Starring Tony Randall, Burl Ives, Barbara Eden
A genie in a bottle might seem like fun - but Harold Ventimore finds Fakrash-el-Aamash rather more than he bargained for.
(This Week's Films: page 13)
An entertainment for children with Brian Cant, Carol Chell, Rick Jones, Jonathan Cohen, Spike Heatley, Alan Rushton
(Colour)
The enchanting tale of four children who defy the spells of an evil magician and restore the sun to its rightful place in the heavens. A cartoon film from Radio-Canada
Robert Hardy visits and explains some of Britain's most colourful ceremonies.
In the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, the Mounted Bands, Trumpeters, Massed Bands, Pipes and Drums of the Household Division, march and countermarch on Horseguards Parade, London, to perform a ceremony which has its origins in a necessary 16th-century routine.
(Repeated: Friday 9.0 pm)
Can you tell the real McCoy? James Burke investigates.
(First shown on BBC1)
(Colour)
Last week Man Alive looked at the problems of looking after old people. This week Desmond Wilcox looks for some of the answers.
(Shown last Wednesday)
(colour)
News, views and current issues from the world of medicine.
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.
Weather
featuring today
The 1972/73 Tour of The 7th All Blacks: Match No 7: Ulster v The All Blacks (New Zealand)
Commentator at Ravenhill Park, Belfast Cliff Morgan
(Never tell an All Black that rugby is just a game: page 21)
by Leo Tolstoy
A second chance to see this dramatisation in 20 parts by Jack Pulman
Pierre, believing that Dolohov was Helene's lover, challenged him to a duel and wounded him. On his way to Petersburg he met Bazdayev who interested him in Freemasonry, and in due course Pierre became a Freemason. The Tsar and Napoleon signed the Tilsit Agreement.
(An 84-page illustrated guide is available from newsagents, price 25p)
A live entertainment for Saturday, presenting a mixture of music, plays, poetry, prose, comedy, films, the visual arts - and a few surprises.
Introduced by Joe Melia with a little help from Eric Idle and Henry Woolf and from the studio audience. Among the events are:
Piccadilly
Since medieval times there has always been a roadway running west out of London along what is now known as Piccadilly. In the reign of King James I, the local authorities found it necessary to clear out the ditches and lop the hedges because thieves and harlots sheltered there to the destruction of the king's subjects.
Today - 350 years later - what does Piccadilly mean to the citizens of London? Do we want it changed, and if so, how? What sort of participation should we all demand in planning decisions which affect the cities and towns in which we live?
The story of Piccadilly told with sketches, songs - and in discussion with some of the people who live and work there, some of the people passing through, and representatives of the Westminster City Council.
(Colour)
The pick of Holland's young orchestral musicians, playing music from Mozart's Gran Partita in B flat for 13 wind instruments (oboes, clarinets, basset horns, bassoons, french horns and double-bass).
Dannie Abse
A poet from Wales, who works as a doctor in a London chest clinic, introduces a selection of his verse.
Solid Gold Cadillac
Bridging the gap between rock music and jazz, Mike Westbrook's new group features Phil Minton on trumpet and vocals, in a programme which includes a new song by Adrian Mitchell.
by Howard Brenton
Jack Shepherd as Skinny, Brian Glover as Mr Spew, Gillian Martell as Mrs Spew
'You've gone and given birth to a monster. I knew he was a monster at his christening when he sicked up in the font. Remember what the Vicar said. God help us!'
The Body Show Show
Wrestlers and model girls, body sculpture, slinky underwear, food-clothing, and various concoctions from Zandra Rhodes, Ossie Clark and Mary Quant, in a fashion show with a difference.
Plus sketches by Eric Idle, further lessons in the Fine Art of Goofing Off... and whatever or whoever else turns up.
(Radio Times People: pages 4 and 5)
Weather
After the American Civil War Rock Grayson, a confederate officer, returns home to find the town controlled by a dishonest and unscrupulous Government administrator.
If that were not enough, he has also taken over Rock's old family home and installed Rose Slater, a girl who has come from the wrong side of the tracks.
(This Week's Films: page 13)
