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Seven programmes showing how pure physics research is applied to achieve industrial progress.

One of the problems of telephone communications is how to send a number of messages simultaneously along a wire. P.A.T., the parametric artificial talking machine, has been developed by combined researches in phonetics and electronics at Edinburgh University.
(Shown in the 'Eye on Research' series on October 28, 1958)
'Science on Saturday' is compiled and arranged by: James McCloy

Contributors

Producer:
Alan Rees
Compiled and arranged by:
James McCloy

Rhaglen wythnosoly plant ytn cyflwyno
Gweld a Gwneud yng nghwmnl Hywel HARRIES
Cyfres o raglenni yon ymwifud A gwahanol agweddau ar gelf a chrefft Cyfarwyddyd,
Ffigyrau Trafod
Arlunwyr Mawr 6: Michelangelo
Pwt o
Smaldod CystadleuaethYsg. afn Y cyfarwyddo gan EVELYN WILLIAMS
Children's Television
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hywel Harries
Unknown:
Ffigyrau Trafod
Unknown:
Arlunwyr Mawr
Unknown:
Smaldod Cystadleuaethysg.

(See panel)
(Details of next week's 'Grandstand' are shown on page 59)

Introduced by David Coleman

Today's Timetable

at 1.35 Boxing in America: Jorge Fernandez (Argentina) v. Isaac Logart (Cuba)
A 10-round welterweight contest held in Madison Square Garden, New York. Fernandez has won fifty of his seventy-eight professional bouts by knockouts, while Logart has won sixty of his eighty-four professional bouts-twenty-three by knockouts.
(A recording of the 'Gillette Fight of the Week')

from 2.0 Show Jumping direct from Northampton Olympic Trials
Britain's top show jumpers take part in this trial organised by the British Show Jumping Association at the British Timken Show-ground at Duston.

Racing direct from Newcastle
2.30 Sandgate Plate (over 6 furlongs)
3.0 Cowgate Plate (over 7 furlongs)
3.30 Northern Goldsmiths' Handicap (over 1 mile)
4.0 Blackgate Amateur Handicap (over 2 miles)

at 3.35 and 4.5 International Swimming direct from Blackpool: Europe v. U.S.A. (Ladies)
Europe's best swimmers combine to take on the might of the U.S.A., who in the last Olympic Games in Rome won five Gold Medals in the women's swimming and diving events.

Sports Results & News Service
2.0 Cricket Scoreboard
4.40 Football Results from the teleprinter
Racing Summaries; Classified Football Results

(While it is hoped to keep to the above timings. they may be changed by events)

Contributors

Presenter:
David Coleman
Boxer:
Jorge Fernandez
Boxer:
Isaac Logart
Commentator (Boxing):
Don Dunphy
Commentator (Show Jumping):
Dorian Williams
Television Presentation (Show Jumping):
John McGonagle
Commentator (Racing):
Peter Montague Evans
Commentator (Racing):
Clive Graham
Television Presentation (Racing):
Ray Lakeland
Commentator (Swimming):
Max Robertson
Commentator (Swimming):
Harry Walker
Television Presentation (Swimming):
Innes Lloyd
Presented by:
Bryan Cowgill
Programme Editor:
Ronnie Noble

Written and produced by Shaun Sutton.
More criminal capers.
with Colin Douglas, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Douglas Blackwell

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
Shaun Sutton
Film cameraman:
John A.S. Turner
Film editor:
Larry Toft
Designer:
Stewart Marshall
Boss:
Paul Whitsun-Jones
Happy:
Douglas Blackwell
Bonehead:
Colin Douglas
P.C. Trumper:
Robert Perceval
Mrs Pilchard:
Hope Tackman
Secretary:
John Woodnutt
Old Man:
Reginald Barratt
Uncle Herbert:
John Barrard
Workman:
Michael Ely

Presenting the latest in popular records.
This week's panel includes: Pete Murray, Jane Asher and John Paddy Carstairs.
In the chair, David Jacobs

Contributors

Panellist:
Pete Murray
Panellist:
Jane Asher
Panellist:
John Paddy Carstairs
Chairman:
David Jacobs
The programme devised by:
Peter Potter
Presentation:
Bill Cotton, Jnr.

