Graham Parker looks at the weekend weather
First day's play at The Oval.
Two talented sides... a Bank Holiday atmosphere... the struggle for the County Championship. These three features should produce an exciting and interesting match of vital significance to the County Championship.
Introduced by Peter West
(Also in Grandstand)
featuring Racing Rugby League, Cricket
Introduced by Frank Bough
12.55 Football Preview
Introduced by Sam Leitch
1.10; 2.20; 2.50; 4.30* Cricket from The Oval: Surrey v Worcestershire
Further coverage of the first day's play.
1.35; 2.5; 2.35; 3.5* Racing from Newcastle
1.45 Sandgate Stakes (6 furlongs)
2.15 Armada Nursery Handicap Stakes (7 furlongs)
2.45 Northern Goldsmith's Handicap Stakes (1 mile)
3.15 Gallowgate Selling Stakes (6 furlongs)
1.50* Sand Yachting: The Wills World Sand Yachting Championship at Lytham St Annes
125 yachts take part in the first World Championship in this exciting sport. Countries taking part include Great Britain, USA, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, and Austria.
3.20* Rugby League: Wakefield v Leeds
4.50* Results Service
Grandstand Timetable:
12.55 Football Preview
1.10 Cricket
1.35 Racing from Newcastle
1.50 Sand Yachting
2.5 Racing from Newcastle
2.20 Cricket
2.35 Racing from Newcastle
2.50 Cricket
3.5 Racing from Newcastle
3.20 Rugby League
4.30 Cricket
4.40 Teleprinter
4.50 Results Service
Introduced by Derek Fowlds
with Sons and Lovers, Les Zavatta
(Bert Hayes is appearing at the Winter Gardens, Margate)
Debbie Reynolds starring as Debbie Thompson with the family she delights, mystifies and maddens...
The Paper Butterfly ...Debbie-the pin-down girl!
Introduced by Ray Alan
featuring Jacqueline Harbord, Reg Park
Special guest artists Jurgen Eberwein, Kiki and Clive, Blanka Mares
The Ice Show Skaters, The Fred Tomlinson Singers
Programme presented in association with Gerald Palmer and the Tom Arnold Organisation
Tonight's presentation in this season of feature films starring Errol Flynn as the Pirate Captain with Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone
Dr Peter Blood, innocently condemned to a life of slavery in the West Indies, escapes to become the most famous pirate in history. A spectacular adventure which established Errol Flynn as the swashbuckling hero of his decade.
In tonight's show Lulu introduces her special guests Esther Ofarim, Roy Hudd, The Moody Blues
The Douglas Squires Dozen, Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra
Three years since they came together as a result of 'total musical frustration,' the Moody Blues have matured into one of the most distinctive and original groups. Their new album A Question of Balance is riding high in the LP stakes and they are off in September for a long trip across the United States.
A film series starring Raymond Burr as Robert Ironside with Don Galloway as Det-Sgt Brown, Barbara Anderson as Eve, Don Mitchell as Mark
and Guest stars Beah Richards, Joseph Campanella, Phillip Pine
Mark's elderly Aunt Ruby is swindled out of her life's savings by two confidence tricksters. They realise too late that by this one crime they have gained the individual attention of a highly skilled, grimly determined police unit - Ironside and his team.
With Kenneth Kendall and Weather
featuring action from a First Division soccer fixture involving two of last season's spectacularly successful clubs.
Action from another leading Football League ground featuring two more prominent First Division teams.
David Coleman introduces one hour of action, news, views, and analysis from the third Saturday of the new League season.
Reporter Harold Williamson
Many a television critic has tried to define what it is that makes children divulge their innermost thoughts and secrets to Harold Williamson - none has succeeded. But regular viewers of Braden's Week cherish the Saturday-night encounters between Williamson and the juniors which led one charmed reviewer to describe him as 'Puck among the fairies.'
Some of the best moments he shared with children are introduced by Bernard Braden in the first of two programmes.
Tonight: The school nativity play, kosher food, living in houses, boy friends, how to be strong...
