6.40 The Mannheim Sound

7.5 Goethe

7.30 Microfossils

9.40 Encounter: Germany Communications
10.0 Merry-go-Round: Birth
This is the second of three sex education programmes for eight-and nine-year-olds in schools. The programme includes film of a human birth. It also includes brief sequences showing the hatching of chicks and the birth of kittens.
Introduced by RICHARD CARPENTER With MELISSA DOCKER
Producer CLAIRE CHOVIL
10.23 Let's Look at Wales Seals of Pembrokeshire
Presented by DAVID PARRY -JONES Producer J. MERVYN WILLIAMS

11.5-11.20 Out of the Past
Highways of Water
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11.30 Preview: a chance for teachers to view and record selected programmes from next year's output on schools television. Today ' Scientific Investigation ' is chosen from the series Exploring Science for ll-to-13-year-olds. Producer MICHAEL COYLE

Weather KEITH BEST

and Dig This with Peter Seabrook

2.2 Scene: Quiet Afternoon
2.30 Preview
The series Near and Far for nine-to-1 1-year-olds is a series of geographically based programmes that specialist and non-specialist teachers can use in a variety of contexts. Today's programme, selected as a sample of next year's transmissions, is ' Exploring Your Neighbourhood ' - near rather than far. Producer ROBIN GWYN

Situation comedy series
(English transmitters only. First shown on BBC Cymru/Wales)

Story: Goodbye to the Fair by JOHN THIRTLE and IAN ALLEN Guest storytellers
PLAYBOARD PUPPETS
Presenters
JULIE STEVENS , CHRIS TRANCHELL

A series of five programmes on some of the most extraordinary facets to the animal world. with Tony Soper Signs and Signals
Some birds sing, others flash colours, buffalo and cats make perfumes. All are ways of passing messages.
What do birds and beasts have to talk about and how have their languages evolved?
Can we hope to be like Dr Dolittle and talk to the animals?
Film editor RON MARTIN
Producer JOHN SPARKS. BBC Bristol

An eight-part story: 5 - With the help of Kali and Mea, the two escaped slaves, Stas and Nel, attempt to make their way across the desert to their father's encampment.
Story told by RICHARD PASCO
Presented by PEGGY MILLER

One Over Par

Kenneth Kendall ; Weatherman

The free-wheeling television adaptation of the Chinese classic comes to BBC1 in ten parts.

In China 1,000 years ago the souls of 108 heroes were reborn to fight corruption and tyranny. As outlaws they lived by their wits and their swords.

with the voices of Michael McClain, Miriam Margoyles, Peter Marinker, Sean Lynch, Trevor Martin and Burt Kwouk
Produced by NTV, Tokyo

The 1977 inter-town fun-and-games competition
Pembroke v Tenby v Cwmbran
The winner will represent Great Britain in the fourth heat of the Eurovision Competition to be held in Ludwigsberg, Germany, on 7 October.
Tonight's programme is introduced from Pembroke by Stuart Hall and Eddie Waring
Referees ARTHUR ELLIS and MIKE SWANN
Designer met. BIBBY
Games arranger PAUL TRERISE Director GEOFF WILSON
Producer CECIL KORER. BBC Manchester

with Kenneth Kendall
Weekend Weather KEITH BEST

In a series of major interviews with David Frost , Richard Nixon is breaking the silence he has kept since he left the White House in disgrace in 1974. He talks about the achievements, and the humiliations, of his time as President.
Nixon believes his major achievements were in foreign affairs: with the China initiative, the extraordinary trip to Peking, and detente with the Russians. He speaks of his meeting with Mao, Kosygin and Brezhnev, and about ' shuttle diplomacy '. But what was the real relationship with Henry Kissinger , and who was really in charge?

JOHN TIMPSON and DENIS TUOHY and Tonight's reporters at home and abroad take their last look of the week at the topics and people that provoke, entertain, worry or amuse us.

Live from a badger sett in the heart of the countryside, television's 'Eye in the Night' focuses on wild badgers with Phil Drabble, Dr. Ernest Neal
Introduced by Bruce Parker

For the last time this week, remotely controlled infra-red sensitive cameras that can see in the dark, give viewers a unique opportunity to observe a colony of wild badgers.

The chances of making successful sightings at night are finely balanced. With care, patience and a measure of luck, the team of naturalists hopes to see the intimate nocturnal behaviour of badgers as they emerge from their underground home.

BBC Bristol

The Second Semi-final
Scotland v The North West
Introduced by Terry Wogan from the Top Rank Suite, Swansea Commentator BARRI HAYNES
A professional demonstration of the Foxtrot and Viennese Waltz by Byron and Dorothy Charlton
Music by JOHNNY HOWARD AND HIS ORCHESTRA Organised by MECCA dancing Arranged by bric MORLEY Director KEN GRIFFIIN
Series producer BARRIE EDGAR

starring Vincent Price with Elizabeth Shepherd
Derek Francis , John Westbrook
At the funeral of his wife Ligeia in 1821, Verden Fell outrages the parson by shrugging off the suggestion that she was not a Christian; in any case, he says, she is not dead. A black cat screeches, and Ligeia's eyes open in the coffin....
A classic Edgar Allan Poe tale featuring the ultimate in feline frigihtfulness; the spirit of a woman in the body of a cat - a transmogrified moggie!
Screenplay by ROBERT TOWNE from a story by EDGAR ALLAN POE
Producer and director ROGER CORMAN Films: page 11