An invitation to learn French

(shown last Sunday)

A beginners' course in German
(shown last Sunday)

Graham Parker looks at the weekend weather

Notorious gunman Doc Bailey saves a little girl's life and wins a short-lived freedom.

with Edna Purviance
Charlie's shipboard escapades as a new arrival in the New World.

Frank Bough introduces the Saturday sports spectacular featuring the Vernons Sprint Cup and three more top races from Haydock Park; the Rugby League Lancashire Cup Final from Wigan; Motoring from Smethwick; and the first of four special show-jumping competitions from Stoneleigh for the BBC Grandstand Trophy.

12.55* Football Preview
Sam Leitch introduces Grandstand's up-to-the-minute football preview, featuring the action and personalities in the news.

1.25, 2.50* Motoring
An international driving event for the Ken Wharton Memorial Team Trophy for 1969 (organised by The Hagley and District Light Car Club).

1.35, 4.35 Racing from Haydock Park
On the final day of the 1969 Flat Racing season, Grandstand covers four races from the mixed meeting at this popular Northern Course, including the last flat race of the 1969 season at 4.45.
1.45 Blackpool 'Chase (Handicap) (2 miles)
2.45 Vernons Sprint Cup (6 furlongs)
3.15 Vernons Organisation Stakes (1 1/2 miles)
4.45 Supplementary Plate (1 1/2 miles)
At 1.15 Julian Wilson introduces the highlights and personalities of the 1969 Flat season.

1.55* Indoor Show-Jumping: The BBC Grandstand Trophy Competition
Leading riders compete in the first of four special competitions to be held in the indoor arena at Stoneleigh.

3.20* Rugby League: The Lancashire Cup Final: Leigh v Swinton

4.55 Results Service
Football scores, racing results, and news during the afternoon. Times are subject to alteration.

The voyages of the Star-Ship Enterprise across man's final frontier-space! Its mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and civilisations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

When an unknown planet looms into the path of the USS Enterprise it is hardly the time for the helmsman to disappear, and for his successor at the controls to follow suit is somewhat more than inconvenient, especially as he happens to be the Captain!
The urbane anachronistic figure which has uncannily contrived their discomfiture leads Kirk and his crew a merry dance until events take an uglier turn, culminating in a bizarre conclusion.

introduces his guests including Bryan Forbes who will he talking about his new film "The Madwoman of Chaillot" and introducing, if humanly possible, one of its stars, Danny Kaye.

by N.J. Crisp
Starring Jack Warner

After 28 years in the force, Det-Sgt Frank Harvey had only two years to serve for his pension - but he had a weakness, and everybody knew about it.

(Peter Byrne is appearing in "There's a Girl in My Soup" at the Comedy Theatre, London)

Written by Eric Davidson, Bill Stark, and Bernie Sharp and Dave Allen
starring Dave Allen
with special guests Ed Nelson, Dickie Henderson, Maggie Fitzgibbon
Sylvia McNeil, Dick Garner
with the Mavis Ascott Dancers

The films of three great screen actors - Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and, here Tyrone Power
with Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold Lloyd Nolan

Tyrone Power's role tonight puts him - at least temporarily - on the wrong side of the law. As Bob Cain, he finds his life in ruins when the father he idolised is gaoled for embezzlement.
At the trial a gangster, Mickey Dwyer - played by Lloyd Nolan - escapes with a 2-year sentence: Bob's father gets 10. Drawing the obvious conclusion it is not long before Bob Cain, college man and banker's son, has become Johnny Apollo - mobster!

Reader Robert Dougall
and Weather

David Coleman presents football action, interviews and late night soccer news.
The Match of the Day comes from a prominent Football League ground.
Highlights of a second match involving a well-known club in the South-East
(Today's matches are announced at the end of Grandstand)

Each week: 25,000 tons of newsprint; 50 hours of news bulletins
One man, Bernard Braden and his team John Pitman, Esther Rantzen take a look at some of the things that happened -and some of the things that didn't
Musical memory of the week: Laurie London 'I've got the whole world in my hands' (1957)
Children of the week: Harold Williamson