Starring Joseph Cotten, Linda Darnell, Jeff Chandler
with Dale Robertson, Jay C. Flippen
At the end of the American Civil War a troop of captured Confederate soldiers are granted amnesty by President Lincoln to help fight against the Indians in the West.
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Third day: the final two hours' play from Trent Bridge
Introduced by Peter West
In 1763 the novelist Tobias Smollett took the Grand Tour, from Boulogne to Paris, south to the Mediterranean, and across to Rome - hating most of what he saw. In this film William Fox follows Smollett's route and written account of the journey. The words are 18th-century. The camera looks at places as they are today.
(Colour)
Weather
A series of BBCtv programmes which viewers have particularly asked to see again.
Tonight: The Secret Battle for Heavy Water
Thirty years ago nine saboteurs completely destroyed the heavy-water stocks at the hydro factory in Telemark in German-occupied Norway. Wrote Churchill - 'What rewards are to be given to these heroic men?' Tonight's film tells the story of an undercover war, which ended with the sinking of a ferry in a Norwegian lake, fought to prevent the possibility of a German atomic bomb.
"A beautifully photographed film, a fascinating documentary." (The Times)
"The most gripping account of sabotage." (Sunday Times)
"It recaptured the excitement of the operation and its cold courage with a fidelity that clenched the stomach." (Daily Mail)
"The documentary was a classic." (Guardian)
(First shown on BBC1)
(Colour)
Based on the novel by Hermann Sudermann
A second chance to see this serial in five parts written for television by Robert Muller
Lilli was caught by the Count in flagrante with his employee, von Prell. He has turned her out of his house and she has gone to Vienna.
by Georges Feydeau
Translated and adapted by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin
[Starring] Patrick Cargill starring Dinah Sheridan, Patricia Routledge, Bernard Bresslaw, Dennis Waterman
What should be the reaction of a wife who receives a parcel in the morning mail from the In and Out Hotel... containing her husband's braces? And what is the In and Out Hotel?
(Colour)
Weather
Starring Tyrone Power
with Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall
At the end of World War I, ex-flyer Larry Darrell is deeply confused about the purpose of life and his own place in the world. He begins a search for truth which leads him across Europe and finally to India.
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