Ghastly Ghost Town
A series of eight programmes 4: Lost Worlds
Tar, coal and clay are some of the preservatives that allow whole environments to be reconstructed.
Introduced by DR ALAN CHARIG , Curator of Fossil Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds at the British Museum (Natural History), London
Director PETER RAMSDEN
Producer BRENDA HORSFIELD Book, same title, f5, from bookshops
Two of the world's greatest laughter-makers in a Christmas season of their funniest films The Chimp
A HAL ROACH film
Director JAMES PARROTT
The return of Captain Kirk and his crew in earlier adventures
Today: Requiem for Methuselah
The deadly epidemic raging aboard the USS Enterprise can only be halted by an antidote from Planet Halbrecht 917G, thought to be uninhabited but hiding the secret of centuries.
A series of six programmes
Esther Rantzen chairs a new series of this popular panel game.
In today's programme contestants are helped by Sue Lawley and Harry Fowler
Designer PAUL MONTAGUE Director GEOFF WILSON Producer CECIL KORER
Weather BILL GILES
A feature film starring
Sophia Loren , Omar Sharif
Fond of the sporting life, Prince Ramon cares little about affairs of state or the orders of the King of Spain that he should marry. Then he meets Brother Joseph , a monk with the power of flight, and a beautiful peasant girl, Isabella. Life for Prince Ramon will never be the same again ...
Director Francesco Rosi Films: pages 16-17
A new series of six programmes with Tony Soper
3: Frontiers of Life
Living creatures occupy every crevice of the planet. And yet in the deserts of Arizona, the wastes of Greenland and deep in the caves of France, survival needs special outfits and skills.
On these frontiers, there are fish without eyes, big beef dressed in duffle coats and deadly snakes that keep their heads cool.
Film editor RON MARTIN
Producer JOHN SPARKS. BBC Bristol
Story:
The Secret of the Mountain by ROSEMARY GRAHAM Presenters this week
Julie Stevens , Stuart McGugan
IShown on BBC'2 at 11.0 am)
with William Rushton The Geranium of Fliit by WILLIAM RUSHTON : in four parts with Christopher Biggins as the Archbishop
Fliit is an island. Its ruler is the Geranium. Its television is run by the Archbishop - and the British Ambassador to Fliit is William Rushton.
Today: The Royal Visit to Flut
with Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Peter Purves and Lesley Judd
and their Highlights of 1975
Do you remember...
When John crashed his bobsleigh at 90 miles an hour? When a gorilla pounced on Lesley and Rod Hull's Emu grabbed Peter's hair for his nest?
These are all in today's programme when Valerie, John, Peter and Lesley pick their favourite adventures of 1975.
Blue Peter: Twelfth Book, 90p, from bookshops
by ALAN ENGLAND
All the King's horses
And all the King's men
Couldn't catch Nick Sutler Again and again!
Designer JANET BUDDEN
Producer ANGELA BEECHING
Executive producer ANNA HOME Director JOHN PROWSE
with Peter Woods Weatherman
Rt Hon Michael Foot , mp, Secretary of State for Employment, on the implementation of the Equal Pay Act
A feature film starring David Bradley with Colin Welland, Lynne Perrie, Freddie Fletcher, Brian Glover, Bob Bowes
Young Billy Casper lives with his mother and stepbrother on a council estate in a northern industrial town. At school he is bored and unresponsive until one day he finds a kestrel's nest, and takes one of the fledglings...
Director KEN LOACH Films: pages 16-17
with Peter Woods ; Weather
by J. B. PRIESTLEY
A Play of the Month presentation starring
Thora Hird , Richard Pearson Eric Porter , Beryl Reid
Patricia Routledge , John Stratton with Ronnie Barker Costumes
JOAN ELLACOTT Make-Up JAN HARRISON
Designer AUSTEN SPRIGGS Producer CEDRIC MESSINA Director DAVID GILES
(Stuart Wilson is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)