A Vincente Minnelli Season starring
Judy Garland , Robert Walker
Young Corporal Joe Allen- arrives at New York's Penn Station on a 48-hour furlough before going overseas. Here he meets office worker Alice Mayberry and the two spend the day together-and fall in love.
Directed by VINCENTE MINNELLIE
To All Intents and Porpoises starring Brian Cant in .an entertainment of comedy, music, songs and games with Toni Arthur
Julie Stevens , Kim Goody
Jonathan Cohen , Spike Heatley Alan Rushton , Jeff Crampton
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE Producer ANN REAY
Scriptwriter/director AVRIL PRICE
To celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee Richard Baker moves forward in time and presents extracts from Horizon programmes made between 1977 and the year 2002.
The Other Cinema
' A film that raises the question as to whether, in 1977's television age, cinema is a necessity ...'
BBC2 joins the Radio 1 In Concert programme in a simultaneous broadcast for an hour's contemporary rock music. This week:
Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias Splinter
Introduced by PETE DRUMMOND
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.
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ROBIN RAY introduces
The Barber of Seville
The most popular of all ROSSINI'S operas concerns the devious wooing of the beautiful Rosina by Count Almaviva, ably assisted by Figaro, the barber of Seville. With
THE ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF
LA SCALA, MILAN conducted by Claudio Abbado
Directed by JEAN-PIERRE PONNELLE
English sub-titles by GILLIAN WIDDICOMBE
A UNITEL production in association with German and Austrian television
starring Jacques Dufilho
A French film set in the cavalryman's nirvana of Saumur in the Loire Valley and based on a story by French Academician Paul Mor and, himself a noted horseman, has its British premiere tonight. Commander Gardefort is a man whose only passion is for horses. A member of the famous cavalry Cadre Noir, he sacrifices his career, preferring an early retirement to promotion that would take him away from Saumur, and abandons marriage after only a year on the grounds of his wife's lack of horsemanship. In retirement, his life is centred on Milady, a chestnut mare ...
Written and directed by FRANÇOIS LETERRIER. Films: page 17
(First showing on British television)
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A Vincente Minnelli Season starring Kirk Douglas
Edward G. Robinson ,.Cyd Charisse with George Hamilton
Dahlia Lavi, Claire Trevor
The powerful drama of a star on the slide attempting a comeback amid a group of cynical Hollywood exiles working in Rome.
Directed by VINCENTE MINNELLI . Films: p 17 (Tomorrow: Lust for Life)
