Starring Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas

In this lively British comedy Alastair Sim plays a professional assassin whose career is threatened by the activities of a bungling vacuum-cleaner salesman - in the person of George Cole.

A review of the political week
David Holmes recalls the highlights in the Houses of Parliament and reports on the part played by government in the lives of us all.

with Percy Thrower

At his home in Shropshire and 'The Dingle,' Shrewsbury, Percy Thrower shows how to grow: Cineraria maritima; Iresine; Canna Lily; Abutilon; Salvia patens; Pelargonium (Ivy-leafed Geranium); Ficus repens (Climbing Rubber Plant); Agapanthus
(From BBC Midlands)

Introduced by Cliff Morgan

England's first match of the seventies comes some two months after their unexpected and thrilling victory over the Sixth Springboks - a victory which was a complete vindication of the squad training and intense coaching methods now such an integral part of first-class rugby.
England begin the quest for their first International Championship title since 1962-63 with today's game against Ireland, who lost the opening match of their international season (0-8) against the French in Paris last month.

Tonight's edition in James Cameron's own series of documentary films looks at something that changed a dream into an institution. The British Labour Party began with a vision only 78 years ago when its founding father Keir Hardie (right) carried a great idea' to Westminster as the first of all Socialist MPs.
A lot has happened since then, and Jerusalem has been a long time coming.
Tonight James Cameron talks to some of the veterans of Labour, and of Socialism, and asks how they think the ideals have worked in practice.
(In memory of Socialism: page 12)

A film made at the 4th International Popular Song Festival held at the Maracanazinho Stadium in Rio de Janeiro in October 1969.
Singing the British entry: Malcolm Roberts
Also featuring Frida Boccara (France), Danny Doyle (Ireland), Eva (Brazil), Bill Medley (USA), Romuald (Andorra), John Rowles (New Zealand), Roger Whittaker (Kenya) and Madeline Bell, Simonal
The Orchestra of TV-Globo, Brazil conducted by Erlon Chaves

Rio de Janeiro, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, is the setting for this festival which annually plays host to many top international artists. In the Maracanazinho Stadium an audience of up to 36,000 people respond to the music with the same fervour they display for their favourite sport, football.
One of Britain's top songwriters, Barry Mason, was present as a guest, and his commentary takes us through this unique festival.

A programme of TV-Globo produced by Telefilm Saar GmbH with the assistance of Secretaria de Turismo da Guanabara, Brazil

The weekly arts magazine presented by James Mossman

The Romance of Crime Fiction had its heyday between the wars and always included remote houses, well-bred suspects, and a quirky amateur sleuth beating the plodding copper.
Anthony Shaffer, who touches on these themes in his new play Sleuth, conducts us on a tour of one of the greatest areas of escapist literature from Edgar Allan Poe to Agatha Christie: illustrated by extracts from his play now running in London starring Anthony Quayle and Keith Baxter. Also Alec Guinness, Peter Finch, Robert Montgomery, Dick Powell and Margaret Rutherford in film versions of detective stories

by George Layton
with Clive Revill and Maureen Pryor

"Arrangements, you've made arrangements! For me? Without telling me. You shouldn't have done that. I know what you're going to do. You're going to put me in a home aren't you? Well, I won't go. I'm going to stay here. I won't go in a home."

Introduced by Tommy Vance
Tonight Disco 2 is devoted to Rock 'n' Roll with music and film from the stars of the fifties - the so-called Rock Era.
Keeping Rock 'n' Roll alive are Wild Angels, filmed at a live performance with their usual capacity audience.

Starring Curt Jurgens, May Britt
with Theodore Bikel

A middle-aged schoolteacher, disturbed by the attentions his students are paying to a nightclub singer, decides to visit her, and finds himself drawn into the web of a humiliating infatuation... This is a remake of the classic Joseph von Sternberg film which gave Marlene Dietrich her first international starring role.