9.10 11: Continuous Change

9.35 12: Calculating Change

Bert Foord looks at the weekend weather

Comedy, adventure, cartoons

featuring International Rugby Union: England v The President's Overseas XV
BBC outside broadcast cameras bring you the whole of this gala international occasion at Twickenham where the world's greatest players take part in a unique match to celebrate the Centenary of the Rugby Football Union.
Introduced by Frank Bough

12.50* Football Preview
Sam Leitch introduces action, personalities, and the latest news of today's matches.

1.5; 1.35* International Fight of the Week: Jack Bodell (Former British Heavyweight Champion) v Manuel Ramos (Mexico)
Highlights of this heavyweight contest at Wolverhampton, an important date for Bodell, who meets British champion Joe Bugner later this year. Plus another top fight from this week's outstanding bill.

1.25; 1.50; 2.20* Racing from Newbury
1.30 St Anne's Stakes (over 5 furlongs)
2.0 Greenham Stakes (over 7 furlongs)
2.30 Newbury Spring Cup (Handicap) (over 1 mile)

2.40* International Rugby Union from Twickenham: England v The President's Overseas XV
The President's XV is drawn from a pool of players representing five of the world's great Rugby Union sides - the French, the Fijians, the Springboks, the Wallabies and the All-Blacks.
Before the match HM The Queen will unveil a Centenary Plaque at Twickenham; the teams will then be presented on the pitch.
With summaries by Cliff Morgan
(Rugby Special, BBC2 6.20; RFU Centenary Dinner BBC2 11.5)

4.50* Results Service

Grandstand Timetable:
12.50 Football preview
1.5 Boxing
1.25 Racing
1.35 Boxing
1.59 Racing
2.5 Sports Round-Up
2.20 Racing
2.40 Rugby Union
4.49 Teleprinter
4.50 Results Service
Timings are subject to alteration in order to keep up to date with events.

Tom and Jerry playing cat and mouse.

Starring Robert Young, Randolph Scott

The year 1861 and Western Union are constructing the Omaha-Salt Lake City stretch of what is to be the first transcontinental telegraph system in the US. Opposition comes not only from Sioux Indians but also from a group of renegade Southerners.
(This Week's Films: page 9)

Criminal investigator extraordinary.
A film series starring Raymond Burr as Robert Ironside, Don Galloway as Det-Sgt Brown, Barbara Anderson as Officer Eve Whitfield, Don Mitchell as Mark Sanger,
with guest stars Tina Louise, John Ericson

The driver of a lone car on a highway at night stops to pick up a hitchhiker. What follows then is a nightmare fight for survival against an unknown murderer. And back at Ironside's headquarters there is growing concern for Mark who is long overdue in returning from an out-of-town holiday...

(Colour)

with John Edmunds
and Weather

Bernard Braden takes a sideways look at the week and a cautionary look at the people who take us for a ride: with John Pitman, Esther Rantzen, Ronald Fletcher
Song of the week Iris Williams
Children Talking: Harold Williamson
Hilary Pritchard and Chris Munds