Introduced by Mark Curry live from the Picture Show control room.
Maggie Philbin takes a day-trip to Blackpool-and meets Les Dawson. Star guest:
John Taylor from DURAN DURAN
The featured band is Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
9.0 Zorro's Fighting Legion: 1
10.0 Boss Cat
A Nostalgic Newsreel from summer 1952 follows Prince, the dog, on his day at the seaside.
And there's lots more including Peter Powell 's pop video review.
Designer BARRY ROACH. Producer
TONY HARRISON. Executive producer DAVID BROWN BBC Manchester
.BACK PAGES: 86
See panel including at 12.45 News Summary
The last programme in the series from Blackpool Tower salutes the circus with Roberts Brothers' Liberty Horses, presented by Tommy and Bobby Roberts Jr.
Ringmaster Norman Barrett presents his budgies, and two hospital teams from Western General Edinburgh and St James's Leeds provide the comedy. Also take a trip to Broadway with the Coco-Tots.
BBC Manchester
with Jan Leeming ; Weatherman
5.55 Regional News/Sport
Written by RAYMOND ALLEN starring Designer
IAN RAWNSLEY
Producer MICHAEL MILLS
Les Dennis and Dustin Gee together with Roy 'Slither' Jay bring you another mixture of fast-moving comedy and music in the third show of the series with CAROLINE DENNIS and guests Su Pollard , Hale and Pace
Script associate NEIL SHAND Musical director KEN JONES Choreographer BRIAN ROGERS Sound HUGH BARKER
Lighting KEN MACGREGOR Designer JOHN ANDERSON
Produced and directed by JOHN BISHOP
starring Jane Fonda , Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin won an Oscar for his double performance in this rip-roaring comedy Western. Young Catherine Ballou leads a respectable life until a group of Wolf City businessmen hire a professional killer, Strawn, to gun down her rancher father. Cat Ballou turns outlaw, gathering a band which consists of an incompetent cattle rustler, a crooked preacher, her Indian ranch-hand, Jackson, and the ageing alcoholic Kid Shelleen , a legend in his lifetime but now barely able to draw a gun without falling over....
Screenplay by FRANK R. PEIRSON. WALTER NEWMAN Produced by HAROLD HECHT
Directed by ELUOT SILVERSTEIN Films: page 17
with Jan Leeming ; Weatherman
by PAULA MILNE
The last of eight parts starring with A Class of Their Own
It's the moment we've all been waiting for, but as the families set out for Brands Hatch, Ken Lark is nowhere to be seen. Will Donna be able to achieve her driving ambition?
Music by JIM BYWATER. GAVIN RICHARDS and ADAM KOTZ Special adviser Stirling MOSS Film cameraman ALEX SCOTT Film recordist ROY ARGYLE
Film editor JOHN STRICKLAND Designer BOB SMART
Producer CAROL ROBERTSON
Directed by MICHAEL SIMPSON
*Subtitles on Ceefax page 170
The return of the two first ladies of the New York Police Department starring
Sharon Gless as Chris Cagney and Tyne Daly as Mary Beth Lacey Matinée
Runaway wife or foul play? When a suburban housewife out on a fling vanishes mysteriously Cagney and Lacey have to hunt for a possible murder suspect. Their investigations turn up a group of bored women trying a risky way to put excitement into their lives....
Written by CHRIS ABBOTT
Directed by KAREN ARTHUR
The second of three thrillers for the Easter holiday ... starring
Donald Sutherland Francine Racette David Hemmings David Warner
Jay Mallory , a top operative in the murky world of international contract murder, returns to his Montreal apartment to find his wife Celandine is missing. The organisation expects Mallory to carry out his next assignment but he is now totally preoccupied with his wife's disappearance. Donald Sutherland stars as the contract killer who faces dangerous dilemmas and a web of intrigue in this atmospheric and unusual thriller.
Screenplay by PAUL MAYERSBERG
Based on the novel by DEREK MARLOWE Produced by DAVID HEMMINGS and GERRY ARBEID Directed by STUART COOPER Films: page 17
