A series of 19 programmes for childminders-3: Parents!
Other children's parents may depend on you more than you think. But they can take advantage or feel resentful of you unless you make sure the relationship is businesslike as well as friendly. MAVIS NICHOLSON investigates.
Series producer DAVID alleh
11.0 Scene - Wanted: Work
How does it feel to be young and out of work? What are the alternatives to the dole queue? Producer ROGER TONGE
11.30 Music Time: Programme 13 .
11.55 Focus
A lively look at words and letters
With DONALD GEE
BOB HOSKINS and GAY HAMILTON
NORMAN ROSSINGTON , MARTIN SHAW
Script BARRY TOOK
Weather JACK SCOTT
With BOB LANGLEY, DONNY MACLEOD
DAVID SEYMOUR , MARIAN FOSTER and JAN LEEMING including Water Sport for AU
Editor TERRY DOBSON
Told by Ray Brooks
Introduced by Christopher Neil.
2.14 The Electric Company: 3
2.36 Merry-go-Round
Keep Up with the Times
An eight-part cartoon series on multiplication.
3: Four Times
2.45 Corners of France Village Life
A series of ten programmes on hand-knitting and crochet. Presented by JAN LEEMING 3: Spinning a Yarn
Is there a ' best buy' in yarn for hand-knitting and crochet? Real enthusiasts can even spin their own - this programme shows some simple ways to start.
Executive producer SHEILA INNES Producer JENNY ROGERS (Ftrst shown on BBC2)
Book (same title), f2.20, from bookshops
Food budgeting on a pension: some suggestions and advice on coping with rising costs.
Presented by ROY HUDD and IRENE THOMAS
Director LIBBY HALLIDAY Producer brigit BARRY
A programme for children under 5
More adventures of space traveller Astronut and his earth-bound pal Oscar.
with Jon Pertwee
Binkie and the Quackenbush Dragons by CHARLES WEBSTER
Today: Pixo and the Mermaid
with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd
Jack and Jill, Blue Peter's twin tabbies, celebrate their first birthday on Saturday. Today you can see a flashback of their very first TV appearance.
Told by Eric Thompson.
with Angela Rippen Weatherman
Reports and features reflecting the life of Britain today.
Presented this week by MICHAEL BARRATT , FRANK BOUGH
DILYS MORGAN , VALERIE SINGLETON
BOB WELLINGS
Starring James Garner
Rockford's one-time parole officer makes a surprise appearance: but whatever little game he is up to it isn't baseball and he certainly doesn't play according to the rules!
A new series of animal films Introduced by David Attenborough
Run Cheetah Run
0-45 mph in 2.0 sees. Top speed 71 mph. Weight just over 100 lbs. Height 3 feet. Length just over 4 feet. Comes in two colours: black spots on tawny background or mixture of spots and stripes on same background ...
- a specification for the cheetah
The lion may have majesty; the leopard may be the essence of power. But the cheetah is total elegance and grace. There is no more beautiful sight than a wild, uncaged, alert cheetah stalking across the African plains.
Filmed by JOHN PEARSON Producer STANLEY JOSEPH
Presented toi TV by MICK RHODES BBC Bristol
with Angela Rippon and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weather
The arts in action
Introduced by Humphrey Burton Colour Positive
A film about the paintings of Terry Frost
' I want to get lost in colour for ever and ever' says TERRY FROST. Frost lives in Cornwall. He began to paint as a prisoner-of-war in Germany. He's obsessed with colour. This year his work is on show in a retrospective exhibition visiting the major cities of England.
Poster Man
' I would like to re-create an international language - a language of Signs.' KEN SPRAGUE Ken Sprague lives on the edge of Exmoor in Devon. He makes posters, and his whole life is committed to working with and for ordinary people all over the world. A second chance to see this much-acclaimed film about the man and his work.
Colour Positive director JOHN HOOPER Poster Man director JEFF PERKS
Executive producer BARRIE GAVIN
JOHN TIMPSON and DENIS TUOHY
With DONALD MACCORMICK and Tonight's reporters at home and abroad, look at the people and topics that provoke, entertain, worry or amuse us.
Reporters: Michael Delahaye , Vincent Hanna , David Jessel , David Lomax , John Pitman , David Taylor and Philip Tibenham Every Thursday
Robin Day examines an important topical issue.
Including News Headlines
Editor CHRISTOPHER CAPRON
Featuring The Men from Helsinki
ROBIN COUSINS takes over from John Curry as Britain's champion and tonight he is expected to be involved in the struggle for medals. Cousins is the most exciting free skater of the new generation of competitors and the experts will be watching closely to see how much progress he has made since last season. Commentator
ALAN WEEKS
Television presentation by the FINNISH TELEVISION SERVICE Producer DAVID KENNING
