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Today: Teddy Bear Coalman by Phoebe and Sally Worthington
Presenters this week Sarah Long, Johnny Ball

Contributors

Presenter:
Sarah Long
Presenter:
Johnny Ball
Author (Teddy Bear Coalman):
Phoebe Worthington
Author (Teddy Bear Coalman):
Sally Worthington

A fanatical little Frenchman owns the freight line on which the High Chaparral and all its neighbours depend for survival. They must pay exorbitant prices for essential goods or go without. Big John tries to persuade a rival freight line to open up a new route to Tucson. But the Apaches have to be reckoned with too...

(Colour)

Contributors

Big John:
Leif Erickson
Buck:
Cameron Mitchell
Blue:
Mark Slade
Manolito:
Henry Darrow
Victoria:
Linda Cristal
Sam:
Don Collier
Charok:
Robert Clary
General Tireel:
Tom Tully

A comedy series in six parts by Jonathan Cobbald
Starring Ronnie Barker as Lord Rustless
and featuring Josephine Tewson as Bates, David Jason as Dithers, Mary Baxter as Cook, Moira Foot as Effie
and Frank Gatliff as Badger.

When a Sheik stays at Chrome Hall Hotel, Lord Rustless is surprised to discover that although the visitor has 10 lovely wives he seems to be interested in Bates.

(Colour)

Contributors

Writer:
Jonathan Cobbald [Ronnie Barker]
Music:
Max Harris
Designer:
David Chandler
Producer:
Harold Snoad
Lord Rustless:
Ronnie Barker
Bates:
Josephine Tewson
Dithers:
David Jason
Cook:
Mary Baxter
Effie:
Moira Foot
Badger:
Frank Gatliff
The Sheik:
Patrick Troughton
Mrs Ringer:
Mary Merrall
Bagdor:
Oliver MacGreevy
Mr Blunt:
Bart Allison

In a small region of South America there are 125 villages of the Yanomamo Indians. They are all at war with each other. Yet although a third of all adult males die in these wars and many of the children are killed by their parents at birth, this culture has survived for a thousand years.

Violence is a way of life yet they have means of containing it. Their technology is Stone Age yet their political abilities would do credit to a modern statesman.

For the last 10 years a team has been studying the tribe. They have looked at the way in which warfare has affected its evolution, and in doing so have gained some insight into our development.

Horizon traces the events as one village tries to form an alliance with an old enemy. Feelings ran high and the feast erupted into violence - but then the Yanomamo have a way of dealing with it.

"Compulsive viewing" (Daily Mirror)
"A fascinating reminder of our early history" (Daily Telegraph)

Contributors

Narrator:
Duncan Carse
Film Editor:
Anna Benson Gyles
Editor:
Peter Goodchild
Presented by:
Edward Poulter

by John Mortimer
[Starring] Edward Fox as Pip Lester, Dinsdale Landen as Bob Purvis, Rosemary Leach as Iris Purvis

A woman fighting to save her marriage needs help from friends, but is her husband's best friend the right ally?

(Dinsdale Landen is in 'London Assurance' at the New Theatre, London)

Contributors

Writer:
John Mortimer
Script Editor:
Richard Broke
Designer:
Allan Anson
Producer:
Anne Head
Director:
Claude Whatham
Pip Lester:
Edward Fox
Bob Purvis:
Dinsdale Landen
Iris Purvis:
Rosemary Leach
Rosemary:
Sharon Duce

Defending champion: Lee Trevino (USA)

Last weekend for the first time in three-quarters of a century the US Open played on the shores of America - at Pebble Beach, California. A legendary course on the rockbound Monterey Peninsula, where the Pacific Ocean comes into play at eight holes.
A perfect setting for the mighty Jack Nicklaus as he set out on the second leg of his bid for the elusive 'Grand Slam' - it was here in 1961 that Nicklaus won his second US Amateur Championship, a victory which fostered his affection for an area once described by Robert Louis Stevenson as the greatest meeting of land and water in the world.
Highlights of the final round are described by Harry Carpenter and Peter Alliss.

Presented by the American Broadcasting Company

Contributors

Commentator:
Harry Carpenter
Commentator:
Peter Alliss
Edited for BBCtv by:
Alan Mouncer

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