by Kate Seredy
with Sandor Eles

with Norman Tozer

A new series of documentary films that examines the life and work of men and women whose job is to entertain the public.
Today's programme is on home ground at the BBC Television Centre.

The Hurons take to the war-path

With Gojko Mitic, Rolf Romer, Lilo Grahn, Helmut Schreiber, Jurgen Frohriep, Andrea Drahota, Horst Preusker, Karl Zugowski

The news, features, opinions of the country at large, and Your Region Tonight in particular (including Regional Weather) co-ordinated by Michael Barratt

The exploits of a team of expert and daring undercover agents.
[Starring] Peter Graves as Jim Phelps
with Leonard Nimoy as Paris, Greg Morris as Barney, Peter Lupus as Willy

This week: The Catafalque
The action the team takes is enough to raise the dead.

Robert Robinson takes a look at September 1952.
Tragedy at Farnborough: John Derry's DHllO jet fighter crashed killing 27 people and injuring 63. In the USA the Eisenhower/Nixon campaign for the White House flourished. And at the BBC officials decided to drop the announcers' goodnight smile.
"What this programme is doing for ten minutes, once a week, is clobbering us with our changing world..." (The Guardian)

Presented by Richard Baker
Weather

Dad's Army: The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones

by Jimmy Perry and David Croft
Starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
featuring John Laurie as Pte Frazer, James Beck as Pte Walker, Arnold Ridley as Pte Godfrey, Ian Lavender as Pte Pike

Our heroes add an armoured car to their fighting strength.

and Clive Dunn's Cinema
Clive Dunn talks to Michael Aspel about his career as television's famous old man and about his life 'in civvies.'
He also chooses scenes from some of his favourite films including those directed by Bo Widerberg and Ken Russell.
(From Manchester)

with the latest news in pictures

Max Hastings reports from Belfast on a typical morning in the city, in the aftermath of the introduction of internment. Show more

Mars is at its closest to earth since 1956, and American and Russian probes are on their way to map it and send back scientific information.
Patrick Moore discusses with Dr Geoffrey Eglinton the ambitious Viking mission, now in preparation to soft-land a space craft on the red planet in 1975. The mission which may at last answer the question: Is there life on Mars?

Introduced by Bernard Venables

This week: Bream
Float fishing on canal waters in Somerset on a late summer's day.

(all except London and Wales)
Closedown