A musical based on "The Pickwick Papers" by Charles Dickens
Adapted for television by James Gilbert and Jimmy Grafton
starring Harry Secombe as Mr Pickwick
with Roy Castle as Sam Weller, Hattie Jacques as Mrs Bardell, Aubrey Woods as Jingle and Bill Fraser as Sjt Buzfuz

A romp through England's 'good old days' in the amiable company of the members of the Pickwick Club.

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With visual and spoken commentary, we look back on some Aspects of a Quiet Year.

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Starring Ingrid Bergman
with Jose Ferrer, Leif Erickson, John Ireland, Ward Bond

Voted 'Actress of the Year' in the stage version of Maxwell Anderson's play Joan of Lorraine, Ingrid Bergman eagerly accepted the opportunity of playing Joan on the screen. Victor Fleming, of Gone With the Wind fame, directed this lavish Technicolor production which won three Academy Awards and gave Jose Ferrer his first major film role.
(Christmas Films: pages 14-15)
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A land flowing with milk and money... A country of mountain spectacle and peaceful neutrality...
That's the cliche view of the tourist. But Switzerland is much more than that. A proud but violent history and a multitude of modern problems are revealed by the helicopter's perspective and the views of a Swiss writer, Herbert Meier.
Commentary read by Vladek Sheybal
A BBC/SRG/RAI/BR co-production
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made a welcome return to London earlier this year to star in his first British-made TV special.
He sang some of his 'Golden Oldies' like Magic Moments but really delighted his audience with a host of new songs - proving himself a singer of the 70s.
with The Gillian Lynne Dancers and The Mike Sammes Singers
(first shown on BBC1)
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Starring Paul Newman, Elke Sommer
with Diane Baker, Micheline Presle
and Edward G. Robinson as Dr Stratman

In this exciting thriller adapted from Irving Wallace's best-seller, Paul Newman plays a hard-bitten woman-chasing novelist visiting Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize. What is it, he wonders, that is odd about Dr Stratman, winner of the prize for science? When he uses his suspicions as the beginning of a new detective plot, fiction alarmingly turns into fact!
(Christmas Films: pages 14-15)
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by Emile Zola
Dramatised in five parts by David Turner

Etienne Lantier arrives in the coalfields of northern France. He finds a depressed area.
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