Discs and talents of young people
(First shown on BBC Wales)
(Crystal Palace, Wenvoe West, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
(to 13.25)
For the very young
Jack Scott
(to 13.53)
Shown at 11.0 a.m. on BBC-2
by John Rowe Townsend
with Colin Welland
from the North
with Tony Hart
Introduced for deaf children by Pat Keysell and Peter Pallette
with The Prof., Jonah, Filopat and Patafil and Humphrey Umbrage
A new cartoon film series
When Chuck and Nancy discover a magic ring they are launched on a series of exciting adventures in the land of the Arabian Nights.
Shazzan, a gigantic and friendly genie, helps them in their search for the owner of the ring.
English version written and told by Eric Thompson.
Jack Scott
A comedy film series
starring Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha, Dick York as Darrin, Agnes Moorehead as Endora
Man of the Year
...is superman for the moment!
In which the people who watch the programmes confront the people who make them.
Presented by Cliff Michelmore with the help of a statistically selected audience in the studio.
by Charlotte and Denis Plimmer
Starring John Slater, Derek Waring
with Paul Angelis, Douglas Fielding, Bernard Holley
A season of feature films starring Bob Hope
Tonight: The Cat and the Canary
A comedy-thriller with Paulette Goddard
A young lady inherits a house and fortune in the wild Bayuns country of Louisiana. Her only problem is staying alive long enough to collect them.
John Willard's famous comedy thriller has served as the basis of numerous silent and sound films, but this version is certainly the funniest if not the scariest.
Robert Robinson dips into the BBC's mail bag and adds a few comments of his own
with Robert Dougall
followed by The Weather
A film about London's firemen, what they do, what they see.
The home fires keep burning. One person is asphyxiated by smoke, or consumed by fire, every eight hours. £200 goes up in smoke every minute.
Firemen see it all and do what they can. Summoned by bells, they have five minutes to get there. They never know what they are going to find: a Crystal Palace; burning rubbish; a would-be suicide; persons trapped.
Night is the danger time. This film starts at night, and ends at night. 'London's burning. Fetch the engines. Fire! Fire!' never stops. Neither do the fire calls.
No young man is so quickly thrown into the front line as the young fireman today. In a year when no British troops were lost in action, firemen actually suffered shrapnel wounds when an ammunition train exploded at Carlisle.
The job grows more complex and more dangerous. New chemicals to burn him, new building materials to gas him or explode in his face. Four firemen died and nearly 400 more were injured in Great Britain last year.
But he rarely gets much credit.
Fire, fire losses, fire prevention are rarely news. We are still reading about the Great Train Robbery after all these years. A fire on the same scale is forgotten next day.
The fire service is now the major emergency force in the country. Few realise that whenever someone dies a wretched, needless death at night, the chances are that it won't be a priest or a doctor who performs the last rites, but a fireman.
A thriller serial in six parts by Ken Hughes
Starring Charles Tingwell, Veronica Strong, James Maxwell, Dallia Penn
Harry, forced to steal a secret tape from the factory, goes to rendezvous with Smith, only to find the Security Police waiting for him.
(First shown on BBC-2)
What matters in the news and out of it with Kenneth Allsop and Michael Barratt,
Robert McKenzie, Vincent Kane
with on-the-spot reports by Fyfe Robertson, David Lomax, Philip Tibenham, Denis Tuohy, Linda Blandford
In his second talk Sir Tyrone Guthrie takes as his theme Athens or Metropolitan Showbusiness.
"One reason why Drama, or indeed any of the arts, has never been taken very seriously by the English-speaking communities, is that, like the Romans and unlike the Greeks, they are fundamentally philistine".
