A comedy film series featuring a friendly family of well-known weirdies.
Starring Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster, Yvonne de Carlo as Lily Munster and Al Lewis as Grandpa
with Pat Priest, Butch Patrick

Movie Star Munster ...makes Herman a 'smashing' success!

For the very young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children and invites them to join in the songs and games.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
BBC film

Laurel and Hardy in their famous comedy film.
A Hal Roach production

Ollie joins the Foreign Legion to forget a broken romance, but it's laughter all- the way because Stan has to go along too!

Benbow is an orphan seal. Cast ashore on the beaches of the Wash, he is rescued by the R.S.P.C.A. and finds a home with Tony Soper. Two months later, full of Cornish pilchards and fat as a barrel, he returns to East Anglia and the open sea.
From the West

A comedy film.
Starring Arthur Askey, Sidney James

An unscrupulous salesman plans to advertise his new detergent on television without paying, and this leads to some hilarious complications.

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Today's Timetable
12.35 Racing
12.52 Motor Racing
1.5 Racing
1.23 Motor Racing
1.35 Racing
2.5 Racing
2.25 Motor Racing
These timings may be altered by events
News Summary and Weather: 1.30

Featuring Racing and Motor Racing

12.35 to 2.45 Racing from Wolverhampton
12.45 The Weston Three-Year-Old Hurdle Race (Div. 1) Over 2 miles
1.15 The Stanton Selling Handicap Steeplechase Over 2 miles
1.45 The Albrighton Handicap Steeplechase Over 2½ miles
2.15 The Astbury Trophy Handicap Steeplechase Over 3 miles, 3 furlongs

1.30 News Summary

Motor Racing from Brands Hatch
12.55 The Edward Lewis Trophy Race for saloon cars up to 1,000 c.c. Over 10 laps
1.25 The Guards Trophy Race for sports racing cars Over 10 laps
2.30 The Les Leston Trophy Race for Formula III cars Over 15 laps

Today's sports results are on BBC-1 at 10.0 tonight

The famous adventure film.
Starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff

A vendetta between two Corsican families is the exciting background of Alexandre Dumas's story of the strange bond between Siamese twin brothers, who are separated at birth.

with Bernard Cribbins.
Once upon a time children spent the winter afternoons playing with their own toy theatres. The young Winston Churchill was among those who cut out the familiar characters and acted their dramas on a miniature stage.
This week, Bernard Cribbins raises the curtain on some old stage favourites, beginning today with Harlequinade and the blood-curdling Black Beard the Pirate.

Dr. Zin, the arch-enemy of Dr. Quest, tries to get possession of Quest's para-power ray gun.

Introduced by David Coleman bringing you the day's Football, Racing, and Rugby League results.

by Jean de Brunhoff
Performed by children
Music by Antony Hopkins who also tells the story.

The adventures of a little elephant in a big town when he flees from the jungle after the death of his mother.

News and views from London and the South-East.
Introduced by Corbet Woodall.

Followed by the Weather in the South-East

Featuring The No. 1 Records of the Year
by The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Georgie Fame, Chris Farlowe, The Four Tops, Tom Jones, The Kinks, Jim Reeves, The Small Faces, The Troggs

With top D.J.s Alan Freeman and Simon Dee.
The Gojos
Top of the Pops Orchestra
Directed by Johnny Pearson
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Angleton is suffering from a surfeit of Christmas. Maria learns that appearances can be deceptive, and Sydney offers Arnold advice.

by John Chapman.
Starring Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd
featuring Georgina Cookson, William Kendall and Ronnie Corbett
with Cholmondeley the Chimp
and the voice of Percy Edwards

Terry and Hugh try to rejoin their cruise ship.

(Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd are appearing in "Cinderella" at the London Palladium)

Tonight's film stars Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine
with Thomas Mitchell
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Including today's Football results and League tables.
Introduced by David Coleman.

"And monuments, like men, submit to fate" (Alexander Pope)
A special film celebrating the 900th year of Westminster Abbey by Philip Donnellan and David Lytton to end, tonight, this year of commemoration.

A parade of kings, priests, and people, telling the story of how, within the walls of this Abbey, are laid the heroes of the English Nation - the soldiers, the politicians, the poets, the saints, and the sinners - and of the worship, Benedictine and Anglican, which has continued there through nine centuries.
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An amusing encounter with Allan Arkin in New York's Central Park.

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