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Starring Rod Cameron, Tab Hunter
At the height of a desert wind storm, an oil company's aircraft is forced down in a remote area of the Sahara. The plane destroyed, its four occupants look for a means of survival-and find a derelict Afrika Korps tank containing a secret Nazi treasure of jewels.
Screenplay by RICHARD SCRAYER From a story by LUBREY WISBERG Produced by GRANT WHYTOCK Directed by E. A. DUPONT
. Films: page 21

Contributors

Unknown:
Rod Cameron
Unknown:
Richard Scrayer
Story By:
Lubrey Wisberg
Produced By:
Grant Whytock
Directed By:
E. A. Dupont
Monahan:
Rod Cameron
Larson:
Tab Hunter
Barlow:
John Dehner
Evans:
Richard Erdman

starring Brian Cant who invites you to join his guests in an entertainment of comedy and music. with Christopher Beeny
Anita Dobson , Jonathan Cohen and the Play Away Band
Musical arrangements by JONATHAN COHEN Designer ANDREE WELSTEAD HORNBY Director JOHN SMITH Producer ANN REAY

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Beeny
Unknown:
Anita Dobson
Unknown:
Jonathan Cohen
Arrangements By:
Jonathan Cohen
Designer:
Andree Welstead Hornby
Director:
John Smith
Producer:
Ann Reay

starring
Charles Bronson , David McLean Narrated by James Stewart
Matt Powell and Lieut-Col Brandon are two of the pilots involved in the test launching of the US Air Force's man-guided rocket missile, X-15. The strain soon begins to tell, not only on those directly involved in the venture, but also on their waiting families.
This superbly photographed semi-documentary was directed by Richard Donner who went on to make such box-office successes as The Omen and Superman.
Screenplay by TONY LAZZARINO and JAMES WARNER BELLAH. Produced by HENRY SANICOI. A and TONY LAZZARINO
Directed by RICHARD D. DONNER. Films: p 21 (First showing on British television)

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Bronson
Unknown:
David McLean
Unknown:
James Stewart
Unknown:
Matt Powell
Directed By:
Richard Donner
Unknown:
Tony Lazzarino
Unknown:
James Warner Bellah.
Produced By:
Henry Sanicoi.
Produced By:
Tony Lazzarino
Directed By:
Richard D. Donner.
Matt Powell r:
David McLean
Torn Deparma:
James Gregory
Lieut-Col Brandon:
Charles Bronson
Major Rinaldi:
Brad Dexter
Margaret Brandon:
Patricia Owens
Pamela StewartMARY:
Tyler Moore
Major Wilde:
Ralph Taeger
Mike Brandon:
Stanley Livingston
Diane Wilde:
Lisabeth Hush
Colonel Jessup:
Lauren Gilbert

A look at the week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy, who discusses The Shock of the New (BBC), Horizon: Behind the Horoscope (BBC), and Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World (YTV) with art critic Marina Vaizey, astrologer Roger Elliot and ex-editor of the New Scientist, Dr Bernard Dixon.
In the Did You See...? viewers' quiz Sue Peacock asks questions on past television dramas set in the business world.
Also John McGrath, director of The Adventures of Frank, who believes that TV drama should be freed from being a close, realistic imitation of life.

Contributors

Presented By:
Ludovic Kennedy
Presented By:
Arthur C Clarke
Unknown:
Marina Vaizey
Unknown:
Roger Elliot
Unknown:
Dr Bernard Dixon.
Unknown:
John McGrath
Director:
Ann Freer
Producer:
John Archer

Third of eight programmes in which 16 international champion darts players compete for the BBC2 Bullseye trophy. First round: Stefan Lord v Ceri Morgan, Nicky Virachkul v Allan Hogg
Tonight has a truly international flavour with Sweden's Stefan Lord, News of the World Champion, playing Ceri Morgan of Wales, runner-up in the 1979 World Cup Singles. The second match is between World Cup Singles Champion Nicky Virachkul, from America, and Canadian Allan Hogg, who was most impressive in the 1979 World Masters.
Introduced by Peter Purves
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Darts player:
Stefan Lord
Darts player:
Ceri Morgan
Darts player:
Nicky Virachkul
Darts player:
Allan Hogg
Introduced by:
Peter Purves
Commentator:
Sid Waddell
Commentator:
Tony Green
Director:
Nick Hunter
Director:
Mike Adley
Producer:
Keith Phillips

