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- The secrets and lies of suburban families are made public by the appearance of a stranger.
- Over the past 20 years, Francis Coppola , the award-winning writer-director of the two Godfather films, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now, has established himself as one of the most gifted, adventurous and controversial filmmakers of his generation. He gives a rare interview at his home in California to Christopher Frayling. ( 1985)
- Last year, "Children in Need" viewers and listeners helped raise over £20 million. Now it's time for Terry Wogan and Sue Cook to fire the starting gun on the 1992 Pudsey Olympics and play host to some of the top names in entertainment. Noel Edmonds, Right Said Fred, Robert Palmer and the cast of "Casualty" are among the stars asking for help to improve the quality of life for thousands of Britain's disadvantaged children. In London Andi Peters greets fundraisers at Television Centre while Lionel Blair, Cannon and Ball and Bananarama join in around the UK.At 7.15 Peter Simon and Shane Richie referee a custard pie shoot-out while Blue Peter veterans John Noakes, Peter Purves and Valerie Singleton reunite to join John Leslie In Search of Bill and Ben. From its Elstree studio comes a "Top of the Pops" like you've never seen it before featuring: during the evening, Bananarama and the Metropolitan Police choir, pop sensation East 17 and the 'Madonna of opera' Lesley Garrett. There will be stars from EastEnders and Eldorado, and Claire Rayner will be giving advice to the rich and famous. 7.40pm Linford Christie joins Steve Cram and the Radio Times relay team to deliver a Children in Need flame to Terry Wogan after 14 days and over 750 miles on the road. 8.00pm Frank Bruno sees fair play as Noel Edmonds tries to win your special pledges by 'grabbing a grand' for "Children in Need". Right Said Fred offer a deeply dippy invitation to lunch and at 8.30, Bobby Davro referees a long-distance karaoke contest between impressionists from Wales and Northern Ireland. 9.30pm "Children in Need" continues with "Birds of a Feather" stars Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph bringing back burlesque, the "Casualty" gang presenting a musical medical extravaganza, and Jeff Banks hosting the all-star "Children in Need Clothes Show". Including at: 9.55-10.35pm Children of Courage and Achievement Esther Rantzen and Gavin Campbell honour some very special youngsters. 11.35pm South East More music and comedy from the "Top of the Pops" studio; the Frigidaires, the Bronte Sisters, music from Bolivia, plus Larry Adler, Roy Castle and the West End show "From a Jack to a King". 12.00 Cabaret Time Terry Wogan and Sue Cook introduce two hours of top-flight entertainment starring Five Guys Named Moe, Robert Palmer and the cast of "Annie Get Your Gun". Marion Montgomery fronts a Trans-UK Jazz Band, Peter Snow proves that he's the king of the swingers and Gloria Hunniford, Leslie Grantham, Eddie Large and Mary Millar present their version of "Guys and Dolls". Beverley Craven and Tony Slattery drop in and Bob Holness hosts the final of the Pudsey Olympics. Including at 1.15am a roundup from the regions on how the appeal has gone, and at 1.45 a look back on some of the highlights of the evening. 1.55am Grand Total There's still time to donate.
- Flying remains the safest way to travel, but a 10-year study by Boeing shows that more than half of fatal air crashes happen during approach and landing - eight times more deadly than take-off fatalities. This documentary visits the islands of the Caribbean, home to some of the world's most difficult runways, including St Barts, where the airport is on the side of a hill that gives way to the sea. It also includes interviews with passengers who were on board a flight forced to return to Heathrow after an engine burst into flames.
- A revealing profile of Britain's senior composer, 86-year-old Sir Michael Tippett.
- Terry Wogan presents on-the-spot coverage and entertainment. In the Operations Centre: Mollie Sugden, Nicholas Parsons, Tommy Cooper. Special guests Val Doonican, Beryl Reid and Nanette Newman. Esther Rantzen looks at projects that were given help during the year - and talks about some of the children who need your help now. Plus Lucky Dip: some of the more off-beat hilarious or unusual moments on the small screen.
