Starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
with Marilyn Maxwell, John Conte, Douglass Dumbrille

Two American comics, stranded in the mystic east, become involved in a crazy masquerade to rescue a girl from the clutches of the local sheikh.

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.

A series of four films which concentrate on a few hours of intense activity.

What more is there to a launching than a broken bottle of champagne and a ship sliding down a slipway?
This film documents the day that Texaco Great Britain, a 252,000-ton super-tanker over a quarter of a mile long, was to be launched into the River Tyne.
From dawn until 3.30 pm eight camera teams watched the preparations essential to the launch of a great ship: they show how the people involved are caught up in the tension and atmosphere of an important event.

Champion of Champions bowling over the Crown Green
Tonight's match: Roy Armson of Sale (red) v Denis Mercer of Reddish (yellow)
Two of the hardest-fighting champions in a real cliffhanger.
Introduced by Stuart Hall from the Waterloo Hotel, Blackpool

A personal view by Kenneth Clark

'All the greatest exponents of civilisation, from Dante to Goethe, have been obsessed by light-perhaps one could take it as the supreme symbol of civilisation. But in the 17th century light passed through a crucial stage. The invention of the lens was giving it a new range and power.' The telescope and the microscope revealed new worlds in space and in a drop of water; and the realism of Dutch painting carried a stage further the observation of human character.
Kenneth Clark's story takes him from the Holland of Rembrandt and Vermeer to the London of Wren, Purcell and the Royal Society.
(Book £4.75, paperback £2.25: see p 51)

A weekly series of concert performances
This week: C.C.S.
featuring Alexis Korner and Peter Thorup (Vocals), John Cameron (conductor/piano), Alan Parker (guitar), Herbie Flowers (bass guitar), Spike Heatley (bass), Barry Morgan, Tony Carr (drums), Tony Fisher, Greg Bowen, Kenny Wheeler, Les Condon (trumpets), Don Lusher, Johnny Watson, Bill Geldard (trombones), Ray Warleigh (flute), Pete King, Bob Efford, Danny Moss, Ronnie Ross (saxophones), Bill Le Sage (tuned percussion), Tony Uter (LA percussion)

by Jane Austen
A second chance to see this dramatisation in six parts by Denis Constanduros

Emma is about to face the unpleasant task of telling Harriet about Mr Elton's proposal to her; Emma had previously encouraged Harriet to fall in love with Mr Elton.

Sheridan Morley recommends new films for the holiday season, including Junior Bonner with Steve McQueen and The Godfather starring Marlon Brando
Philip Jenkinson shows more vintage film clips requested by viewers.

Starring Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden

This perceptive and disturbing account of a father's attempt to compensate for his own failure by forcing his son to become a successful baseball player is probably the cinema's best treatment of schizophrenia.