Before 1923 Britain had more than 120 railway companies.
Presented by Hamilton Ellis

The reality of communication in action, here set in a modern electronics factory in Dorset.

Miss Cross's club for the elderly in Teignmouth, Devon.

Light entertainment

With Robert Langley
and Weatherman Keith Best

(Colour)

Introduced by Arthur Negus
Dorothy Doughty - a porcelain designer and modeller.
Commentary by Desmond Hawkins
(From Bristol; first shown on BBC2)

2.25 The Kineton Handicap Steeple Chase: with £850 added to a sweep-stakes (over 2m and a few yds)
2.55 The Tony Teacher Challenge Trophy Handicap Steeple Chase: a plate of £1050 (over 3m, 1f and a few yds)
3.25 The Bristol Long Distance Novices' Hurdle Race Division II: a plate of £500 (over 3m and a few yds)

(Colour)

by Alfred Bradley

Mr Johnson will never forget the dreadful day Stan and Joe came to work at his petrol-station-he hasn't had a customer since...

(Next week: "The Harp of Fish Bones" with Ray Brooks; and Jackanory Playhouse, "Little Dripping and the Orphans")
(Radio Times People: page 4)
(Colour)

with Richard Baker; Weather

with Look North, South Today, Look East, Midlands Today, Points West and Spotlight South West bringing you news and views in your region tonight
(including Regional Weather)
Presented by Michael Barratt, Frank Bough and Bob Wellings
(Regional details as Monday)

A new Western series starring Stewart Granger as Col Mackenzie, James Drury as the Virginian, Doug McClure as Trampas, Lee Majors as Roy Tate

Rounding up strays, the Virginian runs into trouble in an attempt to rescue two damsels in distress from a sinister settlement.

with Kenneth Kendall and Peter Woods
Weather

William Conrad stars as private investigator Frank Cannon, a big man who walks alone in a dangerous world.

Highway hi-jacking. Daylight robbery on a vast scale. The thieves are well organised and murder is part of their business. Cannon tries to catch them by taking a job as a lorry driver. But he is the one who is taken for a ride.

Round off the week with Robin Day
A personality in the news... topical issue... a human dilemma... whatever Talk-In tackles tonight you can expect 45 minutes of hard-hitting questions and argument.

with Victor Mature
and Carole Landis, John Sutton, James Gleason, Phil Silvers

Rita Hayworth, one of the screen's most beautiful pin-ups of the 40s, plays musical star Sally Elliott in this colourful romance set in the gay 90s.

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

followed by Regional News and Weather, Closedown