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A series about some of the best known images in art.

For years he hung in countless homes all over the country, the symbol of gallant, rakish manhood. The English claimed him as their own, and here at least he became as much a star as the Mona Lisa herself. Now, after years of relegation to chocolate-box tops and advertisements, he seems little more than a representative of bygone bad taste.
Michael Kitson traces the Cavalier's rise to fame, in relation to Hals's work as a whole. Does he perhaps, deserve a little more respect than we now allow him?

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Kitson
Producer:
Leslie Megahey
Director:
Michael Dibb

Money - the force behind so many of our actions : loving and hating, hiring and firing, living and starving, or just piling it up. The people, the stories, and the action behind the one commodity no one can do without - money.
Together with the Money-Minder - a new regular feature with up-to-the-minute news on the Stock Market: the rise and fall of shares, the bulls and the bears. What is it all about?
A weekly look at the investment world.

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Widlake
Presenter:
Alan Watson
Presenter:
Paul Griffiths
Producer:
Robert Rowland

The Chilterns are 500 square miles of beautiful countryside, only about one hour's drive from London.
Kevin Fitzgerald looks beneath the thatch of the pretty cottages, the uniform roofs of the housing estates, and sees the countryside as a place for the benefit of people who live there.
In the last two decades more than a million people have come to live in the Chilterns. How has the area absorbed them, and how many more can it absorb before the countryside that they have all moved away from London to enjoy, is destroyed by their own enthusiasm for it?

Contributors

Presenter:
Kevin Fitzgerald
Producer:
Roger Price
Executive Producer:
Bridget Winter

Television's fastest spectacular bringing back the Magic of the Minstrels

Starring The Mitchell Minstrels
featuring John Boulter, Dai Francis, Margaret Savage, Andy Cole, Peter Kaye
with The Television Toppers
and Les Rawlings, Elspeth Hands, Delia Wicks, Les Want and Jean McGuire

(The Black and White Minstrels are appearing in "Magic of the Minstrels" at the Victoria Palace, London, and in "The Black and White Minstrel Show" at the New Theatre, Hull)

Contributors

Singers/Dancers:
The Mitchell Minstrels
Singer:
John Boulter
Singer:
Dai Francis
Singer:
Margaret Savage
Singer:
Andy Cole
Comedian/Presenter:
Peter Kaye
Dancers:
The Television Toppers
Singer:
Les Rawlings
Dancer/Choreography:
Elspeth Hands
Dancer:
Delia Wicks
Singer:
Les Want
Singer/Dancer:
Jean McGuire
Orchestra leader:
Freddie Clayton
Orchestra conducted by/Vocal arrangements:
George Mitchell
Orchestra conducted by/Orchestrations:
Alan Bristow
Additional Material:
Alan Field
Additional Material:
Peter Robinson
Settings:
Martin Collins
Devised and produced by:
George Inns

The last of the three films by Orson Welles in this new season featuring the work of the world's leading directors
Starring Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles
with Everett Sloane

Although Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons received phenomenal critical acclaim, Welles found it difficult to get directorial assignments, and only after Rita Hayworth - his wife at the time - had agreed to play a leading role was he given full creative control over The Lady from Shanghai. The result was a bravura thriller with one of the most exciting endings in the history of the cinema - a bizarre gun battle in a hall of mirrors.
Written, produced, and directed by Orson Welles
(This Week's Films: page 13)

Contributors

Based on a novel by:
Sherwood King
Writer/Producer/Director:
Orson Welles
Mike O'Hara:
Orson Welles
Elsa Bannister:
Rita Hayworth
Mr Bannister:
Everett Sloane
Grisby:
Glenn Anders

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