For the very young
'Great tramplers and breakers-down, these badgers, nearly as bad as people!'
The two great laughter-makers in one of their famous feature films
With James Finlayson, Billy Gilbert, Minna Gombell
As World War I ends, a lone soldier guards the trenches... Years later Stan and Ollie are reunited, but only after a hilarious series of misunderstandings.
40,000 Miles to Go
James Burke reports on the live television pictures from the American astronauts who should splash down just over five hours from now
Bert Foord
Today's Timetable
1.30 Motor Racing
1.55 Athletics
2.5 Racing
2.20 Athletics
2.30 Rugby League
2.40 Racing
2.55 Athletics
3.15 Racing
3.30 Athletics
3.40 Motor Racing
3.55 Rugby League
4.10 Athletics
4.25 Rugby League
4.48 Athletics
5.0 Motor Racing
These timings may be altered by events
From 1.15 Holiday Grandstand
Introduced by David Vine
and featuring:
Athletics from White City: The Inter-Counties Championships
The first major meeting of the new athletics season
Racing from Doncaster
2.15 Rose Hill Stakes
2.50 Joe Childs Apprentice Handicap
3.25 The Zetland Handicap Stakes
Motor Racing from Crystal Palace: The Greater London Trophy Meeting
Including special Formula III and Saloon car events
Organised by the British Racing and sports Car Club
Rugby League from Headingley: The Wills Seven-a-Side Competition
Eight leading Rugby League sides compete for prize money of £1,000
Latest results and cricket scores throughout the afternoon
The swashbuckling adventures of the daring chevalier Francois de Recci.
A film serial in twelve parts
Mireille faces execution for aiding the Chevalier de Recci to escape.
See panel above
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore
Produced by the BBC Apollo Space Unit in association with the European Broadcasting Union, American Television Networks, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Bert Foord
with Michael Aspel
A look at the film world this week-films, in the cinema and on television, film-makers, talking and working, and stars and stories from the film industry.
Highlights of this year's flying display featuring The Red Arrows Formation Aerobatic Team, The Falcons Parachute Display, The Transatlantic Record, Phantoms of the Royal Navy and Spectacular flying by civil aircraft
by David Ellis
Starring John Slater, Derek Waring
with Paul Angelis, Douglas Fielding, Bernard Holley
Stand as surety for someone and you risk them running away from the law... leaving you to forfeit the bail money, or go to prison yourself. But a man does not expect this sort of treatment... not from a nephew he believes to be innocent...
A look at some of Walt Disney's many adventure films.
Introduced by Petula Clark
With scenes from: Alice In Wonderland, The Absent-minded Professor, Swiss Family Robinson, Wind In The Willows, Guns In The Heather, Cinderella, Seal Island, The Love Bug
Films by courtesy of Walt Disney Productions
A special holiday edition bringing back the Magic of the Minstrels
Starring The George Mitchell Minstrels
featuring John Boulter, Dai Francis, Andy Cole, Margaret Savage
with The Television Toppers
and Benny Garcia, Les Rawlings, Delia Wicks, Penny Jewkes, Les Want, Peter Kaye
(Peter Kaye is appearing in 'Starnite Spectacular' at the Marine Pavilion, Folkestone)
with Robert Dougall
followed by The Weather
The famous British comedy film
starring Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Rutherford
with Irene Handl, Liz Fraser, Miles Malleson
An impromptu musical evening of satire, parody, and spoof with Peter Ustinov
aided and abetted by Dudley Moore, Antony Hopkins, Bernard Keeffe
A selection from the entirely unscripted and unrehearsed sketches recorded on one hectic day in BBC-2's Music International studio
Including: Menotti Renewed; Debussy Rediscovered; Mussorgsky Re-examined; Schubert Revised; Bach Revisited; Interviews with the Eminent Composers (Dr. Strumpfhausen, N.P. Krupchenka and Ovd Ransom Butterfield); Making An Opera on Lady Chatterley's Lover
"Wittily exact and hilarious parody... which should be preserved for the unhappy posterity that will not be able to hear Mr. Peter Ustinov and Mr. Dudley Moore." (The Times)
(First shown on BBC-2)
James Burke sums up the achievements of the American astronauts who were due to splashdown this afternoon in the Pacific Ocean
