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THE MERCHANT (1970) Thrilling episode from the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE tvseries! One of the world's largest dealers in illegal arms, Armand Adressarian, is about tocomplete a deal involving a sale of millions of dollars worth of American arms to guerrilla groupsin North Africa and the Middle East. The IMF must stop the deal and put the dealers out of businesspermanently. Jim poses as a trouble shooter, WHILE Barney electronically fixes a poker game. This wasone of veteran actor GEORGE SANDERS' last screen appearances. First aired on 17/3/1971. Prod Co:Paramount. Prod: Bruce Lansbury. Dir: Leon Benson. Wr: Harold Livingston. Mus: LALO SCHIFRIN. Cast:PETER GRAVES, LEONARD NIMOY, LESLEY (ANN) WARREN,GREG MORRIS, PETER LUPUS. Based on characters created by Bruce Geller. 50 mins. NFVLS.
LEONARD NIMOY takes the audience through the stepsof producing television from start to finish. Provides an easy introduction to televisionhardware, terms, shots and processes. 18 mins.NFVLS.
A whole day's programming from HSV7, Melbourne, circa 1979, hammered down to five minutes viewingtime, makes us realisejust-how-good-we-had-it-back-then! Set to Bach. Directed by Ivan Gaal . 5 mins. CAC.
A blackmailer extorts money from paranoidmillionaires bystaging their hypothetical murders repeatedly until they break down. An episode from THEAVENGERS, which ran from 1962-1969, juxtaposing fantastic plots with bland, ordinary locations andcomic-book superficiality alongside a higher reality of design. Prod Co: Associated BritishProductions. Prods: Albert Fennell, Brian Clemens. Dir: Robert Asher. Wr: Philip Levene. Phot: AlanHume. Mus: Laurie Johnson. Ed: Lionel Selwyn. Cast: PATRICK MACNEE, DIANA RIGG, Barbie Ingham,Robert Flemying, George Murcell, Leslie French. 51 mins. NFVLS.
Another hilarious episode from THE DICK VAN DYKESHOW. Rob becomes competitive when Laura writes a children's book. The show aired from 1961 to 1966. Prod Co: Calvada. Prods: Bill Persky, Sam Denoff. Dir: Jerry Paris. Wr: Lawrence J. Cohen, Fred Freeman. Mus: Earle Hagen. Ed: Beryl Gelford. Cast: DICK VAN DYKE , Larry Matthews, MOREY AMSTERDAM, MARY TYLER MOORE, JOHN MCGIVER. 24 mins. NFVLS.
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