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A British comedy double bill, the first of which stars Norman Wisdom
Crossed in love, grocer Norman Puckle joins the Navy. Aboard the Dorchester, the admiral calls for an ordinary, simple-hearted sailor to man an interplanetary rocket and Norman is put into training with hilarious results.
Screenplay by JACK DAVIES
HENRY BLYTH , NORMAN WISDOM Producer HUGH STEWART
Directed by ROBERT ASHER
Films: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Davies
Unknown:
Henry Blyth
Producer:
Hugh Stewart
Directed By:
Robert Asher
Norman Puckle:
Norman Wisdom
Admiral Sir Bryanston Blyth:
Ian Hunter
CPO Knowles:
David Lodge
Cmdr Clayton:
Robert Urquhart
Mr Philpots:
Edward Chapman
PO Filkins:
Eddie Byrne
Diving instructor:
Peter Jones
Prosecuting counsel:
John Le Mesurier
Defending counsel:
Terence Alexander
NAAFI girl:
Liz Fraser

Discoveries in Space
IRAS, the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite, is proving to be one of the most successful of all space missions. Patrick Moore talks to Dr Jim Emerson of Queen Mary College, a British member of the IRAS team which also includes specialists from Holland and the United States. Producer PIETER MORPURGO

Contributors

Talks:
Patrick Moore
Unknown:
Dr Jim Emerson
Producer:
Pieter Morpurgo

starring Brian Cant and Floella Benjamin in an entertainment of comedy, jokes and music with Heather Williams and Keith Woodhams and Jonathan Cohen with the Play Away Band
Designer GWEN EVANS
Musical director JONATHAN COHEN Producer JOHN SMITH
Series producer ANN REAY

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Cant
Unknown:
Floella Benjamin
Unknown:
Heather Williams
Unknown:
Keith Woodhams
Unknown:
Jonathan Cohen
Designer:
Gwen Evans
Director:
Jonathan Cohen
Producer:
John Smith

starring Dirk Bogarde
Muriel Pavlow , Kenneth More
Simon Sparrow , a young medical student, and his three high-spirited companions, face five energetic, hard-working, but often hilarious years at St Swithin's, under the eye of the irascible Sir Lancelot Spratt.
Screenplay by NICHOLAS PHIPPS Produced by BETTY BOX
Directed by RALPH THOMAS. Films: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Dirk Bogarde
Unknown:
Muriel Pavlow
Unknown:
Kenneth More
Unknown:
Simon Sparrow
Unknown:
Lancelot Spratt.
Play By:
Nicholas Phipps
Produced By:
Betty Box
Directed By:
Ralph Thomas.
Simon:
Dirk Bogarde
Joy:
Muriel Pavlow
Grimsdyke:
Kenneth More
Benskin:
Donald Sinden
Isobel:
Kay Kendall
Sir Lancelot:
James Robertson Justice
Taffy:
Donald Houston
Stella:
Suzanne Cloutier
Dean:
Geoffrey Keen
Briggs:
George Coulouris

A ten-part series in Modern Greek for beginners. With Chris Serle and Katia Dandoulaki
7:Finding Somewhere to Stay... can be more fun - and possibly cheaper-if you speak some Greek. Tourism Greek-style: an ekdromi (excursion) to Cape Sounio, and Greek Easter holiday celebrations.
Consultant DAVID A. HARDY
Film editor richard SIDWELL
Assistant producer MARY SPRENT Producer TERRY DOYLE
For more information contact: England and Wales: Broadcast Support Services [number removed]: Northern Ireland: Media Follow-up [number removed]; Scotland: Network [number removed].
Book (same title), cassettes and records from booksellers
©HELPLINES page 91

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Serle
Unknown:
Katia Dandoulaki
Unknown:
David A. Hardy
Producer:
Terry Doyle

Presented by Jeremy James
Commentary by Jeremy Flint
(Bridge Correspondent, The Times) The climax of the battle between Bristol and Manchester. Which one will proceed to the final?
As usual the club pairs are aided by four experts: JANE AND TONY PRIDAY PLUS IRVING ROSE and VICTOR MOLLO.
Director LINDA MCCARTHY
Producer PETER BAZALGETTE
The hands in this programme can be seen during the week on Ceefax p 258 Grand Slam Bridge Set, £6.90 from booksellers

Contributors

Presented By:
Jeremy James
Commentary By:
Jeremy Flint
Commentary By:
Victor Mollo.
Director:
Linda McCarthy
Producer:
Peter Bazalgette