- Todays theme is the United Kingdom.
- Happy Birthday Doctor Who! Blue Peter salutes television's most popular sci-fi series with a monstrous flashback to the days of the Cybermen, the Terileptils, the Sea Devils, and - most dreaded of all - the Daleks! Discover which of the five Doctors will be arriving in the Blue Peter studio, not transported by the Tardis, but in the special Doctor Who Sunshine minibus that will be presented to the children of the Gurney School.
- Flying Stars! Today's your chance to discover the secrets of the Box! Thirteen-year-old Devin Stanfield-Kay Harker in the new adventure series The Box of Delights (Wednesday 5.0) -is joined in the studio by Mouse, alias Simon Barry , and Patrick Troughton who, as magician Cole Hawlings , works his magic to defeat the evil Abner Brown.
- Bonnie Goes to School Now she's taken over from her famous mum as the new Blue Peter dog, 7-month-old Bonnie has to be on her best behaviour every Monday and Thursday! Like all golden retrievers, Bonnie's eager to learn and did well at her 'summer school' when top trainer Richard Duckworth put her through her paces. There were some useful tips for Janet, too, as she and Bonnie got to grips with 'sit', 'stay', 'heel' and even retrieving. See how many marks out of ten you'd give them!
- Featuring Trevor and Simon with top jockey Gee Armitage and star of Bread Jonathon Morris. Kate Ledwith has a special report on the problem of bullying. There's music from Five Star plus cartoon action with Muppet Babies and Visionaries. Nick Davies meets a postman who keeps owls and Jacky Gunn has another Fan Fact File.
- Concluding the series profiling top film stars. The tomboy daughter of a surgeon and a suffragette, Katharine Hepburn won four Oscars and had a 30-year romance with Spencer Tracy. Now aged 92, she is a virtual recluse. Narrated by Ian McShane.
- When a scandal-mongering journalist links Killian to the pregnant Devon King, the Nighthawk's surprising reaction is to ask his boss to marry him. But the reappearance of the baby's real father complicates the issue and questions arise over the futures of Jack, Devon and KJCM.
- Nicky's former boyfriend Danny, a musician with a history of drug dependency, reappears in San Francisco to play a gig at a local club. He tries to rekindle their relationship and also asks Nicky for financial help because he owes money to some thugs in Los Angeles.
- In the second of a three-part story, a high school friend's flaming death forces Jack back to the homeless community for clues, leaving his boss Nicky in the lurch. Meanwhile a "ladyhawk" threatens both their jobs, and someone is playing politics with people's lives.
- Ex-convict Blanchard is trying to stay clean, but some old friends are leading him astray. When he bursts into Killian's studio one night, Killian discovers that for some ex-convicts, the outside world can be more threatening than the prison they left behind.
- This week, there is a dramatic Phone-In Gunge as, on the eve of their last show together on Radio 1, Bruno Brookes and Liz Kershaw, the couple who put the hate into love-hate relationships, ask for the viewers' verdict. A Gotcha Oscar turns into a smashing experience for Henry Sandon, the ceramics expert of the Antiques Roadshow, and NTV makes another family wish they'd gone out for the evening.
- Noel Edmonds invites some more celebrities to join him for an evening of entertainment at Crinkley Bottom. TV chefs Peter Hudson and David Halls have to cope with a particularly well-done "Gotcha"; Leslie Grantham puts Noel in his place; and snooker star John Parrott tries to Grab a Grand. But who is the Aussie bloke with a beard?
- Actor Dennis Quilley is the special guest at Crinkley Bottom this week, where former Doctor Who Jon Pertwee is in line for a Gotcha. Showjumper Lucinda Green tries to Grab a Grand, and there's also the usual line-up of NTV, the Panel Game and the Big Pork Pie.
