Told by Ray Brooks
(Repeat)
in False Hare
A lively new look at words and letters with DONALD GEE BOB HOSKtNS and PATRICIA HAYES
NORMAN ROSSINGTON
MARTIN SHAW , NIGEL STOCK
Script BARRY TOOK
Swiss Miss
Starring Laurel and Hardy
with Delia Lind, Walter Woolf King, Eric Blore
Who but Stan and Ollie would encounter a gorilla in the Alps - and halfway across the trestle bridge at that, not to mention the piano they are moving.
Director JOHN G. BLYSTONE
and at 11.20
You're Telling Me
Starring W.C. Fields
with Larry 'Buster' Crabbe, Joan Marsh, Adrienne Ames
In this piece of quintessential Fields, the Great Man plays Sam Bisbee, a genial inventor without honour in his home town of Crystal Springs - and with a predictably unquenchable thirst.
Director ERLE c. KENTON Films, page 21
Introduced by Frank Bough
12.35* Football Focus
Bob Wilson introduces action, personalities and the latest news of today's League matches in England and Scotland.
1.0* Athletics
Ron Pickering reports on the Goldenlay Polytechnic Marathon, in which Ian Thompson and Ron Hill were competing for the first time since they failed to gain selection for the British Olympic team.
1.15; 2.35* Boxing
Highlights of the main supporting contests from this week's Royal Albert Hall promotion.
1.30; 2.5* Athletics from Crystal Palace: The Debenham Games
Highlights of the last major meeting of the year, which once again brought many of the world's leading athletes back to Crystal Palace, to take on Britain's best. Don Quarrie of Jamaica, Dwight Stones, USA, and John Walker of New Zealand were three of the overseas stars invited to compete.
1.50; 2.20; 2.50; 3.20* Racing from Newbury
Four races from one of the autumn's major meetings.
2.0 CMT Wells Kelo Ladies Race (1 1/4m)
2.30 Peter Hastings Stakes (Handicap) (1 1/4m)
3.0 Joe Coral Newbury Autumn Stakes (Handicap) (2m)
3.30 The Mill Reef Stakes (6f)
HM The Queen's unbeaten colt, Fife and Drum, bids for the day's richest prize, worth over £12,000 to the winner of this race for two-year-olds.
3.5; 3.50* Rugby League from Widnes: Widnes v Salford
Today's outstanding League match.
4.40* Final Score
Including the day's first football results from the teleprinter, classified football results, rugby and racing results.
Today's timetable:
12.35 Football Focus; 1.0 Athletics; 1.15 Boxing; 1.30 Athletics; 1.50 Racing; 2.5 Athletics; 2.20 Racing; 2.35 Boxing; 2.50 Racing; 3.5 Rugby League; 3.20 Racing; 3.45 Football half-time news; 3.50 Rugby League; 4.40 Final Score *Timings may be changed by events
Tom and Jerry playing cat and mouse.
Weather MICHAEL FISH
The Sky's the Limit
A two-part story: part 1
Relations are cool when nine-year-old Abner has to spend a school holiday at his grandfather's farm - but then he makes an astounding discovery!
A WALT DISNEY production ( Part 2: next week)
starring Bruce Forsyth with Anthea Redfern
Family couples from all over the country compete in a test of their general knowledge, skill and ingenuity.
Orchestra directed by RONNIE HAZLEHURST Programme associates
BARRY CRYER TONY HAWES
Designer BOB cove . Director ALAN BOYD Producer robin NASH
starring Gemma Jones as Louisa with Donald Burton as Augustus Trotter John Welsh as Merriman
A series of 15 programmes
3: A Nice Class of Premises by DAVID BUTLER
Queen Victoria dies and Edward VII becomes King. Louisa's life changes its pattern. She is much in demand as a society cook and builds up a flourishing business. Augustus is not so lucky and she looks around for a means of getting him employment. The Bentinck Hotel is on the market. She buys it and leaves her husband to run it. Unfortunately, things do not work out quite as she planned.
Signature tune composed by ALEXANDER FARIS
Cookery adviser MICHAEL SMITH Sound TONY MILLER
Designer RAYMOND CUSICK
Executive producer RICHARD BEYNON Producer JOHN HAWKESWORTH Director bill BAIN
starring Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker and their guest Barbara Dickson with Claire Nielson, John Owens, John Rutland, Joan Sims
Sketches include the classic Four Candles, plus a gangster who misunderstands a funeral director's job description. Show more
Paul Michael Glaser as Starsky David Soul as Hutch Omaha Tiger
The wrestling game. Starsky and Hutch investigate one fatal accident too many outside the ring. They soon realise that a racket is being run by a gang of killers....
with Peter Woods; Weather
Jimmy Hill introduces one hour of football action, news, interviews and analysis - with coverage of two of today's intriguing League matches.
JOHN MOTSON is the commentator at a First Division match in the Midlands.
BARRY DAVIES reports from a keenly-supported club in the South.
Football TV presentation by : ALEC WEEKS and JOHN MCGONAGLE Match of the Day presented by MARTIN HOPKINS
Editor JONATHAN MARTIN
Actor Peter O'Toole and film director Roger Vadim are two of the guests on tonight's programme with Michael Parkinson.
(Peter O'Toole stars in Rogue Male, Wednesday BBC2 9.0 pm)
The Phantom of Herald Square
A film series of present-day tales of the supernatural.
Tonight starring David Soul Sheila Larken , Victor Jory
The good-looking youth to whom Holly is attracted undergoes an alarming transformation after dark, but truly love is blind.