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continues a season of films celebrating the 60th anniversary of BBC Radio starring
Harry Korris , Robbie Vincent
Everybody's happy at the Happidrome - or so say J. Sheridan Lovejoy and his cohorts Enoch and Ramsbottom. This musical comedy version of the once-famous radio programme stars the trio in a series of happenings on stage and off, plus the incomparable 'Hutch.' and LESLIE ' HUTCH '
HUTCHINSON CAIROLI BROTHERS
Screenplay TOM ARNOLD ,JAMES SEYMOUR Producers HAROLD BOXALL , JACK BUCHANAN TOM ARNOLD. Director PHIL BRANDON . Films: page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Korris
Unknown:
Robbie Vincent
Unknown:
J. Sheridan
Unknown:
Leslie Hutch
Unknown:
Hutchinson Cairoli
Unknown:
Tom Arnold
Unknown:
James Seymour
Producers:
Harold Boxall
Producers:
Jack Buchanan
Producers:
Tom Arnold.
Director:
Phil Brandon
Mr Lovejoy:
Harry Korris
Enoch:
Robbie Vincent
Ramsbottom:
Cecil Frederick
Bunty Mossup:
Bunty Meadows
Tanya/ Josephine:
Lisa Lee
Mrs Bane:
Jennie Gregson"
Mr Mossup:
Joss Ambler
Mrs Mossup:
Valentine Dunn

The programme made by young people
Tonight: Mayhem Machine
' It's crass, it's outrageous, it's in really bad taste. You need a strong stomach and an evil mind to sit through this lot! ' Still, there is Aswad live in the studio, Proper Little Madams singing in the supermarket, Abacush doing their thing in Brixton and a nasty sexist little number from America by Barnes and Barnes. You can always turn the sound down for the bits in between.
Made with the help of THE COMMUNITY PROGRAMME UNIT

from Barnsdale Geoff Hamilton and Clay Jones plant out spring cabbage and biennials, and put tender plants into winter storage.
The heather and conifer bed is getting overcrowded. Adrian Bloom advises on moving plants, and suggests some new ones that are more suitable for a small bed.
Producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill Book, Gardeners' World Cottage Garden, £4.75; BBC videobooks and laser-vision videodiscs, Mr Smith 's Vegetable Garden (BBCV 1000), Mr Smith 's Flower Garden (BBCV 1001), Mr Smith 's Indoor Garden (BBCV 1002), from retailers

Contributors

Unknown:
Barnsdale Geoff Hamilton
Unknown:
Clay Jones
Producer:
John Kenyon
Unknown:
Mr Smith
Unknown:
Mr Smith
Unknown:
Mr Smith

The weekly television review presented by Ludovic Kennedy who discusses Police: Operation Carter (BBC1), Take Three Women (BBC2) and Game for a Laugh (LWT) with the 1981 Crime Reporter of the Year Nick Davies , actress Joanna Lumley and Family Fortunes presenter Bob Monkhouse.
Plus a look at New York's Museum of Broadcasting where the public can view television's past.
Assistant producers
CAROL OWENS CLARE PATERSON Director STEPHEN GARRETT Producer JOHN ARCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Ludovic Kennedy
Unknown:
Nick Davies
Unknown:
Joanna Lumley
Presenter:
Bob Monkhouse.
Unknown:
Carol Owens Clare Paterson
Director:
Stephen Garrett
Producer:
John Archer

Written by DUDLEY LONG
A new comedy series starring
Lester faces two problems this week-Mrs Davies and her usual disastrous lesson and the difficulties encountered when trying to buy another new car ...
MUSIC by RONNIE HAZLEHURST
Visual effects designer JOHN HORTON Producer DENNIS MAIN WILSON Directed by JOHN B. HOBBS

