by Elisabeth Beresford
Told by Bernard Cribbins
A three-part serial film
All the courage and the quick wits of the Dolphin and Tarin are needed to extricate them from the coils of the Sea-Serpent.
Story told by Gary Watson
Asterix and Panoramix make a magic potion for the Romans - with unusual results!
The smaller forest animals make their home near a waterfall in the bushland outside Sydney.
Weather Keith Best
Bob Langley, Donny Macleod, Marian Foster and David Seymour present their selection of the ideas, activities, talking-points and personalities of the day - live from the Broadcasting Centre in Birmingham, including Family Advice with Claire Rayner
The programme about police affairs; including Crime Line, the 'hot line' between police and public: [number removed]
Introduced by David Seymour with Mike Dornan
BBC Birmingham
Story: "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse"
Presenters: Sam Wyse, Lionel Morton
More adventures of Astronut and his pal, Oscar.
by Norman Hunter
with Kenneth Williams
Today: "Whose Move Next?"
with Susan King
A series of seven programmes
Canals were once the main trade routes across the country. Whole families lived and worked on the 'narrow-boats' which ran along a vast network of waterways. Today goods are sent by road and rail, and the old narrow-boatman's way of life has almost gone for ever.
Susan travels along the canals in Lancashire and Cheshire with boatman Jim Postles, who talks about the past and the future of Britain's canals.
with Peter Woods; Weatherman
presents news and views in your region tonight.
Then at 6.25 Michael Barratt, Frank Bough, Bob Wellings and Dilys Morgan present some of the more interesting stories of life in today's Britain, including Consumer Unit with Valerie Singleton and Richard Stilgoe.
with Peter Woods and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world.
Weather
by John Buchan
Adapted for television in three parts by John Prebble with James Maxwell as Sir Edward Leithen, Derek Godfrey as Lord Lamancha, Bernard Horsfall as John Palliser-Yeates, Ronald Radd as Professor Bandicott, Cavan Kendall as Archie Roylance
Three eminent members of the London Establishment have challenged a group of wealthy land-owners to stop them taking a stag or a salmon from their estates. The challenge has been made anonymously under the pseudonym John Macnab. Palliser-Yeates has shot his stag - but has been caught by Janet Raden.
BBC Scotland
The rings, easily visible with a small telescope, are now better displayed than they will be for some years to come. Patrick Moore talks about Saturn and describes what the American spacecraft Pioneer 11 may tell us when it by-passes the ringed planet in 1979.
Book (same title), £4.00, from bookshops
