The best of the week's newsfilm from all over the world, together with other subjects of interest. For the deaf and hard of hearing a commentary appears visually
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A series of programmes of lunacy and laughter starring, as your hosts, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin
and featuring Judy Carne, Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzi, Henry Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Alan Sues, Jo Anne Worley, Teresa Graves, Pamela Rodgers, Jeremy Lloyd, Byron Gilliam, and Gary Owens
A Schlatter/Friendly production for NBC

Upon the unpredictable, reef-strewn Caribbean once sailed the legendary galleons of the Spanish treasure fleets. Of the riches Plundered from the New World, more than £200 million in bullion and precious stones plunged to the bottom of the sea. Now, for the first time in the long voyage of his research vessel Calypso, Jacques Cousteau and his men assemble a sophisticated arsenal of deep-sea salvage equipment. This includes a temperamental excavator, which they call the 'monster' and which they use to sift 300 tons of coral debris in their hunt for... Sunken Treasure
Produced by Les Requins Associes and Metromedia Producers Corporation (from BBC South and West)

presented by Robin Ray
The city of Dublin has no concert hall, but if you earn your living as an acknowledged composer, you pay no income tax. Two extremes in a city that has just held its second Festival of 20th-century Music.
Electronic instruments don't produce music at the touch of a button: they are tools for musicians to use. Music Now goes to New York to look at the latest device to invade the field, the Moog Synthesizer, and see what composers are making of the technological material of our time.

'The rich man in his castle and the poor man at his gate' was how it used to be on the old country estates, and there are still a few people who remember what it was like.
Minterne, in Dorset, the home of the Digby family since 1765, managed to uphold this tradition until the 1930s. With the aid of old film, and the memories of the Bailiff, the Carpenter, the Post-mistress, the Head Gardener, a Groom, a Housemaid, a Farm Hand, and a Woodman - as well as Her Ladyship and her son - we learn of a way of life that will never return.

by Emile Zola
Dramatised in five parts by David Turner

After the death of many of the villagers at the mine the strike has collapsed. The Belgians have been withdrawn from the pits and the miners prepare to resume work.

A weekly look at the cinema with stars, previews, and a dig into the past
Introduced by Tony Bilbow with Philip Jenkinson
This week's guest: James Mason with extracts from his latest films The Seagull, Age of Consent, and Spring and Port Wine