Bilko turns a covert army trip to Yucca Flats, Nevada, into an excuse to visit Las Vegas's gaming tables.
(Black and white) (Repeat)

Melodrama starring Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan

Parris Mitchell and Drake McHugh grow up together in the small American town of Kings Row. Parris, studying medicine with Dr Tower, falls in love with his daughter Cassandra, while Drake is attracted to Randy Monaghan, a beautiful girl from the wrong side of the tracks.
(1942)
(Black and white)
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Sahera Chohan presents the quiz show thattests three teams' knowledge of Asian culture, history and lifestyle.
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Asian arts magazine. Bollywood producer Subhash Ghai joins Mo Dutta in the studio.

The second often programmes on Asian art and culture looks at the celebrations for India's 50th anniversary of independence.
(Stereo)

Movies under review are The Game, Hercules and Father's Day.
Shown last Monday. BBC1 Stereo

Classic swashbuckler, the first in a Saturday Matinée double bill of films starring Errol Flynn.
Captain Geoffrey Thorpe, alias "The Sea Hawk", is the toast of Elizabethan England and the scourge of the Spanish Main. But while Thorpe continues to plunder King Philip's fleet, the Spaniards set a trap intended to end his fearless exploits for ever.
Dodge City follows.
(1940, U) (Black and White)
See Films: pages 58-66

Western, the second in today's
Saturday Matinee double bill starring Errol Flynn
Tough cowboy Wade Hatton takes on the job of bringing law and order to Dodge City. But he has to contend with villainous cattle rustlers, a stampede and the hostility of a bereaved woman. Director Michael Curtiz (1939. PG)
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The Saint finds himself framed for murder.
(First shown on ITV)

Memories from the Top of the Pops archives, plus today's hits, Top of the Pops is on Friday at 7.30pm on BBC1

The first in a series in which six people, who have devoted their lives to animal conservation, present video diaries of endangered mammals. Each diary will subsequently be featured in Sunday evening's The Animal Zone, but tonight's programme introduces the mammals - killer whales, Ethiopian wolves, black rhinos, brown bears, orang-utans and Scottish otters.

Once known as the White Plague, tuberculosis has re-emerged after 50 years as the world's most lethal infectious disease. In this special programme, Emily Buchanan gains exclusive access to a prison colony in Siberia where doctors are struggling to combat the disease, while in America, drug-resistant strains mean only radical surgery can save lives.

With Moira Stuart
(Subtitled)

Weather Helen Young

Andrew O'Hagan looks at a critical point in the life of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac.
In 1956 he spent spent 63 soul-searching days as a fire-watcher on Washington state's Desolation Peak. After this stint he was never the same creative force again.

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The Observer journalist Miranda Sawyer reviews the week's press coverage of the Conservative Party conference.

The programme looks at three famous propaganda photographs.
In the Soviet Union, Alexander Rodchenko recorded the engineering triumph of the White Sea Canal, but edited out the human cost.
In Nazi Germany, Heinrich Hoffmann made his fortune as Hitler's favourite photographer.
In California, Dorothea Lange posed a migrant mother with her children to create one of the most enduring images of America in the Depression.
(Stereo)

In the second of four programmes, the spotlight is turned on June Whitfield. Her remarkable transformation from fiancee to wife to grandmother is documented over five decades of British comedy classics. The programme features clips from The Glums, Hancock and Absolutely Fabulous. See today's choices.

In the last programme of the series, biographer Olivier Todd, Camus's son and daughter, and many of his lovers, friends and associates collaborate for the first time to tell the story of the elusive writer.
The series returns next spring.
See today's choices.

Clive Barker asks what made The Exorcist one of the scariest horror movies ever. He also looks at the work of New England writer Shirley Jackson (the film The Haunting, based on one of her novels, follows at 12.10am), a sculptor who captured the face of madness, and the hyping of horror B movies.

(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Horror starring Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson

The infamous Hill House attracts a group of investigators determined to uncover the terrifying truth about the place. But as soon as they arrive, strange things start to happen.
Showing in widescreen format
(1963, 12)
(Black and white)
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