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Starring and The Friths are a criminal clan, with all but son Willie making crime pay. Then he steals a suitcase packed with pound notes. Unfortunately they're forgeries.
Story and screenplay by JOHN BAINES
Directed by JOHN PADDY CARSTAIRS
0 FILMS: page 22

Contributors

Unknown:
John Baines
Directed By:
John Paddy Carstairs
Willie Frith:
Ian Carmichael
Gloria:
Belinda Lee
Mrs Frith:
Kathleen Harrison
The Reverend:
Robert Helpmann
Mr Frith:
James Hayter
The Colonel:
George Coulouris
Doreen Frith:
Jill Ireland
Bobby:
Renee Houston
Bluey:
Michael Brennan

The Penny Black
The story of the first stamp.
Introduced by Gwyn Richards and Jill Cochrane.
Produced by JOHN PERCIVAL BBC Bristol (R) (e)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gwyn Richards
Introduced By:
Jill Cochrane.
Produced By:
John Percival

The magazine bringing both current affairs and entertainment from the Asian world, including stories that affect Asians both here and abroad. Entertainment ranges from music to dance, from film clips to star interviews, from the classical to the modern.
Presented by Shyama Perera and Krishnan Guru-Murthy . Producer PAUL SEN
Editor NARENDHRA MORAR BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

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

Starring
During the Second World War in North Africa, two officers come into conflict. One is hiding his cowardice, the other is contemptuous of inexperienced fighters, but both are in love with the same woman.
Produced by PAUL GRAETZ Directed by NICHOLAS RAY and at 4.15pm
Captain from Castile
Starring and Fleeing from the tyranny of the Spanish Inquisition, a young Spanish nobleman joins the Conquistadors of Heman Cortez as they triumphantly sweep through Mexico. Tyrone Power swashbuckles his way to success in this colourful adventure set in the beautiful Mexican landscape.
Produced by LAMAR TROTH Directed by HENRY KING
0 FILMS: page 22

Contributors

Produced By:
Paul Graetz
Directed By:
Nicholas Ray
Unknown:
Heman Cortez
Produced By:
Lamar Troth
Directed By:
Henry King
Captain Leith:
Richard Burton
Major Brand:
Curt Jurgens
Jane Brand:
Ruth Roman
Mokrane:
Raymond Pellegrin
Lieutenant Barton:
Sean Kelly
General Patterson:
Anthony Bushell
Private Roberts:
Andrew Crawford
Wilkins:
Nigel Green
Andersen:
Sumner Williams
Sergent Dunnigan:
Ronan Ocasey
Sergeant Barney:
Christopher Lee
Pedro De Vargas:
Tyrone Power
Catana Perez:
Jean Peters
Cortez:
Cesar Romero
Juan Garcia:
Lee J Cobb
Diego De Silva:
John Sutton
Don Francisco:
Antonio Moreno
Fr Bartolome:
Thomas Gomez
Botello:
Alan Mowbray
Luisa:
Barbara Lawrence
Marquis De Caravajal:
George Zucco
Captain Alvarado:
Roy Roberts
Corio:
Marc Lawrence
Manuel:
Robert Karnes
Soler:
Fred Libby
Dona Maria:
Virginia Brissac
Coatl:
Jay Silverheels

Khovanshchina Musorgsky 's five-act opera, orchestrated by Shostakovich, with the final scene completed by Stravinsky.
British opera singer Robert Lloyd introduces this new Vienna State Opera production.
The opera depicts the political strife and turbulent turning point in Russia's history in the late 17th century as it struggled from old beliefs to new during the time of Peter the Great.
Claudio Abbado conducts the Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, and the cast is led by the great Bulgarian bass, Nicolai Ghiaurov , as Prince Ivan Khovansky and Paata Burchuladze , the bass from Georgia, sings Dosifey, the leader of the reactionary Old Believers.
Stage producer ALFRED KIRCHNER Directed for television by BRIAN LARGE
0 SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST with Radio 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Khovanshchina Musorgsky
Singer:
Robert Lloyd
Unknown:
Claudio Abbado
Bass:
Nicolai Ghiaurov
Unknown:
Ivan Khovansky
Unknown:
Paata Burchuladze
Producer:
Alfred Kirchner
Television By:
Brian Large
Prince Andrei Khovansky:
Vladimir Atlantov (tenor)
Prince Vasily Golitsyn:
Yuri Mazurin (tenor)
Varsonofiev:
Peter Koves (baritone)
Marfa:
Ludmila Semtschuk
Scrivener:
Heinz Zednik (tenor)
Emma:
Joanna Borowska (soprano)
Susanna:
Brigitte Poschner-Klebel (soprano)
Boyar Shaklovity:
Anatoly Kocherga (baritone)

My Man Tarkington Starring and Tarkington is offered the career opportunity of a lifetime and everyone is delighted - except the man himself.
Created by MEL BROOKS and ALAN SPENCER

Contributors

Unknown:
Mel Brooks
Unknown:
Alan Spencer
Ms Frick:
Cloris Leachman
Reginald J Tarkington:
Harvey Korman
Chartes:
Brian McNamara
Sally:
Molly Hagan
Dennis:
Gregory Itzin
Freddy:
Mark Blankfield

Film director Lindsay Anderson introduces a penetrating film from one of Poland's most successful film-makers.
Blind Chance
Starring
Witek runs for a train. If he catches it, he might meet an old guard communist. If he misses it, he could become a dissident, or simply settle down to family life. It all depends on blind chance. Krzysztof Kieslowski ironical allegory of political conviction, suppressed by the Polish authorities in 1982. was released five years later.
Written and directed by KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI
(In Polish with English subtitles.
First showing on British television.) 0 FILMS: page 22

Contributors

Introduces:
Lindsay Anderson
Unknown:
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Directed By:
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Witek:
Boguslaw Linda
Werner:
Tadeusz Lomnicki
Adam:
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Czuszka:
Boguslawa Pawelec
Werka:
Marzena Trybala
Marek:
Jacek Borowski
Olga:
Monika Gozdzik

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