Cecil BDeMille 's
Biblical epic, starring
Victor Mature
Hedy Lamarr
The story of the most famous haircut in history, retold in spectacular fashion.
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Continuing the season of films starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers.
The true-life story of Vernon Castle, a clown in a vaudeville show, who meets Irene Foote, and creates a dancing legend. But tragedy is waiting in the wings.
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Animation.
Stephen Sondheim 's adult fairy-tale starring
Bernadette Peters
ChipZien Storybook characters old and new meet in this colourful musical journey through magic and darkness, recorded on Broadway with the original cast.
Director James Lapine
(Sondheim's 's Sunday in the Park with George, tomorrow at 10.45am)
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Preludes and Fugues 18 t021. (Nos 22 to 24, tomorrow at 1. 0pm) ● STEREO
A claymation account of the first man's first day. (Rpt; * STEREO
Second of four programmes repeated as a tribute to Sir
Geraint Evans. Introduced by Penelope Walker , one of the young professional singers who took part in this study of Benjamin Britten 's opera, Peter Grimes.
(1 Pagliacci, tomorrow at 1.50pm)
Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station. Professor Charles Stirling looks at left-and right-handedness in the natural world.
(Part 3 tomorrow at 2.50pm)
The Fix. A look at fastenings. ● TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
Concluding the season of Alfred Hitchcock films with this thriller starring Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine.
Shy Lina McLaidlaw marries handsome man-about-town Johnnie Aysgarth, but her happiness slowly recedes.
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Continuing the Edwardian comedy drama series, starring John Sessions
Climbing the Matterhorn. Will Mrs Mossop 's Tyrolean exercises help Ernest lose weight?
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Seasonal drama starring John Schneider
TomWopat
The two former Dukes of Hazzard are reunited as feuding trucker brothers who have to get their Christmas cargo from California to a remote Alaska village in time. With Hoyt Axton , Kim Delaney , Zachary Ansley and Joy Coghill. Director Richard Lang
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A compilation of the short, personal interpretations of Rene Magritte 's surreal images, shown earlier this year. Producer Robert McNab (Revised rpt) 0 TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
Sir Kenneth MacMillan 's ballet which he reworked for television before his death in October. Inspired by Anton Chekhov 's Three Sisters, to music by Tchaikovsky, it is an intimate study of the passions and longings of the sisters - danced by Nicola Tranah ,
Darcey Bussell and Viviana Durante. With Irek
Mukhamedov in the role of Colonel Vershinin.
Introduced by Lynn Redgrave. Director Derek Bailey
A Landseer production for BBCtv ● STEREO
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A daily six-part action-packed update of a 19th-century romantic opera by the German composer Heinrich Marschner. The words are by Charles Hart , lyricist of The Phantom of the Opera and Aspects of Love.
1992, the City: as a bulldozer demolishes a building, something stirs in the cellar. An evil and erotic vampire is unleashed on London - and society.
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Britten Singers (out of vision)
Musical director David Parry Director Nigel Finch
Producer Janet Street-Porter
(Stereo)
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A black comedy, written by Paul Pender , and starring Robbie Coltrane
Christmas in Glasgow: Francis Forbes Clunie is an escaped madman on the run who can hide behind multiple voices and disguises - Schwarzenegger,
Connery - or Humphrey Bogart.
Producer Andy Park
Director Charles Gormley
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First showing on network TV for this kitsch musical satire starring
Geena Davis , Jeff Goldblum Val thinks she is hallucinating when a spacecraft with three furry aliens crash-lands in her LA swimming pool. With Damon Wayans. Jim Carrey , Julie Brown , Charles Rocket and Mike McKean.
Director Julien Temple
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1950s sci-fi. One night 12-year-old David sees a spaceship land outside his house - but no one believes him.
With Helena Carter , Arthur Franz , Jimmy Hunt and Leif Erickson. Director William Cameron Menzies 0 FILMS: pages 41-65
