11.30 Clapperboard CHRIS KELLY Chris Kelly looks back at some of the films reviewed over the past year. Among them are Chariots of Fire,
A magic potion made a big star out of Digby, The Biggest dog in the W orld. Talent did the same for the film's star, it ex-pop singer Jim Dale. He's now the toast of New York as the lead in the Broadway version of the musical Barnum. Watch Digby, today at 9.55.
9.30 A Handful of Songs KEITH FIELD MARIA MORGAN
Keith and Maria show more of your paintings and sing some songs.
Coalminer's Daughter, Raiders of the Lost A rk and Escape to V ictory. Chris also talks to some of their stars including Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov and Goldie Hawn. RESEARCHER NORA WATTS COMPILER GRAHAM MURRAY DIRECTOR RICHARD GUINEA PRODUCER MURIEL YOUNG
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WRITER SUE FOX GRAPHICS ANNA FARRAR DIRECTOR RICHARD GUINEA PRODUCER MURIEL YOUNG
roducer Malcolm Gerrie is Pcock-a-hoop over his capture of Abba for today's Razzmatazz special. The Swedish supergroup (below) pruned their television appearances to a minimum over Christmas and the New Year, but Gerrie's enterprise in buttonholing them in their
own Stockholm offices paid off; that and, as he points out, the fact that 'ours is a children's programme'. Presenter Alastair Pirrie recorded a 20-minute interview with the group, part of which can be seen today. Popular Razzmatazz bursts onto your screens at 12.15.
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12.15 Razzmatazz
9.40 Once Upon a Time
ALASTAIR PIRRIE LYN SPENCER ABBA SHAKIN' STEVENS BAD MANNERS SHOCK Switch on for the biggest New Year pop party ever with a spectacular star lineup guaranteed to start 1982 with a bang in this fastmoving show presented by Alastair Pirrie and Lyn Spencer. Zany pop band Bad Manners explode into action with a medley of hits and dance troupe Shock take off into the future with performing androids. Super group Abba add their own distinctive sparkle in a special Swedish link up and Shakin' Stevens keeps the scene rocking with his latest single. On top of that there's a New Year celebrity popscotch game, surprise guests and a spectacular firework display plus a fancy dress festival.
MARK WYNTER Mark Wynter tells the story of Puss-in-Boots, illustrated by Valerie Pye. The Black Theatre is devised and performed by Susan Kodicek and Ros Cerny. Stories are by Anne Mountfield. WRITER BARRY HILL DIRECTOR/PRODUCER PAT BAKER
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9.55 Digby—The
Biggest Dog
in the World
eet a guy who has no trouble at all in holding that tiger. Award-winning American illusionist Doug Henning seems to have what it takes when it comes to getting on with dangerous animals. And that doesn't apply only to the 5001b kingsize cat he's pictured with below. Henning also performs magic underwater with a 6ft shark and offers himself as bait in a complex illusion called the Human Mousetrap. There are other special features in store, including a minor masterpiece known as the Dream Shadow Illusion, in which hand shadows suddenly spring to life. Henning also takes a walk through a 4ft by 5ft plate glass mirror. For traditionalists, there's the old chestnut of sawing people in half. So marvel and be mystified by The Doug Henning Magic Show, brought to you from the super, plush Las Vegas Hilton at 4.15.
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JIM DALE SPIKE MILLIGAN ANGELA DOUGLAS Jeff Eldon is a member of a scientific research team which has produced a powder capable of making an ordinary cucumber swell to a length of 25ft. Circumstances arise whereby a dog named Digby swallows what appears to be a saucer of milk but which is, in fact, the powder in question mixed with water. Almost immediately, Digby begins to increase in size. And he goes on growing and growing. Until he's absolutely gigantic... See page 69
Jim Dale Jeff Eldon Spike Milligan Dr Harz Angela Douglas Janine John Bluthal Jerry Norman Rossington Tom Milo O'Shea Dr Jameson Billy W hite Richard Beaumont Col Masters Dinsdale Landen Rogerson Garfield Morgan Prof Ribart Victor Spinetti SCREENPLAY MICHAEL PERTWEE, FROM A BOOK BY TED KEY DIRECTOR JOSEPH McGRATH
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See page 56 RESEARCHERS JEFF BROWN, CARLENE CROWE, POSY HARVEY; DESIGNER PETER BINGEMANN EDITOR ALASTAIR PIRRIE DIRECTOR GAVIN TAYLOR PRODUCER MALCOLM GERRIE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ANDREA WONFOR
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All programmes are in colour unless otherwise stated
Programmes as Thames/LWT except: CENTRAL 9.25 Welcome to Central; 6.0 News; 7.0 Hart to Hart.
TVS 9.30 Bring in New; 12.50 Talking Whale; 1.50 Film — Flash Gordon. As LWT Sunday; 3.55 Cartoon; 3.45 Play Cards Right; 5.15 Coast Special; 6.0 Film — Close Encounters of Third Kind. As Thames Monday; 8.0 Birth of Station; 12.0 New Kind Family.
ANGLIA 12.0 Marie Gordon Price; 12.30 Birgitta and Swante.
Laurence Olivier as Marcus Crassus in Spartacus, 12.50.
12.45 ITN News Over to the studios of ITN for the latest national and international news.
12.50 Spartacus KIRK DOUGLAS LAURENCE OLIVIER JEAN SIMMONS Spartacus, a slave, is sold to III Batiatus, the wealthy head of the gladiator school at Capua. In accordance with custom, he s given a female companion — Varinia, a slave girl from Britannia. The powerful and ambitious General Marcus Crassus orders an entertainment for the diversion of his guests — a fight to the death between two gladiators. Draba, a giant African slave, and Spartacus are chosen... See page 69
Kirk Douglas Spartacus Marcus Crassus Laurence Olivier
Jean Simmons Varinia Charles Laughton Gracchus Peter Ustinov Batiatus John Gavin Julius Caesar Nina Foch Helena Glabrus Herbert Lom Tigranes John Ireland Crixus Tony Curtis A ntonuius John Dall Glabrus Charles McGraw Marcellus Claudia Marius Joanna Barnes David Harrold J Stone Draba Woody Strode Peter Brocco Ramon Paul Lambert Gannicus Guard Captain Robert J Wilke Nicholas Dennis Dionysius John Hoyt Roman Officer Fred Worlock Laelius Symmachus Dayton Lummis SCREENPLAY DALTON TRUMBO DIRECTOR STANLEY KUBRICK
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19 December 1981-1 January 1982 TVTIMES MAGAZINE