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with Timothy Davies
Billy and William by E. NESBIT
The story of what happened when Billy, known as William when he was horrid, met his cousin Harold Egbert Darwin St Leger.
Pictures by RONALD JACKSON

A cartoon series.
(Repeat)

Why Don't You just switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead?

The Deadly Bolas

The Tower of Babel starring Richard Basehart
12.13 pm Weather MICHAEL FISH

Introduced by David Coleman
12.20*
Football Focus
BOB WILSON greets the New Year looking at today's fixtures m England and Scotland and expresses his hopes for football in the 80s.
12.40; 1.5; 1.40; 2.15* Racing from Cheltenham
12 45 The Malvern Novices Hurdle Race (Div 1. 2m)
1.15 The Worthington E Novices' Steeplechase (21 1/2 m)
1.50 The Panama Cigar Hurdle Race (Qualifier. 2m)
2.25 The Bass Handicap Steeplechase (4m)
One of the season's longest steeple-chases and the first important trial for the Grand National.
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN and RICHARD PITMAN
1.25*
International Basketball from the National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace
The Philips World Invitational ClubChampionships
The final of this prestigious club competition in which MACCABI TEL
AViv are favourites to retain their title. Seeded to meet them in today's final are the UNIVERSITY OF
NORTH CAROLINA, one of the top college teams in the USA. Commentators
STUART STOREY and MILES AIKEN
2.0; 2.50*
International Ski-jumping from Garmisch
The traditional New Year winter sports classic when the world's best ski-jumpers take on the giant
90-metres hill in the Bavarian
Alps in the second leg of the Four
Hills Championships.
Commentator RON PICKERING
2.40*
Cricket:
Australia v West Indies
The Second Test from Melbourne
Highlights of the fourth day's play which ended just a few hours ago.
Today's timetable:
12.20 Football Focus; 12.40 Racing 12 55 Sports Round-up; 1.5 Racing 125 Basketball; 1.40 Racing 20 Ski-jumping; 2.15 Racing
2.40 Cricket: 2.50 Ski-jumping 'Timings subject to alteration TV presentation.
Football Focus MIKE MURPHY
Racing RICHARD TILLING , JOHN MCNICHOLAS Basketball JOHNNIE WATHERSTON
Ski-jumping GERMAN TELEVISION SERVICE Cricket 9 NETWORK, Australia
Producer Grandstand MARTIN HOPKINS Editor Grandstand HAROLD ANDERSON

by John le Carre
Dramatised by Arthur Hopcraft
Also starring (in order of appearance) Michael Jayston, Bernard Hepton, Michael Aldridge, Terence Rigby, Ian Richardson, Hywel Bennett, Patrick Stewart, Anthony Bate, George Sewell, Ian Bannen, John Standing, Alexander Knox, Joss Ackland, Sian Phillips

A two-part version

'I still believe that the Secret Services are the only real expression of a nation's character. Until the mid-50s, I still had hopes... lingering loyalty to what we represented... sheer delusion, of course. We were already America's street-walkers.' (Gerald, the Mole)

London and South East only: Today's Sport
All other regions:
Regional News and Sport

with Richard Whitmore Weatherman

with Richard Whitmore Weatherman

The feature film based on FREDERICK FORSYTH 'S novel starring
Jon Voight
Maximilian Schell who tells RADIO. TIMES:
On the November day in 1963 that President Kennedy is assassinated, an elderly Jew, Solomon Tauber , commits suicide in Hamburg. He leaves behind his diary of the horrifying events in the death camp at Riga - alleging that the Commandant and many other Nazis are alive and thriving in modern Germany. A young journalist, Peter Miller , finds the diary and realises that he has uncovered a story comparable with the devastating events in Dallas. He decides to find the Commandant and uncover the secrets of the Odessa organisation.
Screenplay by KENNETH ROSS , GEORGE MARKSTEIN Produced by JOHN WOOLF Directed by RONALD NEAME
(First showing on British television) Films: pages 16-17

Barry Norman looks back at the films of 1979 and selects his 12 best.
How does The Deer Hunter compare with Apocalypse Now? Is California Suite the best comedy? What about WOODY ALLEN 'S Manhattan? Where does The China Syndrome rank? Is Alien in the 12-best list?
Director JANE LUSH
Producer MARGARET SHARP
Executive producer BARRY BROWN