is a bear - and today he persuades the birds to teach him to sing
Ollie is faced with a four-round fight and Stan puts on the gloves.
Tanguy becomes the bait when a trap is set by the French counterespionage.
Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Picasso and Freud all belonged to the Edwardian period. To some their ideas threatened the Empire itself.
The traditional view of the reign as one of the most heroic in English history ignores the fact that after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the whole system was falling apart. Why?
Introduced by Professor J. Hurstfield
Starring James Drury as The Virginian
Faced with the deadly scourge of anthrax and the murderous Colton gang, the Virginian is glad of an ally, however much he suspects his motives.
Warner Brothers cartoons
Jack Scott: the weekend weather
Introduced by Frank Bough
12.35* Football Preview
Introduced by Sam Leitch; analysis and comment from Jimmy Hill
12.55* Fights of the Week
From London, the top of the bill heavyweight fight at the World Sporting Club. The return of Danny McAlinden (British and Commonwealth Champion) v Peter 'Moleman' Williams (USA) over 10 rounds and from Glasgow, the British Featherweight Championship at the St Andrew's Sporting Club.
Tommy Glencross (The Champion) v Evan Armstrong over 15 rounds
1.25; 1.50; 2.20* Racing: Bangor-on-Dee
1.30 Cambrian Handicap Steeplechase (2 miles and 180 yards)
2.0 William Hill Handicap Hurdle Race (2 miles and 92 yards)
2.30 Emral Handicap Steeplechase (Amateur Riders) (3 m, 214 yds)
1.40; 2.40*; 3.35 International Athletics from Crystal Palace: Great Britain v Sweden
After the excitement of the European Cup finals in Edinburgh, where Britain's men won the unofficial title of 'Track Champions of Europe' with five victories, our athletes continue a busy month with this full-scale international for men and women.
2.10; 2.40*; 3.35 Cirencester Park Horse Trials for the Midland Bank Championships of Great Britain 1973
This two-day competition ends this afternoon with the testing cross country section.
3.5 Tennis Challenge: Mr Bobby Riggs v Mrs Billie-Jean King
From Houston Astrodome, Texas. The £120,000 Challenge Match for the biggest prize-money tennis has ever known, worth £80,000 to the winner.
Bobby Riggs, 55 years old, was the 1939 Wimbledon champion in the pre-war era of Fred Perry, Donald Budge, Helen Wills-Moody and Alice Marble. Billie-Jean King, champion of Wimbledon and Women's Lib, is 25 years younger than Riggs and aiming to avenge Riggs's win earlier this year over Margaret Court.
(Highlights of the match: 11.10 pm BBC2)
4.40* Final Score
Timetable:
12.35 Football Preview
12.55 Fights of the Week
1.25 Racing; 1.40 Athletics
1.50 Racing; 2.10 Horse Trials
2.20 Racing
2.40 Horse Trials/Athletics
3.5 Tennis Challenge
3.35 Horse Trials/Athletics
4.40 Final Score
Timings are subject to alteration.
(Colour)
David Jacobs introduces a general knowledge quiz in which contestants bid against each other for the chance to answer questions on a given subject and, perhaps, become champion of Britain. The only snag: they have to bid before they hear the question...
Weatherman Jack Scott
Today's Sport
Starring Bruce Forsyth
with surprise guest stars
and Hostess Anthea Redfern
and family couples from all over the country.
with special guests Ronnie Corbett, The Kinks
Featuring Adrienne Posta, Roger Kitter, Paul Greenwood
and Segment
Says Lulu "Ronnie Corbett, of course, is a fellow countryman of mine - he comes from Edinburgh - and we're going to do some Scots songs together this time."
Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra
(Colour)
Starring Yul Brynner, Claire Bloom, Charles Boyer
and with Inger Stevens, Henry Hull, E.G. Marshall
A spectacular story of the American war of 1812 when the buccaneer Jean Lafitte, with a price on his head, refuses help to the British and joins forces with General Andrew Jackson in return for a free pardon.
This Week's Films: page 11
with Richard Baker; Weather
with conversation, good music, the occasional surprise and his guests.
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