starring Joseph Cotten
George Sanders , Debra Paget
Three years after the end of the American Civil War, armaments millionaire Victor Barbicane announces that he has invented a source of ' infinite energy ' - Power X. After winning a$100,000 wager to prove the validity of his claim, Barbicane plans the ultimate test: a manned space-flight to the moon.
Screenplay by ROBERT BLEES and JAMES LEICESTER from the novel by JULES VERNE Director byron IIASKIN
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The Lawn Tennis Championships direct from the All England Club
BBC outside broadcast cameras bring you the closing stages of the play in this the final day of the world's greatest Open tennis tournament.
With all the news and results of the day's play from HARRY CAR PENTER in the Wimbledon studio.
Television presentation by RICHARD TILLING , FRED VINER , BOB DUNCAN JOHN SHREWSBURY, JOHNNIE WATHERSTON JEFF GODDARD and PETER CLEAVER Producer A. P. WILKINSON
A close look at the politicians, the tactics and progress of Parliament Presented by PETER HILL
Editor MICHAEL PAYNE
Weather
A series of programmes made specially for audiences in the BBC regions and now seen for the first time countrywide. Tonight, from BBC East: A Town of Many Colours
Whether it be a Chapati or a plate of genuine Italian spaghetti, you'll find it in Bedford, where in the shadow of the brickworks, a multiracial society has grown up from nearly 50 countries. Should the population be totally integrated or will they benefit from the richness of diversity?
Reporter JOHN MYATT
Producer GORDON MOSLEY
Director CHRISTOPHER LEWIS
Series co-ordinator FRANK GILLARD
by ALBERTO MORAVIA: dramatised in four parts by RAY LAWLER starring Margaret Whiting Part 2
(Repeat, For details see Thursday 7.55)
Seven films written and presented by David Attenborough 6: Man Blong Custom
The Lawn Tennis Championships
Recorded highlights of the Men's Singles Final
Television presentation by PAUL LANG Producer A. p. WILKINSON
Introduced by Tony Bilbow
A filmed report from the South of France about the making of The Return of the Pink Panther, the third time PETER SELLERS has played Inspector
Clouseau. Philip Jenkinson looks back at how comic policemen and incompetent detectives were featured in films during the silent and vintage years.
Producer MARGARET SHARP Philip Jenkinson : page 7
Weather
presents Soul Package featuring
The Jimmy Castor Bunch Ben E. King , Sister Sledge The Detroit Spinners
Highlights from the Super Soul Concert filmed at the Hammer-smith Odeon on 17 April 1975.
TV presentation MICHAEL APPLETON
Starring Donald Sinden, Nicole Berger, Kieron Moore, Peter Wyngarde
At the turn of the century a series of anarchist outrages in London is the beginning of a relentless battle by the police to preserve law and order.
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