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Romantic comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg, Dennis Franz

Having lost her job, a single mother sharpens up her pool playing skills in order to make ends meet. (1989)
Film Reviews pages 53-59

Contributors

Director:
Jerry London
Sarah Collins:
Whoopi Goldberg
Max Fleisher:
Dennis Franz
Kevin Merrick:
Dorian Harewood
Jenny Collins:
Tasha Scott
Rick Powell:
David Marciano
Billy Tatum:
Teddy Wilson

With two days to go before the final of the logical thinking quiz, which takes place on Wednesday, Alison Holloway sets the puzzles for a medical team, made up of two doctors and a theatre sister, and a trio of students from the John Kyrle High School, Ross-on-Wye, in Hereford and Worcester. (Stereo)
Next heat tomorrow at 5.30pm

Contributors

Presenter:
Alison Holloway
Producer:
Bob Louis
Producer:
Kate Marlow
Executive Producer:
Dave Ross

A feature-length episode of the adventure series about an astronaut transported to the 25th century.

Buck Rogers makes a daring journey through a black hole into another universe, where he is coerced into joining forces with his arch enemy, Princess Ardala, in order to save a peaceful planet from destruction.

Contributors

Buck Rogers:
Gil Gerard
Colonel Deering:
Erin Gray
Dr Huer:
Tim O'Connor
Twiki:
Felix Silla
Voice of Twiki:
Mel Blanc
Princess Ardala:
Pamela Hensley

Would you buy a central heating system from a Plasticine tortoise?
This programme takes a look at what you get when you combine the talents of animator Nick Park , who won an Academy Award for his film The Wrong Trousers, with a successful advertising agency and the words of ordinary people. Producer Paul Manners Rpt Subtitled .

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Park

Cheetahs - the Blood Brothers
A portrait of cheetahs in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
The Serengeti is home to both big game and their predators. In this film combining beauty, humour and drama, Hugo van Lawick follows an inseparable gang of three brother cheetahs 'hat roam the lush plains, skirmishing with neighbouring groups of cheetahs and encountering migrating herds of wildebeest, hyenas and lions. Narrated by John Shrapnel. Producer John Sparks

Contributors

Unknown:
John Shrapnel.
Producer:
John Sparks

A five-part series which tells the story of shopping from both sides of the counter.

Lifestyle shopping, says American retail guru Peter Glen, is what you get if you lay out all your possessions in the front garden and examine what they say about you. Lifestyle shopping was born in the 1960s, when you could choose to be a hipster-wearing mod in Carnaby Street or a glamorous vamp at Biba.
After the decade of excess, the eighties, today's shoppers are beginning to rebel against the consumption of an entire, pre-packaged "look". A jeans store in Toronto even offers made-to-measure jeans in 400 style variations.
(Shopping returns in two weeks' time)

Followed by African Summer: Video Nation: Africa Shorts
Surprising, funny and provocative snapshots of everyday life in Africa.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Glen
Director:
Andy Lambert
Executive Producer:
Clare Paterson
Producer (Video Nation):
Brenda Kelly
Series Producer (Video Nation):
Mandy Rose

First in a series of short plays from Wales.
Dafydd is 17 a runaway from South Wales earning his living as a rent boy. David Davies, also from Wales, teaches music. They meet in Amsterdam where their relationship is forged by a sense of home, nostalgia and repression.
This award-winning film was shot on location in Amsterdam and was Ceri Sherlock's debut as a director. See today's choices.
(First shown in Wales on S4C)
Written by Ceri Sherlock

Contributors

Writer/Director:
Ceri Sherlock
Producer:
Gareth Rowlands
Dafydd:
Richard Harrington
David Davies:
William Thomas

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