his Soccer Dogs
Performers:
The Four Cuellas
Performers:
Joe, Jac, and Johnnie
Elephant act:
The Beatle Elephants
Acts presented by:
Billy Smart
Trapeze artist:
Gerard Soules
Clowns:
The Robertis
Fire-eater:
Barry Walls
Ringmaster:
Alfred Delbosq
Musical Director:
John Muldoon
Associate and conductor:
Ken Griffin
Singer:
Mike Redway
Circus Presentation:
Ronnie Smart
Circus Presentation:
David Smart
Producer:
Derek Burrell-Davis

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