Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 280,101 playable programmes from the BBC

A weekly raid on the BBC archives.
Introduced by Michell Raper.
This edition includes:

Press Conference with Sir Robert Menzies (1955)
The panel includes James Cameron and Francis Williams.

Paul Robeson on Acting (Monitor: 1959)

Tanks in World War I
remembered by the men who drove them (First Hand: 1957)

Rush Hour
A Tonight film on a Greater London Evil (1961).

Where Are They Now?
Alan Melville laments the passing of some eminent TV personalities.

Contributors

Presenter:
Michell Raper
Interviewee (Press Conference):
Sir Robert Menzies
Interviewer (Press Conference):
James Cameron
Interviewer (Press Conference):
Francis Williams
Item presenter (Monitor):
Paul Robeson
Item presenter (Where Are They Now?):
Alan Melville

A dramatisation in eight episodes by Michael Voysey.
Based on the works of R. S. Surtees.
[Starring] Jimmy Edwards in The Hunting, Eating, Eccentric, Extravagant Exploits of that Renowned Sporting Citizen Mr. John Jorrocks
with Angela Baddeley as Mrs. Jorrocks
(Repeated on Tuesday at 9.45 p.m.)

Contributors

Based on the works by:
R. S. Surtees
Dramatised by:
Michael Voysey
Designer:
Allan Anson
Producer:
David Conroy
Director:
Peter Dews
Belinda:
Heather Bell
Mrs. Jorrocks:
Angela Baddeley
Lady Barnington:
Moyra Fraser
Eliza:
Gilly McIver
Mr. John Jorrocks:
Jimmy Edwards
Duke of Donkeyton:
Michael Bates
Marquis of Bray:
Robin Phillips
Benjamin:
Alan Baulch
James Pigg:
Walter Carr
Charlie Stobbs:
Bernard Lloyd
Betsy:
Ann Penfold
Chairman:
John Wyse
Clerk:
John Ringham
Captain Strider:
John Baddeley
Emma:
Helen Fraser
Mrs. Flather:
Sylvia Coleridge
Captain Doleful:
John Bailey
Groom:
Robert Luckham

with The George Mitchell Choir.
(Dai Francis is appearing in "The Black and White Minstrel Show" at the Victoria Palace, London)

Contributors

Singers:
The George Mitchell Choir
Musical direction and arrangements:
Robert de Cormier
Soloist:
Dai Francis
Soloist:
Margaret Savage
Soloist:
Les Rawlings
Soloist:
Ted Darling
Soloist:
Michael Clarke
Words read by:
Julian Glover
Staged by:
Douglas Squires
Producer:
Travers Thorneloe

A thriller serial in six parts by Ken Hughes.
Starring Charles Tingwell, Veronica Strong, James Maxwell, Dallia Penn

Harry catches the agent, Smith, photographing his papers. He protests to the British Embassy, who bluntly deny any knowledge of Smith.
(Previously shown last Sunday)
Part 5: Sunday at 10.10 p.m.
[Repeat]

Contributors

Writer:
Ken Hughes
Producer:
Alan Bromly
Director:
James Cellan Jones
Harry Sutton:
Charles Tingwell
Jennifer Sutton:
Veronica Strong
Col. Rykov:
James Maxwell
Karin:
Dallia Penn

A late look around the world of television.
Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests.

Contributors

Presenter:
Denis Tuohy
Presenter:
Michael Dean
Presenter:
Joan Bakewell
Presenter:
Tony Bilbow

Starring Hardy Kruger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle

When a beautiful Frenchwoman is found murdered in a fashionable London mews house, a young painter becomes the main suspect.
See page 4

Contributors

Director:
Joseph Losey
Producer:
David Deutsch
Screenplay:
Ben Barzman
Screenplay:
Millard Lampell
From a novel by:
Leigh Howard
Jan Van Rooyen:
Hardy Kruger
Inspector Morgan:
Stanley Baker
Jacqueline Cousteau:
Micheline Presle
Sir Brian:
Robert Flemyng
Police Sergeant:
Gordon Jackson
Westover John:
Van Eyssen
Postman:
Jack MacGowran
Police Constable:
George Rouricek
Police Doctor:
Redmond Phillips

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