The Open Championship 1970 played over the Old Course, St Andrews.
As the 99th British Open begins this morning on the Old Course at St Andrews, it is fitting that the 1969 Open Champion Tony Jacklin - Great Britain's first success since 1951-should have to defend his title over the subtle hazards of the most famous golf course in the world and against an entry whose world-class calibre is unequalled in the long history of the Championship.
The first day's play in this classic 72-hole stroke play Tournament is introduced direct from St Andrews by Harry Carpenter

The Gillette Cup: Third Round: Lancashire v Hampshire
Outstanding attacking batting... tight, sometimes devastating bowling... sharp, often brilliant fielding.
All this applies equally to both Lancashire and Hampshire, who meet today at Old Trafford.
Lancashire, last year's Player's League champions, must be slight favourites and Clive Lloyd and Farokh Engineer should ensure a fast run rate.
Hampshire, with Barry Richards and Roy Marshall, will probably score runs just as quickly and they also have a slight edge in experience over the younger Lancashire side.
Introduced by Peter West

For the very young
In this new series, Lucy, who lives on a farm, shows Robert the cows and the pigs and the other different kinds of animals there.
Story told by Keith Barron.

(Colour)

1.53 Interval

Industrial change and the Church

The Open Championship 1970
Further visits to St Andrews as the first round nears completion

The Gillette Cup: Third round: Lancashire v Hampshire
Peter West introduces the closing stages of this 60-over match.

by Ursula Moray Williams
With Gordon Gostelow
Today: The Little Wooden Horse pulls the Royal Coach

A film from Czechoslovakia
Story told by Peter Bowles

scans the world of technology and adventure with Norman Tozer and reporters John Earle and Jan Leeming
(From Bristol)

A cartoon series about the adven. tures of the two crazy comedy stars.

The facts, the people, the background of the nation's capital

from The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
It Was a Chelsea Morning as The Band of HM Welsh Guards accompanied
The Parade of the scarlet-coated In-Pensioners within the court-yards of this 17th-century London landmark - The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Director of Music Captain D.K. Walker, Welsh Guards
Introduced by Brian Matthew

Written by Frank Moore
Starring John Barrie, Justine Lord, Barry Justice

Dr McNeal and Dr Conrad fail to agree on a diagnosis. Dr Somers is given some unexpected news about the future of the practice.

Stan and Ollie are soon in trouble when they arrest a burglar and then arrest their own chief.
A Hal Roach Film

A new Cockney comedy written by Tony Bilbow and Mike Fentiman
With Eugenie Cavanagh, Ian Ramsey, Michael Reynell
(Derek Griffiths is in "Sing a Rude Song" at the Garrick Theatre, London)

The exploits of a team of expert and daring undercover agents whose job is to prove that their missions are, in fact, anything but impossible.
Led by Peter Graves as Jim Phelps with Martin Landau as Rollin Hand, Greg Morris as Barney, Peter Lupus as Willy, Barbara Bain as Cinnamon

This week: The Emerald
The subterfuge of the ships that didn'pass in the night.

With Richard Baker and Weather

David Frost spends a remarkable fifty minutes with Sammy Davis Jr.

Davis recalls his entry into vaudeville as a child and launches into a memorable display of his talents with impressions of Bogart, Cagney, and three versions of Laurence Olivier, followed by an illustrated vocal analysis of Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine, Frankie Laine, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra.
He recreates his disastrous experiences as a bullfighter, sings and tap dances.
The show was acclaimed in America as one of the best performances ever by Sammy Davis.

Six true stories of people who survived against all odds

We cannot tell you the name of the man in this film. He is a Czechoslovakian and still has relatives there. Twenty years ago he endured the process of brain-washing for nine long months. Brain-washing means solitary confinement, malnutrition, enforced sleeplessness and constant interrogation.
Tonight he re-enacts what happened to him during that time. Great care has been taken to get every detail accurate. It makes a fascinating tale.
A co-production with the Australian Broadcasting Commission

with the latest news in pictures

Robert Robinson recalls February 1950.

In the General Election Mr Attlee's government was returned to power with a majority of seven and elected to Parliament for the first time were Jo Grimond, Edward Heath, and Enoch Powell. Elsewhere in the world romance blossomed. Elizabeth Taylor got engaged to Conrad Hilton; Ludovic Kennedy married the star of the ballet film The Red Shoes, Moira Shearer; Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman had a baby; the United Nations sent a team of observers to investigate the 110 wives of the Fon of Bikom; and, at London Zoo, Brumas was born.