At breakfast in Britain, it's midnight in Mexico and the end of the eighth day of the Olympic Games
Direct by satellite from Mexico City comes today's first coverage of the latest
Olympic Action and Medal Winners
including
Swimming
Men's 200 Metres Medley Final
Ladies' 400 Metres Freestyle Final
Olympic Champion: V. Dnenkel (U.S.A.)
Olympic record: 4 min. 43.3 secs.
Boxing, Fencing, Athletics
and every fifteen minutes The Olympic Headlines
Introduced by Frank Bough with the BBC Olympic team of commentators

News Headlines and Weather at 8.0 and 9.0
(to 9.00)

9.38 Maths Today: Year 2: Make a Matrix
Introduced by Derick Last
(Repeated on Thursday and on Wednesday of next week)

10.0 Merry-Go-Round: A Hospital at Night
Introduced by Gabriel Woolf
(Repeated on Thursday)

10.25-10.45 Middle School Physics: Electromagnetic Waves
Introduced by David Chaundy
(Repeated on Tuesday and on Friday next week)

11.0-11.20 Discovering Science: The Atmosphere
Introduced by Michael Underwood
(Repeated on Tuesday)

11.35 Mirror for Our Dreams: The Ways and Meanings of Cinema: 4: Experience and Meaning
Introduced by Michael Cronin
Written by Victor Perkins
(Repeated on Wednesday)

12.5-12.25 Engineering: Craft and Science: Unit 1: Engineering Materials: 3: Steel
Introduced by D.R.C. Holmes, C.Eng., A.M.I.Prod.E.
(Shown last week on BBC-2)
(Repeated on Wednesday and on Friday - not Scottish)
Accompanying pamphlet: see page 11

David Vine and the BBC Olympic commentary team bring you up to date with The Events, The Personalities, The Talking Points in the news in Mexico City

For the very young
A film series of the adventures of Hammy and his friends.

Guinea completes his first test flight and the Riverbank Air Mail Service is inaugurated.
Commentary spoken by Johnny Morris.

Bert Foord
(to 13.53)

2.5 Exploring Your World: Keeping Afloat
Introduced by Harry Armstrong
(Repeated on Wednesday)

2.30 Going to Work: Finding Out
Introduced by Peter West
"It's strange at first, but you soon get used to it... It was different from school, I didn't know where I was at first... I was so tired I could hardly stand at the end of the day..."
A film about the work-experience scheme of a Yeovil school.
(Repeated on Tuesday)

2.55 People of Many Lands: Irish Republic: Horses in Tipperary
Introduced by Alan Barry
(Repeated on Friday)

3.20-3.40 Twentieth-Century Focus: Marriage and Divorce: 3: Marriage Breakdown
What causes the collapse of a marriage? Should the divorce laws be reformed?
Introduced by Michael Aspel
With Professor O. R. McGregor
(Repeated on Tuesday and on Wednesday - not Scottish)
Accompanying pamphlet: see page 11

Welsh children's magazine
(First shown on BBC Wales)
(Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace, Wenvoe West)
(to 16.05)

Five programmes for teachers using the Schools Television series for eleven-to- thirteen-year-olds, Maths Today.

A description of the third pupils' programme There and Back and a discussion of ways in which this material can be used in the classroom
Introduced by John Goth and Chris Gregory

by Laura Ingalls Wilder
with Richard Monette

When Almanzo was nine years old he thought there was nothing in the world so beautiful as horses, and he wanted one of his very own. This week you can find out whether or not his dream came true.

with Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Peter Purves
See page 46

Direct by satellite from Mexico City
featuring
Swimming at the Olympic Pool
Max Robertson and Harry Walker report on the Men's 4 x 200 Metres Relay (Heats), Ladies' 200 Metres Freestyle (Heats)
Programme introduced by Frank Bough
Presented by BBC Television Sports Department in Mexico and London

Bert Foord

News... Action... Personalities and the stories behind the headlines in Mexico City
David Coleman and Frank Bough report on today's Olympic scene with live coverage by satellite of events as they happen at the Olympic swimming pool and a preview of tonight's finals

The Carvel Family from Edinburgh v. The Perrett Family from Currie, Midlothian
A contest in speed and wits between families from all over the United Kingdom
Introduced by Robert Robinson

by James Doran
Starring James Ellis, John Slater, John Woodvine
with Paul Angelis, Bernard Holley

Bannerman, off duty with his girl-friend, meets Ted Holmes in a pub. Holmes has some information to sell Bannerman and wants cash. Bannerman senses the information is good - but is it?
(For cast list see page 25)

Written by Ronnie Taylor
Harry Worth in a new series of unlikely situations
This week: Private Pimpernel
featuring George Baker as Wing Commander Stebbs, John Le Mesurier as Colonel Fullbright, James Beck as Flight Lieutenant Conner, Dennis Chinnery as Squadron Leader Veldon, Philip Carr as 2nd Lieut. Cranleigh-Smythe, Norman Mitchell as Sgt. Major Austin, James McManus as Flight Sgt. McAllister, Roger Avon as Mr. Cotes

Tonight sees the start of a new series of situation comedies starring Harry Worth, managing as ever to complicate even the most simple activities. This first story takes us back to 1944 and a fighter aerodrome, and the predicament of Wing Commander Stebbs, one of whose friends has been shot down and captured in France. The rescue plan he has thought out depends on one man's courage, daring, iron will, and split-second timing. The man chosen for the mission? Need you ask...

People, places, and problems that matter most to Britain and the world
Introduced by Robin Day with Panorama reporters Michael Charlton, David Dimbleby, Richard Kershaw, Robert MacNeil and James Mossman

with Richard Baker
followed by The Weather

Dramatised by John Gould
Starring Peter Cushing
and Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson
Also starring Peter Woodthorpe as Wilson Kemp, Nigel Terry as Harold Latimer
and Ronald Adam as Mycroft Holmes

"If. If we are kind enough to let you go. If your behaviour is entirely satisfactory. If a great many things, sir, including if you live long enough, of course..."

The new comedy series starring Stanley Baxter
with guest Mark Wynter
and Clare Richards, Denise Coffey, Bill Henderson, Lillian Welsh
BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra
Conducted by Iain Sutherland
from Scotland

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

brings you tonight's events in the Olympic Games as they happen direct by satellite from Mexico City
featuring
Swimming... Boxing.... Gymnastics... Cycling...
Tonight's programme introduced by Frank Bough includes
10.50 and 12.0 Swimming
Men's 100 Metres Butterfly Final
Ladies' 100 Metres Butterfly Final
Olympic champion: S. Stouder (U.S.A.)
Olympic record: 1 min. 4.7 secs.
Men's 4 x 200 Metres Freestyle Relay Final
Olympic champions: U.S.A.
Olympic record: 7 min. 52.1 secs.
Men's 100 Metres Backstroke (Semi-Finals)

Alan Weeks reports on the competition for medals by the world's finest gymnasts.

Tandem Final
Olympic champions: Italy

4,000 Metres Team Pursuit Final
Olympic champions: Germany

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

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