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starring and Twiggy stars as the nervous young stage manager and dogsbody of a tattered provincial company in the 20s.
Based on the musical play by SANDY WILSON
Written, produced and directed by KEN RUSSELL
●BARRY NORMAN : page 24

Contributors

Play By:
Sandy Wilson
Directed By:
Ken Russell
Directed By:
Barry Norman
Polly Brown:
Twiggy
Tony Brockhurst:
Christopher Gable
Hortense:
Barbara Windsor
Mme Dubonnet/Mrs Parkhill:
Moyra Fraser
Percival Browne/Mr Parkhill:
Bryan Pringle
Lord Brockhurst/Max:
Max Adrian
Lady Brockhurst/Catherine:
Catherine Willmer
Rita:
Glenda Jackson

The magazine that provides both current affairs and entertainment from the Asian world. It's lively, fun, sometimes controversial, and covers stories affecting
Asians both here and abroad.
Presented by Shyama Perera and Krishnan Guru-Murthy . Producer PAUL SEN
Editor NARENDHRA MORAR
●VOICE OVER: page 93

Contributors

Presented By:
Shyama Perera
Presented By:
Krishnan Guru-Murthy

starring and After a new type of spacecraft goes missing in the Mexican jungle, its pilot Sheila Sommers is found in a state of amnesiac shock.
Helm joins her to discover who hijacked the craft.
Screenplay by HERBERT BAKER Based on the novel by DONALD HAMILTON
Produced by IRVING ALLEN Directed by HENRY LEVIN
0 FILMS: page 24

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Sommers
Unknown:
Herbert Baker
Novel By:
Donald Hamilton
Produced By:
Irving Allen
Directed By:
Henry Levin
Matt Helm:
Dean Martin
Francesca Madeiros:
Senta Berger
Sheila Sommers:
Janice Rule
MacDonald:
James Gregory
Jose Ortega:
Albert Salmi
Quintana:
Kurt Kaszner
Lovey Kravesit:
Beverly Adams
Nassim:
David Mauro
Karl:
Roy Jenson

CIS UK Indoor Bowls Championship
For the next nine days 32 top players compete for a share of E42,400 in prize money and the 1989 title.
Introduced by David Icke. Commentators:
David Rhys-Jones and Jimmy Davidson.
Summarisers: Mal Hughes , David McGill and John Bell. Television presentation
HUW JOSEPH and JOHN TAIT Producers KEITH PHILLIPS and PETER HAYWARD Executive producer KEITH MACKENZIE

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Icke.
Unknown:
David Rhys-Jones
Unknown:
Jimmy Davidson.
Unknown:
Mal Hughes
Unknown:
David McGill
Unknown:
John Bell.
Unknown:
Huw Joseph
Unknown:
John Tait
Producers:
Keith Phillips
Producers:
Peter Hayward
Producer:
Keith MacKenzie

This week: Deborah Harry , plus Love and Rockets, Rickie Lee Jones ,
Andy Warhol 's influence on rock music, and talk from the Jesus and Mary Chain. Presented by Antoine de Caunes.
Titles JEAN BAPTISTE MONDINO Director PETER STUART Executive producers
ALEX BERGER and TIM NEWMAN An NB de C Production

Contributors

Unknown:
Deborah Harry
Unknown:
Rickie Lee Jones
Unknown:
Andy Warhol
Presented By:
Antoine de Caunes.
Unknown:
Jean Baptiste Mondino
Director:
Peter Stuart
Unknown:
Alex Berger
Unknown:
Tim Newman

Introduced by Judith Mackrell , dance critic of The Independent. Tonight: a double bill from New York. Featuring the TV world premiere of a work by Merce Cunningham, one of the greatest figures of contemporary dance.
Changing Steps: taking the ingredients of an earlier stage piece, Merce Cunningham has created a new video dance work incorporating his usual mixture of surprise, chance and visual perfection. My Folks, by David Gordon , is dedicated to the women of his New York Jewish family. This 'dance with drapes', performed by Gordon's
Pick-Up Company, takes as a starting point the steps and music of traditional Yiddish folk dance.
Changing Steps:
Sound track cartridge music by JOHN CAGE
Directed by ELUOTT CAPLAN A Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation production.
My Folks: Directed by JOHN SANBORN MARY PERILLO and DAVID GORDON A Pick-Up Performance production.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith MacKrell
Unknown:
David Gordon
Music By:
John Cage
Directed By:
Eluott Caplan
Directed By:
John Sanborn
Directed By:
Mary Perillo
Directed By:
David Gordon

In a new and deregulated universe of ever-expanding media, Clive James is here to make sen of it all. With the aid of international experts and personalities on the satellite link, he goes worldwide to take a look at what's on everywhere.
Joining Clive this week in the studio is one of the world's funniest women, New York comedienne Carol Leifer. Director DOMINIC BRIGSTOCKE Producer BEATRICE BALLARD

Contributors

Unknown:
Carol Leifer.
Director:
Dominic Brigstocke
Producer:
Beatrice Ballard

A Frick Called Wanda starring
In the autumn of his career as a romantic lead,
Tarkington is delighted by the attentions of a stunning redhead. But sometimes love can be so blind.
Written by ALAN SPENCER Directed by BRUCE BILSON

Contributors

Written By:
Alan Spencer
Directed By:
Bruce Bilson
Ms Frick:
Cloris Leachman
Reginald J Tarkington:
Harvey Korman

Crime in the Streets
Screenwriter Gerry Wilson introduces the third in a season of tough 50s thrillers.
The Lineup starring
Dancer is a hired gun working for the mob.
When three packets of heroin are smuggled into San Francisco by unsuspecting travellers, it's his job to recover them by any means necessary ...
Don Siegel , director of Dirty Harry, delivers a tense, witty thriller that involves a memorable car chase.
Screenplay by STIRLING SILLIPHANT Produced by JAIME DE VALLE Directed by DON SIEGEL
Television presentation DAVID THOMPSON
* FILMS: page 24

Contributors

Introduces:
Gerry Wilson
Unknown:
Don Siegel
Play By:
Stirling Silliphant
Produced By:
Jaime de Valle
Directed By:
Don Siegel
Unknown:
David Thompson
Dancer:
Eli Wallach
Julian:
Robert Keith
Lt Guthrie:
Warner Anderson
Sandy McLain:
Richard Jaeckel
Dorothy Bradshaw:
Mary La Roche
Larry Warner:
William Leslie
Inspector Al Quine:
Emile Meyer

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