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Gordon Wilkins covers the world of motoring.

What cars do people choose when price is no object? Maserati or Mercedes, Facel or Ferrari? Why is one £5,000 car more smart than any other in rich society?
Michael Frostick and Gwynneth Tighe look for answers among the fast cars and their fashionable owners at a country house party in Berkshire.

Contributors

Presenter:
Gordon Wilkins
Reporter:
Michael Frostick
Reporter:
Gwynneth Tighe
Research:
Jean Barratt
Director:
Douglas Hespe
Producer:
Brian Robins

Kenneth Robinson introduces this weekly programme on the expanding world of leisure with Jeremy James, Christopher Rainbow.

The park has remained almost the same since 1637, but it is different every day and in the eyes of each visitor. It is a place to dance, to run, to play, to stroll, to stop and to think. The park is all things to all men. What is a park?

Contributors

Presenter:
Kenneth Robinson
Reporter:
Jeremy James
Reporter:
Christopher Rainbow
Producer:
Bob Duncan
Producer:
Roy Harris
Cameraman:
Brian Tufano
Sound:
Maurice Everett
Film editor:
Bert Meadows
Film editor:
Les Newman
Editors:
John House
Studio director:
William Fitzwater
Associate producer:
Dick Gilling
Editor:
Christopher Brasher

A comedy film series.
Starring John McGiver as Walter Burnley, the complaints manager of a large department store who makes sure that the customer is always right-but sometimes for the wrong reason.

Contributors

Walter Burnley:
John McGiver
Harry Price:
Richard Collier
Joe Foley:
Mickey Manners
Wilma Fritter:
Jesslyn Fax
Lynn Hall:
Elena Verduco
Owen Sharp:
Russell Collins
Mrs. Price:
Alice Backes

by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall.

Contributors

Writer:
Keith Waterhouse
Writer:
Willis Hall
Script editor:
Rodney Gedye
Music:
Dudley Simpson
Designer:
Sally Hulke
Producer:
Bernard Hepton
Director:
Mary Ridge
Edgar Lucas:
Bert Palmer
Rhoda Lucas:
Noel Dyson
Jack Lucas:
Trevor Bannister
Irene Howes:
Angela Crow
Arthur Broadbent:
Julian Somers
Bernard Fuller:
Brian Smith
Alice Fuller:
Joan Young
Lilian Howes:
Nancie Jackson
Christine Lucas:
Jayne Muir
Edna Fuller:
Jane Tann
Frank Broadbent:
Leonard Rossiter
Lionel Fuller:
Derek Smee
Margo Fuller:
Jennifer Oulton
Stan Dyson:
Leslie Lawton
May Beckett:
Linda Polan
Sergeant-Major Tommy Lodge:
Dudley Foster

BBC Two England

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BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

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