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Introduced by Michael Bentine from the National Film Theatre.

Some comedians like the baby-faced Harry Langdon, are eternal losers. Some, like Charlie Chaplin, are natural winners. If Buster Keaton wins through, it's usually against fearful odds.
(A BBCtv production in association with Mitchell Monkhouse Associates and Raymond Rohauer)

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Bentine
Producer:
Richard Evans

Starring Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming

A valuable gold idol, a wide-eyed Chinese orphan, and the colourful bustle of the Hong Kong water-front are the exciting ingredients of this adventure starring Ronald Reagan as the American GI with an eye for a fast buck.
(This Week's Films: page 13)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Winston Miller
Based on a story by/Director:
Lewis R. Foster
Producer:
William Pine
Producer:
William Thomas
Jeff Williams:
Ronald Reagan
Victoria Evans:
Rhonda Fleming
Wei Lin:
Danny Chang
Tau Liang:
Marvin Miller
Mr Lighton:
Nigel Bruce
Mrs Lighten:
Mary Somerville
Police Inspector:
Lowell Gilmore

by Louisa M. Alcott
A new dramatisation in nine parts from "Little Women" and "Good Wives" by Denis Constanduros and Alistair Bell

Jo has been asked to write her first novel and Meg and John, now married, have had their first quarrel.

Contributors

Author:
Louisa M. Alcott
Dramatised by:
Denis Constanduros
Dramatised by:
Alistair Bell
Producer:
John McRae
Director:
Paddy Russell
Mrs March:
Stephanie Bidmead
Aunt March:
Jean Anderson
Hannah:
Pat Nye
Meg:
Jo Rowbottom
John Brooke:
Martin Jarvis
Jo:
Angela Down
Amy:
Janina Faye
Beth:
Sarah Craze
Mr March:
Patrick Troughton
Laurie:
Stephen Turner
Professor Bhaer:
Frederick Jaeger
Mrs Kirke:
Beth Ellis

appeal on behalf of Children In Need of Help
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Contributors

Presenter/Ventriloquist:
Shari Lewis

from Newlands (South) Parish Church, Glasgow
Introduced by David Steel with united district church choirs from Shawlands, Langside, and Cathcart.

Ye gates, lift up your heads on high (St George's Edinburgh)
Jesus calls us! O'er the tumult (St Andrew)
Far round the world (Dunblane Cathedral)
Bless'd be the everlasting God (Bishop-thorpe)
Dear Lord and Father of mankind (arr Shaw)
We love the place, O God (Quam Dilecta)
I greet thee who my sure Redeemer art (Stonelaw)
Mine eyes have seen the glory (John Brown)
For the beauty of the earth (Noricum)
The Saviour dy'd, but rose again (St Andrew)

(from Scotland)

Contributors

Presenter:
David Steel
Organist:
William M. Liddell
Conductor:
Robert C. Routledge
Prayer and Blessing:
The Rev Alwyn J.C. MacFarlane
Director:
Ralph Smith
Producer:
Ronald Falconer
Series Producer:
Philip S. Gilbert

by David Hopkins
Created by A.J. Cronin
Starring Andrew Cruickshank as Dr. Cameron, Barbara Mullen as Janet, Bill Simpson as Dr. Finlay
with Mark McManus as Eric

Eric Calder is a very clever young amateur boxer. But is he good enough to stay three rounds with the booth boxer in the travelling fair? Dr Finlay thinks so. So does Eric himself. But there's a lot more at stake than the two pounds prize money.

Contributors

Writer:
David Hopkins
Created by:
A.J. Cronin
The series produced by arrangement with:
Graham Stewart
Camera:
Norman Shepherd
Designer:
Guthrie Hutton
Script Editor:
Barry Thomas
Producer:
John Henderson
Director:
Ken Hannam
Dr Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Betty:
Anne Kidd
Ben Ogilvie:
Stuart Mungall
Mistress Niven:
Effie Morrison
Mrs Rae:
Marigold Sharman
Duncan Bradley:
George Sewell
Marion Bradley:
Jill Gascoine
Meadowes:
Walter Sparrow
Florence Catder:
Edith Ruddick
Tom Calder:
Tom Forbes
Spokesman:
Norman Rough
McLeod:
William Irvine

A season of feature films starring Hollywood's greatest star in her most famous roles.
Starring Greta Garbo
with Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan

Marguerite Gautier is known in Paris as the 'Lady of the Camellias,' because of her love of the delicate blossoms. Beautiful and extravagant, Marguerite lives a gay life despite her delicate health, until one day she meets the handsome young Armand Duval, who has worshipped her from afar.
(This Week's Films: page 13)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Zoe Atkins
Screenplay:
Frances Marion
Screenplay:
James Hilton
Based on the play and novel by:
Alexandre Dumas, Fils
Director:
George Cukor
Marguerite:
Greta Garbo
Armand:
Robert Taylor
Monsieur Duval:
Lionel Barrymore
Nichette:
Elizabeth Allan
Nanine:
Jessie Ralph
Baron de Varville:
Henry Daniell

Dame Marie Rambert, founder and director of Ballet Rambert, was 82 this year.

Born in Warsaw, she remembers her childhood in a Russian dominated Poland. Participation in the 1905 May Day revolutionary march led to her being sent to Paris to study medicine, but she saw Isadora Duncan dance, and that settled that.

In 1912 she was asked by Diaghilev to help Nijinsky with the music of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. She married Ashley Dukes, the playwright, in 1918 and together they built the Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate.

Marie Rambert was made DBE in 1962. Her gift is to inspire.
She talks in her own home to Ronald Eyre
(Lifetime of dance: page 5)

Contributors

Interviewee:
Dame Marie Rambert
Interviewer:
Robert Eyre
Producer:
Margaret Dale

A live conversation on the issues of today.
Among those taking part tonight are Professor George Porter, Director of the Royal Institution, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Sebastian de Ferranti, Chairman and Managing Director of Ferranti Ltd., and Theodore Roszak, author of The Making of a Counter Culture.

Contributors

Panellist:
Professor George Porter
Panellist:
Sebastian de Ferranti
Panellist:
Theodore Roszak
Producer:
Edward Mirzoeff

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