Bob Langley, Marian Foster, David Seymour and Donny MacLeod

Story: "Grandfather's Joke" by Ann Reay

by W.M. Thackeray
With Kenneth Williams

Starring Mike Hope and Albie Keen
with Jennifer Hill and special guest Georges Schlick

Mike and Albie look ahead to summer holidays, find themselves in more trouble in their spy-packed adventure serial and introduce ventriloquist Georges Schlick, who shows you how to make your own vent doll - out of a lemon!

If there is a chain hanging down from the ceiling and a notice saying ' Do not pull' - you wouldn't pull it, would you. Would you?
Well, Sylveste does, with dire results to himself - and to Pat as well!
[Starring] Tony Hart, Pat Keysell
with Sylvester McCoy and The Prof

The address to send paintings and designs is: Vision On, [address removed]. Unfortunately we can't return any, but we do give a prize for each one we show.

with Richard Baker
Weatherman

Look North, South Today
Look East, Midlands Today
Points West. Spotlight South West And Consumer Unit, presented by Valerie Singleton , Richard Stilgoe

A contest in speed and wits
Introduced by Robert Robinson This year's Finalists The Cooper Family from Ashtead, Surrey v The Stock Family from Belfast, Northern Ireland

Led by Peter Graves as Jim Phelps
with Greg Morris as Barney, Peter Lupus as Willy, Leonard Nimoy as Paris
This week: The Party
A premature celebration to prise open a cerebral-locked secret.

by Donald Bull
Starring Geoffrey Keen, David Buck, James Kerry
with Hugh Manning

The compulsion to make a million can sometimes be like the devil sitting on your back.

The power behind Prince's: pages 6-7

with Richard Baker and Richard Whitmore
Weather

A View of Europe in the Twentieth Century
A television history in 13 parts
Written and narrated by John Terraine
With personal comments by Peter Ustinov

A new Europe emerged after the 1919 Paris Peace Conference - the map had been redrawn. This episode is about keeping that peace - the setting up of the League of Nations, man's first attempt to govern the relationships of nations by international agreement instead of force. One of the chief sponsors of this idea had been President Woodrow Wilson of the United States. It was a tragic irony that his country was never a member of the League. Neither was the Soviet Union (until too late), nor, for a number of years, Germany. These absences all contributed to the weakness of the League, but most serious of all was the growth of totalitarianism in Europe, a spirit in direct conflict with that of the League, a conflict between idealism and reality.

Book (same title) £5.95 from bookshops

Barry Norman reviews the new films including Freebie and the Bean starring James Caan, and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, directed by Ted Kotcheff.

The people behind the stories, the people the stories affect and the people with something to say.
Introduced by Ludovic Kennedy.
Tom Mangold, Vincent Hanna, Michael Cockerell, Bill Kerr Elliott, David Jessel, Julian Mounter and David Lomax are the Midweek correspondents.