3: Question of Price
4: The Sky Patrol
4: The Destroying Ray
Starring and Guy is standing at the rail of a boat when a lady's garment floats into his hand. It has been dropped from a plane, is labelled 'Mimi' and marks the beginning of a romance.
Screenplay by GEORGE MARION JR , DOROTHY YOST , EDWARD KAUFMAN Directed by MARK SANDRICH
('Carefree' tomorrow at 9.30am)
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A look back over another magnificent golfing season highlighted by the marvellous achievements of Nick Faldo , whose brilliant form was never more in evidence than in the electrifying finish to the Masters when he received the coveted 'green jacket' from last year's winner, Sandy Lyle. Introduced by Peter Alliss. Assistant producers KATE MCKEAG and BARBARA SLATER
('Rugby Union' tomorrow at 11.10am)
Twenty Years On
In 1969 this award-winning documentary series followed a number of people for a year. Twenty years on how have their lives changed?
2: A Man Determined: he lost his business, his wife and the ability to walk. It took more than guts to create a new life.
(R)
Surprise, Surprise
With Johnny Ball. (R)
Spot's First Walk by Eric Hill. (R)
(Black and white)
Starring and Fanny's son learns the truth about his real father. He sets out on a quest to find Marius, and reunite his parents. Cesar faces old age. Panisse CHARPIN
Written, produced and directed by MARCEL PAGNOL
(A French film with English subtitles. First showing on British television. Black and white)
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First of five programmes. In 1826 Professor Michael Faraday established the tradition of the Christmas Lectures for young people. This year the 160th Royal Institution Christmas
Lectures are given by Professor Charles Taylor , a physicist and a musician. What Is Music?
Whenever the pressure of the air is changed rapidly, by beating a drum or rattling a stick in a tin can, our ear-brain system detects the pressure changes as sound. The sound travels from the source to the listener as sound waves.
But what are they really like? And why are some sounds musical, and others just noise? Producer William WOOLLARD An InCA production
The story of the most talked about film of all time narrated by Christopher Plummer.
This fascinating documentary reveals the drama and spectacle of the behind-the-scenes wranglings which almost matched the epic battles on the screen, with rare screen tests from the search for Scarlett, home movie footage and interviews with its stars and directors. Directed by DAVID HINTON
(Part 1 of Gone with the Wind' tomorrow at 6.00pm)
A Preview
Novelist Jeanette Winterson describes how the account of her unusual childhood has been turned into a three-part drama.
('Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit' begins Wednesday 10 January)
Starring Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs, Glenn Close as Iris Gaines, Kim Basinger as Memo Paris, Robert Duvall as Max Mercy
Roy Hobbs has always had something special, a quality and talent that sets him apart from others. The night his father died, lightning split a tree on the family farm and from its heart young Roy made 'Wonderboy', a baseball bat invested with great power. But life holds many surprises for Roy, for whom the word 'natural' has many meanings.
(First showing on British television)
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25 x 5: the Continuing
Adventures of the Rolling
Stones. 'Tonight we're on our best behaviour, but we're being rewarded for 25 years of bad behaviour.' Mick Jagger , 1989, at the Rolling Stones election to America's rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame. The phenomenal career of the Rolling Stones has taken them from being the bad boys of rock 'n' roll to becoming proteges of the establishment. They now tell their own story ... The programme includes previously unseen performances from the Stones's own archive and is introduced and narrated by the band themselves. Director NIGEL FINCH
Producer ANDREW SOLT
Series editor ANTHONY WALL
[Starring] Rod Steiger as Juan Miranda, James Coburn as Sean Mallory
Mexico 1913: when Miranda, a bandit, and Mallory, a revolutionary, join forces the result is highly explosive!
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