The enchanting feature film for all the family, adapted from
Charles Kingsley 's classic story. starring
Unjustly accused of stealing, young orphan Tom and his pet mongrel Toby make off across the moors and leap into Dead Man's Pool. Drawn into an animated underwater world, they are befriended by a lobster, a lonely seahorse and a swashbuckling swordfish who help them find the mysterious Water Babies - holders of the secret of getting back Up There.
Screenplay by MICHAEL ROBSON Produced by PETER SHAW
Directed by LIONEL JEFFRIES
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Chris Serle takes a dip into Water. This week's watery wanderings in the archives include a rare bath for Albert Steptoe in Steptoe and Son, Paddington singing in the rain, and a man Water
Walking across the Thames in 1951. Guest Ernie Wise remembers 'Singing in the rain' from The Morecambe and Wise Show. There's even Sykes and a Bath.
Producer NIGEL CROWLE
Series producer ALBERT BARBER (R)
Widow Twankey, Mother Goose, the Ugly Sisters, Dame Trot, continue a tradition that goes back in particular to the Victorian music-hall.
See sights such as Terry Scott and John Inman stripped down to their bloomers with verbal support from the late Arthur Askey, Cyril Fletcher and pantomime writer John Morley.
Commentary by Prunella Scales
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
I say, I say, I say - did you hear the one about the anthropologist, the comedian, and the theatre director?
But seriously - the nature of humour is no laughing matter.
Looking for the punch-line with Michael Ignatieff are: Nigel Barley
Ben Elton and Jonathan Miller asking
Humour - Where 's the Joke? Studio director MARK HARRISON Producer AMANDA THEUNISSEN BBC Bristol
by GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER, dramatised by MERVYN HAISMAN featuring
A swashbuckling pastiche of the buccaneering films of the 30s and 40s. This stirring tale of adventure on the high seas is based on the journal of Captain Benjamin Avery , RN. Knaves and cut-throats lurk in the shadows; evil Spanish Dons have cannon primed on men o' war; and beautiful women attempt to ensnare the hero. This is a story of bravery, treachery, and love.
Fight arranger DEREK WARE Music by RODNEY NEWTON
Videotape editor DAVID HAMBELTON
Video effects DAVE CHAPMAN Lighting director DEREK SLEE
Graphic designer GRAHAM MCCALLUM
Producer IAN KEILL
Director ANDREW GOSLING
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In the second of his two reports on the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert - 'the culmination of a lifetime's concern for the Bushmen' - Sir Laurens van der Post observes their dilemma; whether to move to the townships and surrender their native traditions, or to become a scattered tribe existing on the fringes of modem civilisation.
by GIACOMO PUCCINI
Libretto by GIACOSA and ILLICA
From La Scala, Milan
The tragic story of the geisha girl, Butterfly, who is loved, married and deserted by Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton of the American Navy.
It is one of Puccini's best-loved operas; the 'Humming chorus' and 'One fine day' are just two of many highlights. This highly acclaimed new production from La Scala is predominantly Oriental.
The Japanese producer, KEITA ASARI , has not only cast two of Japan's lending singers in the roles of Butterfly and her maid Suzuki, but has also collaborated with Japanese specialists in costume and design.
ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF
LA SCALA, MILAN conductor Lorin Maazel Designer ICHIRO TAKADA Costumes HANNAE MORI Directed for television by DEREK BAILEY
Sung in Italian with English subtitles by GILLIAN WIDDICOMBE
NVC Arts International production
A simultaneous broadcast with Radio 3. Viewers with stereo Radio 3 may wish to turn off TVsound andposition their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative.
starring
Summer 1947. Stingo, an aspiring novelist from
Virginia, arrives in New
York, his boyish ideals still intact. But brutal reality rapidly encroaches on his sheltered world when he befriends the beautiful Polish immigrant Sophie and her brilliant Jewish lover Nathan, only to discover that both are hiding dark and devastating secrets....
Alan Pakula 's powerful and sometimes disturbing film won an Academy Award for Meryl Streep and received four other Oscar nominations. Brooklyn
Poland
Based on the novel Sophie's Choice by WILLIAM STYRON
Produced by ALAN J. PAKULA and KEITH BARISH
Written and directed by ALAN J. PAKULA
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Australia v
England RICHIE BENAUD introduces highlights of the third day's play in Melbourne Television presentation CHANNEL 9. Australia
by M. R. JAMES
Five chilling tales for dark winter nights, told by Robert Powell.
Tonight: The Wailing Well
