(Colour)

(Colour)

by Morris Lurie
with John Le Mesurier

'In that silly red suit,' roared Arlo's father, 'you will be seen for miles and miles. You'll end up like Uncle Cecil - in a zoo!'

(Colour)

with Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

A Muppetland Special

and Weather

News and opinions from the country at large and, in particular, Your Region Tonight
(including Regional Weather)
presented by Michael Barratt, Frank Bough and Bob Wellings

(Frank Bough's life: page 3. Regional details as Friday)

with Geoffrey Wheeler

Teams from Edmonton, Halifax, and Winnipeg take on teams from Banbury, Llanelli, Manchester.

by Bill Barron
Starring James Ellis, John Slater, Gary Watson, Ian Cullen

Fred Connor - the new Detective Inspector. Unfinished business - with a villain named Bright...

(Jessie Evans is in "Canterbury Tales" at the Phoenix Theatre, London)

TV's top reporters close in on the most interesting topics of the day.
Michael Charlton, Alan Hart, Francis Hope, Richard Kershaw, Julian Pettifer, Alan Watson

(BBC1 People: page 4)
(Colour)

with Richard Baker; Weather

by Edward Boyd
with Roddy McMillan as Pike

When Michael Holmes goes missing from a squad of Irish tattie-howkers working as sweated labour, Pike is commissioned to find him. A dangerous business when you are working for Philomena Hawley.
(First shown on BBC2)
(Roddy McMillan's Choice: page 5)

Joan Bakewell reviews Ken Russell's latest film "Savage Messiah", and "Prime Cut" starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman.
Frederic Raphael looks at a new biography of Tallulah Bankhead.

This new and exciting brain game invites contenders to take the stand and defend their claim to the title of Mastermind of the United Kingdom.
They have two minutes in which to establish their knowledge of a chosen subject with a further two minutes to consolidate their position by answering questions right across the board.
Tonight's programme comes from The University of Liverpool
(Repeated: Wednesday 3.35 pm)
(Well, what do you know?: page 12)

Forest Hills, long established as one of the world's major championships, has a double significance in 1972. As a result of the recent agreements between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the World Championship Tennis Organisation, this tournament brings together the world's leading independent and contracted professionals for the first time for more than a year.
Television presentation by CBS