(Repeat)
Rails West
ROY CASTLE finds out how exercise can help you feel better and get more out of life. Heart specialist DR PETER CARSON explains why he jogs every morning, and ROLF Harris and LIZA GODDARD also give their reasons for keeping fit.
Director BRIAN DAVIES
Producer PETER RIDING
A Saturday morning serial from Walt Disney
The Hound of the Sierras
Don Diego and the Mountain Man fall foul of a ferocious dog.
THE MOUSEKETEERS introduce Donald Duck in Honey Harvester and sing ' Joy to the world', and part 2 of the exciting western adventure serial A Horse Called Comanche.
Directed hy JAMES FIELD
Executive producer RON MILLER
(Master of Lassie)
A film starring Edmund Gwenn Donald Crisp , Janet Leigh and featuring Lassie
Elderly doctor William MacLure tries to find a successor for his lonely practice in the Scottish highlands.
Screenplay by WILLIAM LEDWIG Produced by ROBERT SISK
Directed by FRED M. WILCOX Films: page 15
Introduced by Frank Bough
12.35*
Football Focus
BOB WILSON previews the League games in England and Scotland affecting promotion and relegation.
1.5; 3.5*
American Basketball from Indianapolis
The NCAA Championships
The world's premier basketball tournament brings together Iowa, Louisville, UCLA and Purdue for the semi-final stages.
1.35; 2.5* Boxing from Wembley Conference Centre CLINTON MCKENZIE and CORNELIUS 'BOZA' EDWARDS were both in action in this week's Barrett-Duff promotion sponsored by Whyte and Mackays.
Commentator HARRY CARPENTER
1.50; 2.20; 2.50*
Racing from
Haydock Park
2.0 The Philip Comes Nickel Alloys Stakes (Qualifier. 5f)
2.30 The Valspar Paint Handicap (2m 28y)
3.0 The Holsten Diat Pils Handicap (1m 40y)
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN JULIAN WILSON and JIMMY LINDLEY
2 35*
Flat Season 80
JULIAN WILSON looks at Britain's prospects of keeping the classic races at home during 1980, and focuses on the ambitions of New-market's two top young trainers. record-breaking HENRY CECIL and up-and-coming MICHAEL STOUTE.
3.35*
Rugby League from Belle Vue
Wakefield Trinity v Castleford
Today's game is the traditional Easter derby match between these two local teams, and should provide some hard, entertaining play. as both teams need vital points to stay in the First Division.
Commentator EDDIE WARING
4.15*
The University Boat Race
Oxford v Cambridge for the Ladbroke Trophy
The 126th meeting of the Dark and Light Blues over the famous Putney to Mortlake course. Oxford have won for the last four years and are odds on to win again, which would equal their longest winning sequence in this century. Commentators
HARRY CARPENTER and JIM RAILTON
Woddis On ... and View: page 90
5.10* Final Score
Classified football results, match reports and the latest news of today's other major sporting events.
Today's Timetable:
12.35 Football Focus; 1.5 Basketball
1.35 Boxing: 1.50 Racing; 2.5 Boxing
2.20 Racing; 2.35 Flat Season 80
2.50 Racing; 3.5 Basketball
3.35 Rugby League; 4.15 The Boat Race
5.10 Final Score
-Timings subject to alteration Television presentation:
Football Focus MIKE MURPHY Basketball NBC
BOXing BOB DUNCAN Racing NICK HUNTER
Rugby League KEITH Phillips The Boat Race DAVID KENNING
Producer Grandstand MARTIN HOPKINS Editor Grandstand HAROLD ANDERSON
Kenneth Kendall ; Weatherman
starring Rolf Harris with his special guests
Keith Harris and The Dooleys
Join Rolf and his guests for half an hour of acting, painting-but above all, singing.
Featuring this week the children 'Of ST MARGARET 'S CHURCH OF
ENGLAND JUNIOR SCHOOL, DURHAM
Musical director BARRY BOOTH Script TONY HAWES
Designer RICHARD MCMANAN SMITH Directed by BRIAN PENDERS Produced by JAMES MOIR
starring Lynda Carter Diana Prince and Wonder Woman Steve Trevor and Lyle Waggoner
Today: The Starships are Coming Abduction and attack by alien spaceships on a small Pennsylvanian community, witnessed on television broadcasts by a horrified and stunned nation, put the IADC on red alert while Wonder Woman mobilises her resources to prevent a nuclear holocaust.
Written by GLEN OLSON and ROD BAKER
Directed by ALAN CROSLAND
Adapted by Terence Dudley
From the books by James Herriot
The last of a series in 14 parts
Starring Christopher Timothy as James Herriot, Robert Hardy as Siegfried Farnon and Peter Davison as Tristan Farnon
with Carol Drinkwater
Siegfried, James and Tristan all cope characteristically with the final threat to the harmony of Skeldale House...
BBC Birmingham
The first of a new series of nine programmes live from the Television Theatre in London starring
Val Doonican with international guest stars
Nana Mouskourl and Roy Clark also featuring each week a surprise special guest
Musical director RONNIE HAZLEHURST Musical associate ROGER Richards Written by BARRY TOOK and VAL ÐOONICAN Costume designer NICHOLAS ROCKER
Sound LARRY GOODSON
Lighting KEN MACGREGOR Designer DON TAYLOR Production
YVONNE LITTLEWOOD
A special feature-length programme about the rich and powerful Texas family starring with and Jock's Trial
A time of crisis for the Ewings. More and more money rolls in but it cannot stem the tide of disaster, death and sorrow which affects all the family in one way or another.
Written by ARTHUR BERNARD LEWIS Directed by IRVING J. MOORE
with Kenneth Kendall Weather
Bob Langley and Arianna Stassinopoulos introduce a cheerful, irreverent blend of music and conversation, live from the foyer of Pebble Mill. With KENNY BALL AND HIS JAZZMEN
Director Roy NORTON Producer ROY RONNIE