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HOLIDAY PROGRAMMES

From the Editor

nce again it is my pleasure and privilege to welcome you to the bumper, two-week Christmas and New Year issue of TVTimes. Starting here, we join you in a celebration of the season and, bringing you the full details of 14 days' holiday entertainment on ITV and Channel Four, seek to play our part in your enjoyment of all that's best at this wonderful time of year.

Raiders of the Lost A rk, Gallipoli, A irplane!, The Return of the Pink Panther, The Man with the Golden Gun, Ryan's Daughter, Superman II, Star W ars, The Jolson Story, Jolson Sings A gain, Dr No — all through the holiday period, ITV and Channel Four will be presenting blockbuster movies you won't want to miss. Nor will you want to fail to share ITV's star-studded Christmas Day tribute to the comic genius of Eric Morecambe (see pages 4-6), or any of the fast-moving Christmas and New Year shows: Russ Abbot, Jim Davidson, Benny Hill, Jimmy Tarbuck, Des O'Connor, Freddie Starr, Kid Creole, Bruce Forsyth and many, many more wait on your pleasure.

Plan ahead with our programmes listings. They're on pages 35 109, and include a complete rundown of two weeks of films (pages 38-43, plus pages 47 and 81).

Have a truly memorable Christmas — happy, peaceful, and in the company of those you love. Look forward to a splendid New Year — successful, rewarding, and in harmony with the world around you.

Spend this year-end holiday with TVTimes. And, please, make a January resolution to stay with us all through 1985!

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Look ahead with Russell THE MOVIE THAT GAVE THE WORLD INDIANA JONES

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Keep yourself up to date — and find out what the future holds — with Russell Grant's 1985 Birthday Calendar.

Sing a song of Christmas Children Sing T51 Christmas,

Carols old and new as on ITV. Plus news of other Yuletide children's programmes.

Barnstorming birth of a blockbuster The story behind Raiders of the Lost Ark the box-office blockbuster whose making was almost as fast — and as hairraising — as the action on screen. See it on ITV.

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High-flying spoof

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There was a teacher, an insurance man and a building foreman. Together they made Airplane!, the movie that had even the actors helpless with laughter — one of the many film treats on ITV and Channel Four.

Hate is the spur for maid Emma (Jenny Seagrove) in A Woman of Substance, Channel Four.

Wizards of Oz

n Eric and Ernie — still bringing sunshine in Eric Morecambe has gone, but the 4-‘, laughter he left behind is still ringing in our ears, laughter we can share anew over Christmas, on ITV. For Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise — this year, as last — the show goes on..

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From the days of Queen Boudicca, who established the original royal stud farm in AD62, royalty have been associated with horses. As ITV presents The Queen and Her Ceremonial Horses on Sunday 23 December, we look at some famous historical events involving horses, including the royal involvement in what became known as the sport of kings — horse racing.

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Why Torvill and Dean love life Down Under, and how some deadly sins inspired a great new ice-dance routine.

This was about 1943, a couple of years after we got started. W e lived in digs in our variety days, and Christmases could be tough. You didn't get paid until your show opened and often you didn't open until Boxing Day. But we have always given each other presents. In the early days, my wife Doreen probably knitted Eric a pullover,

'W e moved back to ITV in 1978, and here are the Andrews Sisters singing

Here we are (right) 20 years later, on our own TV show — W ellington and Napoleon refighting the Battle of W aterloo.

Eric had worked for years perfecting his model of the battle, and I smashed it to pieces with tanks and stampeding elephants. "Ern," he said, "there were no tanks at

"Boogie W oogie Bugle Boy". That's Leonard Rossiter in the middle. Another great, great loss. It has been a terrible year for showbusiness, with our chum Tommy Cooper going, too. Iloved Tommy.

Being a little fellow I always ended up under his elbow. Big men like to lean on little men. It was the same with Eric.,

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no difference. It was my destructive period.,

The Beatles (right) were just on the rise when they came on our show in 1964. They told us they were going to America to appear on the "Ed Sullivan Show". "Yeah?" we said.

'Well, they won't understand you in America, so just go on and do a quick two minutes and come off."

That was our advice. W e said the same thing to Tom Jones. . .5

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That was a funny day when we went to Buckingham Palace in 1976 to get our OBEs. First, we were put into this little ante-room at the palace. In came one of those very tall military gentlemen — the most immaculate, handsome man you ever saw — in a marvellous, tight-fitting cavalry outfit. And he

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said, "The Queen wishes you to come on together to collect your OBEs to 'Bring Me Sunshine'. So this is the way we'll do it."

So he stood in front of us and led us round the room as we sang "Bring Me Sunshine" — us marching with this big fellow in front. And that was the way we marched out to meet the Queen and receive our awards. It got a lovely laugh.,

marvellous here? This was 1979, doing our old "slap-face" routine. But I don't remember where the slap came from. W e called it "thinking time". W hen he slapped me like that, or put his arm around me and called me his little fat friend, that was a pause while we thought, "Help! W hat comes next?" It gives you confidence, having something physical to do while you think. The physical relationship helps, but don't forget, Eric and I also talked to each other, we looked at one another, we had a great camaraderie. That's where some double acts fall down. Y ou know, they don't talk to each other.,

rBring Me Sunshine/Night Ruin to Murder More from that 1978 show, and Harold W ilson (left) was one of our guests that Christmas. It was quite a scoop. He said, "Don't give me too many lines", and then added gags of his own. He was very good. He was always in accord with you. I seem to remember he and Eric kept borrowing each other's pipes. This (below) was 1979, with our old friend Glenda Jackson, a great lady who never said no to coming on the show. And, if I'm not mistaken, that's desperate Des O'Connor on the left. I seem to remember he did the warm-up for the show.,

Typecasting, of course, but Jekyll and Hyde — in 1978 — was a very good subject for a sketch.,

He broughtthe sutu.nune into our lives It's Ern's first Christmas without Eric. Here, and overpage, he leafs through his scrapbook of memories for Adrian Furness, recalling the happy times and stars they met along the way.

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ric Morecambe collapsed after a charity show last May, and died with the audience's applause still ringing in his ears. His death rang down the curtain on a double act that had been together and entertained millions for more than four decades.

This year there will be no Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show. Instead, on Christmas Day, ITV presents Bring Me Sunshine, a showbusiness tribute to Eric recorded at the London Palladium and introduced by his little fat friend, Ernie Wise. With Prince Philip in the audience, the tribute features acts by

an extraordinary line-up of variety stars. And there's much laughter — because, as Ernie says, that is how Eric would wish to be remembered.

The show goes on. Indeed, on Thursday 3 January, ITV is also screening Eric and Ernie's last unshown work together, the comedy thriller Night Train to Murder, which they made last year for Thames Television. 'I'm looking forward to it.

It's got a plot and everything — not at all the sort of thing we normally do,' says Ernie.

For him, this Christmas is a time for memories. Here, he shares some of them with TVTimes readers.. .

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by James Gilheany uss Abbot would like to reassure his many fans: he's as sane as the next man. He declares this with a straight face, blue eyes twinkling, then makes the startling confession: 'Actually, I'm really quite a shy bloke.'

Devotees of Russ A bbot's Madhouse, the ITV series which, in five years, has established 37-yearold Abbot as one of the country's zaniest comedians, might find revelations of sanity and shyness difficult to swallow. But they're true.

He has one hard and fast rule: 'No matter how lunatic the characters I portray, and I have to admit some of them are pretty far gone, I hang them up with the costumes at the end of the day. Knowing when to switch off is very important.'

Abbot's fans are in for a double festive treat on ITV, with .R1).9 A bbot's Christmas Madhouse (Saturday 22 December), featuring many of his madcap creations, and Russ A bbot's Scottish Madhouse (Saturday 29 December).

He describes the latter, with a broad grin, as a 'Hogmanay warmup for the Jocks', in which one of his most-loved characters, Jimmy, the orange-haired, kilted hooligan, will entertain a few 'friends' and surprise guests at Invercockaleekie Castle in bonnie Scotland.

Abbot's progression from drummer with a comedy band, The Black Abbots — 15 years on the road — to the forefront of British comedy, appears to have been effortless. In reality, it's the reward for much sweat and hard work.

Born in Chester, his long-term ambition was to be a top-class drummer, but he drifted into

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i Now that's Suzanne Danielle (top) with "All That Jazz" at Christmas 1981. Big girl. I was always the one who loved the musical numbers. They were my babies.

Eric was more in charge of the comedy side. He was never keen on singing, never keen to make records. He thought that was boring. I loved it.

He didn't mind dancing quite so much, though he still didn't like it especially. Of course, later on it did become a bit of an effort for him. 3 i And here's Christmas 1981 again (centre). Someone asked Ralph Richardson afterwards if he enjoyed appearing on "The Morecambe and W ise Show". "Awzn.mm. ." he said.

"No. I felt like a cat who had been left out for the night." Robert Hardy got him to come along, and Ralph did all those "Go and get the tea, Ern" gags. I crawled around him, and Eric was the butler. W e insisted that our guests, whoever they were, came to rehearsals. Y ou can't be casual about a show. Eric and I thought about the Christmas shows all year, the comedy progressing as we went along. If it looked effortless; that's because we had perfected it. 3 i Finally, just last Christmas (right).

You know where that character came from? That's Eric himself. Y ears and years ago, when we toured in variety, Eric would turn up at the theatre with his pyjamas in a carrier bag. And take the bus home.?

comedy. Abbot admits luck has played a big part, but his success is due more to an original talent, which has recently landed him a clutch of top showbusiness awards.

These include being named Funniest Person on Television (twice, in the TVTimes Top 10 A wards), Showbusiness Personality of the Year (Grand Order of Water Rats), and ITV Personality of the Year (Variety Club of Great Britain).

In May, he realised a long-time ambition by making his London West End stage debut in the lead role of Little Me, the musical comedy. Seven months on, Abbot and cast are still packing them in.

His two anchors in life are his family and his work. Abbot goes home every weekend to his wife Tricia and children Gary, 18, Richard, 14, Christopher, four, and three-year-old Erica. We live just outside Chester and I've been married nearly 20 years. Tricia and the kids are my relaxation from the business. There's nothing nicer than closing your own front door and spending a few hours with the family.'

He enjoys being part of a team, and counts himself fortunate with the Madhouse gang and the cast of Little Me. 'Madhouse may look spontaneous but it is scripted, sketched, worked out, put together then acted through. I couldn't go on stage and tell a string of jokes like Jimmy Tarbuck or the late Tommy Cooper.'

Royal jokes in The Grand Order THE DUKE of Edinburgh had top entertainers rolling about recently when he launched into an impromptu gag routine at a London function in aid of the Duke of Edinburgh Award. He cracked jokes with King Rat Davy Kaye of the Grand Order of Water Rats when accepting a £30,000 cheque from the famous

charity fund-raising body.

The Duke, a Companion Rat, appears in his unusual role in A Century of Stars

— The Story of the Grand Order of Water Rats, on

Channel Four on New Year's Eve. The 90-minute light entertainment documentary tells the history of the showbusiness Order, founded in 1889, and

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Left: at the W ater Rats' Museum, Max Bygraves, Davy K aye and John Inman examine the shoes of bygone entertainer Little Tich.

Below: there's a double dose of The Gruznbleweeds, including Robin Colville and Maurice Lee.

features some of the biggest names around, including Max Bygraves, Frankie Vaughan, Les Dawson, Roy Hudd, Bruce Forsyth, Jimmy Tarbuck, Henry Cooper, John Inman, Charlie Chester, Arthur English, Roy Castle and Paul Shane.

Music hall fans will have a rare opportunity to see archive film of such greats as George Formby, Robb Wilton, Flanagan and Allen, and Harry Lauder.

Membership stands at just under 200, and a big showbusiness reputation is no automatic guarantee of entry. Max Bygraves, a member for 26 years, still remembers the thrill of being accepted. Like other Rats, he has donated his services free at many fund-raising events. One of the newest Rats is John Inman, admitted in May. 'I was really thrilled to be accepted and have since met some of my childhood heroes,' says Inman.

The Order takes its curious name from a small trotting pony called Magpie, owned by music hall comedian Joe Elvin. He and other entertainers had been puzzling over a name for a new charity to help the less fortunate. When a scornful bus driver described Magpie as looking like a water rat, they gleefully adopted the name — especially when they realised that 'rats' spelled backwards is... 'star'.

Uto lam med CHRISTMAS will never be the same again after The Grumbleweeds have finished with it. The five Yorkshire lads, who make up TVs newest hit comedy team, will be continued on page 10

Drawings of Santa Claus in this issue by pupils of Kersey School, Suffolk

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Comedian Jim Davidson on stage in the bleak but welcoming Falklands (left). He also visited many of the newly historic sites, including the 2 Para Memorial at Goose Green (right).

Davidson (left) on the long flight hum Ascension Island to the Falklands. He has made three such trips in 18 months.

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Fredcfre Starr at the Royalty

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Grumbleweeds Radio Show at Christmas, on Saturday 22 December, and The Grumbleweeds Radio Show at New Year the following Saturday — both on ITV. Overnight national fame has been a long time coming for Maurice Lee, Robin Colville, Graham Walker, and brothers Carl and Albert Sutcliffe.

They celebrated 21 years in showbusiness this year but didn't get their first ITV series until seven months ago. Not that they are complaining, having built a big reputation as funny-men and musicians on BBC radio, the clubs • circuit, and breaking box office records during a Scarborough summer season.

They recently signed a £500,000 deal for a new series on the ITV network next year and in 1986, and this Christmas they top the bill at the Apollo in Manchester.

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ife is getting good again for Freddie Stan, the irrepressible scouse comedian whose past zany behaviour has earned him the title of Mr Unpredictable in showbusiness circles. He makes a welcome return to ITV on New Year's Eve when he hosts Freddie Starr at the Royalty, with dancers, up-and-coming young magician Wayne Dobson, and special guest Shirley Bassey, who joins him in several comedy sketches.

Stan, 40, admits that his bad-boy image and turbulent private life have made television bosses reluctant to employ him over the past three years or so. But he hopes that if the show goes well, he'll be offered a new TV series. Two-and-a-half years ago, no TV company

wanted to touch me — and I'm very lucky to be given a second bite of the cherry. I'll be doing my best to make it a really good show.'

Stan's spell in the TV wilderness came as he was trying to straighten out his personal life. In 1981 he overcame a

Unpredictable Freddie Starr twinkling in his gumboots. Like our cover star fairy, Russ Abbot, hell be casting many a comic spell this

festive season.

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Trouper as trooper?

Jim Davidson makes his one and only parachute jump, over Aldershot — courtesy of the Army.

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rehearsal room in Richmond, Surrey.

Comedian Jim Davidson wants to throw a big brown dog through a window. Nothing personal, you understand, just a case of disposing of stolen goods. He discusses the scene from his new se ries of Up the Elephant and Round the Castle — showing on ITV in January — with the director, and they compromise. The dog — a life-size prop — will instead be pitched out of camera range and caught by hands unseen.

The cast break for lunch Davidson, dressed in loosefitting casual green jacket, Army-style camouflage trousers, training shoes and thick white socks, moves quickly toward the restaurant, a stream of jokes and laughter bobbing in his wake.

It will surprise many of his fans, however, that irreverent 31-year-old Davidson does have a serious side, which has taken him to the Falklands three times since June last year to entertain servicemen and islanders — journeys

totalling nearly 50,000 miles.

Davidson made his most recent trip in September, accompanied by his band, dancers, Irish singer Tricia Dusky and a Thames TV crew with five tons of equipment. The result is a semi-documentary about the Falklands and his concerts there, The Jim Davidson Falklands Special, showing on ITV on Christmas Eve. He performed 13 concerts in 10 days, in spartan surroundings ranging from portable cabins — 65 attending — to chilly aircraft hangars where 1000 crammed in.

Davidson was captivated by the haunting beauty of the windswept Falklands.

He draws deeply on a cigarette, recalling his first trip. It was a moving experience, especially visiting the spots where British servicemen sacrificed their lives 'Td been interested in military history for some years, and when the war in the South Atlantic finished, I felt I wanted to entertain our troops down there,' explains Davidson They're doing a difficult job in not very hospitable surroundings, but

morale is incredibly high' Anger flares briefly as he dismisses critics of the Fortress Falklands policy.

Tm very patriotic and have made many friends down there. The islanders are a great bunch more British in some ways than we are. We had incredible co-operation from the Navy, Army and Air Force, from top brass to squaddies. Nothing was too much trouble, which was just as well as there are only nine miles of roads around Port Stanley and we had to travel by helicopter, lorry and jeep.'

Cassettes of his TV show will be flown to the Falklands in time for Christmas, and the programme will include messages from servicemen to their sweethearts, wives and other relatives in Britain Over Christmas, Davidson is working the clubs circuit in the south of England But now and again his thoughts will return to the Falklands, 8000 miles away, and the massive British military presence protecting the 1800 islanders.

One of the locals tramped for five hours just to see the show,' muses Jim Davidson

Sunday 30 Dec Weekend in Wallop seven-year addiction to tranquillisers, brought on by the break-up of his first marriage, It almost wrecked his career and put his present wife, Sandy, under great pressure.

All that is behind him now. `My career has been on the up and up since I came off the old drugs,' adds Starr at his luxury 11-acre estate near Maidenhead, Berkshire. `My health is OK, and I've learned a lot from what has happened in the past Sandy is a lovely person and I have a wonderful family, with daughter Donna, nine, and five-year-old son, Jody.'

Despite his absence from TV, Starr has been kept busy. He is currently starring at the 1500-seat Blazer's Club in Windsor, Berkshire, a three-week engagement which was stretched to four and then five weeks, owing to public demand. Tm working seven nights a week including Christmas Day,' says Starr with relish Tm planning to spend Christmas at home with the family, have a traditional lunch and relax for a while before doing the show in the evening.'

At the time of writing, Starr was considering a tempting two-week cabaret spot with Englebert Humperdinck in Jar Vegas in January.

The New Year's Eve TV show gives Starr a welcome chance to work again with producer Keith Beckett `I last teamed up with him 15 years ago when I had a guest spot on Opportunity Knocks! I asked for an exploding piano and he got me one. I think one of my problems in the past has been working with some producers who couldn't really see how to get the best out of me. I don't see why I should change my humour. Freddie Starr is known to be unpredictable.

I will be as unpredictable as ever.'

Starr, one of the highest paid entertainers in Britain, first shot to national fame at the London Palladium in the 1970 Royal Variety Performance, after a successful career as a comedy impressionist in northern clubs.

After 14 years at the top of the showbusiness tree, Freddie Starr is determined to stay there...

TVTIIVIES 22 December-4 January 1985

Walloping good festival fun he small Hampshire village of Nether Wallop doesn't sound like the cultural centre of England But for a glorious three days in September it became just that — as it staged the First International Nether Wallop Arts Festival. Stars of stage, screen and television descended on the village, and tent with 400 seats, to read poetry, sign books, perform ballet and drama, and join a pageant and other cultural activities. And the locals loved it.

The seed of the festival was sown in an article written several years ago by Sunday Times journalist Stephen Pile. He said the Edinburgh Festival had become overburdened, and suggested a good old English festival for ordinary people.

Among those taking part were Mel Smith, Peter Cook, Billy Connolly, Rowan Atkinson, Bill Wyman, Rik Mayall, Jenny Agutter, Bamber Gasooigne, Maria Aitken, John Wells and Andrew Lloyd Webber, and their artistic efforts can be seen in Weekend in Wallop, on ITV, on Sunday 30 December.

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Raising laughs: Billy Connolly, one of the stars of the First International Nether W allop Arts Festival.

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Christmas Day: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Then•yiking mal ot a super-hero

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his year, the evening of Christmas Day will be a more nail-biting time than usual, as Harrison Ford — alias Indiana Jones — leads the bad guys a merry dance around the world in the hit film Raiders of the Lost A rk (1981), on ITV. It's an epic adventure with such ingredients as car chases, jungle derring-do, submarines, flying boats, Peruvian Indians defending a sacred tomb, a cavern full of snakes and tarantula spiders, a duel in an Egyptian bazaar, squads of Nazis hunting lost treasure and a spectacular brawl in a Himalayan tavern.

The film won four Oscars — for best editing, best art direction/set direction, best sound and best visual effects. It was nominated for best picture, and Steven Spielberg for best direction, but Britain's Chariots of Fire and Warren Beatty, for Reds, took the honours.

Such a film as Raiders, you'd expect, would call for a massive budget and a year's shooting schedule at least. But not so when the film is produced by George Lucas, creator of Star W ars, and directed by Steven (E. T.) Spielberg two of the fastest, most economical and most successful whizz-kids in the business. Raiders of the Lost A rk, which has catapulted Ford into the super-hero bracket, combines a Forties' Cecil B DeMille adventure epic with the thrills of a Saturday morning picture serial.

'I told Steven,' smiled Lucas after the picture was finished inside its shooting schedule (actually 73 days) and 20 million dollar budget (sounds a lot, but 14

Taste of the action to come. . . Satipo (Alfred Molina) discovers the price of a mission with Indiana Jones.

not for a film like this), 'that I wanted him to make a fast-moving B-movie. I said he had to make it real quick because I couldn't wait to pay my five dollars to see it.'

Like Lucas's Star W ars films, Raiders was made at a British studio, in this case Elstree, where the cast, led by Harrison Ford and Karen Allen, was joined by 6000 'extras' in the venomous and slippery shapes of cobras, boa constrictors and pythons, ready to menace the film's hero on his nervewracking and perilous descent into the Well of Souls. It's one of the film's creepiest episodes!

A famous moment of screen history was born when Ford told Spielberg that he didn't feel up to a hectic sword duel with a giant native warrior at that precise moment. 'OK,' said Spielberg, ever mindful of the schedule, 'just hesitate and then shoot him.' The scene now draws massive audience reaction every time it's shown.

Filming took the unit from Elstree to Tunisia, Hawaii and France, and involved cast and crew in some real-life hair-raising scrapes and adventures — just a few of which are revealed here.

With some brilliant editing back in England to heighten the impact of the action scenes, the film was in the can. 'It was a very hard film for Steven to make,' says Lucas. 'But we all had a good time, even when snakes and spiders were chasing us. Steven and I both felt that our greatest achievement with Raiders was that we came through it all still friends.'

Stuntman Terry Leonard, doubling for Harrison Ford, brings off the most spectacular stunt by hanging on the end of a moving lorry. As the sequence develops he climbs back on, up on to the roof and into the cab — which is where Harrison Ford takes over again as Indiana Jones.

Trapped in The W ell of Souls — the tomb which contains the secret of the whereabouts of the Ark — Indiana Jones has nearly run out of steam. Fires have kept the snakes at bay. . . but a deadly cobra has escaped the flames.. .

Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), devil-may-care adventurer.

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On the trail of the Ark, heroine Marion Ravenwood (K aren Allen) finds herself trapped by snakes — six thousand of them!

Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood fight off the Nazis seeking the talisman which will lead to the Ark. Look out for Ronald Lacey, as the villainous Toht, a magnificent study in evil.

Captured by the baddies. . the Ark of the Lost Covenant is about to be opened. Indiana, wary of the wrath of God, warns fellow adventurer Marion Ravenwood not to watch what happens.

Show-stopping scene. . .

Indiana is confronted by a sword-swinging warrior. There's an easy answer. . shoot him!

Beauty at Christmas

Here's to all those lovely ladies

Serene Jenny Seagrove (above), like Deborah K en (top) and Catherine Schell (left), has the composure that makes other women feel clumsy and untidy.

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Sexy Farrah Fawcett (above) brings outdoor allure to the sexy beauty . . . which women find as much a threat as the earlier appeal of Brigitte Bardot and Britt Ekland.

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Simply . . . what's the word?... beautiful. Sexy but decorous, certainly never blatant, and with features that harmonise perfectly: Jean Simmons (top), Jane Seymour (above, left) and Lesley-Anne Down.

hat makes a beautiful woman? We were prompted to ask by the number of the world's most beautiful women appearing in films and plays over Christmas on ITV and Channel Four - and not just the beauties of the past two or three decades. Looking at the changing face of beauty, we discovered that some of the present-day faces have more in common with earlier stars than with their contemporaries.

There seem to be three distinct categories of beauty: Serene, Sexy and Subtle. We asked psychiatrist Dr Glenn Wilson to talk about how men - and other women - react to their differing appeals.

The Serene Beauty is perfectly displayed in young actress Jenny Seagrove - a natural continued overpage

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beauty p arade Leading ladies of top eedscreen's from page 19 kind of beauty because she has a timelessness and often reminds them of their mothers when they were young. The serene beauty is a long-term relationship with an elaborate courtship.

successor to Deborah Kerr (both in the Channel Four mini-series, A W oman of Substance, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 2, 3, 4 Jan), and Catherine Schell (Return of the Pink Panther [1974], ITV, Monday 24 Dec). The serene beauty, by her very composure can make other women feel clumsy and untidy.

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The Sexy Beauty has changed a little since the panda-eyes and beehives of Brigitte Bardot (La V erite [1960], Channel Four, Boxing Day) and Britt Ekland (The Man W ith the Golden Gun [1974], ITV, Christmas Day). Now..the sexy beauty looks a scrubbed outdoor girl, like Farrah Fawcett (Somebody Killed Her Husband [1979], ITV, Thursday 27 Dec) - but the essential style is the same. Women find sexy beauties a threat - and quite right, too! If a woman knows that she is beautiful and sexy, she will use the most unfair means to attract attention - such as walking into a room! If she does not know, she is much too naïve and twice as dangerous...

The Subtle Beauty is harder to spot. Lesley-Anne Down (The Last Days of Pompeii [1984], ITV, Sunday, Monday, 30, 31 Dec), Jane Seymour (The Four Feathers [1978], ITV, most areas, Tuesday, 1 Jan) and Jacqueline Bisset are all subtly beautiful; Jean Simmons (in the ITV play December Flower, Sunday 23 Dec) is perhaps the role model for this unobtrusive appeal. Analytically, subtle beauties often have no outstanding features but their faces are irresistible because the features are regular, delicate and in exactly the right proportion.

The subtle beauty often turns female, as well as male, heads as women try to analyse what it is that they envy,

Dr Glenn Wilson Sexy

beauties are the male fantasy - the kind which turn up in Bond films and magazine centre-folds. A short-term and relatively anonymous relationship is implied. It is no accident that many of the sexy

serene beauty is the opposite of the sexy beauty - to talk about sex would be inappropriate.

Men happy with a more submissive role tend to align themselves to this

beauties are foreign - it adds to the fantasy. They are obviously displaying their assets, which is an irritation to other women.

Their appeal is to the redblooded male in an encounter in which he would be dominant.

Dr Glenn Wilson

Intriguing is the word which sums up the subtle beauty. Of the three types, she is probably the real prestige 'catch', the one a man would like to present as a long-term partner.

She does have a sex

component but uses the classic flirtation signals, and so retains modesty and decorum.

She is never blatant. The subtle beauty has sexuality, but she has it under control.

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Saturday 22 Dec World of Sport/Chriernas Day: Torvill and Dean Special mm'imlimm• owards the end of the 45th performance of their Ravel's Bolero routine, Jayne Torvill felt her enthusiasm for the number cool, just a little.

Christopher Dean felt it, too. 'You can't wait to try something new,' he said.

But that night, skating in the open air under blazing tropical stars and the audience a silent wall of spellbound concentration all around them, the magic held, and the performance was undimmed.

This has been an extraordinary year for the Nottingham pair (watch them in W orld of Sport's Figure Skating, on Saturday 22 December, and Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean Special, on ITV on Christmas Day).

Triumph piled upon triumph, rising to the ultimate sporting accolade - an Olympic gold medal.

But the climax came too soon for thousands of their fans. By April the fuss was more or less over, and Torvill and Dean slipped, out of the public gaze and

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'Fora and Dean - ice wizards of Oz

_-- Princess Diana meets Torvill and Dean at this year's Royal Variety Performance. Right: their new routine, recorded Down Under. apparently vanished. In fact, they were creating a new sensation on the other side of the world, and in the process the couple were falling in love with Australia.

We invited them to

Sydney to give nine performances - their first professional engagement,' said Andrew Guild, director of the promotions organisation Michael Edgley International in Melbourne. 'But the day

we opened the bookings we sold 95,000 seats in 12 hours and it was necessary to ask Chris and Jayne to do more performances.'

Torvill and Dean had intended to stay in Australia only a few

weeks, but stayed instead from May until August.

During that first visit they went to see the ballet The Seven Deadly Sins performed by the Sydney Dance Company. They were so impressed by the company's innovative approach to dance that they contacted the director and choreographer, Graeme Murphy.

That meeting was the beginning of a new collaboration, and Torvill and Dean slipped back into Australia in October to work with Murphy.

Recently, however, the pair came back to Britain for the Royal Variety Performance, where a recording of their new routine, set to RunskiKorsakov's Song of India, • was broadcast via satellite.

If all goes according to plan, you will be able to see more of that routine in a Torvill and Dean ice spectacular in London in 1985. But until then, it looks as though Britain's greatest ice dancers will be spending much of their time Down Under.

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A Woman of Substance

Kitchen maid who mopped u e millions

by Ken Roche

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hen viewers first meet Emma Harte in the new Channel Four mini-series, A W oman of Substance, on three successive nights from 2 January, she is one of the richest women in the world. The head of a vast financial empire encircling the globe, she's shrewd and smart and, even though she's in her late 70s, has no delusions about her greedy offspring. Bilt as she fences off their devious moves to take over, she cannot help but look back..

And here we think back with her, to the younger Emma Harte. We go back 65 years to her peasant beginnings, in a sparse Yorkshire moors cottage. We see her as a girl who manages to get a job as a lowly kitchen maid at the local squire's home, Fairley Hall.

But events, as related in the series, illustrate that there is a golden touch about Emma that eventually turns her into a tycoon, with a business empire that includes a department store chain, clothing factories, mills and other interests, from real estate to oil. But her hatred for the Fairley family remains unabated by her personal success.

A W oman of Substance was originally an 800-page book by Barbara Taylor Bradford, first published in 1979, which has since sold more than seven million copies.

Diane Baker, an actress who formed her own producing company, Artemis Productions, recalled being interviewed by Barbara Taylor Bradford when she was a journalist. So she wrote to her asking for the rights to make the film of the book - in spite of immense competition. Diane Baker said it should be made 'in Britain, with dignity', Barbara Taylor Bradford agreed and the six-hour mini-series went ahead under the Portman Artemis Productions banner.

Jenny Seagrove plays the younger Emma Harte and Deborah Kerr becomes Emma in her mature years.

Deborah Kerr, one of the great screen beauties of the Forties and Fifties, came into prominence in the 1953 fiLm-of-the-book From Here To Eternity with Burt Lancaster. She appeared in many other major films, including Edward My Son (1951), Quo V adis? (1951) and The King and I (1956). Also in the series in a guest role is another major British actor, Sir John Mills.

Here, then, we set the scene, and highlight some of the major characters of the story.

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- Y oung Emma Harte's (Jenny Seagrove) dismal days as a kitchen maid at Fairley Hall become far brighter when she falls in love with Squire Fairley's youngest son, Edwin (Peter Chelsom).

Above: while rescuing Edwin from a fire at Fairley Mill, Emma's father Jack (Del Heaney) is severely injured, and is helped by Edwin.

Right: Edwin's elder brother Gerald (Christopher Guard) visits Emma - and attempts to rape her.

Below: war separates Emma and her first husband Joe Lowther (John Duttine).

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Above: an established businesswoman at last, Emma fulfills a long-term ambition when she opens her first department store in Leeds.

During a visit to London, Emma meets Australian, Paul McGill (Barry Bostwick). They embark on an ecstatic love affair, but not without complications.

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The part of Emma in her older years is taken by Deborah K err (above). By the time she celebrates her 80th birthday, Emma is head ofboth a business empire and a large family.

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It's the most startling sight on the most lush and scenic island in the Caribbean. Even presenter Judith Chalmers was left gasping when she made a flying visit to the island for the holiday programme W ish Y ou W ere Here, . . ?, which starts a new series on ITV on Wednesday 2 January.

The volcano is the only one in the world where you can actually drive right into the crater. It's a truly breathtaking, natural wonder. Clouds of scalding steam waft from pits of black water, bubbling away at 212°F. It's all like something from Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

The bleak land - so hot you can feel it through your sandals - is stained yellow from the sulphur. 'The fumes smell like all the rotten eggs in the world dumped in one place,' says

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It was Judith's first visit to St Lucia and she was surprised to find how the French influence still lingers. Old Colonial houses look as though they've been transplanted from the French Riviera. Most of the place-names are French, and the locals speak an odd dialect, half French and half Creole.

For the next 13 weeks, W ish Y ou W ere Here. . . ? will be turning the clock forward to summertime, pinpointing new ideas, new places and new bargains on the holiday front.

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YOUR HOLIDAY PROGRAMMES 14 day of Christmas and NeW Year entertainment start hel'e

K id Creole and the Coconuts, with The Three Degrees, get together for the musical There's Something W rong in Paradise'. Saturday 22 Dec 10.0, ITV

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Airplane! erry was a student teacher, Jim was an insurance salesman turned private detective, David was a building site supervisor.

Early one morning, a long time ago, Jerry and David, the Zucker brothers, and their friend Jim Abrahams, were sitting in their respective homes watching one of those old films that keep American television alive through the dead of night.

'Improbable as it sounds,' recalls David, we all saw it separately, and without prearrangement.'

The film was Zero Hour (1957), a tense, melodramatic tale about an imperilled aircraft flying to its destination with the crew and half the passengers afflicted by food poisoning. Zero Hour was so bad it was funny. It certainly made Jerry, Jim and David laugh.

They decided the story was ripe for a send-up, so they sat down and wrote a script. In fact they wrote 30 scripts, one after the other, over a five-year period, gradually wringing every last drop of humour.

The final result was Airplane! (1980), which you can see on ITV on Boxing Day. By the time a Hollywood producer agreed to the trio directing the film, they had already made

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There's some high-flown comedy as Lloyd Bridges (left) and Robert Stack strive to keep control in `Airplane!': ITV, Boxing Day,

Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), a chaotic mishmash of sketches and running gags.

Filming A irplane! was difficult. No one could keep a straight face. It was a shock to Julie Hagerty, who plays the brave stewardess. Her only previous experience had been in a TV shampoo commercial. 'You couldn't say you were going to work doing stuff like this. I spent the whole day, every day, just trying not to laugh' For example:

Stewardess: 'The pilot's been taken ill. He's in the cockpit,' Doctor: 'What is it?'

Stewardess: 'Oh, it's the little room in the front where the crew sit.'

A irplane! is relentless, poking fun at all those old clichĂŠs from the old films, spoofing the A irport disaster movies, as well as Jaws (1975), Saturday Night Fever (1977), and even From Here To Eternity (1953).

Jim, Jerry and David never went beck to their old jobs.

Gallipoli

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here are those who speak of Mel Gibson as the great new romantic idol of the screen: 'smouldering eyes' and 'dangerous smile', that sort of thing.

It might equally be said that with his stocky build, thick-set features, and, above all, the bump on the bridge of his nose inadvertently acquired in youth, there is something of the bruiser from the Australian outback in Gibson's appearance.

In truth, he frowns on the former and shows none of the traits of the

latter. But here, undeniably, is the first Australian actor in 40 years, since Errol Flynn floundered on a sea of scandal and alcohol, to make a major impact in films.

He was lucky, perhaps, to have arrived at a time when Australia was finding international cinema success - Gallipoli (1981), on ITV, in which he stars on Wednesday 2 January, is a fine example.

Since then, Gibson has moved on to Hollywood and the greater glories, and salaries, this entails.

But he retains close bonds with Australia. His wife, Robyn, and their three

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d best films will be showing on ITV and Channel Four,

icluding the blockbuster 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' on Christmas IllDay pages 14 and 15). Here, David James Smith looks at I some(see of them. For a full list of films, turn to pages 47 and 81.

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P• ng you in e pictures children live in Sydney.

Work keeps him moving between there and Los Angeles.

It may be too early to tell, but there are strong signs of a purposeful streak that will keep him apart from the nonsense of stardom.

'I don't have many illusions about myself,' he says. 'I have ambitions, but I try to keep them down to a purer level than just stardom in films. Why does anyone want to be a star? In itself it isn't enough for me.'

Gibson was born, not in Australia, but Peekskill, New York State, US of A. He was the sixth of 11 children. 'My father was a brakeman on the Penn Central Railway. He worked his backside off to support us all - up to 16 hours a day.'

The family emigrated to Australia when Reluctant sex symbol Mel Gibson (inset) is the star of `Gallipoli': ITV, 2 Jan.

Gibson was 12, after his father won a sizeable settlement after an accident at work. In addition, he did not want his sons to fight in Vietnam.

Settled there, Gibson considered acting as a career, but did not take it too seriously. It wasn't some sort of burning desire in me. I'd always had a romantic thing about being an actor, wishing I was Humphrey Bogart and so on, but I didn't give it much thought. Journalism was a possibility, insurance another. I wanted to cover all my options. Then I auditioned at drama school in Sydney.

They liked me, and said, "come on". So I did.'

His first big role was the lead in Mad Max (1979).

The old scar, the broken nose, loaned itself perfectly to the part. He has since made one sequel, and is just completing a second.

He has yet to star in a flop - The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) and The Bounty (1984) received critical and popular acclaim.

The business of being a romantic hero does not exactly excite Gibson. 'I don't think I'm handsome, and I don't know what it is I do up there to create that effect. I don't even like to think about it. It would be like killing the goose that laid the golden

Kim

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he telegraph operator must have been puzzled, not merely by the fact that a big London film company was sending telegrams to a 15-year-old at boarding school in southern India, but also by the succinct two word message: 'Congratulations, Kim.' This to a boy named Ravi Sheth?

The cable held no mysteries for Ravi, who swiftly dispatched a telegram of his own, to his family in Bombay: 'I am Kim.' Kim was, and is, the title role in the London company's television film, based on the Rudyard Kipling story of the same name. Thus, this brief flurry of telegrams signalled the end of a long search by the film company. For Ravi, it signalled the beginning of a great schoolboy adventure as the star performer in a major film, to be shown on ITV on Boxing Day. In Kipling's story, Kim is a young street urchin searching for the truth about his background, not knowing if he is British or Indian, or perhaps a mixture of both. At the end of his quest, he decides for himself, 'I am Kim: Some months before filming, producer David Conroy decided, quite rightly, that he had to cast a boy from India.

'No one else would

succeed mentally or physically, in the sense of being able to cope with conditions out there.

Most of all, we would not be able to fool the audience.'

To reflect the uncertainty of Kim's background, the filmmakers hoped to find a young actor of mixed race parentage. They travelled to and fro across India, seeing more than 1000 boys, only to decide that none were quite right.

We didn't know which way to turn,' says director John Davies.

'Then we were told there was one school we could still visit. But it would be a day and a half s journey, and there were just four candidates there. It didn't really seem an awfully continued overpage •

He is 'K im' - Ravi Sheth, 15, plays the title role in the film of the same name: ITV, Boxing Day.

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good bet, but time was running out. We had no option.'

After an exhausting journey, the film party arrived at the school, only to discover that the school was closed and a near-riot raging outside, The troubles were sectarian, and some of the teaching staff had been evacuated for fear of violence.

We managed to talk our way in,' says Davies, 'but the staff were too preoccupied to help us. So the boys found a room for us to set up our video equipment, and they tracked down the four we wanted to see.

When we met Ravi we immediately knew we had .,,ssomething special. fir When we got back to London I showed the tape to my wife, who ,.. thought Ravi was wonderful.'

With the special tutoring of his costars, including Peter O'Toole and Australian Bryan

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Brown, Ravi became an actor.

But, of course, there is always a price to pay, and Ravi learned an early lesson in humility. He says: 'You tell all your friends about making the film, and they look at each other and say, "He's changed." ' Ravi Sheth does not think he's changed. He's not even sure he'd like to be an actor. Time will help him decide.

The Last Days '"of Pompelimm mong the cast of thousands cavorting outrageously in togas and generally despoiling the quality of life during The

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Last Days Of Pompeii

(1984), look out for the appearance of Canadian actor Duncan Regehr. The film is being screened over two nights on ITV. The first part is on Sunday 30 December, the second on New Year's Eve. In a cast including familiar names such as Anthony Quayle, Brian

Blessed, Ernest Borgnine, Lesley-Anne Down and Olivia Hussey, Regehr finds room for a striking performance as the champion gladiator Lydon, a public hero ridiculed by the Pompeii elite.

Regehr, as befits a champion gladiator, displays a fine line in sword play - a gift he has carried with him into a new starring role. Early in 1985, ITV will be showing My W icked, W icked W ays (1984), a television film based on the autobiographical book by Errol Flynn.

Regehr plays Flynn, charting the rise and fall of the old swashbuckler, from his arrival in Hollywood in 1935 as a 26-year-old contract player, to 1943 when Flynn was acquitted of the much-publicised statutory rape charge which so dented his public image.

Unlike Flynn, whose energetic pursuit of pleasure was his downfall, Regehr enjoys physical activity of a more respectable nature.

At school in Alberta, he

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Duncan Regehr in 'The •Last Days of Pompeii,

excelled as an ice skater.

Later, while training as an actor, he took up fencing and body-building. He was also a champion amateur boxer.

For The Last Days of Pompeii, Regehr doubled his body-building programme, inflating his physique to gladiatorial

proportions. Do not think of him, though, as a hunk: 'The idea of a hunk is somebody who doesn't have much upstairs, and I don't think I'm stupid.

'I was an actor long before I looked like this. I just trained specifically for the role.'

Duncan Regehr likes to

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As you'll see on Arran. The colourful grounds of Brodick Castle beautifully sweep down to the sea.

And you'll discover equally spectacular botanical sites

throughout the rest of the South-west Highlands. Such as the gardens on the Isle of Gigha, and by Loch Eck in the Cowal Peninsula.

Of course, Highland hospitality provides even more grounds for coming here. And how do you do that? Whether you come by road, rail or air, it's surprisingly easy. For more

ITV, 30 Dec and New Y ear's Eve think of himself as a 'Renaissance man'. These days, he believes, we can do or be anything we want. I do not want to put limits on myself. I do want to explore as many avenues as I am able.'

He will do well, though, to avoid the avenues once travelled by Errol Flynn.

