Tati's breakthrough came with this first full-length work as director which opens a season of his films on BBC2. It tells the story of Francois, a postman who tries to emulate the high-speed deliveries of the American Postal service. With Guy Decomble , Paul Frankeur and Maine Vallee. Parade ison Thursday 22 December at 9.05am
(1947) B/Wandcolour ....................... * FILM REVIEWS pages 47-70
Comedy starring Jerry Lewis
Clayton Poole is a TV repairman and a long-time admirer of film star
Carla Naples. When she begs him to look after her soon-to-be-bom baby, he readily agrees - but then she has triplets. With Marilyn Maxwell , Connie Stevens , Reginald Gardiner and Hans Conried.
Director Frank Tashlin (1958)
10.00 Chanakya Continuing the saga about the Machiavelli of ancient India. In
Hindi with English subtitles. Stereo .
10.40 Network East Music Special With Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
11.20 Style Byte The latest fashions from India. Stereo .........................
11.30 Showcase Featuring Anuradha
Pawdual.
Reviews include Princess Caraboo, Neverending Story III and Chasers. Shown last Monday on BBC 1
A season of ghost films begins with a film version of Noel Coward 's play, starring Rex Harrison
When novelist Charles Condomine consults renowned medium
Madame Arcati , she conjures up the spirit of his first wife Elvira - much to the consternation of the current Mrs Condomine.
The Haunting is on Christmas Day at 12.15am
Director David Lean (1945)
Prayer for a New Mother and While
Shepherds Watched sung by the choristers of Buckfast Abbey. Rpt ..............
The first in a season of films starring the actor who died in October. A con man swaps his role as a travelling salesman for hell-fire preaching, a new position which gives him power and has the added advantage of bringing him closer to Sister Sharon.
(Trapeze is on Tuesday 20 December at 1.15pm)
(1960)
5.10TOTP2 Festive hits from the 70s with Mud, Boney M , the Wombles, the Greed.es and Slade, and from the 1980s with the Pogues, Cliff Richard , Gary Glitter , Aled Jones and Jona Lewie. Plus the Pretenders making their Top of the Pops debut in with Stop Your Sobbing.
Producer Ric Blaxill Stereo ...............
6.00 Bollywood or Bust!
Four contestants battle it out in the grand final of the quiz to win a trip to the home of the Hindi movie industry. Producer David Millard ; Executive producer
Narendhra Morar Stereo ...................
6.45 What the Papers Say
With Russell Davies
With Moira Stuart. Subtitled
Weather Ian McCaskill .............
Money Madness
In today's financial futures markets, billions of dollars go round the world in seconds in a frenzy of gambling and speculation. Some of the funds are so complicated that rocket scientists have been brought in to help operate them. Paul Barry reports on howthis explosion is threatening the collapse of the world's markets. Last in the series.
Postponed from Saturday 10 December
Producer Stuart Goodman ; Editor Keith Bowers
Irreverent comedy news quiz with guests newscaster Michael Buerk and comedian Hugh Dennis.
Shown yesterday Stereo ...................
Cult director Roger Corman introduces the night's forthcoming weird programmes.
See today's choices.
A month-by-month tourthrough 1994's most bizarre events from around the world. Including a shoal of fish falling on a pub in Australia and an outbreak of fainting Egyptian schoolgirls. Producer Paul Simons ; Executive producer Spencer Campbell Stereo..............................
Coincidences
First of three programmes featuring ordinary people with first-hand accounts of extraordinary incidents. Director Neil Dougan ; Producer Gerard Barry
Follow the final tour of impressario Ward Hall, the "Ziegfield of the Cornfield", who has been bringing the strange and bizarre to middle America for the last 50 years.
Visions. Another peculiar incident.
Documentary-drama.
American professor of folklore Charles Paulson Pulling is convinced that all those tales about vanishing hitch-hikers are strange but false.
However, as he recalls an increasingly dark series of events during the last 12 months of his life, his reassuring view of the world begins to fall apart. With Ron Rifkin and Robert Vaughn.
Written by Steve Burns ; Director Bill Eagles
Fire. Mulder and Scully are pursuing a pyromaniac, when Mulder's ex-girlfriend arrives and ignites a burning jealousy in Scully.
With David Duchovny , Gillian Anderson , Amanda Pays and Mark Sheppard.
Beasts. Last of three programmes featuring tales of odd occurences. Stereo ............
A discussion that explores the nature of superstition and exposes our fascination with the unexplainable
Horror starring
John Amplas , Lincoln Maazel
Is 1 7-year-old Martin the supernatural, blood-suckingfiend he believes himself to be. or is there another equally terrifying explanation? With Christine Forrest , Elayne Nadeau. Director George A Romero (1978)
* FILM REVIEWS pages 47-70
An early work by acclaimed director David Lynch. An abused and neglected boy plants some mysterious seeds and they grow into a loving grandmother. With Richard White and Dorothy McGinnis.
(1970) ..........................................
Starring Ray
Milland Dr Xavier is conducting a series of experiments in his search to give x-ray vision to the human eye, but things begin to go terribly wrong. With Diana Van DerVlis ,
Harold Stone , John Hoyt and Don Rickles.
Director Roger Corman (1963) Subtitled .
Drama starring Claude Rains
A businessman returns from a trip to find the government has been taken over by fascists. With Bobbie Stebbins and Barbara Bates.
Director Arch Oboler (1942)
Starring Allison Hayes
A wealthy woman runs into aliens in the desert and grows to giant size. Enraged by her husband's philandering she goes on the rampage. With William Hudson ,
Roy Gordon , Yvette Vickers , Ken Terrell and George Douglas.
Director Nathan Hertz (Juran) (1958) B/W.
