as Harry Worp, an outof-towner. Believing his last stray shot killed the victim, he is about to dispose of the evidence when Miss Gravely, the village spinster, strolls by. Young Arnie Rogers, who earlier spotted the corpse, returns to the scene with his mother, Jennifer. She recognises the corpse as her estranged second husband. She too blames herself for Harrys death, having clobbered him with a milk bottle when he sought to force himself on her. Before the captain can hide the victim, he is disturbed by a passing tramp, by the absent-minded Dr Greenbow and by Sam Marlowe, an unsuccessful abstract painter, who sets about drawing sketches of the corpse. The trouble with Harry is who killed him and what to do with the body? See pages 12-19 Oracle subtitles page 898 Jennifer Rogers Shirley MacLathe Sam Marlowe John Forsythe Capt W iles Edmund Gwenn Miss Ivy Gravely Mildred Natwick A rnie Rogers Jerry Mathers Mrs W iggs Mildred Dunnock Calvin W iggs Royal Dario The millionaire Parker Fennelly The tramp Barry Macollum Dr Greenbow Dwight Mayfield The art critic . Leslie Wolff Harry W orp Philip Truex The chauffeur Ernest Curt Bach SCREENPLAY JOHN MICHAEL HAVES BASED ON A nova BY JACK TREVOR STORY DIRECTOR ALFRED HITCHCOCK
10.45 ITN News 11.00 Fresh Fields Special JULIA McKENZIE ANTON RODGERS Ann Beach Fanny Rowe A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS BY JOHN CHAPMAN
A special seasonal
edition of the comedy series about middleaged couple William and Hester Fields. They are suddenly faced with the prospect of spending their first Christmas without the kids around. So Hester sends out the invitations — 'Oh come all ye neighbours!'. Theme music arranged by Harry Stoneham, t Oracle subtitles page 898 Hester Fields Julia McKenzie W illiam Fields Anton Rodgers Sonia Barratt Ann Beach Nancy Penrose Fanny Rowe Guy Penrose Ballard Berkeley Miss Denham Daphne Oxenford John Barratt John Arthur Emma Debby Cumming Policeman Christopher Ellison Mrs Fielder Zulerna Dane DESIGNER STUART McCARTHY DIRECTOR/PRODUCER PEThR FRAZER-JONES Thames Television Production
I'CHRISTMAS EVE 11.45 Christmas Eve Service of Communion Edinburgh's Princes Street, with its gardens and Castle, is one of the finest streets in the world. At its West End are St Cuthbert's Church of Scotland and St John's Scottish Episcopal Church. For several years the two congregations have been growing closer together, and tonight, the churches celebrate Christmas together — with a 'Christingle' service for children in St John's, followed by carols and communion in St Cuthbert's. The Church of Scotland minister, the Rev Tom Cuthell, gives the Christmas message and communion is celebrated by the Episcopal rector, the Rev Canon Neville Chamberlain. The organists are Robert Kidd and Cohn Tipple. DIRECTOR NORMAN MORRISON PROGRAMME ASSOCIATE ERIC HUDSON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER NELSON GRAY Scottish Television Production
12.30 The Big Sleep ROBERT MITCHUM SARAH MILES RICHARD BOONE CANDY CLARK
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When private detective Philip Marlowe is called to the mansion of General Sternwood, he finds the old and dying man sitting in a hot-house surrounded by tropical plants. It's not the only odd thing he finds. The General has two wild young daughters. One, Charlotte, is a gambler who lives among the petty criminals of the city. The other, Camilla, is a zany swinger being blackmailed by a pornographer with a glass eye. But what starts out as a simple blackmail case turns into much more. See pages 12-19 Philip Marlowe Robert Mitchum Charlotte Sarah Miles Lash Canino Richard Boone Camilla Candy Clark A gnes Lozelle Joan Collins Joe Brody Edward Fox Lisp Carson John Mills Eddie Mars Oliver Reed Gen Sternwood James Stewart Non-is Harry Andrews Harry Jones Colin Blakely Gregor), James Donald Mona Diana Quick Ccir Barker Richard Todd Geiger John Justin Owen Taylor Martin Potter Karl Lundgren Simon Turner Reg Patrick Durkin Rusty Regan David Savile Lanny Dudley Sutton Lou Don Henderson SCREENPLAY/DIRECTOR MICHAEL WINNER
2.20am Closedown
TVTIMES 20 December-2 January 1987
`Dame Peggy, above with Paul Robeson in `Othello, one of the many faces of great British actress Peggy Ashcroft. Follow her career, 9.00.
5.00pm Gymnastics THE KRAFT INTERNATIONAL from Wembley Arena
Highlights of the last major gymnastics event of 1986, in which World and Olympic Champions compete for the individual apparatus medals. Great Britain's reigning champions, 17year-old Lisa Elliott from Spelthorne Gymnastics Club and 25-year-old Andrew Morris from Swansea, face tough opposition from the world's best gymnasts from the USSR, USA, China, Japan, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria. Commentators are John Taylor and Monica Phelps.
