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with John Edmunds

(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Edmunds
Editor:
Bill Northwood

1914-1918; 1939-1945
Scenes from this morning's service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall in which HM The Queen led the nation's homage to the dead of two World Wars and from British and Commonwealth War Cemeteries in the Far East.

Contributors

Commentator:
Tom Fleming
Director:
Antony Craxton
Director:
Philip S. Gilbert

Leader William Armon
Guest star Nana Mouskouri and The Athenians
featuring Tahiti's singing star Gabilou
The Roy Gunson Dancers
The Tony Mansell Singers

Contributors

Musicians:
Mantovani and his Concert Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
William Armon
Musicians:
Nana Mouskouri and The Athenians
Singer:
null Gabilou
Dancers:
The Roy Gunson Dancers
Singers:
The Tony Mansell Singers
Choreographer:
Roy Gunson
Costumes:
Jane Nagy
Lighting:
Geoff Shaw
Sound:
Hugh Barker
Designer:
Robert MacGowan
Producer:
John Street

by Evelyn Waugh
Adapted in seven parts by Barry Took
Starring Harry Worth as William Boot

Boot, with Dr Benito trying everything to get him out of the capital, is further distracted by the arrival of Katchen's husband. And when they disappear, mysterious Mr Baldwin drops in...

[with] Sinead Cusack as Katchen, John Junkin as Baldwin, Brian Oulton as Salter, Moray Watson as Bannister, Dan Jackson as Dr Benito

Contributors

Author:
Evelyn Waugh
Adapted by:
Barry Took
Designer:
Roger Murray-Leach
Producer:
Michael Mills
William Boot:
Harry Worth
Katchen:
Sinead Cusack
Baldwin:
John Junkin
Salter:
Brian Oulton
Bannister:
Moray Watson
Dr Benito:
Dan Jackson
Loper:
Brian Hayes
Hans:
Douglas Sheldon
Popotaki:
Peter Elliott
Cuthbert:
Hugh Latimer
Olafsen:
Brian Coburn
Salter's secretary:
Trisha Ellis

by Robert Holmes
A series of seven ghost stories.

When Captain Rolph reports a plane on a collision course to Ground Control they can find no trace of the mystery intruder.
Did he imagine it, or was there an aircraft?

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Holmes
Designer:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Innes Lloyd
Director:
Rodney Bennett
Ground Controller:
Laurie Asprey
Police Inspector:
Roger Avon
Captain Rolph:
Peter Barkworth
Franz:
Paul Bentley
Ernst:
Carl Bohun
Radar Controller:
Christopher Denham
Armstrong:
Anthony Dutton
Rosalind Warley:
Diana Fairfax
Linda:
Candida Fawsitt
Arthur Shaw:
Barrie Fletcher
Hilde:
Anna Kilpinen
Froggat:
Denis Lill
Zoe:
Karin MacCarthy
Samuels:
Artro Morris

James Cameron, Kenny Everett, William Rushton and John Wells - to name but a few - look back at the way some of us were last week.

Contributors

Performer:
James Cameron
Performer:
Kenny Everett
Performer:
William Rushton
Performer:
John Wells
Producer:
Ian Keill

The second in a season of films by one of the masters of the cinema John Ford
Starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara
with Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr, Harry Carey Jr, Chill Wills, Victor McLaglen

On the Mexican border in the 1880s, Lt-Col Yorke of the US Cavalry is conducting a lonely and vain campaign against marauding Indians. When his trooper son arrives at the fort, followed by the colonel's estranged wife, a family conflict adds to his troubles.
(This Week's Films: page 11)

Contributors

Director:
John Ford
Colonel Yorke:
John Wayne
Mrs Yorke:
Maureen O'Hara
Trooper Tyree:
Ben Johnson
Trooper Jeff Yorke:
Claude Jarman Jr
Trooper Boone:
Harry Carey Jr
Dr Wilkins:
Chill Wills
General Sheridan:
J. Carrol Naish
Sgt Quincannon:
Victor McLaglen
Deputy Marshal:
Grant Withers
Capt St Jacques:
Peter Ortiz
Singers:
The Sons of the Pioneers

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