Told by Peter Ustinov
Babar, king of the elephants, and his queen, Celeste, go sightseeing in New York while little Arthur makes his own plans.
(R)
with Michael Barrymore Tall Hat Joe
Today's story is about civil servant Joe, who was asked to keep lots of secrets 'under his hat'. But when a gust of wind blows off his hat.... (R)
Mole gets himself mixed up with an electronic buff whose life revolves around electric gadgets. (R)
Molly and her parents have gone to the USA from Russia but the children in her new school make her feel uncomfortable because she is different. Molly teaches them a lesson ...(R)
Charlie Brown is having a personality crisis - but always on hand to help are his friends Lucy, Schroeder and Linus.
starring
Christopher Lee Milo O'Shea
Oliver Tobias Peter Cushing
Capucine Mickey Rooney
At the foot of the magic mountain lies the troubled city of Jandur, ruled by the evil Caliph, Alquazar. In a cave deep in the mountain lies the secret of his power, the Mirror of the Moon with its slave spirit - his benevolent double. But the caliph's designs for total power face a challenge from the honest Prince Hasan and a penniless orphan boy.
Flying carpets, magic jewels and all-powerful genies feature in this fabulous fantasy of long ago and of what might have been ...
Daad El Shur .MICKEY ROONEY Screenplay by BRIAN HAYLES Produced by JOHN DARK
Directed by KEVIN CONNOR
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This special Omnibus presents an exclusive insight into the most famous ballet company in the world. Omnibus cameras were allowed unprecedented access to company rehearsals in Moscow, and the stars of tomorrow appear in sequences shot at the famous Moscow Choreographic
Institute, the Bolshoi Ballet School. At the centre of this film are two legends of the ballet world. The Bolshoi's Artistic Director and Chief Choreographer
Yuri Grigorovich appears for the first time in an interview for British television; and Galina Ulanova talks about her distinguished career as the most feted dancer in Soviet ballet. Past and recent stars of the Bolshoi, including the great names of Messerer, Plisetskaya, Vassiliev,
Maximova and Lavrovsky add their own reminiscences. Also featured are members of the present company, including
Prima Ballerina Assoluta Natalya Bessmertnova ballerinas
Ludmilla Semenyaka and Nina Ananiashvili and male stars Irek Mukhamedov and Andris Liepa
With extracts from Giselle,
Don Quixote , The Golden Age, Spartacus, Ivan the Terrible, Raymonda, The Seagull and many other ballets. Programme consultant RICHARD COLLINS Producers
MARTIN PROCTOR. NEIL ZEIGER Director MICHAEL HOULDEY
The last in a 15-part history of western philosophy Wittgenstein with John Searle , Professor of Philosophy at the University of California in Berkeley
This final programme brings the story of western philosophy abreast of our own times. Its central figure is Wittgenstein, Austrian by birth but British by adoption. He transformed people's conception of the role of language in human thinking. His influence now spreads far and wide beyond philosophy, and continues to grow.
Devised and presented by Bryan Magee
Producer JILL DAWSON
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Ludovic Kennedy 's personal selection of the television highlights of 1987. Assistant producer SUE GAGAN Studio director ALISON HILLIARD Producer NICHOLAS BARKER
starring
Nicole Kidman Mark Spain
When Bill and Sly, two down-at-heel musicians, go bust, they decide to steal a horse, hoping to enter it in local races and recoup their fortunes. Discovering that their horse, Prince, is missing, four youngsters - John, Helen, Michael and Manalpuy - decide to track the thieves in the Bush. Unfortunately, both the crooks and the children become hopelessly lost in the mountains....
This remake of the 1948 classic was shot on the same locations in the Kooralbya
Valley and Beaudesert Shire, Queensland.
Produced by GILDA BARACCHI and PAUL BARRON Directed by HENRI POWELL
(First showing on British television)
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A play by J. M. BARRIE adapted by TREVOR RAY
Harry, an Australian soldier, returns to the cold, disused house he ran away from when he was 12. He has heard the house is haunted, perhaps by his mother.
Designer ALAN WRIGHT
Music composed by TONY HYMAS Produced by ANDY PARK Directed by JANE HOWELL BBC Scotland
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This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
starring Meryl Streep Roy Scheider
The mystery begins when the dead body of George Bynum is found in a parked car in Manhattan's Upper
East Side. Then a young woman called Brooke
Reynolds turns up in the office of psychiatrist Sam Rice. Bynum had been a patient of Rice, and Reynolds was Bynum's mistress.
During therapy Bynum had revealed that she once killed aman....
Shades of Hitchcock abound in this nailbiting psychological thriller.
Produced by ARLENE DONOVAN Written and directed by ROBERT BENTON
(First showing on British television)
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continues a season of films starring the legendary actress with Melvyn Douglas 'Garbo laughs' said MGM's publicity handouts.
After 13 years as the tragic heroine the great star persuaded the studio to let her play the title role in this brilliant satirical comedy. Garbo plays Comrade
Ninotchka who is sent to Paris to investigate the dubious antics of a Soviet trade delegation.
Soon the stern comrade is enjoying the capitalistic way of life and learns from Count Leon that love is more than a biological reaction.
Screenplay by CHARLES BRACKETT BILLY WILDER and WALTER REISCH Adapted from an original screen story by MELCHIOR LENGYEL Produced and directed by ERNST LUBITSCH
('Camille' tomorrow at 12.00 midnight)
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