Story: Telling the Weather by MICHAEL OMER. Presenters
Sheelagh Gilbey , Ben Thomas
starring
Jeanette MacDonald , Nelson Eddy with Walter Pidgeon , Leo Carillo
Mary Robbins is the popular owner of the Polka Saloon in Cloudy Mountain where the sheriff, Jack Ranee , is in love with her. But a rival for Mary's affections suddenly appears on the scene: Ramerez, a handsome bandit. This classic Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy musical, set in Old Mon. terey features such numbers as ' Shadows on the moon ', The wind in the trees', 'Dream of love' and' Senorita.'
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Music by SlGMUND ROMBERG " ' Produced by WILLIAM ANTHONY MCGUIRE Directed by ROBERT z. LEONARD
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The classic cliffhanger serial in 12 parts, starring
Herman Brix as Kioga, the Hawk 6: The Dead Fall
The devilish Solerno threatens torture, gets a taste of his medicine and Hawk faces a spiked and grisly fate ...
A REPUBLIC serial (For cast see page 37)
(Part 7 tomorrow at 5.40)
starring
The Valediction
A graduation and a betrayal are forerunners to separation for the family.
Based on EARL HAMNER jh's autobiographical novel Spencer's Mountain Written by CLAIRE WHITAKER Directed by MARRY BARRIS
This week's theme:• Story-telling
Carpaccio (1490-1526)
"Miracle of the True Cross" at the Academy of Fine Arts, Venice
In 1369 Venice acquired what was said to be a fragment of the cross on which Christ died. Inevitably, miracles were attributed to this relic and these were depicted by Venetian artists. Carpaccio relegates the miracle, the healing of a man who suffered from fits, to a background detail in a magnificent portrayal of Venice.
Written and narrated by Alistair Smith
(Tomorrow: Rubens - "Mercury and Argus")
with subtitles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather
opens a season of Broadway musicals, tonight starring Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers
Downtown Rome in the first century is distinctly reminiscent of New York, in this bawdy farce, based on a highly successful stage show. Three great comedians - Mostel, Silvers and Keaton - match their wit and style to director Richard Lester's frantic pace with the accent on laughter and music.
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Introduced by William Woollard from the Gordano Motorway Service Area
Easter is the first get-away weekend for many motorists and Top Gear finds out how they have fared on the motorways and what they think of the services offered. Also our cameras join a motorway police patrol car to report on typical holiday traffic problems.
For those who prefer somedne else to do the driving Sue Baker reports on a new super-coach which runs between Glasgow and London and Chris Goffey reports on two new garage ideas which could save time and moftey.
Frank Page reviews some of the latest cars coming to showrooms.
Director pihlip FRANKLIN
Executive producer DEREK SMITH BBC Birmingham
BBC2 Snooker Championship
The last game before the Final.
A special two-frame play-off to decide third and fourth places in the competition, featuring: Doug Mountjoy (Wales)
1S81 World Championship finalist v Steve Davis (London) or Cliff Thorburn (Canada)
Mountjoy, beaten by Australian
Eddie Charlton in the first semi-final, now meets the second losing semi-finalist.
Introduced by ALAN WEEKS Referee JOHN WILLIAMS Commentator TED LOWE
Director ROY NORTON Producer REG PERRIN BBC Birmingham
Book (same title), £2.00,- thcme music on Sporting Themes (record RtH 348, cassette zcR 348), from retailers
A series of five films about Play 4: Playing Ball
All over the world children ana adults, individually and in teams, spend endless therapeutic hours chasing, hitting, throwing, kicking balls of every size and weight. across pitches, around courts, over nets, into holes.
Most of our ball games have only been in existence for 100 years. Now they're one of the few things the world takes seriously.
Why do we build such elaborate rituals around the dramas of the football fields and tennis courts? How do games incorporate and express the different values of the societies in which they're played? What, for example, are the connections between organised sport and the Industrial Revolution? Between baseball and the American Dream? How has television affected the meaning and impact of ball games now experienced vicariously by vast international audiences?
Film editor DON fairsirvice Producer Michael DIBB
Presenters Peter Snow, John Tusa and Donald MacCormick bring you the major events of the day, and the pictures, interviews and analysis that explain their significance. From the programme's team of correspondents: film reports shot in Britain and around the world on the issues and topics which are making the headlines. Joan Bakewell has first news of stories from the arts; David Icke and Marshall Lee have the stories from behind the world of sport.
Producers Peter Bell, JOHN HOLME
Directors MIKE CATHERWOOD, JOHN WILKINSON Assignment editors
JOHN MAHONEY, CLIVE SYDDALL Deputy editor PAUL NORRIS Editor RONALD NEIL
