Good Dog

with Timothy Davies
The Charmed Life by E. Nesbit
Prince Florizel's father has fallen on hard times and gone into business manufacturing lifts. Florizel, posing at the palace as a salesman, falls in love with the Princess. But he's only a tradesman, and tradesmen can't marry princesses, can they?
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Why Don't You just switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead?
Director HILARY MURPHY Producer MOLLY cox

English version written and told by Eric Thompson.

Cross of the Andes

Jiminy Cricket in I'm No Fool Toby Tyler Parts 6 and 7

Moses has led his people out of Egypt and slavery. For 40 years they wander homeless in the desert until his followers begin to lose faith. Only Moses remains convinced God's purpose will be revealed.

Weather JACK SCOTT

1979 has been an exciting and successful year for British riders and drivers. Our show jumping team won the gold medal in the European Championships and our eventers, who look certain to emulate them, ended up with both team and individual silver.
Raymond Brooks-Ward and Dorian Williams look back over the year with Ronnie Massarella and Robert Smith.
Producer JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

CARMEN MUNRO introduces rhymes and counting games and tells a story about Annie, Louise, George, Kevin, Caroline, Cheng, Scott, Mary, Toni and Sandra who all go to a place where there is plenty to do and room to play.
The Cupboard Door
Illustrated by JOAN HICKSON Percussion GREG KNOWLES
Musical director PETER PETTINGER
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
Written/directed by CAROLE WARD

The feature film starring Judy Garland with Margaret O'Brien , Mary Astor Leon Ames
Meet Me in St Louis is perhaps Vincente Minnelli 's best-loved musical, featuring Judy Garland in numbers like ' The boy next door' and ' Have yourself a merry little Christmas' and, of course, the classic ' Trolley song'. It traces the life and loves of a St Louis family through the four seasons, investigating the trials and tribulations of growing-up.
In this MGM classic, Judy gave one of her most enchanting performances.
Screenplay by IRVING BRECHER and FRED F. FINKLEHOFFE
Based on the book by SALLY BENSON Produced by ARTHUR FREED
Directed by VINCENTE MINNELLI Films: pages 16-17

Story: Presents for the Baby by BARBARA MITCHELL-HILL illustrations by MINA MARTINEZ Presenters
Carol Leader, Chris Tranchell

A cartoon series
Quack Hero: Touché and Dum Dum answer the cries for help in their own inimitable way.

with Willie Rushton Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. MILNE
Three cheers for Pooh! (for who?) For Pooh -
(Why what did he do?) I thought you knew ...
Today: Eeyore loses a tail

The Wizard of Crumm and the Ice Princess by IAIN BLAIR
Princess Rhiannon has a most unusual effect on everything she touches - it turns to ice. With the wizard and the court fool she has to travel to the Castle of Dread to discover the reason for the spell.
Designer GLORIA CLAYTON
Executive producer ANNA HOME Producer ANGELA BEECHING Director CHRISTINE SECOMBE

with Simon Groom, Tina Heath, Christopher Wenner
Question: What do Her Majesty The Queen, Rameses II, Yul Brynner, the Prime Minister, James Callaghan and 80 pantomime horses have in common?
Answer: They've all taken part in Blue Peter during 1979.
If you don't remember seeing them, find out today where and when they all appeared, in Blue Peter's highlights of the past 12 months.

Kenneth Kendall ; Weatherman

(London and South East only)

Regional News
(All other English regions)

by CARLO COLLODI
Dramatised by ALEC DRYSDALE starring and Pinocchio's voice by Rosemary Miller
An opportunity to see in one evening the whole of the enchanting story of the puppet who wants to be a real boy, enjoyed by so many as a serial last year.
Pinocchio created by THEATRE OF PUPPETS Puppetmaster BARRY SMPTH
Puppeteers GILLIAN ROBIC , TREVOR TRENTON Music composed by STEPHEN DEUTSCH Script editor ALISTAIR BELL
Directed by BARRY LETTS (Repeat)

The feature film starring

Albert Finney tells Radio Times: "My make-up took two hours to put on, and at least half-an-hour to take off. I was doing a play in the West End at the same time so I couldn't dye my hair black and had to plaster a sort of black glue all over my hair every day. I wore a false nose and rubber around the eyes to age me. It was pretty hectic."

Shortly after its departure from Istanbul, the Orient Express makes an unscheduled stop during the night. Snow is blocking the line. The passengers sleep on. Except for a small, moustachioed Belgian with indigestion, and another man. A murderer.
(First showing on British television)
Films: pages 16-17

with Kenneth Kendall Weatherman

Introduced by Penelope Keith
As midnight approaches and brings with it the beginning of the 1980s, the final programme of the 1970s brings back memories of some of the BBC television programmes which achieved popularity, esteem or even notoriety during the decade. Among the well-known faces who have created an impact on our television screens over the past ten years: John Cleese, Michael Parkinson, Rod Hull and Emu, The Goodies, Elton John, Angela Rippon,
Penelope Keith, Richard Briers, Felicity Kendall, Paul Eddington, Michael Crawford, David Frost, Larry Grayson, Morecambe and Wise, Esther Rantzen, Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Keith Michell, Ian Holm, Tom Conti, Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, Alan Dobie, Alan Bates, Anne Stallybrass, Susan Littler, John Duttine, Joanna David, Jeremy Brett, Anna Massey, Christopher Timothy,
Robert Hardy, Clare Francis, John Curry, Olga Korbut, Nadia Comaneci, Mary Peters, Virginia Wade, Monty Python, Alistair Cooke, Dr Jacob Bronowski, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, and The Wilkins Family of Reading

A Scottish welcome to the New Year starring (in alphabetical order) Reginald Bosanquet, Andy Cameron, Tom Ferrie, Aiden J. Harvey, Helen McArthur, The McCalmans, Walter McCorrisken, Bill McCue, Alastair McDonald, Bill Paterson, Aileen Robertson and Billy Forsyth
Special guest Jim Watt
with Babcock and Renfrew Pipe Band, Pipe-major Iain McLeod, Jim Johnstone's Scottish Country Dance Band and Brian Fahey and the BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra leader Ian Tyre

BBC Scotland