Songs of Praise
1.25 Interval
Today's Watch with Mother
by J.B.S. Haldane
with Milo O'Shea
(Colour)
Another of the popular 'Mole' cartoons from Czechoslovakia.
When the gardener watches a TV programme about how to get rid of moles Mr Mole has to act fast to protect himself and his home.
by Margaret Potter
The true story of Turpin, the famous highwayman, and the legend of the horse he is supposed to have ridden to York.
Dick portrayed by Colin Edwynn
(from Manchester)
The first of an action-packed cartoon series, starring Meadow Lark, Curly and the rest of the Zany, world-famous basketball team.
The Globetrotters have to take a hand when ex-Hollywood star Reggie Lovermore tries to make a big come-back to the screen.
The news, features, opinions of the country at large, and Your Region Tonight in particular (including Regional Weather) co-ordinated by Michael Barratt
by Peter Grimwade
Starring James Ellis, John Slater, Derek Waring
with Ian Cullen and Douglas Fielding
An informant - like Liam Murphy - can be useful, if you're an experienced copper. If you're not...
The last of three films featuring one of the phenomenal successes of show business - Elvis Presley also starring Julie Adams, Jocelyn Lane, Jack Mullaney
An out-of-work rodeo star gets a job on a health farm for models and film starlets - and predictably sets the female hearts aflutter.
Elvis finds himself kept busy protecting the pretty PT instructress from mysterious kidnappers - but still sings plenty of songs in the forceful Presley style.
(This Week's Films: page 11)
Presented by Richard Baker
Weather
East of Suez for Jack Briggs means the oil-rich Sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf. Twenty years a policeman, along the shores of the Gulf he has found the most exotic beat in the world. This ex-PC from Blackpool is now Commandant of Police to Sheik Rashid Bin Maktum, the Ruler of Dubai.
Soon the last of the British garrisons and British administrators in the Middle East will be leaving the Persian Gulf. The remaining British Protectorates there will emerge from the shadows of the Empire on which the sun has set - seven tiny desert sheikdoms of which Dubai is one. But there will still be jobs for British administrators and policemen East of Suez - men like Jack Briggs.
Tonight's film is about an Arab Sheik, his British policeman and the patch of desert they both love and for which they both feel deeply responsible.
Written and narrated by Jim Douglas Henry
An invitation to step into the humorous and imaginative world of James Thurber
[Starring] William Windom as John Monroe, Joan Hotchkis as his wife Ellen, Lisa Gerritsen as his daughter Lydia
Old soldiers never die so they say, neither do old jokes, and if one is armed with enough you are bound to win a laughing contest. Aren't you?
Robert Robinson dips into the BBC's mailbag and adds a few comments of his own.
(Colour)
Presented by David Dimbleby with the latest news in pictures
(all except London and Wales)
Closedown
