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Starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

In gratitude for foiling a bank robbery, street cleaners Stan and Ollie are offered any reward they desire. They decide upon an education at Oxford University.
Films: pages 47-54

Contributors

Director:
Alfred Goulding
Stan:
Stan Laurel
Ollie:
Oliver Hardy

Off-beat comedy starring Glenn Ford
Debbie Reynolds
When a television writer is blackmailed over compromising photographs of his wife, he decides to take matters into his own hands.
Director George Marshall ● FILMS: pages 47-54

Contributors

Unknown:
Glenn Ford
Unknown:
Debbie Reynolds
Director:
George Marshall
Elliott Nash:
Glenn Ford
Nell Nash:
Debbie Reynolds
Harlow Edison:
Carl Reiner
Sam Thorpe:
John McGiver
MrsChandler:
Mabel Albertson
Duke:
Martin Landau

Peter Alliss is joined in the bunker by instructor Wally Armstrong , who uses many gadgets to help his pupils, and even paints the sand red. In a far cry from the sun-kissed bunkers of Disney World in Florida, Alliss looks at winter golf in Britain. ● STEREO
● BBC VIDEO: items from this series - on tee-shots, the short game, bunkers, golf and the disabled, and the green - with a guest appearance by Nick Price , are available on a video, £ 1 0.99 from retailers.

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Alliss
Unknown:
Wally Armstrong
Unknown:
Nick Price

I Starring
Margaret Lockwood
Dane Clark
A biologist finds her expertise in demand when the secret service wants her for a highly dangerous mission into eastern Europe, where insects are being bred for germ warfare.
Director Roy Baker ● FILMS: pages 47-54

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Lockwood
Unknown:
Dane Clark
Director:
Roy Baker
Frances:
Margaret Lockwood
Bill Casey:
Dane Clark
Rajinski:
Marius Goring
Hedgerley:
Naunton Wayne
Laboratory director:
Michael Hordern
Mr Luke:
Wilfrid Hyde White

Reporter Anu Giri takes to the skies in Britain's largest hot air balloon. Owned and operated by 34-year-old Ravinder Hunjan , the UK's only Asian balloon pilot, the craft holds as many as 20 passengers and operates out of Staines, Middlesex.
Also featured is an exclusive location interview with film star
Pooja Bhatt , plus the Asian club of the year in Bradford on Bhangra night and the week's video top ten Hindi films. ● STEREO

Contributors

Reporter:
Anu Giri
Unknown:
Ravinder Hunjan
Unknown:
Pooja Bhatt

Shown in connection with Sunday night's documentary series City of Strangers (8.10pm on BBC2). Starring Greta Garbo Melvyn Douglas

Comrade Ninotchka is sent to Paris to investigate the dubious activities of a Soviet trade delegation. The stern commissar is soon enjoying the capitalist way of life and discovering that love is more than a mere biological reaction.

Films: pages 47-54

Contributors

Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Ninotchka:
Greta Garbo
Count Leon d'Algout:
Melvyn Douglas
Duchess Swana:
Ina Claire
Iranoff:
Sig Rumann
Buljanoff:
Felix Bressart
Kopalski:
Alexander Granach
Commissar Razinin:
Bela Lugosi
Count Rakonin:
Gregory Gaye

My Brilliant Chancellor
Lord Lawson gives a vivid account of his years as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Mrs Thatcher 's cabinet, and takes a critical look at his achievement.
With David Dimbleby. Producer JanineThomason

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs Thatcher
Unknown:
David Dimbleby.

With the surprise success this year of John Tavener 's The
Protecting Veil, the composer's popularity has grown again. Geoffrey Haydon 's film includes excerpts from his previous one about Tavener made in the 1960s, as well as specially filmed sections from key works, and an exploration of his Eastern Orthodox faith.
A Third Eye production for BBCtv
● STEREO; MUSIC AND ARTS: p 1

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tavener
Unknown:
Geoffrey Haydon

Concluding Elaine Morgan 's adaptation of Vera Brittain 's book. Starring Cheryl Campbell
1918, Vera returns to Oxford.
With Frances Tomelty , Rupert Frazer , Emrys James ,
Jane Wenham , Thelma Whiteley , Jane Booker , Susan Bovell ,
Peter Woodward , Geoffrey Burridge , Michael Troughton. Producer Jonathan Powell
Director Moira Armstrong (Rpt )

Contributors

Unknown:
Elaine Morgan
Unknown:
Vera Brittain
Unknown:
Cheryl Campbell
Unknown:
Frances Tomelty
Unknown:
Rupert Frazer
Unknown:
Emrys James
Unknown:
Jane Wenham
Unknown:
Thelma Whiteley
Unknown:
Jane Booker
Unknown:
Susan Bovell
Unknown:
Peter Woodward
Unknown:
Geoffrey Burridge
Unknown:
Michael Troughton.
Producer:
Jonathan Powell
Director:
Moira Armstrong

The Night rider. In 1963, black civil rights leader Medgar Evers was murdered in Mississippi and the murder weapon was traced to a white supremacist. Tried but not convicted, he is said to have confessed to the crime at a Ku Klux Klan meeting. Producer Christopher Olgiati
Executive producer Paul Hamann
* STEREO; TELETEXT SUBTITLES: p 888
* Approximate time

Contributors

Producer:
Christopher Olgiati
Producer:
Paul Hamann

A festival of terror, hosted by Dr Walpurgis, for Hallowe'en.
Producers Mark Deitch, Nick Freand Jones
Details on Ceefax page 666
Feature: page 34

What's behind the Door, Mummy?
Leading figures in horror discuss what it is that scares people.

11.20pm* Tales from EC
Comics that inspired Creepshow.

11.25pm* Creepshow
First network showing for Stephen King and George Romero 's horror.
Films: pages 47-54

1.25am* The Art of Illusion
Make-up effects wizard Tom Savini.

1.30am* The Unholy Trinity
The creations of Clive Barker, Sean Cunningham, Wes Craven.

1.40am* The Curse of the Werewolf
The newly restored version of Oliver Reed's Hammer horror.
Director Terence Fisher

3.10am* Prime Evil
Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell on the Evil Dead saga.

3.15am* Terror on the Page
Stephen King and other authors open their books.

3.20am* The Bride of Frankenstein
Perhaps the greatest horror film ever.
Director James Whale
(Teletext subtitles: page 888)

4.30am* The Horror of Sex
Love, pain, sex, sexuality and the position of women in horror.

4.35am* Dario's Friends
Italian Dario Argento at work on his new movie, Trauma.

4.45am* Death Line
Cannibal horror on the London Underground.
Director Gary Sherman

6. 10am* Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Horror spoof from the comedy duo.
Director Charles T Barton (B/W)

Followed by Good Morning

Contributors

Producers:
Mark Deitch.
Unknown:
Stephen King
Unknown:
George Romero
Unknown:
Tom Savini.
Unknown:
Clive Barker
Unknown:
Sean Cunningham
Unknown:
Wes Craven.
Unknown:
Oliver Reed
Unknown:
Sam Raimi
Unknown:
Bruce Campbell
Unknown:
Stephen King
Unknown:
Dario Argento
Director:
Gary Sherman
Director:
Charles T Barton

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