by ELISABETH BERESFORD
Told by Bernard Cribbins
Music by MIKE BATT
Animated and directed by IVOR WOOD

with Grape Ape and Beagley Beagley and Bailey's Comets

in The Impossible Possum and Bird Brain, Bird Dog

A season of films featuring EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS'S legendary ape man, and starring Lex Barker
In the last of this Tarzan series, our hero faces his most deadly, as well as his most beautiful, foe - Lyra, the Ivory Queen, leader of a band of thieving hunters.
Director KURT NEUMANN
(Black and white) Films: page 11

Weather MICHAEL FISH

Introduced by Tony Gubba featuring
Racing from Newbury
Outside broadcast cameras join the holiday crowds for today's outstanding meeting.
12.30 Wantage Novices 'Chase (2m 160yds)
1.0 Panama Cigar Hurdle (Qualifying. 2m)
1.30 Metrostore Mandarin Handicap 'Chase (3m 2f 82yds)
2.0 New Year Handicap 'Chase (2m 160yds)
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN
RICHARD PITMAN , JULIAN WILSON
12.40
Football Focus
On another big day of holiday football, Bob Wilson introduces action, news and personalities.
Television presentation by RICHARD TILLING Grandstand directed by JEFF GODDARD Editor ALAN HART

A film starring William Powell Julia Adams , Charles Drake
David, an orphan robbed of his inheritance by a crooked lawyer, is adopted by Doc Brown and his wife. But when David discovers buried treasure in an old mission, the new-found wealth threatens the happiness of David, Doc and their friends.
Based on Treasure of Franchard by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Director TED TETZLAFT Films: page 11

A MACK SENNETT comedy

A programme for children under 5

A cartoon story about the villainous Mildew Wolf.

with Quentin Blake
The Adventures of Lester
It's difficult to describe Lester - so it's easier to draw him. QUENTIN BLAKE illustrates and tells the stories of Lester and his unusual friends.
Today: Lester and the Wibbly-Wobbly Business

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd
Has the Lifeline Reached the Lebanon? Will the stamps and postcards pouring into the Collection Depot reach the two million target on the Totaliser? If so, Blue Peter viewers will have provided badly needed aid for the sick and injured babies and children who are victims of the Civil War.

You're a good sport, Charlie Brown
A comedy cartoon in which ordinary Charlie Brown is only one step behind his extraordinary friends Lucy, Linus, Sally, Peppermint Patty and Schroeder, and, of course, Snoopy the dog.

with Kenneth Kendall
Weatherman

6.5 Sport/ Regional News

A romantic serial in 16 parts set in Cornwall of the 1780s based on the novels by WINSTON GRAHAM Part 1 by JACK PULMAN
Ross returns home to Cornwall to inherit a house, land, two idle copper mines and to marry Elizabeth. But Ross had been reported dead, and others have laid claim to the house, the mines-and Elizabeth.
Producer MORRIS BARRY
Director CHRISTOPHER BARRY

with Kenneth Kendall ; Weather

starring Frank Sinatra
Raquel Welch , Dan Blocker
Diving off the Florida coast, private eye Tony Rome discovers the nude body of a blonde whose feet have been encased in cement.
Director GORDON DOUGLAS. Films: page 11