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Drama, the first of two films this week starring Barbara Stanwyck

Back in town after ten years in the big city, Mae Doyle marries safe and dependable fisherman Jerry D'Amato. However, she soon finds herself in the arms of Jerry's best friend. (1952) (Black and white)

Barbara Stanwyck is in Blowing Wild, tomorrow at 4.00pm
See Films: pages 66-74

Contributors

Director:
Fritz Lang
Mae Doyle:
Barbara Stanwyck
Jerry D'Amato:
Paul Douglas
Earl Pfeiffer:
Robert Ryan
Peggy:
Marilyn Monroe
Uncle Vince:
J. Carrol Naish

The science-fiction series set on a space station returns.

A Cardassian academic, once the love of Quark's life, is brought aboard Deep Space Nine where she and her students are accused of terrorism.
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Contributors

Commander Benjamin Sisko:
Avery Brooks
Odo:
Rene Auberjonois
Major Kira Nerys:
Nana Visitor
Chief O'Brien:
Colm Meany
Dr Julian Bashir:
Siddig el Fadil
Lieutenant Jadzia Dax:
Terry Farrell
Quark:
Armin Shimerman
Jake Sisko:
Cirroc Lofton
Natima Lang:
Mary Crosby
Garak:
Andrew Robinson
Hogue:
Michaelreilly Burke

The classic western starring James Arness as Marshall Matt Dillon.

Fugitive Ed Carstairs assumes the identity of Mel Gates, a man suffering from amnesia. Carstairs realises he has to get rid of Gates before the latter recovers his memory.

(Gunsmoke: The Favour, tomorrow at 11.15am)
(First shown on ITV)

Contributors

Marshall Matt Dillon:
James Arness

This week, Kirsty Young and her team visit Forest Hill in Oxfordshire. An 89-year-old woman needs help with her council house, which has been riddled with damp for the past nine years; a 12-year-old boy is worried that his dyslexia might limit his career prospects; and a farmer has trouble with people trespassing on his land. Other residents explore a barter scheme designed to compensate the loss of the local shop.
Last in the series.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)

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Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Young
Producer:
Emma Read
Executive Producer:
Tom Gutteridge

Highlights of today's action, from Old Trafford, in this first of three one-day internationals between England and Pakistan as they vie for the Texaco Trophy. Introduced by Tony Lewis.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
Tony Lewis
Commentary:
Richie Benaud
Commentary:
Geoffrey Boycott
Commentary:
David Gower
Executive Producer:
Keith Mackenzie

Tonight, newlywed Birds of Feather star Pauline Quirke searches for the perfect honeymoon spot in India. She hires a classic Indian car, the Ambassador, and heads for the Himalayan foothills. Her first stop is Simla, the former summer capital of the British Raj, where she discovers an English church, a manor house and a cafe that serves fry-ups.

Tina Ritchie, news and traffic presenter on Radio 1's Breakfast Show, explores Amsterdam's canals by pedalo. Plus a look at a variety of Christmas holiday ideas.

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Contributors

Reporter:
Pauline Quirke
Reporter:
Tina Ritchie
Producer:
Anna Beattie
Editor:
Liz Warner

Tonight's film follows the lives of two women who are genetically male. Christina, 44, knew from an early age that she was different from other girls, and has never felt comfortable being a woman. Melanie, 18, speaks frankly about what her male chromosomes have meant both physically and in relation to her female identity.

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Contributors

Producer:
Hilary Clarke
Executive Producer:
Jonathan Drori

Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

In this classic episode of Hancock's Half Hour, first shown in 1960, Hancock plans a 15-year reunion with his wartime army friends - but people change.
(Black and white) (Repeat) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Writer:
Ray Galton
Writer:
Alan Simpson
Producer:
Duncan Wood
Himself:
Tony Hancock
Sid:
Sid James
Licensee:
Sidney Vivian
Smudger Smith:
Hugh Lloyd
Mavis Smith:
Eileen Way
Chalky White:
Cardew Robinson
Man in off licence:
Laurie Webb
Ginger Johnson:
Clive Dunn

Open University
12.30 Towards a Better Life
(Repeat)
1.00 This Little Flower Went to Market
(Repeat)
1.30 Greenberg on Art Criticism
(Repeat)

Summer Nights
2.00 Star Gazing Essentials
(Repeat)

Languages
4.00 Quinze Minutes 4-10; French Experience 2; Spanish Globo 9,10

Open University
6.00 The Regulation of Flowering
(Repeat)
6.25 Richard I
(Repeat)
6.50 Mantegna
(Repeat)

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