Weather MICHAEL FISH

Today's guests on the lunchtime programme are joined by culinary genius Michael Smith , who introduces a touch of grace and flavour into the proceedings when he presents a selection of dishes to adorn any Christmas holiday table.

Wheels and Wires

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

High Jinks

with Spike Milligan
Help! I'm a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Factory by JOHN ANTROBUS. Part 2

with Kenneth Kendall Weatherman

presenting the British scene to the British people
FRANK BOUGH , SUE LAWLEY
HUGH SCULLY , JOHN STAPLETON and BOB WELLINGS . with a mixture of topical reports and special investigations.
Also from far and near, the programme's team of reporters,
LUKE CASEY, BERNARD CLARK , VERA GILBERT , SALLY HARDCASTLE , JOHN HITCHINS , JAMES HOGG , BILL KERR ELLIOTT, TONY WILKINSON ,
NICHOLAS WOOLLEY and GLYN woRSNiP, bring you films and features that reflect the way life is Nationwide,

TV's most famous sci-fi series starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock

This week: Obsession
A taste of honey arouses old fears and forebodings in Captain Kirk and causes him to disregard vital orders in a fanatical effort to rid Space and his conscience of a deadly creature out for blood.
The dread spectre is to realise his worst fears and reveal the anguish of a fatal error in his past.

with Magnus Magnusson
This, the Best of the Runners-up semi-final, is being staged at the New University of Ulster in Coleraine, and by sheer coincidence includes an Englishman, an Irish-woman, a Scot and a Welshman.
Tonight's winner will fill the last place in the Final line-up. The contenders are:
Barry Jones (fitter) - British Prime Ministers
John Shepherd (air traffic controller) - Life and Works of George Borrow Beatrice Syms (art teacher) - Life and Works of Jane Austen
James Davis (teacher) - The Mountains of Scotland
Director ANTONIA CHARLTON
Producer BILL WRIGHT Themes
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with Peter Woods and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weatherman

From Shepherd's Bush to Simla
The second of two programmes

Robert Robinson continues his trek across India in the steps of the Viceroys of the 19th century. Evidence of the British presence remains in a public school in Lucknow-the one Kipling used for Kim - regimental dinner in New Delhi and the memories of the British who 'stayed on' in Simla in the foothills of the Himalayas.

Join Michael Parkinson and his midweek guests for conversation entertainment and the occasional surprise.

by Gerald Savory
A three-part Gothic Romance, based on Bram Stoker's Dracula
Starring with and
The vampire can move only between sunset and sunrise. He cannot nourish without his diet of blood. In the hell-holes of the undead nothing can harm him or release him from immortality save a stake driven through his heart.

(First shown on BBC2)
(Part 2 tomorrow at 11.12 pm)