TV Guide Talking Pictures TV Friday

A five-year-old girl is diagnosed with leukaemia, and will die unless she receives a transfusion of three pints of blood. A police inspector is recruited to track down the only three men on record who share her extremely rare blood type and persuade them each to help save her life. Thriller, with Jack Warner and Anthony Steel

A bumbling grocer is rejected by the woman of his dreams, plunging him into misery. He decides to get over his heartbreak by joining the Navy, and despite his ineptitude, is selected by an admiral to become Britain's first astronaut. Comedy, starring Norman Wisdom, Ian Hunter, David Lodge and John Le Mesurier

A bomb disposal expert with a drink problem regains his self-respect by defusing an unexploded German doodlebug. Powell and Pressburger's thriller, starring David Farrar, Kathleen Byron and Leslie Banks

The rise of Oliver Cromwell to power during the turbulent years of the mid-17th century, charting his days as an active parliamentarian to his victory over the royal armies in the English Civil War, and his subsequent role as the country's Lord Protector. Historical drama, with Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin, Frank Finlay, Patrick Magee, Charles Gray and Timothy Dalton

Documentary exploring all things supernatural, including the powers of witchcraft, ESP and fortune-telling, featuring contributions by one-time Chief of Witches in Britain, Alexander Saunders

Kirk Douglas employs his rugged features to good effect as a weatherbeaten lighthouse keeper forced to defend his island home against ruthless pirate Yul Brynner and his band of cut-throats. Adventure, with Samantha Eggar and Fernando Rey