Douglas Fairbanks, Senior in one of his earliest romance and adventure films made in 1916. In the second instalment he sets out to rescue the President and his daughter, played by Alma Rubens, from the revolutionaries of Paragonia.
[Starring] George Burns and Gracie Allen in the film The Testimonial Dinner
For the Very Young
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)
A programme in which children from all over Great Britain have been invited to take part.
Introduced by Huw Wheldon.
A little train makes a daily journey in the shadow of the Italian Alps through the gay winter sports centre of Cortina and back again.
Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - Politics - People
Cinema - Theatre - Travel
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith and this week Cy Grant.
Edmundo Ros takes you by film to Monte Carlo and on a musical trip to the land of the Calypso where Brit Ros meets Frank Holder showing how the bongos should be played, Boscoe Holder with his dancers and Michael Flanders and Donald Swann doing some musical research.
Guest Artist, Kitza Kazacos
(Michael Flanders and Donald Swann are appearing in "At the Drop of a Hat" at the Fortune Theatre, London)
asks Lionel Hale.
Susan Chitty, Ross McWhirter, Marshall Pugh and Sylvia Cheeseman try to find the answers in 'The Newsreel Game'.
Cyril Stapleton presents Show Band Parade featuring his Show Band in popular music of yesterday, today, and tomorrow and starring Alma Cogan and Ronnie Hilton with Alice Babs, Marie Benson and The Londonairs, The Dene Boys, Michael Desmond, The Show Band Singers Directed by Cliff Adams and The Dancers.
See page 4
On the first night of this twenty-fifth annual display, outside broadcast cameras take you along part of Blackpool Promenade to see some of 'The Lights'.
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Adapted in six weekly instalments by Constance Cox and Ian Dallas
[Starring] Joyce Redman and Alan Badel
The action takes place in London in Mr. Sedley's house, Russell Square, and in his house at Fulham; in Mr. Osborne's house, Russell Square; and in Hulker, Bullock and Co., Bankers; in a coach on the Brighton Road; at Becky's lodgings in Brighton and in Miss Crawley's private suite; and on a packet-boat bound for Ostend.
Time, 1814
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on January 11, 1957)
followed by Weather and Close Down