6.00 Carols for Christmas A traditional carol concert for Christmas Eve featuring Aled Jones, the Welsh boy treble, and the Royal College of Music Chamber Choir, with the Farnaby Brags Ensemble. Sir David Willcocks conducts his own arrangement of 23 popular carols from his
Carols for Christmas
songbook. Shot in St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, the concert is complemented by a rich array of paintings and images of Christmas from New York's Metropolitan Museum — where the famous 12th-century Bury Cross is now housed. Pianist is Sir David Willcocks, with organist Paul Trepte and soloists Aled Jones (boy soprano) and Gerald Finley (baritone). DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER SWANN PRODUCER ROBIN SCOTT IVVC in ,gs9-,ciation with the Metropolitan Museum of A rt, New Y ork
7.00 News Summary and Weather followed by
Holiday Inn BING CROSBY FRED ASTAIRE MARJORIE REYNOLDS
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Jim, part of a nightclub trio with his partners Ted and Lila, decides to give up the
grind of club work and retire to his Connecticut farm. He hopes Lila will come with him as his wife, but Ted persuades her to stay with the act. Jim soon finds running the farm is all work and no play. On Christmas Eve he returns to New York to tell Ted and Lila his idea of turning the farm into an inn, open only on holidays. This would give him 350 days off. . . Made in black and white
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Jim Hardy Bing Crosby Ted Hanover Fred Astaire Linda Mason Marjorie Reynolds (sung by Martha Mears) Lila Dixon Virginia Dale Danny Reed Walter Abel Menne Lonia.a Beavers Gus Irving Bacon Francois Marek Windheim V anderbilt Shelby Bacon Daphne Joan Arnold Parker John Gallaudet Mr Dunbar James Bell and Bob Crosby and His Bobcats SCREENPLAY CLAUDE BINYON MUSIC/LYRICS IRVING BERLIN DIRECTOR MARK SANDRICH
9.00 Dame Peggy A PORTRAIT OF PEGGY ASHCROFT
By the time Dame Peggy Ashcroft appeared as Barbie in The Jewel in the Crown and became known and loved by a worldwide television audience, she had long been the first lady of the British stage and had appeared in leading roles for more than 50 years. She had played every Shakespearean heroine, many of the modem classics and in later years became a leading interpreter of the new playwrights. Then new success in television and film was crowned by an Oscar for her performance in A Passage to India On Monday she entered her 80th year; now at long last she has been persuaded to talk about her career in public. The programme is written
and presented by Michael Billington. Oracle subtitles page 888 EDITORS FIONA GILLESPIE, GRAHAM CARR PRODUCER/DIRECTOR DEREK BAILEY Landseer Productions
10.45 St Nicolas CANTATA OP 42 BY BENJAMIN BRITTEN WORDS BY ERIC CROZIER
St Nicolas is.the patron saint of Christmas— Santa Claus — and it is his life that is celebrated tonight in a performance of Benjamin Britten's Cantata. Written in 1948 for the centenary celebrations of Lancing College in Sussex, it has been recorded in the magnificent setting of St Alban's Cathedral, with the Wandsworth School Choir, under their leader Russell Burgess, tenor Ian Partridge, and the Orchestra Nova of London. Although we know very little historical fact about St Nicolas, there are many legends about his life and the Miracles he worked. Benjamin Britten has woven all this folklore into a musical tapestry. The programme was the first UK music winner of the Prix Italia, in Venice in 1977. Previously shown on ITV EXECUTIVE PRODUCER FRANCIS COLEMAN ASSOCIATE PRODUCER JOHN WOODS PRODUCER/DIRECTOR MARGERY BAKER Thames Television Production
Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds and a host of top stars to play rockabilly with the godfather of rock and roll, Carl Perkins. See page 80 PRODUCER STEPHANIE BENNETT DIRECTOR TOM GUTTERINDGE Delilah Films Production
12.45 to 2.00am Mad Love PETER LORRE FRANCES DRAKE
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Dr Gogol, a brilliant surgeon, has become infatuated with Yvonne Orlac, a lovely actress at the Paris 'theatre of horrors'. But she is married to a pianist, Stephen. When Gogol declares his passion, Yvonne shrinks from him in horror. But she is forced to ask for his help when Stephen's hands are horribly injured in a train crash Gogol grafts on hands from the body of a murderer.. . Made in black and white
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11.45 Blue Suede Shoes CARL PERKINS GEORGE HARRISON RINGO STARR ERIC CLAPTON DAVE EDMUNDS GERAINT WATKINS THE STRAY CATS
Another chance to see a unique event in rock music. George Harrison joins with Ringo Starr,
Dr Gogol Peter Lorre Y vonne Orlac Frances Drake Stephen Orlac Colin Clive Regan Ted Healy Marie Sarah Haden Rollo Edward Brophy Prefect Rosser Henry Kolker Dr W ong Keye Luke Frangoise May Beatty Stepfather Ian Wolfe With Isabel Jewell, Cora Sue Collins, Harold Huber, Charles Trowbridge, Rollo Lloyd and Murray Kinnell SCREENPLAY P J WOLFSON, JOHN L BALDERSTON FROM A NOVEL BY MAURICE RENARD DIRECTOR KARL FREUND