With the Playboard Puppet Theatre and Christopher Lillicrap

A Day at the Beach
Who's Afraid of Virginia Werewolf?

Expert cooking, gardening and do-it-yourself advice plus viewers' money-saving tips.
Director ERICA GRIFFITHS Producer BRIAN DAVIES

A feature film starring Bob Hope , Lana Turner and Janis Paige
Jim Button , Paula Prentiss
Adam J. Niles , the author of a number of racy best-sellers, rents a house in a new model housing estate, Paradise Village, in California, in order to gather material for a new book about how modern America lives. He finds himself the only bachelor in a community of young married couples.
Directed by JACK ARNOLD. Films: page 17

in Slick Hare; Unruly Hare

Introduced by Frank Bough
12.35*
Football Focus
BOB WILSON introduces the popular lunchtime football programme which features the men who matter in football.
1.5*
Flat Season 78
Ireland's VINCENT O'BRIEN seems to hold all the aces for this year's top races. But does he? JIMMY LINDLEY and JULIAN WILSON Visit Britain's most powerful stable, the 120-horse string of PETER WALWYN , to analyse his chances of big race success in the new season.
1.20*
Boxing
Highlights from this week's bill at the Royal Albert Hall , on which MAURICE HOPE, CHARLIE MAGRI and JOHN L. GARDNER were fighting. Commentator HARRY CARPENTER
1.50; 2.25; 3.5* Racing from Newbury
2.0 Kencot Handicap 'Chase (21m)
2.30 ' Greenham Group ' Handicap Hurdle (2m 100yds)
3.10 Betterton 'Chase (3m) Commentators
JULIAN WILSON and RICHARD PITMAN
2.5; 2 35*
Basketball from the Wembley Arena
The Guinness National Cup Final
Cinzano scp are after their third consecutive win in this tournament, having won last year's cliff-hanger by the narrowest margin possible, 91-90. Commentators
STUART STOREY and MILES AIKEN
3.15*
International
Squash Rackets from Wembley
The Avis British Open Championship Final
Out of an original 110 entrants, including Australia's GEOFF HUNT , the defending champion hoping for his sixth win, only two remain. Commentator RON PICKERING
3.50*
Rugby League from Wigan
St Helens v Warrington
Second-half coverage of this second semi-final in the Rugby League Challenge Cup.
Commentator EDDIE WARING
4.40* Final Score
Including classified football results, rugby and racing results.
Today's timetable:
12.35 Football Focus
1.5 Flat Season 78
1.20 Boxing: 1.5* Racing
2.5 Basketball; 2.25 Racing
2.35 Basketball; 3.5 Racing
3.15 Squash: 3.45 Football News
3.51 Rugby League; 4.40 Final Score *Timings may be changed by events
Television presentation:
Football FOCUS MIKE MURPHY Boxing BOB DUNCAN
Racing DAVID KENNING
Basketball JOHNNIE WATHERSTON Squash JIM RESIDE
Rugby League NICK HUNTER
Grandstand producer MARTIN HOPKINS
Racing results from Doncaster (Lincoln Handicap.Hexham, Stratford und Devon and Exeter on CEEFAX page 136

Today: Deep Freeze

Kenneth Kendall ; Weatherman
5.45 Sport/Regional News

with Florence Stanley and Barry Gordon
The Car: More problems for ex-detective Phil Fish and his wife when one of the children in their care borrows Fish's car without his knowledge and ends up at the local police station.
Directed by LEE BERNHARDI

starring Rolf Harris with his special guest Dana and the amazing
Wilfred Makepeace Lunn
Roll up this way, what do you say Pack your schoolbooks away It's Saturday - OK! is the invitation to schoolchildren all over the country to join Rolf and guests for half-an-hour of acting, painting but above all singing, featuring the children of ALEXANDRA MIDDLE SCHOOL, PORTSMOUTH
Musical director BARRY BOOTH Designer GARY PRITCHARD
Directed by David G. HILLIER Produced by JAMES MOIR

starring Charlton Heston
The sole survivor of a wagon train attacked by Crow Indians , young Jim Aherne is rescued by the Sioux and raised as one of the tribe.
Directed by GEORGE MARSHALL. Films: p 17

The first programme of a new series 'live' from the Television Theatre in London starring Val Doonican with his special guest Johnny Mathis
also featuring Deniece Williams and Nashville's leading country musicians, Charlie McCoy, Lloyd Green, Hargus 'Pig' Robbins
(Val Doonican presents the awards: Pot Black 78, Friday, 9.0 pm, BBC2)

starring
Telly Savalas as Lieutenant Theo Kojak. a tough cop, with a tough job, in a tough town - New York Once More from Birdland
Kojak investigates a burglary at the apartment of a young night-club singer and discovers that her father, framed for murder 14 years previously, has just come out of prison and is seeking the real killer.

with Kenneth Kendall ; Weather

Conversation, music and entertainment live from the entrance hall at Pebble Mill.
Bob Langley and Tony Lewis invite you to meet their guests. with Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen Director ROY NORTON
Producer ROY RONNIE