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Starring Richard Egan, Anthony Quinn, Michael Rennie, Jeffrey Hunter, Rita Moreno

As the Spanish Conquistadores search California for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold, a priest mediates in their brutal encounters with the Indians.
The film is based on the life of Fr Junipero Serra (played by Michael Rennie), whose work led to the foundation of missions throughout California in the late 18th century.

(Colour)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Richard L. Breen
Screenplay:
John C. Higgins
Producer/Director:
Robert D. Webb
Producer:
Barbara McLean
Jose:
Richard Egan
Captain Portola:
Anthony Quinn
Fr Junipero Serra:
Michael Rennie
Matuwir:
Jeffrey Hunter
Ula:
Rita Moreno
Sergeant:
Eduardo Noriega

with Percy Thrower

At his home in Shropshire Percy Thrower shows how to grow: Croton (South Sea Laurel); Coleus; Bougainvillea; Gerbera; Cuphea (Cigar Plant); Euphorbia splendens (Crown of Thorns); Aeonium; Bryophyllum (Wonder of the World); Gazania; Impatiens (Busy Lizzie).
Next Saturday Percy pays a second visit to Quinta do Palheiro, an estate of 800 acres, 1,800 feet above sea level, which contains one of the great gardens of the world.
(From BBC Midlands)
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Produced and directed by:
Bill Duncalf

Introduced by Cliff Morgan

One of London's top clubs, Wasps, travels to the West Country to play Gloucester today. Both clubs have been having a mixed season with their wins slightly outweighing their losses, but their brand of open rugby has produced an average of over 20 points per match.

(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Morgan
Director:
Bill Taylor
Series Producer:
Alan Mouncer

Introduced by Magnus Magnusson

"I have prayed to God all night that I might die, or that he would spare my reason..." Poor George III! Many of the 60 years of his reign were coloured by a terrible illness. Eighteenth-century doctors thought him mad - they put him in a straitjacket and kept him virtually a prisoner. But was he mad? One hundred and fifty years after his death, modern medicine has found the answer.

Dr J. Steven Watson, historian, tells the story of the 'mad king' and talks to Dr Richard Hunter, Physician in Psychological Medicine, who has diagnosed the King's illness.
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Magnus Magnusson
Reporter:
Dr J. Steven Watson
Interviewee:
Dr Richard Hunter
Producer:
Julia Cave
Executive Producer:
Paul Johnstone

The second of two programmes in which this remarkable international artist performs his own compositions
With Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra
"Aznavour is the perfect salesman for his own work; his words are the plea of any poor devil, sung in any poor devil's voice" (Time)

(Colour)

Contributors

Singer:
Charles Aznavour
Musicians:
Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra
Lighting:
Tommy Thomas
Sound:
Chris Holcombe
Design:
Paul Munting
Production:
Stewart Morris

The weekly arts magazine presented by James Mossman

At Stoke-on-Trent's Victoria Theatre a new 'musical documentary' about the Ranters - primitive methodists who preached fire and brimstone in the 19th-century Potteries - has been worked entirely from old journals, contemporary interviews, hymns, and folk songs. Review filmed this lively young repertory company in the last week of rehearsals and looked at the countryside and people who provide much of the source material for artistic director Peter Cheeseman's bid for truly popular theatre.

(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter/Editor:
James Mossman
Director:
Tony Staveacre
Producer:
Darrol Blake
Producer:
Christopher Martin
Producer:
Peter Adam

by Maurice Edelman, MP
with Michael Aldridge, Sylvia Syms

Every day Henry Shoreham, MP, is helping constituents with their problems. But, like them, he too has problems. So when his personal life becomes a threat to his integrity as a politician, he has to make a stand. But the question is: on which side?

(Michael Aldridge is in "The Magistrate" at the Cambridge Theatre; Peter Howell in "Conduct Unbecoming" at the Queen's Theatre, London)
(Colour)

Contributors

Writer:
Maurice Edelman
Script Editor:
Derek Hoddinott
Designer:
David Jones
Producer:
Innes Lloyd
Director:
Roderick Graham
Henry Shoreham:
Michael Aldridge
Miss Fretts:
Pauline Taylor
Policeman:
Salvin Stewart
Judy Marriott:
Sylvia Syms
Chief Whip:
Peter Howell
Owen Telfer:
Edward Evans
Peter Blakeman:
Philip Bond
Correspondent:
Antony Carrick
Gordon:
Raymond Llewellyn

Pop about music past, present, and future
Introduced by Tommy Vance
with this week's guests The Peddlers
featuring Procol Harum, Juicy Lucy, Fats Domino
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Vance
Musicians:
The Peddlers
Musicians:
Procol Harum
Musicians:
Juicy Lucy
Pianist/Singer:
Fats Domino
Production:
Granville Jenkins
Executive Producer:
Rowan Ayers

Starring Dick Powell, Signe Hasso

A U.S. Government agent (Dick Powell) undertakes the hazardous assignment of trailing an international gang of narcotic smugglers around the world. This exciting adventure, set in 1935, is based on fact.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Jay Richard Kennedy
Producer:
Sidney Buchman
Director:
Robert Stevenson
Michael Barrows:
Dick Powell
Ann Grant:
Signe Hasso
Shu Pan Wu:
null Maylia
Nikolo Solkim:
Ludwig Donath
Chinese Commissioner:
Vladimir Sokoloff
Mr Shannon:
John Hoyt

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