An invitation to speak French
Keith Best: weekend weather
(Colour)
A cartoon series with Motor Mouse leading Autocat some high-powered cat-and-mouse games and villainous Mildew Wolf casting a hungry eye on Lambsey
Staffan has an unpleasant confrontation with Signe and Orvar, but fails to convince his mother that there is real danger abroad
Story told by Colin Jeavons
Book 95p: see page 66
Introduced by Frank Bough
12.40* Football Preview
On the final Saturday of the Football League season, Sam Leitch introduces action, personalities and the latest news of today's matches affecting championship, promotion and relegation.
1.5; 2.10* Cricket: Worcester v New Zealand from Worcester
a first look at the tourists in action in their first match against a county side.
1.25; 2.35* Snooker from Manchester: The Final of the Park Drive World Professional Snooker Championships
Among the players who have been competing for the world title are Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins, the reigning champion, Ray Reardon, John Spencer, John Pulman and Rex Williams. The two finalists today are playing for a first prize of £1,500.
1.50; 2.20; 2.50; 3.25* Racing from Leicester
2.0 Caroline Cooper Ladies' Stakes (1 1/2 miles)
2.30 Ladbroke Sporting Club Handicap Stakes (6 furlongs)
3.0 Golden Wonder Handicap Stakes (1 1/2 miles)
3.30 Woolsthorpe Stakes (5 furlongs)
3.10; 3.45* Rugby League
This afternoon's outstanding match in the first round of the Rugby League Championship.
4.35* Final Score
Including classified football results, league tables, rugby and racing results, and news of today's Rugby Union Knockout Final.
Today's Timetable:
12.40 Football Preview
1.5 Cricket: Worcester v New Zealand
1.25 Snooker from Manchester
1.50 Racing from Leicester
2.10 Cricket: Worcester v New Zealand
2.20 Racing from Leicester
2.35 Snooker from Manchester
2.50 Racing from Leicester
3.10 Rugby League
3.25 Racing from Leicester
3.45 Rugby League
4.35 Final Score
(Colour)
Weatherman Keith Best
Today's Sport
The dark secret of the matriarch of nursery rhymes is hardly safe in the beak of Ludwig von Drake. He proceeds to present some of his illustrious relation's famous tales.
A Walt Disney production
The first in a new season of Western films
Starring Jack Lord, Melodie Johnson, James Farentino, Don Galloway
The adventures of an irrepressible trio of bank robbers, who after a dramatic rescue from execution at Hangman's Tree, divide their loot and split up.
This Week's Films: page
Written by John Warren and John Singer
A new comedy series
Starring Dick Emery
Featuring Gordon Clyde as the Interviewer, Pat Coombs, Anne Cunningham, Tommy Godfrey, Harold Goodwin, Joan Newell, John Quayle
(Colour)
A new film series starring Raymond Burr as Robert Ironside
with Don Galloway as Det-Sgt Brown, Don Mitchell as Mark Sanger and Elizabeth Baur as Officer Fran Belding
with guest stars Pat Hingle, Morgan Paull
A series of burglaries provides a puzzle for Ironside. The difficulty is not to catch the crooks - but to find anyone who will admit they have been robbed...
with Kenneth Kendall; Weather
A selection from one of the funniest television comedy series of all time.
Starring Phil Silvers as Sgt Ernie Bilko
When Bilko tries to play Cupid he succeeds in breaking up a perfectly good romance.