One that got away — Clint Eastwood as Alcatraz escapee: ITV, 3 Jan.

Escape from Alcatraz ndoubtedly, it was the view across San Francisco Bay - the sprawling city skyline and the majestic span of the Golden Gate Bridge - that

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tormented the residents of Alcatraz Island.

For three decades, the convicts incarcerated in America's most notorious prison stared out through the bars and fencing across to the mainland.

Tantalisingly close, it was always beyond reach.

Alcatraz closed in 1963, ending a brutal and souldestroying regime which made no pretence of rehabilitation, and fiercely protected its escape-proof reputation.

In the end, though, that reputation was scuppered.

Among the escape statistics, three names remain unaccounted for the rest were either recaptured, or shot, or drowned. And while, to this day, no one bows if the three are missing presumed drowned, or missing presumed basking in freedom, the fact is that they broke the system.

Clint Eastwood, whose heroes have always shown scant respect for systems, made the film Escape From A lcatraz (1970), •

telling the story of the three who got away. He starred as bank robber Frank Morris who, along with Clarence and John Anglin, departed Alcatraz on 11 June 1962, never to be seen or heard of again.

You can see the film on ITV on Thursday 3 January (except STV, which will screen the film at a later date).

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Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers made meticulous preparation for their break-out.

On the night of their escape they scrambled across roofs, down walls and over fences to the water's edge, donned home-made life-jackets, inflated a rubber dinghy' made out of raincoats, and paddled away, heading for nearby Angel Island.

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Off to save the world, Christopher Reeve is the caped crusader in 'Superman Ii: ITV, 4 Jan.

La Writê (The Truth) adness seems to have pursued Brigitte Bardot for too many years. She is 50 now, and finds no comfort in advancing age. 'It's difficult growing old,' she says.

People who say it's marvellous to be 50 must be mad. rye got the temperament of a girl.

I dance, I play the guitar, I feel as if I'm 16, but my face doesn't fit.'

Never very successful at organising her private life, never a great actress, Bardot was, unmistakably, a symbol of beauty - a 'sex symbol' as they used to be called. Channel Four's film, La V erite The Truth - on Boxing Day, will refresh the memory.

The film was made in 1960, when Bardot was 26.

The co-star, Sami Frey, became her lover. It was a classic French film, an affair of the heart, and Bardot spent much of the time in the witness box

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veryone has their own favourite, but Superman II, showing on ITV on Friday 4 January, is generally regarded as the best of the recent trio of caped crusades. Even Christopher Reeve, who played the title role, says so: 'It was the perfect mixture of humour, adventure and romance.'

Romance? A Superman story with romance? How very, er, unheroic.

Alas, the lure of Lois Lane proves too much, and in Superman II the man of steel melts. This means trouble. The fact is, Superman cannot consummate his love without losing his superpowers. He must make the ultimate choice is his responsibility to Lois, or the whole of mankind?

For Reeve, such decisions are now a thing of the past. He was happy to play Superman three times, but did not think the series should go any further. 'We tried very hard to keep up a certain standard. But there wasn't much more you could do without repeating yourself:

N

o one ever said it was easy to become a film star. And as anyone who has succeeded will tell you, having got there it's no easier to survive.

Many years before Star W ars (1977) - ITV, Sunday 30 December - a big Hollywood film company gave Harrison Ford a contract. Was he made for life? 'Are you nuts? In my first part I played a hotel bell-boy. Afterwards I was called in to see one of the company vice-presidents.

He said, 'The first time Tony Curtis walked on to a set you knew he was going to be a star. But you just ain't got it, kid." I•was demoralised, but I hung in there.'

Ford was 35 when he made Star W ars. George Segal was nearly 40 before finding fame in films such as A Touch of Class (1972) and Fun W ith Dick and Jane (1976) ITV, Christmas Eve. It had been a long wait, and it went to his head for a while. 'When that movie star rush happens, they powder you up. You're looking fabulous and you

Lovers on-screen and off, Brigitte Bardot and Sarni Frey in `La W rite' (The Truth Channel Four, 26 Dec. '):

reliving her so called Very important to me. It is 'crime passionnel'. the first really dramatic In those days, Bardot film I have made. still had hopes of 'There are two parts for becoming a fine dramatic me in it. One is like BB actress. Tired of the dancing the cha-cha, and woman Roger Vadim had all that. And there is created, she created her another part, in court, own alter ego, calling where the girl is accused it BB. of murdering her lover. In BB was the pouting the first part rm very gay, beauty who decorated like BB. but in the second films, nothing to do with I'm very serious.' the new Bardot.

In retrospect, Bardot's Of La V erite she said: creation of BB can This is my favourite film. be seen as an attempt TVTIMES 22 December-4 January 1985

Me best of the rest . .

begin to believe your own illusion. But you have to taste those things to know that it's not a better life.'

Those two ageing agents, 007 Moore and 007 Connery found fame in the same role. But the approach could not have been more different.

Compare their styles with the television showings of Cannery's Dr No (1962) ITV, New Year's Day and Moore's The Man W ith the Golden Gun (1974) - ITV, Christmas Day. Off-screen, Connery took it all much more seriously. His Bond became a 'Frankenstein monster' to him.

Moore inherited the part

ana all the attention, but he reacted with customary indifference. 'I'm not competitive like Sean. I work hard, but I can joke about it.'

Sarah Miles had some of her most successful roles created for her by her husband, writer and director Robert Bolt. He wrote Ryan's Daughter (1970) - ITV, Friday 28 December - with Sarah in mind.

The couple divorced in 1975 and, somewhere along the way, Sarah's career lost its momentum, too. The latter was no great hardship: 'One doesn't question success one is just greedy for

more. And therefore it's a completely valueless experience.'

In The Return of the Pink Panther (1974) - ITV, Christmas Eve - Peter Sellers repeats the role for which he is best remembered.

Like Connery and Moore, Sellers found one character which propelled his career and brought him riches.

But none of this neither his portrayal of Clouseau, nor its rewards - really impressed him. 'I am proud to have been a Goon,' he said towards the end of his life. 'I would like to be remembered for that.'

For once, he was being serious.

Sarah Miles (left) is the wilful and romantic Rosy in 'Ryan's Daughter': ITV, 28 Dec. Metallic heroes, C-3P0 and R2-D2 (below) in 'Star W ars': ITV, 30 Dec.

Burt K wouk and Peter Sellers join combat in The Return of the Pink Panther': ITV, Christmas Eve.

to offset the pressures that surrounded her.

In a dramatic public statement from the set of La V erite she said: 'I am a woman, just like any other.

'I have two ears, two eyes, a nose and a mouth. I have feelings and thoughts, and I am a wife and a mother above all else. But my life is becoming impossible.

My soul is not my own any more.

'Stardom to me is a monster; it is like the spell cast by the sorcerer's apprentice. I cannot live as I want to. If I want fresh air in my home, I cannot open my window because there's a photographer waiting with a telescopic lens. I would like to give up films if this continues...

Within weeks of the film's completion, Brigitte Bardot tried to kill herself - an event echoed in La Verite.

She has given up films now but, all these years later, the telephoto lens still keeps a watchful eye.

No wonder, perhaps, happiness has been so elusive.

George Segal and Jane Fonda (right) in 'Fun W ith Dick and Jane': ITV, Christmas Eve. Sean Connery (below left) in Dr No': ITV, 1 Jan. Roger Moore in The Man W ith the Golden Gun': ITV, Christmas Day.

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22 28 DECEMBER -

David Quinlan previews the Christmas films and Kenneth Thompson the TV movies on ITV and Channel Four

SATURDAY

Robert Powell, who plays Richard Hannay in the exciting chase thriller 'The Thirty Nine Steps', finds himself with time on his hands and in deep trouble on Big Ben. W atch the film on Thursday to find out what happens.

Home at Seven

F4 1 2.0pm-3.35pm -

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An intriguing murder mystery starring Ralph Richardson: he also directs. 1952

The Holly and the Ivy 3.35pm-5.5pm A well-acted, warm-hearted drama. 1952

This Is Elvis F41 z Opm-9,0pm -

Exceptional dramatised documentary about the legendary singer.

1981

Skateboard

1 41 1 1.30pm-1.20am SUNDAY Scrooge

BOXING DAY

A Place of One's Own

Hans Christian Andersen

10.55pm-12.40am Entertaining ghost story set in Edwardian times.

ITV 10.5am-12 noon 1944 Danny Kaye takes the title role in this biopic. The songs are delightful. 1953

CHRISTMAS DAY

Gnomes

lirTrVri 3.15pm-5.15pm

Bugs Bunny's Looney Movie

A Dickens of a musical. Albert Finney plays the title role with gusto.

1970

ITV 11.45am-1.15pm

Enchanting feature cartoon about feuding gnomes and trolls.

TVM 1980

The Masks of Death

What's up Doc? An unmissable feast of vintage cartoons hosted by the great rabbit — that's what.

1981

Kim

8.15pm-9.45pm 41 Peter Cushing returns to the role of

2 30pm 4 15pm -

Don Sharp's brisk direction of this remake of John Buchan's classic thriller keeps things moving.

1978

Somebody Killed Her Husband

ITV

7.30pm-9.15pm

Romance, mystery and murder with Farrah Fawcett.

1978

Oh! What a Lovely War 10.Opm-12. 30am

Segal, abetted by his wife (Jane Fonda) turns to crime.

1977

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A man in debt organises a skateboard team. Almost a period piece.

1977

The Thirty Nine Steps

12 noon-1.0pm

ITV 2.0pm -4.40pm

Richard Attenborough's starry screen version of the hit West End musical staged by Joan Littlewood.

1969

FRIDAY Mystery at Castle House

ITV

11.30am-1.0pm

Dark doings Down Under in a lively children's adventure.

1981

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break 11.45am-1.0pm

F41 12.0 noon-1.30pm

A lavish new version of the classic Kipling tale.

TVM 1984

Forget the dotty storyline and sit back to enjoy the many scenes of vintage W C Fields comic anarchy. 1941

Colin Finbow directs a talented group of children in a Wartime drama 1979

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

Suspenseful thriller which focuses on an attempted assassination in 1861.

1951

Jour de Fête

41 4.0pm-6.0pm

ITV

CHRISTMAS EVE

Rural comedy not to be missed.

Top-notch Hollywood foray into the great days of the British Empire 1935

Benji

Wizard Ray Harryhausen's marvellous trick effects decorate this lively Arabian Nights adventure.

1973

The Young Visiters

Sherlock Holmes.

TVM 1984

The Tall Target

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The Custard Boys

1.50pm-3.20pm

ITV 10.40am-12 noon

1949

3.20pm-5.0pm

Airplane!

ITV 9.15pm-10.50pm

Attractive family film with its clever canine star upstaging the humans. 1974

Writer-director James Hill's charming film of Daisy Ashford's book. TVM 1984

This hilarious spoof is probably the funniest film of recent years.

1980

The Return of the Pink Panther

The Man With the Golden Gun

La Write

iffy, 3.10pm-5.15pm Peter Sellers is back again as the accident-prone Inspector Clouseau. 1974

Dark Enemy

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An unusual and fascinating fantasy, the third film from the highly regarded Children's Film Unit.

1984

Fun With Dick and Jane

IITV 9.0pm-10.40pm Witty fun as white-collar worker George

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ITV

3.10pm-5,25pm

More action-packed Bondage with Roger Moore as 007.

1974

Raiders of the Lost Ark

PTV 8.30pm-10.40pm Steven Spielberg's all-action adventure full of old-fashioned entertainment. 1981

Home for the Holidays

ITV 11.35pm-12. 50arn The cosy title hides a terrifying story about a homicidal maniac. Fine stuff for night owls.

TVM 1972

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9.45pm-12.10arri

An erotic murder story starring Brigitte Bardot at her sexiest.

1960

THURSDAY Island of Adventure

ITV 10.0am-11.25am

2.46pm-4.45pm

The Time Machine

4

3.35pm-5.30pm

H G Wells' famed novel gets a very glossy treatment from Hollywood: Excellent special effects.

1960

ITV

Ryan's Daughter 8.0pm-9.50pm 10.5pm-11.50pm

David Lean's romantic all-star epic, with an Oscar-winning portrayal by John Mills: superb photography.

1970

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Refreshing film version of the first of Enid Blyton's 'adventure' books.

1981

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Captain Stirrick

Billy Wilder came to Britain to make this civilised spoof on the Great Detective. Great fun.

1970

A colourful musical about a band of Victorian child pickpockets.

1982

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1220 WORLD CUP SKI-ING The Men's Downhill from Bormio, Italy The stars test their prowess on a course that will be used again later in the world championships.

COMVINTATOR EMLYN JONES

12.45 ITN NEWS 12.50 ON THE BALL Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves discuss the Christmas chances of the teams battling at the top of the Canon League and give their inimitable views on the big stories of the week.

REPORTER JIM ROSENTHAL PRODUCTION TEAM TONY MILLS, JIM RAMSEY DEPUTY EDITOR RICHARD WORTH EDITOR BOB PATIENCE

1.15 RACING from Lingfield Introduced by John Oaksey.

1.20 — Tote Placepot Hcap Hurdle

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COMMENTATOR GRAHAM GOODE BETTING AND RESULTS JOHN TYRREL DIRECTOR JOHN SCRIMINGER

1.30 FIGURE SKATING The World Professional Championships from Landover, Maryland Torvill and Dean, arguably the greatest skating pair of all time, head an impressive line-up in this annual competition.

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2.15 RACING from Lingfield 2.20 — Tote Treble if cap Chase

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2.30 THE GAYMERS OLDE ENGLISH CYDER `CELEBRITY SIXES' from The La Manga Club, Spain Introduced by Jim Rosenthal.

England star Ian Botham leads a team of international cricketers; comedian Lennie Bennett captains the squad of showbiz and sports celebrities. And, with a finelybalanced handicap system, they battle it out — in pairs — over a set of tennis, a round of golf and six ovens of (what turned out to be) quite literally knockout cricket!

Partnering Lennie in the celebrity side is comedian Peter Cook.

Former England striker Malcolm Macdonald and ex-world champion boxer Jim Watt make up a pair, while newscaster Trevor McDonald is joined by TV 'action man' Patrick Mower. England women's cricket star Janette Brittin is the celebrities' 'super sub'. They've got their work cut out against Botham, Chris Cowdrey, Phil Edmonds, Pat Pocock, Derek Pringle and Eddie Hemmings.

COMMENTATORS JOHN HELM, FRED TRUEMAN, RENTON LAIDLAW, BILL THRELFALL EDITORS ROBERT CHARLES, TONY MILLS PRODUCER MICHAEL ARCHER DIRECTOR TED AYLING

3.10 FIGURE SKATING The World Professional Championships More from this spectacular event.

3.45 HALF TIME SOCCER ROUND-UP 4.0 WRESTLING from Aylesbury Catchweight: Billy Joe Beck (Belfast) v Ringo Rigby (Birmingham).

Heavyweight: Terry Rudge (Bedford) v Tom Tyrone (Strood).

International Heavyweight: Len Hurst (Kingston, Jamaica) v Butcher Bond (Deptford).

COMMENTATOR KENT WALTON DIRECTOR JOHN SCRIMINGER

4.45 RESULTS PRODUCTION TEAM TONY McCARTHY, MARK JACKSON, KEITH NIEMEYER, ANDREW DRUMLMOND ASSISTANT EDITOR ROBERT CHARLES DEPUTY EDITOR RICHARD RUSSELL EDITOR ANDREW FRANKLIN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER STUART McCONACHIE DIRECTOR PATRICIA MORDECAI

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Versatile Ian Botham shows his skill with golf clubs in 'Celebrity Sixes' at 2.30.

SATURDAY 10.0 The Saturday Starship

Yorkshire 6.25 TV-am: Good Morning Britain HENRY KELLY Weather with Cmdr David Philpott and News read by Jayne Irving at 6.25, 7.0 and 8.0.

Saturday Call 6.30.

Sport with Mike Morris 7.10.

Henry Kelly and guests 7.0.

Rustle Lee cooks at 8.15.

8.30 THE WIDE AWAKE CLUB The live children's show with a Christmas flavour. Arabella Warner, Timmy Mallett and James Baker present magician Fay Presto with Harvey the rabbit, and juggler Tim Batt. Plus Alvin Stardust in an unusual role, a mystery celebrity and a review of the five worst Christmas singles.

There's News in 90 Seconds at 9 o'clock and tales of ghosts, monsters and legends. Roland Rat opens another Advent calendar window at 9.4.

PRODUCED BY NICK WILSON TV-arn Production

925 Regional Weather Forecast followed by

Disney at Christmas 101 DALMATIANS

9.30 The Bells of Fraggle Rock :t's Christmas Eve at the lighthouse and snowing heavily. The Captain (Fulton Mackay) and Sprocket are worried that the weather is too bad for the mailboat to get through with their Christmas dinner.

See page 151 DIRECTORS JEREMY SWAN, DOUGLAS WILLIAMS EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ANNA HOME, JIM HENSON PRODUCERS DUNCAN KENWORTHY, LAWRENCE S MIRKIN TVS Production

V iewers in the Y orkshire region who can receive alternative programmes from adjoining Try areas will find that transmissions alter as follows:

CENTRAL 11.35 Film — The Love Ban. Hywel Bennett as a frustrated Roman Catholic.

ANGLIA 11.35 Sweeney.

GRANADA 11.30 Film — The Fury. Birk Douglas in thriller about child with psychic powers.

TYNE TEES 11.35 Film — The Love Ban. Hywel Bennett, Nanette Newman in light-hearted romp.

BONNIE LANGFORD TOMMY BOYD NIGEL ROBERTS Forget all your worries! The festive season really gets under way with the blast-off of this morning's flight of your favourite vehicle. Today, there are reminders of the best Christmas films and video releases and lots more.

There is no Starship next Saturday, but it gets back into orbit on 5 January.

PRODUCTION TEAM PAT HARRIS, KATHLEEN DARBY, TILL FRASER, SIMON MASSEY PROGRAMME ASSOCIATE PETER MATTHEWS DIRECTOR MIKE CONNOR PRODUCER GRAHAM MOLE Central Production

11.20 Durrell and the Dodo Documentary about naturalist Gerald Durrell's Jersey Zoo, which he founded 25 years ago. The zoo has become a world centre for the breeding of endangered species. One of the reasons for Durrell's success is his gift for communicating his love and knowledge of animal life. In this programme, introduced

by Patrick Allen, Durrell tells the story of the Zoo and Jersey's Wildlife Preservation Trust and how the struggle continues to save the world's threatened creatures.

Interviewer is Jane Bayer.

RESEARCH BARRY CARRUTHERS, DAWN HOWARD CAMERA ROY MANNING, TIM RINGSDORE EDITOR JIM BEST DIRECTOR BOB EVANS Channel Television Production

12.15 World of Sport See panel opposite

5.0 ITN News Oracle ITN News headlines throughout the week, page 101

5.5 to 5.40 Blockbusters BOB HOLNESE The game show in which 16to 18-year-old contestants test their speed and general knowledge on the Blockbusters game board to win great prizes. Presenter is Bob Holness. Produced in association with Mark Goodson and Talbot Television Ltd. DIRECTORS MIKE HOLGATE, DENNIS LIDDINGTON PRODUCER TONY WOLFE Central Production

All programmes are in colour unless otherwise stated

TVTIMES 22 December-4 January 1985

1.5 Making the Most Of... . your leisure time. Patrick

Reilly returns with his knitting machine and some new designs. Sue Lawty shows some simple ways of weaving, Leila Aitken makes a kimono and Bernard Crawford shows Toni Arthur how easy it is to make a musical instrument out of a piece of bamboo. Finally John Gale makes a kiln from bricks and sawdust and fires the clay he has worked during the past two weeks.

With subtitles for the deaf.

Presenter is Therese Birch.

For a free leaflet, write to address 1, page 51.

PRODUCTION IRENE COCKROFT, GUY CAPLIN, GRAHAM WATTS Yorkshire Television Production

1.30 Chips' Comic PARTY Elsa, Inky and Rover get ready for their Christmas party to celebrate finishing the Chips' Comic Book A Chips Comic Book and song cassette, price £2.25, are available at newsagents Educational notes for parents can be obtained from address 1, page 51.

Andrew Secombe Rover

Lnky Gordon Griffin Elsa O'Toole Elsa WRITER DAVID WOOD LIGHTING DIRECTOR MICHAEL SUTCLIFFE DIRECTOR TERENCE DUDLEY PRODUCER MAUREEN HARTER

'This is Elvis' and Priscilla on their wedding day, when the legendary K ing of Rock 'n' Roll was in his prime.

3.35 The Holly and the Ivy RALPH RICHARDSON At Christmas, the FILM Gregory family • gathers together in the little Norfolk village where Martin Gregory, the vicar of the local church, is looked after by his daughter Jenny. She would like to marry but feels she cannot leave her father. Then a second daughter, the glamorous Margaret, arrives.

Made in black and white

See page 47 Rev Martin Gregory Ralph Richardson Margaret Gregory Margaret Leighton Jenny Gregory Celia Johnson Denholm Elliott Mick Gregory John Gregson David Paterson Richard W yndham Hugh Williams William Hartnell Sgt Maj Robert Flemyng The major Roland Culver Lord B SCREENPLAY ANATOLE DE GRUNWALD FROM THE PLAY BY WYNYARD BROWNE DIRECTOR GEORGE MORE OFERRALL

Verronmead Production

2.0 Home at Seven RALPH RICHARDSON David Preston, a bank clerk returns home at seven, as he has done each evening for the previous 20 years. But tonight, as his wife knows, is different. For Preston did not return at seven the night before... nor at any other hour and £500 is missing from a fund of which Preston is treasurer — and the club steward has been murdered...

Made in black and white

See page 47 David Preston Ralph Richardson

Janet Preston Margaret Leighton Dr Sperling Jack Hawkins Insp Hemingway Campbell Singer Petherbridge

Ellen Peggy Dobson

Frederick Piper Diana Beaumont Meriel Forbes

SCREENPLAY ANATOLE DE GRUNWALD FROM THE PLAY BY R C SHERRIFF DIRECTOR RALPH RICHARDSON

5.5 Brookside Terry is worried about Michelle's growing friendship with Pat and the nurses. Harry is worried that Ralph is getting more Christmas cards than him. Sandra gets a surprise phone call from her husband. Bobby is reluctantly drawn into a case of sexual harassment.

6.0 Danger Man THE TRAITOR

What makes a man a traitor?

John Drake finds out when his latest assignment takes him to Kashmir, in northern India, and to drama high up a mountain in a lonely bungalow with a renegade Englishman and his beautiful wife.

Made in black and white Previously shown on PTV

John Drake Patrick McGoohan Ronald Howard Noel Goddard Louise Goddard Barbara Shelley Rollo W aters Jack Watling Banazji

Warren Mitchell

Derek Sydney George A Cooper Guy Deghy Guard on train DEVISER PRODUCER RALPH SMART Dll2ECTOR TERRY BISHOP Panah

Blatta

SCREENPLAY JOHN RODDICK

6.30 7 Days ROBERT KEE ANN LOADES GEOFF DRUETT Since the First World War and a rise in living standards, more and more people participate in the extravaganza of Christmas.

But why celebrate it if you are not a Christian and how much does it really mean if you are a Christian?

RESEARCH CATHERINE MORSHEAD, MARK SEAGER DIRECTOR TERRY STEEL ASSOCIATE PRODUCER DAVID POYSER EDITOR BARBARA TWIGG EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CHRIS JELLEY Y orkshire Television Production

7.0 News Summary and Weather followed by

This Is Elvis This film is a FILM combination of documentary and drama, recounting, with the help of newsreel and concert footage and re-enacted scenes, the sensational and finally sad story of Elvis Presley, from his childhood, through his superstardom to his early death at 42.

See page 47 Elvis (at la)

David Scott

Elvis (at 10) Paul Boensch Elvis (at 42) Johnny Harra Priscilla Rhonda Lyn Vernon Presley Lawrence Koller Gladys Presley Debbie Edge Dewey Phillips Larry Raspberry Bluesman

Minnie Mae

Furry Lewis Liz Robinson

Dana Mackay Elvis (at 35) Sam Knox Phillips Linda Thompson Cheryl Needham

Andrea Cyrill Ginger Alden Jerry Phillips Bill Black Emory Smith Scotty Moore SCREENPLAY/DIRECTORS MALCOLM LEO, ANDREW SOLT

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SATURDAY

Yorkshire 5.40 The Grumbleweeds Radio Show A special edition of the fastmoving comedy show with its own zany brand of fun, music and impressions featuring the lunatic five — Graham, Maurice, Carl, Robin and Albert. Watch out for Wilf Gasmask Grimshaw, Muffin De Bricasore, Sid Noxious and Shamus O'Hooligan.

See page 6 DESIGNER ALISON HART DIRECTOR IAN WHITE PRODUCER JOHN HAMP Granada Television Production

6.10 Punchlines LENNIE BENNETT PATTI BOULAYE FAITH BROWN FREDDIE DAVIES JAYNE IRVING DAVE LEE TRAVIS KENNY LYNCH BERNARD MANNING MIKE REID ISLA ST CLAIR JUNE WHITFIELD Celebrities disguised as Santas play in tonight's Christmas game featuring Lennie Bennett. The writer is Howard Imber with additional material by Garry Chambers.

Oracle sub - titles page 170 DIRECTOR VIC FINCH PRODUCER NOEL D GREENE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ALAN BOYD London W eekend Television Production

6.50 Russ Abbot's Christmas Madhouse Les Dennis, Dustin Gee, Jeffrey Holland, Sherrie Hewson, Susie Blake, Bella Emberg Tastefully decorated with holly and mistletoe, Russ Abbot and the gang break out on a seasonal spree.

Music director is Alyn Ainsworth.

See page 6

JOHN INMAN BARBARA WINDSOR BERNIE WINTERS CHRIS EMMETT MIKE NEWMAN LARRY NOBLE Caroline Munroe guests BILLY DAINTY ARTHUR ENGLISH FRED FEAST DAVY KAYE NORMAN VAUGHAN PANTOMANIA An all-star bill helps Roy Hudd and June Whitfield bring some of the all-time favourite scenes from pantomime to your screens.

There's also an all-star line-up of contestants, playing the quiz and the game for two charities: The Bud Flanagan Leukaemia Fund and the Handicapped Children's Aid Committee. Writers are Chris Emmett and John Bartlett with additional material by Eric • Davison and Wally MaLston.

Questions are set by Deborah Sutherland and the music director is Robert Hartley.

Oracle sub-titles page 170 RESEARCH SHIRLEY E JONES, LIZ HARRIS DESIGNER GORDON LIVESEY ASSOCIATE PRODUCER JOHN BART= EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ALAN TARRANT PRODUCER TERRY HENEBERY Y orkshire Television Production

8.50 Tarby and Christmas Friends JIMMY TARBUCK MILLICENT MARTIN THE MOODY BLUES DAVID BRENNER LES DENNIS and DUSTIN GEE A special festive edition of entertainment hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck and featuring comedy stars, entertainers and musicians from around the world. Plus, dance and music from The Brian Rogers Dancers and Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra.

DESIGNER BILL McPHERSON PRODUCER DAVID BELL DIRECTOR ALASDAIR MACMILLAN London Weekend Television Production

10.0 There's Something Wrong in Paradise KID CREOLE AND THE COCONUTS KAREN BLACK The Three Degrees A magical musical set on the mythical Caribbean island of Zyllha. Kid Creole and his Coconuts are shipwrecked on the island and anxious to get back home to New York, but Zyllha is ruled by President Nignat, who believes in racial purity. He is incensed by the Kid's mixed-race group winning his island's music festival. The president wants the Kid off the island.

Guerilla's want the kid's support. When he discovers his old girlfriend, Gina Gina, is running a pirate radio station and finds his true love Mimi, the scene is set for adventure, Music and lyrics are by August Darnell. Script

by Mustapha Matura.

Choreographer is Anthony Van Laast. Music director is Richie Close.

Kid Creole August Dame Gina Gina Karen Blac President Nignat Oscar Jame Major Po Paul Peter Strake Mimi Pauline Blac Coati Mundi Sugar Coated Andy Hernande 1Andriana Kae The Coconuts Cheryl Poirie Taryn Hage Jim Jam Trio The Three Degr Lorry driver Ruddy L Da The Duke Donald Eccle Tommy Eytl { The judges Alfred Fago Joseph II 1 Paul Medfor The Vivienne McKon teenagers Phillip B A nnouncer Count Prince Mill Madame 00 Barbara Yu Lin Veronica Brian Strach DESIGNER JAMES WEATHERUP DIRECTOR DAVID LIDDIMENT PRODUCER STEVE MORRISON Granada Television Production •

11.35 Return o 1.

The Saint CREATED BY LESLIE CHARTER'S

THE ARMAGEDDON ALTERNATIVE

BY TERENCE FEELY

A man threatens to blow u London if a girl is not guillotined in public.

Simon Templar Ian Ogil • Fred George Col

Oracle sub-titles page 170

Lynn Jackson Anouska Hempe Cmdr Denning Donald Housto Loader Frank Gatli Parkinson Gordon Gostelo Army Captain Ian Collie Bomb Squad officer Peter Quinc Telex operator Brian Haughto Police officer Edward Lyo Ray Callagha Hotel clerk

DESIGNER PIP GARDNER ASSOCIATE PRODUCER RUSSELL LANE DIRECTOR/PRODUCER DAVID BELL London Weekend Television Production

DIRECTOR LESLIE NORMAN PRODUCER ANTHONY SPINNER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ROBERT S BAKER

7.50 3-2-1 ROY HUDD JUNE WHITFIELD BERNIE CLIFTON SUZANNE DANDO ANITA HARRIS

9.45 ITN News

K id Creole makes magical music tonight at 10.0.

TVTIMES 22 December-4 January 1985

12.35 Closedown

9.0 Two Track Mind SUE JONES-DAVIES Jane Can Dermot Crowley Who is she — pop star or housewife? Is Kay really Karen or is Karen really Kay? This fast-paced musical drama takes the viewer on a mysterious journey. With six original songs. Story and lyrics by Vicky Pile, music by Mike Moran.

PRODUCER JACKY STOLLER DIRECTOR BARRIE GAVIN Tempest Films Production

9.45 Don Quixote MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE Mikhail Baryshnikov's production of Don Quixote has received wide acclaim: 'a marvel of speed, timing and razzle-dazzle' (Time magazine); 'splendiferous dancing, spectacle, colour and whimsey (W ashington Post); 'one of the most beautiful of American Ballet Theatre's extensive repertoire... great theatre and superb entertainment' (Saturday Review). Based on the Spanish classic by Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote tells the story of Kitri's wedding. Lorenzo wants his daughter, Kitri, to marry the dashing Gamache, but she is in love with the poor barber BasiL Don Quixote, searching for his ideal love, arrives with his faithful companion Sancho Panza and seeing Kitri believes he has found in her his Dulcinea, his vision of perfection. Basil and Kitri run away but are followed by Don Quixote and Sancho Panza whose antics innocently show Lorenzo and Gamache which way the lovers have gone.

The lovers are found and Kitri persuades her father to let her marry her 'dead' lover.

Basil returns to life immediately and they are married Choreography is by Mikhail Baryshnikov, music by Ludwig Minkus. The orchestra of the Metropolitan \ Opera House is conducted by Paul Connelly.

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Sue Jones-Davies in Two Track Mind', 9.0.

1120 Ian Breakwell's Christmas Diary ONE MILLION TURKEYS The diarist is besieged by killer rats, voracious trendies and dead fowls.

WRITER IAN BREAKWELL PRODUCER ANNA RIDLEY

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11.30 Skateboard ALLEN GARFIELD LEIF GARRETT KATHLEEN LLOYD Deep in debt to a FILM feared bookie, agent Manny Bloom starts up a professional skateboard team called the LA Wheels in the hope of recouping his losses Manny is soon in trouble when his star player starts to chafe under discipline and threatens to quit...

See page 47 Manny Bloom Allen Garfield Brad Harris Leif Garrett Millicent Broderick Kathleen Lloyd

Jason Maddox

Richard Van Der Wyk Tony Bluetile Tony Alva Sol Anthony Carbone Mrs Harris Patricia Hitchcock Jenny Bradshaw Ellen O'Neal Sol's henchman Sylvester Words Ranch Pam Kenneally Peter Steffens Steve Monahan Dennis David Hyde Vito Joe Bratcher Charlie Martin John Fox Woman in motel Thelma Pelish Mr Harris Gordon Jump Scott Damon Douglas Himself Orson Bean SCREENPLAY RICHARD A WOLF, GEORGE GAGE DIRECTOR GEORGE GAGE

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11.0 Cartoon Time

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Sit back and relax with some of your favourite cartoon characters.

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11.15 Day of a Bear Cub

6.55 TV-am: Good Morning Britain

9.30 The Fir Tree

The day starts early for the bear cub when he goes for a swim and disturbs the inhabitants of the marsh.

DAVID FROST Thought for a Sunday with a guest speaker 6.55,

News: Jayne Irving 7.0, 8.0.

7.2 RUB-A-DUB-TUB The programme for 4- to 8-yearolds has a season flavour today.

Singer Mike Maran joins Atarah Ben-Tovirn, Jon Miller and Dick King-Smith. Frances de la Tour reads The Secret Staircase by Jill Barklem. Alan Dart makes Christmas lanterns. Plus the usual cartoons.

8.2 Cartoon Special: Rainbow.

8.35 ROLAND RAT and his Christmas Countdown 8.30 THE DAVID FROST INTERVIEW including

Jeni Barnett's Pick of the Week 8.40.

Behind the News: a look at the weeks newspapers at 8.50, and News Headlines read by Jayne Irving at 9.0.

CAROL

Hans Christian Andersen's fable set in the 1890s about a young fir tree which longs to leave the forest in the hope of becoming a Christmas tree.

10.0 Morning Worship Worship this morning comes from St Georges Roman Catholic Cathedral in Southwark, south London, which was visited by the Pope during his memorable journey through Britain in 1982. The theme of this Maas is our final preparations for the coming of the Saviour at Christmas. Like the Pope's, the message today is one of peace, joy and reconciliation.

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11.45 The Smurfs Christmas Special Animated adventures with the little blue people. The Smurfs need every ounce of goodness they can muster to battle an even greater evil than their old enemy Gargamel.

12.15 Kelly's Eye MATTHEW KELLY Will there ever be enough food for the world's hungry?

Will there ever be an end to the pictures that we see in the press and on television of starving people? What can we do to help? Earlier this year, Matthew Kelly went to West Africa to seek answers to

these questions. He saw at first hand how a way of life had been changed beyond redognition in the wake of a drought which had affected countries as far apart as Senegal and Ethiopia. He met some of the people who are in the front line of development aid and who are helping to rebuild and reshape the lives of shattered communities. Research by Ron Olsen; filmed by Eddie Crooks; sound by Ian Richardson.

See page 151 EDITOR JOHN LOUVRE PRODUCER VIVIENNE SHLOSBERG DIRECTOR JAMES WHITELY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CRISPIN EVANS Tyne Tees Television Production

BRIAN MOORE Action from the top of Divisions One and Two with commentary by Brian Moore and Mark Tyler. Also, a special report on a third match.

PRODUCTION TEAM RICHARD WORTH, TONY MILLS, JIM RAMSEY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JEr t FOULSER DIRECTORS TED AYLING, ROY NORTON Independent Television Sport Production

All programmes are in colour unless otherwise stated

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BY TREVOR LANSDOWN. TONY BARWICK

The world's gold reserves are locked in a space Fort Knox.

Zelda realises that to wipe out this cargo would cause economic havoc. The monstrous Krell is despatched to Earth. Can the Terrahawks destroy it?

DIRECTOR ALAN PATTILLO PRODUCERS GERRY ANDERSON, CHRISTOPHER BURR

1.30 to 2.15 The Big Match

Bass Drum; 11.35 Star Fleet; 12.5 Spinnolio; 11.45 Family.

ANGLIA 9.30 Smurfs; 11.0 The Night the Animals Talked; 11.30 Cartoon; 11.45(am) Film - The Nutcracker. Cartoon version of Hoffman tale; 11.45(pm) Saint.

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SUNDAY classic, A Christmas Carol, with music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.

9.30 December Flower

See page 47 Oracle sub-titles page 170 Ebenezer Scrooge Albert Finney Marlers ghost Alec Guinness Ghost of Christmas Past

Yorkshire 2.15 Children Sing Christmas at Canterbury A concert of favourite

Christmas music from Canterbury Cathedral. During the singing a mysterious stranger leads two little children away from the pomp and brilliance of the high altar, as that they may discover Christmas again in the secret of the crypt.

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Simon Ainley John Gage Louise Cox Barry Wilkinson Barry Grantham Robert Hopkins Anthony Wellington

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Peter St James Scott St Martyn Stephen Varcoe

Also taking part are: The

Pestalozzi Children's Village Choir; the children of Holy Trinity C of E (Aided) Primary School, Ramsgate; The Cambridge Singers; The Choir of Canterbury Cathedral with organist Dr Allan Wicks and assistant organist David Flood; The London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble and The City of London Sinfonia with leader Malcolm Layteld. Music director is John Rutter.

Choreographer is Karen Rabinowitz.

DESIGNER CHRISTINE RUSCOE DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS ANGUS WRIGHT, DAVE HEATHER TVS Production

3.15 Scrooge ALBERT FINNEY ALEC GUINNESS A lavish and lively FILM musical version of Charles Dickens' imeless and much loved

BY JUDY ALLEN

Edith Evans Ghost of Christmas Present Kenneth More Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come Paddy Stone Nephew Michael Medwin Fezziwig Laurence Naismith Bob Cratchit David Collings Tom Jenkins Anton Rodgers

DIRECTOR RONALD NEAME

5.15 Jasper Carrott Got This Mole A cartoon story written and

told by Jasper Carrott. Jasper moves to the country only to find he is being plagued by a mole determined to dig up his garden. He tries all the remedies for mole eviction including mole smoke, garlic and even a 12-bore shotgun!

Animation is by Les Gibbard.

CAMERA ANTONY POOLEY DIRECTOR/PRODUCER MAURICE POOLEY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JOHN STARKEY

5.30 Bullseye It's Bully's Christmas bonanza — a special edition of the darts and general knowledge game hosted by Jim Bowen.

Jim calls for best of order' as three world champion dart players step up to the oche for festive battle. Their celebrity partners try to be on target with the answers, as everyone aims to win special treats for children's charities at home and abroad. Tony Green gets a glamorous assistant at the scoreboard and there's a treat for Jim — he meets two famous birds.

Script associate is Howard Imber. Produced in association with Chatsworth Television.

DESIGNER GIOVANNI GUARINO DIRECTOR/PRODUCER BOB COUSINS Central Production

6.15 ITN News

A touch of Dickens at Christmas. Albert Finney in the title role of 'Scrooge'. Inset, Alec Guinness as Marley. 3.15.

6.25 Highway Christmas Special

8.15 Surprise Surprise!

HARRY SECOMBE

CILLA BLACK CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS Festive fun and frolics abound in this Christmas edition of the family entertainment show.

Who knows what Santa Cilia is going to put in people's stockings and what that little elf Biggins will get up to?

Various celebrities will also drop in with their own seasonal surprises. Plus, there's the chance to win a huge hamper of Christmas goodies in the Phone Numbers game. Music by Alyn Ainsworth; the programme associate is Vince Powell

BETHLEHEM No, it's not the Bethlehem you normally associate with Christmas, but Bethlehem in Dyfed, West Wales, Nevertheless, this small village takes on a special Christmas air as Harry Secombe travels there on his Highway. For this specially extended programme, Harry is joined by Wendy Craig, Tim Healey, Roy Castle, Lorna Dallas, Evelyn Glennie, The Harpurs Hill School and many more guests.

PROGRAMME ASSOCIATE RONNIE CASS DIRECTOR JOHN MEAD EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BILL WARD HTV Production

7.15 The Queen and Her Ceremonial Horses

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PETER WILLIAMS THE STORY OF THE ROYAL MEWS At the heart of so many royal

occasions involving horses — be it a Coronation, Silver Jubilee, royal wedding — lies the skill of the staff of the Royal Mews. Their headquarters are behind Buckingham Palace and it is there that the Crown Equerry oversees the day-to-day running of this part of Britain's heritage. The Mews contains a collection of priceless carriages and the famous Windsor Grey horses and the Cleveland Bays. Peter Williams tells the story of the people and the horses in the Royal Mews — and discovers the close involvement of the Queen.

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Enjoy a glorious feast of Christmas carols from Canterbury Cathedral as 'Children Sing Christmas' today at 2.15.

Oracle sub-titles page 170 DIRECTORS PHIL BISHOP, JOHN GORMAN, TOM POOLE PRODUCERS BOB MERRILEES, BRIAN WESLEY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ALAN BOYD London Weekend Television Production

RESEARCH JO TAYLOR, DAVID HARGFtEAVES EDITOR SUE MASSEY DIRECTOR TONY SEARLE PRODUCER PETER WILLIAMS TVS Production

Family rows loom large in 'December Flower' tonight which stars Jean Simmons as Etta Marsh and Bryan Forbes (making a comeback to acting) as Harry Grey. Meaty drama for Christmas at 9.30.

JEAN SIMMONS MONA WASHBOURNE PAT HEYWOOD JUNE RITCHIE BRYAN FORBES Newly-widowed Etta Marsh goes to stay with her elderly Aunt M, whom she has never met. She meets hostility and resentment from all the people who are close to the old lady. Etta is convinced that her aunt deserves — and will respond to — better treatment. Despite rows and a dramatic revelation by the family, she is determined to succeed. Music is by Richard Hartley. The play features the first acting appearance for 17 years by Bryan Forbes, now one of the world's leading film directors.

Oracle sub-titles page 170 Etta Marsh Jean Simmons A unt M Mona Washbourne Mrs Cullen Pat Heywood Harry Grey Bryan Forbes Margaret Grey

June Ritchie Ann-Marie Gwatkin Richard Warner Dr Mere Richard Hope Engineer Christopher Fulford Cemetery supt Alan David Dentist James Carter Taxi driver Cyril Varley Wool shop lady Olive Pendleton Dress shop lady Judith Davis Receptionist Ann Aris

Jill Grey

Dr Waters

CAMERA RAY GOODE DESIGNER CHRIS WILKINSON DIRECTOR STEPHEN FREARS PRODUCER ROY ROBERTS Granada Television Production

TVTirnes is a member of the European TV Magazines Association

SUNDAY 10.45 Best Friends — Cleo Laine and John Williams NIGEL KENNEDY EMMA JOHNSON JOHN DANXWORTH AND HIS ORCHESTRA A selection of the very best in music, ranging from the popular He Was Beautiful from Cleo and John, to Elgafs Chanson de Matin played by the Young Musician of the Year, violinist Nigel Kennedy.

