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Romantic comedy starring Leslie Nielsen.

A dying widow rooks into a luxurious hotel where she attracts the attentions of a suave widower. However, despite his charms, the spell is broken all too soon.
(1991, U) (S)
Films: pp 52-60 ***

Contributors

Director:
Jonathan Sanger
[Actor]:
Leslie Nielsen

Saturday Matinee, the first in :oday's double bill of Second Norld War dramas also showing as a tribute to the late Alec Guinness. A pilot lands in Malta where he joins the local effort to repel a German invasion. Director Brian Desmond Hurst (1953, U)
(BW) (S) Films: pp 52-60 ***

Contributors

Unknown:
Alec Guinness.
Director:
Brian Desmond Hurst

Saturday Matinée, concluding today's double bill of Second World War dramas, starring
Richard Burton Libya 1942: a British Army Intelligence agent leads an attack on Rommel's gun positions atTobruk. Widescreen. Director Henry Hathaway (1971, 15)
(S) (W) Films: pp 52-60 **

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Burton
Director:
Henry Hathaway

A Lifetime of Dance: Merce Cunnigham. Deborah Bull introduces a profile of the American choreographer and dancer, including an improvisation by Merce Cunnigham himself.
Director Charles Atlas ; Executive producer Bob Lockyer (S) (W) Summer Dance 2000 also tomorrow 8pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Merce Cunnigham.
Introduces:
Deborah Bull
Unknown:
Merce Cunnigham
Director:
Charles Atlas
Producer:
Bob Lockyer

The Arctic Circle. Ray Mears ventures into the icy forests of northern Sweden and finds out how Arctic survivor
Bob Thomson endured a two-day ordeal trapped in the wreckage of a plane near the North Pole.
Director Paul Watson ; Series producer Dick Colthurst (R) (S) (W) Ray Mears visits Arizona tomorrow at 6.15pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Ray Mears
Unknown:
Bob Thomson
Director:
Paul Watson
Producer:
Dick Colthurst
Unknown:
Ray Mears

Investigative journalist Andrew Jennings meets top athletes, senior officials and Clinton's drugs tsar in this wry look at the costly public relations exercise undertaken by the International Olympic Committee in an attempt to clean up its tarnished image. See Choice.
Editor Fiona Murch (S)

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Jennings
Editor:
Fiona Murch

Continuing the Saturday-night strand that celebrates a decade of popular culture, from the fads, fashions and films to its stars, sounds and sport.
Ends 1.35am.

8.55 I Love 1975
Dennis Waterman introduces the highlights and heart-throbs of 1975, including Barry Sheene, David Essex and the Fonz. It was the year that Jaws scared bathers out of the water and cult musical movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show (showing at 9.55) had its first screening. Plus memories of Saturday afternoons with World of Sport.
(S) (W)

9.55 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Cult comedy musical starring Tim Curry and Susan Sarandon.
Sweethearts Brad and Janet find themselves drawn into a bizarre world when their car breaks down during a storm and they are forced to spend the night at a gothic mansion. Widescreen.
(1975, 15) ****
(S) (W)
Films: pp 52-60
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11.30 Shivers
Horror. A deranged scientist develops a bizarre sexual parasite and implants it into the body of his teenage mistress. But it soon spreads through the residents of a tower block with disturbing effects.
(1975, 18) ****
(S)
Films: pp 52-60

12.55 Match of the Seventies
Continuing the series that captures the decade's classic football action, this week focusing on the 1975/6 season.
(R) (S)

Contributors

Presenter (I Love 1975):
Dennis Waterman
Director (I Love 1975):
Liz Molyneux
Series Producer:
Alan Brown
Director (The Rocky Horror Picture Show ):
Jim Sharman
Frank N Furter:
Tim Curry
Janet Weiss:
Susan Sarandon
Brad Majors:
Barry Bostwick
Riff Raff:
Richard O'Brien
Dr Everett Scott:
Jonathan Adams
Columbia:
Nell Campbell
Rocky Horror:
Peter Hinwood
Magenta:
Patricia Quinn
Eddie:
null Meatloaf
Criminologist:
Charles Gray
Director (Shivers):
David Cronenberg
Roger St Luc:
Paul Hampton
Rollo Linsky:
Joe Silver
Forsythe:
Lynn Lowry
Nicholas Tudor:
Alan Migicovsky
Janine Tudor:
Susan Petrie
Betts:
Barbara Steele
Director (Match of the Seventies):
Chris Kelly
Producer (Match of the Seventies):
Tony Moss

Mystery. A sailor is plied with drinks by a woman who is later found murdered and finds himself with six hours in which to prove his innocence. Ends 2.55. Director Harold Clurman (1946) (BW) (S) Films: pp 52-60 **

Contributors

Director:
Harold Clurman

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