A second start in mathematics
(For publication see page 13)

Twenty-six programmes for beginners in Italian

Bert Foord looks at the weekend weather

Starring Ed Stewart with Zed
and special guests White Plains
From Radio 1 to BBC1 in one easy jump! Ed Stewart joins his robot assistant Zed for the first of a new series of comedy programmes with a large measure of pop music. You'll be meeting 'Ed the Eminent Expert' who will invite you to solve a mystery with him, and pay a visit to Ed's Electric Kinema to see an excerpt from The Wizard of Oz. And of course, you'll meet Zed, specially hired to assist Ed to run the show smoothly - at least, that's the intention - but Zed has other ideas!

featuring the Rugby League World Cup: Great Britain v Australia
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*; 1.40*; 2.10* International Table Tennis: England v Japan
For the JAL Trophy
The strongest team in the world including the reigning world singles champions Shigeo Ito and Miss Toshika Kowada in action against England's top players, Denis Neale (Yorkshire), Chester Barnes (Essex), and Pauline Piddock (Kent). Highlights of this best-of-seven match at the Central Hall, Birmingham.

1.20*; 1.50*; 2.20* Racing from Newbury
1.30 The Hedge Hopper's Novices' Hurdle Race (Div 1) (over 2 miles)
2.0 The Hermitage Steeplechase (over 21 miles)
2.30 The St Simon Stakes (over 11 miles)

2.35*; 4.30* International Swimming: The Bologna Trophy from the Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh.
Britain's major swimmers compete in this annual triangular match between Scotland, England and Wales - the final major swimming event of the season.

2.55* International Rugby League: The 1970 World Cup: Great Britain v Australia from Headingley
BBC outside broadcast cameras bring you the whole of Great Britain's opening match, in which they face the reigning World Champions, competing for the V & G trophy
Joining Great Britain and Australia in this seven-match World Cup Tournament are New Zealand and France. The competition is run on a League basis (two points for a win, one for a draw) and the top two meet in the final at Headingley in two weeks' time when the whole match will be covered in Grandstand.

4.50* Results Service

Grandstand Timetable:
12.50 Football preview
1.10 Table Tennis from Birmingham
1.20 Racing from Newbury
1.40 Table Tennis from Birmingham
1.50 Racing from Newbury
2.10 Rugby League preview/Table Tennis
2.20 Racing from Newbury
2.35 Swimming from Edinburgh
2.55 Rugby League: Great Britain v Australia
4.30 Swimming from Edinburgh
4.40 Teleprinter
4.50 Results Service
Timings are subject to alteration in order to keep up to date with events.
(Eddie Waring's 10 out of 12: see page 9)

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 Panic, Transylvania Mania, An Ounce of Pink

And if it's Derek Nimmo expect the unexpected as he talks, entertains, and welcomes his guests-including you.
"This is my great opportunity to prove that I do have a couple of good suits under all those cassocks"

(Derek Nimmo is appearing in "Charlie Girl" at the Adelphi Theatre, London)

Tonight's presentation in this season of feature films with action, spectacle and excitement, stars Jeff Chandler, Dorothy Malone, Ward Bond, Keith Andes, Lee Marvin

In Oregon, Chief Kamiakin and his tribe have been converted to Christianity but this does not prevent him going to war when the us Army start to build a road through their treaty-given land. In the ensuing battle both sides have to re-assess the strength of their Christian ideals.
(This Week's Films: page 9)

Starring Rolf Harris
with The Young Generation: Heather Beckers, Marie Betts, Ann Chapman, Jackie Dalton, Denise Fone, Carol Forbes, Lynda Herbert, Carolyn Heywood, Linda Jolliff, Kay Korda, Linda Lawrence, Cheryl Matthews, Sandy Penson, Susan Toogood, Wei Wei Wong, Bobby Bannerman, Iain Burton, Chris Cooper, Roger Finch, Richard Gough, Chris Hennen, Harry Higham, Roger Howlett, Nigel Lythgoe, Colin Pilditch, Jeremy Robinson, Brian Rogers, Donald Torr, Kenneth Warwick, Trevor Willis

Guest artists Charles Aznavour, Cilla Black, Hines, Hines and Dad with Bibi Johns
Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra
(A BBCtv/ZDF co-production)
(Rolf Harris: a long way from Coojeebear, page 6)

Adapted for TV by Ben Travers
[Starring] Arthur Lowe and Richard Briers
with guest stars Irene Handl, Terence Alexander, Jill Melford

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

with Richard Baker
and Weather

John Pitman reports on: A Village in Derbyshire
Paddy Lane is 18 and feels trapped in his village - Doe Lea, a mining community cut off by the M1. As far as he's concerned, Doe Lea is dead and the only answer is to get away.
It takes guts to pull up your roots and most of the villagers don't think Paddy will make it. After all, nobody in Doe Lea has ever done it before.