Parliamentary update.
Starring
Marjorie Reynolds
Dennis O'Keefe
Bespectacled newlywed Gary Ainsworth has real problems when an ex-girlfriend decides to marry his business partner.
Geraldine Ainsworth. ... MARJORIE REYNOLDS
Director Allan Dwan • FILMS: pages 55-62
Starring
Dennis O'Keefe
Marie McDonald
When Ken finally marries, he has every reason to expect his bachelor skeletons to remain in their cupboards.
Director Allan Dwan • FILMS: pages 55-62
Starring
Bing Crosby
Nancy Olson
Paul Merrick is a composer but the only scores he's written recently have been on the golf course and that's how he intends to keep it.
With Groucho Marx , Peggy Lee and Dorothy Kirsten.
Director Richard Haydn 0 FILMS: pages 55-62
Animated adventures. Arnold the elephant is very clumsy.
A series about life in the 1940s and 50s.
5: States of Mind. After the Second World War, the relationship between east and west cooled. In Korea, there was another war. In Russia,
Stalin's cult of personality was at its height. Narrated by Magnus Magnusson. (Tomorrow: A Better Life)
Followed by Round Robin
An RSPB film about robins.
With signing and subtitles.
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Followed by Westminster Live lain Macwhirter and John Cole present live coverage of the House of Commons, including Prime Minister's questions.
3.50pm News and Weather and Regional News; Weather
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Word game with Paul Coia. • STEREO
John Diamond and guests with in-depth topical analysis. • STEREO
Elisabeth Svendsen is passionate about donkeys. She now has over 3,500 - a quarter of Britain's donkeys - living in her Devon sanctuary.
Including reviews of Home Alone2 - Lost in New York, with Macaulay Culkin ; and Into the West, a modern fable about two young boys from a travelling family, starring Ellen Barkin and Gabriel Byrne.
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The last in John Ford 's US Cavalry trilogy, starring John Wayne Maureen O'Hara
On the Mexican border in the 1880s, Lt-ColYorke is conducting a lonely, vain campaign against marauding Indians. Then family conflict adds to his troubles.
Songs by the Sons of the Pioneers (B/w. Part 2 of the Omnibus profile of John Ford is at 10.25pm on BBC1) • FILMS: pages 55-62
Eduard Shevardnadze. the man who broke the Cold War ice, has gone home to Georgia, now independent from the old USSR. But can he protect his small, potentially rich country from the dangerous embrace of the bear next door?
Hugh Prysor-Jones presents a profile.
"I welcome this opportunity to draw attention to the victims of a monstrous regime" - Julie Christie.
0 INFORMATION PACK: see Friday.
The countdown to Christmas continues with a guide for first-time turkey cooks, including an unusual orange and sultana stuffing, and a look at whether it's worth buying cheap champagne. With Chris Kelly , Michael Barry , Jill Goolden and Oz Clarke.
Director Linda Nash
Producers Alison Field and Tim Hincks
A Bazal production for BBCtv
(Repeatedon Thursday at 5.30pm) Recipes on Ceefax page 686 STEREO
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Followed by Advent Calendar(Txt)
Offbeat American science-fiction series starring Scott Bakula
Dean Stockwell
Glitter Rock. 12 April 1974:
English band King Thunder are performing in front of 80,000 screaming fans when Sam leaps into the body of their lead singer. Is he there to enhance the sound of the 70s or something more sinister? With Peter Noone , former singer with Herman's Hermits.
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Industrialist
Sir John Harvey-Jones sets out to advise another UK company.
Grasping the Nettle. Charles Letts published the world's first diary in 1812. Six generations later, the business is still a family firm with brothers Anthony and Martin heading an international group which is one of the world's biggest diary producers. But now that times are hard, will they have to face up to some tough decisions? Producer Robert Thirkell
Executive producer Richard Reisz
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With Peter Snow.
Withjulie Christie.
The second part of Peter Watkins 's film portrait of the Norwegian painter.
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