Written and told by Frank Muir (R)
A 13-part adventure serial by ROGER SIMPSON set in New Zealand in 1900, in which a local villain is brought to justice, the Maoris foretell a catastrophe and a volcano erupts. 1: Tom
Director PETER SHARP Executive producer JOHN MCRAE (R)
with Mike Read, Keith Chegwin, Sarah Greene and Vicky Licorish
Join the SuperStore gang for a full morning's 'live' entertainment with their special guests, which include ex-Monty Python man Michael Palin, the Coventry-based chart band King, fashion expert Karen Foster with tips on successful jumble sale technique and Midge Ure with his latest single 'If I was'. Also in store: a chance to join an official Loch Ness Monster Hunt are on the cartoon bill.
Don't miss the latest episode in the soap to end all soaps - the saga of the latest happenings down at the 'Crow's Road' Motel.
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BILL GILES
with Jan Leeming Weather News
by JOHN KANE starring
Terry Scott and June Whitfield
Studio lighting TERRY BRETT Studio sound TONY PHILPOT DesignerDONAL WOODS Film director
MARTIN SHARDLOW
Produced and directed by ROBIN NASH
starring Noel Edmonds with Mike Smith
An intrepid Whirly Wheeler joins the OB cameras at the Lawn Prix circuit for his Give it a Whirl challenge and the finals of the Lawn Mower Prix. Together with the Golden Egg Awards, the Hit Squad and a special guest star from the world of pop music.
Sound DAVID THOMPSON
Lighting BERT POSTLETHWAITE Production MICHAEL HURLL
starring
Bob Monkhouse
This week's contestants compete against each other for a chance of a Golden Holiday on this comedy quiz show.
Game devised by TERRY MARDELL and DAVID MOORE
Sound MIKE MCCARTHY Lighting PETER WESSON
Designer GRENVILLE HORNER Director TONY NEWMAN Producer JOHN BISHOP
Friends and Neighbours by WILLIAM HUMBLE
Kate decides she wants to see friends and forget the job for a while. But when the job cannot be forgotten, friends are easily lost.
Series created by IAN KENNEDY MARTIN
Script editor JOAN CLARK Designer GLORIA CLAYTON Producer GERAINT MORRIS
Director MICHAEL OWEN MORRIS * CEEFAX SUBTITLES
This week Paul Daniels travels to Tintagel where he enlists the aid of Merlin to enact a special magical version of the legend of King Arthur. From the studio he introduces his remarkable guests: from the USA, the clown prince of magic, Johnny Paul , and the uncanny musical skills of Arthur Lintgen , and from Switzerland, the death-defying swaying pole act of The Bauers.
Special guest appearances by Sir Georg and Lady Solti. Featuring DEBBIE MCGEE Musical director KEN JONES
Programme associate ali bongo
Technical consultant GIL LEANEY Sound MALCOLM JOHNSON Lighting BILL MILLAR Designer PAUL HAINES Director DAVID TAYLOR
Produced by JOHN FISHER
with Jan Leeming Weather News
starring
Brooke Shields
Christopher Atkins with Leo McKern
This modern remake of Henry De Vere
Stacpoole's classic
Victorian novel gave Brooke Shields her first major starring role.
Emmeline and Richard are shipwrecked on a Pacific island paradise with the ship's cook Paddy. He teaches them the art of survival but dies when they are still young, leaving them to fend for themselves. Together they build an idyllic lifestyle, but at the onset of adolescence both become aware of an emerging sexuality and discover the pain and mystery of adulthood....
Screenplay byDOUGLAS DAY STEWART Produced and directed by RANDAL KLEISER
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continues the season of acclaimed films introduced by Barry Norman tonight starring Paul Muni Glenda Farrell
Preston Foster
Helen Vinson
Based on Robert E. Burns 's autobiographical novel, this damning indictment of the American penal system caused a sensation when it was released in 1932 and the film remains today one of the great social dramas in the history of the cinema. An ex-serviceman unwittingly becomes a party to a hold-up. Caught with five dollars in his pocket, he is sentenced to hard labour and the nightmare of the chain gang....
Screenplay by HOWARD J. GREEN and BROWN HOLMES
Directed by MERVYN LE ROY
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