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Often confused with mental handicap or even deafness, the strange private world of the autistic child is explored through the eyes of parents, teachers, psychiatrist Lorna Wing and the children.
Producer CLIVE HOLLOWAY
A BBC/Open University production

Contributors

Unknown:
Lorna Wing
Producer:
Clive Holloway

A series of eight films 4: Going Solo
In the time it takes the average person to learn to drive, the RAF's future fighter pilots will fly their first solo -in a jet.
The first trip on their own takes only five minutes. The student has no time for nerves. For the instructor it's a different matter.
Film editor DAVID LEE
Producer COLIN STRONG

Contributors

Editor:
David Lee

Colonel Culpepper's Flying Circus Reporter Ian Wooldridge
Less than one hour's plane ride from J.R.'s home town Dallas is the most unusual airforce in the world. Nearly 100 bombers and fighters from the Second World War wait in readiness for the scramble that will never come; they form the Ghost Squadron of the Confederate Air Force. Under their commander, Colonel Jethro E. Culpeper , the 7,000 colonels - there are no other ranks -keep their aerial armada in the skies over Texas, ' to perpetuate the spirit that kept the free world free.' Every October the airforce puts on its annual show of strength at command HQ. The colonels remind the world once again of a time when ' America was great'.
Producer TONY SALMON. Series editors ANTHONY ISAACS and PETER JONES

Contributors

Reporter:
Ian Wooldridge
Unknown:
Jethro E. Culpeper
Producer:
Tony Salmon.
Editors:
Anthony Isaacs
Editors:
Peter Jones

Six influential figures present their view of what the economic landscape will look like after the next decade.
4: Has British Capitalism a Future?
Arthur Scargill , President of the National Union of Mineworkers, thinks that British capitalism is falling into its final crisis. By the 90s, Britain will be cracking under the strain of even higher unemployment and street violence will be commonplace. Could a fundamental change in society save us? His ideas are questioned by Jack Wiseman , Professor of Economics at York University, Dr Patricia Hollis , historian and Labour councillor, and Robert Rhodes James , mp.
Chairman Brian Widlake
Director DON HARLEY
Producer VICTOR MARMION Editor JOHN REYNOLDS

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Scargill
Unknown:
Jack Wiseman
Unknown:
Dr Patricia Hollis
Unknown:
Robert Rhodes James
Unknown:
Brian Widlake
Director:
Don Harley
Producer:
Victor Marmion
Editor:
John Reynolds

Events in the life and work of Fred Dibnah, Bolton steeplejack. 4: Drinking and Climbing
Fred demolishes the ornamental top of a mill chimney using a spectacular contraption of flying buckets he invented, and recalls, with some pain, letters which, after an earlier film, condemned his own use of lubrication on these occasions.
' I was criticised for saying I had a few pints before I climbed up, but I'd like to say, you just want to try this bloody job sober. If I've had a couple of pints I don't think I'm King Kong. I tackle it that little bit easier, more cautious.' Narrator Deryck Guyler
Photography ARTHUR SMITH
Sound JACK WILSON , DAVE BAUMBER
Film editor PETER GIBBS
Assistant producer JEAN THOMPSON
Written and produced by DON HAWORTH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Narrator:
Deryck Guyler
Narrator:
Photography Arthur Smith
Unknown:
Jack Wilson
Unknown:
Dave Baumber
Editor:
Peter Gibbs
Producer:
Jean Thompson
Produced By:
Don Haworth

A comedy series in which Kelly once again presents his unique observations on life. Written by KELLY MONTEITH , NEIL SHAND featuring WENDY ALLNUTT , TONY ANHOLT , NORMAN CHAPPELL , JULIE DAWN COLE , ELLIS DALE , BARRIE GOSNEY MIKE GRADY , COLIN MC-CORMACK,NICHOLAS OWEN ,
ROBIN PARKINSON , MICHAEL RIPPER , GORDON ROLLINGS
Music composed by RONNIE MAZLEHURST Sound PETER BARVILLE
Lighting WARWICK FIELDING Designer DAVID BUCKINGHAM Producer BILL WILSON

Contributors

Written By:
Kelly Monteith
Written By:
Neil Shand
Unknown:
Wendy Allnutt
Unknown:
Tony Anholt
Unknown:
Norman Chappell
Unknown:
Julie Dawn Cole
Unknown:
Ellis Dale
Unknown:
Barrie Gosney
Unknown:
Mike Grady
Unknown:
Nicholas Owen
Unknown:
Robin Parkinson
Unknown:
Michael Ripper
Unknown:
Gordon Rollings
Composed By:
Ronnie Mazlehurst
Unknown:
Peter Barville
Unknown:
Warwick Fielding
Designer:
David Buckingham
Producer:
Bill Wilson

Television cameras visit radio s popular game of musical knowledge when
Frank Muir and John Amis challenge
Denis Norden and Ian Wallace with questions set by Steve Race
Television presentation DOUGLAS BESPE (Final programme tomorrow at 9.0)

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Douglas Bespe

A comedy film series in which a group of irreverent young lawyers join a highly conventional old-established law firm. starring
Wilfrid Hyde White as the venerable senior partner Emerson Marshall , with Martin Short as Tucker Kerwin Alley Mills as Leslie Dunn
Joe Regalbuto as Eliot Streeter Shelley Smith as Sara James and Tim Thomerson as Johnny Danko Tucker's Co-op
... is a bit too co-operative for his liking. He borrows the money from the law firm to buy a flat, only to find that his boss is a neighbour who likes to drop in - ad infinitum!
Written by DAVID LLOYD
Directed by CHARLOTTE BROWN

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilfrid Hyde White
Unknown:
Emerson Marshall
Unknown:
Martin Short
Unknown:
Leslie Dunn
Unknown:
Joe Regalbuto
Unknown:
Eliot Streeter
Unknown:
Shelley Smith
Unknown:
Sara James
Unknown:
Tim Thomerson
Unknown:
Johnny Danko
Written By:
David Lloyd
Directed By:
Charlotte Brown

The Kodak Masters Bowls Tournament from
Beach House Park, Worthing
The first semi-final in this series of seven programmes featuring the best of flat-green bowling. Commentators
DAVID VINE, DAVID RHYS JONES
Producer JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

Contributors

Producer:
Johnnie Watherston

and Labour Conference Report
JOHN TUSA , PETER SNOW and VINCENT HANNA with a full report from the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool; DONALD MACCORMICK and JOAN BAKEWELL in London to assess the news at home and abroad.
Deputy editor PAUL NORRIS Editor DAVID LLOYD

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Vincent Hanna
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Joan Bakewell
Editor:
Paul Norris
Editor:
David Lloyd

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