Starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
with Marion Hutton, Kirby Grant

Two of the world's worst plumbers are accidentally invited to a fashionable society party. It turns out to be a pretty wet affair - when Bud and Lou try to fix the plumbing.

Produced in 1944, this zany film features one of Hollywood's most popular comedy teams at the height of their success.

David Holmes reviews week-by-week the moves made by the politicians and examines the part played by government in the lives of us all.

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An ancient tree threatens to overthrow all our pet theories about the ancient world. The Bristle-cone Pine tree of California, oldest living thing on earth, has been used by scientists to redate prehistoric Europe, and the outcome is startling; it forces us to question the accepted theory that all great advances in man's development originated in the Near East; it suggests that barbarian Europe was not so barbarous after all!
Leading this attack on the old order is Dr Colin Renfrew.

presenting brother and sister Richard and Karen Carpenter who in a year have had a phenomenal rise to fame.
With special guest Tony Joe White

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(Colour)

A series about human beings selecting human beings: narrated and produced by Roger Mills

Selection in the arts - the chanciest process of all. Miss Lunghi hopes to get a place at Drama School; Mrs Minchin hopes to get her novel published; Miss Carpenter hopes to get a film part.
A daunting prospect: for they know all the other artists are trying to do precisely the same.

by Ivan Turgenev
A second chance to see this dramatisation in four parts by Denis Constanduros

Bazarov has fallen in love with Anna Sergeyevna, a member of the aristocratic society he wishes to destroy.

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Sheridan Morley reviews the week's new films including The Hired Hand starring Peter Fonda, who also directed it.
Philip Jenkinson includes in his vintage spot Henry Fonda and other famous film families.

Starring Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings

Two fortune-hunting sisters, accompanied by their spinster aunt, come to the millionaires' holiday paradise of Miami.