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Double Chaser Mouse Menace
In today's star-studded edition, Bugs Bunny attends the Oscar ceremony, Daffy Duck makes a movie and Popeye celebrates 20 years as a Hollywood hero. Producer DAVID PLATT
Andy Crane with programme news and your birthday greetings.
Who wants a silly, twisted curly tail?
Presenter Jane Hardy Guest Nigel Makin
Story: The Tale of a Tail by ALISON WINN
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
An animated feature film.
Little Dot is in the Australian bush after promising her friend the kangaroo that she will find her missing baby, Joey. As Dot begins her search, she seeks the help of the bush animals and meets a very strange companion - a bunny who wants to be a baby kangaroo. Written by JOHN PALMER Produced and directed by YORAM GROSS
(First showing on British television)
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with Martyn Lewis
Weather MICHAEL FISH
An exciting opportunity opens for Helen, and a stranger enters her life. This week's cast:
Written by JOHN UPTON
SALLY WEBB. JOHN SMYTHE Directed by BRENDAN MAHER. ANDREW FRIEDMAN
A See-Saw programme (R)
Presenting the optimistic, indestructible panther who is permanently in-the-pink in a triple helping of comic fantasy. Today:
Psst Pink
Never Bug an Ant
The Pink Blue Plate Pink Panther theme by HENRY MANCINI (R)
starring \
1814: with Napoleon in exile on the Isle of Elba and the rest of Europe still in turmoil after years of upheaval, the future is uncertain.
But none of his captors would guess that in less than a year Napoleon would lead a French army in another bid for conquest, which would culminate in the famous battle of Waterloo.
Screenplay by H. A. L. CRAIG SERGEI BONDARCHUK and VITTORIO BONICELU
Produced by DINO DE LAURENTOS Directed by SERGEI BONDARCHUK
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QTTV television network needs a new president - someone with talent and flare, someone with showbiz in the blood! The call goes out and Bugs Bunny responds, but Yosemite Sam is on the loose, head-hunting the job.
Directors FRIZ FRELENG. CHUCK JONES and ROBERT MCKMSON (R)
Introduced by Harry Gration
Under the Battersea Big Top ringmaster David Hibling , with the 'help' of Grimble the Clown, introduces a spectacular line-up of acts. From England: The Eight Nevadas with their fast-moving wild-west act.
Spain: high-speed juggling by Aissa and Hayat.
Italy: record-breaking feats on the trampoline by The Canestrelli.
USA: high above the ring, the electrifying Miss Dolly Jacobs on roman rings.
Morocco: agility from hand balancer Omar Rabati. Cuba: world champions on trapeze, The Flying Pages. Musical director BURT RHODES Sound IAN LEIPER
LightingJOHN MASON
Circus producer CHARLES THOMPSON Producer DAVID PICKTHALL
with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell Weather IAN MCCASKILL
Soaring across the rugged Scottish Highlands, the golden eagle hunts for food. High up in a remote eyrie among the rocky crags, his growing family hungrily waits.
This latest film from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds studies the life of the eagle and some of the other birds and animals that share its harsh environment.
Narrated by Tony Britton Film cameraman
MICHAEL W. RICHARDS
Produced for the RSPB by JOHN PATTISON TOMKINS BBC Bristol
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Join Terry and his guests for conversation and entertainment live from the Television Theatre.
Programme associate NEIL SHAND Director DAVID G. CROFT Producer PETER ESTALL
Series producer JOHN FISHER
The Johnson years start in earnest as LBJ is voted leader of the pack.
The news - as Churchill dies, John Winston Lennon publishes a book. P. J. Proby creates havoc by splitting his trousers once too often, Rhodesia seeks independence,and Watts burns. The music - The Righteous Brothers, Joan Baez, The Rolling Stones, Dave Berry, Cilla Black, Marianne Faithful, The Who, The Byrds (R)
Written by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey
Starring Richard Briers, Penelope Wilton, Peter Egan
with Stanley Lebor, Geraldine Newman
(R)
The suburban sitcom continues. New neighbours are due to move in to the close, much to Martin's chagrin.
starring
James Brolin Lisa Hartman
David Hemmings
Laramie, Wyoming is a quiet town where the most the local cops have to handle is the odd cattle rustler. But when detective Mandy Ryder 's friend Debra Lee is murdered on a weekend away from Los Angeles, Mandy flies down to Beverly Hills to investigate. The glitzy designer world of Hollywood - where everyone is in the movies, even the doormen - is the setting for this fast-moving and light-hearted thriller.
Screenplay by RICK HUSKY Produced by RICK HUSKY Directed by COREY ALLEN
(First showing on British television)
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with Julia Somerville and Andrew Harvey
Regional News; Weather
starring
Company Secrets
Roy Houston 's 'good old days' in the OSS suddenly become the deadly present as his former colleagues are systematically murdered.
Has someone emerged from the shadows of espionage to seek revenge?
Written by SCOTT SHEPHERD Directed by CHARLES PICERM
A very special special
Last year George Burns celebrated his 90th birthday in the company of a galaxy of stars at the Beverly Theatre in Beverly Hills.
Among those paying tribute to the grand old man of show business were Ann-Margret Diahann Carroll Billy Crystal John Denver Walter Matthau John Forsythe
Produced by IRVING FEIN, WALTER C. MILLER
