A programme for children at home

(Colour)
(to 11.20)

by Rex Tucker
[Starring] Timothy Dalton as Ahmed, Isla Blair as Princess Yasmin
with Gordon Gostelow as The Carpet Dealer, Peter Jeffrey as The Sun Prince, Roy Kinnear as The Moon Prince, Kenneth Mackintosh as The Caliph
and Cleo Laine as The Voice of Scheherazade

Magical caves, flying carpets as the father of a princess sets her suitors an intriguing task.

(Kenneth Mackintosh, William Hobbs, Frederick Pyne, and Frank Wylie are National Theatre players)
(Colour)

The dramatic story of the successful 1953 Everest Expedition led by Sir John Hunt
Commentary written by Louis MacNeice and spoken by Meredith Edwards
Produced with the co-operation of The Royal Geographical Society and The Alpine Club
(Colour)

starring Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar
with Herbert Marshall

A complex story of love and intrigue set at the time of the English King Henry IV.
(Colour)

An epitaph for the age of steam
Another chance to see this unique film of the Flying Scotsman's dramatic non-stop run from London to Edinburgh on May 1, 1968.
It was forty years from the day of its first non-stop run that this famous old engine, now privately owned by Alan Pegler, took some 300 railway enthusiasts on a never-to-be-repeated journey.
The film of this journey has been described by one critic as 'as good as a free ticket to eternal youth'.
(Colour)

(Colour)

A cartoon film with music and song.
Boris Karloff narrates this unusual and amusing Christmas story.
(Colour)

by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
freely adapted by Alan Melville
starring Patrick Cargill as The Lord Chancellor, Joan Sims as The Fairy Queen
featuring Jimmy Thompson as Lord Tolloller, Julian Orchard as Lord Mountararat,
Mary Millar as Phyllis, Simon Kent as Strephon:
with Janet Mahoney, Suzanne Kerchiss, Geraldene Morrow, John Inman, Karen Sirett
and Trisha Noble as lolanthe
Guest star, Jimmy Logan as Pte. Willis
Jimmy Thompson is appearing in 'Dick Whittington' at the Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon; John Inman in 'Cinderella' at the Odeon Theatre, Streatham
See colour feature on centre pages
David Kernan, who appears in our colour feature, has had to drop out of the cast through illness.
(Colour)

In which Brigitte Bardot invites you to join her in a variety of moods and settings
with her guests, Manitas de Plata and Sacha Distel
A Bob Zagury production
(Colour)