The Royal Institution Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People by David Attenborough.

David Attenborough shows some astonishing experiments to find out how young animals see and signal to their parents.

A look ahead with Michael Barratt to the programmes available for 9-13-year-olds in the next two terms, including excerpts from Out of the Past, Science All Around, Quatre Coins de la France, Television Club and The Electric Company; with a look at the early days of school broadcasting, and in contrast, how the latest video cassette recorder has helped one teacher in Northern Ireland.
Director DAVID WALLACE
Executive producer FELICITY KINROSS

The return of the real-life Captain Kirk and his crew in earlier adventures

Today: Metamorphosis
Love takes many forms, but surely none stranger than the pervasive passion which envelops the shuttlecraft Galileo and maroons it beyond hope of rescue. It seems likely that pestilence and war will take their toll before Captain Kirk can reach the heart of the matter.
Tomorrow: Wolf In the Fold

Weatherman MICHAEL FISH

Barry Norman presents a review of the films of 1974 - the year of the continuing nostalgia boom, with That's Entertainment; three directors back on form-Fellini with Amarcord, Richard Lester with The Three Musketeers, Roman Polanski with Chinatown; new comedies from Woody Allen - Sleeper, and Mel Brooks - Blazing Saddles; and starring roles for Jack Nicolson , Gene Hackman , Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford.
Producer PATRICIA INGRAM

Mr Happy by ROGER HARGREAVES Told by ARTHUR LOWE
Animation TERRY WARD

by PATRICK and MOLLIE MATTHEWS Told by RICHARD BAKER
Director HOWARD KENNETT

In 1974, Great Britain played host to virtually all the great horse and rider combinations when, for the first time ever, both of the world's major equestrian competitions were staged in the same country.
The Men's World Show Jumping Championships at Hickstead and The World Three-Day Event Championships at Burghley
HRH The Princess Anne, former European three-day event champion and Captain Mark Phillips who, in 1974, won Badminton for the third time and came within an ace of the World Championship itself, are the principal guests of Dorian Williams at his home, Foscote Manor, Buckinghamshire, for this annual discussion of a memorable equestrian year.
Producer FRED VINER

featuring
Mike Hynson , Robert August
The brilliant and breathtaking sport of surfing around the world. Two young champions from California go in quest of the perfect wave. In Africa they ride waves never before surfed, in New Zealand they discover that it takes all day to ride a wave, and in Hawaii, where surfing began, they tackle the dangers of the notorious Banzai Pipeline.
Produced, directed and narrated by BRUCE BROWN
Holiday Films: pages 17-18

with William Rushton
Also featuring Christopher Biggins Father Time
Father Time has a problem. 1975 is missing. The only way to avoid an Unhappy New Year is to find 1975 as soon as possible.
Script and pictures by WILLIAM RUSHTON Director JEREMY SWAN Producer DAPHNE JONES
Executive producer ANNA HOME

on New Year starring
Mike Hope and Albie Keen with Jennifer Hill and special guest Johnny Hart
Mike and Albie ring out the old and ring in the new as the craziest bell-ringers you've ever met. They'll be dodging the devious spy Natasha Nettlevitch and introducing you to that amazing magician Johnny Hart.
Written by JOHN MORLEY and HARRY JONES
Music by RAY BISHOP Designer JOHN O'HARA
Director DAVID CRICHTON Producer PAUL CIANI

Pat and Tony welcome you to the start of a new series, with of course Sylveste McCoy backwards arriving from his through-the-mirror world (or does he think he's leaving the end of the series?). Wilf fails to invent a 'Nut-Cracker' and needs your help, (drawings of ideas please) and the Prof has dusted off his white coat ready for anything. Tony Hart, Pat Keysell, Sylveste McCoy, and WILF LUNN with his extraordinary machinery, and THE PROF.
Send paintings and designs to: Vision On BBCtv [address removed]. Unfortunately we can't return any, but we do give a prize for each one we show.

Kenneth Kendall ; Weather

News, interviews and analysis from your region tonight, including local weather and The Best of Nationwide
After more than 200 hours of television, we look back at some of the most memorable moments of 1974. (Regional details as Monday)

starring
Julie Andrews , Richard Crenna Michael Craig , Daniel Massey
The story of one of show business's most scintillating entertainers - Gertrude Lawrence , the Berrnondsey girl whose career begins when she runs away from home in 1915 to form a music-hall act. The Chariot revues and Noel Coward 's comedies are her stepping stones to stardom and soon she is acclaimed in both London and New York. Her career goes from triumph to triumph, but her personal life is less successful.
Director ROBERT WISE
Holiday Films: pages 17 and 18

Kenneth Kendall ; Weather

by JOHNNY SPEIGHT starring Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols Anthony Booth, and Una Stubbs
'Marvellous ennit? Just because her sister feels ill, Florence "Silly Moo " Nightingale wants to pack her lamp and dash all the way out to bloody Australia !
Designer PETER BRACHACKI Director COLIN STRONG
Producer DENNIS MAIN WILSON

Michael Aspel introduces from The Talk of the Town in London's West End, the Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1974
Sir Bernard Delfont presents the awards in the presence of celebrities from the world of show business at this special gala occasion to see out the old year.
Among those taking part are Claire Bloom , Tom Courtney
Jean Marsh , Ronnie Barker Susannah York and Michael Crawford At Midnight the chimes of Big Ben and Welcome 1975
Musical director BURT RHODES Producer KEN GRIFFIN

A gala show from the stage of His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen to welcome the New Year. starring
Peter Morrison , Alastair McDonald Anne Lome Gillies and their special guests
Rolf Harris , Aimi MacDonald Ronald Fraser
BRIAN SEIVWRIGHT DANCERS JIM JOHNSTONE and his
SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE BAND BRIAN FAHEY and the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE
SHOTTS AND DYKEHEAD
CALEDONIA PIPE BAND
PIPE MAJOR TOM MCALLISTER
Choreography BRIAN SEIVWRIGHT Designer ALEX GOURI. AY
Producer IAIN MACFADYEN (BBC Scotland)
12.45* Colour Prologue
IAN MACKENZIE , Religious Broadcasting Organiser, BBC Scotland, prefaces the New Year. Weather: Closedown