9.00 A Leap in the Dark
9.25 New Dimension
Producer NICK CATER
starring
Music and romance win over the military in this fictionalised version of Presley's own army service in West Germany. Screenplay by EDMUND BELOIN and HENRY GARSON
Produced by HAL B. WALLIS
Directed by NORMAN TAUROG
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Introduced by Jonathan King. The Deep South
Produced and directed by GORDON ELSBURY
Rose the Domestic Servant
Producer CHRISTINE WHITTAKER (R)
Cherry Blossom and the Sword Producer MICHAEL MACINTYRE (R)
A focus on Brick Lane in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, heart of Britain's Bangladeshi community. Plus a report from herbal beauty queen Shahnaz Hussein.
With Shyama Perera ,
Krishnan Guru-Murthy . Producer PAUL SEN
Editor NARENDHRA MORAR
starring Cary Grant as Anthony Trumball, Frank Sinatra as Miguel, and Sophia Loren as Juana.
As the Spanish Army retreats from Napoleon's invading troops, a handful of guerrillas remain to fight.
Screenplay by Edna and Edward Anhalt from The Gun by C. S. Forester Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer
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Grand Prix from the Hexagon, Reading. The semi-final stage, and there's still E154,000 to play for.
Introduced by David Vine.
Kate Bush and her new LP, plus Johnny Marr , Dion, Big Audio Dynamite and the return of Wet Wet Wet.
With Antoine de Caunes. Titles JEAN BAPTISTE MONDINO Director PETER STUART
Executive producers ALEX BERGER and TIM NEWMAN
Presented by Moira Stuart. Lisa Davidson reviews the week, with subtitles.
Followed by Weatherview.
with Judith Mackrell , dance critic of The Independent. Tonight, from the USA: A Night at the Joffrey
A triple bill performed by New York's Joffrey Ballet. The late
Sir Frederick Ashton 's Monotones II, set to Erik Satie 's Gymnnopédies, was inspired by the first US ventures into space. Love
Songs, by William Forsythe , is a look at the reality behind the lyrics of songs by Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin. Round of Angels, by Gerald Arpino , artistic director of the Joffrey, is danced to the Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth Symphony. Directed by THOMAS GRIMM
A WNET/DANMARKSRADIO production
The show that shows the world what's showing all over the world. In a new and deregulated universe of ever-expanding media,
Clive James is here to make sense of it all. With the aid of international experts and personalities on the satellite link, he takes a critical look at what's on. Joining Clive by satellite from Los Angeles, the king of comedy, Mel Brooks , and in the studio, America's controversial TV personality, Morton Downey Jr.
Director DOMINIC BRIGSTOCKE Producer BEATRICE BALLARD
From the madcap minds of Mel Brooks and Alan Spencer , a series about a hotel where nothing is reserved. Starringand
The Nutt House: a now not-so-grand hotel, where if the lobby phone booths don't get you, the half-blind lift operator will. Watched over with disdainful calm by Tarkington, the manager, and the Teutonic rigour of head housekeeper Ms Frick, the hotel's main worry is a takeover bid by a Texan who won't take no for an answer. Directed by GARY NELSON
Rothmans Grand Prix
Two more fourth-round matches have been played this evening. David Vine introduces highlights from the Hexagon, Reading. Commentators:
Ted Lowe , Jack Kamehm and Clive Everton.
Summariser: John Spencer. Television presentation
KEITH PHILLIPS and PETER HAYWARD Executive producer KEITH MACKENZIE
Crime in the Streets
Author and former film critic G. Cabrera Infante introduces the first in a season of tough 50s thrillers.
House of Bamboo starring and Sam Fuller's tough gangster movie, which is being shown in its original Cinemascope format, is set in post-war Japan. A group of Americans are running a flourishing crime syndicate in Tokyo. Posing as an ex-convict, a US military policeman goes undercover to track the ring.
Screenplay by HARRY KLEINER and SAMUEL FULLER
Produced by BUDDY ADLER Directed by SAMUEL FULLER Television presentation DAVID THOMPSON
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Suntory World Matchplay Championship from Wentworth.
Harry Carpenter introduces highlights of today's play.
Commentators: Peter Alliss , Bruce Critchley , Alex Hay , Tony Jacklin , Clive Clark and Mike Hughesdon. Producers ALASTAIR SCOTT and JIM RESIDE
Executive producer JOHN SHREWSBURY