The Infra-Red Sky
Patrick Moore talks to
Dr Jim Emerson of Queen
Mary College about the new results from IRAS, the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite. Produced by PIETER MORPURGO
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starring Will Hay with Charles Hawtrey
When St Michael 's
School is evacuated to the eerie Dunbain
Castle on the Isle of Skye, William Lamb-their new teacher-naturally goes with them. He soon learns that the castle is haunted by the ghost of Mad MacKinnon and that the bagpipes sound when someone is about to die .... This comedy thriller - set in war-time
Britain -is not only one of Hay's funniest films but also an exciting and often tense murder mystery.
Screenplay by ANGUS MACPHAIL and JOHN DIGHTON
Produced by MICHAEL BALCON Directed by MARCEL VARNEL
(Will Hay stars in Ask a Policeman, tomorrow at 11.45 am)
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A personal view by James Burke in ten parts 3: Point of View
In the early 15th century most people thought the earth was flat. Then a Florentine architect tried his hand at painting, and the result was a new kind of geometry which changed the world. Written and presented by JAMES BURKE
Series producer RICHARD REISZ
the musical starring
Nancy Kwan
James Shigeta
This film version of the famous show by Rodgers and Hammerstein features such numbers as 'A hundred million miracles' and 'I enjoy being a girl'.
A young and innocent immigrant girl from Hong Kong sets off a train of romantic complications when she arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Screenplay by JOSEPH FIELDS based on the novel by c. Y. LEE Music and lyrics by RICHARD RODGERS and OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN Produced by ROSS HUNTER Directed by HENRY KOSTER
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Narrated by John Huston Twenty-five years ago,
George and Joy Adamson trained an orphaned lioness cub named 'Elsa' to live free in the wild. Since then nearly 40 more lions have discovered the freedom of the Kora Game Reserve in Kenya. 'Koretta' and 'Naja' are the last to be released into the harsh African bush. This film follows some tense moments as 'Koretta' introduces her two cubs to George for the first time. Will they survive, or succumb to the threat of 'Black and Tan', a rogue male lion?
Written and produced by HARRY MINETREE
Directed by ROBERT DUNCAN Television presentation by ROBIN PRYTHERCH BBC Bristol
with Jan Leeming Weather
starring
Natalie Wood
Christopher Plummer Robert Redford
Living in a run-down neighbourhood of pre-war Hollywood,
15-year old Daisy Clover dreams of becoming a singer. Then the miracle happens and producer Raymond Swan launches her on a film career. Daisy becomes an instant success but her new life is not at all what she hoped for -until she meets screen idol Wade Lewis. ...
Screenplay by GAVIN LAMBERT based on his novel
Produced by ALAN J. PAKULA Directed by ROBERT MULLIGAN t FILMS: page 21
Filmmaker
Over the past 20 years
Francis Coppola , the award-winning writer-director of the two Godfather films, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now, has established himself as one of the most gifted, adventurous and controversial filmmakers of his generation. To coincide with next month's opening of his Jazz Age extravaganza The Cotton Club and the current BBC2 season of his films, ranging from Finian's Rainbow to One From the Heart, Coppola gives a rare interview at his home in California to
Christopher Frayling.
Film editor MICHAEL HOUGHTON Producer MARGARET SHARP
Russell goes to the School of Dance and meets ballet teacher Marika Besobrasova , an old friend of Princess
Grace. Later they are joined by former pupil
Princess Caroline. Research PATI MARR
Assistant producer JOHN ROONEY Director CAROLE CALDWELL
Executive producer KEN STEPHINSON BBC Manchester
starring
Dustin Hoffman
Faye Dunaway
Meet Jack Crabb , a pioneer, adopted Indian, drunk, con-artist and adventurer. At 121 years of age he is all set to tell of his life and times, and of the West as it really was. Most importantly, of the climax of his adventures as the only white survivor at the infamous Battle of the Little Bighorn where General
Custer led his forces into a massacre.
Screenplay by CALDER WILLINGHAM Based on the novel by THOMAS BERGER
Produced by STUART MILLAR Directed by ARTHUR PENN
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