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Classic fantasy I musical starring
Judy Garland
A tornado whisks Dorothy from her Kansas home to a magical land where she finds new friends, adventure - and danger. With Ray Bolger , Bert Lahr , Jack Haley , Margaret Hamilton , Frank Morgan. Director Victor Fleming (1939)
B/Wandcolour I BARRY NORMAN page 44

Contributors

Unknown:
Judy Garland
Unknown:
Ray Bolger
Unknown:
Bert Lahr
Unknown:
Jack Haley
Unknown:
Margaret Hamilton
Unknown:
Frank Morgan.
Director:
Victor Fleming
Unknown:
Barry Norman

Before producer Mark Jacobs was allowed to film sacred Hawaiian events for this fourth programme about man and nature in the South Seas,
Distant Horizons, he had to spend weeks being interviewed by key Hawaiian craftsmen, orators, dancers and writers. "Only at the conclusion of all these meetings were we allowed to film treasured aspects of Hawaiian culture," he says.
Although only eight per cent of the population of Hawaii is now descended from the Polynesians who first migrated to the islands, the programme uncovers the rich and varied culture and natural history that once existed there.
It also follows the final great migration of the Polynesians - to New Zealand, where they became the ancient Maori.
Series producer Peter Crawford
SEE THIS WEEK page 10

Contributors

Producer:
Mark Jacobs
Producer:
Peter Crawford

Biotechnology
Britain is at the forefront of research in genetic engineering, but its image has suffered recently with the controversy over "designer babies". Will progress be curbed? David Strahan reports. Producer Terry Kelleher
Editor Jane Ellison
A Platinum production for BBCtv

Contributors

Unknown:
David Strahan
Producer:
Terry Kelleher
Editor:
Jane Ellison

Tonight, the art of the "crane shot", with directors
John Carpenter , Barry Sonnenfeld and Russell Mulcahy. Plus sex in Chinese cinema (postponed from last week) and the use of video in modem movies. With Howard Schuman. Series producer Saskia Baron
Series editor Paul Kerr A Barraclough Carey production for BBCtv

Contributors

Directors:
John Carpenter
Directors:
Barry Sonnenfeld
Directors:
Russell Mulcahy.
Unknown:
Howard Schuman.
Editor:
Paul Kerr
Unknown:
Barraclough Carey

The Honeymoon's Over
The last in the series of four comedy pilots is a domestic comedy by Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson.
The fun's over and Phil and Helen return to their tiny flat, their dead-end jobs and the cat.
Director John Birkin
Producers Charlie Higson , Paul Whitehouse

Contributors

Comedy By:
Paul Whitehouse
Comedy By:
Charlie Higson.
Director:
John Birkin
Producers:
Charlie Higson
Producers:
Paul Whitehouse
Phil:
Alex Lowe
Helen:
Angela Clarke
Norma:
Georgina Hale
Billy:
Paul Whitehouse

Wheels of Fortune. The fifth programme in this series about Sotheby's visits a railway carriage belonging to Queen
Victoria which proves to be an unexpectedly tricky sale. Director TaghiAmirani
Executive producer Amanda Theunissen

Contributors

Producer:
Amanda Theunissen

The story of a five-month murder trial that has held the American public spellbound since last July. Erik and Lyle Menendez admitted shooting their parents, but offered a dramatic late defence. Producer Angela Kaye
Executive producer Sam Organ

Contributors

Unknown:
Lyle Menendez
Producer:
Angela Kaye

Luchino Visconti's chronicle of social and political revolution, discussed in last week's Moving Pictures. Based on the novel by Giuseppe di Lampedusa and starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon.

As 19th-century Italian nationalism gathers force, Don Fabrizio, the Prince of Salina - known as the Leopard - comes to realise that he and the old aristocratic order are doomed.
(1963)

(Critics' Choice see page 45)

Contributors

Director:
Luchino Visconti
Author:
Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Prince of Salina:
Burt Lancaster
Tancredi:
Alain Delon
Angelica Sedara:
Claudia Cardinale
Don Calogero Sedara:
Paolo Stoppa
Maria Stella:
Rina Morelli

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