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Ten programmes about prehistoric man's first steps in technology.

What is meant by civilisation? Does it just mean a knowledge and use of writing? To what extent was it brought about by technological advance? These questions are discussed by Nicholas Thomas, Keeper, Department of Archaeology, Birmingham City Museum and M. I. Finley, Reader in Ancient Social and Economic History,
University of Cambridge.
A BBC Educational broadcast

Contributors

Presenter:
Nicholas Thomas
Presenter:
M. I. Finley
Producer:
Paul Johnstone

A series of ten programmes.
Introduced by a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of London.

Tremendous strides have been made to ensure the well-being of mother and baby during pregnancy and birth. But there are still problems research is trying to solve.
The Professor discusses some of these with the doctor, the medical embryologist, and the Professor of Paediatrics.
A BBC Educational Broadcast

Contributors

Presenter:
A Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of London [name uncredited]
Guest:
The Doctor [name uncredited]
Guest:
The medical embryologist [name uncredited]
Guest:
The Professor of Paediatrics [name uncredited]
Guest:
A Health visitor [name uncredited]
Producer:
Joyce Bullen
Editor:
Beryl Radley

Tales from the last frontier of the great American West.
Starring James Drury as The Virginian

Judge Garth's decision to apply the law of the range to a suspected cattle thief is in danger of driving a wedge between him and the Virginian.
First transmission on June 8

Contributors

The Virginian:
James Drury
Judge Garth:
Lee J. Cobb
Trampas:
Doug McClure
Steve:
Gary Clarke
Jubal Tatum:
Jack Warden
Betsy Garth:
Roberta Shore
Major Cass:
John Anderson
Melissa Tatum:
Jacqueline Scott
Homer Tatum:
Roger Mobley

Introduced this week by Fyfe Robertson.
The world and its events as the Tonight team reported them last week.

Contributors

Presenter:
Fyfe Robertson
Cameraman:
Ken Willicombe
Cameraman:
Hannen Foss
Cameraman:
Reg Pope
Cameraman:
Ewart Needham
Sound recordist:
Dennis Panchen
Sound recordist:
Don Martin
Sound recordist:
Ted Read
Film editor:
Mansel Lloyd
Film editor:
John McNicholas
Film editor:
Bill Wright
Film editor:
Tom Foley
Film editor:
Eddy Montague
Editor:
Alasdair Milne
Editor:
Derrick Amoore

by John Hopkins.
A second showing of some of the cases encountered by Z Victor One and Z Victor Two.

To the young Mrs. Napier the man at the door seems anything but sinister. Just buying old gold. But his methods of purchase leave something to be desired.

Contributors

Writer:
John Hopkins
Designer:
Stanley Morris
Film sequences - Cameraman:
Charles Lagus
Film sequences - Editor:
Sheila S. Tomlinson
Producer:
David E. Rose
Director:
Leonard Lewis

by Alexandre Dumas.
Dramatised by Anthony Steven.

Albert demands an explanation from an old friend and Mercedes learns the truth.

Contributors

Author:
Alexandre Dumas
Dramatised by:
Anthony Steven
Music composed and conducted by:
Roberto Gerhard
Costume Supervisor:
Dorothea Wallace
Make-up Supervisor:
Sheila Cassidy
Designer:
Mary Rea
Designer:
Barry Newbery
Script Editor:
Betty Willingale
Producer:
Campbell Logan
Director:
Peter Hammond
Edmond Dantes:
Alan Badel
Mercedes:
Natasha Parry
Telegraphist:
Charles Lamb
Lucien Debray:
Gary Hope
Madame Danglars:
Rosalie Crutchley
Danglars:
Morris Perry
Fernand:
Philip Madoc
Chairman:
Lee Fox
Haydee:
Valerie Sarruf
Interpreter:
John Crocker
Maximilian:
Edward de Souza
Albert:
Sandor Eles
Beauchamp:
Jerome Willis
Chateau-Renaud:
Barry Boys
de Villefort:
Michael Gough
Cavalcanti:
Austin Trevor
Bertuccio:
Cyril Shaps
Footman:
John Baker

Written by Robert Gray.
with Jimmy Thompson as Asst. General, P.P.C.T.V.
From the North of England

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Gray
Presented by:
Jan Dalibor
Presented by:
Vlasta Dalibor
Additional manipulator:
Philip Rose
Additional manipulator:
Elizabeth Rose
Additional manipulator:
John Parks
"We Belong Together" words and music by:
Norman Newell
"We Belong Together" words and music by:
Alyn Ainsworth
Design:
Stuart Furber
Producer:
Stan Parkinson
Asst. General, P.P.C.T.V.:
Jimmy Thompson