- It began in Manchester - a converted church, Jimmy Savile and groups like the Beatles, the Dave Clark Five and the Rolling Stones. It was 6.34pm on 1 January 1964. Tonight, on the eve of the 25th birthday of what has become the world's longest-running regular chart show, You are invited to join a host of your favourite DJs. There will be studio performances by, among others, Sandie Shaw, Cliff Richard, David Essex , Lulu, Wet Wet Wet, Status Quo, Shakin' Stevens, the Pet Shop Boys and a few surprise guests. Paul Gambaccini and Mike Read guide you through the 25 years.
- Dame Kelly Holmes has a challenge for viewers, and Kate Humble hunts for a dormouse.
- Barry Norman presents his personal review of the week's cinema releases. Baby Boom (1987) - Diane Keaton plays a high-flying executive who finds herself landed with a young baby. How she copes with her charge, her job, her colleagues and her boyfriend are the subject of this comedy. Baby Boom is one of a clutch of films to emerge from Hollywood at the moment and Tom Brook reports on the reasons for this infant outbreak. Director BRUCE THOMPSON Producer JANE LUSH.
- There's a buzz of activity in Studio 7 at the BBC TV Centre as Sarah Greene and Phillip Schofield go live ... Special guests Going Live are pop stars Living in a Box. If you're curious about your cat, expert Grace McHattie is bringing in her Ragdoll this morning. She'll have lots of feline facts at her fingertips, so why not Ask the Expert? Peter Simon hosts Double Dare the TV action quiz that tests both brains and brawn for big prizes. Helping to keep everything running smoothly are Studio 7's odd-job men Simon Hickson and Trevor Neal. They're supervising the switchboard waiting to take your phone calls to this morning's Press Conference guest Peter Howitt from Bread. If there's something you always wanted to find out about him, now's your chance to ask - live. There's more cartoon adventure too with Spiderman. So join the gang for a star-studded action-packed morning of total TV entertainment.
- Grand Opening Today. Manager Mike Read and his staff welcome you to television's first department store on the air. It's packed with goodies and everything's free! Mike's been stocking up with the music, star guests and cartoons that you have ordered. Watch out for Keith Chegwin. He's making personal deliveries with our Mobile Branch. Please use our Customer Services, John Craven is in charge. You're invited to a wedding. Come and see You-know-who getting married to You-know-who. David Icke turns our Sports Counter upside down with news from down under. Don't miss Paul Daniels in the Joke Department. There's a star bargain on offer. Send in your orders to Manager Mike at the Saturday Superstore.
- A look at filmmaker's Peter Bogdanovich work.
- 2002–20171h 5mTV EpisodeHighlights of today's international at Twickenham between England and New Zealand. The teams last met in the World Cup three years ago, with the All Blacks 30-16 victors. But England's hopes will be high after memorable wins over South Africa and Australia last year. Hosted by John Inverdale and Jeremy Guscott. Commentary Eddie Butler and Brian Moore. Producer Ken Burton ; Editor Ron Chakraborty.
- Another house party with Noel, from Crinkley Bottom. Tonight, there's a Gotcha for actress EastEnders star Patsy Palmer. NTV visits someone's home, there's a chance to Grab-a-Grand, and Wait 'Til We All Get Home lifts the lid on more family secrets.
- On the show this week Radio 1's Bruno Brookes and Liz Kershaw prepare to do battle with Blue Peter presenters Yvette Fielding and John Leslie in the Lyric Game, Keith Chegwin manages to catch DJ Alan Freeman off guard long enough to award him a Gotcha Oscar. There's also another chance for viewers to call in to Grab a Grand or vote for the revoltingly lurid contents of the gunge tank to be disgorged onto a hapless victim's head. Noel also gets a visit from his lascivious neighbour who appears in the form of Lesley Joseph.