Emma Johnson performs a clarinet solo and John Dankworth conducts the Orchestra in his amusing version of Three Blind Mice.

The accompanist is Edward Moore.

DESIGN COLIN PIGOTT DIRECTOR/PRODUCER VERNON LAWRENCE Y orkshire Television Production

11.45 Hotel ANNE BAXTER JAMES BROLIN CONNIE SEILF',CCA LARRY WILCOX MEMORIES Another episode in this series following the dramas, romances and intrigues among the staff and glamorous guests of San Francisco's luxurious St Gregory Hotel. Christine Francis falls in love with a guest who is suffering from amnesia. But he is linked with a jewel robbery. Also, a childless couple seek an unorthodox way out of acquiring a baby of their own.

Mrs Cabot Anne Baxter

Peter McDermott James Brolin Christine Francis Connie Sellecca Mark Denning Shea Farrell Billy Griffin Nathan Cook Dave Kendall Michael Spound Julie Gillette Heidi Belafonte-Harper Dana Peterson Katherine Cannon Skip Peterson Rod McCary John White Roy Thinnes Brad Koburg Larry Wilcox Jennifer Koburg Cassie Yates Lit Morton Garry Walberg Doctor Seigler Alan Oppenheimer Margo W hite Devon Ericson

12.40 Five Minutes CHRISTMAS The Nokes family from York — Michael, Diane and their children Elizabeth, six, and Thomas, two, — tell Margaret Cundiff about their preparations for Christmas.

Tonight the children wrap up their grandparents' presents.

The carol is sung by Leeds Parish Church choirboy Royston Langdon.

PRODUCER MARY WATTS Y orkshire Television Production

12.45 Closedown

4.0 Book Four

ni= 1.5 Utopia Limited SANDRA NAIDOO THE PRICE OF LIFE The series that asks how the world could be made to work more efficiently and fairly.

The fishing port of Chimote in northern Peru supplies us with canned pilchards for human consumption and high protein fish meal for our animals. Yet two thirds of the children in Peru's shanty towns suffer from malnutrition, and one in eight dies before the age of five. Sandra Naidoo investigates the root causes of ill health in the Third World and asks what can be done.

For a study pack, price £2.95, write to address 1, page 51.

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER RICHARD KEEFE SERIES EDITOR DAVID TERESHCHUK IBT Production

1.30 Irish Angle Irish affairs and interests from an Irish perspective.

2.0 Silent Laughter A look at some of the best of the classic comedy shorts, starring Harry Langdon, Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton.

The programme includes The Butcher Boy which stars Fatty Arbuckle, but is also the first movie in which Buster Keaton appeared. Presented and compiled by Richard Evans.

Channel Four Presentation

3.30 NEW SERIES Citizen 2000 LOUISE — PORTRAIT OF A TWO YEAR OLD Louise is the second daughter of Myfanwy and Gordon Williams but she is by no means the youngest creature at her home which is a farm near the Brecon Beacons. The lambs she helps to feed, the calves, the foal, the dogs and chickens are all part of the daily experience of her life.

This programme shows what it is like to be a two year old in a Welsh farming community for Louise, one of our citizens of the year 2000.

FILM EDITOR CHRIS SAMES SERIES PRODUCER CATHERINE FREEMAN ASSOCIATE PRODUCER ANNIE MacDONALD DIRECTOR JUDY LEVER Thames Television Production

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Hermione Lee presents Book Fouts Books of the Year.

Germaine Greer, Peter Ackroyd and Humphrey Carpenter nominate their favourite book of 1984, the book they were most disappointed by, and the paperback they most enjoyed re-reading.

RESEARCH FRANCES DICKENSON DIRECTOR KIM EVANS PRODUCER JAMIE MULR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MELVYN BRAGG London W eekend Television Production

4.30 Karen Armstrong VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE Gerard Hughes is one of Britain's most prominent philosophers of religion and a member of the Jesuit order.

He considers whether of all the world's religions all lead to the same God or different Gods.

DIRECTOR K ANGUS ROBERTSON PRODUCER MICHAEL JONES EXECUTIVE PRODUCER NICHOLAS FRASER Griffin Productions

5.0 News Summary and Weather followed by

The Curious Case of Santa Claus

BY BOB LARBEY

Santa Claus has an identity crisis. Is he really Santa Claus? Why do people call him Father Christmas? Wasn't he born St Nicholas? He goes to see a psychiatrist. In a hilarious travelogue, consultant psychiatrist Dr Merryweather takes Santa from his birth in Turkey to our hearth in 1982.

Santa Claus James Coco

Dr Merryweather Jon Pertwee Barbara Sabina Franklin Professor C C Moore William Raymond CAMERA PETER WARRILOW DIRECTOR/PRODUCER ROBIN CRICHTON Edinburgh Film and Video Productions

6.0 American Football Nicky Home John Smith The final day of the regular season — the last chance for teams still hoping to make the play-offs. Dallas' visit to Miami is the pick of the games along with St Louis at Washington and Pittsburgh at the Los Angeles Raiders. There are only 10 places in the play-offs.

For the 18 that don't make it this will be their last week of competitive football until next September.

ASSISTANT PRODUCER MIKE WILMOT PRODUCER GARY FRANSES Cheerleader Production

Peter Cushing (left) as the legendary Sherlock Holmes and John Mills as Doctor W atson. 'The Masks of Death'. 8.15.

7.15 The Fingertip Phenomenon Spread-eagled under an overhanging rock ceiling with a sheer 1000 ft drop below him, Yorkshireman Ron Fawcett is in his element.

Moments later, he is casually hanging by a single arm, his legs hanging free in space.

The spectacular vertical walls of the Verdon Gorge in Southern France provide the challenges for Ron and Gill Fawcett and Gerry Peel.

See page 123 CAMERA MICHAEL MALONEY, SID PEROU DIRECTOR SID PEROU PRODUCER MICHAEL MALONEY Countrywide Film Production

8.15 The Masks of Death

BY N J CRISP

PETER CUSHING JOHN MILLS RAY MILLAND ANNE BAXTER ANTON DIFFRING GORDON JACKSON By 1913 — with FILM war clouds • • gathering over Europe — Sherlock Holmes has retired to his beekeeping in Sussex. But during a brief stay at his Baker Street apartments the Home Secretary arrives, unannounced, and begs Holmes to undertake one final, vital mission .

See page 47 Sherlock Holmes Peter Cushing Doctor W atson John Mills Anne Baxter Irene Adler Home Secretary Ray Milland Graf Udo Von Felseck Anton Diffring A lec MacDonald Gordon Jackson Miss Derwent Susan Penhaligon Anton V on Felseck Marcus Gilbert Mrs Hudson Jenny Laird Alfred Coombs Russell Hunter Frederick Baines James Cossins Lord Claremont Eric Dodson Lady Claremont Georgina Coombs Chauffeur James Head Boot boy Dominic Murphy EXECUTIVE PRODUCER KEVIN FRANCIS PRODUCER NORMAN PRIGGEN DIRECTOR ROY WARD BAKER Tyburn Production

9.45 Carols from Christ Church THE CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL CHOIR ALEC McCOWEN IAN CHARLESON THE WARWICK UNIVERSITY CHAMBER CHOIR Carols from Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford where the choir is conducted by Francis Grier. Readings by Alec McCowen and Ian Charleson. Music co-ordinator is Duncan Fraser, music director is Francis Grier.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER RICHARD HOLLOWAY DIRECTOR/PRODUCER JON SCOFFIELD Central Production

10.40 Ian Breakwell's Christmas Diary Domestic infernos, disastrous results of office parties.

10.50 The Tall Target America in the 1860s: A young New York sleuth, John Kennedy, believes he has uncovered a plot to assassinate the presidentelect, Abraham Lincoln.

Dick Powell John Kennedy Gunny Beaufort Paula Raymond Caleb Jeffers Adolphe Menjou Lance Beaufort Marshall Thompson Ruby Dee Rachel Homer Crowley Will Geer Richard Rober Lt Coulter Florence Bates Mrs Alsop SCREENPLAY ART COHN GEORGE WORTHINGTON YATES DIRECTOR ANTHONY MANN

12.15 Closedown

CHRISTMAS EVE breakfast. There's a big problem for Benji to solve when the two children are kidnapped.

See page 47 Edgar Buchanan Bill Peter Breck Dr Chapman Mary Patsy Garrett Paul Allen Fiuzat Cynthia Smith Cindy Mrs Finster Frances Bavier Christopher Connelly Henry Deborah Walley Linda Riley Tom Lester Mark Slade Mitch Officer Tuttle Terry Carter

2.0 Los Villancicos LUIS ALVAREZ

SCREENPLAY/DIRECTOR JOE CAMP

Yorkshire 625 TV-am: Good Morning Britain ANNE DIAMOND NICK OWEN Weather with Wincey 6.28, 6.59, 7.28, 7.59, 8.28, 8.59.

News: Gordon Honeycombe 6.30, 7.0, 7.30. 8.0, 8.30, 9.0.

Sport: Richard Keys 6.39, 7.37.

Vox Pop 6.35.

Mad Lizzie shakes out.

Today's the Day: Jeremy Beadle 6.51 Wincey's Wall 6.57, 8.57.

Caring Christmas Campaign Update 7.14.

Roland Rat 7.22.

Pop Video 7.54.

News Features 7.5, 7.33, 8.5.

Competition Time 6.44. 8.27.

Monday Specials: Astrology with Marjorie On 8.15; Greaves' TV Choice 8.34.

Cinderella — The Roland Rat Panto 8.37.

12.0 Freetime Christmas Special MICK ROBERTSON KIM GOODY Join Mick and Kim for the Freetime Christmas extravaganza Play the game, meet the stars and find out if the Reindeer Rebels can beat the Snowball Screamers.

RESEARCH JAYANA AUSTIN, MARTIN HEAD, AMANDA WOOD DIRECTORS JILL FULLERTON-SMITH GRAEME MATTHEWS, ANDREW THOMAS ASSOCIATE PRODUCER KATE CARGIN PRODUCER KATE MARLOW Thames Television Production

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Christmas spirit helps K ate Jackson and Brace Boxleitner in their roles as agents 'Scarecrow and Mrs King'. 1.45. for whom the strike has posed a moral dilemma.

RESEARCH LESLEY HILTON DIRECTOR DAVID BELLAMY PRODUCER NINA BURR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CATHERINE FREEMAN Thames Television Production

1.0 News at One 12.30 Goodwill to all Men In the seaside town of Deal, in Kent, the mining community is preparing for Christmas. But how will it be this year? The miners' strike is now in its ninth month and the programme shows the preparation for the celebration of the birth of Christ through the eyes of a miner and his family and through the eyes of the clergy

CAROL BARNES

Carol Barnes reports on news at home and abroad. Plus weather forecast and Financial Times share index.

PROGRAMME EDITOR DAVID MANNION ITN Production

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92.5 Regional Weather Forecast followed by

1.30 The Birth of Christ OLIVER HUNKIN

A look at the hidden meaning behind some of the paintings most often used to illustrate Christmas cards. Presenter Oliver Hunkin discusses the birth of Christ as seen by the Old Masters, with passages from the Bible read by Bill Croasdale.

Oracle sub-titles page 170 DIRECTOR LEN LURCUCK Yorkshire Television Production

1.45 Scarecrow and Mrs King THE LONG CHRISTMAS EVE

PRODUCERS ALICE POLE, CARLO PICCARDI Radiotelevision De La Suisse Iralienne

3.30 Wet Paint Artistic documentary. Inside Brussels, capital city of Europe, the fight is violent between the grey metallic beams, concrete walls and the other colourful walls!

3.55 Class of '39 1939, and the newly-formed Vienna Boys Choir tours the world to great acclaim until

In coaxing a spy to come in out of the cold after 23 years, agents Lee and Amanda discover that the Christmas spirit can be a formidable weapon in espionage.

Oracle sub-titles page 170 Kate Jackson Amanda King Lee 'Scarecrow' Bruce Boxleitner Beverly Garland Dotty Mel Stewart Billy Melrose

Sesame Street The Muppets and friends help two- to five-year-olds with their early learning development.

2.40 to 3.10 Take Over BROUGH SCOTT

10.25 Cartoon Time

Could you land the world's fastest passenger plane? Or drive an armoured vehicle at high speed over rough ground? Suzanne Danielle, Sally James, Peter Davison and Derek Thompson join with four members of the public to find out. With the aid of a simulator, presenter Brough Scott puts them to the test landing Concorde. The teams will be competing for a return flight on Concorde to Miami.

10.30 Benji EDGAR BUCHANAN Benji is a very independent dog.

He lives alone in a big, deserted house on the outskirts of town. So he has to make friends with a lot of people in order to live. But his best friends are Cindy and Paul, the children of Dr Chapman, and the doctor's housekeeper Mary, who each morning gives Benji his

A series of lively, dramatic cantatas by 18th-century Spanish composer Antonio Soler (1729-83). The work is set in Spain, 1760. A choirboy, a priest and a poet are arguing about the form the annual Christmas entertainment should take.

These cantatas have been rediscovered and restored to new life by musicologist Alice Pole. With Luis Alvarez (baritone); the Choir of Escolania Di Santa Cruz Del Valle De Los Caidos, directed

by Laurentino Saez De Buruaga; and the Arthur Haas Ensemble, music director Arthur Haas.

A hunt for food turns into a hunt for kidnappers for the

lovable and heroic little dog Benji'. 10.30.

DIRECTOR GEORGE SAWFORD PRODUCERS STEVE MINCHIN, JEFF HARVEY Thames Television Production

war breaks out and they are detained in Australia. In 1945 only one boy chooses to return home. . . This is the story of what happened to those boys, now men in their 50s, successfully settled in Melbourne. This film won the 1983 Penguin Award for Editing (Australian TV Society) and the 1984 Blue Ribbon Award, American Film Festival, New York.

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extensive debts. But 1976 is a slack year for aerospace activities and when Dick is summarily fired by his boss, the Harpers face an immediate crisis: no company car or credit cards, an unfinished swimming pool, a sudden influx of massive bills... and no cash. Jane tries part-time modelling while Dick carries a spear at the opera. When nothing slows their panic-stricken descent into poverty, Dick and Jane decide to turn to a life of

A YULETIDE ENTERTAINMENT

BY BRIAN TRUEMAN

The annual Christmas entertainment at Toad Hall is a wonderful opportunity for Toad to show off. Speeches

by Toad, songs by Toad and Toad the star of the show. But things do not go quite as he has arranged and someone else steps into the limelight.

Music and songs by Malcolm Rowe and Keith Hopwood.

Animators are Andrea Lord and Paul Berry.

Yorkshire 3.10 The Return of the Pink Panther PETER SELLERS CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER CATHERINE SCHELL HERBERT LOM For years, the priceless jewel known as the Pink Panther has remained on display as the national treasure of the eastern state of Lugash. Theft is impossible — but, with a combination of a crossbow, aerosol spray, floor wax and a very clever criminal. the impossible is achieved. General Wadafi, the head of state, insists that Inspector Clouseau, the Suretè detective who recovered the Panther once before, be called in.

Clouseau, already suspended for bungling, is reinstated. He immediately decides that the theft is the work of his old enemy, The Phantom.

See page 97 Oracle sub-titles page 170 Clouseau Peter Sellers Sir Charles Litton Christopher Plummer Claudine Catherine Schell Chief Insp Dreyfus Herbert Lom Col Sharki Peter Arne Gen Wadafi Peter Jeffrey Lugash Police Chief Gregoire Asian Cato Burt Kwouk The Fat Man Eric Pohlmann Mac David Lodge Pepi Graham Stark Francois Andre Maranne Concierge Victor Spinetti Blind beggar John Bluthal Psychiatrist Peter Jones Masseuse Claire Davenport SCREENPLAY FRANK WALDMAN, BLAKE EDWARDS DIRECTOR BLAKE EDWARDS

Programmes as Y orkshire except: CENTRAL 9.30 London Calling; 10.25 Christmas Message; 6.0 Crossroads; 6.25 Central News.

ANGLIA 6.0 About Anglia.

GRANADA 6.0 Crossroads; 6.25 Granada Reports.

TYNE TEES 6.2 Crossroads; 6.25 Northern Life.

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Michael Hordem Richard Pearson Peter Sallis David Jason Ian Carmichael

PRODUCERS MARK HALL BRIAN COSGROVE DIRECTOR CILRLS TAYLOR Thames Television Production

News at 5.45 6.0 Calendar RICHARD WHITELEY GEOFF DRUETT MARYLYN WEBB Latest regional news plus the local weather forecast.

Yorkshire Television Production

6.35 Crossroads Kath Brownlow has a surprise visitor who's very welcome.

Adam Chance reluctantly agrees to David Hunter's astonishing suggestion concerning Sarah Alexander.

This weeks cast: Adam Chance Tony Adams Miranda Pollard Claire Faulconbridge David Hunter Ronald Allen Paul Ross Sandor Eles Barbara Hunter Sue Lloyd Sid Hooper Stan Stennett Jill Chance Jane Rossington Benny Paul Henry Joe MacDonald Carl Andrews Mavis Hooper Charmian Eyre Kath Brownlow Pamela Vezey John Latchford Arthur White Sarah A lexander Annette Andre Donna Walker Kate Doming Iris Scott Angela Webb A nna Radek Dorota Zienska Douglas Brady Nigel Williams Glenda Banks Lynette McMorrough Kevin Banks David Moran Harry Maguire Bernard Kay J Henry Pollard Michael Turner Dr James W ilcox Robert Grange Gloria T illing Kate Binchy

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Christmas is celebrated in style at Toad Hall this year Rat takes his bow in The W ind in the W illows' at 5.15.

7.0 What's My Line?

Christmas Special EAMONN ANDREWS George Gale Barbara Kelly July Cooper Ernie Wise Patrick Mower A surprise-filled edition of the top-rating show, which is . enjoying a special Christmas revival.

RESEARCH SUE GREEN DESIGNER GRAHAM PROBST DIRECTOR STUART HALL PRODUCER MAURICE LEONARD Thames Television Production

7.30 Coronation Street It's Christmas Eve and there are presents for all. Vera Duckworth gets the tree she wanted and Rita Fairclough is delighted to receive an unexpected visitor. Bill Webster is hoping the season of goodwill will rub off on Kevin.

Oracle sub-titles page 170 This weeks cast: Bill Webster Peter Armitage Kevin W ebster Michael be Vell Debbie W ebster Sue Devaney Bet Lynch Julie Goodyear Cordon Lewis David Daker Betty Turpin Betty Driver Rita Fairclough Barbara Knox Ivy Tilsley . Lynne Perrie

WRITER LESLIE DUXBURY STORIES TOM ELLIOTT, PETER TONKINSON DESIGNER ERIC DEAKINS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BILL PODMORE DIRECTOR PATRICK LAU PRODUCER MERVYN WATSON Granada Television Production

8.0 Jim Davidson's Falklands Special JIM DAVIDSON Jim's Band A unique film, narrated by John Mills, follows the British entertainer 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic, which, twoand-a-half years ago, was a scene of conflict. From Ascension Island to Port Stanley, Mount Kent and Goose Green, Jim entertains the men and women of the armed forces, many of whom will not be home for Christmas. Guest singer is Tricia Dusky and the dancers are Vanessa Biddulph, Alison Richards, Sam Spencer-Lane and Sara Throssell.

See page 10 EDITOR TREVOR WAITE SOUND TREFOR HUNTER CAMERA TED ADCOCK PRODUCER ROBERT LOUIS DIRECTOR STUART HALL Thames Television Production

WRITERS RAYMOND BOWERS, DAVID GARFIELD, ARTHUR SCHMIDT STORIES PL- TBR LMIG SCRIPT EDITOR IVOR JAY DIRECTOR JOHN SCHOLZ-CONWAY PRODUCER JACK BARTON Central Production

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Gail Tilsley Helen Worth Brian Tilsley Christopher Quinten Jack Duckworth William Tarmey Vera Duckworth Elizabeth Dawn Terry Duckworth Nigel Pivaro Percy Sugden Bill Waddington Hilda Ogden Jean Alexander A Y Roberts Bryan Mosley Curly W atts Kevin Kennedy Tony Cunliffe Jack Can Dulcie Froggatt Margi Campi Ralph Froggatt Ted Beyer

9.0 Fun with Dick and Jane

Christmas in Baker Street: `Joy to the W orld', 10.50.

JANE FONDA GEORGE SEGAL Dick Harper, FILM • an aerospace engineering executive, and his wife Jane have a model middle-class American marriage, .a child, a dog, a black maid, a large new house and some

Oracle sub-titles page 170 Jane Harper Jane Fonda Dick Harper George Segal Charlie Ed McMahon Doctor W ill Dick Gautier Raoul Esteban Hank Garcia Mr W eeks Walter Brooke Jane's father John Dehner Jane's mother Mary Jackson SCREENPLAY DAVID GILEB, JERRY BELSON, MORDECAI RICHLER DIRECTOR TED KOTCHEFF

10.40 ITN News 10.50 Joy to the World JEAN ALEXANDER JEREMY BRETT JOHNNY BRIGGS DAVID BURKE KID CREOLE BETTY DRIVER JANE EAGLEN JULIE GOODYEAR DON HENDERSON DAVID PICKERING ROSALIE WILLIAMS David Pickering, 12-year-old Chorister of the Year, takes . you on a magical tour of Christmas past and present.

Baker Street, Coronation Street, a stable and Granada's Studio One (a new studio complex) are shared by famous faces, students of the Royal Northern College of Music and local children in this joyous celebration of Christmas. Music director is Joseph Ward.

DESIGNER JAMES WEATHERUP DIRECTOR ALAN GRINT PRODUCER JUNE HOWSON Granada Television Production

11.40 The Blessing of the Crib and the first Mass of Christmas from the Church of John the Baptist, Newcastle upon Tyne Maxwell Deas introduces this service. The vicar is the Rev John Dudley, assistant priest the Rev Anthony Magness, honorary assistant priest the Rev Graham Emery. Organist and choirmaster is Geoffrey Watson, deputy organist Trevor Stevens.

DIRECTOR JOHN REAY Tyne Tees Television Production

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PRODUCTION ASSISTANT AILEEN DUNKELD SOUND DAVE TOMLMISON CAMERA BOB HAR.EVIOND, TRYGUE BERGE DIRECTOR ALAN RODMAN ITN Produaion

6.0 Dark Enemy On the edge of the Dark Time, the Valley People live surrounded by a forbidden and inhospitable countryside, threatened at night by the mysterious faceless Moonchildren Then three boys set out on a quest to determine who will be the next Valley leader — and the youngest of them makes a series of horrifying discoveries about the true nature of their primitive world . .

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George Segal and Jane Fonda star as the typical A merican middle-class couple who, when the debts run up, turn to a life of crime — with highly comic consequences. ITV .

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(James Mason) is a reasonable man with the reasonable ambition of having 'A Place of One's Own'. A nnette (Margaret Lockwood) upsets his plans. Y ou can see how on Channel Four.

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Rory MacFarquhar David Haig Douglas Storm Martin Laing Chris Chescoe Cerian van Doomick Jennifer Haffissor.

Helen Mason James Guest Isobel Mason Oliver Hicks Bethan van Doomick James Kills Mark Wallace Philip Dragournis Eim Phipps Alan Chapman

DIRECTOR COLIN ENBOW Children's Film Unit

7.30 News Summary and Weather 7.35 Making a Splash Peter Greenaways film gently introduces the medium of water in its many forms. Shot in locations from the wilds of No Wales to the balmy seas of the South of France, the viewer .a see how man's fear of cirotomin• has been replaced by mastery of swimming. Music by Micha Nyman.

DIRECI'OR Pb I La GREENAWAY PRODUCER PAT MARSHALL Media Software international Proctacton

Its a quiet Christmas Eve in the Close — until Annabelle's catering is hi-jacked and Sheila is rushed to hospital Annabelle Collins Paul Collins Edna Cross Harold Cross Bobby Grant Sheila Grant

Barry Grant Thrrarn Grant

Doreen Sloane Jim Wiggins Betty Alberge Bill Dean Ricky Tomlinson Sue Johnston Paul Usher Simon O'Brien Shelagh O'Hara Anna Keaveney Allan Patterson

Karen Grant Marie Jackson Cery Jackson Little George Jackson Steven Patterson Michelle Jones Tracey Jay Andrew Paul Beringer Kevin Cross Stuart Organ Ralph Hardwick Ray Dunbobbin Marty Nolan Tony Scoggo Teresa Nolan Ann Hadyn-Edwards Terry Sullivan Brian Regan WRITER ANDY LYNCH DESIGNER CAROL SHEERAN DMECTOR BOB CARLTON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

PaiL REDMOND Mersey Television Ltd Production

820 The Mating Call

BY MORT LACI-NAN. SY ROSEN

JOE REGALBUTO IAN LAVENDER JUNE CHADWICK RIEDE HOWARD ROYSTON FARRELL MARCIA STRASSMAN

Marty Ross, an American reporter for a New York magazine, works in London for the Metro-Press. He's an average American with average looks; height weight and below average results with girls With his friends Jonathan and Katie Grant to support him through his tangled emotions, Marty tries to trace the start of his below average successes Then Marty meets Joan, a friend of Katie's — exquisite, intelligent and attractive, everything a man could want in life. But can Marty keep her affections?

Marty Ross Joe Regalbuto Katie Giant

Jonathan Grant Joan Sims Frank Sims iris

Marcia Straarna_n Ian Lavender June Chadwick Royston Farrell Rikki Howard

DESIGNER RICHARD JARVS EccutrivE PRODUCER MORT LACHMAN MECTOR JOE IMcGRATH Yorkshire Television Production in association with Alan Landstrurg Pzoductions

performances, recording sessions TV appearances and above all the constant travelling.

From Mexico City to Madrid from Verdi at La Scala to TV song and dance spectaculars in Hollywood; from film roles in Carmen and La Traviata to a gala performance before the Queen Mother at Covent Garden Everywhere he goes he charms and conquers.

Placido is self taught 'a child of the theatre, now at the height of his career. He is also shown to be a man of great warmth and generosity who loves to talk about his music.

DIRKTOR/PRODUCER REVEL GUEST Trarreftantic Films Production

10.45 Ian Breakwell's Christmas Diary VICTORIAN VALUES

Chrisa nas is coming and the fat are getting fatter. The thin are getting thinner but what does it matter?

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10.55 A Place of One's Own MARGARET LOCKWOOD JAMES MASON

A film version of the famous ghost story by Osbert Sitwell about a middle-aged couple on the verge of retirement. looking for a place of their own, they choose a house which, if rather run down, seems to be a wonderful bargain ..

Ma de black and white

See page 47 Annette Margaret Lockwood Mr Smedhurst James Mason Mrs Smedhurst Barbara Mullen Dennis Price Dr Selbie Mrs Manning-Thtthom Helen Haye Maj Manning-Thtthom Michael Shepley Sarah Dulcie Gray George Moore Marriott Perlin 0 B Clarence Barmaid Helen Coss Cook Edie Martin PC Hargreaves Gus McNaughton SCREENPLAY BROCK WILLIAMS DIRECTOR BERNARD KNOwLES

12.40 Closedown

9.0 Placido A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF PLACIDO DOMINGO

The greatest singer of our time; The king of the opera'; Superthroat; `Heart-throb' — Placido Domingo has been called all that and more.

Whatever the critics say, he may well be the busiest singer in history. In his own words 1 was born with a mission to sing, to bring the joy of music to the largest audience I can.' This film is a record of a single year in his life; the rehearsals

Bethan van Doornicl ' c, Rory MacFarquhar Dark Enemy'.

11.10 11 Poverello — The Story of St Francis of Assisi A repeat of the programme to

Yorkshire 625 TV-am: Good Morning Britain's Christmas Party With Nick Owen, Anne

Diamond, Wincey Willis, Rustle Lee, Gyles Brandreth, Eve Pollard and Jeni Barnett The Caring Christmas Campaign comes to a successful end and we meet the winner of the 'Design a Card for Santa' competition.

Dr Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury,

brings a Christmas message plus carols with the Good Morning Britain kids.

Cartoon Special is at 6.25 and News with Gordon Roneycombe at 7.0, 8.0 and 9.0.

Roland Rat Superstar phones children in hospital to wish them a Merry Christmas

9.25 Regional Weather Forecast followed by

9.25 Dangermouse Double Bill Once Upon a Time Slip. The Long Lost Crown Affair WRITER BRIAN TRUEMAN DIRECTOR BRIAN COSGROVE PRODUCERS BRIAN COSGROVE, MARK HALL Thames Television Production

The Queen attends this morning's service at 10.35 and addresses the Commonwealth at 3.0.

9.45 Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends BASED ON THE RAILWAY SERIES BY THE REV W AWDRY

Ringo Starr reads the stories.

In Dirty Objects, James the Red Engine learns it is unwise to speak rudely to other engines. You never know what will happen next. In Thomas's Christmas Party, Thomas and his friends from the engine shed say thank you to an old lady.

DIRECTOR DAVID MITTON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BRITT ALLCROFT Central Production

9.55 Emu at Christmas ROD HULL CAROL LEE SCOTT SUSAN MAUGHAN CARL WAYNE FREDDIE STEVENS Children from the Corona Stage School King Boggle, Princess Hortensia and the faithful Odd Job John make their first visit to the outside world. They arrive at the Pink Windmill in time to save Emu from the terrible fate planned by Witch Grotbags, only to find themselves captured in turn by the Magnificent Fred.

Songs include Celebration, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Going Places Music director is Colin Campbell and choreographer is Alan Harding. Written and devised by Rod Hull.

See page 151 DESIGNER NORMAN SMITH DIRECTOR/PRODUCER COLIN CLEWS Central Production

10.35 The Christmas Morning Service

Roland Rat makes breakfast phone calls to young patients.

from St George's Chapel, Windsor The Queen and members of the Royal Family are in attendance as Alastair Burnet

introduces traditional morning worship, which includes many of the most loved Christmas darols and hymns, from St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. The sermon is preached by the Dean, the Rt Rev Michael Mann; the lessons are read by Canon D I T Eastman and Canon J D Treadgold and the service is conducted by the Rev Frank Baker. Director of music is Christopher Robinson. Organist John Porter.

PRODUCER JIM POPLE Thames Television Production

11.45 Bugs Bunny's Looney Movie Bugs Bunny stars in this wild and rollicking featurelength movie, romping with his pals through a three-act film featuring a collection of Fritz Freleng's cartoons — some classic, some new. In Act I, Yosemite Sam raises hell with the Devil In Act II, Bugs outwits a couple of inept gangsters. In Act III, Bugs acts as host for a zany parody of all Hollywood Award programmes.

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Voice characterisations: Mel Blanc, with June Foray, Frank Nelson, Frank Welker, Stan Freberg, Ralph James

mark the 800th anniversary of the birth of St Francis of Assisi. Sometimes dismissed as the near-demented friar who spoke to the birds, he is also considered as much a revolutionary as, say, Karl Marx. Certainly he changed the world. The little poor man' he liked to be called, yet his impact on his time was such that emperors and kings hung on his every word and his appeal now is as strong as ever. Robert Lang narrates this account of how a 12th century friar from a relatively unknown part of Italy has maintained such international and historical prominence 800 years later.

CAMERA SLIM HEWITT EDITOR NOEL CHANAN WRITER/DIRECTOR PETER BATTY Peter Batty Productions Ltd

12.0 The Custard Boys England in 1942: a group of London boys are evacuated to East Anglia and a countryside they neither like nor respect. Mark Stein, an Austrian refugee baited by the other boys because he is Jewish, is given into the care of John Curlew, who hardly relishes his new responsibility. Meanwhile, the London 'gang, taunted by country rivals, decide to take action, and fix a time and place for a decisive pitched battle...

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Chris Chescoe

Ben Clennell Lewis Craig Eric Milliett Mark Stein Paul Bolton Jacob Freen W illy A ldrich Matthew Commack A ndrew Craig Andrew Atkinson Sarah Clennell Diana Freen John Rae Vicar John Curlew (grown up) Tony Collins M r Curlew Les Scott Mrs Curlew Glenn Dunderdale Doug Dawes Headmaster Mr W ilson Roger Cleave Dave Stahbury Dr Freeman Jenny Clennell Mrs Freeman Oscar Romp A rthur Chettle SCREENPLAY K1RAN GARCHA, COLIN FINBOW DIRECTOR COLIN FINBOW

1.30 The World of Children The world of children is full of images and ideas and this film plays with some of them.

Parents, authority and racism are highlighted but slugs, snails and puppy dogs' tails are not excluded. Animation and action photography are mixed in an exciting and thought-provoking way. Music

by Gary Carpenter.

CAMERA BILL FOULKS SOUND CHARLIE WARE ANIMATION/EDITOR/DIRECTOR VERA NEUBAUER PRODUCER SIMON HARTOG Spectre Production

1S0 Jour de Fête JACQUES TATI In the small French market village of Follainville, the local postman is the butt of the villagers because of the leisurely way in which he goes about his rounds. Nettled by a comparison with the speed of the American postal service, the postman determines to show everyone how superefficient he can be...

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Show-woman Hairdresser

Jacques Tati Guy Decombe Paul Frankeur Maine Vallee Santa Relli Rafal

SCREENPLAY JACQUES TATL HENRI MARQUET DIRECTOR JACQUES TATI

SCREENPLAY JOHN DUNN, DAVID DETIEGE, FRITZ FRELENG DIRECTOR FRITZ FRELENG

1.15 to 2.0 Top Pop Videos 1984 A selection of the years top pop videos from the biggestselling British single releases, featuring Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Wham!, Duran Duran, and Boy George with Culture Club.

See page 113 EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ROBERT LOUIS DIRECTOR/PRODUCER DAVID G HILLIER Thames Television Production

Pictured piety. '11 Poverello — The Story of St Francis of Assisi' celebrates a 800-year-old phenomenon: 11.10.

CHRISTMAS DAY Mary Goodnight Britt Eldand Andrea Maud Adams Nick Nack Herve Villechaize J W Pepper Clifton James Hip Soon Taik Oh Hai Fat Richard Loo Rodney Marc Lawrence M Bernard Lee Miss Moneypenny Lois Maxwell Lazar Marne Maitland Q' Desmond Llewellyn Colthorpe James Cossins

11.35 The Christmas Night Thriller WALTER BRENNAN HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Old Benjamin Morgan's four daughters are coming back for Christmas to heir family home — for the first time in nine years.

Benjamin needs them, for he suspects that his young second wife, Elizabeth, is trying to poison him.

SCREENPLAY RICHARD MAIBAUM, TOM MANKIEWICZ DIRECTOR GUY HAMILTON

5.25 ITN News

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5.30 Give Us a Clue

Yorkshire 2.0 Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean Special An hour of non-stop action from the greatest-ever ice dance pair. Torvill and Dean's searing interpretation of Bolero at the championships in Ottawa last March won them their fourth consecutive world title, but their earlier performances are just as memorable. Their rock roll 'exhibition of 1981 helped inspire the Original Set Pattern rock 'n' roll routine in the 1983 world championships in Helsinki. You can see both performances in this programme, which also contains previously unscreened highlights from the last four years of their amateur career. Simon Reed introduces this special Christmas programme.

See page 22 DIRECTOR/PRODUCER JOHN DAVIS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BOB BURROWS Thames Television Production

3.0 The Queen The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth.

3.10 The James Bond Film ROGER MOORE THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN

James Bond's search for the dreaded Scaramanga — professional assassin, million dollar killer, the man with the golden gun — takes him and his lovely assistant Mary Goodnight, via Beirut and Macao, to Hong Kong and Thailand. Knowing that Scaramanga has stolen a device that is the key to harnessing the sun's energy, Bond sets out to retrieve it.

See page 47 Oracle sub-titles page 170 James Bond Roger Moore Scaramanga Christopher Lee

MICHAEL PARKINSON UNA STUBBS LIONEL BLAIR JULIA McKENZIE SPIKE MILLIGAN NICOLA PAGETT WAYNE SLEEP JULIE WALTERS BERNIE WINTERS Michael Parkinson introduces a special Christmas edition of the celebrity charades game.

Oracle sub-titles page 170 DESIGNER HARRY CLARK DIRECTOR/PRODUCER DAVID CLARK Thames Television Production

6.0 Bring Me Sunshine — A Tribute to Eric Morecambe, OBE Introduced by Ernie Wise from the London Palladium, in aid of the British Heart Foundation

In the presence of Prince Philip, Patron of the Foundation, and guest of honour Mrs Joan Morecambe, the stars pay tribute to a much-loved comedian who died earlier this year. The range and quality of artistes appearing make it an outstanding showbusiness event. They are: Michael Aspel Kenny Ball Alison Bell Lionel Blair Max Bygraves Cannon & Ball James Casey Roy Castle Petula Clark Leslie Crowther Barry Cryer Suzanne Danielle Jim Davidson Dickie Davies Frank Finlay Bruce Forsyth Jill Gascoine Cherry Gillespie Hannah Gordon The Half Wits Susan Hampshire Dickie Henderson Benny Hill Diane Keen Bonnie Langford Lulu Francis Matthews Fulton Mackay Nanette Newman Des O'Connor Mick Oliver Elaine Paige Michael Parkinson Bertice Reading Angela Rippon Wayne Sleep Jimmy Tarbuck John Thaw The Tiller Girls (Choreographer Fred Peters) Arthur Tolcher Bryn Williams Ernie Wise Eli Woods Mike Yarwood The Irving Davies Dancers The Stephen Hill Singers.

The orchestra is directed by

Agent James Bond (Roger Moore) goes east and his foes go west in 'The Man with the Golden Gan', 3.10.

Harry Rabinowitz, and choreographer is Irving Davies. The script is by Barry Cryer and Sid Colin. The production is staged and directed by Mark Stuart and Robert Nesbitt.

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A 72-page souvenir brochure has been produced for this event, with proceeds from its sales going to the British Heart Foundation. A minimum donation of £3 is requested — to make sure of your copy, please send a large sae (40p stamp) to: Bring Me Sunshine, 23 Hungerford Lane, London WC2N 5JP. Cheques and POs should be payable to Thames Television (Bring Me Sunshine account).

CONSULTANT BILLY MARSH DESIGNER PETER LE PAGE DIRECTOR MARK STUART EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS PHILIP JONES, LOUIS BENJAMIN Thames Television Production

8.30 Raiders of the Lost Ark HARRISON FORD KAREN ALLEN Returning from a hair-raising adventure in the jungles of South America in 1936, from which he is lucky to escape with his life, buccaneering archaeologist Indiana Jones learns that Nazi treasure hunters are believed to have found the 'lost' Egyptian city containing the Well of Souls, supposed to be the hiding place of the 'ark containing the tablets of God's law. Indiana finds the trail to Egypt packed with perils...

See pages 14 and 47 Oracle sub-titles page 170 Indiana Jones Harrison Ford Marion Ravenwood Karen Allen Belloq Paul Freeman Toht Ronald Lacey Sallah John Rhys-Davies Marcus Brody Denholm Elliott Satipo Alfred Molina Dietrich Wolf Kehler Imam Tulle Lemkow Gobler Anthony Higgins Monkey Man Vic Tablian Colonel Musgrove Don Fellows SCREENPLAY LAWRENCE KASDAN DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG

10.40 ITN News 10.45 Des O'Connor Tonight Des O'Connor invites you to join him in a special Christmas edition of his show when he celebrates the festive season with some of the best international entertainers around. So sit back and enjoy yourself as Des interviews his guests in that unique, relaxed style that's spiced with amusing anecdotes and jokes. There are also a few surprises to round off 50 minutes of fun that you won't want to miss.

Script associates are Eric Davidson and Roy Tuvey.

Music director is Colin Keyes.

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Walter Brennan Jessica Walter Sally Field Julie Harris Eleanor Parker Jill Haworth John Fink Med Flory

TELEPLAY JOSEPH STEFANO DIRECTOR JOHN LLEWELLYN MOAT

12.50 Peace To achieve peace, bridges must be crossed and, on this Christmas night, meet some people who are building some of these bridges.

Thames Television Production

1.0 Closedown

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3.20 The Young Visiters

Ethel (Tracey Ullman) and Bernard (John Harding) with 'The Y oung Visiters' on Channel Four.

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'See How 'hey Run': 8.30 Royce Mills, Michael D enison, Christopher runothy, Peter Blake, and Derek Nimmo on Channel Four.

TRACEY ULLMAN KENNY IRELAND JOHN HARDING JOHN BETT JOHN STANDING ALEC McCOWEN In 1890, a nineyear-old girl named Daisy Ashford sat down and wrote a novel called The Young V isiters. The pencil-written manuscript was read 25 years later by J M Barrie who acclaimed it a work of genius which had to be published.

And published it was in 1919, with Daisy's unique spelling, and was an immediate success. It centres on Alfred Salteena, an elderly' man of 42, who is fond of having people to stay with him. Ethel Monticue, one of his 'friends', is taken by Mr Salteena to meet a rich friend, Bernard Clark, for Mr Salteena aspires to be a 'gentleman'. Climbing up the social ladder, Mr Salteena actually meets the Prince of Wales, but in the meantime the dastardly Bernard is taking the fickle Ethel to the Gaierty Hotel... and Mr Salteena gets 'rather jellus'.

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Harrison Ford as audacious Indiana Jones faces allaction adventure around the world. Can you keep up with Raiders of the Lost Ark'?

Find out on ITV.

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Daisy A shford Carina Radford Ethel Monticue Tracey Ullman A lfred Salteena Kenny Ireland Bernard Clark John Harding Bryan Pringle ML-mit the butler Horace the footman Colin McCormack Edward Procurio Anthony Milner Earl of Clincham John Belt Prince of W ales John Standing A rchbishop of Canterbury' Leonard Maguire Lady Herring Kate Percival Bessie Top Annette Badland Alec McGowen J M Barrie EDITOR ROBERT HARGREAVES MUSIC JOHN CAMERON CAMERAMAN WOLF SUSCBTTZKY SCREENPLAY JAMES HILL, FROM THE NOVEL BY DAISY ASHFORD PRODUCER/DIRECTOR JAMES HILL A James Hill Production

5.0 The Queen The Queens speech to the Commonwealth.

5.10 Giselle Galina Mezentseva Konstantin Zaklinsky Tatyana Terekhova The Kirov Ballet Galina Mezentseva, whose performances have established her place among the great ballerinas of the Kirov, dances the title role.

