Today's Watch with Mother
(Colour)
9.38 Discovering Science: How Do Animals Live?
10.0 Merry-go-Round: The Baobab Tree: Part 2
adapted from Alan and Joan Root's film Baobab
Commentary spoken by David Attenborough
10.25-10.40 Words and Pictures: A: The Boy Without a Name
by Glynn Christian
[Repeat]
11.0-11.20 A Year's Journey: City of Liverpool
Introduced by Eric Simms
(Colour)
11.30 Television Club: Kid's Stuff
Presented by David Freeland and Anne Gale
Today's Watch with Mother
2.5 Maths Today: Year 1: Thinking Clearly
2.28 Going to Work: Model Girl
2.50 Maths Workshop: Stage 2: Putting Two Together
Get fit, look fit, and stay fit with Sue Becker
A programme for children under 5
by John Grant
with John Grant
Some new stories about Littlenose, the boy who lived in a cave long, long ago. Littlenose didn't go to school but he had to learn how to hunt, to throw a spear and to track animals. Yet somehow things always seemed to go wrong.
(Colour)
with Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Peter Purves
A cartoon series starring the Ant Hill Mob and that archvillain, the Hooded Claw.
The varied adventures of Hector the Dog and Zaza the Cat, not forgetting next-door-neighbour Mrs Kiki Frog.
and Weather
People, places and events in the news around town.
'The Galloping Gourmet' Graham Kerr takes a lighthearted look at one of his favourite recipes and cooks it with an expert eye.
This week: Vacherin
(A series of programmes made in Canada)
(Book 2, 50p: see page 58)
with David Vine featuring 50 years of world sporting action
Henry Cooper and Bobby Moore captain two teams of sporting celebrities who will be trying to identify and answer questions about some of the most famous incidents, events and personalities in the history of sport.
The teams this week:
Henry Cooper, Peter Alliss, Roy McFarland
v
Bobby Moore, Alison Dawes, Ivan Mauger
(from Manchester)
(Competition: page 12)
by David Ellis
Starring James Ellis, John Collin, John Slater, Douglas Fielding
Haggar is back in Newtown, and he's at a loose end... so he finds trouble - in a pub.
Television's top reporters close in on the most interesting topics of the day.
Michael Charlton, Nicholas Harman, Alan Hart, Richard Kershaw, Julian Pettifer
Presented by Robert Dougall
Weather
by Richard Daniel
Starring Christopher Cazenove, John Hallam
Richard and James take leave in Capetown and the Gaunts are united for Christmas. But the reunion leads to disaster - both for the family and the Regiment.
A new series starring Milo O'Shea and written by Hugh Leonard
with David Kelly
This week: The Culchie
Presented all this week by Austin Mitchell
The second of two programmes in which Alan Byde, from Oxford, builds a canoe in glass fibre.
Introduced by John Earle
followed by Regional News and Weather, Closedown