Five aspiring young conductors take part in a remarkable week of rehearsals with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the demanding supervision of the orchestra's music director Zubin Mehta. In tonight's programme, he works on the intricate details of an impressionistic orchestral show-piece by DEBUSSY: the second movement from ' La Mer.' With GISELE BUKA BEN-DOR ISRAEL EDELSON, MARK GOODING
FELIX KRUGLIKOV , MOTTI MIRON Narrator BERNARD KEEFFE
Videotape editor PETER FRANCIS Executive producer RAM EVRON Producer RODNEY GREENBERG
A Jerusalem Music Centre production in association with BBCtv

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Gooding
Unknown:
Felix Kruglikov
Narrator:
Motti Miron
Editor:
Peter Francis
Producer:
Rodney Greenberg

An extended series of cinéma vérité documentary films The Family
In 1974 producer Paul Watson introduced to television the Wilkins of Reading.
11: Tom Bernes finished his stag night on the sofa with the best man, who is oblivious to Marian s last instruction, 'Get him to the church by 3.30.'
Directors FRANC RODDAM, PAUL WATSON

Contributors

Producer:
Paul Watson
Unknown:
Tom Bernes
Unknown:
Paul Watson

A second chance to see some of the Newsnight films shown in the last few months.
Nigel Lawson was Smuggms to fellow pupils at Westminster to opponents he's the most arrogant man in the Commons - yet his mother still tells him when to get his hair cut. Nevsmghts profile of the Chancellor reflects the views of his family, his friends and his enemies.
Hiroshima: For eight months after the dropping of the nuclear bombs, an American military documentary unit filmed in the two cities.
That film was classified top secret in 1946, and kept in military custody for 37 years. Now the film is in the National Film Archive in Washington. Although short sections have been seen on British and American TV, Robert Harris 's report is the first detailed look at eight hours of film of life and death after a nuclear bomb.
Studio production PETER HORROCKS Producers NICOLA SHEARER DAVID COXON TAYLOR
Director JOHN WILKINSON Editor DAVID DICKINSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Lawson
Unknown:
Robert Harris
Unknown:
Peter Horrocks
Producers:
Nicola Shearer
Producers:
David Coxon Taylor
Director:
John Wilkinson
Editor:
David Dickinson

sing Rhythm on 2 The second part of a concert given by this well-known folk trio during their visit to this country earlier this year which, inevitably, is full of nostalgia. Recorded on location at the Southport Theatre.
Producer KEN GRIFFIN

Contributors

Producer:
Ken Griffin

opens a season of Hollywood classics.
Tonight starring
Spencer Tracy , Fredric March
Stanley Kramer 's film of the notorious Monkey' trial in Tennessee in 1925, when a school-teacher was prosecuted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Spencer Tracy plays the liberal defence attorney (modelled on the legendary Clarence Darrow ) and Fredric March is the prosecuting attorney.
Screenplay by NATHAN E. DOUGLAS , HAROLD JACOB SMITH Based on the play by JEROME LAWRENCE and ROBERT E. LEE
Produced and directed by STANLEY KRAMER Films: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Spencer Tracy
Unknown:
Stanley Kramer
Unknown:
Spencer Tracy
Unknown:
Clarence Darrow
Unknown:
Fredric March
Unknown:
Nathan E. Douglas
Unknown:
Harold Jacob Smith
Play By:
Jerome Lawrence
Play By:
Robert E. Lee
Directed By:
Stanley Kramer
Henry Drummond:
Spencer Tracy
Matthew Harrison Brady:
Fredric March
E K Hornbeek:
Gene Kelly
Mrs Brady:
Florence Eldridge
Bertram Gates:
Dick York
Rachel:
Donna Anderson
The Rev Brown:
Claude Akins
Davenport:
Elliott Reid
Judge:
Harry Morgan
Meeker:
Paul Hartman
Mayor:
Philip Coolidge
Stebbins:
Noah Beery Jr

The Hitchhiker
A young woman's drive across country is turned into a nightmare by the recurring appearance of a mysterious beckoning hitchhiker.
The Last Flight starring Kenneth Haigh as Flight Lieutenant Decker
In a fit of cowardice a World War I pilot flies away from a dogfight and escapes, to land safely-at an airforce base 40 years after he took off.
The Hitchhiker
Written by ROD SERLING Director ALVIN GANZER The Last Flight
Written by RICHARD MATHESON Directed by WILLIAM CLAXTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Haigh
Written By:
Rod Serling
Director:
Alvin Ganzer
Written By:
Richard Matheson
Directed By:
William Claxton
Nan Adams:
Inger Stevens

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