Since 1909 this fixture has only produced two drawn games: today's match brings together the joint 'runners-up' of last season in the first match of this season's International Championship.
Bill McLaren reports from Stade Colombes, Paris.
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"Certainly it's a grubby business..."
Alan Whicker pries on The Italian Private Eyes
Italy, where Tom Ponzi, detective extraordinary, runs the largest Private Detective Agency in Europe.
As his men go about their stealthy business watching and trailing be it a bored housewife enjoying an evening with her latest boyfriend or an industrial spy stealing secrets, Alan Whicker turns Private Eye and investigates Ponzi and his men at work.
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Kenneth Williams introduces tonight's stars
from France, Swingle Singers
from Denmark, The Olander
from America, Gloria Lorino and Luxor Gali-Gali
The music of I Motorini
A thriller in five parts by Eddie Boyd.
Starring Patrick Allen, Roddy McMillan
with Madeleine Christie, Anne Kristen
Johnny's search for witnesses of his daughter's death has led him to Tom Armstrong - the man responsible for Sandra's suicide.
(For cast see Friday. 9.5 p.m.)
A late look around the world of television.
Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests.
Starring Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger
with Karl Maiden, Lee J. Cobb
Elia Kazan's award-winning film about New York's crime-ridden Waterfront and the gangsters who controlled the dockers' trade union.