- Noel Edmonds throws open the doors of his (supposed) stately home and entertains a packed party of celebrities in front of a live, have-a-go audience. In the first programme of the series, mischievous Keith Chegwin tricks Henry Cooper into falling for a scam on the golf course, the two stars of Birds of a Feather challenge two of the EastEnders cast in the Lyric Game, and Ronnie Corbett is on hand to add his own tiny touch of class to the proceedings as the butler. There's also contract gunging in the gunk tank, a chance for viewers to win a a £1,000 cash prize (with help from Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards), and a candid exchange of home truths between some precocious children and their battered parents that takes place, appropriately enough, in the genial host's dungeons.
- Noel Edmonds hosts another live House Party from Crinkley Bottom. The special guest is Jimmy Tarbuck and Barbara Windsor receives a Gotcha. There's the chance to Grab a Grand, Number Cruncher may turn up in your home town, another cheeky child will tell all in Wait Till I Get You Home, and NTV invades another front room.
- Gideon Bachman talks to Liza Minnelli for a behind the scenes look at the filming of "A Matter of Time" in Rome; movie posters; adult films.
- Grieving mother Rosalie Douglas refuses to accept that her son Rob's sudden death was an accident.
- Documentary filmed over the course of six months, following the stories of newborns, parents and medical staff at Liverpool Womens' hospital. In the first episode, consultant Chris Dewhurst leads the search for a diagnosis for baby Ethan, who was born at full term but stopped breathing minutes after birth and is being kept alive on a ventilator.
- Considered by Orson Welles to be the greatest actress in the world, Jeanne Moreau was the muse of French cinema in the 1960s. Here she reveals the stories behind the making of Jules and Jim (1962), and explores sexual and intellectual freedom in her career and private life.
- Wake up to Britain's brightest breakfast programme on the day Selina Scott returns to join Frank Bough on the famous settee. Throughout the week Breakfast Time favourites will be dropping in to wish Selina a warm welcome back, bringing with them some new features and some old friends. News on the hour and half hour read by Sue Carpenter and regular Weather bulletins with Francis Wilson. Also including this morning: Lynn Faulds Wood with news and reports from the Consumer Unit; Mike Smith with the latest pop news and Russell Grant with a guide to what the stars have in store for you today.
- This week: inspiration for party givers, from drinks party canapes to dinner party dishes of roast goose with prunes in armagnac and beef in port. Champagne jellies are on the dessert menu and for dedicated pudding fiends Delia Smith demonstrates her own favourite, chocolate truffle torte.
- Delia Smith 's six-part series looks at the best of traditional cooking for Christmas. Tonight she discovers the secret of traditional smoked Suffolk ham, selects pickles and preserves for cold cuts and gets ahead with all kinds of Christmas cakes, including quick mincemeat cake, made in moments.
- Welcome to L.A. (1976): Sissy Spacek, Keith Carradine and Sally Kellerman star in a Robert Altman production which opens London's new cinema, Screen on the Hill. Voyage of the Damned (1976): The story of 937 German Jewish refugees who sailed in May 1939 in a bid for freedom, features Faye Dunaway, Malcolm McDowell, Max Von Sydow and Orson Welles. Prey (1977): This location report shows how a group of film technicians banded together to make their own sci-fi horror movie.
- BBC2's first regular cinema magazine for a decade presents features and comment on new films. This week's programme has a special report from America on the Hollywood script wars, in which a writer sells a script for $3 million one week only to see it being rewritten the next, including an interview with William Goldman, who wrote the script of All the President's Men. Plus the new Spike Lee film, Mo Better Blues.
- American TV's top film critics Siskel and Ebert look at the best new films of the autumn. There are also items on the boom in Hollywood movies about American Indians and a look at the career of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, with a contribution by film maker Bernardo Bertolucci.
