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David Nixon entertains some young friends to forty-five minutes of tricks, puzzles, and magic and invites you to join him and meet his guests: Roger Whittaker, Al Preston and Valerie, Basil Brush
and to play The Train Game
Music by The Bert Hayes Sextet
(Bert Hayes is appearing at the Butlin's Hotels, Cliftonville)

Contributors

Presenter/Magician/The Train Game devised by:
David Nixon
Singer/Guitarist:
Roger Whittaker
Magicians:
Al Preston and Valerie
Musicians:
The Bert Hayes Sextet
Settings:
Stephan Paczai
Producer:
Johnny Downes

From the Queen's Ice Club, London.
The world's top skaters star in an International Gala of Free Skating.
Featuring:
Peggy Fleming (U.S.A.), World Ladies Figure Skating Champion
Emmerich Danzer (Austria), World and European Champion
Diane Towler and Bernard Ford, British, European, and World Ice Dance Champions
with
Hanna Maskova (Czechoslovakia), European Silver Medallist
and Wolfgang Schwarz (Austria), World and European Silver Medallist

Programme arranged by Harry Lauder in conjunction with the National Skating Association

Contributors

Skater:
Peggy Fleming
Skater:
Emmerich Danzer
Skater:
Diane Towler
Skater:
Bernard Ford
Skater:
Hanna Maskova
Skater:
Wolfgang Schwarz
Commentator:
Alan Weeks
Producer:
A.P. Wilkinson

from the City Hospital and Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast.
What would you like to see...?
Who do you want to meet...?
Where would you like to go...?
Keith Macklin and Barbara McDonald talk to some of the patients in these two hospitals.
From the North

Contributors

Presenter:
Keith Macklin
Presenter:
Barbara McDonald
Series editor:
John Ecclestone
Produced and directed by:
Nick Hunter

Harrison returns to Eden Brothers: the Pargeters serve a writ and their claim is settled in a surprising way.
From the Midlands

Contributors

Devised by:
Colin Morris
Story by:
John Cresswell
Script:
Christopher Bond
Producer:
Bill Sellars
Director:
Gerry Mill
Ellis Cooper:
Alan Browning
Gerald Harrison:
Donald Douglas
Janet Langley:
Sandra Payne
Henry Burroughs:
Campbell Singer
Jeff Langley:
Michael Collins
Sam Hoofer:
Harold Goldblatt
Howard Hoofer:
Rick Jones
Arnold Tripp:
Gerald Cross
Sydney Huxley:
Anthony Verner
Mrs. Heenan:
Vanda Godsell
William Pargeter:
Julian Somers
Rufus Pargeter:
Michael Redfern
Gordon pargeter:
Colin Stepney

Stories of a railroad moving West and the pioneers who build it.
A film series.
Starring Dale Robertson as Ben Calhoun, Gary Collins as Dave Tarrant, Bob Random as Barnabas Rogers

A bit of Irish blarney involves Dave in a race against time to help a maiden in distress.

Contributors

Ben Calhoun:
Dale Robertson
Dave Tarrant:
Gary Collins
Barnabas Rogers:
Bob Random

by Alan Ayckbourn
[Starring] Celia Johnson as Sheila, Michael Hordern as Philip, Richard Briers as Greg, Jennifer Hilary as Virginia in scenes from the successful comedy now playing at the Duke of York's Theatre, London
Nigel Patrick directed the play and introduces the broadcast.
"A tearaway success" (The Guardian)
"Expert light entertainment" (The Financial Times)
"Funniest trick of the season" (Evening Standard)

Contributors

Author:
Alan Ayckbourn
Stage director/Introduction:
Nigel Patrick
Designer:
Hutchinson Scott
Televised by arrangement with:
Peter Bridge
Presented for television by:
John Vernon
Sheila:
Celia Johnson
Philip:
Michael Hordern
Greg:
Richard Briers
Virginia:
Jennifer Hilary

Round the clock and round the world with up-to-the-minute coverage of what matters today.
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore with Kenneth Allsop.
Round 24 hours with Ian Trethowan, Robert McKenzie
Round 24,000 miles with Fyfe Robertson, Julian Pettifer, Michael Barratt, Michael Parkinson, Leonard Parkin, David Lomax

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Presenter:
Kenneth Allsop
Reporter:
Ian Trethowan
Reporter:
Robert McKenzie
Reporter:
Fyfe Robertson
Reporter:
Julian Pettifer
Reporter:
Michael Barratt
Reporter:
Michael Parkinson
Reporter:
Leonard Parkin
Reporter:
David Lomax
Deputy Editor:
Anthony Whitby
Editor:
Derrick Amoore

From Arnhem, where Holland plays host to bands from both sides of the Atlantic, 600 military musicians from the fifteen NATO countries demonstrate their versatility in the market-place of this historic garrison town.
Steve Race introduces the programme and describes the scene at this Annual Festival of Military Music.
An outside broadcast by the Netherlands Television Service

Contributors

Presenter/commentator:
Steve Race
Presented for BBC-tv by:
Ken Griffin

From 1845 until 1917 the biggest telescope in the world was the 72-inch reflector built and operated by Lord Rosse at his Irish home.
Patrick Moore visits Birr Castle in County Offaly, Eire, to discuss with the present Lord Rosse his great - grandfather's remarkable achievement in constructing the huge telescope, and his use of it to establish the spiral nature of galaxies.

Close Down

Contributors

Presenter:
Patrick Moore
Guest:
Lord Rosse
Director:
Tom Savage
Producer:
Patricia Owtham

BBC One London

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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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