A second start in mathematics
Introduced by Alan Tammadge

Twenty-six programmes for beginners in Italian
With Bianca Maria Corbella, Yole Marinelli, Luigi Basagaluppi, Alberto Colzi

by Professor George Porter from The Royal Institution, London
Young travellers from the audience enter our Time Machine to become Dr Who for a while and discover whether we can reverse the flow of time.

Jack Scott: the weekend weather

Introduced by Frank Bough

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

1.10* Fight of the Week: Peter Cragg, Luton v Chris Jobson, East Ham
Highlights of this 10-round fight at Shoreditch Town Hall between two leading welterweights.

1.40; 2.40; 4.30* Rallycross
The first meeting of a new series of this exciting and spectacular motor sport. Britain's leading drivers compete at Lydden for the W.D. & H.O. Wills Trophy; and for the first time, a special competition to find Britain's top woman rallycross driver.
(Organised by the Thames Estuary Automobile Club)

1.50; 2.20; 2.50; 3.20* Racing at Kempton Park
2.0 October Handicap Hurdle (over 3 miles)
2.30 W.D. & H.O. Wills Premier Steeplechase (over 21 miles)
3.0 Saffron Tartan Handicap Steeplechase (over 3 miles)
3.30 Furious Handicap Hurdle (over 2 miles)

2.10; 3.10* The Wylye Horse Trials
Britain's leading three-day-event riders compete at Wylye in the show-jumping and cross-country sections of the Midland Bank Open Championship.

3.40* Rugby Union: A Welsh XV v The RFU President's XV
Outside broadcast cameras bring you the second half of this celebration match to mark the official opening of the National Rugby Stadium at Cardiff Arms Park. Wales are joint holders of the international championship with France, who are providing four players for today's President's XV
(Also in Rugby Special; BBC2, 8.15 pm)

4.50* Results Service

Grandstand Timetable:
1.10 Boxing; 1.40 Rallycross: 1.50 Racing; 2.10 Horse Trials; 2.20 Racing; 2.40 Rallycross; 2.5: Racing; 3.10 Horse Trials; 3.20 Racing; 3.40 Rugby Union; 4.30 Rallycross; 4.40 Teleprinter

Timings are subject to alteration.

A cartoon film series presenting the optimistic, indestructible panther who is permanently in-the-pink and The Inspector with unquenchable joie de vivre who hardly ever gets his man.
A triple helping of comic fantasy.
Today: Pink Pest Control; Tour de Farce; Pink-a-Boo

Lucille Ball stars as Lucy Carter
with her children Desi Arnaz Jr and Lucie as Craig and Kim, Gale Gordon as the long-suffering Harrison (Uncle Harry) Carter

Lucy and Johnny Carson - a surprise prize, going for a song!

Presenting from Scotland the last in the series of programmes featuring international artists with songs from many lands.

Appearing tonight: Rod McKuen, Matthews Southern Comfort, The Islanders, Jade and Ethna Campbell

Born 36 years ago in California, McKuen is a solitary singer-composer in the French tradition. He has written best-selling books of poetry, scored movie themes like The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and sung his own hit songs like 'If you go away.'
Says McKuen: 'The written word is poetry if it illuminates life a bit.'
with the BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra, leader Ian Tyre, conductor Iain Sutherland

Tonight's presentation in this season of feature films starring Michael Rennie, Claude Rains, Fernando Lamas
with Jill St John, David Hedison

Stranger than the wildest science-fiction dreams is the land of 'the lost world' where Professor Challenger and his party encounter terrifying prehistoric monsters.
This exciting story of the expedition's perilous journey is based on Conan Doyle's famous story.
(This Week's Films: page 14)

Harry's guests tonight include: Roy Castle
Special guest star Mary Hopkin
with Julian Orchard

The fifth in a series of the famous Aldwych Farces adapted for TV by Ben Travers
[Starring] Arthur Lowe and Richard Briers
with guest stars Megs Jenkins, Frank Thornton

(Richard Briers is appearing in "The Two of Us" at the Garrick Theatre, London)

with Robert Dougall
and Weather

Esther Rantzen reports on A Weekend in Dorset

This is the story of a sunny weekend this summer. It is also a love story - almost a 1970 version of Romeo and Juliet.
A family live in a cottage near the New Forest. They have two daughters: Fiona, the older, lives trendily in London. Jan, the younger, is in love with a boy who is not approved of by her parents. They are comfortably off - he is a garage mechanic. It could happen in any family.

The end of the story is unexpected - perhaps because it happened in 1970, or perhaps because it is a true story, it doesn't end quite like Romeo and Juliet. It begins one Friday night, with Jan packing up to leave home.
(Behind the client - what the Generation Gap really means: page 3)