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7.40 Computers - Future Developments

8.5 Transport and Road Research

8.30 Statistics and Reliability

8.55 Air Pollution Dispersion

9.20 Maths - Topological Spaces

9.45 Understanding Fluid Effects

10.10 Using a Computer

10.35 Maths: Generalised Integration

11.0 The Curious History of Norethindrone

11.25 Albert Crewe's Atom

11.50 Radio Isotope Techniques

12.15 Learning Difficulties

12.40 The Large Household

1.5 Maths - Laplace Transformations

1.30 The Channel Tunnel

starring
Vincent Price
David Tomlinson
Tab Hunter , Susan Hart
Mysterious happenings greet an American girl who comes to Cornwall to claim an inheritance and finds herself held prisoner in Lyonesse - the city under the sea.
Vincent Price stars as the ruler of this strange submarine city and its even stranger inhabitants in this exciting adaptation of one of Edgar Allan Poe 's tales.
Adapted from City in the Sea by EDGAR ALLAN POE
Director JACQUES TOURNEUR. Films: page 19

Contributors

Unknown:
David Tomlinson
Unknown:
Tab Hunter
Unknown:
Susan Hart
Unknown:
Edgar Allan Poe
Unknown:
Edgar Allan Poe
Director:
Jacques Tourneur.
Captain:
Vincent Price
Harold:
David Tomlinson
Ben:
Tab Hunter
Jill:
Susan Hart
Ives:
John Le Mesurier
Mumford:
Henry Oscar
Dan:
Derek Newark
Simon:
Roy Patrick
George:
Anthony Selby
Bill:
Michael Heyland

The final stages of this afternoon's cross country section of the 1977 European Championships from The Marquess of Exeter's estate, near Stamford, where reigning champion LUCINDA PRIOR-PALMER is defending her title against riders from nine continental countries.
Commentators DORIAN WILLIAMS
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD
MICHAEL TUCKER
Producers
FRED VINER and JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Lucinda Prior-Palmer
Commentators:
Dorian Williams
Unknown:
Raymond Brooks-Ward
Unknown:
Michael Tucker
Unknown:
Fred Viner
Unknown:
Johnnie Watherston

Tonight from BBC West Life Story
A Man For Others
When Peter Harrison met the girl of his dreams the road to marriage was to be long and painful. As a Roman Catholic priest, in the new Clifton Cathedral in Bristol, he was committed to lifelong celibacy. In this film PETER HARRISON tells of the deep loneliness he experienced as a celibate priest, of the joy of falling in love, and the anguish he and his fiancee suffered while waiting for the Pope to allow their marriage.
Producer KEITH SHEATHER
Series co-ordinator FRANK GILLARD

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Harrison
Unknown:
Peter Harrison
Unknown:
Frank Gillard

In the last of this summer series, Julian Pettifer and his country guests Elizabeth Eyden , Phil Drabble and Bernard Price get together to describe and discuss the sights and sounds of ' the countryside at harvest-time ' - including a nostalgic look at the Cockney hop-pickers who descended on Kent to harvest the hop fields in the days when beer was really beer.,
Director ROBIN HELLIER
Producer PETER CRAWFORD. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Pettifer
Unknown:
Elizabeth Eyden
Unknown:
Phil Drabble
Director:
Robin Hellier
Producer:
Peter Crawford.

Scenes from an Elizabethan life by ALISON PLOWDEN with and In 1603 Elizabeth lay dying in London. In Derbyshire Bess of Hardwick and her granddaughter waited impatiently for news that the Queen had named her successor.
Other parts played by WENDY JOHNSON , JEREMY WALLIS
SHEILA DUNN , CYRIL VARLEY JAY NEILL , MICHAEL BOONE THE NONSUCH DANCERS
Choreographer PEGGY DIXON
Research GILES OAKLEY
Director RODNEY BENNETT Producer VICTOR POOLE
(Mistress of Hardwick was first shown as a ten-part series on BBC1)
Book (same title), El.00, from bookshops

Contributors

Played By:
Wendy Johnson
Played By:
Jeremy Wallis
Played By:
Sheila Dunn
Unknown:
Cyril Varley
Unknown:
Jay Neill
Unknown:
Michael Boone
Unknown:
Peggy Dixon
Unknown:
Research Giles Oakley
Director:
Rodney Bennett
Producer:
Victor Poole
Bess of Hardwick:
Hilary Mason
Anna Cropper her granddaughter:
Arbella Stuart
Sir Henry Brounker:
John Humphry
Narrator:
Gary Watson
Bess's family Shrewsbury:
Preston Lockwood
William Cavendish:
Barrie Cookson
Gilbert Talbot:
Christopher Masters
Young Arbella:
Melinda Clancy
Elizabeth Cavendish:
Clover Roope
Charles Stuart:
Graeme Thomas
Actor:
Bess'S Household
John Dodderidge:
Eric Francis
The Rev Starkey:
Peter Gale
Arbella's tutor:
David Ashford
Music master:
Michael Jessett
Dancing master:
Jack Edwards
Messenger from the council:
Anthony Dutton
Leicester's man:
Graham Suter

The season of Midnight Movie double bills of fantasy and horror comes to an end with two classic spine-chillers.
House of Dracula starring
Lon Chaney , John Carradine
Dr Edelman is engaged on research to discover a culture to correct human deformities. To seek his aid come two new patients, a certain Count Dracula and one Laurence Talbot , the notorious wolf man.
Director ERLE C. KENTON
. Films: page 19
The Fall of the House of Usher is at 11.20

Contributors

Unknown:
Lon Chaney
Unknown:
John Carradine
Unknown:
Laurence Talbot
Director:
Erle C. Kenton
Laurence Talbot:
Lon Chaney
Dracula:
John Carradine
Miliza:
Martha O'Driscoll
Hpltz:
Lionel Atwill
Nina:
Jane Adams
Edelman:
Onslow Stevens
Monster:
Glenn Strange
Steinmuhl:
Skelton Knaggs
Brahms:
Joseph E Bernard
Villager:
Dick Dickinson

starring Vincent Price with Mark Damon , Myrna Fahey
Madeline, the last female representative of the House of Usher, a family cursed for generations by a hereditary madness, is about to marry the unsuspecting Philip Winthrop , when her brother decides that the tainted family blood must be destroyed for ever.
Based on The Fall of the House of Usher by EDGAR ALLAN POE
Director RICHARD CORMAN. Films: page 19

Contributors

Unknown:
Vincent Price
Unknown:
Mark Damon
Unknown:
Myrna Fahey
Unknown:
Philip Winthrop
Unknown:
Edgar Allan Poe
Director:
Richard Corman.
Roderick Usher:
Vincent Price
Philip Winthrop:
Mark Damon
Madeline Usher:
Myrna Fahey
Bristol:
Harry Ellerbe

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