starring
Jane Powell , Ricardo Montalban with Louis Calhern , Ann Harding
Teenager Patti Robinson is growing up fast but her parents still think of her as a child. When the family takes its usual summer vacation in the Catskills in the year 1913, Patti finds that the chief obstacle to a successful romance is her lack of - a corset!
Directed by ROY ROWLAND. Films: page 10
House starring Brian Cant in an entertainment of comedy, music, songs and games with Toni Arthur , Julie Stevens Tony Robinson , Lionel Morton Jonathan Cohen , Spike Heatley Alan Rushton , John Gifford
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE Producer ANN REAY
Scriptwriter/director ALBERT BARBER
Record Hey You songs from Play Away (rec 209), from record shops. Book: The Bold Bad Bus and other rhyming stories, 70p, from bookshops
The Case of the Ancient Astronauts
Was civilisation created by intelligent beings who landed on Earth in prehistoric times?
Horizon examines the extraordinary claims of the Swiss author, Erich von Daniken.
United Lawyers' Association present A Better Legal System
BBC2 joins the Radio 1 In Concert programme in a simultaneous broadcast for an hour's contemporary rock music. This week:
The Steve Gibbons Band
Introduced by ANNE NIGHTINGALE
Director TOM CORCORAN
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON
For the best effect viewers with Stereo Radio 1 should turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative.
Weather
A series of ten programmes. 8: Almost Beyond Price
Introduced by Christopher Roads
' A Best English gun' is much more than a mere description of a type of gun. It is a highly-prized achievement of modern craftsmen who still work in the traditions established over centuries.
Narrated by DUNCAN CARSE
Film editor dick ALLEN
Producer RAY SUTCLIFFE
Robin Ray introduces The Royal Concert
A recording of last Tuesday's annual St Cecilia's Day Concert, organised by the Musicians' Benevolent Fund in the presence of HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon Bernard Haitink conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra
The soloist in Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is Kyung-Wha Chung. The orchestra also play the Overture ' Le Corsair' by Berlioz and the Fantasy Overture ' Romeo and Juliet' by Tchaikovsky.
Also appearing are musicians from
THE ROYAL MILITARY SCHOOL OF MUSIC, KNELLER HALL, conducted by LT-COL TREVOR SHARPE
Executive producer JOHN DRUMMOND Director PETER BUTLER
starring
Margit Carstensen Anna Karina
Alexander Allerson
Rainer Werner Fassbinder 's glittering black drama has been one of this year's festival talking-points, culminating in its London screening this week.
Ariane and Gerhard Christ say goodbye: each is going on a business trip. They meet again sooner than either expected, having chosen the same country castle for a weekend with their respective lovers. When their daughter arrives as well, carefully concealed antagonisms and tensions increase to a devastating climax.
Written and directed by RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER Films: page 10
Tonight from BBC North In Conversation
Left-wing novelist and playwright Barry Hines first came to public attention with his book A Kestrel for a Knave, later turned into the film Kes. More recently he won acclaim for his two television plays The Price of Coal. But he didn't read his first book until he was 20 - and it changed his life. Tonight he talks with Brian Morris about his tough working-class boyhood in a South Yorkshire pit village and the events that led him into full-time writing.
Producer ALLAN KASSELL
Series co-ordinator FRANK GILLARD
Weather
starring
Robert Black , Scott Wilson with John Forsythe , Paul Stewart
On the night of 15 November 1959, there took place at the Kansas farm of Herbert Clutter one of the most senseless and horrifying crimes of recent years ...
Written and directed by RICHARD BROOKS based on the book by TRUMAN CAPOTE . Films: page 10