Giselle is a simple peasant girl driven from joy to madness and death through an unhappy love. She becomes a ghost ordered to help destroy the man who betrayed her, Albrecht, danced by Konstantin Zaklinsky. This recording from the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad was directed for TV and video by the awardwinning Danish director Preben Montell. Music by Adolphe Adam, choreography

by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot.

Conductor is Viktor Fedotov.

Giselle A lbrecht Myrtha

Galina Mazentseva Konstantin Zaklinsky Tatyana Terekhova

National Video Coporation

7.10 News Summary and Weather followed by

Loriot The British debut of Germany's leading humorist and cartoonist. A cross between a Prussian aristocrat and Jacques Tati, Loriot is Germany's gentle and witty counter to the standing charge that the country lacks the virtue of humour. Far from denying this charge, Loriot seeks to prove it. Made with the cooperation of Studio Hamburg, Radio Bremen, Sender Freies Suddeutscher Rundfunk and Zweites Deutsche Fernsehen Script consultant is Timothy Moores, principal English voice is Andrew Sachs.

BRITISH DIRECTOR TONY WALLIS ASSOCIATE PRODUCER KURT HOFFMAN PRODUCER STEPHEN HEARST Orsino Production

8.0 Brookside Marie tries not to let George's absence spoil Christmas for the twins. The Grants are visited by three shepherds — and an ass.

For cast, see Monday

8.30 See How They Run

BY PHILIP KING ADAPTED FOR TELEVISION

BY RAY COONEY

MICHAEL DENISON LIZA GODDARD MAUREEN LIPMAN DEREK NIMMO CHRISTOPHER TIMOTHY PETER BLAKE CAROL HAWKINS ROYCE MILLS BILL PERTWEE Into a country vicarage in wartime England sneaks an escaped prisoner of war to disguise himself as a clergyman. Into the same vicarage strolls an old friend of the vicar's scatterbrained wife — and he, too, soon exchanges khaki for clerical garb in his pursuit of a good

Ricky Tomlinson and Sue Johnston. 'Brookside', 8.0. night out. Enter a real-life bishop, a totally bemused visiting preacher and the thoroughly sloshed village busybody...

Miss Skillon Maureen Lipman Ida Carol Hawkins Rev Lionel Toop Royce Mills Penelope Toop Liza Goddard W illie Briggs Steven Mackintosh Lt Cpl Clive W inton Christopher Timothy Ray Cooney Police sgt The intruder Peter Blake Bishop of Lax Michael Denison Rev Arthur Humphrey Derek Nimmo Ticket collector Anthony Verner Sgt Towers Bill Pertwee

{ James Charles Marc Raymond Alan Stone Gertie Genie EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MICHAEL BLAKSTAD PRODUCER MARTIN SCHUTE TV DIRECTORS LES CHATFILD, RAY COONEY TV &Theatre of Comedy Production Soldiers

10.0 Jean Sibelius VLADUVER ASHKENAZY THE SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ELISABETH SODERSTROM BORIS BEL= THE EARLY YEARS/ MATURITY AND SILENCE

This prizewinning film by Christopher Nupen, David Findlay and Peter Heelas, is not a documentary account of events in this great composer's life. It is an attempt to film and Sibelius's music and words to try and convey something of his extraordinary creative and poetic spirit to the television audience.

SOUND HANS LARSSON,

MARTI TURUNEN DUBBING MIXER ALAN DYKES A llegro Films Production

11.55 Ian Breakwell's Christmas Diary 1984

A global review of the year.

From the laundrette to Lords, from County Cork to the Costa del Sol, from Long Eaton to Outer Space.

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11.10 A Lineside Look at Model Railways Bob Symes

A auided tour of the lost world of railways — in miniature — with such favourites as Chewton Green, Windlesham Cove, Petherick, Rye Harbour and Bromford and High Peak Stations. Guide is Bob Symes.

Yorkshire 6.25 TV-am: Good Morning Britain's Boxing Day Spectacular CHARLES GOLDING ARABELLA WARNER Film reviewer Charles Golding

and W ide A wake Club presenter Arabella Warner host this special Boxing Day show. They will be welcoming many guests, including TVTimes astrologer Russell Grant, singing star Dana, Little Foxes, comedian Jimmy Edwards and bubbly Caribbean cook Rustle Lee who invites lovable rodent Roland Rat into her kitchen — with some hilarious results, Also appearing are classical music group Rondo Veneziano, Lon Satton from the sell-out West End spectacular Starlight Express and the

London Gospel Choir.

Gordon Roneycombe reads

the news and weather at 7.0. 8.0 and 9.0.

t indicates Repeat

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Storyteller 'Hans Christian A ndersen' (Danny Kaye) spins Peter (Joey W alsh) an enthralling yarn, 10.5.

9.25 Regional Weather Forecast followed by

9.55 Cartoon Time

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

10.5 Hans Christian Andersen

ROBERT HARDY

DANNY KAYE

Hamelin councillors promise to pay the Piper to rid the town of its rats. The Piper does so. But the councillors refuse to pay — and the townsfolk pay dearly. Music David Rohl, Stuart J Wolstenholme; puppet design

by Bridget Appleby; puppets animated by Barry Purves, Marj Graham.

Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This film is about the famous spinner of fairy tales.

FILM EDITOR JOHN McMANUS DIRECTOR MARK HALL PRODUCERS MARK HALL, BRIAN COSGROVE Thames Television Production

See page 47 Hans Niels Doro Peter Otto The Hussar The Prince

Danny Kaye Farley Granger

Jeanmaire

Joey Walsh Philip Tonge Erik Bruhn Roland Petit

SCREENPLAY MOSS HART, FRANK LOESSER DIRECTOR CHARLES VIDOR

TECHNICAL ADVISER KEN ASHBERRY WRITER/DIRECTOR RON HADDOCK PRODUCER HEATHER DAVIES Chess V alley Films and V ideo

12.0 Gnomes Based on the million-copy bestselling book by • Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet, this animated feature deals with a 101-yearold gnome who believes he is still too young for marriage.

However, Liza, a pretty young (well, pretty young by gnome standards) blonde gnome, is determined to change all that. .

FILM

See page 47 Voices: Arthur Anderson, Rex Everhart, Ann Francine, Hetty Galen, Gordon Halliday SCREENPLAY SAM MOORE, MAURICE RAPT DIRECTOR JACK ZANDER

1.0 Channel Four Racing from Kempton Park

12.0 to 1.0 The Cresta Run The thrills and spills of the Cresta Run, the world's most famous toboggan run, have attracted daredevils and wellheeled onlookers to the tiny Swiss resort of St Moritz for a century. Sandy Gall celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Britishfounded St Moritz Toboggan Club with this lighthearted documentary which includes a look at the club's history, interviews with famous socialites and highlights from the 1984 Grand National competition. When Sandy himself attempts the Cresta, he gains the dubious record of 'the slowest man since Errol Flynn'. Written by Sandy Gall.

Celebrate the St Moritz Toboggan Club's 100th birthday with a trip down The Cresta Run' at 12.0.

CAMERA MANFRED MAYR-HAUG EDITOR BOB HILL DIRECTOR CHARLES MORGAN PRODUCER SANDY GALL Central Production

Introduced by Brough Scott Kempton Park on Boxing Day traditionally heralds the midwinter steeplechasing classic, the King George VI Chase at 2.15. Will Wayward Lad

become the first horse to win it three times, or will he be beaten by last year's Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Burrough Hill Lad? In the event of Dawn Run appearing at Leopardstown, the race will be seen live today. Paddock commentator is John Oaksey, interviewer is Derek Thompson, race commentator is Graham Goode. Betting and results from John Tyrrel and John McCririck.

1.10 Food Brokers-Armour Novices' Hurdle (2m).

1.40 Ladbroke Christmas Hurdle (2m).

2.15 King George VI Chase

(3m).

2.35 Denny's Gold Medal

Novice Chase (2m).

2.45 Boxing Day H'cap (2m).

DIRECTOR MIKE WARD EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ANDREW FRANKLIN Independent Television Sport Production

3.0 to 4.0 Channel Four's Year of Golf What a year 1984 turned out to be for the Channel Four golf team. Beginning in the spring sunshine and azalea blossom of Augusta, Georgia when Ben Crenshaw won the coveted Masters title, the tour moved to South Carolina where Britain's Nick Faldo won his first US title, the Heritage. Then came the spectacular shoot out between Greg Norman and Fuzzy Zoeller that climaxed the last round of the US Open at Winged Foot, New York.

Next, Jack Nicklaus made headlines by winning his first tournament for two years, the Memorial at Dublin, Ohio. The course that Jack built, Shoal Creek near Birmingham, Alabama was the venue for another dramatic shoot out, this time between the veterans Lee Trevino and Gary Player.

WRITER GERALD SINSTADT ASSISTANT PRODUCER HELEN ROLLASON PRODUCER JOHN WATTS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DEREK BRANDON Cheerleader Production

The destination is pleasure when Bob Symes takes 'A Lineside Look at Model Railways'. Be on time... 11.10.

CHRISTMAS•

4.40 Crossroads David Hunter has a delicate meeting with Sarah Alexander. Kath Brownlow finds herself the target of abuse from John Latchford's daughter, Donna.

For cast, see Monday

5.10 ITN News and Sport 5.30 Name That Tune

Yorkshire 1.0 ITN News 1.5 The World's Greatest Escape Artist Chris Shayland is America's new Houdini and probably the world's greatest escape artist. In the course of this extraordinary nail-biting programme, he will be buried in a chained and padlocked coffin and lowered into a grave covered by 12 tons of concrete. His challenge: to escape alive. He will also be locked inside a massive steel safe and lowered into the Pacific Ocean. Other deathdefying challenges include being chained to two trucks pulling in opposite directions, imprisonment at the notorious Alcatraz prison (from which escape is considered impossible), being locked in the Chinese water torture chamber and being handcuffed to a railway line as an express train races towards him. Follow these mind-boggling stunts which are shown without either camera or editing tricks.

David Frost introduces the programme, which is hosted

by William Devane.

LIONEL BLAIR MAGGIE MOONE KALUICE Tallulah Beckett The Alan Braden Orchestra Lionel Blair invites contestants to Name That Tune. The fastest on the button could win more than £1200, a star prize and have a chance to win a new car. Singers Maggie Moone and Kaluki help contestants build their winnings and entertain with some sparkling songs. Hostess is Tallulah Beckett. Music associate is Ray Monk, music director Alan Braden.

DESIGNER JOHN PLANT DIRECTOR/PRODUCER KEITH BECKETT Thames Television Production

6.0 This is Your Life EAMONN ANDREWS Armed with his famous red book, Eamonn springs the surprise of a lifetime on tonight's unsuspecting guest.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER BRIAN KLEIN PROGRANWIE CONSULTANTS/ WRITERS ROY BOTTOMLEY, TOM BRENNAND DIRECTORS MICHAEL D KENT, TERRY YARWOOD PRODUCER MALCOLM MORRIS Thames Television Production

6.45 Coronation Street Rita Fairclough's Boxing Day effort to break free of the sadness of losing husband Len ends in her learning something about herself. As the rest of the street's residents lie back and enjoy the remainder of Christmas, is someone planning to go out to work? If so, why?

Oracle sub-titles page 170 For cast, see Monday WRITER PETER WHALLEY

7.15 The Mike Yarwood Show CLIFF RICHARD Barbara New Julie Wooldridge The Ken Warwick Dancers In the festive season it's a sure bet that the top people will be at Mike Yarwood's party. Or will Mike Yarwood be at the top people's parties?

Anyway an extraordinary array of well-known entertainers and personalities put in appearances in the person of the impressionist Mike Yarwood. And he is joined by special guest star Cliff Richard who, after 25 years in show business, is still going strong. Music and dance are the remaining ingredients that make up this special seasonal treat. Vocal backing is by the Maggie Stredder Singers. Writers are Eddie Braben and Eric Merriman with additional material by Bill Naylor. Script associate is Eric Merriman; choreographer is Ken Warwick; music associate is Bobby Heath; music director is Alan Braden.

DESIGNER DAVID RICHENS DIRECTOR/PRODUCER DAVID G HILLIER

Thames Television Production

8.15 Minder DENNIS WATERMAN GEORGE COLE Glynn Edwards AROUND THE CORNER

BY TONY HOARE .

More comedy-drama in the 'minding' world, as Arthur finds himself cornered once again and the long-suffering Terry has to rescue him — once again.

Oracle sub-titles page 170 Terry

Dennis Waterman George Cole Glynn Edwards • Colin Farrell Fred Brian Capron Ted Jeff Pirie Paddy Hurley Arthur Whybrow Chisholm Patrick Malahide Jones Michael Povey Rycott Peter Childs Melish Michael Troughton Harry Sydney Kean Lady in flat Joy Lemoine DI Norton Tony Caunter

A rthur

Dave Tasty Tim

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION JOHNNY GOODMAN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER LLOYD SHIRLEY PRODUCER GEORGE TAYLOR DIRECTOR ROY WARD BAKER

2.0 Kim PETER O'TOOLE Kim is a happygo-lucky urchin who finds his home in the streets and highroads of India in the 1890s. In Lahore, he meets a saintly old Buddhist Lama.

Kim and the Lama have something in common: each

9.15 Airplane!

ROBERT HAYS Transamerican flight No 209 takes off from Los Angeles bound for Chicago with the weirdest collection of passengers and crew this side of a Marx Brothers film.

When the entire crew is stricken with food-poisoning after eating contaminated fish, control of the plane fells into the trembling hands of Ted Striker, who is frightened of aircraft.

has a quest.

See pages 39 and 47 Lama Kim Mahbub All Babu

Peter O'Toole Ravi Sheth Bryan Brown John Rhys-Davies aeighton Julian Glover Kozelski Lee Montague Lurgan Alfred Burke Cpl Bruce Mick Ford Company Sgt Maj Peter Childs TELEPLAY JAMES BRABAZON DIRECTOR JOHN DAVIES

Bryan Brown as Mahbub Ali, the undercover agent who causes a conflict of loyalties in the young urchin 'K im', 2 0.

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Barbara New, complete with corgi, comes on rather regal in `The Mike Y arwood Show' at 7.15.

Ted Striker Elaine Dickinson

McCroskey

Robert Hays Julie Hagerty Lloyd Bridges

Rex Kramer Roger Murdock

Robert Stack

Kareem Abdul-Jabaar Capt Oveur Peter Graves Dr Rumack Leslie Nielsen Randy Lorna Patterson Lt Hurwitz Ethel Merman Mr Hammen Nicholas Pryor Neubauer Kenneth Tobey Jack Kirkpatrick William Tregoe Dr Brody Jason Wingreen Johnny Stephen Stucker Victor Basta Frank Ashmore Gunderson Jonathan Banks Paul Carey Craig Berenson Jive lady Barbara Billingsley Mrs Hammen Lee Bryant Mrs Davis Joyce Bulifant Mrs Geline Marcy Goldman Nun Maureen McGovern Joey Rossie Harris Jack Howard Honig Shirley Mary Mercier SCREENPLAY/DIRECTORS JIM ABRAHAMS, DAVID ZUCKER JERRY ZUCKER

10.50 ITN News 11.5 Elton John in Central Park Highlights of superstar Elton John in concert in New Yorks Central Park, where a huge crowd heard many of his great hits, including Benny and the Jets, Sorry Seems to be the Hardest W ord, Goodbye Y ellowbrick Road and many others. Flamboyant dresser Elton, as well as being one of the most successful pop singers in the world is, of course, a touchline sportsman as chairman of Watford Football Club.

12.10 Closedown Programmes as Y orkshire except: CENTRAL 9.55 Laurel & Hardy;

4.45 Name That Tune; 5.30 Crossroads.

ANGLIA 12.10 Soumi — Land of the Finns.

GRANADA 12.10(pm) Benson.

Rigoletto

4.0 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Just when you thought it 9.15 was safe to go back into the air, petrified Ted Striker (Robert Hays) — with automatic pilot— blows it all sky high. W atch 'Airplane!' on ITV.

GARY COOPER FRANCHOT TONE The turbulent north western frontier of India in the 18th century. When the son of a regimental colonel is captured by warring tribesmen, two other officers undertake a dangerous mission to rescue him before he cracks under torture and reveals vital secrets...

Made in black and whfte

See page 47 Capt McGregor Lt Forsythe

Lt Stone Cot Stone Maj Hamilton

Gary Cooper Franchot Tone Richard Cromwell Sir Guy Standing C Aubrey Smith Monte Blue

Hanzulla Khan Tanta Volkanskaya

Kathleen Burke Lt Barrett Colin Tapley Mohammed Khan Douglass Dumbrille Akim Tamiroff Emir Noble Johnson Ram Singh J Carrol Naish Grand vizier Maj Gen W oodbury Lumsden Hare Mischa Auer Frith

SCREENPLAY WALDEMAR YOUNG, ACHMED ABDULLAH, JOHN F BALDERSTON, GROVER JONES, WILLIAM SLAVENS MCNUTT, FROM THE NOVEL BY FRANCIS YEATS-BROWN DIRECTOR HENRY HATHAWAY

13.15 Plenty to laugh at

for 'Minder' Terry (Dennis W aterman) and Arthur (George Cole) but it's no joke for Inspector Rycott (Peter Childs), ITV.

Nowhere to hide for Dominique (Brigitte Bardot), on trial in 'La W rite' on Channel Four.

6.0 That's Street Entertainment!

This programme captures the second annual Street Entertainers Festival which was held in London's Covent Garden over the last weekend of July. Some 80,000 people passed through the famous London landmark to watch more than 400 mime artistes, musicians, actors, dancers, jugglers, acrobats, magicians, clowns, comedians and speciality acts perform.

The programme captures the carnival atmosphere of the event and shows the best and most unusual of the entertainers who perform on the streets, as well as introducing some of the 'characters' who frequent the Garden during the summer months.

ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA This New English National Opera production by Jonathan Miller at the London Coliseum gives Verdi's classic opera an exciting new dimension. It was in 1851 that this operatic masterpiece was first performed. It is the story of the tragic chain of events which eventually rob the hunchback Rigoletto of his only daughter Gilda, the one person who gives his whole existence meaning. This is no traditional rendering of Verdi's opera. Instead Jonathan Miller has moved the action boldly forward from Mantua in the 16th century to New York's Little Italy in the early Fifties, translating the vendettas and rivalries of court life into the tensions and power politics of Mafiacontrolled Manhattan. In this environment the power of a father's curse is as threatening as it was 400 years before: superstition has a strong hold on the minds of the Mafiosi.

Sung in a new English translation by James Fenton, adding extra intensity to the drama. Miller wanted the opera to come over as a gripping story and the TV production strongly reflects this intention, being shot more like a TV play than a big night out at the opera. The stage production won the Award for the Most Outstanding Achievement in Opera by the Society of West End Theatre, and was acclaimed by the critics.

'Miller does it all with exciting relish and unbridled theatricality that will wonderfully involve an audience' (The Guardian).

Conductor is Mark Elder.

Guest leader is John Ludlow, chorus master is Leslie Fyson.

Choreographer is Tommy Shaw. TV presentation in collaboration with Jonathan Miller.

Rigoletto The Duke

Gilda Sparafucile Monterone Maddelena

John Rawnsley Arthur Davies Marie McLaughlin John Tomlinson Sean Rea Jean Rigby

Malcolm Rivers Terry Jenkins Mark Richardson Myrna Moreno Ceprano's wife Susan Underwood Linda Rands Secretary Maurice Bowen Henchman The chorus and orchestra of English National Opera Marullo Bursa Ceprano Giovanna

DESIGNERS PATRICK ROBERTSON, ROSEMARY VERCOE VIDEOTAPE EDITOR ALAN RITCHIE SENIOR CAMERA JOHN CHAPMAN SOUND SUPERVISOR RON FERRLS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IAN MARTIN TV DIRECTOR/PRODUCER JOHN MICHAEL PHILLIPS Thames Television Production

9.30 Ian Breakwell's Christmas Diary TEE MONARCH OF MISRULE The series ends with a celebration of the true spirit of the Season. Take it, Fats!

9.45 La Verite BRIGITTE BARDOT Facing trial for the murder of the man she stole from her sister, Dominique Marceau recalls step-by-step the events that have led her to the brink of doom...

Arriving in Paris with her sister Annie, Dominique finds it difficult to settle down to any real work. But she is able to muster up more enthusiasm for an affair. A French am with English sub-titles.

Made in black and white

See pages 42 and 4T Dominique Annie

Brigitte Bardot Marie-Jose Nat Gilbert Teller Sarni Frey Charles Vanel Maitre Guerin Paul Meurisse Prosecutor Jean-Louis Reynolds Michael Andre Oumansky Ludovic W oman lawyer Jacqueline Porel Louis Seigner Court president SCREENPLAY bENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT, JEROME GERONIML SLMONE DRIED, MICHELE PERREIN, CHRISTIANE ROCHEFORT, RAOUL J LEVY DIRECTOR HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT

12.10 Closedown

PRODUCER JO LUSTIG DIRECTOR ALAN LEWENS Jo Lustig Ltd Production

7.0 News Summary and Weather followed by

Vintage drama set in India with K athleen Burke and Gary Cooper. See The Lives of a Bengal Lancer', at 4.0.

THURSDAY Minister on a visit to London and thus precipitate World War One. Scudder takes refuge in the apartment of Richard Hannay, an engineer on leave in London, who as a result, becomes involved in espionage. After Scudder has been stabbed, Hannay stumbles on the secret of The Thirty-Nine Steps...

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ITS

Yorkshire

625 TV-am: Good Morning Britain ANNE DIAMOND NICK OWEN Weather with Wincey at 6.28, 6.59, 7.28, 7.59, 8.28, 8.59.

News: Gordon Honeycombe

6.30, 7.0, 7.30, 8.0, 8.30, 9.0.

Sport: Mike Morris 6.39, 7.37.

Vox Pop 6.35.

Mad Lizzie Today's the Day: Jeremy Beadle 6.51.

Wincey's Wall 6.57, 8.57.

Pop Video 7.54.

News Features 7.5, 7.33, 8.5, 8.43.

Competition Time 6.44, 8.27.

Thursday Specials: Through the Keyhole with Loyd Grossman 8.15; Films: Charles Golding with what's new at the cinema 8.34; Star Memories: The Best of Roland Rat looks back over his adventures at home and abroad at

9.0.

9.25 Regional Weather Forecast followed by

Flicks CHRISTOPHER J.I1.I4CRAP CHICKEN SOUP WITH RICE/ALLIGATORS ALL ROUND It's great fun to eat chicken soup with rice throughout the year, as Carol King tells us when she sings the words of Maurice Sendaks story. There are also A lligators A ll Round when Christopher introduces today's nicks.

DIRECTOR INGRID DUFFELL PRODUCER CHARLES WARREN Thames Television Production

9.35 The Christmas Tree Train Buttons, a young bear and Rusty, a young fox, live in the forest where the Christmas Tree Train comes once a year. The lumberjacks cut the Christmas trees and pack them into the train to be transported to the city. But while seeking help from one of them, Rusty and Buttons are accidentally locked in a train carriage and taken away.

K aren Dotrice and Robert Powell in the 'third film version of John Buchan's 'The Thirty-Nine Steps', 2.30.

10.0 Enid Blyton's Island of Adventure CHLOE FRANKS PATRICK FIELD NORMAN BOWLER WILFRID BRAMBELL Enid Blyton's FILM famous novel, the first in its series, about four adventurous youngsters, not to mention Kiki the parrot. Here, they find themselves involved in skulduggery on the Cornish coast, murder, a gang of counterfeiters, and deadly danger in the depths of an abandoned mine...

See page 47 Chloe Franks Patrick Field Philip Perry Benson Jack Daryl Back Lucy - A nn Norman Bowler Bill Smugs Wilfrid Brambell Uncle Jocelyn A unt Polly Eleanor Summerfield Dinah

hydraulic lifts, neon lighting and fireworks - was constructed over the pool.

Music director is John Aldman, choreography by Brian Rogers. Lighting directors are Chris White and Tom Bardsley.

RESEARCH ANDREW SERAILLIER DESIGNER CHRIS BRADSHAW DIRECTORS IAN HAMILTON, MARY McMURRAY PRODUCER STEPHEN LEAHY Granada Television Production

1.0 News at One 120 Calendar News followed by Local Weather Forecast

A lison Mannering

Catherine Schell Leon Lissek John Rhys Davis Herself Kill the parrot SCREENPLAY ROBIN MILLER FROM THE BOOK BY ENID BLYTON DIRECTOR ANTHONY SQUIRE

Jo

Smith

1125 New Brighton Rock EDDY GRANT FRANKE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD GLORIA GAYNOR HELEN TERRY MADNESS NICK LOWE NIX KERSHAW SPANDAU BALLET THE FLYING PICKETS THE WEATHER GIRLS Members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Another chance to see this highly-acclaimed concert, which was recorded live earlier this year at New Brighton bathing pool, Europe's largest, across the River Mersey from LiverpooL Especially for the occasion, a giant 200ft perspex and steel stage - complete with 12

TVTIMES 22 December-4 January 1985

1.30 Ice Scating The St Ivel Christmas Gala Robin Cousins stars in this special gala, recorded after the St Ivel Ice International competition, and gives some of the outstanding performances that have made him arguably the world's leading professional skater.

Also British Ice Dance Champions Karen Barber and Nicky Slater provide lighthearted entertainment and there's a superb robotics routine from Canada's Tracy Wilson and Robert McCall.

Simon Reed presents the gala from Richmond Ice Rink. =UTNE PRODUCER BOB BURROWS DIRECTOR/PRODUCER JOHN DAVIS ITV Sport Production

Oracle sub-titles page 170 Richard Hannay Robert Powell David Warner Appleton Eric Porter Chief Supt Lomas Karen Dotrice Alex John Mills Col Scudder Sir W alter Bullivant George Baker Ronald Pickup Bayliss Timothy West Porton Miles Anderson David Andrew Keir Lord Rohan Magistrate Robert Flemyng William Squire Harkness Paul McDowell McLean David Collings Tillotson John Normington Fletcher SCREENPLAY MICHAEL ROBSON DIRECTOR DON SHARP

4.15 University Challenge BAMBER GASCOIGNE If the tournament finals have gone to the decider, today's game will be the traditional challenge from the new champions to their teachers.

ROBERT POWELL DAVID WARNER Colonel Scudder, of British Intelligence, has unearthed a plot to assassinate the Greek Prime

1••

11.0 Captain Stirrick

BY DAVID SCOTT, JEREMY JAMES TAYLOR

JULIAN SILVESTER FREDDIE JONES ROGER SLOMAN RONNIE STEVENS This musical, FILM based on Victorian Interviews by Henry Mayhew, was the first production of the newly-formed Children's Film Unit, a unique organisation which gives children an opportunity to make films.

Their new production Dark Enemy was shown on Channel Four on Christmas Eve. With music by Richard Brett it tells the story of the teenage leader of a gang of Victorian child pickpockets.

See page 47 Ned Stirrick Leach

Julian Silvester Freddie Jones Ronnie Stevens Roger Sloman

RESEARCH JUD COOPER

Perfect

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR PETER MULLINGS Granada Television Production

DIRECTOR COLIN FINBOW

4.45 Knight Rider

12.40 Christmas Cracker

SILENT KNIGHT Michael Knight and wonder car KITT help a young gipsy who, by stealing a watch, has fallen foul of some bank robbers.

Michael Knight David Hasselhoff Edward Mulhare Devon Miles April

Tino

Marta

Paolo Casey Skip

Stephan

Rebecca Holden Paul LaGreca Janet DeMay Robert Miranda Stephen Liska David Proval Giorgio Tozzi

News at 5.45 6.0 Calendar 6.35 to 7.0 Crossroads Kevin Banks has bad news for wife Glenda about their savings. Adam Chance takes on a new garage owner and it bodes ill for Sid Hooper and Joe MacDonald. Dr James Wilcox hears a startling statement from Gloria Tilling.

For cast, see Monday

2.30 The Thirty-Nine Steps

.

Programmes as Y orkshire except: CENTRAL 6.0 Crossroads; 6.25 Central News.

ANGLIA 6.0 About Anglia; 12.30 Eavesdropping.

GRANADA 6.0 Crossroads; 6.25 Granada Reports.

TYNE TEES 6.2 Crossroads; 6.35 Northern Life.

Lord Kensington

Seasonal animation film which has won seven awards.

12.50 Rhytlunetic Award-winning animated film

by Norman McLaren.

1.0 Channel Four Racing from Kempton Park Introduced by Brough Scott 12.40 (Recording) Kennington Novices' Chase (2:n).

1.10 Ladbroke Novices Hcap Hurdle (qualifier) (2m).

1.40 Ladbroke If cap Chase (2m 4f).

2.10 Feltham Novices' Chase (3m).

2.30 We're Gonna Sing The energy of Gospel Music carries us through this documentary which contains performances presented in the context of Black life and experience portrayed through a number of friendly interviews and conversations.

RESEARCH JULIET FLETCHER EDITOR PETER GODDARD PRODUCTION ASSISTANT GILLIAN BARNES PRODUCTION MANAGER PETER R JONES DIRECTOR/PRODUCER SIMON HEAVEN Compass Film Production

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THURSDAY 7.0 Channel Four News & Weather 7.30 Hiawatha ADAPTED FROM LONGFELLOWS CLASSIC POEM BY MICHAEL BOGDANOV

Yorkshire 7.0 The Krypton Factor Olympic Special

3.10 Arms and the Man

GORDON BURNS

RICHARD BRIERS ALICE KRIGE PETER EGAN

Tonight's special edition of The Krypton Factor pits four of Britain's 1984 Olympic heroes against the five daunting tests of television's toughest quiz — from the dank misery of the assault course to the intellectual torments of the studio tests.

Gordon Burns introduces Tessa Sanderson, gold medallist in the javelin; Andy Holmes, gold medallist in the 2000 metres coxed foi-i; Neil Adams, silver medalist in judo and June Croft, bronze medallist in the 400 metres freestyle.

BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The 1982 West End revival of Shaw's classic romantic comedy, specially adapted for TV. Bluntschli Rains Sergius Petkoff Catherine Louka Nicola

Elizabeth (Carrie Fisher) loves 'Frankenstein' (Robert Powell) but not his Creature (Davlyj W arner, inset): 9.15. a long carving knife in his

Oracle sub-titles page 170

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RESEARCH THELMA McGOUGH DESIGNER ALISON HART DIRECTOR GRAHAM C WILLIAMS PRODUCER DAVID JENKINS Granada Television Production

Oracle sub-titles page 170 Jenny Farrah Fawcett-Majors Jerry Green Jeff Bridges Ernest Van Santen John Wood Tammy Grimes Audrey Hubert Little John Glover Helene Patricia Elliott Flora Mary McCarty Preston Moore Laurence Guittard Benjamin Vincent Robert Santa Lucia

7.30 Somebody Killed Her Husband

See page 146 Oracle sub-titles page 170 V ictor Frankenstein Robert Powell Creature David Warner Herr Mueller Jon Rumney Susan Wooldridge Justine Scholz James Coyle Metz Edward Judd Roberta Taylor Gerta W illiam Frankenstein Graham McGrath Henry Clerval Michael Cochrane Elizabeth Carrie Fisher Alphonse Frankenstein Terence Alexander Busch Arnold Peters De Lacey John Gielgud

DESIGNER ALAN TAGG LIGHTING DIRECTOR JIMMY BOYERS DIRECTOR PHILIP CASSON PRODUCERS MICHAEL FREEMAN, PETER FREEMAN A rgent Television Production

5.0 Sebastian Coe: Born to Run HIS METEORIC RISE... LOS ANGELES...AND BEYOND

ROBERT POWELL CARRIE FISHER DAVID WARNER JOHN GIELGUD TERENCE ALEXANDER SUSAN WOOLDRIDGE

DESIGNER JEREMY BEAR RODUCER BILL SIEGLER CUTIVE PRODUCERS OU MOORE, BOB RUBIN °A conite Television. Production

When Sebastian Coe took the 1500 metres title at the Los Angeles Olympics, it was one of sport's great comebacks.

After scaling the highest peaks Coe's career plummeted in the two years before Los Angeles.

Weakened by a rare blood disorder, he fought against all odds to regain fitness. This film takes an in-depth look at this exceptional runner.

Written and narrated by Tony Maylam.

Mary Shelley's classic tale of terror was written in 1818.

Victor Frankenstein's attempts to construct a human-being by means of 'spare part' surgery has a startlingly modern ring. Tonight's glittering production

10.40 ITN News

PRODUCER DRUMMOND CHALLIS DIRECTOR TONY MAYLAM W orldmark Production

SCREENPLAY REGINALD ROSE DIRECTOR LAMONT JOHNSON

FARRAH FAWCETT-MAJORS JEFF BRIDGES

A light-hearted mystery, this story centres on Jenny Moore, the distraught and unhappily married wife of a cold and disinterested businessman. One day, whil shopping in a department store, she bumps into toy salesman Jerry Green. After several encounters, the two fall in love. They decide to confront her husband with the truth when a strange, unidentifiable thump is heard downstairs. They find her husband has been murdered, slumped on the kitchen table,

ecreates the horror, elation nd sadness as Victor tries to reathe life into a creature of pematural strength, but oathsome appearance. Music

by Alan Parker.

Officer

Richard Briers Alice Krige Peter Egan Richard Pearson Pat Heywood Anna Nygh Anthony Pedley Charles Rogers

9.15 Frankenstein ADAPTED BY VICTOR GIALANELLA

11.0 World in Action: The First 21 Years The award-winning investigative series celebrates its 21st birthday this year. If all the film shot by W orld in A ction cameramen was spliced together it would stretch from Manchester to New York. Tonight's special compilation draws on this archive to look at the faces and fashions of the Sixties and the scandals of the Seventies.

Oracle sub-titles page 170 FILM EDITOR ROLAND COBURN WRITER/PRODUCER DAVID BOULTON Granada Television Production

12.30 Closedown An army instructor puts javelin champion Tessa Sanderson to a new test at 7.0.

6.0 The Amateur Naturalists of the Year GERALD DURRELL J.EF, DURRELL

Inspired by the DIY wildlife series The Amateur Naturalist, hundreds of people entered natural history projects in Channel Four's Amateur Naturalist of the Year Competition. Gerald and Lee Durrell report on the best and take the winners behind the scenes at their zoo in Jersey.

See page 123 CAMERA CHRIS O'DELL EDITOR NIGEL ASHCROFT DIRECTOR JONATHAN HARRIS PRODUCER PAULA HARRIS Priznetime Television Production

Ride by gondola with 'Vidal in Venice'. Departure at 9.0.

Michael Bogdanov's television adaptation of his acclaimed National Theatre production.

Music by Jeff Teare.

Nokomis Chibiabos Nawadaha Minnehaha Kwasind

Gitche Manito

Yvonne Bryceland Joss Buckley James Carter Terry Diab Michael Fenner

Martin Fisk

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9.0 Vidal in Venice GORE VIDAL VENETIANS FIRST

In the first of two programmes, American writer Gore Vidal tries to trace his own Venetian ancestry.

CAMERA PETER MACKAY FILM EDITOR EDWARD ROBERTS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PETER MONTAGNON PRODUCER/DIRECTOR MISCHA SCORER Antelope Production

10.0 Oh! What a Lovely War The 1914-18 war — as seen from the end of Brighton Pier, in this famous British film with a star cast of thousands.

See page 47 Cast includes: Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Kenneth More, Jack Hawkins, John Mills Michael Redgrave, Laurence Olivier, Nanette Newman, Susannah York, Dirk Bogarde.

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The animated version of Charles Dickens' immortal story — based entirely on original art from the days of Dickens — which won an Academy Award as best animated short subject. The narrator is Michael Redgrave and Alastair Sim recreates his role of Scrooge, which he first portrayed in the film Scrooge in 1951.

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News Features 7.5, 7.33, 8.5, 8.43.

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11.0 Silver Spoons RICKY SCHRODER THE BEST CHRISTMAS EVER

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1.30 From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi . a fantastic film trilogy by George Lucas. This programme takes you behind the scenes at their creation — from the initial story board conferences to film locations around the world. There's a fascinating trip to Lucas's special effects workshop and an interview with the man himself.

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2.45 The Golden oyage of Sinbad JOHN PHILLIP LAW CAROUNE MUNRO TOM BAKER Sinbad and his fearless crew become involved in mystery, magic and intrigue after he acquires one third of an amulet with mystic powers. It leads him to encounters with Koura, the evil magician who will stop at nothing to achieve supreme power; and with the goldenmasked Vizier, who has the next portion of the amulet, which provides Sinbad with the key to finding the longlost land of Lemuria.

with see-sawing scores and a race against the clock, as Silly Software goes into action.

their wedding night is a disaster, and their relationship is strained thereafter. The Republican forces, under Tim O'Leary, are plotting the import of a huge cargo of arms from Germany and, into this atmosphere of unrest, a shell-shocked British officer, Major Doryan, is drafted in from the European front to take command of the nearby army garrison. Rosy's passionate nature surfaces in a torrid affair with Doryan which has a shattering impact on the village. See page 97

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5.15 Denson ROBERT GUILLAUME THE HUMAN ELEMENT

Butler Benson and the Governor's staff think it's a lark when a robot arrives for a science exhibition. But they soon begin plotting it's demise when the electronic brained whiz becomes the Governor's adviser — and recommends firing Benson and everyone else.

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The tiny volcanic island of Ascension is where Cindy Buxton (left) and Annie Price filmed 'Survival Special'.

6.0 Calendar

6.30 That's My Boy

All the news and views from around the Calendar region.

Alan Hardwick takes a more relaxed look ahead with the weekend in mind. Plus sporting news and weekend weather.

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A special episode of the situation-comedy series a mother, Ida Willis, who is' reunited with the son she gave away when he was a baby. Robert is rehearsing act for the hospital concert much to Ida's distress, not to mention the neighbours'! B t then he has to change his plans. Music by Dennis Wilson.

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Jennifer Lonsdale David English Harold Goodwin Ann Coombs

DESIGNER TONY JONES PRODUCER/DIRECTOR GRAEME MUIR Y orkshire Television Production

11.50 The Making of '84

Until the Falklands crisis of 1982, few people had heard of Ascension, a tiny volcanic island half way between South America and Africa and, more importantly, half way between Britain and the Falkland Islands. Small as it is, the island has an incredible variety of wildlife living on and around it. Cindy Buxton and Annie Price spent over a year filming the large colonies of sea birds, turtles that swim 1400 miles from Brazil to nest and the shrimps that are found nowhere else.

Narrator is Anthony Valentine.

Two young boys, Andrew and Philip Morgan, decide to set up their own software company to sell computer games. But can they convince a bank manager and do battle with big business? This documentary about the boys' progress takes on the form of a videogame itself, complete

RYAN'S DAUGHTER

All resistance is useless. From 'Star W ars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga' is a force to be reckoned with, at 1.30.

A review of the year's news and newsmakers. It casts a reflective eye on the events that hit the headlines in 1984 — the miners' strike, the Libyan bureau siege, the Brighton bomb, the Olympics, the American elections. The programme is presented by ITN newscaster Martyn Lewis.

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John Phillip Law Caroline Munro Tom Baker Douglas Wilmer Martin Shaw Gregoire Asian Kurt Christian Takis Emmanuel John D Garfield Aldo Sarnbrell

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See page 47 Sinbad Margiana Koura Vizier Rachid Hakim Haroun A chmed Abdul Omar

Angie Price Bill Cartwright W ilfred W illis Nurse

Oracle sub-titles page 170 Rosy Ryan Sarah Miles Charles Robert Mitchum Father Collins Trevor Howard Doryan Christopher Jones Michael John Mills Tom Ryan Leo McKem Tim O'Leary Barry Foster McCardle Archie O'Sullivan Mrs McCardle Marie Kean Moureen Yvonne Crowley Corporal Barry Jackson Paddy Philip O'Flynn Bernard Ed O'Callaghan Captain Gerald Sim

Ireland, 1916: Rosy Ryan, a sensual young girl of romantic notions, lives in the coastal village of Kirrary, where her father runs the pub. She marries the local schoolmaster, Charles Shaughnessy, who is considerably older than herself He is a kind man. but

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FRIDAY 7.30 Stand by for take-off.

Anneka Rice invites you aboard her helicopter for a 'Treasure Hunt' in the Holy Land.

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11.0 The Seed and the Sun BAMBER GASCOIGNE RITES OF PASSAGE IN ANCIENT EGYPT Death, the ancient Egyptians believed, could be overcome with the help of two powerful Gods. One was Re, the Sun God, whose daily resurrection was seen as a physical journey in which the dead can join. The other was Osiris, God of Fertility, responsible for another form of resurrection, that of vegetation, of new life from the earth. Osiris was also King of the Underworld through which the dead must pass. In this documentary on the

Egyptian Book of the Dead

two forms of the one idea of eternal rebirth — the Seed and the Sun — are explored.

The narrator is Bamber Gascoigne.

Rosy (Sarah Miles) and Randolph (Christopher Jones) cuckold her husband Charles (Robert Mitchum). ITV.

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11.45 Never Give a Sucker an Even Break W C FIELDS Failing to sell a wild story to a producer at Esoteric Film Studios, W C Fields adopts a niece whose trapeze-artist mother has been killed in a fall, and leaves with her for Mexico...

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See page 47 W C Fields The Great Man Gloria Jean His niece Gallery man Leon Errol Mrs Hemogloben Margaret Dumont Ouliotta Hemogloben Susan Miller The Producer Franklin Pangbom Producer's wife Mona Barrie Madame Gorgeous Anne Nagel

8.30 Russian romps with a quintet of singing jesters, seen at their brilliant best in The Barron K nights Show' on Channel Four.

although they don't come into these games as favourites to go all the way, they have • caused surprises in the past.

The last wild card team to win the Superbowl were the Raiders in 1980.

