Light entertainment
(first shown on BBC Wales)
(all transmitters except Scotland, Northern Ireland, and BBC Wales)
(Colour)
A final selection from the BBC's future output for Secondary Schools.
1.55 British Social History: Strike
A documentary programme on the General Strike of 1926, from a series for 14 to 16-year-olds.
2.15 New Horizons: A matter of degree?
One of five films for pupils of 16-18 years on aspects of university life, and other forms of higher education.
A programme for children under 5
(shown at 11.0 am on BBC2)
(Colour)
Ronald Hines tells The Wombles by Elizabeth Beresford
Adapted and directed by Jenny Nimmo
(Next week: Gordon Gostelow tells stories from Australia)
Introduced by Michael Aspel
With Peter Glaze, Rod McLennan, Frances Barlow, Jillian Comber and their special guests
(Colour)
Robert Robinson takes a weekly look at criticism and comments from younger viewers
(Colour)
The Galloping Gourmet
Graham Kerr takes a lighthearted look at one of his favourite recipes and cooks it with an expert eye.
(A series of programmes made in Canada)
(Colour)
After months of competition, six competitors from many parts of the United Kingdom face each other in this final challenge to become television's first 'Brain of Britain.'
Sir Ronald Gould, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, presents the trophy to the winner
Chairman Harvey Hall
A film series starring James Drury as the Virginian
Ryker has to take a firm stand against his friends when it becomes a matter of law and order.
(first shown on BBC2)
(Colour)
by Richard Waring
starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer Corner, Ronald Hines as Henry Corner
with Charlotte Mitchell as Mary
A brief visit to the Corners' old home in Battersea proves to be not quite the sentimental journey Jennifer had anticipated.
(Colour)
Introduced by Michael Bentine from the National Film Theatre, London
In most silent comedy films the women were either helpless heroines waiting to be rescued or domineering ogres who bullied their hapless menfolk. Tonight Michael Bentine looks at both types, with Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Larry Semon, and Charlie Chaplin
A BBCtv production in association with Mitchell Monkhouse Associates and Raymond Rohauer
(Colour)
With Robert Dougall and the BBC's correspondents and reporters around the world and Weather
(Colour)
A television novel by Harold Robbins
starring Lana Turner as Tracy Carlyle Hastings, George Hamilton as Duncan Carlyle, Rossano Brazzi as Antaeus Riakos, Kevin McCarthy as Philip Hastings, Louis Hayward as Jonathan Carlyle, Diana Muldaur as Belile Wheeler, Michael Vincent as Jeffrey Hastings, Natalie Schaefer as Eleanor Carlyle
As suspicion deepens about the cause of Baylor's death the unexpected arrival of his widow, Eleanor, is a further shock for the Carlyles.
(Colour)
at the Locarno, Coventry
(organised by Mecca Dancing)
Peter West introduces West Midlands v West of England
Can the West Midlands repeat their last year's victory over the West? There were only two points in it!
(Colour)
A look at what matters in the news and out of it
Presented by Kenneth Allsop with the latest news in pictures
(Colour)
by H. Russell Wakefield
Dramatised by David Campton
starring Claire Bloom
with Nora Nicholson
(first shown on BBC2)
(Colour)
(Colour)
