Bagpuss, an old cloth cat, lives with his friends in the window of Emily's shop ... where anything can happen.
The Second Bagpuss Annual, £1.25, from bookshops and newsagents

A film cartoon series
(Repeat)

When a wealthy widow advertises for a new husband both Stan and Ollie decide to compete for her hand, with hilarious and unexpected results.
A Hal Roach production

A lively new look at-words and letters with DONALD GEE BOB HOSKINS and GAY HAMILTON
PATRICIA HAYES , POLLY JAMES
Script BARRY TOOK
Book (same title), £1.00, from bookshops

The enchanting Samantha and her mere mortal husband Darrin
Starring Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha, Dick York as Darrin, Agnes Moorehead as Endora

Samantha's cousin thinks someone is trying to make a monkey of her.
(Repeat)

The adventures of a young family of homesteaders in the pioneering days of the American 1870s
A film series starring Michael Landon as Charles Ingalls, Karen Grassle as Caroline Ingalls, Melissa Gilbert as Laura, Melissa Sue Anderson as Mary
with Lindsay Sidney Green Bush as Carrie

Today: Country Girls
The day comes for Laura and Mary to attend school for the first time which leads to a most unexpected embarrassment for their proud mother.
(Repeat)

A MACK SENNETT comedy

A ROBERT YOUNGSON production
12.10 pm
Weather BARBARA EDWARDS

Introduced by Frank Bough
12.20*
Football Focus
With BOB WILSON
Action, news and comment
12.50; 1.25; 1.50*
Racing from Haydock
1.0 Ashton Novices' Hurdle (Div 1) (2m)
1.30 Merseyside Handicap Hurdle (2tm)
2.0 Tote Northern Chase (Handicap. 3m)
. Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN and RICHARD PITMAN
1.10*
International Skiing from Wengen, Switzerland
With the Winter Olympic Games just three weeks away, the world's top skiers compete in the Downhill-the Blue Riband event at the classic Lauberhorn meeting. Commentator RON PICKERING
Full details of BBCtv's comprehensive Winter Olympics coverage in RADIO TIMES on sale 29 January.
1.40; 3.50*
International
Table Tennis from Brighton
The Norwich Union Insurance International Championships
This event is the English ' Open the most important event prior to the European Championships in March. Fourteen nations are sending teams and the entry includes former World Champion STELLAN BENGTSSON of Sweden.
Commentators TONY GUBBA and CHESTER BARNES
2.10*
International
Rugby Union from Murrayfield Scotland v France
BBC outside broadcast cameras cover the whole of the opening match of this year's International Championship. Scotland, having narrowly failed to win both the Triple Crown and the Championship last season, will be keen to open this season with a win. Commentator BILL MCLAREN
4.35* Final Score
Classified football results, rugby and racing results.
Today's Timetable
12.20 Football Focus; 12.50 Racing
1.10 Skiing; 1.25 Racing
1.40 Table Tennis
1.50 Racing; 2.10 Rugby Union
3.50 Table Tennis; 4.35 Final Score
• Timings may be changed by events TV presentation:
Football Focus TERRY LONG
Racing RAY LAKELAND
Skiing swiss TELEVISION SERVICE Table Tennis BOB DUNCAN
Rugby Union BILL MALCOLM
Grandstand producer BRIAN VENNEB
Editor ALAN HART

Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Pluto and others make fun for all their friends today with Don Knotts

Weather BARBARA EDWARDS

Cliff Richard sings some more new songs and introduces more new artists, talents and friends.
Musical director RONNIE HAZLEHURST
Sound PETER ROSE
Lighting BERT POSTLETHWAITE
Designer BARRIE DOBBINS
Producer PHIL BISHOP

starring
Elvis Presley (right) with Joan O'Brien
Gary Lockwood
Mike Edwards and Danny Burke , freelance pilots on a crop-dusting assignment, have had their plane impounded as security for debt. Hiking in search of work, they arrive in Seattle at the time of the World's Fair there. Here Mike soon gets himself involved with two girls. The first is Sue-Lin, the little daughter of a Chinese farmer, whom he takes under his wing on a tour of the fair; the second is Diane Warren , a beautiful nurse, whom he meets in the dispensary there.
Director NORMAN TAUROG
Films: page 10

starring
Mike Yarwood
Written by ERIC DAVIDSON featuring
REFLECTIONS with BALLARD BERKELEY
MICHAEL SHARVELL-MARTIN
Musical director ALAN BRADEN
Vocal backing THE LADYBIRDS
Make-up artist MAGGIE WESTON
Designer RICHARD MCMANAN-SMITH
Assistant producer ALAN BOYD
Producer JOHN AMMONDS

starring Telly Savalas as Police Lieutenant Theo Kojak a tough cop with a tough job in a tough town - New York. A House of Prayer, a Den of Thieves
Vince La Gardia , of the Las Vegas Police Department, helps his former colleague in New York by arresting a well-known forger whom Kojak has been looking for. But the case doesn't end there and it soon becomes a murder investigation.

with Kenneth Kendall
Weather

Conversation - comment - wit - entertainment.
Michael Parkinson and his guests of the week