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Castle in the Desert also starring
Arleen Whelan Richard Derr
Chan pays a visit to a mysterious castle in the Mojave Desert where a descendant of a wealthy heir is suspected of a series of murders. With the revelation that the family tree extends back to the Borgias, the Oriental detective faces a very dangerous collection of suspects ...
Screenplay by JOHN LARKIN , based on the character created by EARL DERR BIGGERS Produced by RALPH DIETRICH Directed by HARRY LACHMAN Films: page 14

Contributors

Unknown:
Arleen Whelan
Unknown:
Richard Derr
Unknown:
John Larkin
Unknown:
Derr Biggers
Produced By:
Ralph Dietrich
Directed By:
Harry Lachman
Charlie Chan in:
Sidney Toler
Brenda Hartford:
Arleen Whelan
Carl Detheridge:
Richard Derr
Manderley:
Douglass Dumbrille
Watson King:
Henry Daniell
Walter Hartford:
Edmund MacDonald
Jimmy Chan:
Sen Yung
Lucy Manderley:
Lenta Lane
Madame Saturnia:
Ethel Griffies

Episode 4 by BARRY PURCHESE
Tucker is tempted to do violence to his employer and Passmore breaks with his. But a blown fuse brings Sarah and Tucker closer together ...
Sound recordist DENNIS PANCHEN Film editor JERRY LEON Designer PETER HIGGINS Producer DARROL BLAKE Director MARGIE BARBOUR
Book: Forty Days of Tucker J., £5.95 from booksellers

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Purchese
Editor:
Jerry Leon
Designer:
Peter Higgins
Producer:
Darrol Blake
Director:
Margie Barbour
Tucker Jenkins:
Todd Carty
Alan Humphries:
George Armstrong
Tommy Watson:
Paul McCarthy
Ralph Passmore:
Peter McNamara
'Creamy' Eames:
Adam Kotz
Mrs Jenkins:
Hilary Crane
Vic Humphries:
Ray Armstrong
Sarah Gill:
Lisa Geoghan
Susan Challis:
Rebecca Calder
Mr Grayson:
Barry Stanton
Geoff:
Frank Vincent
Frank:
Tony Guilfoyle
OAP:
Keith Marsh
Brian Logan:
David Corti
Old man:
Cameron Miller

This week, comic cuts with Roger Mellie, the man on the telly; Paul Whicker, the tall vicar; and Charlie Pontoon, the columnist who cares. All three are characters in Viz Comic, Newcastle youth's latest shock-horror. Also: on the building site with the Sons of Dole, and on the stockcar racing circuit with the Streatham Motor Project.

Contributors

Producer:
Tony Matthews
Director:
Alex Laird

by MERVYN HAISMAN Music by NEIL INNES
Artwork by GRAHAM MCCALLUM
What lies in wait for Jane in the smuggler*' cave? Find out in the fourth of five weekly instalments.
Producer ian KEILL
Director ANDREW GOSLING

Contributors

Music By:
Neil Innes
Unknown:
Graham McCallum
Director:
Andrew Gosling
the famous:
Glynis Barber
Daily Mirror:
Strip-Cartoon Heroine
the Colonel:
Robin Bailey
Tombs:
Max Wall
Lola:
Suzanne Danielle
himself:
And Fritz The Dog
the voice of BOB:
Danvers Walker

where the public sets the agenda It's my Life, Anyway ...
John Hadley wants to live a full life. Not only does he want friendship and family but also to do the simple things we all take for granted, like being able to wear his own clothes, spend his own money, or to go out when he wants. Now Maureen Ronksley can help him to do this. She is his advocate: a trained volunteer who represents the interests of a mentally-handicapped person living in hospital as if they were her own.
Open Space looks at this revolutionary scheme based on relationships of friendship and trust designed to transfer personal power to people like John Hadley and 50,000 others who have always been denied it.
Film editor M. A. C. ADAMS Producer PENNY TWIGG
Made by ADVOCACY ALLIANCE in co-operation with the COMMUNITY PROGRAMMES UNIT
If you want to make your own programme or to suggest programme ideas, then get in touch with Open Space,[address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
John Hadley
Unknown:
Maureen Ronksley
Unknown:
John Hadley
Editor:
M. A. C. Adams
Producer:
Penny Twigg

Presented by John Tusa Sex and the Victorians
Did Victorian wives really 'lie back and think of England'? New research suggests they enjoyed a far more liberated sex life than conventional image allows.
God Save the King was first associated with George III. Why did the king who lost the American colonies become adored by his people, with the first royal souvenirs manufactured in his name? Stalin's Famine
Fifty years after millions of Ukrainian peasants died in Stalin's collectivisation, survivors remember the tragedy the Soviet Union still -ignores. Malcolm Muggeridge recalls reporting the suffering.
Executive producer TIMOTHY GARDAM Editor BRUCE NORMAN

Contributors

Presented By:
John Tusa
Unknown:
George Iii.
Unknown:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Producer:
Timothy Gardam
Editor:
Bruce Norman

stars in the fourth of five programmes Tonight's guests
Bernie Clifton , Joe Fagin Hinge and Bracket Roy Kinnear with Finola Hughes and Hugh Craig JOHN COLEMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Choreography LUD ROMANO Written by NEIL SHAND Additional material
MARTI CAINE
Costume designer VERITY LEWIS SoundKEITH GUNN
LightingDICKIE HIGHAM
Designers CHRIS HULL , MALCOLM THORNTON Directed by BRIAN WHITEHOUSE Production STEWART MORRIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernie Clifton
Unknown:
Joe Fagin
Unknown:
Roy Kinnear
Unknown:
Finola Hughes
Unknown:
Hugh Craig
Unknown:
John Coleman
Written By:
Neil Shand
Unknown:
Marti Caine
Designer:
Verity Lewis
Unknown:
Keith Gunn
Unknown:
Dickie Higham
Designers:
Chris Hull
Designers:
Malcolm Thornton
Directed By:
Brian Whitehouse
Unknown:
Stewart Morris

True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
Breyten Breytenbach writes about being an Afrikaner. His poetry was taught in schools and his paintings greatly admired. But in 1975 Breytenbach, living in self-imposed exile in Paris with his Vietnamese wife Yolande - their marriage was regarded as 'fornication' under South African law - decided to return to his native country under a false passport, with the intention of recruiting workers against the Government and its policy of apartheid. Breytenbach was betrayed, arrested and sentenced to nine years. This year, two versions of his horrific experience of South African jails are to be published - Mouroir, a surreal account of his life in prison and True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist.
Tonight Arena presents the story of this extraordinary man including some of the poetry and paintings completed in prison and smuggled out of South Africa.
Film editor CHARLES CHABOT Producer ALAN YENTOB Director NIGEL WILLIAMS

Contributors

Unknown:
Breyten Breytenbach
Editor:
Charles Chabot
Producer:
Alan Yentob
Director:
Nigel Williams

By barge and boat across England. Pete Morgan makes a leisurely journey from the Irish Sea to the North Sea, observing life along the way. Following the Aire to Leeds
Pete travels down the side of the Pennines passing some of Yorkshire's historic sights. Along the way he looks round a beautifully restored barge of the Leeds and Liverpool canal, learns about its colourful traditions and experiences one of the seven wonders of Britain's canal world, the Bingley Five Rise Locks.
Film editor MARTIN HARRIS Producer DOUGLAS B. SMITH BBC North

Contributors

Editor:
Martin Harris
Producer:
Douglas B. Smith

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