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Everybody want Elvis. His Hawaiian girlfriend wants him to stay with her in their tourist agency. The girls on the tour want him to stay with them on the beach. And his mother wants him to stay with her on her Pineapple plantation.
Screenplay by HAL KANTER from a story by ALLAN WEISS Produced by HAL WALLIS
Directed by NORMAN TAUROG
0 FILMS: page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Hal Kanter
Story By:
Allan Weiss
Produced By:
Hal Wallis
Directed By:
Norman Taurog
Maile Duval:
Joan Blackman
Sarah Lee Gates:
Angela Lansbury
Chad Gates:
Elvis Presley
Abigail:
Nancy Walters
Fred Gates:
Roland Winters
Jack Kellman:
John Archer
Mr Chapman:
Howard McNear

Personality, Development and Learning
12.30 Head Start (1)
The famous American project was set up in the mid-60s to improve the life-chances of children born into poor families.
12.55 Head Start (2)
A closer look at some of the educational methods used in American schools.
A BBC/OPEN UNIVERSITY production (R)

The Burglars by Eric Charles.
Narrator: Roy Kinnear with Sheila Walker. Director of animation DEREK MOGFORD
Designed and produced by IVOR WOOD (R)

Contributors

Narrator:
Eric Charles.
Narrator:
Roy Kinnear
Unknown:
Sheila Walker.
Unknown:
Derek Mogford
Produced By:
Ivor Wood

Weather followed by Peter Ustinov 's
Russia
6: My Russia
Peter Ustinov interviews Oblomov, the incarnation of yesterday's Russia.
Written by PETER USTINOV
Produced by JOHN MCGREEVY and VICTOR SOLNICKI A CTV production (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Ustinov
Written By:
Peter Ustinov
Produced By:
John McGreevy
Produced By:
Victor Solnicki
Oblomov:
Anatoli Obukhov

Weather followed by Sutton Hoo
2: The Last of the Pagans with Professor Martin Carver. Producer RAY SUTCLIFFE
Executive producer BRUCE NORMAN (R)
(Part 3 tomorrow at 3.00pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sutton Hoo
Unknown:
Professor Martin Carver.
Producer:
Ray Sutcliffe
Producer:
Bruce Norman

2: All in a Day's Work
Through old films,
John Huntley looks at people at work, including life in an iron foundry in Chippenham in the 1920s, the daily round of crofting women in the Shetlands of the 1930s, how brushes were made in a Bristol factory before the last war, and how Scottish co-op workers were trained in the art of giving courteous service in the 1950s. BBC Scotland (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Huntley

The Brink's-Mat gold bullion robbery at Heathrow Airport was the largest single theft in the history of crime. New evidence is still being uncovered. David Jessel examines the latest lines of inquiry.
Producer JIM MCDOUGAL (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jessel
Producer:
Jim McDougal

The Dance Hall Days
In the 50s and 60s, there were more than 500 showbands playing in the dance halls throughout Northern Ireland. A generation danced to their music. Almost every town had its own showband, and every band had its followers. The showbands have gone but the memories live on. Presenter Gerry Anderson Produced and directed by TONY MCAULEY
BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Presenter:
Gerry Anderson
Directed By:
Tony McAuley

Owen Merritt is a small rancher - hoping for a peaceful life. But his wealthy neighbour, Will Isham , has different ideas and is determined to ruin him and take over the land.
Screenplay by KENNETH GAMET Producer HARRY JOE BROWN Director ANDRE DE TOTH
0 FILMS: page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Will Isham
Unknown:
Kenneth Gamet
Producer:
Harry Joe Brown
Director:
Andre de Toth
Owen Merritt:
Randolph Scott
Laurie Bidwell:
Joan Leslie
Nan Melotte:
Ellen Drew
Will Isham:
Alexander Knox
Fay Dutcher:
Richard Rober
Hugh Clagg:
John Russel
Cultus Charley:
Alfonso Bedoya

Person to Person - the Craft of Interviewing Three dramatised programmes about the skills and strategies of interviewing for hiring, appraisal, information and firing.
2: At the Core
Written and presented by Jack Gratus.
Production assistant COLLEEN LEWIS Film camera GODFREY JOHNSON Film editor PETER HARRIS
Produced by TONY ROBERTS (e)
0 VIDEO: if you would be interested in a training video about successful interviewing, write for further information to: Education and Training Videos, BBC Enterprises. Woodlands, 80 Wood Lane. London W120TT. Tel [number removed].

