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A film series based on stories from the American past.
Starring Peter Graves

The story of Daniel Boone who leads the American Rebels against the British Army in the struggle for American independence. The British try to make allies of the Indians, but Boone's skill and bravery lead them to side with him.
(First shown on BBC-2)

Contributors

Director:
Philip Leacock
Daniel Boone:
Peter Graves
Col. Callaway:
Andrew Duggan
Capt. Hanning:
David McCallum
Mrs. Callaway:
Peggy McCay
Jemima Boone:
Judee Morton
Simon Kenton:
Arthur Hunnicutt
Flanders Callaway:
Stuart Cooper
Frances Callaway:
Laurie Mock
James Boone:
Teddy Eccles
Blackfish:
Eddie Little Sky
Lt. Brown:
Richard Lupino
Blackfish's son:
Jose De Vegas

Nobody knows where they really come from. Some say they are spillings from a rich diamond pipe out at sea. Others claim that the river has washed them from deposits far inland. But whatever the case, the Orange River is indisputably the River of Diamonds.
A Films of Africa presentation

Contributors

Filmed by:
Raymond Hancock
Director:
Anthony Thomas

Paddy Feeny introduces the three teams:
Pupils of Spurley Hey School - The activity of cockroaches
The Boys of Salford Grammar School - Ultrasonic control of a crane
The Girls of Paddock House Convent Grammar School - The distribution of earthworms
The judges:
Dr. J.D. Carthy, biologist, Queen Mary College, London
Professor E.R. Laithwaite, electrical engineer, Imperial College, London
Professor W.E. Kershaw biologist, Royal College of Advanced Technology, Salford
Chairman, Dr. Tom Margerison
Projects selected from a Science Fair held at the Manchester College of Science and Technology, and organised by the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the Sunday Times.

Contributors

Presenter:
Paddy Feeny
Judge:
Dr. J.D. Carthy
Judge:
Professor E.R. Laithwaite
Judge:
Professor W.E. Kershaw
Chairman:
Dr. Tom Margerison
Director:
Alan Grimley
Director:
Philip S. Gilbert
Producer:
Alec Nisbett

A new look at Britain's best-sellers.
Discs - Stars - News from this week's Top Twenty.
Introduced tonight by David Jacobs.
Top of the Pops Orchestra
Directed by Johnny Pearson

Contributors

Presenter:
David Jacobs
Musicians:
Top of the Pops Orchestra
Orchestra directed by:
Johnny Pearson
Producer:
Johnnie Stewart

by Tony Williamson.
[Starring] Gerald Harper, Juliet Harmer
with Jack May
Also starring Colin Jeavons, Ruth Trouncer, Gwendolyn Watts

The frantic world of high fashion and eccentric designers is a confusing one for Adam Adamant, but not for long when he finds it is also the setting for murder and espionage.

Contributors

Writer:
Tony Williamson
Designer:
Evan Hercules
Producer:
Verity Lambert
Director:
Leonard Lewis
Oretta Dorvetti:
Nancy Nevinson
Major Fitzgibbon:
Bryan Coleman
Leo Dorvetti:
Alan Foss
Howarth:
Alister Williamson
Watkins:
Raymond Clarke
Lyra:
Catherine Lancaster
Adam Adamant:
Gerald Harper
Georgina Jones:
Juliet Harmer
William E. Simms:
Jack May
Janine:
Gwendolyn Watts
Roger Clair:
Colin Jeavons
Mrs. Smythe:
Audrey Noble
Mylene:
Ruth Trouncer
Jacky:
Heather Downham
Charles:
Keith Anderson
Sandra:
Joan Crane
Denny:
Fred Windrush
Frank:
George Gibson

A film portrait of a working retirement.

"I sit at home and think my own thoughts - I've had a lot of experience to feed them."
The Most Rev. Archbishop Lord Fisher of Lambeth, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945-1961 who is now living more or less quietly in a Dorset village talks to Kenneth Hudson.
From the West

Contributors

Interviewee:
The Most Rev. Archbishop Lord Fisher of Lambeth
Interviewer:
Kenneth Hudson
Produced and directed by:
Stephen Peet

Written by Emile de Harven.
Follow Up Your French in a twenty-five episode thriller serial.

Windows in Paris and barriers at Orly - they are hard to get through.

With Monique Messine as Catherine Leger, Michel Forain as Jean Dacier
and Gisele Grimm, Gerard Buhr

(First shown on BBC-2)
(Repeated next Sunday at 11.30 a.m.)

Contributors

Writer:
Emile de Harven
Presenter:
Gisele Grimm
Presenter:
Gerard Buhr
Course devised by:
Michel Blanc
Course devised by:
Ormond Uren
Language Adviser:
Denys Player
Language Adviser:
John Trim
Designer:
Don Horne
Producer:
Colin Nears
Catherine Leger:
Monique Messine
Jean Dacier:
Michel Forain

BBC One London

About BBC One

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

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