Starring Frankie Howerd, Stanley Holloway with A. E. Matthews, Tony Wright
Frankie Howerd plays a bungling race-track sweeper who buys a sickly greyhound - and so begins a crazy round of misadventures.
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Starring Frankie Howerd, Stanley Holloway with A. E. Matthews, Tony Wright
Frankie Howerd plays a bungling race-track sweeper who buys a sickly greyhound - and so begins a crazy round of misadventures.
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 from the Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park
At their best in the many woodland glades are the varieties of rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias, magnolias, and spring-flowering bulbs, for which this garden is famous.
(Televised by permission of the Crown Estate Commissioners)
A second chance to see this film which The Times called: 'a penetrating documentary about prewar Fascists and East Enders.'
On 4 October 1936, a part of London became a battlefield. Nothing like it had been seen before. It was the day when the British Fascists attempted to march through the Jewish East End. A quarter of a million Londoners mobilised to stop them.
Taking part: Sir Oswald Mosley, Bill Fishman, Miss Edith Ramsay, Phil Piratin, Dr Hugh Faulkner
Commentary written by James Cameron
Heather Beckers, Marie Betts, Ann Chapman, Jackie Dalton, Denise Fone, Lynda Herbert, Jane Herbert, Carolyn Heywood, Linda Jolliff, Lesley Judd, Kay Korda, Linda Lawrence, Sandy Penson, Victoria Shellard, Wei Wei Wong, Bobby Bannerman, Iain Burton, Chris Cooper, Roger Finch, Richard Gough, Paul Guess, Harry Higham, Roger Howlett, Nigel Lythgoe, Colin Pilditch, Jeremy Robinson, Brian Rogers, Donald Torr, Kenneth Warwick, Trevor Willis
Starring Paul Jones and Lesley Gore, Durward Erwin, Rare Bird
Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra
(Paul Jones is in "Conduct Unbecoming" at the Queen's Theatre, London)
with Robert Erskine
Since Roman times, children have demanded amusement, but the Victorians especially insisted on toys to encourage the pursuit of knowledge.
by Andrew Davies
The gym is Cracker Carstairs's personal domain where, as an 'old army sweat,' he puts his pupils through a kind of hell.
(Nothing throws a Moody: pages 6-8)
Presented by James Mossman
Anthony Rossiter: I don't know anyone except possibly Virginia Woolf who has such a sense of the poetry of objects, of the visible as a world of sacramental signs.' W. H. Auden on the work of Anthony Rossiter. Like a pendulum-the name he gave his autobiography - Rossiter swings between joy and inspiration and the fear of madness.
Rebuffed Lover
Two more poems requested by viewers: Marlowe's Passionate Shepherd to his Love read by Martin Shaw and Sir Walter Raleigh's crushing Reply to Marlowe by the shepherdess, read by Janet Suzman.
Lotte Reiniger is one of the most original figures in the history of the cinema.
Nearly 50 years ago she made the first full-length cartoon film - The Adventures of Prince Achmed.
Tonight Review looks at her unique method of working and shows for the first time on television a section from Prince Achmed, which having been lost for many years has just been reprinted with sound and in the original colour.
Adapted for television by Terence Dixon
Introduced by Tommy Vance
featuring Family and Groundhogs with the best of the rest in pop
Starring Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally, Lee Marvin
One Friday in summer three gun-men arrive in a small mining town with a well-devised plan for robbing the local bank. By Saturday afternoon, as a result of the robbery, many lives have been changed - or come to an end...