Weather BILL GILES

With DONNY MACLEOD
DAVID SEYMOUR and MARIAN FOSTER The live and lively magazine, presenting the personalities and talking points of the day, and including Medicine Matters with Dr David Delvin

CARMEN MUNRO introduces rhymes and counting games and tells a story. Caroline's Hat

The 97th Varsity Match for the Boicring Bowl Oxford v Cambridge
Thirty young men at a peak of physical fitness take the field at Rugby Union ' Headquarters ' this afternoon.
The opposing captains,
John Robbie of Cambridge and Ireland and Tony Watkinson of Oxford, gain their second ' Blues' in a match which Cambridge must win to level the overall tally at 42-all with 13 drawn.
Commentators at Twickenham NIGEL STARMER-SMITII with BOB HILLER
Television presentation BILL TAYLOR

The Elves and the Shoemaker written by the BROTHERS GRIMM Illustrated by KATRIN BRANDT Presenters
Carol Chell , Chris Tranchell
. (Shown on BBC2 at 11.0 ami

Long Island Duckling
The lazy lawman's at it again - look out for trouble.

with Ian McKellen
The Moon in the Cloud by Rosmary Harris
Today: Cats of One Colour

Michael Rodd asks questions based on scenes from Abba the Movie, It's in the Air, County Hospital and The Strongest Man in the World.
Looking for the answers will be contestants from
LANARK GRAMMAR SCHOOL and KILMARNOCK ACADEMY.
There will also be one of the top entries from the Young Film-makers' Competition.
Directed by PAUL LOOSLEY Produced by JOHN BUTTERY BBC Manchester

with Roy Castle and Norris McWhirter explores the first - fastest - highest - heaviest - strongest - smallest - laziest anything or anyone with a place in the record books.
In New Zealand, Roy discovers some record-breaking natural wonders.
The studio audience tests Norris's record memory, and there is a film of a record-breaking journey down the Mississippi River by a team of RAF canoeists.
Designer CHRIS HULL
Producer ALAN RUSSELL
Book (same title), £1.50, from bookshops

with Angela Rippon
Weatherman

Television's most popular current affairs magazine presented by FRANK BOUGH , SUE LAWLEY , HUGH SCULLY , JOHN STAPLETON and BOB WELLINGS with contributions from BBC studios throughout the country. Also, from far and near, the programme's team of reporters LUKE CASEY , BERNARD CLARK , KEVIN COSGROVE , TONY FRANCIS , DIANE BARRON , JAMES HOGG , BILL KERR ELLIOTT , NICHOLAS WOOLLEY , GLYN WORSNIP and MARTIN YOUNG bring you films and features that reflect the way life is Nationwide.

Starring Donnie and Marie
with their guests Kris Kristofferson, Paul Lynde and Robert Young

Countdown
James Burke takes a look at 2,000 years of human ingenuity. In the ninth of ten historical detective stories, he searches for the clues that link yesterday's amazing inventions to our modern-day world.
This week he asks: 'What's the connection between Little Jack Horner and Bonnie Prince Charlie , or between the repeating telegraph and The Sound of Music - and what would Tuesday nights be like without that connection? '
Film editor JIM LATHAM Photography
DAVID FEIG , TONY PIERCE-ROBERTS Produced by MICK JACKSON and DAVID KENNAIID

and guest star
With J.R. safely out of town, Sue Ellen is free to pursue her romantic relationship with another man-only to receive the news which surprises everyone, not least herself ...

with Angela Rippon ; Weather

by Andy McSmith
What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?

The Alignment of the Planets
The two giant planets Jupiter and - Saturn are now visible in the late evening sky. Rocket probes are on their way to both, as the alignment of the outer planets between now and the early 1980s gives exceptional opportunities for interplanetary navigation.
Patrick Moore and Dr Ron Maddi son consider the significance of this planetary alignment and discuss suggestions that it may have an effect upon the Earth.
Producer PATRICIA WOOD