Story: Presents for the Baby
Written by BARBARA MITCHELHILL Presenters
SARAH LONG , JOHNNY BALL
John Arlotf reflects on a cricket season that was set alight by Tony Greig 's provocative ' We'll make them grovel.'
England's cricketers wilted under the scorching sun as they faced the barrage of the West Indian fast bowlers and the ferocious bat-ting that quickly blasted England's hopes to the far corners of our parched cricket grounds.
Producer DAVID KINNING
A feature film starring Spencer Tracy and Milton Berle , Sid Caesar
Jimmy Durante , Buddy Hackett Ethel Merman , Mickey Rooney Dick Shawn , Phil Silvers
Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters
This comedy is about a group of crooks in pursuit of the loot of bank robber Smiler Grogan. A mammoth spectacular farce which features every conceivable comedy situation and slapstick joke ever perpetrated on the screen.
With BUSTER KEATON ,
DON KNOTTS , CARL REINER , THE THREE STOOGES, JOE E. BROWN , ANDY DEVINE , STERLING HOLLOWAY, MAR-VIN KAPLAN , CHARLES LANE , CHARLES MCGRAW , ZASU PITTS , MADLYN RHUE, ARNOLD STANG , JESSE WHITE , LLOYD CORRIGAN , SELMA DIAMOND, STAN FREBERG. LOUISE GLENN , BEN LESSY , BOBO LEWIS , MIKE MAZURKI , NICK STEWART , SAMMEE TONG, NORMAN FELL, NICHOLAS GEORGIADE
Director STANLEY KRAMER Films: pages 15-16
A television special made entirely on location in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.
A Jon Jee production
Mr Magoo mistakes a television studio for a used-car lot and drives the commentator crazy!
Weather
Vocal Gems Robert Tear and Benjamin Luxon accompanied by John Constable present an evening of Victorian songs and ballads including not only old favourites like ' Come Into the Garden Maud ' and ' Excelsior ', but a number of curious and entertaining rediscoveries.
Sound RICHARD CHUBB
Lighting OERRY MILLERSON Designer DAPHNE SHORTMAN
Executive producer JOHN DRUMMOND Producer BASIL COLEMAN
A film starring
Julie Christie , Terence Stamp Peter Finch , Alan Bates with Fiona Walker , PruneHa Ransome
Julie Christie plays Bathsheba, the beautiful wilful country girl who refuses the hand of her honest farmer neighbour Gabriel Oak , and after inheriting her uncle's farm, makes what turns out to be a disastrous marriage.
Screenplay by FREDERIC RAPHAEL from the novel by THOMAS HARDY Director JOHN SCHLESINGER Films: pages 15-14
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presents
Queen's Christmas Concert 1975
A chance to see again QUEEN'S concert from the Hammersmith Odeon, London.
Introduced by Bob Harris
Director TOM CORCORAN
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON
PAUL SCOFIELD reads A Pair of Swallows by ANTHONY THWAITE