9.38 Countdown: Lucky Jim
Heads you watch, tails you listen to Alex Glasgow
With Sally Thomsett, John Arthur Baron, Louis Selwyn, and Ray Mort

10.0 Merry-go-Round: Sea and Shore: 1: Movement

10.25-10.45 USA 72: New York
Cab driver in Manhattan traffic jam - 'We paid those Indians 24 bucks for this place. I guess they swindled us.'
(Colour)

11.5 A Year's Journey: London and its River

11.30 New Horizons: George Orwell

2.5 Words and Pictures: Sam on Boffs' Island: Part 1
by Michael Rosen
A play with puppets, for young readers.
(Colour)

2.25 Going to Work: What Kind of Job?

2.50 Maths Today: Year 2: New Numbers from Old

3.13 Look Out: More than Meets the Eye
Eyes and they see not... but 'what things look like' is only part of their design; we have to look beneath surface appearances to discover how design decisions are made.
Introduced by Alex Glasgow

(Colour)

A programme for children under 5
Story: "Id's Idea" by Jean Watson
Presenters this week: Chloe Ashcroft, Gordon Griffin

by Alf Proysen
with Thora Hird

Mrs Pepperpot had the habit of shrinking to the size of a pepperpot at the most awkward moments. Therefore, an outing in the country couldn't possibly be an ordinary one.

Thora Hird's choice: page 5
(Next week: "Albert" with Harry Fowler)
(Colour)

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

A Muppetland Special
An RLP/Henson Associates production

News and opinions from the country at large and, in particular, Your Region Tonight
(including Regional Weather)
With TUC leader Vic Feather in a live on-the-spot confrontation with viewers about his approach to industrial relations.
Presented by Michael Barratt, Frank Bough and Bob Wellings

with Geoffrey Wheeler

Teams from Edmonton, Halifax and Winnipeg take on the best from Britain, with teams from Banbury, Llanelli and Manchester. Nine games are played to establish a league champion, with a tenth 'All Stars' match.

by Allan Prior
Starring James Ellis, John Slater, Gary Watson, Ian Cullen
with Geoffrey Hayes, Allan O'Keefe, Stephanie Turner

'Inspector Connor's on trial... so is Stone... and the entire Newtown police...'
(BBC1 People: page 4)

is published this week.
Tonight Panorama explores the world of Francis Aungier Pakenham, seventh Earl of Longford. Born a Protestant, Tory, Anglo-Irish aristocrat, he is now a Socialist, a Roman Catholic and an Irish Nationalist. He has been a writer, banker, publisher, social worker and cabinet minister.
Panorama looks at the man who sees it as his Christian duty to clean up Britain.

(Porn and cheapened sex: page 11)
(Colour)

with Richard Baker; Weather

by Jeremy Burnham
with Roddy McMillan as Pike

Pike has his hands full sorting the hawks from the doves.

Joan Bakewell previews and reviews the new films including Claude Chabrol's Ten Days' Wonder starring Orson Welles.
Ray Connolly reports on D. A. Pennebaker's film Keep On Rockin'.

This new 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
Contenders Mary Grummitt, Dr Michael Dewar, Vera Gallagher, Patrick Maher
Interrogator Magnus Magnusson

There may once have been in the solar system an extra planet, destroyed in the remote past and producing the fragments we now know as asteroids.
Patrick Moore talks about the 'missing' planet and its possible connection with the numerical relationship known as Bode's Law, which has puzzled astronomers for generations.

Commentary spoken by Ian Holm

(A BBC and NDR-Hamburg co-production)
(First shown on BBC2)
(Colour)

followed by Regional News and Weather, Closedown