starring Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, Phil Carey
When Ben Warren's fiancee is abducted by a gang of Southern raiders he begins a relentless pursuit to overtake them before they can reach the Mexican border.
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Percy Thrower at Hyde Hall, Essex
From the Midlands
Percy Thrower writes on page 28
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Stuart Turner covers the world of motoring
In Fleet Street, evening-paper delivery vans often cover 40,000 miles a year. In Australia, newspaper vans on a 500-mile night run have half-a-million miles on the clock. Few people depend on the motor vehicle as heavily as the Press. A breakdown can cost thousands in money and circulation. What vehicles do newspapers choose and why?
Wheelbase goes on the road with the Perth West Australian, which has one of the longest delivery runs in the world, and the London Evening News, which has the world's largest evening sale.
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followed by The Weather
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A View of an Age by Edward Crankshaw
In the course of 600 years one family, the Habsburgs, came to dominate the huge area of central and south-eastern Europe which included what we know today as Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and large parts of Yugoslavia, Poland, Rumania, and northern Italy.
Tonight's film tells the story of the man who strove so desperately to hold his inheritance together, the Emperor Franz Joseph. He came to the throne in 1848 at the age of eighteen, and for sixty-eight years suffered an unending series of public disasters and personal tragedies, including the suicide of his son and the assassination of his wife. On his shoulders alone rested the vast complex of an Empire approaching its end. But behind the glitter of a decadent Vienna an amazing burst of creative energy took place. Doctors, musicians-great men from all corners of the Empire converged on the capital, Vienna. In the midst of all this activity Franz Joseph tried in vain to hold at bay the forces of nationalism which eventually brought about the destruction of the old Europe.
Commentary narrated by Gary Watson
With the voices of Annette Simone, Julian Fox and Frank Henderson
A BBC-tv-Bavarian TV Service co-operation
(First shown on BBC-1)
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by Anthony Trollope
Dramatised in five parts by Simon Raven
Starring Colin Blakely, Rachel Curney
Melmotte has been elected to the House of Commons. He has been given two days to produce £80,000 to pay for Pickering, and is trying to persuade Marie to make over her fortune to him.
(For cast see Thursday. 10.20 p.m.)
Beginning next week: "Sinister Street" by Compton Mackenzie
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This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Introduced by Cliff Morgan
The final programme of the season in Rugby Union's own television series features the highlights of the Finals of this famous "Seven-a-Side" competition. Among teams taking part this year are London Welsh and Richmond (the winners and runners-up respectively last year), Edinburgh Wanderers, and Cheltenham.
Starring Stephen Boyd, James Robertson Justice, Kathleen Harrison, Tony Wright
Two British soldiers, Dave and Jim, attempt to flee from the Germans in wartime France. Having escaped from a P.O.W. camp they are smuggled into the old quarter of Marseilles where they contact Dr. Martout, ostensibly a patriot engaged in getting wanted men out of the country...
One of the film's actors, Irish-man Stephen Boyd, is now a major international star and has appeared in many epics.
The director, Hugo Fregonese, had previously worked almost exclusively in Hollywood, but came to Britain to make Seven Thunders.
