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Story: "Desmond the Dinosaur" by Althea
Presenters this week Julie Stevens, Don Spencer

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

Contributors

Author (Desmond the Dinosaur):
null Althea
Presenter:
Julie Stevens
Presenter:
Don Spencer

Glyn Hughes was born on a Manchester housing estate, but he was drawn 'by the magical world of the farms.' He became a small-holder and grew everything he needed on his land. But now he has become a poet, and most of his income is from readings in universities, schools or wherever he is invited.

Contributors

Subject:
Glyn Hughes
Producer:
Andree Molyneux
Executive Producer:
Jennifer Jeremy

Starring Pete Duel as Smith and Ben Murphy as Jones with guest stars Walter Brennan, Dick Cavett, Steve Forrest, Pernell Roberts

Although their experience as cowboys is practically non-existent, Smith and Jones persuade a trail boss to hire them for a cattle drive to Tenstrike. But an unknown murderer starts systematically killing off the men in the outfit one by one

Contributors

Smith:
Pete Duel
Jones:
Ben Murphy
[Actor]:
Walter Brennan
[Actor]:
Dick Cavett
[Actor]:
Steve Forrest
[Actor]:
Pernell Roberts

A duel of words and wit between Frank Muir, Cyd Hayman, George Cole and Patrick Campbell, Hattie Jacques, John Reed
Referee Robert Robinson
(from Manchester)

Contributors

Team captain:
Frank Muir
Panellist:
Cyd Hayman
Panellist:
George Cole
Team captain:
Patrick Campbell
Panellist:
Hattie Jacques
Panellist:
John Reed
Referee:
Robert Robinson
Call My Bluff devised by:
Mark Goodson
Call My Bluff devised by:
Bill Todman
Director:
Peggy Walker
Producer:
Johnny Downes

In 1943 Brigadier Wheeler was called away from the battlefields of North Africa and Italy to become Director-General of Archaeology for the Indian subcontinent.
Tonight the second of Chronicle's two films on the life of our greatest living archaeologist takes him from a Roman trading station on the Bay of Bengal to Mohenjo Daro - queen of cities of the great Indus Valley civilisation.
Back in England, in 1954, he was voted Television Personality of the Year for his starring role in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral; almost 20 years later, on the steps of the Parthenon, he still holds an audience in the palm of his hand.
At 82, Sir Mortimer Wheeler is still crusading, still voicing his battle cry: 'One's whole life is devoted to recreating the past and making it live.'
Introduced by Magnus Magnusson

(Colour)

Contributors

Interviewee:
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Presenter:
Magnus Magnusson
Film Cameraman:
John Hooper
Film Cameraman:
Nat Crosby
Film Cameraman:
John Baker
Film Editor:
Keith Raven
Executive Producer:
Paul Johnstone
Producer:
David Collison

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