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8.30 The Barron Knights Show

3.35 The Time Machine ROD TAYLOR In London at the turn of the century, George, a scientist, has perfected a machine which enables him to transport himself back and forth in time. He flees from the wars he finds in 1917. 1940 and 1966 and goes on to the year 802,701. The earth seems to have become a paradise...

See page 47 George Weena David Filby Dr Hillyer Bridewell W alter Kemp Mrs W atchett

Rod Taylor Yvette Mimieux Alan Young Sebastian Cabot Torn Helmore Whit Bissell Doris Lloyd

SCREENPLAY DAVID DUNCAN FROM THE NOVEL BY H G WELLS DIRECTOR GEORGE PAL

5.30 The Tube TOOLS HOLLAND PAULA YATES MURIEL GRAY DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES SADE B B KING THE CLARK SISTERS A special 'in concert edition of The Tube featuring performances recorded live at The Wembley Arena, London; Newcastle's City Hall and The Dominion Theatre, London.

DIRECTORS GAVIN TAYLOR, GEOFF WONFOR PRODUCERS JILL SINCLAIR, JOHN GWYN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MALCOLM GERRIE Tyne Tees Television Production

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7.30 Treasure Hunt Christmas Special

1.0 American Football

KENNETH KENDALL ANNEKA RICE Wincey Willis Anneka Rice takes to the skies in a helicopter around the Holy Land for a Christmas special edition of Treasure Hunt which begins a new series next Thursday at 8.0.

Celebrating with Kenneth Kendall in the London studio are Liz Kidd and Janet Wood who run an employment agency in Wokingham, Berkshire. Joining the team as

Nicky Horne John Smith A Christmas bonus for football fans as this special programme presents extended highlights of last weekends two wild card play off games. The wild card teams are those that finished the regular season with the next-best records after the divisional winners, and

CREATIVE ASSOCIATE ANNE EVANS DIRECTOR CHRIS GAGE PRODUCERS MALCOLM HEYWORTH, PETER HOLMANS

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An hour of humour with Barron Anthony Osmond, Butch Baker, Dave Ballinger, Pete Langford and Duke D'Mond, poking the finger of fun at life in general with their good-natured send-ups of hits by artistes such as Billy Joel, The Flying Pickets, Alexei Sayle. With guests Lots Lane and Captain Sensible.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TONI AVERN PRODUCER BUTCH BAKER DIRECTOR TONY VANDEN-EWE Barron Knights Production

9.30 Vidal in Venice GORE VIDAL WITH TIME...

In this second programme, Gore Vidal asks why Venice has always been so irresistible to visitors. He looks at Venice in the pleasure-loving 18th century and in the romantic 19th century. He also considers Venice today — 'a sort of Disneyland filled with tourists who come to see themselves reflected.

10.30 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes ROBERT STEPHENS Without a case to consume his time, Sherlock Holmes, the great detective, accepts a mysterious invitation to attend a visiting Russian ballet. It is the beginning of a mystery that is to take Holmes and his associate, Dr Watson, through sundry dangers to a confrontation with the Loch Ness monster...

See page 47 Sherlock Holmes Robert Stephens Dr Watson Colin Blakely Gabrielle Valladon Genevieve Page Mycroft Holmes Christopher Lee Clive Revill Rogozhin Irene Handl Mrs Hudson Von Tirpitz Peter Madden Tamara Toumanova Petrora Stanley Holloway Gravedigger Catherine Lacey Old lady Queen Victoria Mollie Maureen Michael Elwyn Cassidy Michael Balfour Cabby Frank Thornton Porter Hotel manager Robert Cawdron Graham Armitage W iggins SCREENPLAY BILLY WILDER. IAN DIAMOND, FROM CHARAt, LERS CREATED BY SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE DIRECTOR BILLY WILDER

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re you tired of crowded Mediterranean beaches and over-priced tourist traps? Then TVTimes Travel Service can offer you a 1985 holiday with a difference.

You can have a relaxing and fascinating beach holiday at the Rumanian Black Sea resort of Mamaia. It's tremendous value — from only £169 for one week or £199 for two weeks, including full board. There are excellent children's reductions, too.

Mamaia is the leading resort on Rumania's warm Black Sea coast — olive trees border first-rate beaches of fine silvery sand, and the tideless, unpolluted sea is perfect for bathing.

There's plenty to do, with bars, discos and nightclubs raising the tempo in the evenings, and tennis, mini-golf and horse riding during the day for the energetic.

You have the choice of two hotels, both on a fullboard basis At the Hotel Junona, situated on the beach, there's a choice of main courses at lunch and dinner, and a popular 'dollar shop' for bargains in drink, cigarettes and souvenirs, where you can spend sterling at excellent rates of exchange.

Guests of the Junona can use the swimming pool at the Hotel Dorna, next door

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east for a different summer break — also available to TVTimes readers.

The Hotel Dorna, just 50 yards from the beach, has a bar, snack bar and dining room with an openair section. It also has a 'dollar shop', and live music is a regular feature in the evenings. Rooms at both hotels have balcony, lavatory and private shower or bath.

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Energetic souls can try their hand, and balance, at windsurfing, while

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1981

Jolson Sings Again 2.0pm-3.45pm As vivid and entertaining as The Jolson Story. Larry Parks is Al Jolson again and Barbara Hale is warmth itself as his second wife.

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The strong cast includes Lesley-Anne Down, Ernest Borgnine, Olivia Hussey and Laurence Olivier. (Part 2 is on New Yeafs Eve at 8 45pm). TVM 1984

The Phantom of the Opera

1-4• 0.45pm-12.30am Someone is creeping in the Paris Opera House crypts again in this well-mounted colour version of the horror classic. 1943

NEW YEAR'S EVE Great Expectations

ITV i O. 25am- i 1.35am Charles Dickens' famous story is here given a cartoon treatment.

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George Lucas' dazzling space opera still Mystery Island comes up fresh and exciting, as befits 11.35am-1.0pm the movie that set the standards for the science fiction epics that followed.

Attractive location filming on the The special effects were, for their time, Queensland reef islands adds impact to the best in the cinema's history.

1977 this adventure.

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in! z 15pm-9.45pm This lavish new version of the famed story of volcanic disaster in Roman times is firmly directed by Peter Hunt.

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frAt 1 30pm-3 5pm A cheerfully comic re-working of the 1957 science fiction classic. Clever special effects.

1981

NEW YEAR'S DAY The Four Feathers

ITV 10 25am-I2 noon Robert Powell takes the acting honours in this version of the famed story. 1978

State Fair 2.30pm-4.20pm Rodgers and Hammerstein are at their most tuneful in this lively musical. 1945

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iffy 7.0pm-9.15pm Christopher Reeve's second time out as the Man of Steel makes for unmissable action and fantasy fun. 1980

Cry Wolf 11.50pm-1. 20am Who is trying to murder Barbara Stanwyck? Can it really be Errol Flynn?

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followed by

The Smurfs BABY'S FIRST CHRISTMAS

Yorkshire 6.25 TV-am: Good Morning Britain HENRY KELLY Weather with Cmdr David Philpott and News read by Jayne Irving at 6.25, 7.0 and 8.0.

Saturday Call 6.30 Sport with Mike Morris 7.10.

Henry Kelly with news. views and guest chat from 7.0.

Rustie Lee cooks at 8.15.

Another lively edition of the children's show WAC — a mixture of pop, fun, features, fashion and quizzes, with Timmy Mallets and Arabella Warner (above), and James Baker. Pop guest is singer Nik Kershaw. Pick up some zappy ideas for the New Year, follow the zany news spot News in 90 seconds at 9.0, and hear more tales of ghosts, monsters and legends. To join the club, send a sae to Timmy Mallen, WAC, TV-am, PO Box 200, London NW I 8TQ.

Cartoon adventures with the little blue people — only three apples high. The joy of Christmas is nearly mined for Baby Smurf when evil Chlorhydrus casts a spell — but Papa Smurf comes to the rescue.

9.35 The Legend of the Lone Ranger

TV -air Production

Texas, 1854. 11year-old John Reid. having

1.30 MOTOR SPORT

from Wimbledon Stadium The chief supporting race from this afternoon's Winternational meeting.

Introduced by DICKIE DAVIES

12.15 12.20 DARTS The Dry Blackthorn Cider British Open

from The Rainbow Suite, Kensington Early coverage of the biggest Open darts event in the world with more than 3000 men — and women — in London's Kensington to compete for individual titles that are among the most prestigious in the sport. You can see the drama of the women's final at 2.0 and the men's semi-finals and final at 2.50.

See page 81 John Reid (The Lone Ranger) Klinton Spilsbury Michael Horse Tonto Christopher Lloyd Cavendish Jason Robards President Grant Matt Clark Sherriff W iatt Juanin Clay A my Striker John Had Lucas Striker W ild Bill Hickok Richard Farnsworth SCREENPLAY IVAN GOFF, BEN ROBERTS, MICHAEL KANE. DIRECTOR WILLIAM A FRAKER

All programmes are in colour unless otherwise stated

2.30 HOT ROD RACING The Facey Leisure Winternational Gold Cup

1.45 RACING from Ayr 1.50 — Glentrool H'cap Chase (3m 3f 40yd).

from Wimbledon Stadium There's £3000 in prize money for this 50-lap race, and entrants bidding for it include world champion Peter Grimer, national champion Mick 'Duffy' Collard and European champion Pete Stevens. As usual, there will be strong challenges by competitors from Scotland and Northern Ireland as well.

2.0 DARTS The Dry Blackthorn Cider British Open

2S0 DARTS The Dry Blackthorn Cider British Open

COMMENTATORS NIGEL KING, BARRY LEE DIRECTOR JOHN SCRIMINGER

WORLD OF SPORT

rescued an Indian boy from outlaws, sees his parents killed by the Cavendish gang.

Tonto takes him back to his village where the two boys swear eternal brotherhood.

from The Rainbow Suite, Kensington Women's champion Ann Marie Davies, a Welsh housewife, aims to win her third British Open title.

2.15 RACING from Ayr 2.20 — Arpax 80 H'cap Hurdle (2m)

from The Rainbow Suite, Kensington The semi-finals and fmal of the men's event. Big Cliff Lazarenko, the reigning champion, is determined to win the title for a third time but faces opposition from formidable rivals such as Eric Bristow, John Lowe and Jocky Wilson.

12.50 ON THE BALL

Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves take a light-hearted and irreverent look back at some memorable football moments of 1984.

REPORTER JIM ROSENTHAL PRODUCTION TEAM TONY MILLS JIM RAMSEY DEPUTY EDITOR RICHARD WORTH EDITOR BOB PATIENCE

1.15 RACING from Ayr

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;'apt Quintin Ensign Jensen

Tom Selleck John Hillerman Roger E Mosley Larry Manetti Ed Lauter Bruce French

12.15 to 5.0 World of Sport See panel

3.45 HALF TIME SOCCER ROUND-UP 4A WRESTLING

from Bury International Heavyweight: Tiger

Dalibar Singh (Punjab) v Al Dene (Bury).

Challenge: Cyanide Syd Cooper (Soho) v Greg Valentine (Millbank, York).

COMMENTATOR KENT WALTON DIRECTOR ERIC HARRISON

4.45 RESULTS

A comprehensive round-up including pools check.

Oracle Sports Headlines throughout the week, page 102 PRODUCTION TEAM TONY McCARTHY, MARK JACKSON, ANDREW DRUMMOND ASSISTANT EDITOR ROBERT CHARLES DEPUTY EDITOR RICHARD RUSSELL EDITOR ANDREW FRANKLIN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER STUART McCONACHIE DIRECTOR PATRICIA MORDECAI

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12.45 ITN NEWS

COMMENTATOR GRAHAM GOODE BEI ING AND RESULTS JOHN TYRREL DIRECTOR CLIFF MARTIN

TC offers to fly Magnum, Rick and Higgins to their respective Christmas destinations but their helicopter has engine trouble and they are forced to make an emergency landing on Frenchman's Island. Next week: Galactica '80 at 11.20.

Times are subject to change

COMMENTATOR DAVE LANNING DIRECTOR TED AYLING

Introduced by Derek Thompson.

1.20 — Ladbroke Novices' H'cap Hurdle (Qualifier) (2m).

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12.30 Tales of Beatrix Potter The animal characters created by Beatrix Potter come to life in this charming ballet film. It is a lovely day in the Lake District as our story begins.

Trotting towards us, over green fields and stone walls, comes Mrs Tiggy-Winkle; some would say she looked like a hedgehog...

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5.5 Pop Goes New Year CULTURE CLUB EURYTHMICS LIMAHL STYLE COUNCIL TRACEY ULLMAN Some of the top names in British pop celebrate the approaching New Year with a non-stop music spectacular.

Music director is Richie Close. Choreography by Brian Rogers.

RESEARCH CAROLINE GOSLING DESIGNER PAUL DANSON DIRECTOR DAVID LIDDIMENT PRODUCER STEPHEN LEAHY Granada Television. Production

5.35 The Grumbleweeds Radio Show Robin, Albert, Carl, Graham and Maurice — The Grumbleweeds — look forward to 1985 with a special New Year edition of the zany, fast-moving comedy show.

There are surprise guests and a manic mixture of music, sketches and impressions.

See page 6 DESIGNER ALISON HART DIRECTOR IAN WHITE PRODUCER JOHN HAMP Granada Television Production

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Leslie Crowther is host of 'The Price is Right', 7.45.

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way and Boy George is just one of the stars on show when 'Pop Goes New Y ear' at 5.5.

6.5 The A-Team More daring adventures with the Vietnam veterans, now soldiers of fortune, led by Col 'Hannibal' Smith They'll tackle any assignment, no matter how dangerous.

Oracle sub - titles page 170

See page 151 Hannibal George Peppard Baracus Mr T Murdock Dwight Schultz Peck (Faceman) Dirk Benedict

7.0 Russ Abbot's Scottish Madhouse RUSS ABBOT MICHAEL BARRYMORE SUSIE BLAKE LES DENNIS BELLA EMBERG DUSTIN GEE SHERRIE HEWSON JEFFREY HOLLAND Val Hooligan Vince Prince and the Tone Deafs Second showing of this special from Invercockaleekie V iewers in the Y orkshire region who can receive alternative programmes from adjoining ITV areas will find that transmissions alter as follows: ANGLIA 9.25 Cartoon; 12.0 Portrait of a Legend; 12.30 End of the Day. GRANADA 9.25 Cartoon Time; 12.0 Film — Otley. British spy spoof starring Tom Courtenay.

TYNE TEES 9.30 Fraggle Rock; 10.0 Film Jumbo. Doris Day musical set in a circus; 5.5 Road to LA; 12.0 The Master.

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Castle in Bonnie Scotland.

With a twirl of the tartan and a skirl of the pipes, 'Jimmy' and his family open the doors of their ancestral home. So hang on to your haggis, slacken your sporran and keep a firm grip on your caber as you spend a Guid New Year at Scotia's hielan hame. Writers are Colin Bostock-Smith, Russel Lane, Paul Minett, Brian Leveson and Geoff Rowley. Script associate is Russel Lane; music director is Alyn Ainsworth and music associate is Trevor Brown.

Oracle sub- titles page 170 See page 6 DESIGNER PIP GARDNER DIRECTOR/PRODUCER JOHN KAYE COOPER London Weekend Television Production

7.45 to 8.45 NEW SERIES The Price is Right LESLIE CROWTHER JACQUELINE BUCKNELL SANDRA EASBY MARIE-ELISE DENISE KELLY JULIA ROBERTS SIMON PREBBLE This programme took the country by storm and was hailed by the press as loud, brash, vulgar, irresistible'. The show returns with new games, fun and great prizes. Produced in association with Mark Goodson and Talbot Television.

Oracle sub-titles page 170 DESIGNER VIC SYMONDS DIRECTOR PAUL HARRISON PRODUCER WILLIAM G STEWART Genoa! Production

Mrs Tiggy-W inkle Frederick Ashton Squirrel 1 Carole :Ainsworth Country Mouse Mrs Pettitoes I Sally Ashby Tabitha Twitcher( Pig . Avril Bergen Town Mouse Jeremy Fisher Michael Coleman Hunca Munca Lesley Collier Pig 1 Graham Fletcher Town Mouse Squirrel 1 Bridget Country Mouse 5 Goodricke Pigling Bland 1 Alexander Grant Peter Rabbit Alexander Garry Grant Jemima Puddle-Duck Ann Howard Squirrel Nutkin 1 Wayne Sleep Tom Thumb SCREENPLAY RICHARD GOODWIN, CHRISTINE EDZARD DIRECTOR REGINALD MILLS

2.10 The Jolson Story LARRY PARKS EVELYN KEYES WILLIAM DEMAREST AL JOLSON BILL GOODWIN Young Asa Yoelson, who lives to sing, joins oldtimer Steve Martin in his

vaudeville act. As Al Jolson, the young singer is fired from a minstrel show when he misses a performance. But then an old friend, Torn, gets him a part in a Broadway show, where his new style of singing catapults him to fame.

Al also meets a young dancer called Julie Benson. Another Jolson film can be seen at 2pm tomorrow.

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Larry Parks (Singing voice: Al Jolson) Julie Benson Evelyn Keyes Steve Martin William Demarest Tom Bill Goodwin Papa Y oelson Ludwig Donath Mama Yoelson Tamara Shayne Lon Dockstader John Alexander A nn Murray Jo-Carroll Dennison Father McGee Ernest Cossart Young Al Scotty Beckett Dick Glenn William Forrest Ann Murray (as a girl) Ann E Todd Oscar Hammerstein Edwin Maxwell johnsy Emmett Vogan SCREENPLAY St'EPHEN LONGSTREET DIRECTOR ALFRED E GREEN

4.35 Citizen 2000 RACHAEL — A CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS This programme adds a handicapped child to the group. Rachael was born in Sheffield in 1982 and has cerebral palsy. As well as showing how her family is accepting and dealing with the particular stresses and challenges of having a disabled child, the programme asks about her life, chances in education, social integration and eventual employment, and about societYs attitude to disabled people.

RESEARCH KATE KNOWLES FILM EDITOR PhilEi . GRAY SERIES PRODUCER CATHERINE FREEMAN DIRECTOR/PRODUCER JUDY LEVER Thames Television Production

Down but not out!

Larry Parks plays the American singer making a remarkable rise to fame in 'The Jolson Story', 2.10.

SATURDAY 6.5 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

ITV

Yorkshire

5.5 Brookside It's a quiet Christmas Eve in the Close — until Annabelle's catering is hi-jacked and Sheila is rushed to hospital.

Marie tries not to let George's absence spoil Christmas for the twins. The Grants are visited by three shepherds and an asc.

8.45 Tarby and New Year Friends JIMMY TARBUCK MICHAEL ASPEL CILLA BLACK FOSTER BROOKS GLORIA HUNNIFORD MICHAEL PARKINSON GARY WILMOT The Brian Rogers Dancers Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra Jimmy Tarbuck hosts this special New Year edition of his series with his entertaining friends.

DESIGNER BILL McPHERSON PRODUCER DAVID BELL DIRECTOR ALASDAIR MACMILLAN London Weekend Television Production

9.45 ITN News 10.0 The Very Beast of Spitting Image ITV's award-winning (Derniere Prix at the Tomb of the Unknown Artichoke Awards — Barcelona) answer to the Chamber of Horrors presents the most gruesomely eye-watering bits from the last series. Not recommended for those of a famous disposition. Puppeteers are Anthony Asbury, Chris Barrie, Kevin Bradshaw, Alistair Fullarton, Louise Gold, Terry Lee, Steve Nallon, Richard Robinson.

SCRIPT EDITORS ROB GRANT, DOUG NAYLOR DIRECTORS PETER HARRIS, BOB COUSINS PRODUCER JOHN LLOYD Central Production

Caricatures of the famous bring out `The Very Beast of Spitting Image' on ITV at 10.0.

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A toast to you from `Tarby and New Year Friends', 8.45.

11.0 Duran Duran — Blue Silver SIMON LE BON NICK RHODES ANDY TAYLOR JOHN TAYLOR ROGER TAYLOR A documentary capturing the excitement and hysteria, both on stage and behind the scenes, that surrounded Duran Duran's gruelling tour of the US earlier this year, when they played 51 shows in 43 cities to a combined audience of more than half a million people. Blue Silver shows what those audiences didn't see: the stresses and strains of living out of a suitcase, the rare moments of relaxation and the euphoria and emotion backstage.

PRODUCERS PAUL BERROW, MICHAEL BERROW DIRECTOR MICHAEL COLLIN Zenith Production for Central

12.0 Late Night Drama DAVID Through an accident, a young man is forced to make a decision that will affect his life.

12.30 Closedown

6.0 News Summary and Weather

10.0 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Following the death of a state senator, powerful political boss Jim Taylor dictates his successor to governor Hopper. When the voters object, Hopper nominates Jefferson Smith, a `harmless organiser of Boy Ranger clubs and all-round local hero...

Jean Arthur Saunders Sen Joseph Payne Claude Rains Edward Arnold Guy Kibbee Gov Hopper Thomas Mitchell Diz Moore Chick McGann Eugene Palette Ma S m ith Beulah Bondi Senate majority leader H B Warner Harry Carey Senate president Astrid Allwyn Susan Paine Ruth Donnelly Mrs Hopper Senate minority leader Pierre Watldn Charles Lane Nosey Dick Elliott Carl Cook Billy Watson Delmar Watson The John Russell Hopper Harry Watson Boys Gary Watson Baby Dumpling

Jim Taylor

SCREENPLAY SIDNEY BUCHMAN DIRECTOR FRANK CAPRA

Made in black and white

See page 81 Jefferson Smith

followed by

James Stewart

12.25 Closedown

The Life and Adventures of

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY Adapted by David Edgar from the novel by Charles Dickens

THE ROYAL SHAE:ESPEARE COMPANY ROGER REES EMILY RICHARD JANE DOWNS JOHN WOODVINE DAVID THRELFALL ALUN ARMSTRONG CHRLSTOPHER. BENJAMIN LILA KAYE BOB PECK NICHOLAS GECKS Tonight and 6.5 tomorrow night Channel Four presents the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic awardwinning nine-hour stage production of Dickens' great novel. Meet baronets and beggars, money lenders and milliners, aristocrats and outcasts and, at the centre, that particularly English type of hero, Nicholas Nickleby and his sister Kate. Music and lyrics by Stephen Oliver. t Nicholas Nickleby Roger Rees Emily Richard Kate Nickleby Ralph Nickleby John Woodvine Mrs Nickleby Jane Downs Newman Noggs Edward Petherbridge Hilary Townley Hannah Mrs La Creevy Rose Hill Pupker Sir Matthew David Lloyd Meredith Mr Bonney Andrew Hawkins Irate gentlemen Patrick Godfrey Timothy Kightley Flunkey Mr Snawley William Maxwell Janet Dale Snawley Mjr Hilary Townley Snawley Mnr BellingStephen Rashbrook John McEnery W illiam f Sharon Bower Waitresses 1 Sally Nesbitt Clyde Pollitt Coachman Mr Mantalini John McEnery Mtne Mantalini Thelma Whiteley Griffith Jones Flunkey Miss Knag Janet Dale J Sharon Bower Rich ladies 1 Shirley King Alun Armstrong Mr Squeers

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Lila Kaye David Threlfall Sally Nesbitt Suzanne Bertish Sharon Bower Ian East Lucy Gutteridge Cathryn Harrison Milliners William Maxwell Sally Nesbitt Stephen Rashbrook Hilary Townley Fanny Squeers Suzanne Bertish Y oung W ackford Squeers Ian McNeice Bob Peck John Browdie Tilda Price Cathryn Harrison TomkinsWilliam Maxwell CoatesAndrew Hawkins Alan Gill Gra ymarsh JenningsPatrick Godfrey Mobbs Christopher Ravenscroft BolderMark Tandy Sharon Bower Pitcher JacksonNicholas Gecks John McEnery Cobbey PetersTeddy Kempner SprouterLucy Gutteridge

RobertsIan East Clyde Pollitt Brooker Walter Bray Christopher Benjamin Patrick Godfrey Mr Kenwigs Shirley King Mrs Kenwigs Morieena Kenwigs Hilary Townley Mr Lillyvick Timothy Kightley Miss Petowker Cathryn Harrison Mr CrowlIan East GeorgeAlan Gill Mr Cutler Jeffery Dench Mrs CutlerJanet Dale Mrs Kenwigs' sister Sharon Bower Lady downstairsRose Hill Jane Downs Miss Green Teddy Kempner Benjamin Pug StylesRoderick Horn Griffith Jones Old Lord Y oung fiancée Lucy Gutteridge Landlord Jeffery Dench Vincent Crummles Christopher Benjamin Mrs Crummles Lila Kaye The infant phenomenon Hilary Townley Percy Crummles Teddy Kempner Mrs Grudden Rose Hill Miss Snevellicci Suzanne Bertish Mr Folair Clyde Pollitt Mr Lenville Christopher Ravenscroft Miss LedrockLucy Gutteridge Sharon Bower Bravassq Miss Mr W agstaff Alun Armstrong Janet Dale Miss Belvawney Sally Nesbitt Miss Gazingi Mr Pailey William Maxwell Mr Hetherington Andrew Hawkins Stephen Rashbrook Mr Bane Mr FluggersGriffith Jones Shirley King Mrs Lenville Mr CurdleHubert Rees Emily Richard Mrs Curdle Bob Peck Si?Mulberry Hawk Lord Frederick V erisopht Nicholas Gecks Mr PluckTeddy Kempner Mark Tandy Mr Pyke Mr Snobb Christopher Ravenscroft Col ChowserTimothy Kightley LIGHTING TONY IMI DESIGNER JOHN NAPIER TV DIRECTOR JIM GODDARD STAGE DIRECTORS TREVOR NUNN, JOHN CAIRD PRODUCER COLIN CALLENDER

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News with Jayne Irving at

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7.2 RUB-A-DUB-TUB The programme for 4- to 8-yearolds. Join Nick Butterworth, Jon Miller and Dick King-Smith with Dodo. There's a story with a seasonal flavour and some music.

Plus the usual cartoons and something to make with Alan Dart.

News at 8.0.

Jeni Barnett's Pick of the Year: Highlights of TV-arc's 1984 at 8.2.

guests with their thoughts on 1984. including Review of the Papers: A look at the weeks newspapers, and

News Headlines read by Jayne Irving at 9.0.

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11.30 to 1.15 The Great Muppet Caper

925 Regional Weather Forecast

Black Country humour has a tang of its own: poetry and philosophy laced with salty wit. Harry Harrison and Dolly Allen are famous throughout the West Midlands. They have both appeared many times on radio and television, but their ideal setting is, perhaps, a Black Country pub, where comics have to be funny... or else! Dolly, undisputed first lady of Black Country comedy, revels in her deadpan humour. Harry is more inclined to follow his mood of the moment — in turn uproariously funny or sentimentally talking about the days of his youth. Two real characters reminding us of our foibles and showing that, even in poverty, people can always find something to laugh about.

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jewel robbery is headline news • • in every paper except one: the one whose dynamic investigative journalists are Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear. They head for London, where they encounter Miss Piggy, who falls snout-over-trotters for Kermit after he has mistaken her for the robbery victim...

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V eteran star, Robert Morley, is bowlered over when he joins his lovable friends in 'The Great Muppet Caper' at 11.30.

10.0 Morning Worship THE LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS

A special family service to celebrate the approach of the New Year. It comes from Above Bar Church, Southampton, a city church with an unusual story to tell.

The service is led by the Rev Peter Baker with the welcome and sermon given by the Rev David Jackman. The children of this regularly-packed place of worship will play a special

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Yorkshire 1.15 The Big Match BRIAN MOORE Highlights of two first divis n matches. Commentary by Brian Moore and Martin Tyler.

PRODUCTION TEAM RICHARD WORTH, TONY MILLS JIM RAMSEY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JEFF FOULSER DIRECTORS TED AYLING, STUART WILSON Lndependent Television Sport action

2.0 One More Ri r In the 19th century, the .own of Calabar, on the coast of East Africa in what is now Nigeria, was a centre of the slave trade. The savage tribes from up the river sold their victims to the slave traders on the coast and for most people life was drunken, brutalised and superstitious. Inspired by the example of explorer David Livingstone, a mill girl from Dundee, named Mary Slessor, went out as a Christian missionary to face the dangers of Calabar in 1876. In this two-part film report, Edna Healey, wife of Labour politician Denis, follows in Mary's steps: Part two will be shown next week.

CAMERA GORDON COULL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER REV DR NELSON GRAY DIRECTOR TED WILLLAMSO Scottish Television Production

10.0 Weekend in Wallop

2.45 Star Wars MARK HAMILL HARRISON FORD CARRIE FISHER ALEC GUINNESS In a distant time and galaxy, where a benevolent republic has been replaced oy an oppressive empire, Princess Leia Organa - a member of a rebel movement - attempts to escape with the plans of the Empire's deadly weapon, the Death Star. She is captured by Grand Moff Tarkin and his evil henchman Darth Vader, but her two robots, C-3P0 and R2-D2, escape to a barren planet where they are sold to farmer Owen Lars and his nephew Luke Skywalker.

R2-D2 projects, for Luke, Leia's plea for help to Ben Kenobi, a former Jedi knight of the Republic. In the desert Luke finds Ben, who speaks of a mystical 'Force' which was an article of faith with the Jedi knights.

Oracle sub - titles page 170 See pages 81 and 146 Luke Skywalker Mark Hamill Han Solo Harrison Ford Princess Leia Carrie Fisher Ben Kenobi Alec Guinness Grand Moff Tarkin Peter Cushing C-3P0 Anthony Daniels R2-D2 Kenny Baker Chewbacca Peter Mayhew Lord Darth V ader David Prowse Owen Lars Phil Brown Beni Lars Shelagh Fraser Chief Jawa Jack Purvis V ader's voice James Earl Jones Gen Dodonna Alex McCrindle Can Taggi Don Henderson Can Willard Eddie Byrne SCREENPLAY/DIRECTOR GEORGE LUCAS

Gallant heroes, evil enemies, revolutionary robots and bizarre beings... it's the space spectacle 'Star W ars', 2.45.

5.0 Duran Duran As the Lights go Down SIMON LE BON NICK RHODES ANDY TAYLOR ROGER TAYLOR JOHN TAYLOR Andy Hamilton Raphael Dejesus B J Nelson Charmaine Burch An electric live performance from Duran Duran featuring 12 of the songs that make up their latest album, Arena - which was filmed during four evenings when the band played before 60,000 ecstatic fans at the Oakland Coliseum in California, earlier this year. The concerts were the climax of a world tour that had taken the band from Australia to Japan and from the UK to a series of sell-out concerts in America. This film incorporates live action, fantasy sequences and some stunning special effects to capture the energy and excitement generated by one of the world's top rock bands.

Stage production arranged by Duran Duran.

PRODUCERS PAUL BERROW, MICHAEL BERROW DIRECTOR RUSSELL MULCAHY

6.0 Bullseye Treat yourself to a bit of Bully

for the New Year with Jim Bowen, as three couples test their skills at darts and general knowledge on the way to Bully's Prize Board. Big Cliff Lazarenko aims for the high numbers in the charity game and Tony (Mr 180) Green chalks up the scores.

Script associate is Howard Imber. Produced in association with Chatsworth Television.

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Pop goes California when one of the world's top groups play in Oakland: See 'Duran Duran - A s the Lights go Down', 5.0

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6.40 Highway HARRY SECOMBE MORAG MACKAY ICENNETH MCKELLAR The Choir of St Giles Harry Secombe visits Edinburgh's historic Royal Mile and is welcomed at the Palace of Holyrood by the Very Rev Dr Ronald Selby Wright, remembered by many as the radio padre during World War Two. In St Giles Cathedral, Harry talks to the minister, the Rev Gilleasbuig Macmillan and meets the blind artist Carolyn James. In the Jolly Judge pub, he discovers that Lonely (Russell Hunter from Callan) is an Edinburgh resident.

PROGRAMME ASSOCIATE RONNIE CASS EDITOR REV DR NELSON GRAY DIRECTOR NORMAN MORRLSON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BILL WARD Scottish Television Production

7.15 The Last Days of Pompeii Drama spectacular re-creating the decadent and doomed civilisation of GrecoRoman Pompeii - the city that was destroyed one terrifying afternoon when Vesuvius erupted. The year is 79AD: the cult of Isis, under the direction of the priest Arbaces, is rapidly gaining power. Arbaces seeks to destroy the Christians and control the empire by using wealthy, social-climbing Diomed. Part two is at 8.45 tomorrow night.

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Ned Beatty Brian Blessed Ernest Borgnine Nicholas Clay Lesley-Anne Down Olivia Hussey Siobhan McKenna Franco Nero Laurence Olivier Linda Purl Anthony Quayle Duncan Regehr Tony Anholt David Robb Howard Lang Joyce Blair

TELEPLAY CARMEN CULVER DIRECTOR PETER HUNT

Nether Wallop has been missed by most of the great events of history. Henry V rode around it, Lady Godiva passed through it - dressed - and Hitler flew over it. But last September, everything changed, when the First Nether Wallop International Arts Festival was launched by the villagers, assisted by Jenny Agutter, Maria Aitken, Rowan Atkinson, Sir Alfred Ayer, Paul Bradley, Billy Connolly, Peter Cook, Steven Edis, Stephen Fry, Bamber Gascoigne, Jools Holland, Michael Hordem, Gilson Lavis, Hugh Lawrie, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Andrew Logan, Richard Logan, Norman Lovett, Rik Mayall, Roger McGough, Phil Nice, Humphrey Ocean, John Ottway. Brian Pattern, Lynn Seymour, Ned Sherrin, Wayne Sleep, Arthur Smith, Mel Smith, Ralph Steadman, Kevin Thrvey, Stanley Unwin, Gore Vidal, John Wells and Bill Wyman.

See page 11 Oracle sub-titles see page 170 DIRECTOR STEPHEN PILE VT EDITOR CLAYTON PARKER FILM EDITOR FRANCESCA ROSS PRODUCTION TEAM JOHN CARLAW, PAUL JACKSON London W eekend Television Production

12.0 Late Night Drama THE BAMBOO BRUSH

The Bamboo Brush exPiores a young boy's rejection of his Chinese ancestry and heritage and how he comes to reassess his point of view.

Benjamin Kee, 13, is more concerned with his friends, with 'real school' and with the challenges of Pacman than he is with the lessons taught at Chinese school.

12.30 Five Minutes As a gloomy 1984 enters its final day Dr Calvert tests the answers to the perennial question: Is there no practical possibility of change for the better?'

PRODUCER MARY WATTS Yorkshire Television Production

12.35 Closedown Programmes as Y orkshire except:

ANGLIA 9.25 Cartoon; 9.30

Terrahawks; 11.0 Getting On; 2.30 Cartoon; 12.0 Shelley; 12.30 Christmas People.

CENTRAL 9.25 Contact; 9.35 Terrahawks; 11.0 Getting On. GRANADA 9.25 Cartoon; 9.30 Window on the World; 2.30 Cartoon; 12.0 That's Hollywood.

TYNE TEES 12.0 Streets of San Francisco. .

22 December-4 January 1985 TVTIMES

SUNDAY how one man's vision has mobilised a community.

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER MARTIN DOBLMEIER

Journey Communications Production

4.45 News Summary and Weather

1.0 Irish Angle Irish affairs and interests.

followed by

1.30 Refugees of Faith

6.0 W hat fate awaits patient K ate (Emily Richard), and will her luck change like her brother's?

Follow The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby' on Channel Four.

ROBERT KEE Since Christmas 1979, when Russia invaded Afghanistan, three and a half million refugees have crossed the border into Pakistan, fleeing bombing and religious persecution. This is the highest concentration of refugees anywhere in the world. The film, which was shot in Baluchistan and the North West frontier (where most of the refugee camps are situated) examines the plight of the refugees five years after the invasion, and the way they have been greeted as Muslim by their neighbours in Pakistan. It also looks at the high cost Pakistan is having to pay both economically and ecologically as a result. Narrator is Robert Kee.

Nicky Horne John Smith Last night, two of the four divisional play-off games were played in America, and tonight, hot off the video tape, watch the action from these crucial games. Next stop for the winners, the Conference Championships and then the Superbowl. The second pair of divisional play-off games, being played tonight, can be seen on Channel Four next Sunday.

RESEARCH Phu.R BERGEN EDITOR SUE MANNNG CAMERA HABIB KAVIANI DIRECTOR MICHAEL GILL WRITERS/PRODUCERS BARNABY THOMPSON, GEORGE C Malone Gill Production

Part Two THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ROGER REES DAVID THRELFALL JOHN McENERY THELMA WHITELEY EDWARD PETHERBRIDGE SUZANNE BERTISH LUCY GUTTERIDGE DAVID LLOYD MEREDITH HUBERT REES CHRISTOPHER RAVENSCROFT The second and final part of this TV adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic theatre production of Dickens novel.

Nicholas and Smike are a great success with the Crummles Theatre Company and, for the time being at least, their troubles seem to be behind them Mrs Nickleby and Kate, however, are still relying on the meagre charity of Ralph in London.

The Mantalinis go bankrupt and Kate seeks new employment. But, as the Nickleby's fortunes begin to change, there are dark clouds on the horizon for Smike...

2.0 Jolson Sings Again LARRY PARKS After living in semi-retirement for some time, famous entertainer Al Jolson succumbs to the urge to sing again. His need for the bright lights and applause, however, leads his wife to leave him.

Back on Broadway, Al lives it up — but his successful comeback is short-lived. Then his friend and manager, Steve Martin, asks him to entertain the troops in World War Two. See page 81 A l Jolson Larry arlcs Barbara Hale Ellen Clark Steve Martin William Demarest Cantor Y oelson Ludwig Donath Tom B aron Bill Goodwin Ralph Bryant Myron McCormick Mama Yoelson Tamara Shayne Henry Eric Wilton SCREENPLAY SIDNEY BUCHNIAN DIRECTOR HENRY LEVIN

3.45 The Heart Has Its Reasons Gladiator Lydon (Duncan Regehr) kills for the love of Nydia (Linda Purl). Just two characters caught up in epic events during 'The Last Days of Pompeii'. See ITV.

TVTIMES 22 December-4 January 1985

American Football

A profile of Jean Vanier, the founder of L'Arche, the community for mentally handicapped men an women, which he b an in 1964 in France. A mo 9 joyful, hopeful film sho g ,

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER MIKE WILMOT PRODUCER GARY FRANSES rleader Production

6.0 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

For cast see Saturday. Plus: Master Clumrnles Mark Tandy Mr Snevellicci John McEnery Mrs Snevellicci Thelma Whiteley Ian McNiece Soaley Tix Teddy Kempner Brooker Clyde Pollitt Mr Wititterley Roderick Horn Mrs W ititterley Janet Dale Sharon Bower Andrew Opera singers Hawkins John Woodvine Charles Cheeryble David Lloyd Meredith

Ned Cheeryble Hubert Rees Tim Lin/cinwater Griffith Jones Nurse Thelma Whiteley Madeline Bray Lucy Gutteridge Frank Cheeryble Christopher Ravenscroft A rthur Gride Jeffery Dench Peg Sliderskew Suzanne Bertish Hawk's rival Edward Petherbridge Captain Adams Andrew Hawkins Alan Gill W estwood Croupier Ian McNiece Casino proprieter Patrick Godfrey Surgeon Timothy Kightley Umpire Roderick Horn 1st Policeman Andrew Hawkins 2nd Policeman Mark Tandy Y oung woman Hilary Townley

10.45 The Phantom of the Opera CLAUDE RAINS Dismissed after 20 FILM years as a violinist at the Paris Opera House in the 19th century, Claudin is desperate for money to continue the singing lessons of Christine who, unbeknown to her, is his daughter. In a dispute over a concerto he is trying to sell, Claudin kills a music publisher but is himself disfigured by a bottle of acid thrown by the man's secretary. Escaping, Claudin makes his home in the catacombs beneath the opera house...

See page 81 Enrique Claudin

Claude Rains

'The Phantom of the Opera', the horror classic at 10.45.

Christine Dubois Susanna Foster Anatole Carron Nelson Eddy Raoul de Chagny Edgar Barrier Madame Biancarolli Jane Farrar The aunt Barbara Everest Vercheres Steve Geray V illeneuve Frank Puglia Lacours Fritz Feld Amoit j Edward Bromberg SCREENPLAY ERICH TAYLOR, SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN DLRECTOR ARTHUR LUBIN

12.30 Closedown

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5.0 Citizen 2000 TWO YEARS ON

2.30 Paralympics 1984 Some 1200 athletes from 40 countries met to compete in the VII World Wheelchair Olympics in July. The buildup of training and techniques since the last games four years ago provides a climax for competition and new world records.

Yorkshire 6.15 TV-am: Good Morning Britain ANNE DIAMOND NICK OWEN Weather with Wincey 6.28,

PRODUCTION TEAM MIKE AMOS, BARBARA MACKIE, PETER ORTON, ALAN SNELL JANET SHELL, TONY STE . YGER, CATHY WHEATLEY Interface/RPM Production

7.28, 7.59, 8.28, 8.59.

News: Gordon Honeycombe

6.30, 7.0, 7.30, 8.0. 8.30, 9.0.

Sport: Richard Keys 6.39, 7.37.

Competition Time 6.26, 8.26.

6.33 to 7.30: Good Morning Britain looks at the people who made the news in 1984.

Mad Lizzie 6 50, 8.50.

Popeye Cartoon 7.23.

Pop Video 7.54.

News Features 7.5, 7.33, 8.5, 343.

Wincey's Wall 8.57.

Monday Specials: Sound Off: with Fleet Street maverick Derek Jameson 7.15. Astrologer Marjorie Orr forecasts for 1985 8. 15; Jimmy Greaves' TV Highlights of 1984 8.33; Money Talk: best buys 8.40.

The Best of Roland Rat 9.2.

925 Regional Weather Forecast followed by

Sesame Street Fun and learning with the Muppets and friends.

10.25 Great Expectations

The law of diminishing returns as applied to the helpless Lily Tomlin in 'The Incredible Shrinking W oman', 1.30. coast of Australia's north eastern state, Queensland.

