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Jack Scott looks at the weekend weather

Starring Ed Stewart with Zed
and special guests Sounds Incorporated

That mixed-up robot ZED, and his humanoid master Ed Stewart, return with another EdandZed! show. There's the usual 'Ed the Eminent Expert' mystery, the last episode of The Wizard of Oz, and some super music from that popular group Sounds Incorporated. And of course, ZED socks it to you with some more jokes from his Family Funbook!

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*; 2.45* Racing from Cheltenham
1.15 Coventry Steeplechase (over 3 miles and 1 furlong)
1.45 Chaplin Handicap Hurdle Race (over 2 miles and 200 yards)
2.20 Mackeson Gold Cup Handicap Chase (over 21 miles)
The biggest steeplechase of the season so far, with £5,000 of prize money at stake.
2.55 Bob Wigney Handicap Hurdle Race (over 3 miles)

1.25* Fight of the Week: The Heavyweight Championship of Europe: Jose Urtain (Champion of Europe and Spain) v Henry Cooper (British Heavyweight Champion)
Highlights of the week's big fight at the Empire Pool, Wembley.

1.55*; 2.30*; 3.5*; 4.30* Motor-Racing from Thruxton
Featuring the final round of the Forward Trust Championship for Formula 3 drivers, and special saloon car and sports car events.
Can the Brazilian driver Carlos Pace, driving a Lotus 59 Holbay and currently in the lead, hold off the challenge of the Australian David Walker, also in a Lotus 59 Holbay, to gain the coveted Forward Trust Trophy?
Organised by the BARC

3.40* International Rugby Union from Twickenham: An England XV v Fiji
BBC outside broadcast cameras bring you the second half of today's big match, in which the Fijians, with their exciting, uninhibited rugby, meet the cream of England's young players, all of whom are under the age of 25.
(Highlights in Rugby Special: tonight at 7.40, BBC2)

4.50* Results Service

Grandstand Timetable:
12.50 Football preview
1.10 Racing
1.25 Fight of the Week
1.40 Racing
1.55 Motor-racing
2.10 Racing
2.30 Motor-racing
2.45 Racing
3.5 Motor-racing
3.40 Rugby Union
4.30 Motor-racing
4.50 Results Service
Timings are subject to alteration in order to keep up to date with events.

A cartoon film series presenting the optimistic, indestructible panther who is permanently in-the-pink.
A double helping of comic fantasy.
Today: Pink Sphinx, The Pink Phink

And if it's Derek Nimmo expect the unexpected as he talks, entertains, and welcomes his guests - including you.

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

Written by Eric Paice
Created by Ted Willis
Starring Jack Warner
The first programme in a new series, placed at its familiar time on Saturday night.

A Panda Car fails to report in and a policeman is missing. But what kind of man is PC Norman and is he the victim of a gang attack, an accident or something even more menacing? Dock Green police find themselves operating in strange surroundings.

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 Jack Jones, Tom Paxton, Caterina Valente
with Bibi Johns
Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra

The British premiere of a feature film specially made for TV.
Popular TV Western star Lorne Greene switches roles to play a reluctant and disillusioned Russian spy ordered to London to persuade a top British scientist to defect.
The film was made on location in London last year.
(This Week's Films: page 11)

with Richard Baker
and Weather

Bernard Braden left Canada 20 years ago and he has worked in England ever since.
This summer he went back to British Columbia to see how his old friends and his old haunts had changed.
Small Town Beginnings is the second of two very personal reports about the world Braden grew up in.