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...shows that have found their way to the U.S. and turned a tidy profit for the corporation have been mainly polished dramas and documentaries, such as The Forsythe Saga, Elizabeth R. with Glenda Jackson, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man and Alistair Cooke's America. The Shakespeare series, says BBC Programming Director Alasdair Milne, with no understatement at all, "is a vast project, the biggest we have ever undertaken, and a tremendously exciting one. We think it ought to be done, and we think we are the only TV organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Love's Labour | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

Directed by TOM CRIES Screenplay by ALISTAIR MACLEAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stalled Express | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...same." Moore, 61, probably regretted his decision during four hours atop a moving railroad car with stone-faced Actor Charles Branson. The fight scene, shot in a snowstorm in the Idaho Rockies, was filmed for Breakheart Pass, a western based on a novel by Adventure Author Alistair Maclean. At one point in the action, both men hung by their hands from the train roof and struggled to pull themselves back on board. "I pulled myself up with both arms, but I saw Bronson do a one-arm pull that astonished me," said Moore afterward. "He was amazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 5, 1975 | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

British class warfare is summarized in a bout between a heavyweight champion and Lord Clark of Civilization for the Slade Professorship of Fine Arts at Oxford (Lord Clark loses in the first round). The defeat of Alistair Cooke, the boring commentator on Masterpice Theatre, is even more ignominious--he is overpowered by a duck while reminiscing of Philadelphia...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Of Budgies and Spain | 1/29/1975 | See Source »

America. Alistair Cooke's excellent but over-touted documentary series. Tonight: Watch the Native Americans whup Custer. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 1/2 hour...

Author: By F. Briney, | Title: TELEVISION | 12/12/1974 | See Source »

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