Having lost her way Nordine is persuaded to work for Mr Pimolou's circus and has to be rescued by Barnaby and Crow.
Today: Cat's Paw
Dungeons and ancient instruments of torture are out of place in outer space, but, manacled to a dank wall, Captain Kirk concludes that they are not optical illusions!
A film starring The Beatles with Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, Roy Kinnear
Our heroes get mixed up in some crazy adventures as they are whisked at breakneck speed to the Mysterious East and all points West.
Holiday Films: pages 17 and 18
Introduced by Frank Bough featuring the big holiday occasion at Kempton Park:
The King George VI Chase
12.5*
Football Focus
With BOB WILSON
12.15*
Rugby League from Headingley
Leeds v Wakefield Trinity
The second half of this match. Commentator EDDIE WARING
12.55*
Motor Racing from Brands Hatch
The main race of the Boxing Day meeting, for production cars. Commentator MURRAY WALKER
1.5; 1.40; 2.10* Racing from Kempton Park
1.15 Holly Handicap Chase (3m)
1.45 William Hill Christmas Hurdle (2 miles)
2.20 The King George VI Chase (3 miles)
One of the greatest steeplechases of the season, worth a record £7,000 to the winner, in which Pendil, winner for the past two years, clashes with Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Captain Christy. Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN and JIMMY LINDLEY
1.25; 1.55*
Racing from Wincanton
1.30 Joe Coral Golden Hurdle (Qualifying) (2 3/4 miles)
2.0 Joe Coral Handicap Hurdle (2 miles)
Commentators JULIAN WILSON and JOHN HANMER
Today's timetable: 12.5 Football Focus
12.15 Rugby League; 12.55 Motor Racing
1.5 Racing from Kempton
1.25 Racing from Wincanton
1.40 Racing from Kempton
1.55 Racing from Wincanton
2.10 Racing from Kempton - The King
George VI Chase
Television presentation:
Rugby League RAY LAKELAND
Motor Racing RICHARD TILLING
Racing from Kempton Park FRED VINER Racing from Wincanton BOB DUNCAN
Grandstand produced by BRIAN VENNER Editor ALAN HART
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Seven top professional athletes from the arenas of British sport confront each other over two days at the National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace, for total prize money of £9,000 and the Wilkinson Sword Trophy.
The Contenders:
Defending Champion: Olympic gold medallist David Hemery.
The Challengers: light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world John Conteh, all-round Test cricketing star Tony Greig, record-breaking round-the-world yachtsman Chay Blyth, British and European welterweight boxing champion John H. Stracey, England's soccer stars Colin Bell and Mike Channon.
Produced in collaboration with Transworld International
with Peter Woods
Weatherman Keith Best
and today's sport
A Boxing Day edition starring Cilla Black with her special guest David Essex also starring
Gerald Harper , The Wombles Irving Davies Dancers written by RONNIE TAYLOR
Including an outside broadcast from somewhere in England
Choreography IRVING DAVIES
Vocal backing THE BREAKAWAYS
RONNIE HAZLEHURST and his Orchestra Designer ROBIN TARSNANE Producer MICHAEL BURLL
A film starring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn
The Mexican village of Ixcatlan is constantly being raided by Calvera and his bandits. In desperation the villagers decide to hire a group of professional gunfighters - the Magnificent Seven.
Producer and director JOHN STURGES Holiday Films: pages 17 and 18
with Peter Woods; Weather
A special feature-length film starring Telly Savalas with Michael Constantine, Sheree North, Robert Ito, Patrick Adiarte, Jesse Dizon
Gangland war with a vengeance. The murder of a smalltime crook seems likely to spark off just that. But who has dared to commit the crime?
