Fourth day
Coverage up to the lunch interval from Lord's
Direct from Launch pad 39 A at Cape Kennedy, the last crucial preparations and checks before the scheduled lift-off of the most heavily laden Apollo Spacecraft ever: America's first manned mission to the highest mountain ranges of the Moon.
Blast-off due at 2.34 pm London time: 9.34 am at Cape Kennedy
With the Apollo 15 crew: Col David R. Scott, USA The Mission Commander; Lt Col James B. Irwin, USAF Lunar Module Pilot, and Major Alfred M. Worden, USAF Command Module Pilot interviewed in Houston before the Mission by James Burke.
With him in the London space studio Patrick Moore, Wg Cdr Tony Nicholson from the RAF Medical Branch, Geoffrey Pardoe, Director of Space Projects, Hawker Siddeley
Presented in conjunction with NASA, ASU and the US Networks
(Moon Buggy: pages 8 and 9)
(Colour)
with Ronnie Corbett
'A most improper story to tell young children' bristled the aunt. 'You have undermined the effect of years of careful teaching.' 'At any rate,' said the man, collecting his belongings and leaving the carriage, 'I kept them quiet for ten minutes - which was more than you were able to do.'
Ronnie Corbett will tell you the story that kept three noisy children from making a hullabaloo on a long train journey. It's called The Storyteller by 'Saki'
Question-Master Jonathan Dimbleby
A knock-out quiz with teams of boys and girls from all over the country.
This week: Oxford v Norwich
When a world-famous Big Game Hunter gets on his trail, Yogi decides he'd prefer to be somewhere else.
A film series in 12 parts
Encouraged by Sylvia, Sebastian devotes himself to the preparation of Monseigneur for the big race.
A cartoon series about the adventures of the two comedy stars.
Highlights of this afternoon's Apollo 15 Blast-off en route for the Apennine mountains of the Moon. And live pictures from space of the crucial docking manoeuvre that caused so much anxiety on the last Moon shot, Apollo 14.
Docking due at 6.4 pm
Introduced by James Burke with the BBC Apollo Team
People, places and events in the news around town
(The weekday news magazine at 6.0 varies regionally)
...Where jaguars roam, free from the threat of skin collectors, and Indians are protected from civilisation if not from their neighbouring head-hunters. Peru has plans for development and colonisation that will alter the face of the country, but conservationists have persuaded the government to set aside at least one patch of the wilderness.
(From Bristol)
(First shown on BBC2)
Written by Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie with Tim Brooke-Taylor
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
Special guest Liz Fraser
with Mollie Sugden, Queenie Watts, Ericka Crowne, Bert Simms, Ernest Jennings
Television's top reporters close in on the most interesting topics of the day
Robin Day, Michael Charlton, Nicholas Harman, Alan Hart, Richard Kershaw, Robert MacNeil, Julian Pettifer
Presented this week by Robert Dougall
Weather
by David Hopkins
Starring Patrick Allen
with Hannah Gordon, Robin Bailey, Frederick Bartman, Michael Hawkins, Fulton Mackay, Patrick Newell, Richard Vernon and Noel Willman
Brett in prison faces a new charge and finds himself in another Court.
A daily look at what matters in the news and out of it
Presented by Kenneth Allsop with the latest news in pictures and with on-the-spot reports by Bernard Falk, Max Hastings, James Hogg, David Lomax, Tom Mangold, Barrie Penrose and David Taylor with special contributions from Keith Kyle and Robert McKenzie
(Colour)
David Vine introduces eight programmes for people who want to improve their swimming.
With Ray Cayless of the ASA
From the Loughborough College of Education
(all except London and Wales)
Closedown