Heriot's FP v Langholm from Goldenacre, Edinburgh
This season Heriot's are once more challenging for the leadership of the Scottish Club Championship. Under captain Andy Irvine, and with fellow British
Lion John Beattie strengthening the pack, Heriot's will be looking for a convincing win over newly promoted
Langholm. NIGEL STARMER-SMITH introduces the programme, which also includes the rest of the day's news. Commentator BILL MCLAREN
Series producer HUW JONES See Letters page

Contributors

Unknown:
John Beattie
Introduces:
Langholm. Nigel Starmer-Smith
Commentator:
Bill McLaren

(Frenchmen if only you knew)
A film by ANDRÉ HARRIS and ALAIN DE SÉDOUY. English version introduced by MICHAEL CHARLTON
This two-part film by the French journalists who helped make the controversial documentary The Sorrow and the Pity, is a deliberately provocative study of the France that produced General de Gaulle, who died on 9 November 1970.
Part 1: General, nous voila (General, here we are)
The film follows the events that led to the collapse of France in 1940; from the slaughter of Verdun in 1917 to the disaster of the Maginot Line. De Gaulle, a little-known general, appeals over the BBC for Frenchmen to fight on and in 1944 returns to France to take over the government. Liberation brings stories of what some Parisiennes offered GIs, but also disillusion and retribution. Petain, who signed the armistice with the Germans, is charged with treason; 'For de Gaulle to be legitimate,' says his defending counsel, 'Petain had to be a traitor '. And at 9.50
Part 2: Je vous ai compris (I have understood you)
For eight years from 1954, the Algerian 'problem' tore at the very heart of France. In 1958 it catapulted de Gaulle back into power, 12 years after he had withdrawn from active politics. This film recalls the horror of the colonial struggle that cost over a million lives and the plot that leads to de Gaulle's return. But once in office, he astonishes everyone by giving Algeria independence. Some former supporters now plot against his life.
Co-directors JACQUES BRISSOT , LUC FAVORY
English version by JOHN HACKNEY, FRANK HILTON, MICHAEL BAKEWELL
Producer DAVID HARRISON
including at 9.45 News on 2; Weather

Contributors

Presenter (English version):
Michael Charlton
Unknown:
Jacques Brissot
Unknown:
Frank Hilton
Unknown:
Michael Bakewell
Producer:
David Harrison

takes a look at the contemporary rock scene with Anne Nightingale. In the studio this week
The Hit Men, Hazel O'Connor with films, album tracks, interviews, news and reviews.
Director JOHN BURROWES
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON
A new record (same title, BELP 017) and cassette (zcf 017), from record shops

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Nightingale.
Unknown:
Hazel O'Connor
Director:
John Burrowes
Producer:
Michael Appleton

[Starring] Edward G. Robinson
with Loretta Young

In San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 30s there are continued wars among the Tong Secret Societies. Edward G. Robinson is unusually cast as the reluctant 'hatchet man' for the deadly Lem Sing Tong, who finds his career as a successful businessman, American style, in conflict with old Chinese traditions.

Films: page 21

Contributors

Based on a play by:
Achmed Labdullah
Based on a play by:
David Belasco
Director:
William A. Wellman
Wong Low Get:
Edward G. Robinson
Toya San:
Loretta Young
Nog Hong Fah:
Dudley Digges
Harry En Hai:
Leslie Fenton
Yu Chang:
Edmund Breese
Long Sen Yat:
Tully Marshall
Charles Kee:
Noel Madison
Mme Si-Si:
Blanche Frederici
Sun Yat Sen:
J. Carroll Naish
Miss Ling:
Toshia Mori
Lip Hop Fat:
Charles Middleton
Malone:
Ralph Ince

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