Story: Mr Bits and Pieces Upside Down Day
Written by FRANCES LINDSAY Presenters
Floella Benjamin , Ben Thomas
Feature film starring John Neillon Robert Bettles and Robyn Nevin
When 12-year-old Sean becomes seriously ill, his father decides that his every wish will be granted. The boy will also never know how ill he is. His wishes seem quite simple - dog of his own, to see his mother, and a visit to the fairground. His father can grant three wishes, but what about the fourth? Actor Michael Craig has written an extraordinary family drama and a film which has a moving and unexpected climax when The Queen visits Australia.
Screenplay by MICHAEL CRAIG Producer JOHN MORRIS Director DON SHAFFEY
(First showing on British tv) Films: p 11
A series in nine parts
Episode 4: by JANE HOLLOWOOD
Tucker's love life gets complicated.
Series devised by PHIL REDMOND Film editor MICHAEL GOLDSMITH Film cameraman DAVID SOUTH Designer JOHN COLEMAN
Producer DAVID HARGREAVES Director chris MENAUL
Four programmes for Holy Week written and presented by Oliver Hun kin who looks at the religious events of Easter through the works of some of Europe's greatest painters.
1: The Agony in the Garden
(The Crucifixion: tomorrow 6.0 pm)
with subtitles, followed by Weather
Thiry Years at Beaulieu
Chris Harris narrates an unusual film portrait of The National Motor Museum, and the finest collection of motor vehicles in the country. From six cars in the front room of Palace House in 1952, the collection has grown to hundreds with a total value of £4 million.
Film editor BARRIE JOHNSTON Director DAVE THOMAS
Producer PATRICK TAGGART
A series of six programmes 3: The Revolutionaries
Marx never lived to see the revolution he predicted, but a later generation of revolutionaries did accomplish what he longed for. Marx's disciple Lenin created the Communist Party, instrument of Marxist revolution-but did it plunge revolution into the deep-freeze?
Written and presented by Asa Briggs
Film cameraman COLIN DEEHAN Sound FRED DOWNTON
Editor PATRICK FLEMING Producer IAN TAYLOR
Executive producer JOHN DEKKER
Book (same title), £10.75 from booksellers
Tonight's theme is Men
Starring Camilo Sesto , Spain's number one recording artist.
With the RAF Halton Gymnastic display team. and featuring LUKE BATCHELOR RICHARD CALKIN , WAYNE FOWKES GARY FORECAST, ANTHONY JOHNS JOHN WILLETT
Choreography BOUGIE SQUIRES Musical director JOHN COLEMAN Sound MICHAEL MCCARTHY Lighting DICKIE HICHAM Designer TONY BURROUGH
Producer BRIAN WHITEHOUSE
Executive producer ROBIN NASH
The third of six Forty Minutes documentaries, which follow the lives of six cancer sufferers over a period of nine months.
The patients have returned home after their two-day course at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre. Now they are faced with the daunting practical difficulties of putting theory into practice. One major problem is finding a doctor who will agree to prescribe the recommended vitamins and supplements. Outside the cushion of the National Health Service, the expense is heavy. Another problem is where to find in a big city the organically-grown fruit and vegetables needed for the diet. Some patients are able to cope better than others. In Cornwall, Lesley Honeyman immediately finds a pattern of support. In Birmingham, Chris Dakin soon feels she is well enough to return to work as PE teacher in a large girls' school. But Fred Shepherd's doctor in Halifax refuses to treat Fred along the Bristol centre's lines. In Bournemouth, Roger Haddock's doctor is also sceptical, and Roger becomes so ill during the centre's summer break that he has to go abroad to seek treatment in Germany.
A feature film starring
George C. Scott , Joanna Cassidy
Ace criminal Walter Ballantine escapes from prison to master-mind a bank robbery. But the bank in question is a mobile structure in the middle of a shopping centre, so Ballantine decides to steal not just the money but the whole bank!
George C. Scott is in top form as the eccentric master crook assisted by a gang of misfits in this offbeat caper comedy.
Screenplay by WENDELL MAYES
Based on the novel by DONALD E. WESTLAKE Produced by IIAL LANDERS and BOBBY ROBERTS
Directed by GOWER champion Films: page 11