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Ten programmes on car maintenance and the overhaul of an engine with Barry Bucknell and Doug Mitchell.
From the South and West

The BBC has issued a set of ten illustrated worksheets to accompany this series of programmes. Complete in themselves they contain the basic sequences to be demonstrated during the programmes.
The ten sheets deal with: 1. Engine overhaul. 2. Battery and cooling. 3. Body care and universal joints. 4. Braking. 5. Carburation and fuel pumps. 6. Clutch. 7. Dynamo and starter. 8. Ignition. 9. Suspension and tyres. 10. Tuning. Price 7s. 6d. (or by post from BBC Publications, [address removed], 8s. 6d.)
(Shown on Sunday on BBC-1)

Contributors

Presenter:
Barry Bucknell
Presenter:
Doug Mitchell
Producer:
John Dobson

by John Lucarotti
With John Junkin as Jeffrey, Scott Forbes as Kender, Jeremy Wilkin as Dyne

This first outside broadcast colour drama concerns three criminals. Their good reputations are seriously threatened when a packing-case of stolen silver has, on receipt, been miraculously transformed into pig iron - which can land them in serious trouble with their underworld colleagues.
(Colour)

Contributors

Writer:
John Lucarotti
Designer:
Heather Stewart
Producer:
Innes Lloyd
Director:
James MacTaggart
Jeffrey:
John Junkin
Kender:
Scott Forbes
Dyne:
Jeremy Wilkin

A look at the world through European eyes.
Introduced this week by Olivier Todd with the help of the cameras of the European television networks.
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Olivier Todd
Producer:
Frank Smith

A selection of musical milestones from the golden days of the silver screen.

Tonight: the 1951 production "On the Riviera"
Starring Danny Kaye
with Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet
and Marcel Dalio, Sig Ruman

Complications ensue when an American entertainer is asked to impersonate a French aviation hero.
(Colour)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Valentine Davies
Screenplay:
Phoebe Ephron
Screenplay:
Henry Ephron
From a play by:
Rudolph Lothar
From a play by:
Hans Adler
Producer:
Sol C. Siegel
Director:
Walter Lang
Henri Duran/Jack Martin:
Danny Kaye
Lilli:
Gene Tierney
Colette:
Corinne Calvet
Philippe Lebrix:
Marcel Dalio
Periton:
Jean Murat
Louis Forel:
Henri Letondal
Antoine:
Clinton Sundberg
Gapeaux:
Sig Ruman

A last look around the daily scene with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King, Sheridan Morley.
"So gently shuts the eye of day" (Anna Barbauld)

(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Dean
Presenter:
Joan Bakewell
Presenter:
Tony Bilbow
Presenter:
Brian King
Presenter:
Sheridan Morley

BBC Two England

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