- Martin Scorsese's Good Fellas is a violent and compulsive gangster movie, which marks the director's return to form. It is based on a true story, following the rise and fall over three decades of a small-time Mafiosi. Moving Pictures talks to the good fellas behind the film - the cameraman, editor, designer, screenwriter, and the director himself. And film director and critic Chris Petit takes a look at the unmade films of the books of J G Ballard.
- American film critic John Powers presents an illustrated reappraisal of David Lynch's work including his most recent cinema success Wild at Heart. There is also an interview with controversial British film-maker Derek Jarman on the eve of the London Film Festival premiere of his new film, The Garden. And screenwriter Richard Price, responsible for such scripts as The Color of Money and an episode of New York Stories, speaks about the trials of writing, and re-writing, the Al Pacino/Ellen Barkin thriller, Sea of Love.
- The first TV profile of American director Alan Rudolph, whose output ranges from studio projects like his new romantic comedy Love at Large to cult classics like Choose Me. And a look at Steadicam, a device which allows the camera to glide smoothly as the operator walks or even runs. It's inventor, Garrett Brown, tells how he used the device on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, and Francis Coppola's One from the Heart.
- A profile of Hollywood's most powerful woman director, Kathryn Bigelow, whose films include Near Dark, Blue Steel, and The Loveless. Plus Robin Hood, an enduring English legend, brought most vividly to the screen by Hollywood. Latest to take the role is Kevin Costner, in Prince of Thieves, now shooting at Shepperton Studios, while two more versions of the story are in pre-production in Hollywood.
- Not since the New Wave of the early '60s has French cinema boasted so many young stylists - like the directors of Diva and Subway. Meanwhile, the most successful French film ever stars Gerard Depardieu as Cyrano de Bergerac. In France, Moving Pictures talks to the film-makers and finds out if there really is a new 'New Wave'. Plus a profile of Hollywood's infamous pseudonym 'director', Alan Smithee.
- The weekly cinema magazine starts a second series on board a Mediterranean liner, for an exclusive interview with Roman Polanski at work on his new erotic thriller Bitter Moon. Also, do writers need directors? Four British writers who have recently directed their own screenplays, including Hanif Kureishi, talk about their move from behind the typewriter to behind the camera. Plus, Kathryn Bigelow explains how she planned Point Break's amazing 90-second bank robbery sequence.
- The Fisher King, Dead Again, Shattered and Regarding Henry all feature characters who have lost their memories. Moving Pictures talks to the writers, directors and producers of this spate of films, including Fisher King director Terry Gilliam. And a look at the life and work of Oscar Micheaux, a black writer/producer/director who made more than 40 features between 1910 and the 1940s. Plus Werner Herzog, maverick of the German cinema, on why he risks life and limb making movies in some of the world's most dangerous terrain.
- First -time director Barry Sonnenfeld talks about his $35 million comedy based on the cult cartoons of Charles Addams, The Addams Family, starring Anjelica Huston. Plus a profile of Samuel Z. Arkoff, the legendary B-movie producer who gave Corman, Coppola, Scorsese, Woody Allen and John Milius their breaks. And Australian director Jocelyn Moorhouse talks about her first film.
- Steven Soderbergh, director of the award-winning Sex, Lies and Videotape, has just completed his long-awaited second feature. Refusing lucrative offers from Hollywood for big-budget studio projects, Soderbergh opted instead for Kafka, a black-and-white film starring Jeremy Irons. Soderbergh and his collaborators talk exclusively to Moving Pictures about life after Sex. Plus an affectionate look at a family whose experience spans the postwar British cinema - the Thomases. Jeremy Thomas produced Bertolucci's Oscar-laden Last Emperor; his father Ralph directed Dirk Bogarde in the Doctor films, while uncle Gerald was responsible for the Carry On cycle.
- Featuring a report on director Robert Altman. After The Long Goodbye, M*A*S*H and Nashville, he has made The Player - a satire about the movie business. Plus the New York homicide cop who advises Hollywood writers on getting murder right on screen; and maverick film-maker Errol Morris.