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by Emily Bronte
Dramatised in four parts by Hugh Leonard

A new dramatisation of one of the world's most passionate stories - the love of Cathy and Heathcliff.

Contributors

Author:
Emily Bronte
Dramatised by:
Hugh Leonard
Designer:
Peter Kindred
Producer:
David Conroy
Director:
Peter Sasdy
Mr. Earnshaw:
John Tate
Cathy as a Child:
June Liversidge
Hindley as a child:
David Berry
Mrs. Earnshaw:
Gretel Davis
Joseph:
John Garrie
Heathcliff as a Child:
Dennis Golding
Hindley:
William Marlowe
Cathy:
Angela Scoular
Heathcliff:
Ian McShane
Reverend Graham:
Emrys James
Ellen:
Anne Stallybrass
Frances Earnshaw:
Maureen Beck
Edgar Linton:
Drewe Henley
Isabella Linton:
Angela Douglas
Robert:
Anthony Edwards
Mr. Linton:
David Markham
Manservant:
James Haswell

The story of the seabed exploration by Dr. George Bass of the Pennsylvania University Museum of a rich Byzantine merchant ship which sank off the coast of Turkey 1,100 years ago and was the first underwater wreck to be excavated in a truly scientific manner.
(Colour)

Contributors

Subject:
Dr. George Bass
Filmed by:
Claude Duthuit
Producer:
Paul Johnstone

Release ...into the world of films, plays, books, art, and music.
This week includes:
Mr. Boswell
Impression of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery devoted to James Boswell and his world.

(Colour)

Contributors

Subject:
James Boswell
Producer:
Colin Nears
Editor:
Lorna Pegram

Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
Starring Keith Barron as Jim
This week: Look, Why Don't We Go Back to My Place?
featuring Colin Jeavons, Nerys Hughes, Paddy Frost, Adrian Ropes, Marty Cruikshank, Stefan Gryff, Anita Moore, Ahmed Khalil
(First shown on BBC-1)

Contributors

Writer:
Dick Clement
Writer:
Ian La Frenais
Story consultant:
Kingsley Amis
Incidental music:
Jack Emblow
Design:
Peter Kindred
Producer:
Duncan Wood
Jim:
Keith Barron
Brian:
Colin Jeavons
[Actress]:
Nerys Hughes
[Actor]:
Paddy Frost
[Actor]:
Adrian Ropes
[Actor]:
Marty Cruikshank
[Actor]:
Stefan Gryff
[Actress]:
Anita Moore
[Actor]:
Ahmed Khalil

Floyd Patterson (U.S.A.) Former Heavyweight Champion of the World v. Jerry Quarry (U.S.A.)
direct by satellite from Los Angeles

The first professional boxing ever to be transmitted in colour in Britain, live from America over the Early Bird satellite, forms part of the heavyweight competition to find a successor to Muhammad Ali as heavyweight champion of the world.
Produced in association with the American Broadcasting Company
(Colour)

Contributors

Boxer:
Floyd Patterson
Boxer:
Jerry Quarry
Commentator in Los Angeles:
Harry Carpenter

Starring Robert Beatty, Michael Medwin
with Virginia McKenna, Joseph Tomelty
and Gilbert Harding as The Oracle

Knowledge of the future can cause both happiness and distress.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Patrick Campbell
From a story by:
Robert Barr
Director:
Pennington Richards
Producer:
Colin Lesslie
Robert Jefferson:
Robert Beatty
Timothy Blake:
Michael Medwin
Shelagh:
Virginia McKenna
Tarry Roche:
Joseph Tomelty
Tom Mitchum:
Mervyn Johns
Alan Digby:
Arthur MacRae
Jane Boyde:
Gillian Lind
Peggy:
Ursula Howells
The Oracle:
Gilbert Harding

BBC Two England

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