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starring Tyrone Power, Piper Laurie, Julia Adams

The adventures of a dashing Mississippi riverboat gambler, Mark Fallon, whose skill with cards and the ladies often leads him into trouble.
(Colour)
(to 16.35)

Contributors

Director:
Rudolph Mate
Producer:
Ted Richmond
Mark Fallon:
Tyrone Power
Angelique Duroux:
Piper Laurie
Ann Conant:
Julia Adams
John Polly:
John McIntire
Pierre:
William Reynolds
Edmond Duroux:
Paul Cavanagh
Laurent Duroux:
John Baer
George Elwood:
Ron Randell

with Percy Thrower at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire
Percy Thrower looks at a modern garden in a setting of ancient buildings and talks about some familiar shrubs growing there, weigela and escallonia.
From the Midlands
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Producer:
Bill Duncalf
Director:
John Clarke

A grand tour of some of the outstanding European and American zoos with Anthony Smith

A zoo that's looking to the future
One hundred and twenty-five years ago, a zoo in a park on the outskirts of a Continental seaport began to exhibit - to an often incredulous public - strange beasts and creatures from foreign lands, including some from Belgium's African territories.
Today that same zoo is in the centre of Antwerp alongside the city's main square, dominated by the railway station, overshadowed by the loss of an Empire-yet Antwerp is becoming a modern zoo in an old place with an up-to-date Dolphinarium and a distinguished animal breeding record.
from the South and West
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Anthony Smith
Producer:
Peter Bale
Series Editor:
Nicholas Crocker

by R.H. Mottram.
Dramatised in four parts by Lennox Phillips.

The story of Madeleine and the Spanish Farm situated in French Flanders close to the Front in the First World War, and of some of the British troops billeted there. Madeleine is the heroine; but the only hero is the farm. For that will live, while its temporary occupants are dying - in disciplined, slaughtered thousands.

(Colour)

Contributors

Author:
R.H. Mottram
Dramatised by:
Lennox Phillips
Costumes:
Prue Handley
Designer:
John Cooper
Producer:
David Conroy
Director:
Gerald Blake
Jerome:
Jack Woolgar
Armand:
William Victor
Madeleine:
Caroline Mortimer
Georges D'Archeville:
Carl Rigg
Baron D'Archeville:
Cyril Luckham
Berthe:
Eileen Way
Jock:
Roy Pattison
Col. Birchin:
Maurice Hedley
Capt. Dormer:
Bernard Hepton
Lieut. Skene:
Cavan Kendall
Lieut. Earnshaw:
Christopher Tranchell
Lieut. Smith:
George Tarry
Sergeant:
Desmond Cullum-Jones
Lieut. Mercadet:
Michael Godfrey
Lieut. Mansfield:
John Leeson
Lieut. Murdon:
Peter Hempson
Capt. Thomas:
Martyn Huntley
Victor:
Michael Cleave
Railway clerk:
Charles Leno
Cecile Blanquart:
Brigit Forsyth
Blanquart:
Roy Denton
Medical Sergeant:
Stanley McGeagh
Marie:
Elisabeth MacNaughton
Jerry:
James McManus
Maj. Stevenage:
James Locker

The latest report on the Big Dig with Magnus Magnusson
Tonight live outside broadcast cameras bring viewers on-the-spot information from the BBC's excavation of Silbury Hill. It is now in the middle of the second season of the Dig. After a further three weeks of excavation in the deepest interior of the hill and on the land surface around it, Professor Richard Atkinson and his teams of archaeologists and miners have reached the most vital stage of this unique project. Tonight the Silbury team hope to give answers to some of the multitude of questions that Silbury has posed for almost 4,000 years.
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Magnus Magnusson
Archaeologist:
Professor Richard Atkinson
Director:
David Collison
Producer:
Paul Johnstone

With just over 24 hours to go before the moon landing, the U.S. astronauts transmit live television pictures of the moon surface
A report from James Burke with Patrick Moore in the Space Studio
(Also on BBC-1 and BBC Wales)
(Colour)

Contributors

Reporter:
James Burke
Reporter:
Patrick Moore

from The Talk of the Town in the heart of London
Kenneth Williams introduces
Tonight's star from America, Nancy Wilson
from France, Manitas de Plata and Group
from Hungary, Les Kuti

Robert Harbin
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter/special material:
Kenneth Williams
Singer:
Nancy Wilson
Musicians:
Manitas de Plata and Group
Musician:
Les Kuti
Magician:
Robert Harbin
The Cabaret Orchestra under the direction of:
Alyn Ainsworth
Special material:
John Law
Design:
Andrew Dimond
Production:
John Street

John Steinbeck's account of a trip across America with his dog Charley
A film produced for N.B.C.

Based on his best-selling book, this film illustrates some of John Steinbeck's twentieth - century odyssey, a 10,000-mile four-month journey around the United States with a seven-year-old poodle, Charley. Steinbeck decided to tour the country in his specially constructed caravan, to renew contact with the American nation - 'to look again, to try to rediscover this monster land.'
His own words, narrated by Henry Fonda, describe his experiences and encounters during the journey from New York through the New England states and the Great Lakes area, to his long-time stamping grounds in Salinas, California, the setting for many of his most famous novels.
Six animated cartoon sequences enliven such episodes as an encounter with an amorous moose, a re-creation of Dante's Inferno, and another nightmarish scene in which Charley is chased by a bear.
(Colour)

Contributors

Subject:
John Steinbeck
Narrator:
Henry Fonda
Director:
Walt Defaria

In which about 150 people of varied ages, outlook, and opinions look at, listen to - and freely discuss - the music of Pete Brown and his Battered Ornaments. After the discussion their manager Andrew King gives his reactions to some of the comments made.
Somewhere among the audience: Hans Keller, Jonathan King, Humphrey Lyttelton, Manfred Mann, Denis Matthews, John Peel
Referee, Paddy Feeny

(Colour)

Contributors

Musicians:
Pete Brown and his Battered Ornaments
Interviewee:
Andrew King
Panellist:
Hans Keller
Panellist:
Jonathan King
Panellist:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Panellists:
Manfred Mann
Panellist:
Denis Matthews
Panellist:
John Peel
Referee:
Paddy Feeny
Interviewer:
Mike Raven
Research:
Martin Hoyle
Production Assistant:
Robin Drake
Producer:
John King

Starring Dana Andrews
with Donna Reed, Dianne Foster

A gunman, accused of murdering his fiancee's brother, has just three hours to find the real killer.
(Colour)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Richard Alan Simmons
Screenplay:
Roy Huggins
Based on a story by:
Alex Gottlieb
Director:
Alfred Werker
Producer:
Harry Joe Brown
Jim Guthrie:
Dana Andrews
Laurie Mastin:
Donna Reed
Chris Plumber:
Dianne Foster
Ben East:
Stephen Elliott
Niles Hendricks:
Richard Coogan
Marly Lasswell:
Laurence Hugo
Sam Minor:
James Westerfield
Deke:
Whit Bissell

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