Contributors

Written By:
Dudley Long
Music By:
Ronnie Hazlehurst
Designer:
John Horton
Producer:
Dennis Main Wilson
Directed By:
John B. Hobbs
Lester Small, and:
Brian Murphy
featuring in order:
Of Appearance
Mrs Davies:
Hilda Braid
Alf:
John Forgeham
Sally Small:
Amanda Barrie
Bert the milkman:
Colin Spaull
Sid:
Tony Millan
Mr Davies:
Richard Vernon
Charles Draper:
John Horsley
Chief Inspector Rodgers:
James Cossins
Jenny:
Linda Robson
PC Bright:
Dudley Long
Miss Scott:
Mary Maude
PC Cartwright:
Pip Short
PC Wilson:
Hamilton McLeod

by Jimmy Perry and David Croft
Starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
featuring John Laurie as Pte Frazer, James Beck as Pte Walker, Arnold Ridley as Pte Godfrey, Ian Lavender as Pte Pike

Something Nasty in the Vault - in which our heroes discover an unexploded bomb in the vault of Captain Mainwaring's bank

with Janet Davies as Mrs Pike, Bill Pertwee as the ARP Warden
Special guests Robert Dorning as the Bank Inspector and Norman Mitchell as Capt Rogers
The voice of Bud Flanagan
Signature tune by Jimmy Perry and Derek Taverner played by The Band of the Coldstream Guards conducted by their Director of Music Capt Trevor L. Sharpe, MBE, LRAM, ARCM, BSM

Contributors

Writer/Signature Tune:
Jimmy Perry
Writer/Producer:
David Croft
Voice (singer, signature tune):
Bud Flanagan
Signature Tune:
Derek Taverner
Signature tune played by:
The Band of the Coldstream Guards
Conductor:
Capt Trevor L. Sharpe
Design:
Paul Joel
Captain Mainwaring:
Arthur Lowe
Sgt Wilson:
John Le Mesurier
Lance Corporal Jones:
Clive Dunn
Pte Frazer:
John Laurie
Pte Walker:
James Beck
Pte Godfrey:
Arnold Ridley
Pte Pike:
Ian Lavender Mrs Pike: Janet Davies
The ARP Warden:
Bill Pertwee
The bank inspector:
Robert Dornlng
Capt Rogers:
Norman Mitchell

A four-part screenplay by CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON from the novel by MALCOLM BRADBURY $tarring
2: October 3rd 1972 (am)
The Kirk seminar-an advanced scholastic encounter with George Carmody , the perfect teaching aid and the only boy in the university with a trouser press. For Howard, a bonus in confronting the liberal establishment. But first there's the party to be scrutinised with Flora, and indeed Annie and Felicity.
TMs unique feeling of fun with form - fiction that makes wou think about fietion without telling you to (SUNDAY TIMES) Music GEORGE FENTON
Producer MICHAEL WEARING Director ROBERT KNIGHTS BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Hampton
Novel By:
Malcolm Bradbury
Unknown:
George Carmody
Howard Kirk:
Antony Sher
Flora Beniform:
With Isla Blair
Henry Beamish:
Paul Brooke
Annie Callendar:
Laura Davenport
George Carmody:
Peter Hugo Daly
Barbara Kirk:
Geraldine James
Felicity Phee:
Veronica Qululgan
Myra Beamish:
Maggie Steed
Professor Marvin:
Michael Hordern
Martin Kirk:
Jonathan Bruton
Celia Kirk:
Charlotte Enderby
Michael Bennard:
Lloyd Peters
Beck Pott:
Julia Swift
Hashmi Sadeok:
Arthur Lugo
MiSS Ho:
Zienia Merton
Professor Mangel:
Steve Plytas

and SDP Conference Report
JOHN TUSA with the Social Democrats in Great Yarmouth; DONALD MACCORMICK and LINDA ALEXANDER in London to assess the news at home and abroad.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Linda Alexander

in the company of David Hepworth and Mark Ellen takes its own look at the rock scene, with studio guests John Martyn , Carmel
Plus news. views, clues and reviews.
Director TOM CORCORAN
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON

Contributors

Unknown:
David Hepworth
Unknown:
Mark Ellen
Unknown:
John Martyn
Director:
Tom Corcoran
Producer:
Michael Appleton

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