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by Robert Louis Stevenson
A serial in seven parts adapted and produced by Joy Harington
[Starring] Valentine Dyall and Ronald Radd

(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on September 29, 1957)

Contributors

Author:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Adapted by/Producer:
Joy Harington
Narrator:
Peter Hawkins
Film Sequences - Cameraman:
David Prosser
Film Sequences - Editor:
Ron de Mattos
Designer:
Susan Spence
Jim Hawkins:
Richard Palmer
Mrs. Hawkins:
Freda Bamford
Dr. Livesey:
Valentine Dyall
Captain Billy Bones:
Ronald Radd
Black Dog:
Robert Marsden
Blind Pew:
Willoughby Gray
Johnny:
Harry Lane
Job Anderson:
Colin Douglas
Harry:
Michael Collins
Squire Trelawney:
Raymond Rollett

How did life conquer the land? Why did the Dinosaur die out?
Facts are often stranger than fiction as will be shown in these programmes taking us on a journey through time.
The first of a series of four weekly programmes compiled by John Newell and based on the original series presented in May.
Film by the Macqueen Film Organisation

Contributors

Compiled by:
John Newell
Animated diagrams:
Alfred Wurmser
Producer:
Clive Parkhurst

Seasonal work in garden and greenhouse shown by Percy Thrower.
Ordering bulbs for Christmas flowering; sowing annuals out of doors for early spring flowering and cutting; planting the new strawberry bed; final potting of cinerarias; drying off gloxinias that have finished flowering.
Dahlias: Popular varieties; 1958 introductions; Pests and diseases; Bedding schemes shown and discussed by John Crutchfield, a specialist grower from Sussex.
From the BBC's Midland television studio

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Item presenter (Dahlias):
John Crutchfield
Presented by:
Paul Morby

An excerpt from Jack Jay's "This is your Laugh"
[Starring] Derek Roy and Albert Burdon
with Frank Cook, Anne Hart, The Allen Brothers and June, Dennis Scott, Chris Gannon, Marie de Vere's Dancing Debutantes, The Dennis Day Trio with Charles Bosomworth at the organ.
From the Windmill Theatre, Great Yarmouth
See facing page

Contributors

Comedian:
Derek Roy
Comedian:
Albert Burdon
Guitarist:
Frank Cook
Entertainer:
Anne Hart
Comedy act:
The Allen Brothers and June
Performer:
Dennis Scott
Performer:
Chris Gannon
Dancers:
Marie de Vere's Dancing Debutantes
Musicians:
The Dennis Day Trio
Organist:
Charles Bosomworth
Producer:
Sunny Rogers
Producer:
Freda Jay
Television presentation:
David Martin

Written by Trevor Peacock and Gavin Blakeney
The adventures and mis-adventures of a Naval Helicopter Crew.

(The BBC acknowledges with gratitude the efficient and light-hearted co-operation of the Captains, Officers and Crews of H.M.S. Ark Royal, Cavendish, Albion and the Lee-on-Solent, Culdrose and Hal-Far, Malta, R.N. Air Stations)

Contributors

Writer:
Trevor Peacock
Writer:
Gavin Blakeney
Based on an idea by/Producer:
John Warrington
Film Cameraman:
Ken Westbury
Film Editor:
Harry Hastings
Designer:
Frederick Knapman
Lt. Gilmore R.N.:
Anton Rodgers
Lt. Stannard R.N.:
Robert Chetwyn
L/A S.E.1. A. Copper:
Roland Curram
Radio Communications Operator (Air) N. Reynolds:
John Southworth
Cmdr Morris, D.S.C., R.N.:
Frank Shelley
Lt. Holt, R.N.:
Philip Carr
Signor Tarruffi:
Harold Kasket
Fabrizzi:
Raymond Young
Signorina Sophia:
Patricia Cree
Gina:
Gillian Vaughan

Written by Marjorie Ward.
A series of films about people who risk their lives in the course of their daily work.

The story of the training of three wild tigers for the circus ring, told by their trainer, Alex Kerr.
(Alex Kerr appears by permission of Bertram Mills Circus who co-operated the production of the film)

Contributors

Writer:
Marjorie Ward
Narrator:
Alex Kerr
Photography:
James Balfour
Photography:
Douglas Wolfe
Produced and edited by:
Maurice Harvey

[Starring] George Brent as the reporter Dean Evans
Strictly against orders, a platoon of tired men takes a short cut across a firing range, and eight lives are lost. A clear-cut case of disobedience and consequent disaster? Dean Evans is not convinced that it is as straightforward as that.
A film in the 'Wire Service' series

Contributors

Dean Evans:
George Brent

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