BROUGH SCOTT

See page 81

DIRECTOR GEORGE SAWFORD PRODUCERS STEVE MINCHIN, JEFF HARVEY Thames Television Production

Roger Mark Jock Sandy Tommo Royston Policeman

Jayson Duncan

Midas Juhlin

Michael Glinchey Melissa Woodhams Bill Charlton Ray Marshall Ray Meagher

SCREENPLAY GEOFF BEAK DIRECTOR GENE SCOTT

Dickens' novel.

Pip is an orphan living with his sister and her husband, a blacksmith. One evening while visiting his mother's grave, he stumbles across an escaped convict and is frightened into stealing food for him. Years later Pip's fortunes change and he is educated as a gentleman, courtesy of an unknown benefactor. Eventually it is revealed that the convict, now a wealthy man, is repaying Pip's good deed.

See page 81

11.35 Mystery Island Two children visit

FILM their cousins on

an island off the

The intrepid teams are put to the test again by presenter Brough Scott. Suzanne Danielle, Sally James, Peter Davison and Derek Thompson and four members of the public, compete for a trip to Miami.

BY JOHN WYNDHAM DRAMATISED BY ANTHONY READ

CAROL DRINKWATER JAMES HAZELDINE ANDREW ELLAMS

120 Calendar News

Special compilation of the serial, shown earlier this year.

Carol Drinkwater Mary

followed by

Local Weather Forecast

1.30 The Incredible Shrinking Woman LILY TOMLIN

Pat Kramer is a normal, satisfied wife and mother until, suddenly, her life is shattered by mysterious forces which cause her to shrink inch by traumatic inch!

See page 81 Pat Kramer/Judith Beasley Lily Torn. lin Charles Grodin V ance Kramer Ned Beatty Dan Beame Dr Eugene Nortz Henry Gibson Dr Ruth Ruth Elizabeth Wilson Mark Blank:5E1d Rob Concepcion Maria Smith Sandra Dyson Pamela Bellwood SCREENPLAY JANE WAGNER DIRECTOR JOEL SCHUMACHER

LAST SAILORS INLAND

The story of the last men going to sea under sail to make a living. Narrator is Orson Welles.

4.25 World of Animation Cartoons from around the world

4.40 Setbacks

BY DAVID STAFFORD

3.35 to 5.45 Chocky

1.0 News at One

An animated

FILM version of

3-5 Take Over

The children — Roger, Mark, Jock and Sandy — survive numerous mishaps before they are shipwrecked on a desert island. There, they discover a lighthouse and, while waiting to be rescued, become involved in dramatic adventures.

3.30 The Last Sailors

James Hazeldine David Andrew Ellams Matthew Zoe Hart Polly A lan Colin McCormack Phyl Penny Brownjohn Devin Stanfield Colin Emma Kathleen Cotty Jeremy Bulloch Landis John Grillo Sir W illiam Thorbe John Pennington Lusp Maggs James Greene Mr Trimble Lynne Pearson Miss Blayde Kelita Groom Jane Jonathan Jackson Mark Roger Peter John Bickford Catherine Elcombe Susan Patrick Blackwell Boatman Gary Raynsford Policeman Leo Dolan Postman Deborah Fairfax Girl reporter Janet Henfrey Cranky woman Derek Broome Birmingham Pc Newscaster Martyn Lewis Brian Redhead Interviewer Gary Watson Radio reporter Chocky's voice Glynis Brooks DESIGNER DAVID RICHENS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PAMELA LONSDALE PRODUCER VIC HUGHES DIRECTORS CHRISTOPHER HODSON. VIC HUGHES Thames Television Production

PATSY BYRNE ROBIN PARKINSON REGINALD MARSH FARE DO'S The first of four programmes this week looking at some of

the problems faced by people who are out of work.

In 1980 ITV's Help! programme created the homeless and jobless family, the Setbacks, as a means of putting over, in a lighthearted way, information about welfare rights and benefits.

The Setbacks Guide to Joblessness, can be obtained from Setbacks, PO Box 4TD, London W1A 4TD. Previously shown on ITV

Lily Patsy Byrne Larry Robin Parkinson Kim Taylforth Sylvia Barry Glyn Grimstead Holli Hoffman Kathy Mr Firbanks Mr Sneeth Reginald Marsh Mr Slingsby Mr Bigsby W alter Vivian Howitz Christine Christine Hargreaves Jack Paul Morris CAMERA RAYM . OND SIEMAN FILM EDITOR STEPHEN COLWELL SERIES PRODUCER SIMON BUXTON DIRECTOR/PRODUCER ALAN AFRIAT Thames Television Production

W ith skill and enthusiasm disabled athletes compete in Paralympics 1984' 2.30.

The babies born in 1982 are now two years old and two more are introduced into the group. Alexander was born in Scotland into a landowning family, Rachael in Sheffield, handicapped with cerebral palsy.

SERIES PRODUCER CATHERINE FREEMAN PRODUCER ANNIE MACDONALD Thames Television Production

6.0 to 7.25 A Pattern of Roses ADAPTED BY JOY WHITBY FROM THE NOVEL BY K M PEYTON

SUZANNA HAMILTON STUART MACKENZIE HELENA BONHAM-CARTER JO SEARBY KATHRYN POGSON VIVIAN PICKLFS NORMAN RODWAY

'A genuine spine chiller' (Daily Mail). Who was Tom Lnskip? What was the secret of his premature death 70 years ago? Tim Ingram comes to live in the same cottage and becomes obsessed with the fate of the dead boy. They have the same initials. They are both artistic — and the anniversary date of Tom's death is drawing nearer and nearer. Music by Stanley Myers.

Rebecca Suzann Hamilton Tim Stuart MacKenzie Netty Helena Bonham-Carter Tom Jo Searby May Kathryn Pogson Mrs Ingram Vivian Pickles Mr Ingram Norman Rodway Mr Bellinger Ralph Nossek Mr Pettigrew Richard Beale vicar Bill Wallis V icafs wife Caroline John Headmaster David Gant Art master Roger Milner EDITOR TONY LAWSON DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY ERNEST VINCZE PRODUCERS TIM VAN RELLIM, JOY WHITBY DIRECTOR LAWRENCE GORDON CLARK Grasshopper Production

7.30 Coronation Street The locals look back on the old year and prepare to ring in the new. Bet Lynch hopes her feminine charm will put her one step ahead in the race for the Rovers' management — but it doesn't quite work out that way.

Oracle sub-titles page 170

Yorkshire News at 5.45 6.0 Calendar RICHARD WHITELEY GEOFF DRUETT MARYLYN WEBB

Regional news and weather.

Y orkshire Television Production

7.0 The Krypton Factor International Special GORDON BURNS

The Krypton Factor brings together four top quiz show winners from around the globe for this tough test of agility, intelligence and physical stamina. Presenter Gordon Burns introduces: from Cheltenham, the reigning Krypton Factor champion Paul Smith; from Sydney, Sale of the Century champion Lee Tanabe; from Auckland, twice Krypton International winner Brian McDonnell; and from Atlanta, winner of more than £240,000 on Tic Tac Dough Thom McKee. Among the array of tasks facing the contestants is the observation test based on a scene from The Shooting Party, starring Sir John Gielgud, Edward Fox and James Mason.

This week's cast: Jack Duckworth William Tarmey Bill W ebster Peter Armitage Debbie W ebster Sue Devaney Kevin W ebster Michael he Vell Bet Lynch Julie Goodyear Betty Turpin Betty Driver Ivy Tilsley Lynne Perrie Gail TiLsley Helen Worth Brian Tilsley Christopher Quinten Hilda Ogden Jean Alexander Rita Fairclough Barbara Knox Mike Baldwin Johnny Briggs Mavis Riley Thelma Barlow Ken Barlow William Roach Deirdre Barlow Anne Kirkbride Emily Bishop Eileen Derbyshire Gordon Lewis David Daker Elaine Prior Judi Gridley Sarah Ridley Carole Nimmon Nicky Tilsley Warren Jackson Henry W akefield Finetime Fontayne WRITER JULIAN ROACH STORIES TOM ELLIOTT, PETER TONKINSON DESIGNER ERIC DEAICINS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BILL PODMORE DIRECTOR NICHOLAS FERGUSON PRODUCER MERVYN WATSON Granada Television Production

8.0 Freddie Starr at the Royalty FREDDIE STARR SHIRLEY BASSEY LON SATTON WAYNE DOBSON The Austen Brothers Ken Wilson

Freddie and friends shine in a dazzling spectacular. Joining your irrepressible host are musical comedy star Lon Satton, magician Wayne Dobson and sensational songstress Shirley Bassey.

Music associate is Ray Monk, music director Alan Braden, choreographer George May.

Oracle sub-titles page 170

Oracle sub-titles page 170

RESEARCH THELMA McGOUGH DESIGNER ALISON HART DIRECTOR GRAHAM C WILLIAMS PRODUCER DAVID JENKIN Granada Television Production

See page 10 DESIGNER ROD STRATFOLD DIRECTOR/PRODUCER KEITH BECKETT Thames Television Production

8.45 The Last Days of Pompeii The passions and intrigues in the seaside city of wealthy Romans and Greeks

are drawing inexorably to an end under the shadow of smouldering Vesuvius in the second part of this epic drama. While the gladiators kill each other in the arena and the Christians are being sacrificed to the lions, the volcano rumbles, ignored by the populace. Glaucus, seeking to thwart Arbaces in his aims, goes to Gaius, an ageing Roman who fears the priest but knows his past.

Armed with new knowledge, Glaucus is framed for murder and sentenced to fight Lydon to the death in the arena. As the battle rages, Vesuvius suddenly explodes. Part three follows after the news.

8.451

See pages 40 and 81 For cast, see Sunday

10.15 ITN News 10.30 The Last Days of Pompeii Continued

Final part of this epic drama portraying the dying days of a civilisation

11.35 The Hogmanay Show ANDY CAMERON KENNETH MCKELLAR LINDA ESTHER GRAY THE CORRIES HECTOR NICOL KENNY SMILES STUTZ BEAR CATS GENE FITZPATRICK HOGMANAY CELEBRATION

10.30 Celebrities and ordinary folk have an audience with Dame Edna Everage.

Join in the fun on Channel Four.

It's live from Scotland!

So join Andy Cameron to bring in the New Year in true Scottish style. There's a lot of music and laughter from Andy's guests — and look out for some surprise celebrities who will be first-footing after the bells ring in a feast of New Year entertainment. Music director is Arthur Blake.

DESIGNER KEN SMITH DIRECTOR CHRIS ALLEN PRODUCER CLARKE TAIT Scottish Television Production

12.35 Closedown

Programmes as Y orkshire except:

ANGLIA 6.0 About Anglia; 6.30

Put Richard W hiteley on your 'Calendar' at 6.0.

Whose Baby?; 12.35 Into the New Year.

CENTRAL 9.25 Puff and the Incredible Mr Nobody; 9.50 Christmas Goose; 2.55 Panama; 10.0 Falcon Island; 6.0 Comedians; 6.30 Whose Baby?

GRANADA 6.0 Reports; 6.30 Whose Baby?

TYNE TEES 6.0 Northern Life; 6.30 Whose Baby?

Comedian Freddie Starr presents a da771ing show at The Royalty with Shirley Bassey. TTV,

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7.25 News Summary and Weather 7.30 NEW SERIES The Optimist historic eruption of Vesuvius in AD79 is portrayed in tit second part of the film 'The Last Days of Pompeii', starring Franco Nero and Olivia Hussey. See ITV.

ENN REITEL ANNETTE LYNTON JAMES COYLE ANTHONY CHINN ANY MESSAGES First of a new mainly silent comedy series every evening this week. As The Optimist sprays the greenfly in the Indian and Chinese embassies, he is forcibly persuaded to smuggle messages into the Russian and American embassies.

WRITERS ENN REUEL, ROBERT FUEST DIRECTOR ROBERT FUEST PRODUCERS ROBERT SIDAWAY, JOHN BRITTANY Optimist Company for Charivma Films

9.0 `W ater Rats' John Inman and Derek Batey reminisce on Channel Four.

8.0 Brookside Michelle is recovering from a night out with Pat and co.

Bobby's union problems are escalating.

Edna Cross Betty Alberge

Harold Cross Bill Dean A nnabelle Collins Doreen Sloane Paul Collins Jim Wiggins Bobby Grant Ricky Tomlinson Sheila Grant Sue Johnston Heather Haversham Amanda Burton Marie Jackson Anna Keaveney Tracey Jay Michelle Jones Stuart Griffiths Danny McCarthy Janet Hanson Cheryl Kennedy Ralph Hardwick Ray Dunbobbin Joyce Harrington Gill Brailey Betty Hughes Paula Tilbrook John Hughes Stephen Lloyd Greg McAdam Nigel Caliburn Jeffrey Longmore Rick Sexton Brian Regan Terry Sullivan WRITER BARRY WOODWARD DESIGNER CAROL SHEERAN DIRECTOR NICHOLAS PROSSER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PHIL REDMOND Mersey Television Ltd Production

8.30 Culture Club in Japan

11.35 The Hogmanay Show' host Andy Cameron and his guests invite you to celebrate with them on 1TV.

Winner of the Gold Award at the International Film and Television Festival of New York 1984. Another chance to see Boy George, Jon Moss, Roy Hay, Mikey Craig and Helen Terry as they sample the delights of the Orient.

First seen in a Midsummer Night's Tube.

PRODUCERS JOHN GWYN, PAUL CORLEY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MALCOLM GERRIE DIRECTOR GEOFF WONFOR Tyne Tees Television Production

Enn Reitel (left) as 'The Optimist' and Lloyd Lamble as an IVH5 man in an exotic and unlikely tale of espionage.

9.0 A Century of Stars

enormous and reads like a W ho's Who of entertainment.

See page 6

THE STORY OF THE GRAND ORDER OF WATER RATS

RESEARCH CY YOUNG SOUND CLIFF GODDARD CAMERA ERIC SCOTT PARKER PROGRAMME ASSOCIATE DAVY KAYE FILM EDITOR MALCOLM FARQUHARSON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DEREK BATEY DIRECTOR/PRODUCER HARRY RING Border Television Production

Max Bygraves, Bryan Burdon, Joe Brown, David Berglas, Louis Benjamin, Teddy Brown, Bernard Bresslaw, The Crazy Gang, Charlie Chester, Charlie Chaplin, Norman Collier, Henry Cooper, Roy Castle, Roger de Courcey, Joe Church, Les Dawson, Cyril Dowler, Arthur English, Norman Evans, Bruce Forsyth, Flanagan & Allen, Serge Ganjou & Joy, Jill Gascoine, Keith Harris & Orville, Roy Hudd, Jan Harding, John human, Davy Kaye, Harry Lauder, Laurel & Hardy, David Lodge, Benny Lee, Len Lowe, Ruth Madoc, Nat Mills, George Martin, Ray McVay, David Nixon, John Pertwee, Bill Pertwee, Jimmy Perry, Bob & Alf Pearson, Paul Raymond, Cardew Robinson, Ken Roberts, Ted Ray, Fred Russell, Ralph Reader, Harry Secombe, Paul Shane, Albert Stevenson, Don Smoothey, Jasmin Smart, Judd Solo, Pat Stodd, Jimmy Tarbuck, Tommy Trinder, Little Tich, Harry Tate, Frankie Vaughan, Robb Wilton, Ben Warriss, Billy Whittaker, Wee Georgie Wood The Grand Order of Water Rats is the most famous show business brotherhood and charity organisation in the world. Water Rat Derek Batey introduces almost 100 top entertainers who are all members of the Order, who talk about themselves and in doing so help to trace the history of the GOWR which is almost 100 years old. Prince Philip is himself a Companion Member of the Water Rats and takes part in the programme. As well as present day performers there are performances from great Water Rats from the past and archive films. The cast list is

10.30 Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage Introduced by Sir Les Patterson. Ever since Dame Edna gave her first audience some years ago there has been a persistent clamour for a repeat performance.

Reluctantly, but bowing to the pressure from her public, Melbourne's housewife megastar talks frankly and fearlessly as she parries questions from an audience of celebrities and real people.

Music by Laurie Holloway.

DESIGNER MIKE OXLEY DIRECTOR ALASDAIR MACMILLAN PRODUCER RICHARD DREWETT London Weekend Television Production

11.30 Julia Live for '85 JULIA MIGENES-JOHNSON Peter Morrison Greet 1985 with music all the way. Julia Migenes-Johnson, star of the Top C's and Tiaras series, returns to Britain to star in another series — and her opening programme brings in 1985 on Channel Four live. This and the other programmes will expand beyond just the work of operetta into classic, show and parlour favourites. With the Harry Rabinowitz Orchestra and Burt Rhodes on piano.

PRODUCER NEIL ANTHONY DIRECTOR BRYAN IZZARD Bright Thoughts Company Production

12.30 Closedown

2.30 State Fair JEANNE CRAIN DANA ANDREWS DICK HAYMES VIVIAN BLAINE

Yorkshire

Rodgers •.012. Aandfamous Hammerstein .Iowa farmstead . musical, set on the of Abel Frake,

6.15 TV-am: Good Morning Britain ANNE DIAMOND NICK OWEN Weather with Wincey 6.28, 7.28, 7.59, 8.28, 8.59.

News with Gordon Honeycombe 6.16, 6.30, 7.30, 8.0, 8.30, 9.0.

Sport with Richard Keys 6.39, 7.39.

Competition Time 6.26, 8.26.

6.33 to 7.30: Good Morning Britain's worldwide news review of 1984.

Mad Lizzie 5 22 and 8.50.

Popeye Cartoon 7.23.

Pop on Tuesday 7.54.

News Features 7.5, 7.33, 8.5.

Wincey's Wall 8.57.

Tuesday Specials: Jeni Barnett's Postbag 8.15; Films: Charles Golding with what's new at the cinema 8.40; Cooking with Rustle Lee 8.44.

The Best of Roland Rat 9.2.

9.25 Regional Weather Forecast followed by

Sesame Street 10.25 The Four Feathers

Jack Durrance (Robert Powell) joins a fight for honour and for Ethne (Jane Seymour): 'The Four Feathers', 10.25.

burns the telegrams summoning him and three fellow officers to active service in Egypt. He resigns his commission in the Royal North Surrey Regiment and subsequently receives three white feathers — the mark of cowardice — from his former friends. He receives a fourth one from his fiancée.

Disowned by his father, Harry goes to Egypt to redeem his honour.

See page 81 Harry Faversham Beau Bridges Jack Durrance Robert Powell W illiam Trench Simon Ward Ethne Eustace Jane Seymour Gen David Faversham Harry Andrews Abou Fatma Richard Johnson Thomas W illoughby David Robb Wembol Richard Beale SCREENPLAY GERALD DiPEGO FROM THE NOVEL BY A E W MASON DIRECTOR DON SHARP

BEAU BRIDGES ROBERT POWELL

12.0 Gymnastics '84

Lit Harry Faversham, a member of a military family, intercepts and

Steve Rider looks back on an action-packed year in which Britain's top gymnasts reached new peaks of

achievement. British Champions and Olympic competitors Andrew Morris and Natalie Davies compete with some of the best gymnasts in the world. The commentators are John Taylor and Monica Phelps.

EDITOR BRYAN TREMBLE PRODUCER JACK CRAWSHAW EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BOB BURROWS Thames Television Production

1.0 ITN News ALASTAIR STEWART

1.5 And Finally...

A new crop of those funny stories that usually end News at Ten, compiled by newscaster Martyn Lewis.

These include the people who got married in a burning building or while running a marathon, the bulldog that had so many wrinkles he needed a facelift, the turtle that had a flipper transplant courtesy of a tyre company, the little girl who goes showjumping on a bull and the world's strangest cure for baldness...

See page 81 Margy Frake Jeanne Crain Pat Gilbert Dana Andrews Wayne Frake Dick Haymes Emily Vivian Blaine A bel Frake Charles Winninger Melissa Frake Fay Bainter Hippenstahl Donald Meek Miller Percy Kilbride Eleanor Jane Nigh McGee Frank McHugh Barker Henry Morgan Marty William Marshall Harry W are Phil Brown Hank Paul Burns Eph Tom Faddon William Frambes PaPPY Mrs Metcalfe Josephine Wittell SCREENPLAY OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II DIRECTOR WALTER LANG

420 World of Animation A look at cartoons from around the world.

PRODUCER RICHARD EVANS Channel F0121 Presentation

VT EDITOR MIKE NORTH PRODUCER MARTYN LEWIS DIRECTOR TIM SUMNER ITN Production

4.30 The Last Sailors

1.45 to 2.40 Knight Rider

The story of the last men going to sea under sail to make a living. In remote corners of the world men still fish and trade and carry cargo as they always have since the great days of sail.

The Last Sailors marks the end of the great age of sail.

Filmed in 12 countries around the world. Narrator is Orson Welles.

SLAMMIN' SAIVEM'f'S STUNT SHOW SPECTACULAR

Stunt rider Sammy is injured when a plot to destroy his show backfires and Michael is called in to replace him with the aid of KITT. British Champion and Olympic competitor Andrew Morris swings into action in the best of `Gymnastics '84', 12.0.

currently caught in a flurry of last-minute preparations before the entire Frake family leaves for the week-end revels of the annual Iowa State Fair. Abel plans to enter Blue Boy, his prize boar, in the grand championship. His wife Melissa, hopes to win a blue ribbon for her mincemeat. Their grown-up children Margy and Wayne are just looking for fun and romance. But their gloomy storekeeper friend Miller bets the Frakes that some of them will return from the fair disappointed...

Michael Knight David Hasselhoff Devon Miles Edward Mulhare Sammy Phillips Eddie Firestone Lisa Phillips Susan Kase' Mark Adam Postil

LAST SAILORS ON COASTAL WATERS

WRITERS/DIRECTORS NEIL HOLLANDER, HAROLD MERTES PRODUCER ROBERT MACLEAN Adventure Film Production

Charles W inninger and Dick flaymes in 'State Fair', 2.30.

5.30 Setbacks

BY DAVID STAFFORD

HOUSEWIVES CHOICE

The second of a series of four programmes looking at some of the problems faced by people who are out of work For cast, see Monday

5.45 NEW SERIES The Last Cathedral COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

BY GILLIAN REYNOLDS

It's been called 'St John the Unfinished' — a massive granite cathedral overlooking the desolate and devastated landscape of Harlem in New York. Designed to be the biggest Protestant church in the world, then left unfinished for years, the cathedral is now building again, with British craftsmen leading the work To many it's an irrelevance; to some it's an insult. Gillian Reynolds reports. First of three programmes this week.

CAMERA GARY BRECKON SOUND BARRY BACK EDITOR BILL OXENHAM DIRECTOR/PRODUCER JEFFREY MILLAND HTV West Production

6.15 Before the Nickelodeon Blanche Sweet Cinema's pioneering days between 1896 and 1908 are recreated in this documentary. It features Edwin Porter who made the famous The Great Train Robbery in 1903. Narrated by silent film star Blanche Sweet Before the Nickelodeon is full of social history, movie gossip and all the excitement of a great new medium. Narrator is Blanche Sweet.

WRITER WARREN D LEIGHT DIRECTOR CHARLES MUSSER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER STEVE BRIER

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5.15 Crossroads

10.30 First Tuesday

Kath Brownlow is saddened by news from daughter Glenda and son-in-law Kevin.

Anna Radek gives J Henry Pollard reason to believe that Douglas Brady will not marry his daughter, Miranda.

JONATHAN DIMBLEBY THE LONGWOOD THUMP/ THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE ARCTIC RAIDER

This weeks cast: Gloria Tilling Kate Binchy Dr James W ilcox Robert Grange Glenda Banks

Yorkshire 2.40 Little Miss Marker WALTER MATTHAU JULIE ANDREWS TONY CURTIS

In New York in the Thirties, book• • maker Sorrowful Jones finds himself landed with a little girl who has been left as security by one of his clients. The first complication to result from this situation is that he has to feed her and find a bed for her in his shabby apartment...

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See page 81 Sorrowful Jones Walter Matthau A manda Julie Andrews Blackie Ryan Tony Curtis Regret Bob Newhart Judge Lee Grant Herbie Brian Dennehy Brannigan Kenneth McMillan Carter Andrew Rubin The Kid Sara Stinson Benny Joshua Shelley Clerk Randy Herman Mrs Clancy Nedra Volz Vittorio Tom Pedi Lola Jacquelyn Hyde Clerk Jessica Rains Croupier Jack Mullaney Workman Ralph Mazza Manager Jack de Leon Sam Don Bexley Clerk John P Finnegan Teller Henry Slate Moms Alvin Hammer Fixer Mark Anger SCREENPLAY WALTER BERNSTEIN DIRECTOR WALTER BERNSTEIN

4.30 Name That Tune LIONEL BLAIR MAGGIE MOONE BALM Tallulah Beckett The Alan Braden Orchestra

Lynette McMorrough Kath Brownlow Pamela Vezey Katy Louise Banks Emily Albu Kevin Banks David Moran David Hunter Ronald Allen A nna Radek Dorota Zienska J Henry Pollard Michael Turner Douglas Brady Nigel Williams Miranda Pollard Claire Failiconbridge Benny Paul Henry Edna Tilling Mary Kenton Joe MacDonald Carl Andrews Sid Hooper Stan Stennett Harry Maguire Bernard Kay Jill Chance Jane Rossington Adam Chance Tony Adams Paul Ross Sandor Eles Barbara Hunter Sue Lloyd Iris Scott Angela Webb Mavis Hooper Charmian Eyre WRITERS RAYMOND BOWERS, DAVID GARFIELD, ARTHUR SCHMIDT STORIES PETER LING SCRIPT EDITOR IVOR JAY DIRECTOR BRIAN MORGAN PRODUCER JACK BARTON Central Production

5.45 Give Us a Clue MICHAEL PARKINSON LIONEL BLAIR UNA STUBBS BRUCE FORSYTH JULIA McKENZIE NICOLA PAGETT WAYNE SLEEP JULIE WALTERS BERNIE WINTERS

To celebrate the New Year, Michael Parkinson introduces a special 45-minute edition of the popular game of mime.

Team captains Una Stubbs and Lionel Blair and their star guests race to beat the clock as they mime the titles of songs, films, books, plays and television programmes.

Oracle sub-titles page 170 DESIGNER HARRY CLARK DIRECTOR/PRODUCER DAVID CLARK Thames Television Production

A bright idea from Arthur (George Cole) gets Terry (Dennis W aterman) all steamed up. Don't miss 'Minder', 9.15.

6.30 The James Bond Film

8.30 This is Your Life

SEAN CONNERY URSULA ANDRESS DR NO

EAMONN ANDREWS

James Bond goes to the island of Jamaica to investigate the mysterious death of a British secret agent. in the process, he inadvertently comes across some mysterious doings by a certain Dr No. It transpires that the doctor has designs on nearby Cape Canaveral and is the possessor of a secret weapon which can destroy it.

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James Bond

Sean Connery Ursula Andress

Felix Leiter

Joseph Wiseman Jack Lord

Quarrel Miss Taro

Anthony Dawson John Kitzmiller Zena Marshall

Honey Dr No

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Bernard Lee

Sylvia Eunice Gayson Miss Moneypenny Lois Maxwell SCREENPLAY RICHARD MAIBA1TM. JOHANNA HARWOOD, BERKLEY MATHER DIRECTOR TERENCE YOUNG

Someone, somewhere is in for a super surprise as Eamonn declares 'This is Your Life'.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER BRIAN KLEIN PROGRAMME CONSULTANTS/ WRITERS TOM BRENNAND, ROY BOTTOMLErf DIRECTORS TERRY YARWOOD, MICHAEL D ICENT PRODUCER MALCOLM MORRIS Thames Television Production

9.15 Minder DENNIS WATERMAN GEORGE COLE HYPNOTISING RITA

BY ALAN JANES

Comedy drama with wheelerdealer Arthur Daly, getting into scrapes which his luckless minder Terry usually has to sort out. Reclaiming his debts, Arthur takes over a cleaning business — and gets steamed up.

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A rthur Driver Mr Sharma

Lionel Blair invites contestants to Name That Tune. The fastest on the button could win more than £1200, a star prize and have a chance to win a new car. Singers Maggie Moone and Kaluki help contestants build their winnings and entertain with some sparkling songs. Hostess is Tallulah Beckett. Music associate is Ray Monk, music director Alan Braden.

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Jimmy Elliot Sudbury Rita Benjy Barney Joany Lady in flat Mr Chicory Clare Mrs Boswell

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Dennis Waterman George Cole Michael Redfern

Rents Setna Glynn Edwards Ray Burdis Donald Sumpter Nicola Cowper Tony Calvert Vincent Allen June Brown Margery Withers Frank Williams Sally Faulkner Sheila Mathews Charles Rae

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION JOHNNY GOODMAN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER LLOYD SHIRLEY PRODUCER GEORGE TAYLOR DIRECTOR TERRY GREEN

DESIGNER JOHN PLANT DalECTOR/PRODUCER KEITH BECKETT Thames Television Production

5.0 ITN News

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Superlative soul singer Roberta Flack sparkles among a firmament of musical stars. . . Live at City Hall, 11.30.

10.15 ITN News

To many, Morris dancing might seem like the frolics of country bumpkins, but in the all-male preserve of the Saddleworth team in Greater Manchester, it's as manly and alive as rugby league. The Thump, produced and directed by Marilyn Gaunt, follows the tense and amusing build-up to the climax of the team's dancing season last August Bank Holiday. The next film is very much a change of subject. A few weeks ago, a modern deepsea fishing trawler the A rctic Raider, left Hull for the last time. Its crew were Korean and its buyers from Iran.

Through the eyes of its former owner and crew, The Last V oyage of the Arctic Raider, produced and directed by David Wright, tells the poignant story of the decline of the fishing industry.

RESEARCH JILL TURTON CAMERA MOSTAFI HAMMURI, FRANK POCKLINGTON, MIKE SHRIMPTON EDITORS TERRY WARWICK, PAUL WATTS SERIES EDITOR JOHN WILLIS Yorkshire Television Production

11.30 Peggy Lee & Roberta Flack Live at City Hall with Brook Benton Stan Getz Astrud Gilberto Buddy Greco Edwin Hawkins Singers Gerry Mulligan Nancy Wilson Jimmy Witherspoon The National Youth Jazz Orchestra

A galaxy of international talent converged on Sheffield City Hall to take part in the biggest line-up of musical names ever assembled outside London. The cameras were there throughout the four-day event to capture the glamour and excitement inspired by these legendary performers. This one-hour special of non-stop music and song personifies each of the stars in a feast of pop, mainstream and ia77.

LIGHTING PETER HARDMAN DESIGNER COLIN PIGGOTT PRODUCERS TERRY HENEBERY, LAN BOLT Yorkshire Television Production

12.30 Closedown Programmes as Yorkshire except: ANGLIA 12.30 Tuesday Topic.

CENTRAL 9.25 Clowns; 9.50 Bella; 10.0 Falcon Island.

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8.0 Brookside Terry comes out of plaster and tries to make a fresh start with Michelle. Edna and Harry are worried when Ralph disappears.

For cast, see Monday

7.30 The Optimist ENN REITEL JOHN BLYTHE ANDREW BICKNELL JULIA CHAMBERS TURF LUCK

BY ROBERT FUEST, ENN REITEL

The Optimist goes racing, meets the lovely Sal and gets the job of stable lad. He saves Nutter, a champion horse, from the knackers yard and lovingly prepares him for the big race.

The beaming host, Michael Parkinson, surrounded by his crew for 'Give Us a Clue'. ITV.

8.30 It was 20 Years Ago Today See panel

10.50 B-25 'Mitchells do fly in IMC' JOHN HAWKE ANTHONY HOWARTH This is the hair-raising story of the first flight of Mitchell bombers to cross the Atlantic

since 1944, a flight that took 14 days. The film features five B-25s and John Hawke, colourful and charming purveyor of exotic and old aeroplanes for films. Hawke's no-nonsense, seat-of-the-pants approach to flying triumphs over having to fly in instrument minimum conditions (IMC), over trouble with the 35-year-old engines, original World War Two radios, the lack of radar, stubborn fuel tanks and the doubts of some of his pilots about crossing all that ocean.

Flying sequences directed by John Hawke. Narrator is Anthony Howarth.

CAMERA ANTHONY HOWARTH SOUND/EDITOR CAROLYN HICKS V isionair international Production in association with A irspeed International

12.0 Closedown

IT WAS 20 YEARS AGO TODAY Mersey beat boomed across the nation with Gerry and the Pacemakers and popular comedian Charlie Drake (below) provided the laughs.

Enjoy a chance to travel back to the black and white days of the swinging Sixties.

8.30 The Worker

BY LEWIS SCHWARZ, CHARLIE DRAKE

Please say 'yes' to `Dr No' this New Year's Day evening as James Bond (Sean Connery) finds himself in trouble in Jamaica, but has the compensation of meeting the delectable Honey (Ursula Andress). ITV.

6.30

A PUNTING WE WILL GO Charlie Drake is at his best in this classic comedy series.

Charlie gets the gambling bug and spends his life down at the betting shop...

Charlie Mr Pugh Odds clerk Counter clerk Mrs Higgs Fred Higgs

Charlie Drake Henry McGee Eddie Byrne Peter Hager Jean Marlow Glyn Houston

PRODUCER ALAN TARRANT DIRECTOR SHAUN °RIORDAN A TV Production

9.10 Beat City

10.50 John Hawke, a fanatic about old planes, is featured in 'Mitchells do fly in IMC' about B-25s when the old aircraft took to the air again. Channel Four.

Liverpool 20 years ago became famous as the home of Mersey Beat and the Beatles. Hundreds of groups appeared apparently from nowhere. Intrepid reporter Dan Farson ventures into the Cavern and other dives to find out what was going on.

Featuring Gerry and the Pacemakers, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Faron's Flamingos, Earl Preston and the TTs, The Chants, Chick Graham and the Coasters, The Spinners, Jacqueline McDonald, Bridle O'Donnell,

Billy Kielty, Paul Cunningham.

WRITER DAN FARSON CAMERA RON OSBORN, PETER POVEY DIRECTOR CHARLIE SQUIRES Redinsion TV/Dave Clark International Production

9.55 The Power Game THE NEW BOY

BY EDMUND WARD

In this classic first episode of the Boardroom intrigue series, wily Sir John Wilder finds retirement restful. He is soon up to his old tricks...

John W ilder Patrick Wymark Henrietta Pauline Loring Pamela Wilder Barbara Murray Sir Gerald Merle William Devlin' Sir Gordon Revidge Norman Tyrrell Kenneth Bligh Peter Barkworth Caswell Bligh Clifford Evans Chauffeur Fred McNaughton John Courtenay John Brooking Douglas Maddox Peter Hughes Jane Redvers Peggy Sinclair Don Henderson Jack Wading ITN Newsreader Tim Brinton Minister John Gatrell DESIGNER DON FISHER EDITOR WILFRED GREATOREX DIRECTOR VICTOR MEN= PRODUCER REX FIRKIN ATV Production

WEDNESDAY 12.0 Rod, Jane & Freddy A first look at the programme which opens Children's ITV at 4.0 today.

12.10 Our Backyard JEAN and LAURA BURSTON PETER LORENZELLI DRIPPING TAP

Yorkshire 6.15 TV-am: Good Morning Britain ANNE DIAMOND NICK OWEN Weather with Wincey at 6.28, 6.59, 7.28, 7.59. 8.28, 8.59.

News with Gordon Honeycombe 6.30, 7.0, 7.30, 8.0,

8.30, 9.0.

Sport with Mike Morris 6.39, 7.37.

Competition Time 6.26, 8.26.

Vox Pop 6.35.

Mad Lizzie invites you to shape up at 6.50 and 8.50.

Wincey's Wall: country wide update with Wincey Willis 6.57, -

8.57.

Popeye Cartoon 7.23.

Pop Video 7.54.

News Features 7.5, 7.33, 8.5, 8.43.

Wednesday Specials: Tina Tackles It: T'im Baker shows how to DIY at 7.15: Star Feature 8.15; Eve Pollard's TV News and Gossip 8.40; The Best of Roland Rat 9 2.

9.25 Regional Weather Forecast followed by

Sesame Street

Drip! Drip! Drip! If Peter doesn't mend that leaky tap, the backyard will soon turn into a puddle, a pond, a lake, an ocean!

DESIGNER ALISON HART EXECUTIVE PRODUCER STEPHEN LEAHY DIRECTOR DAVID WARWICK PRODUCER MARTYN DAY Granada Television Production

12.30 Three Little Words RAY ALAN BARBIE

The only show on television in which the host and hostess are married to each other.

Next week: Calendar Health Club.

DEVISER ROY WARD DICKSON DIRECTOR RUSSELL TURNER PRODUCER DEREK CLARK I-ITV Production

1.0 News at One 1.20 Calendar News followed by Local Weather Forecast

1.30 Falcon Crest BITTER HARVEST

10.25 Wonder Man Danny Kaye plays twins in this colourful comedy.

One, Edwin Dingle, is the kind of fellow who lives in libraries and has made an artform of being a bore. The other, who has taken the stage name of Buzzy Bellew, is a very successful cabaret artiste, a dynamic wisecracker who lives life on a high note. Then Buzzy is bumped off by gangsters.

See page 81 Edwin Dingle l• Danny Kaye Buzzy Bellew Ellen Shanley Virginia Mayo Midge Mallon Vera-Ellen Ten Grand Steve Cochran District A ttorney Otto Kruger Schmidt S Z Sakall Monte Rossen Donald Woods Torso Edward Brophy Henchman Allen Jenkins SCREENPLAY DON HARTMAN, MELVILLE SHAVELSON, PHILIP RAPP DIRECTOR BRUCE HUMBERSTONE

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Double dealing over the contract for a wine harvest causes consternation.

Angela Chan ling Jane Wyman

Philip Erickson Mel Ferrer Chase Robert Foxworth Maggie Susan Sullivan Cole Gioberti William R Moses Lance Cumson Lorenzo Lamas Melissa Cumson Ana Alicia Julia Curnson Abby Dalton

2.30 On the Market SUSAN BROOKES TREVOR HYETT

Susan Brookes and Trevor Hyett take their weekly look at what's fresh and available on the market. Today, On the Market launches a competition to find the best menu for £1 a day with chef Jean Conil.

RESEARCH COLIN BELL, CLARISSA HYMAN, HELEN McMURRAY, MARY STACK EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ROD CAIRD DIRECTOR MIKE HEALY PRODUCER MARIAN NELSON Granada Television Production

3.0 NEW SERIES Gems

5.15 Blockbusters BOB HOLNESS

The game show in which 16to 18-year-old contestants test their speed and general knowledge on the Blockbusters game board.

Presenter is Bob Holness.

Produced in association with Mark Goodson and Talbot Television Ltd.

Episode 1

BY TESSA DIAMOND

A new serial, set in a fashion studio workshop in London's Covent Garden owned by brothers Stephen and Alan Stone. Stephen is due back from Spain, eager to see the completion of their first sale to America. Created by Tessa Diamond.

This week's cast: A lan Stone Cornelius Garrett George Rudd Jonty Miller Gaily Johnson Cindy O'Callaghan Shirley Margo Cunningham Paul Currie . William Armstrong Jean Briggs Shelley Borkum Stephen Stone Steven Mann Holly Parks Victoria Burton Ben Colman Mark Tandy Aileen Levine Toby Robins John Barlee James Greene Christina Scott Anjela Belli Ann Carol Harvey Noreen Stella Gonet Madge Mary Clare Nash Joy Devar Sally Sagoe Matthew Roberts Steven Rintkus Bob Smith David Cheesman DESIGNER ROBERT IDE ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS MICHELE BUCK BRIDGET MOORE DIRECTOR MERVYN CUMMING PRODUCER BRENDA ENNIS Thames Television Production

3.25 News Headlines from ITN

3.30 Sons and Daughters Fiona's attempt to impress Bert's grandson backfires badly. Jill and Brian's behaviour arouses Wayne's suspicions.

This week's cast: Paul Sheppard Mark Ferguson A ngela Keegan Alexandra Fowler Jill Taylor Kim Lewis Brian O'Donnell Lee James Bert Wilkins Ben Gabriel Fiona Thompson Pat McDonald Wayne Hamilton Ian Rawlings Gordon Hamilton Brian Blain Alec W ilkins Jack Weiner Ruth W ilkins Faye Anderson Tommy W ilkins Shane Wilkinson Charlie Bartlett Sarah Kemp Rob Keegan Noel Hodda Beryl Palmer Leila Hayes David Palmer Tom Richards Kevin Palmer Stephen Comey Doug Palmer Syd Conabere Patricia Hamilton Rowena Wallace Margaret Dunne Mona Rodgers

4.0 to 5.15 Children's ITV presented by ROLAND RAT SUPERSTAR

Rod, Jane & Freddy ROD BURTON JANE TUCKER FREDDY MARKS THE LOST NOTE

Another musical story.

Graphics by Peter Lock DESIGNER GRAHAM PROBST DIRECTOR/PRODUCER PETER YOLLAND

DIRECTORS MIKE HOLGATE, DENNIS LIDDINGTON PRODUCER TONY WOLFE Central Production

News at 5.45 Susan Brookes and Trevor Hyett: 'On the Market', 2.30.

4.15 Cartoon Time

6.0 Calendar The latest regional news and views.

6.35 Crossroads

SPEEDY GHOST TO TOWN

Speedy and his friend Rodriguez are travelling across the desert towards a ghost town. Daffy Duck decides to follow the mice and spies on them through the windows of the saloon.

Gloria Tilling finally decides to leave mother Edna. Adam Chance relieves Paul Ross of a nagging worry about his future. Anna Radek accepts a marriage proposal.

For cast, see Tuesday

7.0 NEW SERIES Wish You Were Here...?

4.20 NEW SERIES Razzmatazz Another star-packed edition of ITVs top pop show rocks and rolls its way through games, quizzes, interviews, pop shows and chart-topping singles. Presenters are Alastair Pirrie and Zoe Brown.

DESIGNER PE,TER BINGEMANN RESEARCH ED SKELDING, POSY HARVEY, MARY SACKVILLE-WEST EDITOR ALASTAIR PIRRIE DIRECTOR/PRODUCER ROYSTON MAYOH Tyne Tees Television. Production

4.45 The Book Tower NEIL INNES Lucy M Boston

The Book Tower returns with composer, performer and exBonzo Dog Band member Neil limes as presenter. He will be joined each week by the nine Book Tower watchers who help him to interview some of the most famous artists and authors in the country.

