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The best of the week's news film from all over the world, together with other subjects of interest. For the deaf and hard of hearing a commentary appears visually.
and Weather

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael de Morgan
Producer:
Bill Northwood

Rowan and Martin invite you to their Laugh-In

This week's star guest Desi Arnaz
with Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzi, Gary Owens, Alan Sues, Lily Tomlin, Dennis Allen, Johnny Brown, Ann Elder, Harvey Jason, Nancie Phillips, Barbara Sharma, Glenn Ash

A Schlatter/Friendly production for NBC

Contributors

Comedian:
Dan Rowan
Comedian:
Dick Martin
Guest:
Desi Arnaz
Performer:
Arte Johnson
Performer:
Ruth Buzzi
Performer:
Gary Owens
Performer:
Alan Sues
Performer:
Lily Tomlin
Performer:
Dennis Allen
Performer:
Johnny Brown
Performer:
Ann Elder
Performer:
Harvey Jason
Performer:
Nancie Phillips
Performer:
Barbara Sharma
Performer:
Glenn Ash

Every living thing to be found in a stream, pond, marsh or bog is specially designed for its own way of life, which in turn plays its part in a complex food web. Close-up camera techniques reveal some of the secrets of freshwater life which the human eye cannot normally see.
(from Bristol)

Contributors

Narrator:
Alan Gibson
Filmed by:
John Paling
Filmed by:
Peter Parks
Presented by:
Keith Hopkins
Executive Producer:
Christopher Parsons

Edited and introduced by John Amis

The New Philharmonia Orchestra on tour in Japan with Janet Baker and John Ogdon as soloists, and Bernard Keeffe as guide.

Jascha Horenstein talks about famous composers he knew including Carl Nielsen, part of whose Symphony No 5 he conducts in this item played by the New Philharmonia Orchestra.

The Dolmetsch Ensemble plays Purcell and introduces a Quodlibet '1612' which Elizabeth Poston has recently found, composed by an ancestor of Tchaikovsky.

Donald Swann sings his settings of poems by Sir John Betjeman and the religious poet Michel Quoist.

(Colour)

Contributors

Editor/Presenter:
John Amis
Musicians:
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Singer:
Janet Baker
Singer:
John Ogdon
Presenter (The New Philharmonia Orchestra on tour):
Bernard Keeffe
Interviewee:
Jascha Horenstein
Musicians:
The Dolmetsch Ensemble
Singer:
Donald Swann
Poet:
Sir John Betjeman
Poet:
Michel Quoist
Lighting:
Eric Monk
Director:
Kenneth Corden
Director:
Barrie Gavin
Director:
Denis Moriarty
Director:
Roy Tipping

by John Gould
Starring Marius Goring
with Ann Morrish
and Victor Winding, Michael Farnsworth, Valerie Murray
Guest star Andre Morell

Hardy is much possessed by the problems surrounding the scientific fact of death. And in this story of an elderly retired Major, his wife and son, the police become totally involved as well...

Contributors

Writer:
John Gould
Series devised by/Producer:
Gerard Glaister
Series devised by:
N. J. Crisp
Lighting:
John Dixon
Script Editor:
Geoffrey Tetlow
Designer:
Tim Harvey
Director:
Prudence Fitzgerald
Major Williams:
Andre Morell
Mrs Williams:
Sylvia Coleridge
Miss Hyde:
Clare Kelly
Jo Hardy:
Ann Morrish
Det Chief Insp Fleming:
Victor Winding
Dr Harris:
Brian Badcoe
Det-Sgt Ashe:
Michael Farnsworth
David Williams:
David Horovitch
John Hardy:
Marius Goring
Joan Williams:
Joanna van Gyseghem
Sandra Hughes:
Valerie Murray

Sheridan Morley introduces themes from Rosalind Russell's new film "Mrs Pollifax - Spy" which has just had its world premiere in London, and Michael Winner's first Western, "The Lawman," starring Burt Lancaster, which has its world premiere next month.

Philip Jenkinson looks at vintage Western films.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sheridan Morley
Presenter:
Philip Jenkinson
Producer:
Barry Brown
Editor:
Rowan Ayers

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