Produced and presented by Saleem Shahed
(from Birmingham: rptd Wed 12.25)
A series of 26 programmes
Get fit, look fit, and stay fit With Sue Becker
A BBC Fremantle Int Inc co-production
(Repeated: Wed, 10.45 am. Book 45p: see page 54)
Fire fighting methods and machines.
The Lawn Tennis Championships
Harry Carpenter looks back over the first week of the tournament.
Starring Ernie Kovacs, Margo Moore, Jack Warden, Nobu McCarthy and Dick Shawn
A group of lonely and bored GIs posted to a desolate Pacific island decide to build a luxury hotel by the imaginative use of surplus war material.
American comedian Dick Shawn makes his film debut as the enterprising reservist whose hilarious activities turn the island into a toutist mecca - until Washington steps in! Mervyn Leroy's 1960 production introduces a host of new Hollywood talent including Ernie Kovacs as the brash cigar-smoking co.
(This Week's Films: page 9)
by Alun Richards.
Starring Peter Gilmore, Anne Stallybrass
and Edward Chapman, Brian Rawlinson, Philip Bond, James Hayter, Jessica Benton, Michael Billington, Howard Lang
After a perilous return voyage, James Onedin finds more problems ashore. With little ready cash he is scarcely a match for ship-owner Callon's vengeance.
With Chief Inspector Edward Mitchell, Police Sergeant Barry Wright facing a specially invited group of questioners.
Introduced by Magnus Magnusson
The first programme in a series which examines the moral dilemmas and problems which people have to face in the course of their everyday work.
Starring Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald
with Charles Coburn, Thomas Mitchell, Cedric Hardwicke, Ruth Nelson
In 1909, at the age of 53, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton University, is invited to run for Governor of New Jersey. Within four years he becomes President of the USA.
(This Week's Films: page 9)
with Richard Baker
and Weather
A play by Hector MacMillan
with James Grant as James Guthrie and Robin Bailey as Jonathan Maltby
'Then it's just an accident UCS happened up here, not in the south - an accident Plessey happened here, not England? The Red Clydesider was no accident, Jon... There's two kinds of solidarity. And we both know the lesson of history. Only one of them has a future!'
(BBC Scotland)
in a "Dignified Comic Set-to"
Churchill and George Bernard Shaw were among Groucho's fans. T.S. Eliot called him "The Master of Nonsense".
Frank Muir meets Groucho Marx, one of the world's greatest comedians, who has been a star for almost half a century. Together they talk about vaudeville and Hollywood, money and marriage, nudity and nonsense, and for good measure they occasionally burst into song.
(Groucho... on humour, naked ladies and Gilbert and Sullivan: page 11)
(Colour)
Britain's greatest golfer plays for the first time in a US v World series: Gay Brewer (US) v Tony Jacklin (Great Britain) at St Andrews
In the second match of this series Jacklin, British Open champion of 1969 and US Open champion of 1970, meets the American Ryder Cup player who won the US Masters, then twice in succession became Alcan 'Golfer of the Year.' They play on the historic Old Course, where in 1967 Brewer won a world-record prize of £23,000 in the Alcan.
Prize-money: $4,000 to the winner $2,000 to the loser