Contributors

Presented By:
Jack Gratus.
Unknown:
Colleen Lewis
Unknown:
Godfrey Johnson
Editor:
Peter Harris
Produced By:
Tony Roberts
'Mac':
Bernard Gallagher
Clare Dundas:
Judy Riley
Antony Trent:
Terry McGinity
Clive Keyes:
Alan Barker
Barry Thomas:
Terry Molloy
Kenneth Harper:
Peter Meakin

From the International
Festival of Country Music: Tammy Wynette Special
David Allan introduces this year's series of highlights from the 21st of these festivals at the Wembley Arena, and talks to some of the stars. Tonight the half-hour goes to the First Lady of country music, whose choice of material ranges from Stand by Your Man, recorded in the festival's founding year to 1989's Liar's Roses.
Festival organiser MERVYN CONN
Sound BARRIE HAWES. LES MOWBRAY Lighting JOHN KING
Design STEPHAN PACZAI Produced and directed by DAVE PERROTTET
0 FEATURE: page 72

Contributors

Music:
Tammy Wynette
Introduces:
David Allan
Unknown:
Barrie Hawes.
Directed By:
Dave Perrottet

presented by Brinsley Forde Aminatta Forna and Martin Shaw.
The final show of the series goes to Leeds.
On the Road takes a look at a bold local campaign which anticipates the need to tackle hard drugs at the grassroots. There is also a discussion of the controversy which surrounds the increasing use of black images in advertising.
The programme completes its racy analysis of black music trends- into the 90s. And this week's interrogated celebrity is Lenny Henry. Producers
COLIN PRESCOD and ONYE WAMBU Editor VASTIANA BELFON BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Presented By:
Brinsley Forde
Presented By:
Aminatta Forna
Presented By:
Martin Shaw.
Unknown:
Lenny Henry.
Unknown:
Colin Prescod

Last in the present series.
Starring Kerrie Keane as Carla Montgomery, Wendy Crewson as Gail Browning, Kenneth David Gilman as David and George Grizzard as Douglas Hayward

Gail's first primetime producing assignment is threatened by the attitude of a co-worker.

Contributors

Writer:
Deborah Dean Davis
Director:
Gabriel Beaumont
Carla Montgomery:
Kerrie Keane
Gail Browning:
Wendy Crewson
David:
Kenneth David Gilman
Douglas Hayward:
George Grizzard

Last in the series written and presented by Ludovic Kennedy.
3: The Medium Is the Message Is old-fashioned oratory dead? Or are there still people with the gift of holding an audience spellbound, who can excite, arouse and persuade?
Ludovic Kennedy considers the orators and word spinners in an age of mass communication and an audience of invisible millions, with extracts from Bevan,Benn,Shaw,
Dimbleby, A. J. P. Taylor and Alistair Cooke.
Series consultant LORD BROXBOURNE Film camera JOHN BAKER Film editor MARTIN PEPLER
Executive producer BRUCE NORMAN Producer DENIS MORIARTY

Contributors

Presented By:
Ludovic Kennedy.
Unknown:
Ludovic Kennedy
Unknown:
Alistair Cooke.
Unknown:
John Baker
Editor:
Martin Pepler
Producer:
Bruce Norman
Producer:
Denis Moriarty

Animation 1
Canadian-born animator Richard Williams , who recently worked on Who Framed Roger Rabbit ?, introduces the first of two programmes featuring the innovative work done by the National Film Board of Canada.
Night Angel
A collaboration between
French-Canadian
Jacques Drouin and Czech
Bretislav Pojar , Night Angel is a gentle fantasy about a man's encounter with an angel. This film, in its first television screening, integrates the techniques of puppet animation and pinscreen. Pas De
Deux Norman McLaren 's multi-award-winning exploration of ballet, using stunning multiple images and the music of pan pipes.
Television presentation by DAVID THOMPSON
('Animation 2' tomorrow at 11.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Williams
Introduces:
Roger Rabbit
Unknown:
Jacques Drouin
Unknown:
Bretislav Pojar
Unknown:
Deux Norman McLaren
Presentation By:
David Thompson

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