Starring Alice Faye
with John Payne, Jack Oakie, Lynn Bari
The first of a new Saturday season of Hollywood musicals is set on San Francisco's famed Barbary Coast, the setting for MGM's classic San Francisco.
Today's musical, starring the ever-popular Alice Faye, is a glittering romance of the naughty 90s featuring the famous award-winning song 'You'll never know.'
(This Week's Films: page 9)
An entertainment for children with Brian Cant
[with] Toni Arthur, Carol Chell, Wally Whyton, Jonathan Cohen, Spike Heatley, Alan Rushton
People and places-music and jokes. Games for indoors and out.
(Colour)
What are the factors which determine a dog's behaviour? What can an owner do to influence them?
(Animals at Home: Monday at 1.45 pm, BBC1)
(Colour)
There were 27,000 pearls; 19,000 diamonds; 8,000 rubies and 12,000 assorted precious gems. A BBC expedition found them unguarded in Bolivia - encrusted upon the gold and silver statue of the Virgin of Guadaloupe.
The team set out from the highest capital in the world - La Paz. They followed the path of the Spanish Conquistadors.
A BBC/Bayerischer Rundfunk co-production
When husbands and wives who live under the same roof find it difficult to talk to each other, the marriage may be at risk. What keeps these silent couples together?
A close look at the politicians, the tactics and the progress of Parliament.
Weather
The final match in Great Britain of the New Zealand Tourists
This afternoon's match at Cardiff was, as usual, an emotive and singular Rugby Union occasion. Despite the occasional disappointments and shortcomings of this current tour, the proud wearers of the all-black shirt were no less pleased than their predecessors that their visit should end in such a setting and against such worthy opposition.
Commentator at the National Stadium of Wales, Cliff Morgan.
(Colour)
by Leo Tolstoy
a second chance to see this dramatisation in 20 parts by Jack Pulman
Pierre has gained a new understanding of life; Andrei has died.
(Shown last Thursday)
(Colour)
(The Bat)
by Johann Strauss
Another opportunity to enjoy this very popular operetta, a light-hearted comedy set in Vienna at the turn of the century.
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
New Philharmonia Orchestra
led by Raymond Cohen
conductor Raymond Leppard
...a gorgeous lollipop (Times)
vivaciously directed (Financial Times)
first-rate singing (The Guardian)
Weather
Tomorrow night John Ford's favourite film The Sun Shines Bright completes the series devoted to this legendary director. Five years ago BBC Television cameras were allowed inside his Los Angeles home to film a rare interview - only the second he has ever granted to television.
Starring Edward G. Robinson, Richard Conte, Susan Hayward
A power struggle within a New York-Italian banking family leads to conflict and hatred.
('I can't escape from my image': pages 8 and 9; This Week's Films: page 9)