This question is no longer asked by strangers on the bus. Has it lost its meaning for modern man? Or is there still a vital truth behind it?
Introduced by Robert Robinson.
with Dr. G. R. Beasley-Murray, Canon Sydney Evans, The Rev. Harry Williams, Fr. Desmond Wilson.
To be repeated tonight at 11.10

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Robinson
Panellist:
Dr. G. R. Beasley-Murray
Panellist:
Canon Sydney Evans
Panellist:
The Rev. Harry Williams
Panellist:
Fr. Desmond Wilson
Cameraman:
Peter Bartlett
Cameraman:
Eric Pollen
Film editor:
Vivienne Collins
Producer:
Oliver Hunkin

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from the Parish Church of St. Giles, Camberwell.
with the choir and congregation of the parish the Staff, Cadets, and Band of the Salvation Army International Training College.
Bandmaster, Major E. Yendell
and the Joy Strings
Leader, Captain Joy Webb
Conductor, Brigadier L. Ward
Hymns introduced by Lt.-Commissioner C. Wiseman.
Prayer and Blessing by the Vicar, The Rev. John G. Nicholls
See page 18

Contributors

Musicians:
Band of the Salvation Army International Training College
Bandmaster:
Major E. Yendell
Musicians:
The Joy Strings
Band leader:
Captain Joy Webb
Conductor:
Brigadier L. Ward
Organist:
R.J. Crickmer
Organist:
Cadet Alan Bateman
Presenter:
Lt.-Commissioner C. Wiseman
Prayer and blessing:
The Rev. John G. Nicholls
Arranged by:
Colin Beale
Television Presentation:
Barrie Edgar

says Michael Bentine
echoed by Clive Dunn and Leon Thau, Joe Gibbons
endorsed by Gwendolyn Watts, Benny Lee
and Deryck Guyler
Devised and written by Michael Bentine and John Law.

Contributors

Devised and written by:
Michael Bentine
Devised and written by:
John Law
Cartoon film:
Biographic Cartoon Films Ltd.
Musical direction:
Harry Rabinowitz
Designer:
Robert Macgowan
Producer:
John Street
Comedian:
Michael Bentine
[Actor]:
Clive Dunn
[Actor]:
Leon Thau
[Actor]:
Joe Gibbons
[Actress]:
Gwendolyn Watts
[Actor]:
Benny Lee
[Actor]:
Deryck Guyler

Starring Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter
with Akim Tamiroff and Erich von Stroheim as Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel
See page 17

Contributors

Director/Screenplay:
Billy Wilder
Screenplay:
Charles Brackett
Based on a play by:
Lajos Biro
Corporal John Bramble:
Franchot Tone
Mouche:
Anne Baxter
Farid:
Akim Tamiroff
Rommel:
Erich von Stroheim
Lieutenant Schwegler:
Peter van Eyck
British Colonel:
Miles Mander

The Indian Stories of Rudyard Kipling
with Joss Ackland, Kenneth Fortescue, Patrick Westwood
and Barry Letts
Guest stars, Margaret Tyzack, Patrick Troughton

Contributors

Author:
Rudyard Kipling
Script:
John Maynard
Film cameraman:
Eugene Carr
Film editor:
Geoffrey Botterill
Costume supervisor:
Ken Morey
Make-up supervisor:
Jill Summers
Music composed by:
Max Harris
Story adviser:
A. R. Rawlinson
Indian adviser:
Prem Bakshi
Script editor:
K. Levison
Designer:
William McCrow
Producer:
John Robins
Director:
Sheelagh Rees
Mr. Bronckhorst:
Patrick Troughton
Mrs. Bronckhorst:
Margaret Tyzack
William Stevens:
Joss Ackland
Tobala Din:
Madhav Sharma
Teddy Bronckhorst:
Robert Cook
Janki:
Soraya Rafat
Strickland:
Barry Letts
James Lockwood:
Kenneth Fortescue
Mian Rukn Din:
Patrick Westwood
Sais:
Dean Francis
Ram Dass:
Prem Bakshi
Cochran, Bronckhorst's Counsel:
Gordon Whiting
Judge:
Dudley Harrison

And a way of looking at the world One eye open wide; one eye closed; And between the two the picture gets composed

[Starring] David Frost, P.J. Kavanagh, William Rushton
with Cleo Laine, Eleanor Bron, John Bird, Doug Fisher, Roy Hudd, David Walsh with Michael Crawford as Byron and visitors.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Frost
Presenter:
P.J. Kavanagh
Presenter:
William Rushton
Singer:
Cleo Laine
Performer:
Eleanor Bron
Performer:
John Bird
Performer:
Doug Fisher
Performer:
Roy Hudd
Performer:
David Walsh
Byron:
Michael Crawford
Musical Director:
Conn Bernard
Film Editor:
Christopher La Fontaine
Designer:
Raymond Berger
Associate Producer:
Elizabeth Cowley
Produced and directed by:
Ned Sherrin

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BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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