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Monday is Useful Box Day and the story is The Man Who Liked Junk by Christopher Fagg
If you look at the trees
When they're covered with leaves
The leaves make a pattern
That moves in the breeze
This week's presenters are Carol Chell, Gordon Clyde

Contributors

Author (The Man Who Liked Junk):
Christopher Fagg
Presenter:
Carol Chell
Presenter:
Gordon Clyde

Reporting the world tonight
John Timpson and Peter Woods, Martin Bell, Michael Blakey, Michael Clayton, Tom Mangold, Michael Sullivan, David Tindall, Richard Whitmore and the correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
followed by Weather
(Colour)

Contributors

Newsreader:
John Timpson
Newsreader:
Peter Woods
Reporter:
Martin Bell
Reporter:
Michael Blakey
Reporter:
Michael Clayton
Reporter:
Tom Mangold
Reporter:
Michael Sullivan
Reporter:
David Tindall
Reporter:
Richard Whitmore

A film series about the untamed West in which a pioneer settler and his two sons fight to keep their hard-won cattle land

Johnny and Scott venture into remote and lawless mining territory to rescue a girl who has been kidnapped. They encounter opposition even more dangerous than they expected - not least from the girl herself

(Colour)

Contributors

Murdoch:
Andrew Duggan
Johnny:
James Stacy
Scott:
Wayne Maunder
Teresa:
Elizabeth Baur
Jelly:
Paul Brinegar
Melissa:
Shelley Fabares
Bobby:
Dennis Cole
Harper:
Walter Brooke

How do you remove a speck of dirt from somebody's eye? Is the burn caused by watching arc welding without goggles a temporary injury, or does it damage the eye beyond repair? If you look at the sun, either directly or during an eclipse, what sort of damage does this do?
These and other questions are discussed by two eye surgeons from London hospitals, and operating techniques in repairing damaged eyes are shown

(Colour)

Contributors

Director:
John Frost
Producer:
Ian Curtis

Adapted by Barry Took from the Beachcomber column of the Daily Express
starring Spike Milligan
and featuring Julian Orchard, Frank Thornton, Ann Lancaster, Leon Thau, Paul McDowell, Josephine Gordon, Thelma Taylor, Bernard Jamieson
also appearing this week Fred Emney, Margaret Nolan, Bill Pertwee, Charlie Atom, Michael Earl, Bert Simms, Jay Neill

Spike and his friends: cover story on page 6
The man with a right-angled flute. Spike Milligan as (or should it be is?) Beachcomber, the zaniest character ever to step out of a newspaper page. Among the famous characters featured in this new series will be Dr Rhubarb, Mrs Whelkstuffer, TV's newest cookery expert, Roland Milk, poet, and Eric Badger, ballet critic. Tumbelova the ballerina will be a regular, likewise Dr Strabismus - Whom God Preserve - of Utrecht conducting experiments to prove the truth of old proverbs
(Colour)

Contributors

Author:
Beachcomber [J.B. Morton]
Adapted by:
Barry Took
Additional Material:
Spike Milligan
Ballet devised by:
Josephine Gordon
Music:
Dennis Wilson
Design:
Alan Hunter-Craig
Producer:
Duncan Wood
Dr. Strabismus:
Spike Milligan
[Actor]:
Julian Orchard
[Actor]:
Frank Thornton
[Actress]:
Ann Lancaster
[Actor]:
Leon Thau
[Actor]:
Paul McDowell
[Actress]:
Josephine Gordon
[Actress]:
Thelma Taylor
[Actor]:
Bernard Jamieson
[Actor]:
Fred Emney
[Actor]:
Margaret Nolan
[Actor]:
Bill Pertwee
[Actor]:
Charlie Atom
[Actor]:
Michael Earl
[Actor]:
Bert Simms
[Actor]:
Jay Neill

A woman who wore a bucket on her head, a mother who wants to be buried, a man who saw the crucifixion on the face of the moon - another who thought he was Yuri Gagarin... These are the symptoms of classical madness - schizophrenia
It is an unsolved mystery of modern medicine. Tonight's Horizon looks at some of the possible explanations and their relevance not only to schizophrenics but to the mystery of the human mind

(Colour)

Contributors

Narrator:
Christopher Chataway
Editor:
R. W Reid
Producer:
Richard Broad

Introduced by Mel Oxley
A programme to help you relax - or to keep you awake - with music, people, film, and talk of this and that with James Cameron's comments and Ian Hanson
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Mel Oxley
Speaker:
James Cameron
Performer:
Ian Hanson
Editor:
Rowan Ayers

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