10.23 Let's Look at Wales Age of the Dinosaurs
10.45 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds, and adults watching with them. Things to Feel with JACQUI MCDONALD
. and BRIDIE O'DONNELL
Serial play
(First shown on BBC Wales)
Collectors' Corner with Arthur Negus and a chat with today's Weather-man JACK SCOTT at 1.30
Editor TERRY DOBSON
The Rose and Thistle Show
Once a year the remote dale of the River Coquet up in the Cheviot Hills between Northumberland and Scotland comes alive for the local shepherds' show.
For the past 17 years, sheep farmer BOBBY DIXON has been its secretary. With his wife Maisie and help from their neighbours from miles around they turn it into the border's big day.
Executive producer BRIDGET WINTER Written and directed by DAVID BEAN
(from the North; first shown on BBC2)
A new comedy film series about high life below stairs starring the master of the house and the lady of the house The Wrecked Butler
After beating his boss Charles at tennis, Albert tries to jump the net to shake the loser's hand-and breaks a leg. Charles thoughtfully provides him with a super electric wheelchair. Albert speeds around the house in it at a great rate - and nearly speeds himself out of a job!
Take a new look at the afternoon with Alan Towers and Iris Chapple Guests you may like to meet and some items from television programmes you may have missed-plus Friday's regular features ...
2.55* Exercise the Lazy Way With JOANNA LEWIS
3.0* What's On at the Pictures?
New films on release around the country
3.15* News Headlines
3.17* The Short Story Sheila Hancock tells
The Third Baby's The Easiest by SHIRLEY JACKSON
' Sentimental people keep insisting that women go on to have a third baby because they love babies, and cynical people seem to maintain that a woman with two healthy, active children around the house will do anything for ten quiet days in the hospital.'
3.30* Joyce Hopkirk asks ...
3.45* In the Junk Room with TONY HAWES and his guest Jeffrey Boswall
Director MARTIN L. BELL Producer JANET HOENIG
A programme for children under 5 The Thrush: written and told by Percy Edwards Presenters
CAROL CHELL , STAN ARNOLD
Pianist BILL LE SAGE
Double-bass LENNIE RUSH Designer PAUL TRERISE
Scriptwriter JUDY WHITFIELD Director PETER CHARLTON Producer ANNE gobev
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
Mole and the Umbrella
with Elaine Delmar and Paul Jones
More Poetry and Songs - about Animals
(Next week: "The Boy from Sula" with John Cairney)
(Colour)
A thrilling new cartoon series starring Lassie, the collie leader of a gang of animals who help the Turner family in their work as forest rangers.
3: Lassie's mission - to rescue Dr Simpson, and bring him home.
A comedy series starring
Johnny Ball , Julie Stevens Derek Griffiths
3:American Adventures
...in which, among other things, a tea party in Boston ends up all at sea, and Paul Revere is delayed on the way to a historic declaration.
Scriptwriter johnny BALL Designer PETER mavius
Producer peter ridsdale SCOTT (from Manchester)
with Kenneth Kendall ; Weather
bringing you news and views in your region tonight
(including Regional Weather) Presented by MICHAEL BARRATT FRANK BOUGH , BOB WELLINGS and SUE LAWLEY with Sport on Friday
Jimmy Hill looks ahead to the weekend sporting events.
The 1974 inter-town fun and games competition Southport v Wyre
The winner will represent Great Britain in the first heat of the Eurovision Competition to be held at Bouillon, in Belgium, on 2 August.
Introduced from Southport by Eddie Waring and Stuart Hall, Referee Arthur Ellis.
Games from It's a Knockout, 20p, from bookshops
with Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendall ; Weather
starring
Michael Bryant , Gayle Hunnicutt Charles Kay , Freddie Jones John Stratton , David Swift in The Appointment by TROY KENNEDY MARTIN
The problem of appointing a new Police Chief, in a State that is controlled by the police, becomes even more complex with the use of double agents. This is one of the hazards that confronts Tsar Nicholas as he attempts to tighten security in St Petersburg after the events of Bloody Sunday 1905.
Series created by JOHN ELLIOT Programme co-ordinator PRUDENCE FITZGERALD
Designer PETER KINDRED Producer STUART BURGE Director DAVID CUNLIFFE
Fall of Eagles, 95p, from bookshops
and Weekend Weather
What's On/ Regional News
On the eve of the FA Cup Final BBC outside broadcast cameras are at Wembley for tonight's top sporting event.
The Amateur Boxing Association Championship Finals of 1974 Twenty-two of Britain's finest boxers meet tonight in the Wembley arena. Throughout the year they have boxed to win club, division, quarter and semi-final places. Eleven new names are to be added to the already illustrious roll of champions.
HARRY CARPENTER at the ringside brings you the ' pick ' of the bouts.
Television presentation BOB DUNCAN