At breakfast in Britain it's midnight in Mexico... and the end of the fifth day of the Olympic Games.
Direct by satellite from Mexico City comes today's first coverage of the latest news and medal winners, with special reports on: The Finish of the 50 Kilometre Walk in which one of Britain's representatives is the Tokyo Silver Medallist, Paul Nihill.

The 5,000 Metres Final
The first swimming gold medals of the Games
and all the highlights from the latest competition in: Athletics, Swimming, Boxing, Rowing, Cycling, Weightlifting, Modern Pentathlon
with, every fifteen minutes, The Olympic Headlines
Introduced by Frank Bough with the BBC Olympic team of commentators

News and Weather at 8.0 and 9.0
(to 9.00)

9.38 People of Many Lands
Shown on Monday

10.0-10.20 Middle School Physics: Sound Waves
Introduced by David Chaundy
Shown last week

11.5-11.28 Scene: The Sentence of the Court
Shown on Thursday

11.35-11.55 Engineering: Craft and Science: Unit 1: Engineering Materials
Shown on Wednesday
Accompanying pamphlet: see page 10

on The Events, The Personalities in the news in Mexico City
David Vine and the BBC Olympic team of commentators bring you up to date with the highlights of the Olympic Games

For the very young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children.
BBC film

Graham Parker
(to 13.53)

Shown on Tuesday

A visit to Pontrhydyfen in Glamorganshire with Owen Edwards
(First shown on BBC Wales)
(Crystal Palace, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Wenvoe West)

Today:
I Really Don't Know
Written and illustrated by Naomi Whitelaw (aged 11)

The Quins
by Susan Isaac (aged 11)
Drawings by Geoff Dickinson

The Bathing Boxer Jumped
by David Osrin (aged 4)
told by Rodney Bewes

with Robert Robinson
A weekly look at criticism and comments from younger viewers
Letters for inclusion in these programmes should be addressed to: Junior Points of View, [address removed]

direct by satellite from Mexico City
featuring:
The fastest girl swimmers in the world in action in the 100 Metres Freestyle
Introduced by Frank Bough
Presented by BBC Television Sports Department in Mexico and London

Graham Parker

A weekly programme by the young for the young in heart
Angela Huth
with Richard Neville, John Peel, Tony Palmer, Ronald Fletcher, The Spinners and guests

News... Action... Personalities and the stories behind the headlines from Mexico City
David Coleman and Frank Bough report on today's Olympic scene and a crucial day for three of Britain's biggest Olympic names...
Lynn Davies who tonight defends his title in the Long Jump Final
Bobby McGregor Scotland's Olympic silver medallist swimming today in the 100 metres freestyle
Louis Martin who today attempts to bring Britain a medal in the middle heavyweight division of the weightlifting competition

6.0-6.20 Local News and Weather
(Rowridge, Brighton, Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree, Cambridge)

A quick look at the news of the day and a longer look at what matters with Kenneth Allsop and Michael Barratt, Ian Trethowan, Robert McKenzie
with on-the-spot reports by Fyfe Robertson, Julian Pettifer, David Lomax, Philip Tibenham, Denis Tuohy, Linda Blandford

An excerpt from the 1968 Show
with The Ivan Bratychin Cossack Troupe, The Rodriguez, The Chy Bao Guy Troupe,
The Kludsky, Charlie Cairoli and Company, Gerd Siemoneit, Concha and Concha, The Tower Circusettes
Introduced by Geoffrey Wheeler
(By arrangement with the Blackpool Tower Company Limited)

This year Blackpool Tower Circus celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary, and with it the return of the unique wild animal trainer Gerd Siemoneit and an opportunity for those who saw him in Black Panther to see the whole of his sensational act.

Written by David Climie and Austin Steele
A new comedy series starring Derek Nimmo
and featuring Felix Aylmer and Colin Gordon
with Geoffrey Hibbert, Patrick McAlinney, Peter Madden, Edward Malin, James Bulloch, Michael Slater

(Patrick McAlinney is appearing in "Hadrian the Seventh" at the Mermaid Theatre, London)

With the combination of a number of exceedingly valuable objects in an exhibition of monastic and medieval history, and Brother Dominic, there can only be one outcome - disaster!

A thriller in six parts
Starring Gerald Harper, Jennifer Daniel, Edward Brayshaw
with Brian Wilde, Bernard Brown, Peter Ducrow
(First shown on BBC-2)

with John Edmunds
followed by The Weather

A pace-setting adventure series starring Ben Gazzara as Paul Bryan, a man with no ties and no time to spare

Paul visits the training camp where Smitty, an old friend, is preparing for a fight which everyone confidently expects will make him a world boxing champion. The bets are made; the fight is on. But Paul discovers that for Smitty the stakes are far higher than just the victory purse or the title.

brings you tonight's events in the Olympic Games direct by satellite from Mexico City
featuring:
10.0 Athletics
including the Men's Long Jump Final, the Men's 400 Metres Final, and the Ladies Discus Final
Tonight's running order: Men's Long Jump Final
Olympic champion: Lynn Davies (G.B.)
Olympic record: 26 ft. 7V2 Ins.
Lynn Davies' parents in the London studio watch their son in Mexico leap to the defence of his Olympic title.
Men's 1,500 Metres (Heats)
Ladies 80 Metres Hurdles (Semi-Finals)
Ladies Discus Final
Olympic champion: Tamara Press (U.S.S.R.)
Olympic record: 187 ft. 10 1/2 ins.
Men's 400 Metres Final
Olympic champion: M. Larrabee (U.S.A.)
Olympic record: 44.9 secs.
Ladies 80 Metres Hurdles Final
Olympic champion: K. Balzer (Germany)
Olympic record: 10.5 secs.
Ladies 800 Metres (Semi-Final)

12.0 Cycling: 4,000 Metres Individual Pursuit (Semi-Finals)

12.10 Swimming
Ladies Springboard Final
Olympic champion: I. Engel (Germany)
Ladies 100 Metres Freestyle (Semi-Finals), Men's 100 Metres Freestyle (Semi-Finals), Ladies 100 Metres Breaststroke (Semi-Finals), Men's 100 Metres Breaststroke (Semi-Finals)

and throughout the programme Frank Bough introduces News... Comment... Personalities from all today's events

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