Written by Larry Forrester.
Some adventures of the richest girl in the world.
Starring Catherine Boyle, Patrick Barr and Faith Brook
See facing page

Contributors

Writer:
Larry Forrester
Designer:
Susan Spence
Director:
Robin Nash
Producer:
Ronald Marsh
Katie Johnson:
Catherine Boyle
Janet Turner:
Faith Brook
Andy Steele:
Wilfrid Brambell
John Baker:
Patrick Barr
Det Supt Tallerton:
Robert Cawdron
Det Sgt Grahams:
John H. Watson
Eggy:
Joe Baker
Det Constable:
Alan Tucker
Rinty:
Bernard Egan
Sarah May:
Eleanor Darling
Teaky:
Edgar Driver
Smoke:
Bertie Green
Beaker:
Robert Manning
Stevie:
George Crowther
Dog:
null Mi-Tzi
Dog:
null Tai-Tai

from The Army Apprentices' School Hadrian's Camp, Carlisle.
with Kenny Baker, Maureen Evans, Morris and Cowley, Averil and Aurel, The Tate Brothers, Eric 'Jeeves' Grier, Helen Cotterill, The Charlie Chester Dancers, The George Mitchell Singers.

Contributors

Comedian/presenter/script:
Charlie Chester
Trumpeter:
Kenny Baker
Singer:
Maureen Evans
Comedians:
Morris and Cowley
Dancers:
Averil and Aurel
Performers:
The Tate Brothers
Performer:
Eric 'Jeeves' Grier
Performer:
Helen Cotterill
Dancers:
The Charlie Chester Dancers
Choreography:
Sheila Delaney
Singers:
The George Mitchell Singers
Orchestra conducted by:
Jack Leon
Orchestrations:
Frank Barber
Orchestrations:
Ted White
Musical associate:
Frank Davison
Script:
Bernard Botting
Script:
Charles Hart
Designer:
Geoffrey Saphin
Producer:
Albert Stevenson

A film series starring Raymond Burr as the famous lawyer investigator created by Erle Stanley Gardner.
with Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman, Ray Collins

A woman seeks Perry Mason's advice fearing that she may be implicated in her art-dealer husband's scheme to fake an old and valuable painting. Later the husband is found murdered and Mason's client becomes chief suspect.

Contributors

Character created by:
Erle Stanley Gardner
Perry Mason:
Raymond Burr
Della Street:
Barbara Hale
Paul Drake:
William Hopper
Hamilton Burger:
William Talman
Lt. Tragg:
Ray Collins

with Merlin and McComb

featuring June Merlin, Gil Leaney, Korolyov and Billy McComb who also introduces the programme

with Woolf Phillips and his Orchestra

(Billy McComb appears by permission of Warner's Holiday Camps; June Merlin is appearing at the Savoy Hotel, London)

See page 3

Contributors

Presenter/Magician:
Billy McComb
Magician:
June Merlin
Magician:
Gil Leaney
Magician:
null Korolyov
Musicians:
Woolf Phillips and his Orchestra
Designer:
Jane Barchard
Producer:
Richard Afton

Starring George Burns and Gracie Allen.
As sometimes happens, Gracie's remedies are more painful than the original affliction, particularly for Harry Von Zell who is talked into playing the role of a romantic foil.

10.0-10.15 Flashback
People and events in the local news.
10.15-10.25 Piano interlude by Joan Newton
(Rowridge)

Contributors

Himself:
George Burns
Herself:
Gracie Allen
Himself/announcer:
Harry Von Zell
Pianist (Piano interlude):
Joan Newton

and all that Jazz...
Spotlighting music in the specialist manner.
Starring this week: Ian Menzies and his Clyde Valley Stompers, The Merseysippi Jazz Band, The Syncopaters
Compere, Alan Dell

Contributors

Musicians:
Ian Menzies and his Clyde Valley Stompers
Musicians:
The Merseysippi Jazz Band
Musicians:
The Syncopaters
Compere:
Alan Dell
Producer:
Johnnie Stewart

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