6: Homing Earth. Ming the Merciless threatens to destroy Barin's Kingdom with fire.
6: Mystery of the Rocket Man
Dr Vulcan kidnaps Rocket Man.
American comedy series.
Continuing the season of classic comedies written and directed by Preston Sturges. A beautiful card sharp sets her sights on a highly eligible man. With Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. • FILMS: pages 41-67
It is summer 1940: a squadron of Hurricanes head for German aircraft in the Channel. With Jack Hawkins. Director George More OFerrall
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Cartoon.
Cartoon.
Anton Sergeyev 's company decide to stage Giselle. With
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Lynn Seymour. Network television premiere. Director Herbert Ross • STEREO
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Five daily lectures by Richard Dawkins.
1: Waking Up in the Universe Charles Darwin 's theories of evolution and natural selection.
Director Stuart McDonald
Producers William Woollard and Richard Melman
An InCA production for BBCtv Event sponsored by Shell eSTEREO
The Life and Work of Sergei Prokofiev. A profile of the composer born 100 years ago. Director Andrei Nekrasov
Producer Stephen Mellor
A Document production for BBCtv e STEREO
A look at the nocturnal world of animals. Narrated by David Attenborough.
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Comedy starring Jack Lemmon
Marilyn Monroe Tony Curtis
Chicago 1929: when Joe and Jerry, two under-employed musicians, witness the St
Valentine's Day massacre they nearly become victims themselves. The only escape is a jazz band heading for Florida. There's one great advantage and one big problem - it's an all-girl orchestra!
Director Billy Wilder
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A little girl outwits the power of darkness with the aid of her balloon. First showing of this animated film, winner of the 1991 Cinanima Grand Prix.
Directed and animated by Ken Lidster
Third of a five-part series reflecting on the 1980s through the stories of individuals from around the world.
Miriam. Four years after a 1984 Global Report told the story of her fourth pregnancy in Harlem, Miriam was dead. Addicted to crack, she had abandoned her children, left her partner and gone to live with a fellow addict - a violent man who eventually beat her to death. Six years on, Global Report returns to investigate Miriam's fatal decline into the underworld of drugs and prostitution, and to see how her children are surviving in a community torn apart by crack. Producer Richard Alwyn
(Part 4 tomorrowat 8. 15pm)
First showing on network television for this uncompromising drama, starring Tom Berenger WillemDafoe
Within days of his arrival in Vietnam, college drop-out
Chris Taylor is plunged into the hellish life of a GI at the front.
Oliver Stone 's study of men at war won four Oscars, including best picture and best director.
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Simple Minds return home to Glasgow for the high point of their 1991 world tour.
Director Gavin Taylor
Producer Ken Schofield
