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Starring Red Skelton, Sally Forrest, Macdonald Carey

In the early days of the horseless carriage a young inventor struggles against a series of hilarious misfortunes to compete in an important motor race.

Contributors

Screenwriter:
George Wells
Producer:
Jack Cummings
Director:
Roy Rowland
Joe Belden:
Red Skelton
Liz Bullitt:
Sally Forrest
Cyrus Random Jr:
MacDonald Carey
Harvey Bullitt:
William Demarest
Daisy Lou Shultzer:
Monica Lewis
Mayor Haskell:
Raymond Walburn

with Percy Thrower

At his home in Shropshire Percy Thrower shows how to grow: Citrus sinensis (Orange Tree); Citrus limonia (Lemon Tree); Kentia Palm; Phoenix (Date Palm), from stone; Persea americana (Avocado Pear Tree), from stone; Grevillea robusta; Cacti and succulents including Echeveria and Aloe; Bougainvillea

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Produced and directed by:
Bill Duncalf

Today's meeting between these two sides could well be the decisive match of the season.
Cliff Morgan introduces the highlights of the game at Twickenham as well as news of today's other fixture between Ireland and Scotland.

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Morgan
Commentator at Twickenham:
Bill McLaren
Series Producer:
Alan Mouncer

In 1922 Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon came upon one of the most spectacular of all archaeological discoveries, the almost untouched tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. After four years' intensive work the treasure was removed to the National Museum in Cairo, but the mummy of the pharaoh was resealed in its coffin in the tomb.
Now, for the first time since 1926, the coffin has been reopened so that a scientific X-ray study of the mummy could be made by a team led by Professor R. G. Harrison, Department of Human Anatomy, Liverpool University.
The whole of the reopening, the X-ray process, and the interpretation of the results were filmed, to add yet another chapter to the story of the young king who was buried some 3,300 years ago in mysterious circumstances in the Valley of Kings in Egypt.

Contributors

Archaeologist:
Professor R. G. Harrison
Narrator:
Robert Hardy
Producer:
Paul Johnstone

The weekly arts magazine presented by James Mossman

Film Producers: In all the publicity provoked by the film industry the men who have come out least sympathetically have been the producers.
Directors and actors have been romanticised, but the producer - the man who promotes the enterprise, arranges the backing for it, and is finally responsible for shaping the film industry's priorities - is seen as a cigar-smoking Philistine who is more concerned about the box office than the eternal verities.
Review looks at the industry, in its present rather confused financial state, through the eyes of some of these people: Harry Saltzman, Michael Medwin, John Schlesinger, Betty Box, John Boulting, Jeffrey Selznick

Contributors

Presenter/Editor:
James Mossman
Interviewee:
Harry Saltzman
Interviewee:
Michael Medwin
Interviewee:
John Schlesinger
Interviewee:
Betty Box
Interviewee:
John Boulting
Interviewee:
Jeffrey Selznick
Director:
Charles Mapleston
Producer:
Peter Adam
Producer:
Darrol Blake
Producer:
Christopher Martin

by Frank Clements
The 'clairvoyante' Mrs Purgold and her manager Tim don't actually believe in spirits - until one day...

Contributors

Writer:
Frank Clements
Script Editor:
Derek Hoddinott
Designer:
Paul Joel
Producer:
Innes Lloyd
Director:
Robert Knights
Mrs Purgold:
Madge Ryan
Tim Singleton:
James Cossins
Eric Holderness:
Donald Burton
Judy Holderness:
Christine Noonan
Mrs Maddison:
Margo Cunningham
Mrs Holderness:
Helen Shingler

Starring Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quinn, Miroslava

A famous matador has a desperate struggle to regain his confidence and his public after making a near-fatal mistake in the ring.
Robert Rossen both produced and directed this independent film which was shot entirely on location in Mexico.

Contributors

Screenplay:
John Bright
Based on the book by:
Tom Lea
Directed and produced by:
Robert Rossen
Luis Bello:
Mel Ferrer
Fuentes:
Anthony Quinn
Linda de Calderon:
null Miroslava
Pepe Bello:
Eugene Iglesias
Gomez:
Jose Torvay
Raquelita:
null Charlita

BBC Two England

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