Commentary by Paul Barnes
(Colour)

Today's main-line trains run on masterpieces of 19th-century engineering.
Presented by O. S. Nock

Another look at this Horizon documentary on Edison's life and achievements.

(Shown on Sunday at 10.0 am)
(Colour)

With Robert Langley
and Weatherman Graham Parker

(Colour)

2.0 The Private Life of the Great Crested Grebe
(Colour)

2.30 Twentieth-Century Focus: Sweet Charity
Why do we need charities in a welfare state?

Introduced by Cliff Michelmore

(Colour)

with Lesley Nunnerley
Today: The Church Mouse
Written and drawn by Graham Oakley

Michael Rodd introduces the first edition of a new series of this popular film quiz game of observation and general knowledge.
This week the contestants come from Scarborough and York and will be looking at scenes from "The Great Race", "Dumbo", and "Young Winston".
The making of "The Cowboys" with John Wayne is featured in a special filmed report.

(from Manchester)
(Colour)

with Richard Baker; Weather

(including Regional Weather)
Presented by Michael Barratt, Frank Bough and Bob Wellings
(Regional details as Monday)

[Starring] Peter Graves as Jim Phelps, Greg Morris as Barney, Peter Lupus as Willy, Lynda Day George as Casey

This week: Blind
Phelps is voluntarily deprived of his sight!

by Elwyn Jones
[Starring] Frank Windsor as Det Chief Supt Watt, John Franklyn Robbins as Det-Supt Adler, David Lloyd Meredith as Det-Sgt Evans, Terence Rigby as PC Snow, Grahame Mallard as PC Nesbitt
with Walter Gotell as Chief Con Cullen

Change creates uncertainty. A shake-up in No 1 Task Force causes PC Snow to think carefully about himself and his future.

with Robert Dougall and Richard Whitmore
Weather

Cup Soccer, The All Blacks, International Boxing
Introduced by David Coleman

International Rugby Union: Midland Counties v The All Blacks
from the Mosley RUFC, Birmingham.
Another midweek look at the famous New Zealand tourists.

International Boxing
John H. Stracey (Bethnal Green) billed as the 'uncrowned British welterweight champion' after his highly controversial losing verdict against champion Bobby Arthur, meets Dave Melendez, a New York-based Puerto Rican. From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party
(Also on BBC2)

Soccer action from one of tonight's Football League Cup semi-final ties.
(Sports Personality coupon: page 20)

The Politics of Despair
A report on the secret Palestinian guerrilla group responsible for the most violent acts of international terrorism. Who are the men who planned murder, hi-jacking and sabotage in seven countries, and the massacre at the Munich Olympics? And what can we expect in the future?
Tom Mangold presents the results of a special inquiry in the Middle East and Europe.

and Weather

starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Ronald Reagan, Clu Gulager

This adaptation of Hemingway's famous story, "The Killers" is a gripping and terrifying portrait of greed and criminal violence at the surface of American society.

(This Week's Films: page 11)
(Colour)

James Burke tells the story of America's manned exploration of space; the film shows the successes and the failures, and tells why tonight's blast-off will probably be the last time man goes to the Moon this century.

The last minutes of the countdown before the last manned mission to the moon lifts off from Cape Kennedy for the mountains of Taurus Littrow.

James Burke and Patrick Moore report the spectacular night launch live from the pad at Cape Kennedy.
With them Astronaut James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 and, looking forward to today's flight, the crew of Apollo 17: Commander Gene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ron Evans and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison H. Schmitt

Launch due: 02.53 GMT