starring Rory Calhoun, Gene Tierney
with Richard Boone, Hugh Marlowe, Everett Sloane

An unusual western, filmed amid the scenic beauty of Argentina.
Rory Calhoun plays the dashing and adventurous hero, a young undisciplined gaucho who fights the authorities in order to retain his freedom. Gene Tierney plays the aristocratic Spanish beauty who defies tradition in order to go the 'way of a gaucho'...

(This Week's Films: page 11)
(Colour)

An entertainment for children with Brian Cant, Chloe Ashcroft, Derek Griffiths, Jonathan Cohen, Spike Heatley, Alan Rushton

(Colour)

A colourful contest between the railways and the elements.
A British Transport film

Pageantry and ceremonial provide a living link with our nation's past.
Robert Hardy visits, and explains, some of Britain's most colourful ceremonies.

At Windsor the newly invested Garter Knights process with their Sovereign through the Castle to St George's Chapel, where television cameras were permitted to witness part of this unique service for the first time.

(Repeated: Friday 9.0 pm)
(Colour)

Speech microscopes, vocoders and laryngographs - with the help of such devices, James Burke investigates language.

(First shown on BBC1)
(Colour)

George Plimpton tries the loneliest job in the world: stand-up comic.

News, views and current issues from the world of medicine.

David Holmes on the political scene

The 1972/73 Tour of The 7th All Blacks: Match No 9: Rest of Scottish Districts v The All Blacks (New Zealand)

Commentator at Mansfield Park, Hawick: Bill McLaren

After the mixed fortunes of their opening matches, the All Blacks have now settled down to the dominant pattern of play established by their predecessors.

(Colour)

by Leo Tolstoy
A second chance to see this dramatisation in 20 parts by Jack Pulman

Andrei met Natasha for the first time at her father's country estate and was enchanted by her. He met her again at a ball in Petersburg and soon came to realise that he loved her.

(Shown last Thursday)
(An 84-page illustrated guide is available from newsagents, price 25p)
(Colour)

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, Henry Woolf and from the studio audience.
Among the main events are:

London's Longest Picture
Sidney Nolan, the Australian painter, sees his 150-ft-long picture hung for the very first time in the Full House studio.
(In Omnibus tomorrow at 10.20 pm - not Northern Ireland transmitters - Sidney Nolan revisits Australia)

The London Saxophone Quartet
A group of musicians who are making a name for themselves with a repertoire and style that is unfamiliar in this country. They will play a light and witty quartet by Jean Francaix (b 1912)

What Shall We Do Next?
A diversion by John Bowen
with Michael Craig, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Brian Deacon, Cherith Mellor
'What shall we do next?' 'What do you want to do?' 'I don't know, what do you want to do?' 'I don't mind really. Anything. It doesn't matter to me.'

10.0 Roxy Music
Reviving the music of the 1950s and contributing some of their own - vocal and electronic.

The Mona Lisa in 3-D
The Dutch artist, Saskia de Boer, makes figures of famous people from foam rubber. There are Marilyn Monroes, Marlene Dietrichs, Botticelli Primaveras and Mona Lisas galore. She is one of the artists described in Udo Kultermann's book "New Realism", which has just been published.
Rather than paint a subject directly, the New Realist works from a photograph, which is already a flat, frozen form, free of emotional complications. Photography, often considered the enemy of painting, here becomes its servant.

10.45 Dan Jacobson
The South African writer and critic, winner of the Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award: tonight he reads, and talks about, a story of his that deals with his childhood in South Africa.

Plus sketches by Eric Idle, cartoon films... and whatever or whoever else turns up.

(Colour)

Starring Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden

Once-famous film star Margaret Elliott cannot accept that she's a has-been. While trying to prove herself as an actress, she finds there's something of far greater importance to her happiness.
(This Week's Films: page 11)