Today's guest is 92-year-old Lucy Boston, who wrote The Green Knowe books — ghost stories about her own home, the oldest inhabited house in England.

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See page 151 CONSULTANT FIONA WATERS DESIGNER BARBARA SHAW DIRECTOR ROBERT WYNNE-SIMMONS PRODUCER JOY WHITBY Yorkshire Television Production

JUDITH CHALMERS CHRIS KELLY TED MOULT

The 1985 holiday season starts with the return of TVs most popular holiday programme, as Judith Chalmers and Chris Kelly begin their annual circuit of the globe, prospecting for new holiday ideas. Judith is in the most scenic of Caribbean islands — St Lucia, where 3000ft peaks shoulder their way through wall-to-wall banana plantations. Chris presents the programme from the Canary Islands, where he will report on winter sunshine holidays in Tenerife. And guest presenter Ted Moult and his wife try out a coach tour of the Scottish Highlands. The travel consultant is Robin Dewhurst.

Writers are Peter Hughes and Perrott Phillips.

See page 31 EDITOR PETER HUGHES DIRECTORS JIM POPLE, ROY LOMAS PRODUCER CHRISTOPHER PALMER Thames Television Production

7.30 Coronation Street Who's to be the new boss at the Rovers? Sarah Ridley arrives with the brewery's decision. Elaine Prior begs Kevin Webster not to split his family by refusing to move to Southampton after the wedding. Can she succeed where his father Bill failed?

Oracle sub-titles page 170 For cast, see Monday WRITER JOHN STEVENSON

22 December-4 January 1985 TVTIMES

WEDNESDAY 6.30 The Making of Treasure Hunt

Australian athlete Frank Dunne (Mel Gibson) has his gaze firmly set on the Dardanelles campaign during W orld W ar One. Don't miss the film `Gallipoli' at 10.30.

2.30 The Magic Box ROBERT DONAT London, in the FILM 19th century, Young William Friese-Greene acquires a considerable reputation as a portrait photographer, but throws over his 'safe' livelihood to concentrate on the ambition which is to cost him everything - the development of a camera that will take moving pictures...

See page 81 Friese - Greene

8.0 The Benny Hill Show with Henry McGee Bob Todd Jon Jon Keefe Carl Wayne Len Keyes Louise English Emma Bryant Lorraine Doyle Erica Lynley Helen Tozer Hill's Angels Take a trip to a Paris night club via the Caribbean, with The B - Team to guard your luggage and handle any nosy customs men. Glamour and guffaws are guaranteed as Benny and the gang go on the rampage. Music associate is Ted Taylor, music arranger Ronnie Aldrich, vocal backings by The Ladybirds.

Choreographer for Hill's Angels is Libby Roberts.

Words and original music by Benny Hill.

DESIGNER BILL LAS= ASSOCIATE PRODUCER NIGEL COOK DIRECTOR/PRODUCER DENNIS KIRKLAND Thames Television Production

9.0 The Greatest Paper in the World!

BY PHILIP HOWARD, ROBERT FLEMING

For over a century, The Times had its reputation as the greatest newspaper in the world unquestioned. But now, The Thunderef, recovering from the biggest crisis in its 200-year history, has to fight for survival like any other newspaper. The paper that has brought down governments is now owned

by Australian Rupert Murdoch. Not known for his respect for tradition, he says his first loyalty is to his shareholders. Those appearing include Lord Chalfont, Lord Cudlipp, Harold Evans, Edward Heath, Bernard Levin, William ReesMogg, Lord Mancroft, Rupert

Murdoch and the editor and staff of The Times Narrator is Anthony Quayle.

CAMERA RAY SIEMEN EDITOR HARRY KYLE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CATHERINE FREEMAN DIRECTOR/PRODUCER ROBERT FLEMING Thames Television Production

10.0 News at Ten 10.30 Gallipoli MEL GD3SON World War One. In Australia, crack sprinter Archy Hamilton resolves to join the Anzac troops in the Dardanelles, despite being too young for service.

Rejected on this count, he is persuaded by a fellowathlete, Frank Dunne, to try again and the two young men find themselves trekking across the desert in their bid to enlist ..

See pages 38 and 81 Frank Dunne Mel Gibson A rchy Hamilton Mark Lee Uncle Jack Bill Kerr Maj Barton Bill Hunter Billy Lewis Robert Grubb Snowy Barney Wilson

David Argue Tim McKenzie W allace Hamilton Ron Graham Les McCann Harold Hopkins Rose Hamilton Gerda Nicolson

SCREENPLAY DAVID WILLIAMSON DIRECTOR PETER WEIR

Programmes as Y orkshire except: ANGLIA 12.30 Mr & Mrs; 1.30 A Country Practice; 6.0 About Anglia; 12.35 East Comes West.

CENTRAL 9.25 Nutcracker, 9.50 Snow Dogs; 10.0 Falcon Island; 12.30 Man Who Came To Breakfast; 1.30 Shillingbury Tales; 6.0 Crossroads; 6.25 Central News.

GRANADA 12.30 Sullivan; 1.30 Country Practice; 3.30 Young Doctors; 6.0 Crossroads; 6.25 Reports.

TYNE TEES 12.30 Movie Makers; 1.30 Country Practice; 6.2 Crossroads; 6.25 Northern Life.

TVTIMES 22 December-4 January 1985

Robert Donat

Helena Maria Schell Edith Margaret Johnston Jack Carter Richard Attenborough Miss Tagg Renee Asherson Lord Beaverbrook Robert Beatty Graham

John Charlesworth

Maurice John Howard Davies Viscountess Marjorie Fielding Mrs Clare Joyce Grenfell May Jones Glynis Johns Broker's man Stanley Holloway Conductor Cousin Alfred Policeman

Miles Malleson Bernard Miles Laurence Olivier Eric Portman A rthur Collings Mr Lege Michael Redgrave Lady Pond Margaret Rutherford Guttenberg Frederick VaLk Receptionist Kay Walsh SCREENPLAY ERIC AMBLER DIRECTOR JOHN BOULTING

4.30 Parade In Sweden,

FILM Jacques Tati acts

as master of ceremonies for the acts at a night-time circus besides doing a number of his own routines and mimes.

See page 81 With: Jacques Tati, Karl Kossmayer and his Mule, Les Williams, Les Veterans, Les Sipolo, Pierre Bramma SCREENPLAY/DIRECTOR JACQUES TATI

5.45 Setbacks PATSY BYRNE REGINALD MARSH MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS

Third in a series of four programmes looking at some of the problems faced by people who are out of work For cast, see Monday

6.0 The Last Cathedral

One girl, two helicopters and five hidden clues. But how do the contestants in the studio and Anneka Rice on location communicate with each other as she dashes from clue to clue? This programme takes a behind the scenes look at the way Treasure Hunt is made.

DIRECTORS JO WRIGHT, ADAM HUME PRODUCER ADAM HUME Channel Four Presentation

7.0 Channel Four News & Weather 7.30 The Optimist ENN REITEL LONDON CITY BALLET IAN McNEICE HOWARD ATTFIELD GEOFFREY RUSSELL CHRISTINE GARNER KAREN SMITH MARION ST CLARE MICHAEL BEARE THE LIGHT FANTASTIC

'The Optimist' is a humble cobbler and as he cobbles away he is thrown into an adventure of thuggery and terpitude all revolving around the theft of a diamond.

8.0 On Your Way, Riley!

BY ALAN PLATER

BRIAN MURPHY MAUREEN LIPMAN The life and times of Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, better known as Old Mother Riley and her daughter Kitty.

A blow by blow account of the most explosive double act in the history of music hall.

Music arranged and conducted by Robert Hartley.

Frank MC

Norman Bird Robert Bridges Ossie Hugh Futcher Dorothy Peta Bernard Danny Michael Kinsbury Arthur Lucan Brian Murphy Kitty McShane Maureen Lipman Vera Jones Diane Charlie Tom Fossett Pianist/actor Trevor T Smith Twin dancers Teri and Lisa Scoble W aiter John Taylor

children are plotting to take it away from her. Emma's thoughts go back to her humble roots - to her life as an ill-treated servant girl.

Music is by Nigel Hess. Parts two and three can be seen tomorrow and Friday night.

See page 26 Young Emma Emma Harte

Jenny Seagrove Deborah Kerr Laura Diane Baker Bruce McGill George Baker Edwin Fairley Peter Chelsom Joe Lowther John Duttine Adam Fairley Peter Egan Frank Harte Mick Ford Arthur Ainsley Christopher Gable Gerald Fairley Christopher Guard Winston Harte Dominic Guard Jack Harte Del Henney Olivia Gayle Hunnicutt Mrs Turner Megs Jenkins Mr Kallinski Harry Landis Murgatroyd Barry Morse Blackie O'Neill Liam Neeson Adele Fairley Nicola Pagett Paula Miranda Richardson David Kallinski Joris Stuyck Elizabeth Harte Meg Wynn-Owen Henry Rossiter John Mills SCREENPLAY LEE LANGLEY EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS IAN WARREN, TOM DONALD PRODUCER DIANE BAKER DIRECTOR DON SHARP Portman A rtemis Production

10.55 G I Brides The true continuing story of the 70,000 British war brides who sailed to the US in 1946 to join their GI husbands.

Newsreels of the day called it the biggest exodus since the Pilgrim Fathers'. Having married in the heat and passion of war, these women were risking all for men and a country they hardly knew.

Did they find their American dream? Programme adviser is Pamela Winfield.

CAMERA RAY BRISLIN FILM EDITOR DAVID ELLIOTT PRODUCTION ASSISTANT CAROLINE SPACK EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TERENCE HUGHES DIRECTOR/PRODUCER LAVINIA WARNER Warners Sisters Ltd Production

12.10 Closedown

DESIGNER JEREMY BEAR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID CUNLIFFE PRODUCER MARGARET BOTTOM:LEY DIRECTOR JOHN GLENISTER Y orkshire Television Production

9.0 NEW SERIES A Woman of Substance

ONLY THE RIGHTEOUS

BY BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD

Black gospel music is a feature of the second part of Gillian Reynolds report. The programme looks at the way people of Harlem see the stone cathedral of St John being built on the hill above them. The final part is tomorrow at 5.30.

JENNY SEAGROVE DEBORAH KERR JOHN MILLS Three part adaptation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's novel. At the centre of a battle for control of her vast business empire, Emma Harte discovers that her avaricious

Jenny Seagrove, John Duttine A Woman o fSubstance' 9.0.

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THURSDAY 12.0 The Little Green Man A first look at the programme which opens Children's ITV at 4.0 today.

12.10 Mooncat & Co

2.0 Tennis

STEPHEN BOXER Christopher Leith guest PAT COOMBS SHOP

forkshire 6.15 TV-am: Good Morning Britain ANNE DIAMOND NICK OWEN Weather with Wincey at 6.28.

6.59, 7.28, 7.59. 8.28, 8.59.

News with Gordon Honeycombe 6.30, 7.0, 7.30, 8.0,

8.30, 9.0.

Sport with Mike Morris 6.39,

7.37.

Competition Time 6.26, 8.26.

Vox Pop 5.35.

Mad Lizzie 6.50 and 8.50.

Wincey's Wall 6.57, 8.57.

Popeye Cartoon 7.23.

Pop Video 7.54.

News Features 7.5, 7.33, 8.5, 8.43.

Thursday Specials: Through the Keyhole with Lloyd Grossman: another star's home revealed at 8.15; Gyles Brandreth's Video Report including Lenny. starring Dustin Hoffman, at 8.40.

The Best of Roland Rat 9.2.

925 Regional Weather Forecast followed by

Sesame Street 1025 Starcrash DAVID HASSELHOFF CAROLINE MUNRO CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER

The universe is in the grip of darkness, under the evil eye of Count Zarth Am. Hidden deep within his damnable fortress he seeks to destroy the good Emperor and his empire. Imperial battleships have already been lost or destroyed in the effort to explore the Count's haunted planet. The Emperor decides to call on the best pilot in the galaxy, the saucy and irrepressible Stella Star and her mysterious alien navigator Akton, to find the Count's secret lair and destroy it...

See page 81 Simon David Hasselhoff Stella Star Caroline Munro A kton Marjoe Gortner Emperor Christopher Plummer Count Zarth Am Joe Spinell File Judd Hamilton Thor Robert Tessier DIRECTOR LOUIS COATES

The WCT 1985 World Doubles Championship

Mooncat and Stephen begin a new career, running a second-hand shop. Mooncat thinks the shop is full of rubbish but Stephen does not - nor does their first customer, Pat Coombs.

Writers are Rick Vanes and Sally Wells.

and, at times, moving.

DESIGNER MIKE JOYCE DIRECTOR/PRODUCER LEN LURCUCK EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CHRIS JELLEY Yorkshire Television Production

DESIGNER IAN REED EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DEREK BATEY DIRECTOR/PRODUCER WILLIAM CARTNER Border Television Production

12.30 Three Little Words

3.0 Gems

RAY ALAN BARBIE

Continuing the serial set in a London fashion workshop.

Aileen Levine, the American buyer, has everyone waiting on tenterhooks.

Couples test their word ability and knowledge. Next week: The Calendar Picture Show DEVISER ROY WARD DICKSON DIRECTOR RUSSELL TURNER PRODUCER DEREK CLARK IITV Production

1.0 News at One 120 Calendar News followed by

Zany fun with Aaron Shirley, Andrie Reid, Paul Venables, Matilda Thorpe and Donald W augh: 'W ords, W ords, W ords', 4.40.

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325 News Headlines 3.30 Sons and Daughters Bert lets Fiona know his feelings.

4.20 NEW SERIES Sooty

This long established and prestigious tennis tournament comes live from the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Commentators are Simon Reed, David Lloyd, Martin Tyler and Frew McMillan.

PRODUCER DEREK BRANDON Cheerleader Production

5.15 Setbacks PATSY BYRNE ROBIN PARKINSON REGINALD MARSH SYLVIA'S SPLURGE

MATTHEW CORBETT Windsor Davies TREASURE HUNT

The last of the series of four programmes looking at some of the problems faced by people who are out of work. t

In the first of a new series to bring in the New Year for younger viewers, Soo, Sweep and Sooty play hunt the thimble. This gives them the idea to play hunt whatever you can think of, which causes Matthew endless trouble and also upsets Windsor Davies, as the gang hunt for treasure on his allotment. Puppeteers are Peter Jago, Nick Wilson, Judy Palmer with the voice of Brenda Longman. Writer is Matthew Corbett. Devised by Harry Corbett.

For cast, see Monday

5.30 The Last Cathedral I'LL PRESS ON

You can't pull down a halffinished cathedral; so do you just press on? Gillain Reynolds concludes her three-part report on the building of the Protestant Cathedral of St John the Divine in Harlem, New York.

Music from the Harlem Boys Choir.

DIRECTOR NICK BIGSBY PRODUCER CHARLES WARREN Thames Television Production

For cast, see Wednesday

Local Weather Forecast

1.30 The Love Boat DOC, BE PATIENT DANCE WITH ME GOING MY WAY

Doc gets the flu. A retired ballerina must tell her former partner the truth about his future. A madcap girl invites her cab driver to go cruising.

Doc Doctor

Ballerina Madcap girl Cab driver

Bernie Kopell Susan Sullivan Carol Lawrence Arlene Colonies Buddy Hackett

2.30 Look Who's Talking DEREK BATEY ERNIE WISE

Ernie Wise describes himself as a song and dance man.

How he started in showbusiness, how he teamed up with Eric Morecambe and how he feels now that their great partnership is sadly ended is all revealed, as he talks about his life in showbusiness in a conversation with Derek Batey that is both amusing

4.0 to 5.15 Children's ITV presented by ROLAND RAT SUPERSTAR

NEW SERIES The Little Green Man JON PERTWEE

Introducing The Little Green Man and his pet, Zoom Zoom, who have just arrived from outer space. They befriend a little boy called Sydney Keets, known as Skeets and they embark on a series of adventures. Today's story is The Visitor from Space and involves the rescue of some children from a fire. The narrator is Jon Pertwee.

WRITER/PRODUCER MATTHEW SMITH Central Production

4.15 Cartoon Time ASSAULT AND PEPPERED

Speedy Gonzales and his starving cousins challenge Don Daffy to a duet

4.40 to 5.0 NEW SERIES Words, Words, Words

6.0 NEW SERIES Discovery First one-hour special of a series of twelve programmes.

David Bellamy introduces the two astronomers who have discovered a new solar system and finds out how antitank technology is being used to shatter painful kidney stones. He also takes a critical look at the public face of science '84.

BY ALL AND SUNDRY

ANDRIE REID AARON SHIRLEY MATILDA THORPE PAUL VENABLES DONALD WAUGH

A fast-moving, rib-tickling tantalising revue with plenty of fun and enjoyment for all ages.

RESEARCH PAUL BADER NICOLA GLUCKSMANN, MIKE MITCHELL ANNE PIVCEVIC PRODUCER MARK Da0N Y orkshire Television Production

DIRECTOR LEON THAU PRODUCERS CHARLES WARREN, LEON THAU Thames Television Production

Programmes as Y orkshire except: ANGLIA 12.30 Sullivans; 1.30 The Champions; 6.0 About Anglia; 12.35 Norfolk - New Guinea Return.

CENTRAL 9.25 Seal Pup; 9.50 Trout That Stole The Rainbow; 10.0 Falcon Island; 12.25 World of Stories; 12.40 Contact; 1.30 Champions; 6.0 Crossroads 6 25 Central News.

GRANADA 12.30 Sullivans; 3.30 Young Doctors; 6.0 Crossroads; 6.25 Reports.

TYNE TEES 1.30 The Champions; 6.2 Crossroads; 6.25 Northern Life.

7.0 Channel Four News & Weather TVs most comprehensive news programme with presenters Peter Sissons, Trevor McDonald and Alastair Stewart.

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9.0 A Woman of Substance

7.30 The Optimist

Yorkshire 5.0 NEW SERIES Dangermouse

Ernie W ise, Eric Morecambe, Fulton Mackay ride a 'Night Train to Murder'. But there's laughter on the line: 8.30.

3Y BRIAN TRUEMAN

VIVA DANGERMOUSE Today's animated story begins with a prickly problem and has an awful lot to do with a bull! Featuring the voices of David Jason, Terry Scott, Edward Kelsey and Brian Trueman.

DIRECTOR BRIAN COSGROVE PRODUCERS BRIAN COSGROVE, MARK HALL

New Washington lies on the moon under its blue translucent dome. Suddenly it is under attack by the robots and spaceships of Omus, the renegade robot-master and self-styled Emperor of Delata III in deep space. New Washington is served an ultimatum: surrender itself and Earth to Omus or be destroyed...

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5.15 Blockbusters Bob Holness hosts this quiz for teenagers.

News at 5.45 6.0 Calendar 6.25 Crossroads Sid Hooper tries to help Benny get a room and is mortified when Harry Maguire moves in first. Douglas Brady is shaken by the news that Paul Ross and Anna Radek are to marry.

For cast, see Tuesday

6.50 The Shape of Things to Come JACK PALANCE CAROL LYNLEY

The creation of a FILM much-enlightened post-Earth society,

Omus Jack Palance Niki Carol Lynley Dr John Caball Barry Morse Jason Caball Nicholas Campbell Kim Smedley Eddie Benton Senator Smedley John Ireland Sparks Mark Parr Merrick Ardon Bess SCREENPLAY MARTIN LAGER DIRECTOR GEORGE McCOWAN

8.30 Night Train to Murder

BY ERIC MORECAMBE. ERNIE WISE JOE McGRATH

ERIC MORECAMBE ERNIE WISE

A note from the makers: 'Our film takes place in 1946 and is fondly dedicated to Donald O'Connor's father, Des. It has been sneak-previewed in front of an invited audience, but when the lights came up, he'd sneaked out... so reactionwise, we don't know how the film will do. And we're not too sure erniewise.

Some critics have seen it as a comedy — with horror.

mystery, adventure and nostalgic love story overtones.

Whatever, we hope this motion picture will revive memories of Bing Crosby and Ginger Rogers. Eric dances like Bing Crosby and Ernie sings like Ginger Rogers' See pages 4-5 Eric Eric Morecambe Ernie Ernie Wise McKay Fulton Mackay Kathy Lysette Anthony Kenneth Haigh Multi-character Joe Tony Boncza Dame Flora Margaret Courtenay Uncle Felix Richard Vernon Rivers Roger Brierley Zelda Pamela Salem Manzini Edward Judd Mrs Manzini Penny Meredith Vicar Robert Longden Big Jim I Pat Roach Big Jim 2 Tim Stern Front of House manager Ben Aris Stage manager Nick Stringer Showgirl Alison Bell Showgirl Karen Alexander Stuntman Derek Ware Card dealer Alan Shaxon Policeman Charles Jameson DESIGNER PETLR LE PAGE DIRECTOR/PRODUCER JOE McGRATH Thames Television Production

10.0 News at Ten 10.30 Escape from Alcatraz CLINT EASTWOOD PATRICK McGOOHAN ROBERTS BLOSSOM

Early in 1960, Frank Morris enters the maximum security prison at Alcatraz. Having already escaped from several prisons, Morris is warned by the warden: no one has ever escaped from Alcatraz.

ENN REITEL JENNY RUNACRE ANN MILES MICHAEL SEGAL CHRIS CUNNINGHAM PHIL SMEATON ANTHONY HYDE EILEEN PRESTON THE DOUBLE The Optimist, on arriving at a gambling casino, discovers that he is a celebrity. What he never discovers is that he is being mistaken for the crook who runs the joint — his double. After loving and losing his double's girl, ruining the business, and winning and losing a million on the tables, The Optimist walks out into the London streets a somewhat disappointed young man.

Treasure Hunt KENNETH KENDALL ANNEKA RICE Wincey Willis Following the Christmas special edition of Treasure Hunt, there are more surprises in store for Anneka as Cecilia Robertson, a swimming instructor, and her friend Mary Trinder, both from Dumfries, try to set the helicopter on the right course to win £1000. Kenneth Kendall is there to try and help too, as the helicopter buzzes over Warwickshire. Joining the team as adjudicator is Wincey Willis.

CREATIVE ASSOCIATE ANNE EVANS DIRECTOR CHRIS GAGE PRODUCERS MALCOLM HEYWORTH, HOLMANS Chatsworth Television Production

JENNY SEAGROVE DEBORAH KERR JOHN MILLS Emma goes off to Leeds filled with hatred for the Fairleys.

She is befriended there by a Jewish family, the Kallinskis.

The baby born — she returns to her village and learns that her father died saving Edwin's life. Emma vows at her parents' grave to become rich so that she can gain vengeance. She returns to Leeds where she works night and day, eventually opening her first shop. She marries Joe Lowther for security, despite her love for another man. Her business expands and fully absorbs her energies. The third and final part is tomorrow night at 9.0pm.

For cast, see Wednesday

10.55 If They'd Asked for a Lion Tamer DAVE DALE Local small-town boy made good story with a difference.

Dave Dale is a drag artist and gay man whose life has been translated into a cabaretcomedy-documentary. Drag band, muscle men, music hall, plus flashback to schooldays and his escape to Big Sin City — London In his own words: 'Put it this way dear, I was so desperate to leave, if they'd asked for a lion tamer, Id have been in Billy Smart's circus by now!'

LIGHTING CAMERA ALISTAIR CAMERON ASSOCIATE PRODUCER CAROLINE MYLON PRODUCER SOPHIE BALHETCHET DIRECTOR PAUL OREvILAND Kinesis Films Production

1.1.55 Soap It looks as though Jessica (Katherine Helmond) has fallen in love with El Puerco (Gregory Sierra), the guerilla leader.

12.20 Closedown

See pages 41 and 81 Frank Morris Warden Doc Clarence John English Charley Butts

Clint Eastwood Patrick McGoohan Roberts Blossom Jack Thibeau Fred Ward Paul Benjamin Larry Hantan

SCREENPLAY RICHARD TUGGLE FROM THE BOOK BY I CAMPBELL BRUCE DIRECTOR DONALD SIEGEL

Omus (Jack Palance), aims to rule space. Can he be stopped — or is this 'The Shape of Things to Come'? 6.50.

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Backed by beefcake, drag artist Dave Dale reclines and muses: 'If They'd A sked for a Lion Tamer'. See at 10.55.

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INDEXES Main Index Advertising Index A-Z Index NEWS HEADLINES

400 405 495 401 Newsflash 550 BUSINESS INDEX 500 Business Headlines 402 World Markets 522 London Market 523 Wall Street 524 FT Index 525 Exchange Rates 526 Tourist Rates 527 Currency Report 528 Company Results 529 Shares 530-531 Commodities 532 TV INDEX 403 Channel 4 414/415 S4C 416/417 4-Tel Programme Glide 404 ITV Regions 472-484 BBC1/2 Today 485 WEATHER INDEX 406

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HIGHLIGHTS ON ORACLE On the Home Service page 104. Last-minute gift checklist.

Traditional and alternative festive food. Silly games.

Nationwide January sales roundup. Your rights on returning sales goods.

From Blue Suede Views page 408. An exclusive backstage report from the Style Council's Christmas Show in Margate, with Paul Weller and Mick' Talbot. Win Christmas presents from rock stars in the Lucky Dip. On TV Scene page 303. Send a Christmas Message to TV stars. Enter the Coronation Street 'Christmas Past' competition.

For the Kids page 407. Kids Editor Ian Denyer travels to Dallas to experience the ultimate adventure game on Planet Photon Win videos, computer games and other goodies. Two lucky viewers to visit Saturday Starship. Win a recorded personal message from Ninestein of Terrahawks or beam your own intergalactic message at a planet of your choice.

Worn out by all the festivities? For a New Yeafs overhaul don't miss your chance to win a stay for two at Ragdale Hall Spa: page 162 from Christmas Eve.

ITV 309/312 315 316 CONSUBWR INDEX 104 Daily News 161-162 Daily Recipes 163-164 Crosse & Blackwell 350 Bingo 139 PER Job Vacancies 166 Knitting 167 Russell's Stars 183 WEATHER INDEX 106 National Map 188 Regional Forecast 320 Shipping Forecast 189 TRAVEL INDEX 107 Road Reports 184-185 Rail News 186

British Rail Services 125 Air News 187 British Airways Arrivals 176 Regional Advertising Theatre Guide SUBTITLES

6.15 TV-am: Good Morning Britain ANNE DIAMOND NICK OWEN Weather with Wincey at 6.28, 6.59 7.28, 7.59, 8.28, 8.59.

News with Gordon Honeycombe 6.30, 7.0, 7.30, 8.0, 8.30, 9.0.

Sport with Mike Morris 6.39, 7.37, Competition Time 6.26, 8.26.

Vox Pop 6.35.

Mad Lizzie 6.50 and 8.50.

Wincey's Wall 6.57, 8.57.

Popeye Cartoon 7.2a Pop Video 7.54.

News Features 7.5, 7.33, 8.5, 8.43.

Friday Specials: Consumer Spot with Jan Walsh 7.15: Jeni Barnett's Postbag 8 15; Jimmy Greaves' Weekend TV Preview 8.40.

The Best of Roland Rat: A last look back at his Rat on the Road adventures, at 9.2.

`Never Mind the Handicap'. Lesley and Michael and other pupils, all of them blind, prove the point at 12.30.

1025 Cartoon Time

SIMONE BUCHANAN Forced onto the FILM tiny Lonesome • Island when her dinghy is swept away by a tidal river, Rebecca Porter meets Manuel, a South American ship's deserter who missed an amnesty period and is now in fear of arrest and deportation. A widespread police search has meanwhile begun to find Rebecca. Though a very likeable person, Manuel, fearing capture, insists she stay on the island until the pressure lessens.

See page 81 Rebecca

Sesame Street

Simone BUchanan Manuel Henri Szeps Member for Southdown Cornelia Frances Rod Adam Garnett Andrew Jay Hackett Speaker Ron Haddrick

Fun and learning with the Muppets and friends.

SCREENPLAY CHARLES STAMP DIRECTOR PETER MAXWELL

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The first of 12 stories about a six-year-old girl, her grandfather and his dog.

Together, they explore the woods and fields near their home and discover all sorts of things about the countryside as it changes from season to season. Storyteller is Thora Hird, with Alan Mason, Emma Helmer and Cindy the dog.

See page 151

12.10 Rainbow The programme which opens

Children's ITV

Oracle sub-titles page 170

12.30 to 1.0 NEW SERIES Never Mind the Handicap PAMELA DONALD Series about the needs and aspirations of handicapped people tells the story of Lesley Wood and Michael Scobie, final year pupils at the Royal Blind School in Edinburgh. Lesley has been blind since birth, while Michael lost his sight virtually overnight.

EDITOR MICHAEL PATERSON DIRECTOR TINA WAICERRLL Scottish Television Production

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407 Blackboard 551 Jokes 552-553 Kids TV 554 555 Magazine 555 Birthdays 556 Database 557 Sci-Facts 558 Tea-Time Dial-In 559 BLUE SUEDE VIEWS 408 Gig Guide 540 Daily News 541 Records 542-544 Video Charts 545 Fanzine 546 Films 547-548 ADVERTISING 405 Cars/Houses/Jobs 496-498 Services 568 Holidays Abroad 580 Holidays UK 582 Skiing Holidays 583 SUBTITLES 470

12.0 Emma and Grandpa JANUARY

10.35 Run Rebecca, Run!

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Programmes as Y orkshire except:

ANGLIA 1.30 Hart to Hart; 2.30

Three Little Words; 6.0 Anglia; 10.30 Cross Question; 11.0 Snooker, 12.15 Film - Gargoyles. Demonic chiller starling Gomel Wilde, Jennifer Salt.

CENTRAL 9.25 Day of the Bear Cub; 9.50 Owl and the Pussycat; 10.0 Falcon Lsland; 1.30 Film Gorgo. Monster epic with Bill Travers; 6.0 Central News.

GRANADA 1.30 Film - Murder She Said. Margaret Rutherford as

Explore the countryside with 'Emma and Grandpa' and his dog Cindy. Their rustic ramble begins at 12.0.

Agatha Christie's famous sleuth Miss Marple. (b/w); 3.30 Young Doctors; 6.5 Weekend; 12.15 Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense.

TYNE TEES 1.30 Film - All The Kind Strangers. Stacy Keach in terror ordeal at lonely house; 6.2 What would you do?; 6.30 Northern Life; 12.15 Clubnight.

FRIDAY 4.0 to 5.15 Children's ITV

Superman, the son of Jor-El, they head for Earth (destroying a combined USAUSSR space crew on the moon en route) and proceed to wreak havoc in the state of Idaho...'

presented by ROLAND RAT SUPERSTAR

Rainbow

Oracle sub-titles page 170.

guest PETER SOWERBUTTS I LIKE BEING ME

Yorkshire 1.0 News at One Leonard Parkin reports on news at home and abroad.

Weather, and share index.

PROGRAMME EDITOR DAVID MANNION ITN Production

1.20 Calendar News followed by Local Weather Forecast

1.30 Friday Film Matinee SHELLEY WINTERS BARRY PRIMUS BIG ROSE

Lady detective Rose Winters, with the assistance of her young partner, sets out to solve the mystery of an extortion plot.

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See page 81 Rose W inters Shelley Winters Ed Mille Barry Primus Lt John Moore Lonny Chapman Gunther Michael Constantine Nina Joan Van Ark Marian Peggy Walton Troy Paul Mantee Blass Paul Picerni James Mayhew Yale Summers Leonore Kasdorf W aitress with Burt Mustin, Jennifer Rhodes, Mary Wilcox Jennifer Shaw TELEPLAY ANDY LEWIS DIRECTOR PAUL KRASNY

3.0 Gems Episode 3

The American buyer makes her decision — will she accept the replacement skirt?

A young Scots fabric designer interests Stephen — and Cally. Holly has grounds for disagreement with Stephen.

See pages 42 and 81 Clark Kent/Superman Christopher Reeve Lex Luthor Gene Hackman Lois Lane Margot Kidder Otis Ned Beatty Perry W hite Jackie Cooper Ursa Sarah Douglas Non Jack O'Halloian Eve Teschmacher Valerie,Perrine Lara Susannah York Sheriff Clifton James The President E G Marshall Jimmy Olsen Marc McClure Gen Zod Terence Stamp SCREENPLAY MARIO PUZO, DAVID NEWMAN, LESLIE NEWMAN DIRECTOR RICHARD LESTER

Appearing are Geoffrey Hayes. Stanley Bates, Jane Tucker, Rod Burton, Freddy Marks and Roy Skelton.

Bungle, Zippy and George enjoy being themselves. They realise they are happy with the way they look and the things they do. Guest Peter Sowerbutts reads Michael Snellgrove's story, The A dventures of Paul Telescopino, illustrated by R C Nicholson. Rod, Jane and Freddy sing The Only One. Puppeteers are Ronnie Le Drew and Malcolm Lord.

Oracle sub-titles page 170 WRITER ROY SKELTON RESEARCH LINDSEY BOVILL DIRECTOR ANDREW THOMAS PRODUCER LESLEY BURGESS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CHARLES WARREN Thames Television Production

4.20 Cartoon Time A HAUNTING WE WILL GO

Daffy Duck doesn't believe in witches.

4.25 NEW SERIES How Dare You! CHERYL BAKER CARRIE GRAY JOHN GORMAN CLIVE WEBB Return of the zany game show in which two teams of daring youngsters battle it out for the golden mophead trophy — and get either very wet or extremely messy. Meanwhile, Grigor the ghostly caretaker falls in love.

Oracle sub-titles page 170 WRITER JOHN GORMAN DESIGNER GUY FEATHERSTONE DIRECTOR PAUL BERNARD PRODUCER CHFISPIN EVANS Tyne Tees Television Production

Good clean fun? Clive W ebb and Cheryl Baker get into another fine mess in the return of `How Dare You!', at 4.25.

MICK ROBERTSON KIM GOODY

News at 5.45

Mick and Kim launch a new series with a little help from their friends. Mad Lizzie leaps into the New Year, a pack of bloodhounds follow the scent and Freetime joins an adventurous group of young holidaymakers on Drake's Island in Plymouth.

6.0 Calendar

10.0 News at Ten

Alan Hardwick takes a more relaxed look ahead with the weekend in mind. Plus sporting news and weekend weather.

The Mercantile Credit Classic

RESEARCH MARTIN HEAD, JAYANA AUSTIN, AMANDA WOOD DESIGNER JANE MONTFORD DIRECTORS GRAEME MATTHEWS, JILL FULLERTON-SMITH ASSOCIATE PRODUCER KATE CARGIN PRODUCER KATE MARLOW Thames Television Production

6.30 Diff'rent Strokes

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PRODUCERS GWYN= HUGHES, MARK MEYSEY-THOMPSON EDITOR RICHARD GREGORY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER GRAHAM IRONSIDE Yorkshire Television Production

THE HONEYMOON IS OVER

Life with Phil Drummond and his adopted family.

Phil Drummond Arnold Jackson Willis Jackson Kimberley ggie

Conrad Gary Colem Todd Bridge Dana Plato Dixie Carte

7.0 Superman II

3.25 News Headlines

Margaret tries to beat Patricia at her own game. Beryl lashes out in anger when faced with Angela's selfishness.

DICK CLARK

Stars from films and television are shown in 'out-takes' from live programmes when they accidentally made 'bloopers' — or, as we in Britain might simply call, mistakes. The host is Dick Clark, the famous American game show host.

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For cast, see Wednesday DIRECTOR KEITH WASHINGTON

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Treetime' is always fun when you spend it with Mick Robertson and Kim Goody. So make a date for 4.50.

Production by Waterlow Ltd, Dunstable, MI Studios Ltd, Luton, Petty & Sons Ltd, Leeds, Odhams-Sun Printers Ltd, W

CHRISTOPHER REEVE GENE HACKMAN MARGOT KIDDER Banished from the solar system for their treachery against Jor-El and trapped inside a fragment of kryptonite, the rebel General Zod and his cohorts Ursa and Non are unexpectedly released from their imprisonment when an Hbomb, planted by terrorists on the top of the Eiffel Tower but snatched away and hurled into space by Superman, explodes in outer space.

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10.30 Snooker from the Spectrum Arena, Warrington Classic will be the word to describe tonight's encounter if the form book has proved correct, because world champion Steve Davis was seeded to play the inimitable Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins. Join Diclde Davies to see who progresses to the quarterfinals of this event, which has total prize money of £200,000.

Commentators are John Pulman, Dennis Taylor, Rex Williams, Ray Edmonds and Mark Wildman. Next coverage is in W orld of Sport tomorrow.

EDITOR RICK WAUMSLEY DIRECTORS ERIC HARRISON, TIM MOORES EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TREVOR EAST Independent Television Sport Production

12.15 Rock of the Seventies BRIAN AUGER/ OBLIVION EXPRESS

Music from some of the liveliest sounds of the Seventies.

12.45 Closedown All programmes are in colour unless otherwise stated

mbers of the BPCC Group) and by Ben Johnson & Co Ltd, York.

FRIDAY attempting to join the ranks of the landed gentry and avoiding being murdered by Rachel (Rosalind Lloyd), who is a little miffed at not inheriting the estate herself

;0 Snooker The Mercantile Credit Classic from the Spectrum Arena, Warrington New sponsors Mercantile Credit have invested total prize money of £200,000 in this world-ranking event.

Coverage begins with the first of the second round matches, with 16 players left in the hunt for the first prize of £40,000.

Dickie Davies introduces the action. Commentators are John Pulman, Dennis Taylor, Rex Williams, Ray Edmonds and Mark Wildman. The next coverage is on ITV tonight.

Sarah Douglas and Terence Stamp seek revenge on Christopher Reeve (right) in 'Superman ir on ITV.

3.30 Tennis The WCT 1985 World Doubles Championship This popular feature of the British tennis calendar was won last year by the Czech pair Pavel Slozil and Tomas Smid. This year they return to defend their title. Matches are brought to you live from the Albert Hall. Commentators are Simon Reed, David Lloyd, Martin Tyler and Frew McMillan.

5.30 The Tube

8.0 Joanne Campbell and Ian Roberts in 'Don't Say Goodbye Miss Ragtime' on

Channel Four.

ON SALE THURSDAY 3 New on ITV, Peter Bowles finds out what life as a society gossip columnist is an about Penelope Keith: 'I'm not really a bossy-boots' PLUS the first of four TVTimes Holiday tokens, 0 £10 worth up to ore Grant's Calendar ADS Grant's

JOOLS HOLLAND ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN FRANK CHICKENS SANDII & THE SUNSETZ RYUICHI SAKAMOTO THE CHECKERS HARUOMI HOSONO YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA Planning your summer holiday? The Tube brings you some unusual and exotic ideas in this special travelogue edition.

DIRECTORS GAVIN TAYLOR GEOFF WONFOR PRODUCERS JILL SINCLAIR, JOHN GWYN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MALCOLM GERRIE Tyne Tees Television Production

8.0 Don't Say Goodbye Miss Ragtime

him and take over the remaining Fairley properties.

Paul does not return and Emma marries the dissolute Arthur Ainsley. . .

For cast, see Wednesday plus Paul McGill Barry Bostwick

10.55 Breaking Through

SHEILA BRAND PETER GALE IAN WHITCOMB Simon Fkwman Joanne Campbell Richard Drabble Kerry Gallagher Dawn Hope Liz Izen Nicola Kimber Pepsi Maycock Keith Nichols Ian Roberts Scott Sherrin Diane Simmons An entertainment documentary of non-stop syncopation about this extraordinary era of American music which lasted only from about 1895 to 1915 and has affected the whole course of popular song to this day. The programme was shot mainly on a reconstructed Mississippi paddle steamer. Burt Rhodes conducts the Ragtime Players, the Excelsior New Orleans Marching Band greet the boat as it arrives, while Ian Whitcomb and Keith Nichols pay tribute to the real star of the show — the ragtime piano. Meet tricksters, hookers, good-timers and bad-timers in this reconstruction of a Mississippi river town in about 1907.

London's East End is, to most people's minds, all Pearly Kings, whelks and Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road'. In this irreverent comedy documentary, writer Alan Gilbey guides you through a look at the poets, the comics, the people who make up the true talent of the area. Script co-ordinators are Alan Gilbey, Jeff Perks and Roger Mills.

PRODUCER BRYAN IZZARD DIRECTOR BARNEY COLEHAN Knaves A cre Production in association with Lirnehouse

Made in black and white

CAMERA DICK POPE, CHRIS MORPHET SOUND BOB ALCOCK TREVOR HOTZ DESIGNER BARBARA WIGHTMAN PRODUCTION MANAGER JULIE SHEPPARD EDITOR ANDY ATIENBURROW DIRECTORPRODUCER JEFF PERKS Riverfront Pictures Production

11.50 Cry Wolf ERROL FLYNN At the lonely estate of the Caldwell family, an argument is going on over the fortune left by young Jim bemarest, nephew of Mark Caldwell.. .

See page 81 Mark Caldwell Sandra Marshall

Errol Flynn Barbara Stanwyck

9.0 A Woman of Substance

Jim Demarest Richard Basehart Julie Demarest Geraldine Brooks

JENNY SEAGROVE BARRY BOSTWICK DEBORAH KERR JOHN MILLS In London, Emma meets Paul McGill, a dashing Australian officer on leave and she falls passionately in love with him.

He promises to return after the war. Meanwhile Gerald Fairley's debts give Emma her chance to finally destroy

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Jerome Cowan John Ridgely Patricia White Rory Mallinson Helene Thimig Paul Stanton Barry Bernard

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Quiz joy In these days when young vandals and punks seem to be given most publicity, I feel I should write to express my joy at seeing the splendid teenagers who appear on the ITV quiz show Blockbusters It reassures one to see their education is being put to such good effect.

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Robin's return Please could you tell me, and I expect many other viewers, when we can see the series Robin of Sherwood back on ITV? When my family and I were on holiday in Gloucester, we visited Chepstow Castle where they were filming an episode of the series, and ever since we have been eagerly awaiting the series to reappear.

Miss Nicola Turner Newbury, Berkshire Good news for all `Robin of Sherwood' fans. HTV says that the second series starts early next year and a third series is

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Travelling treat What a marvellous series ITV's Travelling Man has turned out to be — not just a strong plot and believable characters, but all that lovely background of delightful canals in the English countryside. After watching the series, I'd dearly like to know more about canals in Britain: they look like the perfect antidote to the hectic lives we lead today.

