27 Jul 1975
Murrain
When a mystery illness infects the pigs of a village farmer and a local boy is also taken ill, the villagers try to convince a veterinarian that it is caused by a curse from a woman they believe to be a witch.
Becket
An age of rampant lusts, abandon, runaway passions. An age brought bristling to life by two of the most exciting stars of our time!
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
Top Billed Cast
Richard Burton Thomas Becket
Peter O'Toole King Henry II of England
John Gielgud King Louis VII of France
Gino Cervi Cardinal Zambelli
Paolo Stoppa Pope Alexander III
Donald Wolfit Bishop Folliot
David Weston Brother John
Martita Hunt Empress Matilda
Pamela Brown Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
Percy Herbert Baron
Siân Phillips Gwendolen
Inigo Jackson Robert de Beaumont
Felix Aylmer Archbishop of Canterbury
Niall MacGinnis Baron
Christopher Rhodes Baron
John Phillips Bishop of Winchester
Frank Pettingell Bishop of York
Véronique Vendell French Prostitute
Jennifer Hilary Peasant's Daughter
David Davenport
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