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Why Don't You just switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead? A collection of your letters and ideas on how to use your spare time, presented by the WDY gang.
Directed by HILARY MURPHY
Produced by PATRICK DOWLING
(Write to Why Don't You .. , [address removed] enclosing a long sae tor instructions about any items shown)

Contributors

Directed By:
Hilary Murphy
Produced By:
Patrick Dowling

with MAGGIE HENDERSON and FRED HARRIS
Music by PETER GOSLING and DAVE MOSES Written and produced by MICHAEL COLE Executiveproducercynthufilgati

Contributors

Unknown:
Maggie Henderson
Unknown:
Fred Harris
Music By:
Peter Gosling
Music By:
Dave Moses
Produced By:
Michael Cole

Regional Variations (2)

Crystal Tipps and Alistair

BBC One Wales

An adventure story in 13 episodes set in New Zealand in the 1860s.
Scott Hunter is trying to find his missing father. At last he has got to the goldfields at Tucker's Gully and is told that his father disappeared three weeks before. Now Pat Reilly, his father's partner has been found shot dead. But by whom? And why?
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Contributors

Written and devised by:
Roger Simpsom
Producer:
John McRae
Director:
Tom Parkinson
Scott:
Andrew Hawthorn
Molly:
Ilona Rodgers
O'Halioran:
Gabriel Prendergast
Tindle:
Ernie Stanley
Cameron:
Roger Oakley
Maxwell:
Robert Bell
Collins:
Richard Moss
Rose:
Claire Oberman
Lily:
Cathie Harrop
Constable Douglas:
Bernard Esquilant
Fraser:
Scott Taylor
Stableman:
Edwin Wright
priest:
Bill Menlove
Teddy:
Donald Snook
Charlie:
Robert Pratt

A series of five programmes This week:
Training Ship Royalist
What was it like to serve before the mast in the days of sail? What happens when a sailing ship is braced? And how did sailors many years ago rig the top gallants and the spanker?
Gall Duffy , Michael Hancock and Gillian Flack find out and tell the story of their week aboard the Sea Cadets' own square rig training ship. TS Royalist.
Photography JEREMY COULD
Film editor CHARLES ALDRIDGE Producer BRIAN HAWKINS BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Gall Duffy
Unknown:
Michael Hancock
Unknown:
Gillian Flack
Editor:
Charles Aldridge
Producer:
Brian Hawkins

Television's most popular current affairs magazine with contributions from BBC studios throughout the country.
Also from far and near, the programme's team of reporters, LUKE CASEY, BERNARD CLARK , SUE COOK, KEVIN COSGROVE , VERA GILBERT , DIANE HARRON , JOHN HITCHINS , JAMES HOGG , BILL KERR ELLIOTT , TONY WILKINSON , NICHOLAS WOOLLEY and GLYN WORSNIP , bring you films and features which reflect the way life is Nationwide.

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Clark
Unknown:
Kevin Cosgrove
Unknown:
Vera Gilbert
Unknown:
Diane Harron
Unknown:
John Hitchins
Unknown:
James Hogg
Unknown:
Bill Kerr Elliott
Unknown:
Tony Wilkinson
Unknown:
Glyn Worsnip

Regional Variations (2)

Heddiw

BBC One Wales

The last of six distinctive shows capturing the versatility and energy that have made Leo one of Britain's top entertainers. With special guests Barbara Dickson
Dave Edmunds ' Rockpile ' featuring Nick Lowe
With ARLENE PHILLIPS DANCERS
Choreographer ARLENE PHILLIPS Musical director RICHARD NILES Vocal backings GLOW Designer PAUL TRERISE
Production DAVID G. HILLIER

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Dickson
Unknown:
Dave Edmunds
Unknown:
Nick Lowe
Dancers:
Arlene Phillips
Unknown:
Arlene Phillips
Director:
Richard Niles
Unknown:
David G. Hillier

The saga of a land and its people in 12 parts from the epic novel by JAMES A. MICHENER
10 : Winds of Fortune starring
The return of an old flame threatens a blossoming romance at the Venneford ranch and the embers of an earlier range war kill the one person who stands between the Wendells and a fortune, but Brumbaugh's labour problems are solved.
Written by CHARLES LARSON Directed by HARRY FALK
Produced by MACK HARDING , JOHN \VILDER

Contributors

Novel By:
James A. Michener
Written By:
Charles Larson
Directed By:
Harry Falk
Produced By:
MacK Harding
Charlotte:
Lynn Redgrave
Sheriff Dumire:
Brian Keith
Jim Lloyd:
William Atherton
Hans Brumbaugh:
Alex Karras
Mervin Wendell:
Anthony Zerbe
Maude Wendell:
Lois Nettleton
John Skimmerhorn:
Cliff De Young
Lucinda Zendt:
Cristina Raines
Clemma:
Adrienne La Russa

by ROY CLARKE starring Bill Owen
Peter Sallis , Brian Wilde in Greenfingers Music
RONNIE HAZLEIIURST Designer JANET BUDDEN
Produced by SYDNEY LOTTERBY

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Clarke
Unknown:
Bill Owen
Unknown:
Peter Sallis
Unknown:
Brian Wilde
Unknown:
Ronnie Hazleiiurst
Designer:
Janet Budden
Produced By:
Sydney Lotterby
Compo:
Bill Owen
Clegg:
Peter Sallis
Foggy:
Brian Wilde
Nora Batty:
Kathy Staff
Wally Batty:
Joe Gladwin

Regional Variations (2)

Play for Today: Don't Be Silly

BBC One London

Play for Today

Series 9

Don't Be Silly

Duration: 1 hour, 13 minutes

on BBC One London

Rachel Billington's play about a battered wife.

Contributors

Pamela Redman :
Susan Fleetwood
Michael Redman :
Christopher Godwin
Ellie Bloom :
Maria Aitken
Mrs Duffy:
Rosalind Boxall
Liz Charter:
Richenda Carey
Director:
Kenneth Ives

Voyager 2 Reaches Jupiter
Voyager 2, the latest Jupiter probe, made its rendezvous with the Giant Planet on 9 July. Following the outstanding success of its predecessor, Voyager 1, the results were expected to be spectacular. As well as obtaining additional close-range views of Jupiter itself, Voyager 2 was scheduled to continue studies of the four large satellites of the planet. In this programme Patrick Moore and Dr Garry Hunt give the latest news from Voyager 2.
Producer PATRICIA WOOD

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Moore
Unknown:
Dr Garry Hunt
Producer:
Patricia Wood

BBC One London

About BBC One

BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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