with a story of his own.
(A BBC telerecording)
[Starring] Bruce Seton in a film from this series.
Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
(A BBC Television Film)
(to 16.00)
Children's Television presents...
Fun and Games
[Starring] Sandy Sandford
with Jacko
5.10 Seeing is Believing: 2: Burning in Air
Dr. K. Hutton shows Robert Gladwell how to burn in air.
5.30 The Gordon Honour: 5: The Wild West Candlestick
The further adventures of a candlestick.
Written and produced by Shaun Sutton.
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on March 9, 1956)
Detholiad o ffilmiau o ddigwyddiadau yng Nghymru yn ystod yr wythnosau a aeth heibio.
(Television Welsh News)
(Wenvoe, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 18.20)
People, events, comments of today.
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore.
Alan Melville takes you from A-Z through the world of entertainment and some of its more unusual aspects.
The programme based on the A.B.C. of Show Business by Wolf Mankowitz.
This week's letter 'D'
Personalities in the studio this evening include:
Frances Day and 'Drums' played by Jack Parnell
'Dames' in Pantomime (as distinct from other varieties) illustrated by Douglas Byng
Jacqueline Delman
Disc Jockeys represented by Sam Costa
Film excerpts of the art of Walt Disney
and this week's special guest Florence Desmond
See page 6
You Too Can Be a Detective
Panel of Experts: John Arlott and Robert Fabian
From the BBC's television studio in Birmingham
See facing page
by Charles Dickens
Adapted for television in thirteen weekly instalments by Vincent Tilsley
In which David and Dora are married; are robbed by tradesmen, suffer an "ordeal of servants" and live in "a constant hail of saucepan lids". And in which David tries to improve his wife by "forming her mind".
with Johnny Franz at the piano.
Introduced by Glyn Daniel.
On the deserted wastes of Dartmoor stand the dwellings and ritual monuments of prehistoric man, who once inhabited the high moor. Lady Aileen Fox, Malcolm Spooner, and Professor Michael O'Kelly tell of excavations and experiments designed to find out more about the way of life of these people.
[Starring] Joan Davis in the film series I Married Joan
A preview of your programmes for tomorrow and Sunday.
Ben Turpin plays a comic prince in this 1926 Mack Sennett parody of the Ruritanian comedies prevalent at that period.
Followed by The Weather and Close Down