9.38 Countdown: Aids to Calculation
Presented by Alex Glasgow
With Helen Cole, Peter Cameron, Marilyn McMahon, Mandy Diaz and Kenneth Kerr

10.0 Merry-go-Round: How It Works: 1: Holes
Introduced by Richard Carpenter

10.25-10.45 USA 72: North Dakota
Commentary by Denis Tuohy
(Colour)

11.5 A Year's Journey: The Apple Harvest

11.30 New Horizons: Ernest Hemingway

Introduced by Alan Watson
(Book £1.25: see page 59)

Welsh League of Youth report

Anything can happen in this daily half-hour of people, views and music - in other words, entertainment.
It will happen in the entrance hall of the Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham where Robert Langley will be welcoming the guests, people in the headlines and you - viewers who have something to say or do.

(Colour)

2.5 Words and Pictures: Sam on Boffs' Island: Part 3
by Michael Rosen
with Tony Robinson, Judy Bennett
(Colour)

2.25 Going to Work: Department Store

2.50 Maths Today: Year 2: More New Numbers

3.13 Look Out: A Man is 1.725 Metres Tall

3.35 Twentieth-Century Focus: The Nutfield Road Irregulars
A small community is threatened by redevelopment. How can it make an effective protest?

(Colour)

with Jonathan Routh

Seven Nuns - that's what this week's stories are all about. They are very good and spend nearly all their time helping people. They also spend just a little of their time playing. And each year they go to a different place for their holiday...

(Colour)

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

An adventure serial in 13 parts by N.J. Crisp

John's father has disappeared and the police don't seem interested. John and Susan decide to solve the mystery for themselves, but they don't know someone is watching them, all the time...

(Colour)

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 Weilings

by Leslie Duxbury
Starring James Ellis, John Slater, Ian Cullen
with Graham Armitage, John Swindells, Nicholas Smith

The new Inspector arrives - Ralph Edward Pratt - spruce as a pocket-hankie and dripping self-confidence...

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

(Colour)

with Richard Baker; Weather

by Terry Nation
Starring Robert Hardy, Julian Holloway, John Rhys-Davies

A fear so real, it can kill. A fear so old, it defies reason. A fear which Baldick must overcome - or be smothered by his own terror....
(Postponed from 6 September)

from the Horse of the Year Show at the Empire Pool, Wembley.
The special blend of good-natured rivalry and top class competition which are the hallmarks of this great annual Show provide competitors and spectators alike with the chance to participate in the equestrian world's great end of season climax.
In tonight's special Gala Performance the featured class is the Butlin Championship.

(Colour)

New information about Mars is being received from the American space-probe Mariner 9. Patrick Moore and Arthur Cross talk about what this means, and show some of the new charts of the crater-scarred Martian surface.

Commentary spoken by Ian Holm

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

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