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A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives
Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland,
Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

Tonight: The Office Party
It can be the greatest pitfall of the social year. And it can be followed by a 12-month hangover. It's a month now since the paper-chains came down, but if your secretary hasn't spoken to you since, it's a fair bet that you had a good time at your office party. Traditionally, it's the one night of the year when the firm's hierarchical structure, that normally so rigidly holds sway, totters.
Reporter Gillian Strickland and a Man Alive team took a typical office and filmed the preparations for the annual party, the spree itself, and the aftermath. Here is the answer to every question a stay-at-home wife has ever asked; and here is the party from differing points of view: the young secretary in her first job; the executive who doesn't want to drink with the people he works with; the lady in accounts who once knew a more elegant style of party giving - and the bosses who foot the bill.

Contributors

Reporter:
Gillian Strickland
Director:
James Kenelm Clarke
Editor:
Desmond Wilcox
Editor:
Bill Morton

starring Petula Clark in the first half of her recent highly successful concert from the Royal Albert Hall in London.
(Petula Clark appears by arrangement with Robert Paterson and Claude Wolff)

Contributors

Singer:
Petula Clark
Accompanied by:
Johnny Harris and the Orchestra
Pianist and musical associate:
Frank Owens
Sound:
Graham Haines
Lighting:
Phil Ward
Television presentation:
Yvonne Littlewood

In the six countries of the Common Market it is the eventual aim to have complete mobility of labour. That means the right of any citizen of any of the six to work anywhere in the Common Market.
Already scores of thousands of foreign workers fill the vacancies in Europe's booming industries. But what problems do they bring? How do they look at their adopted countries? What will happen if, and when, the Common Market is extended to include Britain?
This is the story Europa looks at tonight, with the aid of the cameras of European television.
Introduced by Derek Hart

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Hart
Producer:
Anthony Chivers

An invitation to step into the humorous and imaginative world of James Thurber
A series based on a selection of his famous stories and cartoons starring

It's no joke when the wife interrupts the telling of hubby's favourite tale and persistent public display of this feminine failing inevitably raises the old Adam in man.
The hand that rocks the cradle may rule the world but that which controls the credit card holds the trump!

Contributors

Author:
James Thurber
John Monroe:
William Windom
his wife Ellen:
Joan Hotchkis
his daughter Lydia:
Lisa Gerritsen

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