with MAGGIE HENDERSON and FRED HARRIS
Music by PETER GOSLING and DAVE MOSES Written and produced by MICHAEL COLE
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE It's Ragtime, 55p, from bookshops

with Noel Edmonds
Phone in today on [number removed]Lines are open from 9.30
9.35* Our Super Hero's Spotless!
HONG KONG PHOOEY can't Spot Spot.
SWAPORAMA with Keith Chegwin
SWAP THE BALL: Kevin Keegan will be here with a Super Swap. You can give him a ring at 10.30*
Join John Craven for NEWS SWAP
GO - USA! THE DIFFICULT WAY! Clare Francis chats to Noel about her epic Trans-Atlantic voyage.
SWAP OF THE pops: Queen will be calling into Swap Shop this morning. Phone them after.
11.0* VALLEY OF THE DINOSAURS
SUDS GALORE: ANNE MOULANCE can't get her collection wet! It's soap - dozens of cakes-and she wants more. She'll swap Bay City Rollers records to get them.
Goody, Goody. It's The Goodies! Swap and chat with them today
NOEL'S TOP TEN SWAP
If you're joining in, send your postcard (no letters please!) to: Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, BBCtv Centre, London W12 8QT
Director IAN OLIVER
Producer ROSEMARY GILL

Bill Giles

Introduced by Frank Bough

12.20* Football Focus
Bob Wilson introduces action, personalities and news of today's outstanding matches.

12.45; 1.15; 1.55; 2.20* Racing from Ascot
12.50 Long Walk Hurdle (3 1/4m)
1.25 SGB Handicap Chase (3m)
2.0 SGB Hire Shop Hurdle (2m)
2.30 Frogmore H'cap Chase (2m)

1.0* World Cup Skiing
from Val Gardena, Italy
The second World Cup Downhill of the season. Will Olympic gold medallist Franz Klammer remain supreme in one of the fastest and most dangerous of all sports?

1.35* Boxing: Bunny Johnson v Phil Martin
Highlights of this week's final eliminator in Birmingham for the British Light-Heavyweight title.

2.10; 2.40; 3.55* International Table Tennis
from Wigan
The Norwich Union International Invitation Tournament
England's top four men, led by Denis Neale, face formidable competition from World Champion Istvan Jonyer (Hungary) and ex-champions Dragutin Surbek (Yugoslavia) and Stellan Bengtsson (Sweden).

3.0; 4.20* International Show Jumping
from Olympia
featuring The Dunhill European Trophy Trial
Europe's leading international riders compete in the two-round competition for prize money of £1,000.

4.45* Final Score

Today's Timetable:
12.20 Football Focus; 12.45 Racing; 1.0 Skiing; 1.15 Racing; 1.35 Boxing; 1.55 Racing; 2.10 Table Tennis; 2.20 Racing; 2.40 Table Tennis; 3.0 Show Jumping; 3.50 Football Half-times; 3.55 Table Tennis; 4.20 Show Jumping; 4.45 Final Score
* Timings may be changed by events

Weatherman

A Christmas Fantasy starring Basil Brush with Roy North Special guest Brian Blessed with Jan Hunt , Melinda Clancy The Nigel Brooks Singers and ' Boobsy ' the human dog
Script GEORGE MARTIN
MUSIC THE BERT HAYES ORCHESTRA Designer JEREMY BEAR
Producer BRIAN PENDERS

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

A film starring Yul Brynner with Robert Fuller , Julian Mateos Warren Oates , Claude Akins
The follow-up to The Magnificent Seven, in which Yul Brynner again recruits a small band of fighters, including some of his erstwhile comrades, to go to the aid of a poor Mexican village whose men have all been kidnapped by a band of gunmen.
Director BURT KENNEDY. Films: pages 15-16

Starring The Mitchell Minstrels
featuring Margaret Savage, Ted Darling, Les Rawlings, Les Want, Bob Hunter, Jane Marlow, Rita Morris, Dorothy Ogden
with Pam Ayres, Keith Harris, Les Brian, Brooks Aehron and The Television Toppers

Tough and rough -but likeable and friendly. Two young cops walk a tightrope in the world of crime. starring
Paul Michael Glaser as Starsky David Soul as Hutch

with Kenneth Kendall ; Weather

Back for Christmas
Live from Pebble Mill
Bob Langley , Donny MacLeod Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen invite you to relax before you get down to the last week of the Christmas Shopping. Their guests in the foyer of the studios include Frankie Howerd, Moira Anderson, Billy Dainty, Pam Ayres and 'Boobsy'