Paddington Hits the Jackpot
with Jane Lapotaire Boy without a Name by PENELOPE LIVELY
Thomas is an orphan, with no home or friends. He is taken on to work as a stonemason, and finds a place and a name for himself.
Pictures by LYNN BYRNES
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Part 2
The boy, Troshka, learns the heroic history of Zina, the horse he has come to love and protect. Story told by DAVID STRONG
Presented by PEGGY MILLER (Part 3 tomorrow)
The classic serial, in 12 exciting episodes, starring
Buster Crabbe as Buck Rogers 11: A Prince in Bondage
In which Buck Rogers flies to Saturn by spaceship to seek the help of the Saturnians in the final battle against Killer Kane.
The feature film, starring Randolph Scott with Lucille Norman , Raymond Massey Jeff Kincaid is hired to build a railroad over the mountains to protect gold and silver shipments from the mines to Carson City. In addition to opposition from the townspeople, Kincaid finds himself under attack from Big Jack' Davis, mine owner-and gold robber!
Screenplay by SLOAN NIBLEY , WINSTON MILLER Produced by DAVID WEISBART Directed by ANDRÉ DE TOTH Films: pages 16-17
including the film feature Focus with Tony Bilbow
Editor JIM DUMIGHAN
with Maggie Henderson and Fred Harris
It's Ragtime, 55p from bookshops
A programme for children under 5
Don Maclean and Peter Glaze cause chaos and laughter by their antics in the garden.
with Cyril Luckham
The Church Mice and the Moon written and illustrated by GRAHAM OAKLEY
Two wily scientists abduct Humphrey and Arthur, and they are just on the point of launching them into a career as astromice, when Sampson saves the day and the moon rocket takes off for a very unexpected destination.
An animated series of science-fiction stories.
Selected from an earlier age and given incredible powers, three teenagers return to Earth in their spaceship headquarters with a mission - to guard the human race from evil.
with Lesley Judd, Simon Groom and Christopher Wenner
Did you get a diary for Christmas? More than 300 years ago a young man started a ten-year diary written in secret code. Lesley and Christopher tell the story of Samuel Pepys and the diary that became one of the most important books in the English language.
Blue Peter Fifteenth Book, £1.35, and Blue Peter Make, Cook and Look Book, £1.50, from bookshops
Swing
with Angela Rippon Weatherman
The Nationwide team of FRANK BOUGH
SUE LAWLEY
HUGH SCULLY
JOHN STAPLETON and BOB WELLINGS provides you with background to the news of the day and presents some of the less serious features and stories that make up the scene Nationwide.
The legendary, one-and-only Elvis Presley in an outstanding TV special made at the height of his career.
This is Elvis in his most relaxed and intimate style, singing many of his best-known songs, including 'Lawdy Miss Clawdy', 'Hound Dog', ' All Shook Up', 'Jailhouse Rock', 'Love Me Tender', 'Guitar-man' and 'Blue Christmas'.
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A new comedy show set in the House of Commons starring
Mollie Sugden, Dandy Nichols, Patricia Hayes with John Quayle
Written by Ray Galton and Johnny Speight
with Angela Rippon and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weather
The Braniff Airways World Doubles Championship
With more than half the qualifying matches now completed, the round-robin league tables take a definite shape and point the way to current form of the world's best doubles players.
David Vine reports on the day's play and introduces live action from Olympia. Commentators
DAN MASKELL , JOHN BARRETT PETER WEST and BOB HOWE
Producers
FRED VINER , JOHNNIE WATHERSTOH