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Christmas Day: Top Pop Videos 1984

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Duran Duran, whose promotional video made them tops in America before they even set foot there.

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nce upon a appearances were the time, aspiring icing on the cake for pop groups bands that had already would sign a made it. deal with a Today, this pattern has record company, go on been shattered by the the road for a year or two, advent of the promotional make a couple of albums, video - the film that release some singles and accompanies a bands hope for radio plays and a latest release. Now, any group who want to make it hit record. And then, if they made it into the as big as Duran Duran, charts, they would appear pictured above, has to be on BBC's Top Of The Pops, just as concerned about miming their way through their 'promo' as they are their hit song. Television about their music. Pop TVTIMES 22 December-4 January 1985

programmes such as The Tube, on Channel Four, Razzmatazz and Saturday Starship, on nv, W histle Test and Saturday Superstore, on BBC, and the highly successful 24-hour American cable music channel, MTV, are hungry for promos, and it is these shows which now decide in a spectacular way whether a band is a worldwide success or a flop. You can see some of the more successful of

these promos in Christmas Day's Top Pop V ideos 1984 on ITV. Promos allow bands to reach more people in a week than they could in a lifetime of gigging, and such is their power that British bands whose videos have featured on MTV have gone to Number One in the American hit parade without ever setting foot on Yankee soil. Witness continued on page 115

The most simple effects can produce something stunning' continued from page 113 the success of bands such as Culture Club, Police, Wham! and Duran Duran, mobbed by fans at American airports on their first visits to the United States.

The band credited with making the first promo are Queen. The video for their 1975 single Bohemian Rhapsody kept their record in the charts for 17 weeks. This early video was simple by today's standards, but as interest in the medium grew, so did technique. Along came Quantel, a computer-based marvel which is to video what the synthesiser is to pop music. Suddenly, directors were able to incorporate in their films spin, tumble, ooze and freeze; to superimpose images, add bands of colour and divide the screen. The Jacksons broke new ground by using many of these techniques in their promo for Blame It On The Boogie, which showed the boys whizzing and sliding across the screen as if by magic. Elton John's video

for Sad Songs used to great effect the technique of putting colour on to a black and white film.

But its not only what you can get into your film that matters, who you can get into it also counts. It is rumoured that Linda and Paul McCartney appeared in Michael Jackson's Thriller video dressed as zombies. More obvious guest appearances have been made by Mikey Craig of Culture Club, who attended the wild celebration in Kid Creole's Lifeboat Party video, Leslie Ash and ex-boxing champion John Conteh in Spandau Ballet's promo for Communication and, coup of them all, Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, who cropped up in Tracey Ullman's My Guy. Making these mini

masterpieces is not a cheap business. The average cost of a British promo might be £15,000, but there is no limit on what can be spent. The Michael Jackson video for Thriller - the most famous promo to date - was made at a cost of more than a million dollars. Directed

by John Landis, of A merican W erewolf In London fame, this mini horror film follows Michael as he changes from werewolf to zombie. With a cast of hundreds, fantastic make-up and clever choreography, it has helped the Thriller album to sell some 35 million copies.

But as Sue Rawkins, author of V ideo Rock (published by Hamlyn,

price 12-99), points out, it is not necessarily the most expensive videos which are the most effective. She says: 'A video of great simplicity, startling in its use of black and white and strong lighting is Every Breath Y ou Take

by Police. It shows how the most simple effects can produce something stunning and memorable.

It also helped to make the record Number One in the UK and US charts. It was the extreme opposite of the Thriller video.'

Chips Chipperfield, production editor at EMI, goes further. He says: 'Thriller represents a great setback to creative music video. Big money and slick films are not what Kid Creole and the Coconuts get into the swing of film-making for `There's Something W rong in Paradise'.

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22 December Kid Creole and the Coconuts kick off with a spectacular musical on ITV entitled There's Something W rong in Paradise. Kid Creole alias August Darnell, returns to our shores with this programme specially made for Granada Television.

22 December Elvis on video? Yes, that's right.

This is Elvis is a documentary video on Channel Four, complete with concert footage and TV appearances.

25 December Many of the acts mentioned in our video feature, which starts on page 113, are in ITV's Top Pop V ideos 1984.

26 December Elton John fans can enjoy Elton John in Central Park, on ITV, a live concert in New York where Elton entertains an

promos are about. But now record companies want to ape its success, and MTV are demanding more of the same. We need a video version of the Sex Pistols to break it all up.'

Record companies have been unable to quantify the impact of promos on sales, but David Hughes, general manager of EMI's Marketing Division, says: The facts speak for themselves. The promo for McCartney's Say Say. Say arrived late. It came in three weeks after the single had already been up the charts and was on its way down. The video turned the record round and sent it back up the charts.'

Ultravox's stunningly atmospheric video for the song V ienna was also made late in the record's life and helped to sustain sales for a long period.

But it's not only young bands who are benefitting from video. Barry Manilow's 90-minute video of concert footage has done well, and the neverto-be underestimated Cliff continued on page 113

ecstatic crowd with a string of hit songs.

27 December Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Eddy Grant, Madness and Spandau Ballet are among the guests in a repeat of the ITV show New Brighton Rock.

28 December The Tube, on Channel Four, has Muriel Gray, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Sade, B B King, and The Clark Sisters.

29 December Duran fans, this is your night. The programme Duran Duran -Blue Silver, on ITV, brings backstage views from the group's gruelling tour of the United States.

30 December Duran fans, don't switch off yet.

Tonight you can see Duran Duran - A s the Lights go Down, on ITV, featuring footage from sell-out concerts given by

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the boys in 1984, plus some fantasy sequences.

31 December Another chance to see Culture Club in Japan, the awardwinning film of their tour, on Channel Four.

4 January On The Tube, on Channel Four, are Echo and the Bunnymen, Frank Chickens, Sandii and the Sunsetz, Ryuichi Sakamoto, The Checkers, Haruomi Hosono, and Yellow Magic Orchestra.

THE CHRISTMAS hamper of musical goodies caters for every possible taste from grand opera to street buskers. Here's a selection of the programmes you can tune in to.

22 December Channel Four presents the

celebrated American Ballet Theatre performing its version of Cervantes' story of the great knighterrant Don Quixote.

23 December Traditional Christmas fare gets the most exquisite expression in Carols from Christ Church, on Channel Four, featuring the Oxford cathedral choir, whose performance of some of the most familiar songs is amazingly fresh and vivid.

ITV has its own carols programme tonight, called Children Sing Christmas at Canterbury. See page 151.

23 December Best Friends - Cleo Laine and John W illiams, on ITV, is a television concert which stems directly from their two highly successful LPs. 24 December Channel Four provides a platform for one of the world's operatic heart-throbs, Placido Domingo. This star is seen in Placido, in interview, in performance and rehearsal.

serious music will probably turn with relief from the Christmas Day razzmatazz, to a major Channel Four film tribute, Jean Sibelius, written and directed by Christopher Nupen.

25 December Another Channel Four treat on Christmas Day is the romantic ballet Giselle, danced by Russia's classical Kirov Ballet Company, with Galina Mezentseva and Konstantin Zaldinsky.

26 December Boxing Day on Channel Four brings a repeat of Jonathan Miller's production for the English National Opera Company of Verdi's Rigoletto - the famous 'Mafia' version and a documentary, That's Street Entertainment!, which examines British buskers.

31 December American singing star Julia MigenesJohnson., whose series Top C's and Tiaras was one of the TV hits of 1984, sings in the New Year on Channel Four with Julia Live for '85.

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Tracey Ullman pulled off a coup in the video world by persuading Labour's Neil K innock to appear in 'My Guy' (above). Suggs from Madness (right) didn't mind getting soaked for 'Sun and Rain'.

continued from page 115 Richard showed superb mastery of the media with his promo for Please Don't

Fall In Love.

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that promos are being turned out at a rate of a dozen a week, but it would be a mistake to think that all bands are in love with them. Multimedia bands such as Wham!, Duran Duran and Adam Ant revel in them

and are totally at home in front of the cameras. But rock bands such as Big Country never look entirely happy on their videos. Morrissey of The Smiths says he would like to see an end to them, Joe Jackson won't make one and U2 have expressed doubts.

But whatever their enemies might say, promos are here to stay and they are far from

being the end of the story.

The business has already expanded to include longer, album-length videos for the home market. Duran Duran were the innovators in this field, bringing out a compilation of their promos for less than £20. (Previously, videos of this length had cost £50 to £70.) These compilation videos are popular with the record companies because they enable them

Above: Queen, the band credited with making the first promo, 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. Right: elaborate special effects have been used in videos such as Duran Duran's 'Union of the Snake'.

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to recoup the cost of making the original promos. Other successful home market videos include concert footage from David Bowie and the Queen compilation.

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Christmas and New Year documentaries

How the other half plays Sit back and wallow in the pleasures of RON FAWCETT (seen above with his wife, Gill) is the only professional rock climber in England.

He even has headed notepaper that reads: Ron Fawcett - Rock Climber.

Right now he is in the Far East. lecturing on how it is done. You can see The Fingertip Phenomenon, on Channel Four on Sunday 23 December, climbing in the Verdon, a spectacular limestone area in the south of France. What makes Fawcett so watchable - though it means dry-mouthed viewing - is the way he has reduced his skill to absolute basics. Fawcett usually climbs without the aid of ropes, without pitons and without a helmet - just wearing lightweight boots, shorts and a T-shirt. Sid Perou, the producer of the_ programme: says: 'Ron haS this ability to glue himself to a wall.'

watching others at play. Cordell Marks looks at some programmes that show the unusual things people get up to in their spare time.

FlYing doctor HE IS THE Bird Man of Doncaster and his name is Brian Lowde (below). A former hod-carrier, who is now on the dole because of ill-health, Lowde devotes his time to the care and study of sick and injured birds. Twenty or more are delivered to his home each week 'There's a sparrowhawk coming later today,' he says, 'an owl turned up yesterday, and I had a seagull from Gdansk in Poland not long ago.' He is a registered keeper of birds - has two aviaries and a shed - and can be seen on Thursday 27 December in Channel Four's The A mateur Naturalist. Lowde's obsession, which he shares with his wife Mabel, has had him nursing injured birds throughout the night, feeding a swift 40 times a day and, at one period, when attending outpatients at a hospital in Sheffield, taking with him each week a box of wrens requiring attention. Brian Lowde finds it expensive looking after birds. 'But it's so enormously rewarding - I've been let into a secret world.'

Here's another fine fez THEY CAME from all over the world, every one of them a devoted - obsessed, even - Laurel and Hardy fan. They met last summer, in England, for the fourth international convention of their fan club called The Sons of the Desert. after the duo's most famous film. Irrespective of their sex, members are called Sons branch chairpeople of the club are called Sheiks. At the convention, the 500 or more Sons were each given official regalia of a fez and sash. There were parades involving brass bands, dray

FOR THOSE who have dreamed of being an engine driver, there's the next best thing on Channel Four.

A Lineside Look at Model Railways, on

real-life locations. David Rowe (above, with his wife Shirley) spends 50 hours a week on his hobby, and has a model of a Devon town and railway included in the programme. The details are amazingly precise and delicate - he used his own hair for the spokes of the stationmaster's bicycle, and his wife's hair for the straw in the field and paddocks.

Boxing Day, enters the fascinating world of the model-railway builder, and gives a hint of how things might have been if the dream had come true and you had stood on the footplate. Many of the Models are based on TVTIMES 22 December-4 January 1985

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horses and Model T Fords; there were • banquets; 90 Laurel and Hardy films were screened; and there was a visit to the Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy Museum in Laurel's birthplace at Ulverston, on the fringe of the Lake District in Cumbria.

Sheik Bill Cubin (above) deputy mayor of Ulverston, who runs the museum, says: 'I .':a4 never met Laurel and Hardy but I've always felt I did. They've always been part of my life.' See the antics of the Sons on New Year's Day (ITV), in

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GERALD DURRELL tells the story of his celebrated Jersey Zoo - a world centre for the breeding of endangered species - in Durrell and the Dodo on Saturday 22 December (ITV). Highlighting a ' different aspect of Man's achievements is Vidal in V enice (Channel Four).

Written and presented by

Gore Vidal in two parts Thursday 27 and Friday 28 December - the programme examines the rise and fall of the Venetian Empire, and considers its masterpieces of painting, architecture and music. The Cresta Run, on Boxing Day (ITV), written and narrated by Sandy Gall, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the St Moritz Toboggan Club in Switzerland. Gall tries the run himself and describes the hair-raising

experience. Finally, Cindy Buxton and Annie Price who made world news when rescued from South Georgia during the Falklands War - spent a year on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.

Their Survival Special W ideawalce Island on Friday 28 December (ITV) - explores what happened to the island's wildlife, when it was transformed overnight into a military base for the campaign.

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Physical relationships transcend previous ones and your depth of passion cannot be contained.

store for you. Childhood memories of Christmas past, a traditional holiday filled with twinkling fairy-lights and pine-scented fir trees, provide a nostalgic time. You want to step back into the good old days. This is a very sensitive time when you'll feel tearful, but in a joyful way.

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Don't let any heartaches upset you over the festive season.

You might not be able to afford what you would like, so you'll probably have to do without some luxuries. Even love is hard to come by, but in the New Year you will attain a hope close to your heart that will chase away feelings of loss, hate or hurt.

You feel comforted and caressed by the new Moon's silvery rays. The Christmas message of peace and goodwill toward men echoes throughout your own life. Your relationships are blessed with emotions and feelings that have frequently been neglected at times during the past year.

If you're pondering a peaceful, passive Christmas, forget it! The stars line up to promise plenty of surprises that will turn your current plans upside down and inside out. From Christmas Eve through into the New Year, you'll get more than your fair share of unusual and unexpected visitors.

predicted for you. You deserve it! Cheery folk will drop in, jolly invitations will be spelled out that will make you realise you are truly loved by those who really know you. Try to relax more, for there are some extraordinary experiences for you to indulge in.

You're in great demand socially, feeling like the fairy on top of the Christmas tree, adored and awed by all.

Friends and fun will be the order of the 12 days of Christmas and even an upset before the New Year shouldn't deter you from enjoying life in your own, unique way.

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Relationships look rollickingly raucous and the more your partner joins in the fun the better. You must not be alone, so make sure you're with someone. Christmas Eve onwards will make all forms of communications much easier.

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Trying to make ends meet has been a trick you have mastered. You must continue this in the last shopping days before Christmas. If there is any extra expense, do without rather than run into unnecessary debt. You can still have a good Christmas.

Happier financial and amorous times are on the way.

Don't be at all surprised if you get an attack of the jitters as plans go awry. Not until Christmas Eve will you begin to calm down and realise it's a time when bolts-from-theblue hit you with increasing regularity. It promises to be a holiday of unprecedented happenings that will keep you on your toes.

the duo of love leaps into your Sun sign over the holiday. Mars promises a very sexy time. On Christmas Day itself, he fills you with an irresistible style and flair.

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Tale that's one in 11,000 tanley -Harpenden was an unusual child. At seven o'clock each evening he turned into a standard lamp. He was not very tall, but he had a very attractive green lampshade, and brightened up the corner of the living-room considerably.

Stanley enjoyed being a lamp. As he didn't turn back into a boy for four hours it meant he could stay up late and watch television. As far as Mr and Mrs Harpenden knew there was no other lamp in the family. One of her great-great-uncles had turned into a pink blancmange one Christmas, and sadly disappeared at a party.

Aunt Evadne had become a hat-rack when she was 41. while Mr Harpenden's great-grandfather had been a very reliable barometer for several years, but a barometer could be hung on the wall out of sight of the neighbours, and that had not seemed so embarrassing.

Stanley stood on the floor in full view of everybody, and it had not been easy to explain why a lamp was joining in conversations and giggling.

His father had tried covering him with a cloth, the way one covers a bird in a cage to keep it quiet, but it gave Stanley a headache. The lamp remained alight all the time without being plugged into the wall, and worked well, although if Stanley yawned it flickered a little and once, when he had a cold, and sneezed violently, the bulb had needed replacing.

Mrs Harpenden sometimes wished, if her son was going to turn into anything, it could have been a gas cooker. His

Stanley the Lamp outshines them all

For Christmas reading: the winning entry in our Bedtime Story Competition. father would have preferred a colour television set. When Stanley was a baby he had turned into a tablelamp with a yellow lampshade, which had pleased his mother as it had matched the nursery wallpaper nicely.

He had been taken to

Reader on the write lines SEVEN YEARS ago Mary Miller, from Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset, won a top prize in a TVTiznes competition. Now, she's done it again. Mary's story - published here - has won first prize in one of our most hotly-contested competitions of the year: the TV Times Fogarty Bedtime Story TVTIMES 22 December-4 January 1985

see the doctor, both as a boy and a lamp, but his parents had been told he was quite normal, and there was nothing to worry about. The doctor, of course, had problems of his own. He turned into a donkey three afternoons a week, and if it was on a day on which he was

W inner Mary Miller (right) provided the perfect bedtime read for judges (from left) Sally Grindley, Robert Fleet, Alwyn W ise and Nanette Newman.

seeing patients, they had to go out to the field where he was running around shouting `Ee-aw!

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Stanley's parents were concerned about his future. Athough they had been assured that he would grow out of it, they didn't know what he might grow into. If things had not been as they were, they would have liked him to have become a policeman.

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At first they thought it might be useful for him to be an estate agent, but recently the one in a nearby village had turned into a mousetrap which took great delight in pinching people's fingers.

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door and hurried out of the gate.

As the doctor went trotting along the path leading to his surgery, he saw a lamp floating towards him. 'Ee-aw!' he said. Tye heard of a bicycle without lights, but I've never seen a light without a bicycle! Still, it looks perfectly normal to me!'

Stanley hurried on, crossed the village green, and settled himself comfortably on the wall of the small police station by the duck-pond. He smiled happily to think he had come as close as he could to fulfalling his parents' wishes, and his light shone brightly through the blue lampshade.

'Evenin' all,' said the constable as he propped his bicycle against the wall. 'You're young Stanley! Welcome to the police force! In the morning I'll let your parents know where you are.'

But during the night the constable turned into a bar of chocolate... and, sadly, disappeared.

pink blancmange. The doctor had called to see the gnome, but he had said it seemed quite gnomal to him, laughed heartily, dug up some carrots from the garden and galloped out of the gate.

On Stanley's 16th birthday, he drew back the bedroom curtains, wondering why his mother had not brought him a cup of tea. As he looked out of the window he saw a pink rose bush growing next to the garden gnome. Oh, dear!' he said, 'I suppose that means I won't get any breakfast, either!' and he went out into the garden and said good morning to his mother.

The following day he awoke with a warm, glowing feeling inside and, instead of turning into a standard lamp as usual, he realised that, except for his head, which was changing into a lamp, the rest of him was slowly becoming invisible.

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Right: the Queen rides sidesaddle at Trooping the Colour, flanked by Prince Charles and Prince Philip, dressed in ceremonial uniform.

During the reign of Elizabeth I, coach travel became common but she preferred to ride, as in the engraving of her arrival at K enilworth Castle, above.

Acknowledged as a top horsewoman, Princess Anne, left, has had her share of disasters, as at Badminton in 1982. Below: these days, Prince Philip prefers the skill of competitive driving to riding or polo.

It was in the time of George IV, above, that the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace was designed. Right: Queen Victoria in the garden at Balmoral with her retainer John Brown in 1863.

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Sun 23 Dec The Queen and Her Ceremonial Horses he royal love affair with the horse has lasted for centuries. On the Great Seals of the realm, monarchs are depicted on horseback and, although the action and excitement may now have moved from battlefield to polo field and racetrack, the links between throne and animal are strong.

Alfred the Great was the first king to appoint a royal horsemaster, but long before then, Queen Boudicca (Boadicea) had established the original royal stud before she died in AD62.

Each year on her official birthday the Queen rides sidesaddle to take the salute at Trooping the Colour, just as another Elizabeth, 400 years earlier, sat sidesaddle to rouse her army with Tudor rhetoric as an invasion from Europe threatened.

Now it is in the splendour of State occasions that the horse really comes into its own, and ITV's documentary, The Queen and Her Ceremonial Horses, on Sunday 23 December, shows a year in the busy life of the Royal Mews where the work of organising the parades and processions that the British love and the world admires really begins.

The programme, presented by Peter Williams, goes behind these royal scenes at Buckingham Palace, Windsor, Hampton Court

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by Stewart Knowles and the Palace of ' Holyroodhouse to show how horses are prepared for glittering public life.

When the Queen opens Parliament she drives in the Irish State Coach drawn by splendid Windsor Greys in red morocco state harness, with postillions in livery of scarlet and gold — and everything runs like a discreetly ticking clock.

But in all the precise planning there is a strong sense of history.

At the Royal Mews behind Buckingham Palace, designed by John Nash in 1824, the records and day-to-day details — everything from an order for horse feed to a laundry list — are still written out with a quill pen.

In charge here is the Crown Equerry, Sir John

Miller, a former commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, who encouraged both Prince Charles and Princess Anne to ride.

'They both showed a natural flair,' says Sir John.

'Equitation is in the blood of our Royal Family.'

Almost 300 years before Princess Anne became Individual European Three-Day Eventing Champion to establish herself as a top world horsewoman, her namesake and antecedent Queen Anne was dubbed 'the mightiest huntress of her age'.

It was this queen who, taking equal pleasure in racing, supervised the laying out of the course at Ascot heath in 1711.

But although today's royal horses are used

Left: Prince Charles followed in his father's hoofprints when he took up polo playing. re she was a ess, Diana, in 1974, with a Shetland pony called Souffle at her mother's Scottish home.

more for pageantry, pleasure, and in competitive carriage driving, the original relationship was a marriage of convenience and necessity. The horse was the only means of transport, and for a king to lead his army into battle he needed the most imposing platform he could find.

The size and shape of horses used by royalty and their armies was to change with the developments in armour and weaponry. The native breeds of pony were soon thought to be too small and, with the arrival of William the Conqueror from Normandy, larger foreign horses came to be used as cavalry chargers.

To a king these horses' were as indispensable as the fortresses from which he rode, but they lacked speed, as was discovered

by Richard I, the crusading Lionheart, when he came up against much faster Arab stallions in the Middle East. On the Crusaders' return to England they introduced some of these swifter 'running horses'.

By the time Richard III was, according to Shakespeare, offering his kingdom for a horse, armour was becoming heavier as arrows became more effective. Larger, horses were imported from Flanders.

With the coming of gunpowder, the heaviest armour was useless and the great horse of Tudor times was relegated to agriculture or symbolic jousting. But the tradition was established. Henry VIII had encouraged the development of horsemanship as an art by introducing a riding master to Hampton Court, and was the first monarch to employ a royal jockey.

In the reign of his daughter Elizabeth I — a keen horsewoman and respected breeder of horses — coach travel first became common.

Elizabeth herself regarded this form of transport as effeminate and found her original coach, built 200 years before springing was introduced, tiresomely uncomfortable.

Racing as the sport of kings has a long history.

James I of England, a

pacifist at heart, loved the horse more for its leisure potential than as an animal of war. He popularised the 'wild goose chase' which involved a cross country chase with betting on the results.

James also promoted racing at Newmarket.

Charles II moved his court there twice a year to be among his royal jockeys, wagering huge sums and presenting prizes.

Inevitably, riding was to claim one royal victim.

William III, who succeeded James II in 1688, broke his collar bone when his horse stumbled in a mole hill at Hampton Court. He subsequently developed pleurisy and died.

Since then, many royal riders have fallen. A young Queen Victoria, who rode well and often, fell from her horse in the presence of her horrified Prime Minister Lord Melbourne. He is said to have been 'quite frightened and turned quite pale' while the Queen, unhurt, was merely astonished and amused'.

A prominent royal watcher, Judith Campbell, knows a lot about the royal love of riding.

When I first met members of the Royal Family in 1963, Princess Anne had just been given her own pony, High Jinks, and was competing in Pony Club events. She says she took up riding because there were always horses around her as a child but I think it is because she is simply a natural.'

The other members of the Royal Family ride, to a greater or lesser degree. except for Princess Margaret and Prince Andrew, who both rode as children but have since given it up.

Diana, Princess of Wales, is not keen on riding because of an unfortunate accident as a child when her arm was broken, but she has taken it up again recently.

'I doubt,' says Judith Campbell, 'if the royal children, William and Harry, will be in any way pushed into riding, although they are almost bound to show an interest.

It is something that has to come naturally.'

And as easy as falling off a horse.

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Frankenstein/Star Wars: The Making of a Saga/Star Wars arrie Fisher lights up another cigarette and, in a voice that sounds like the deep, rich buzz of grinding coffee beans, reflects on a time long, long ago when banner headlines told of her birth to Hollywood royalty. Now, a very rich princess herself from the Star W ars film trilogy, she looks back with wisecracking cynicism at the years when she was known only as the daughter of actress Debbie Reynolds and crooner Eddie Fisher.

At 28, with her marriage to songsmith Paul Simon waiting to get on the calendar of the Los Angeles divorce courts, after a miscarriage and flirtations with various consciousness-raising movements, Carrie feels she's growing up — something she believes she has done against the odds.

'You're not allowed to grow up with parents who are famous and then get into one of the biggest

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Born to Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, the 'dream couple' of the Fifties, Carrie Fisher learned the price of fame.

movies of all time and run around with famous people — it's resented after a while,' she says.

Carrie is sharp, quickwitted, with a cruel streak of humour that she uses to

Carrie as Princess Leia in 'Star W ars, two years after her 1975 film debut in `Shampoo' (left) with W arren Beatty,

hide her childhood bitterness. She is just 5ft 11/2in tall, with a rounded face that was not complemented by the head-set hairdo she was given as Princess Leia in

Star W ars, the smash 1977 film that you can see on ITV on Sunday 30 December. But things began to change with The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and, by Return of the Jedi

Christmas Day: The Young Visiters

Tracey goes back in time inger, actress and impressionist Tracey Ullman is famous for her Day-Glo earrings, her kitsch Lurex mini-dresses and her bigname video co-stars, Neil Kinnock and Paul McCartney. In television comedy she has breathed mischievous life into a roomful of crackpot characters — from daffy debutante, to frumpy housewife, to scatty barmaid, But, even by her own chameleon-like standards, 5ft bin, brown-eyed Tracey undergoes a remarkable transformation when she dons Victorian lace bonnets and crinolines for her starring role in The Y oung V isiters Christmas Day's afternoon film on Channel Four.

A charming (if badly spelt) comedy of manners, The Y oung V isiters was written in 1890 by Daisy Ashford, all of nine years old. In the nursery of her

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parents' spacious home in Lewes, Sussex, Daisy would pray for rainy days so that she could get on with writing her books; by the age of 14, she had written six.

Quaint, comic and enchanting, in turn, The Y oung V isiters was to become the most famous work of this remarkable child author, Forgotten for a quarter of a century, the twopenny exercise book in which she had written the story was rediscovered in 1915, published four years later and has remained in print ever since. Looking at life, love and manners in the leisured Victorian world of servants and prim social visits into which Daisy herself was born, it became a classic worldwide.

Tracey Ullman's role as the 17-year-old heroine, Ethel Monticue, who enters London 'socierty', falls in love, marries and has a 'son and hair, a nice

fat baby called Ignatius', is not as unlikely as it might seem. Both Tracey and Daisy Can lay claim to being accomplished social satirists.

'I just loved The Young Visiters — I think it's perhaps one of the nicest things I've done,' says Tracey, collapsing on to a sofa at her agent's office in London's West End after spending the morning doing a voice-over for a frozen fish commerical. At 24, with a career that has accelerated like a small whirlwind, Tracey is nothing if not versatile.

A brief but impressive list of Top 10 singles led to her being voted best female singer of 1983 in the British Rock and Pop Awards. Her straightacting roles — principally at the Royal Court Theatre in London, in plays such as The Grass W idow — have consistently won her praise. In the BBC TV series Three of a Kind and A Kick Up The Eighties,

she emerged as a multitalented comedienne — and won more awards.

She appears in Paul McCartney's new film, Give My Regards to Broad Street, and is currently filming Plenty, a post-war drama in which she stars alongside Meryl Streep, Sir John Gielgud and rock star Sting.

Even now, the status of her workmates sometimes floors her. 'I still pinch . myself sometimes and think, "My God — I'm little Tracey from Uxbridge",' she says with a smile. Paul McCartney was one of her childhood heroes.

On the film set, I was in awe of him — for about seven minutes,' says Tracey. 'And then, luckily, I never thought about it again. I'm glad of that because I'm sure it would have driven him mad otherwise.'

Stage school, a string of musicals and the comedy Four in a Million at the Royal Court Theatre led to

her being spotted for Three of a Kind, the series that made her a star. She says that the death of her Polish businessman father when she was six — and the Ullman family's subsequent fluctuating fortunes — probably laid the foundations of her career. Sent to a number of different schools after her father's death, Tracey found that by disguising her Home Counties accent and being funny she could avoid being picked on by her classmates.

'I had such a mixed upbringing that I'm not a stereotype myself,' she says. 'Because of that, the characters I used in the first TV series came quite easily to me. But, if my father had lived, I don't think I would have done any of this. I'd probably have been a nice, plummy girl who went to gymkhanas and had ponies. Despite the success, though, I'm still aware of my faults. I'm

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As Robert Powell's fiancée in `Frankenstein', on ITV on Thursday 27 December, Carrie is still trying to shake off that Princess Leia image and forget a broken marriage.

(1983), she was doing a sexy number in a harem outfit, waiting for Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) to free her from her chains and the slobbering alien villain Jabba the Hutt.

When she can, Carrie lives in a one-room pinepanelled log cabin that she rather grandly calls a 'lodge', high up a canyon in the Hollywood hills. She is at present looking for something bigger in Beverly Hills, a house she can fix up', and her price range is around 1,500,000 dollars.

Earlier this year, when she split up with the Simon of Simon and Garfunkel after less than a year's marriage, she plunged into work and also into losing continued overpage

Sounds like another call to success for Tracey Ullman, star of Channel Four's `The Y oung Visiters'. lazy — I like sleeping too much and I don't get up and do things when I've got a day off. I'd rather lie in bed and read Enid Blyton stories — I'm a bit babyish,' Tracey has been married for a year to wealthy television producer Allan McKeown.

'He's the messiest man who ever lived,' she shrieks. 'He can't even make a cup of tea without leaving a trail of disaster.

And he's the only man I know who can leave toothpaste smeared under the washbasin. But I'm very happy.'

Playing second lead in this domestic drama is Binky, Tracey's Yorkshire terrier, who goes everywhere with her. That includes film locations, television studios and interviews. 'I'm absolutely dog-crazy,' she admits. 'I suppose it's because I really want to have babies later on.'

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(1964). Father was the curly-haired idol who sang Oh Mein Papa and many others. Carrie was conceived while they were both filming the aptly titled movie Bundle of Joy (1956). But the joy vanished two years later when her father ran off with the family's closest friend, Elizabeth Taylor.

Debbie, Eddie, Liz and, later, Dick (Richard Burton) were headline fodder for more than 10 years.

Carrie's mother married Happier days for Carrie Fisher and wealthy shoe manufacturer songwriter husband Paul Simon, Harry Karl. Her father who were later to split up after married and divorced less than a year. There's no chance Taylor and found himself of a reconciliation, says Carrie. in an abyss of alcohol and drugs. Their daughter continued from page 147 hides the scars with her Princess Leia image. remarks such as: 'There She is being seen in are a lot of parallels with American cinemas at me and Princess Leia. Dad present in Garbo Talks, goes off to the dark side with Anne Bancroft, shortly and Mom marries a in the romantic comedy millionaire.

The Man With One Red 'I saw what the media Shoe and is working on did to my parents, Woody Allen's Hannah especially to my father, and Her Sisters with an and how seriously they impressive cast. For took it. They weren't really Yorkshire Television this parents — they were year, Carrie made newspaper copy. My Frankenstein, playing brother [Todd, 26] and I Robert Powell's longgrew up on the "Map of suffering fiancée — you the Stars' Homes", We can see that film on ITV played games on the on Thursday 27 December tourists. If they shot stills, and the documentary Star we ran. If they shot Wars: The Making of a movies, we stood still. I Saga, the following day. developed a phobia about It is now 10 years since being photographed that I she made her film debut, didn't get over until Star as the teenager seducing Wars.

Warren Beatty and, very 'My brother and I were un-Princess Leia-like, products of a broken uttering a four-letter word home. No, a broken in Shampoo, to her mansion. Mom was away a mother's disapproval. lot on location or in Las But mother and Vegas. Teams of people daughter are close, brought us up. although Carrie admits: 'At 13, I was singing in 'Debbie remains the girlnightclubs. I went directly next-door, whereas I live from the arena of Debbiesomewhere down the and-Eddie to the arena of street,' Star Wars movies. Really, There is, she says, no they're like cowboys and chance of a reconciliation Indians in space.' with Paul Simon. She will As for being typecast as not be drawn on what Princess Leia, Carrie is went wrong, but friends working hard to prevent believe it had a lot to do that with roles in classics with geography. Simon such as Frankenstein. She likes New York and has been asked solitude. Carrie prefers repeatedly to star in her Los Angeles, where she is own television series and now planning to put down been tempted with the her roots. accolade of the title The It will be like going Carrie Fisher Show. But home. Carrie's parents she turned it down. 'I said were the 'dream couple' of not right now,' she says. the Fifties. Mother was the 'It's a very long film star, the sweetheart of commitment. Star W ars, in Singin' in the Rain (1952) effect, was a series and and the heroine of The I've only just finished that.'

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Christmas present and past IF YOU'VE already bought all your Christmas presents, you're like Emma Helmer, the young girl in Emma and Grandpa, which returns to ITV after the festivities, on Friday 4 January.

And, if you're like Grandpa, played by Alan Mason (above, with Emma and Cindy the dog), you'll probably be thinking of times past when children didn't even give presents and rarely sent Christmas cards.

For many children 50 or 60 years ago, Christmas was the only time they would see oranges, glace fruits or nuts, or enjoy a jelly.

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'Now, Christmas seems to be the climax of months of advertising pressure. Some things don't change, though. There genuinely seems to be a magical feel to Christmas — a time when you can hope for peace on earth and goodwill to all men.'

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When carols led us a dance CAROLS really bring home the true meaning of Christmas. If you feel you've missed out on them this year, watch ITV's

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December. It features glorious carols, old and new, sung in Canterbury Cathedral, In early times, the word 'carol' meant dance as well as song. The Greensleeves tune of What Child Is This? would

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Orient A re. Many of our Christmas songs were regional — the Sussex Carol, Gloucester Carol, the Cornish The Holly Bears A Berry and the West Country's We Wish Y ou a Merry Christmas,

for instance.

So, next time you sing a jolly carol, pause for a minute to think of where it came from and the countless voices that have sung the praise of Christ's birth.

Eyes on Africa WHILE YOU'RE looking forward to a happy family Christmas with presents and lots to eat, you might pause for a moment to think how other children round the world are spending Christmas.

Matthew Kelly (above) has been travelling West Africa looking at the sort of future faced by children there. It's often very bleak, as you can see in Kelly's Eye, on ITV on Sunday 23 December. A positive way in which you can help is by 'sponsoring' a child. Each year, you contribute a small amount to a specific children's charity, such as Save The Children. In return, you receive pictures and a report on the child's progress.

If you'd like another 'brother' or 'sister, why not club together in your family in the knowledge that you'll be re-shaping a child's future? Write to Save The Children at 17 Grove Lane, London SE5 8RD.

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After midnight, the first person to cross the threshold must be a tall, dark, handsome man carrying a lump of coal, saying 'Lang may your lum reek' (May your chimney always smoke' for the benefit of Sassenachs). 'Short, fat, ugly, freckled, ginger folk simply won't do and are kept indoors,' says Muriel.

New Year's Day dawns with the occasional Scot waking up with a bit of a hangover. To combat this, an enormous lunch of steak or venison pie is served with stovies — potatoes specially cooked in a sealed pot. For dessert, it's always Atholl Brose in the Gray household. A magical liquor, this was made famous by the Earl of Atholl in 1475. He beat his deadly enemy, the Earl of Ross, by replacing well water with the potent brew. The Earl of Ross drank deeply and fell over drunk, and the Earl of Atholl won.

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A s this is my Christmas page, I am printing a selection from the hundreds of letters you sent me on the theme 'It made my day'. They all confirm that there is still a huge reservoir of goodwill in the world, and many people still go out of their way to help and show great kindness to each other. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your letters and beg you to keep on writing to me in 1985. I wish you all a happy and memorable Christmas and a peaceful and positive New Year.

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You asked for examples of kindness and love, and I can think of none better to illustrate this than my 16-yearold daughter Linda. I have multiple sclerosis and I am a widow, and although she is still at school she does everything for me — shopping, housework, helping me dress and making me laugh I do so want her to do well, so I try to be as independent as I can. If I should win the £10 for the Letter of The Week, please send the money to The Association of Carers, Medway Homes, Balfour Road, Rochester, Kent ME4 6QU, who support many in Linda's position and have been such a help to us both Mrs Joan Williams East Sussex I have done as you have asked and I also included part of the money sent to me earlier this year by a generous anonymous donor from Lancaster.

There were three of us in a queue at the checkout in Marks & Spencer when the elderly lady at the front found she had lost her purse and could not take the £3-worth of goods she wanted. To my astonishment the young man behind her offered to pay her bill. The look on the woman's face is one I shall always remember. If my grandchildren grow up to be half as good as that young lad ru be a very happy grandad.

C Smith South London

On the right lines As a 70-year-old disabled person I was disappointed to arrive at Nottingham railway station to find the lift was not working. I feared I would have to go straight home again, but three railwaymen found a wheelchair and carried me all the way up the steps to the street. When I returned to the station later, they insisted that I should sit in the chair again. They took me in the lift down to the platform, wheeled me across the lines and up the other side and helped me on to my train home!

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Good advice You made my day two years ago, Katie, when I wrote anonymously asking for help to get me off tranquillisers and you replied on your page. I took your advice and sought help, and although it was very difficult, I gave them up. Now I'm almost 23, with a steady job, friends and a lovely wife, and we await the arrival of our first baby in February. I used to be a loner; the pills changed my nature. Now, thanks to your advice, I am the happiest person ever.

MT Clapton, London

Mechanical action One summer day I took my wife and two teenage daughters for a ride in the country. Suddenly, on a lonely stretch of road, the old car started spluttering and then stopped. As I got out to look, two lads came up the road.

'What's up, mate?' asked one.

Within minutes, they had looked under the bonnet, checked the plugs and petrol

tank, and t e car started as sweet as a nut. I gave them £2 each. Then, a mile up the road, my wife noticed that there on the front seat was the money I had given them.

We were really moved and it taught me a lesson about people I'm not likely to forget in a hurry.

G Reed Weston-super-Mare, Avon

One good turn My husband was killed on his way to work in December 1949. A year later I was parted from my 11-year-old son for the first time, when he went to a Boys' Brigade camp for a week and I was to join my brother and his wife for a short holiday in Brighton.

Standing on the crowded station platform, where everyone seemed to have someone with them, I felt very alone. Then a voice said: 'Hello, Mrs Sharp, going on holiday?' It was a young woman who lived in our road, but I could not answer her or I would have cried. She took my case, invited me to travel with her and her two children, and helped me off at the other end. When I asked why she was doing this she said: 'I haven't forgotten how often you helped my mum when she was alive.' Now, over 30 years later, I am just 80, and I still remember that young woman's kindness.

Gladys Sharp Kettering, Northamptonshire

Outside contact If any organisation deserves thanks, it is The Samaritans.

When my teenage daughter decided that her life was in such a mess she could no longer confide in her family or friends, she turned to them.

They listened to her problems and let her talk through all the thoughts and fears which were weighing so heavily on

her. I would not be exaggerating if I say that they saved her life, and I am eternally grateful to them.

Mrs R H Manchester

Willing and able Last year, around Christmas, our headmaster asked for volunteers to help the disabled with their shopping.

My friend and I volunteered and were glad we did, as we found out how kind and nice these people are. While we were helping them, we were surprised to see lots of people stare as if they were monsters, and my friend and I did not find this very nice.

How would those people like it if others hurried by as if they had come from outer space? I'm sure they would be hurt. So next time you see a disabled person, chat and wish them a happy Christmas.

T Jackson (aged 12) Northampton

My wife makes my day every day. I have been unemployed for 10 months and see little chance of a job coming up.

She works to keep me and our baby girl Carol. I know she would prefer to be at home with Carol but she never complains. When I get depressed, she manages to keep calm, and still makes me feel that I am the only man in the world for her. I shall not sign my full name for fear of embarrassing her, but she reads your page every week, and I'm sure she will know it is me.

GL Bristol, Avon

Red letter day I am a widow of 73 with no living relatives, so I live in a home. Last summer I was in hospital having a heart valve replaced. I had no visitors, but each day in the day room, a boy came to collect extra chairs to put round his grandma's bed, and he always found time for a little chat. When I left hospital he bought me a box of chocolates saying: 'Don't worry and keep your chin up.'

He asked me for my address and now he writes to me.

When his letter arrives it certainly makes my day.

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I made my nan a nice present this year. She has a tickly cough and keeps a glass of water by her bed, but she sometimes knocks it down all over her pillow. I washed a flower pot and my teacher found some pretty plastic to stick on Then I put some ribbon round the top and a piece of Plasticine in the bottom to make it heavy. Now my nan doesn't knock her glass over any more because she puts it in my pretty pot.

As I didn't have to spend my pocket money on the present, I put it in the spina bifida box in my class.

Sheri (aged nine) Leeds

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Set to face life I live alone, but every fortnight I visit my hairdresser and it makes my day. On the days when senior citizens get reduced rates, it is just like going to a club. Florence and her assistants are always so cheerful and sympathetic,

I was delighted to see your pet page a few weeks ago, Katie. My only disappointment was that you omitted to ask adults not to give children puppies or any kind of pet for Christmas without being quite certain that they are old enough to look after them and know what a responsibility and expense a pet can be. I wish everyone would remember this.

Jean Dallas Uxbridge, London Surely the answer for the mother who wants her children to know the real meaing of Christmas is for her to take them to a family service at her local church.

Mrs K A Johnson Tunbridge Wells, Kent

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