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Historical drama starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart.
The story of the early days of Abraham Lincoln, based on Robert E Sherwood's play. With Ruth Gordon.
(1940)
Film Reviews pages 45-51

Contributors

Director:
John Cromwell
Abraham Lincoln:
Raymond Massey
Stephen Douglas:
Gene Lockhart
Mary Todd Lincoln:
Ruth Gordon

This week: a look at ground elder and apple scab in a Benedictine nunnery, British wildflowers from a foreign field, and a new gardening club in Bedfordshire. Introduced by Geoff Hamilton.
Series producer Laurence Vulliamy Executive producer Tony Laryea
A Catalyst TV production for BBCtv
GEOFF HAMILTON page 22

Contributors

Introduced By:
Geoff Hamilton.
Producer:
Laurence Vulliamy
Producer:
Tony Laryea
Unknown:
Geoff Hamilton

How do you top a trip to
I the Moon? Twelve astronauts have walked on the Moon's surface but some of them came down to earth with a bump.
"It wasn'tthe experience of flying to the Moon that changed my life, it was coming back to people who now expected different things of me ... people like to build up heroes, but then they think you're too perfect and they have to take you apart," says Buzz Aldrin , the second man to step on to the Moon, but who fell into depression and alcohol addiction after the Apollo missions.
Aldrin - now redeemed by the love of a good woman - is one of five former astronauts who talk about their lives in this third programme to mark the 25th anniversary of the first Moon landing. Others have discovered different forms of redemption: Charley Duke has turned to God; Al Bean paints lunar landscapes complete with a sprinkling of genuine moondust; Ed Mitchell has founded an institute devoted to psychokinesis and ESP; Pete Conrad has become a steer-wrestling rancher and part-time rocket scientist working on a plans for commercial flights to the Moon. Producer David Turnbull

Contributors

Unknown:
Buzz Aldrin
Unknown:
Ed Mitchell
Unknown:
Pete Conrad
Producer:
David Turnbull

This Late Show special is a tribute to a great pioneer of British television drama who died recently. Linda Myles examines his contribution to the small screen, including works such as "The Quatermass Experiment" and his drama based on George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", shown tonight at 11.15pm.
Followed by Video Nation Shorts

Contributors

Presenter:
Linda Myles

A new generation of viewers has the chance to see Rudolph Cartier 's 1954 adaptation of George Orwell 's story about a man who tries to rebel against the totalitarian state in which he lives and works.
Screenplay by Nigel Kneale

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudolph Cartier
Unknown:
George Orwell
Unknown:
Nigel Kneale
Winston Smith:
Peter Cushing
O'Brien:
Andre Morell
Julia:
Yvonne Mitchell
Emmanuel Goldstein:
Arnold Diamond
Parsons:
Campbell Gray
MrsParsons:
Hilda Fenemore
Syme:
Donald Pleasence

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