with Rick Jones
Six programmes. 4: Slalom
Recorded during a competition organised by the Manchester Canoe . Club at the Serpent's Tail on the River Dee at Llangollen, N Wales. Introduced by JOHN EARLE
Directed by JOHN VIGAR
Produced by JOHN DOBSON BBC Bristol
Opened by Noel Edmonds
Lines open at 9.30 on [number removed].
Keith Chegwin will be swapping somewhere in Britain and his Swaporama could be near you.
9.45* The Great Grape Ape
Join in John Craven's News Swap. Write to John and if your letter is picked, you could win his prize as Swap Shop stringer of the week.
11.0* Bailey's Comets
Swap of the Pops: 'Promises Promises!' It's Rags this week plus their winning number from the world popular song - 'Can't Hide My Love.'
Star Swap: Talking of news - today's the day you can chat and swap with top newscaster
Angela Rippon. Give her a ring if there's something special you'd like to talk to her about. If you haven't got a phone, why not send her a postcard with your question?
Whistle a Happy Tune!: James Galway's coming along with his golden flute. Give him a ring and join in his swap.
Try Noel's Top Ten Swap: A chance to swap your goods and win Swap Shop's Top Ten singles. Send your postcards to: Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, [address removed]
Introduced by Frank Bough
12.20*
Football Focus
BOB WILSON introduces action, personalities and the latest news of today's Cup ties in England and Scotland
12.50*
International Boxing
Highlights from this week's Royal Albert Hall bill in which ' stable-mates ' JIMMY BATTEN and MAURICE HOPE are the main attractions.
Commentator HARRY CARPENTER
1.15*
Gymnastics from the Royal Albert Hall The Champions' Cup
The highlight of the domestic season in which six leading men and women compete for the over- all Champions' Cup. AVRIL LENNOX 'S retirement has left the women's top position vacant.
Organised by the BAGA in association with the Daily Mirror
Commentators RON PICKERING and ALAN WEEKS
2.5; 2.45*
Weightlifting and Trampolining from Coventry
Butlin's Multi Sport Festival: Weightlifting
A special Commonwealth Games weightlifting competition featuring the two Olympic lifts, the Snatch and the Clean and Jerk. Commentator DAVID VINE Trampolining
An international synchronised match in which competitors from England and Scotland each give one compulsory and one voluntary routine.
Commentator PAT THORNTON
3.0; 4.20*
Athletics from Cosford
The Philips National
Indoor Championships
Britain's top athletes start the 1978 season, which reaches a double climax this summer with the Commonwealth Games in July and the European Championships in September.
Commentators RON PICKERING and STUART STOREY
3.15*
Rugby League from St Helens
The John Player Trophy Final Warrington v Widnes
Both teams have won this trophy once, Warrington in 1974 and Widnes in 1976. Widnes, however, almost dominate this competition, having appeared in three of the last four finals.
Commentator EDDIE WARING
4.0*
The Sporting Year 1952
Britain wins gold medals in both Summer and Winter Games. Three gold medals for that amazing Czech EMIL ZATOPEK , and a new star rises at Wimbledon.
4.40* Final Score
Today's timetable:
12.20 Football Focus: 12.50 Boxing
1.15 Gymnastics; 2.5 Weightlifting
2.45 Trampolining: 3.0 Athletics
3.15 Rugby League
4.0 Highlights of 1952 4.20 Athletics: 4.40 Final Score *Timings are subject to change Television presentation:
Football FOCUS MIKE MURPHY Boxing BOB DUNCAN
Gymnastics and Athletics JOHN SHREWSBURY
Weightlifting and Trampolinin* HUW JONES, DAVID KENNING
Rugby League NICK HUNTER
Grandstand producer MARTIN HOPKINS Editor PAUL LANG
Today: The Bermuda Rectangle
with Jimmy Savile , OBE
If you want to captain your own submarine,
Or go for a skid in a No 14,
If you want to meet a leading MP,
Or throw your teacher into the sea, Jim'll fix it.
Have you got an unusual or special wish? Jimmy will try to make it come true.
Sound PETER rosi
Lighting JOHN DIXON
Designer KEN LEDSHAM
Studio director PHIL BISHOP Producer ROGER ORDISH
starring Tom Baker
A four-part story by Bob Baker and Dave Martin
Even if they get the vital cylinders, can the Doctor and his friends escape? Their spaceship is trapped without fuel in the planet's core.
The Minyans are eager to recover the race banks that they have waited so long to find, but the Doctor becomes suspicious when the Oracle simply allows Jackson to take them.
starring James Garner Edmond O'Brien with Andra Martin
Alan Hale , Carleton Carpenter
During World War II, Lieutenant Ken Braden , a US frogman, is posted to the submarine, USS Barracuda, on secret orders. At sea, he learns the details of his perilous mission.
Directed by cordon Douglas, Films: p 10
Tough and rough-but likeable and friendly. Two young cops walk a tightrope in the world of crime starring
with Richard Baker ; Weather
Join Michael Parkinson and his guests of the week for conversation, entertainment and the occasional surprise.
Music HARRY STONEHAM
Director DAVID G. HILLIER Producer JOHN FISHER
