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Roy Castle finds out why a group of Edinburgh workers jog round their factory after work. And why union leader Bill Sirs and actor Colin Baker both make a special effort to find the time to take regular exercise.

Contributors

Presenter:
Roy Castle
Guest:
Bill Sirs
Guest:
Colin Baker
Director:
Brian Davies
Producer:
Peter Riding

A serial from Walt Disney starring Guy Williams as the Robin Hood of old California Exposing the Tyrant
Sergeant Garcia forces Zorro to appear in court.
Written by MAURY HILL and BOB WEHLING Directed by HOLLY MORSE

Contributors

Unknown:
Guy Williams
Unknown:
Robin Hood
Written By:
Maury Hill
Directed By:
Holly Morse
Don Diego:
Guy Williams
ZORRO:
Guy Williams
Basilio:
Everett Sloan
Don Cornelio Esperon:
Edgar Barrier
Sergeant Garcia:
Henry Calvin

A feature film starring Abbott and Costello with Virginia Bruce, Robert Paige Two screwball Chicago bus-drivers (Abbott and Costello), fed up with driving the same old bus on the same old routes, jump at the chance to take a wealthy playboy and ten chorus girls on a chartered trip to Los Angeles. Unfortunately, they forget to tell their bosses....
Screenplay by TRUE BOARDMAN , NAT PERRIN and JOHN GRANT Directed by ERLE c. KENTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Paige
Play By:
True Boardman
AIgy Shaw:
Bud Abbott
Wellington Pflug:
Lou Costello
Joan Marshall:
Virginia Bruce
Tommy Layton:
Robert Paige
Luana:
Nan Wynne
Whaba:
Leif Erickson
Detective ::
William Demarest

featuring
The Rugby League Cup Final Hull v Hull Kingston Rovers
Introduced by Frank Bough direct from the Empire Stadium, Wembley.
12.30*
Football Focus
On the last full Saturday of the football season, BOB WILSON looks at the vital promotion and relegation issues.
12.55*
Snooker from the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
The Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship
A place in the final and a chance for the winner's cheque of 115,000 awaits the winner of today's first semi-final.
Commentators TED LOWE:
JACK KARNEHM and CLIVE EVERTON
1.15*
Cup Final City
Hull's ' local derby' has been uplifted to Wembley and TONY GUBBA reports on the effect that the two clubs have had on the city.
1.25; 1.50; 2.20*
Racing from Haydock
1.30 The Cold Shield Windows Handicap (11m 131y)
2.0 The Cold Shield Windows 4,000 Guineas (1m 40y)
2.30 The Cold Shield Windows Trophy (7f 40y)
Top miler Kris makes his keenly awaited reappearance in this valuable event.
Commentators JULIAN WILSON and JIMMY LINDLEY
1.35*
International
Show dumping from Hickstead
The Everest Pairs Relay This is an exciting class ridden-off against the clock. With all the leading British riders present we can expect some interesting combinations, like father and son HARVEY and ROBERT SMITH , or brother and sister DAVID BROOME and LIZ EDGAR.
Commentator
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD
2.5* Meet the Teams
Grandstand cameras take viewers into the dressing-rooms to meet today's finalists less than an hour before kick-off.
2.40*
Rugby League
The State Express
Challenge Cup Final Hull v
* Hull Kingston Rovers
BBC outside broadcast cameras bring you the whole of this great occasion, followed by the presentation of the Cup and medals by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Hull Kingston Rovers, led by former England skipper ROGER MILLWARD , have never won the Cup and will be determined to equal the record of their neighbours who have succeeded just once, in 1914. Hull, who are the best suDDorted team in the League this year, were promoted from the Second Division last season. Commentators
EDDIE WARING and ALEX MURPHY
4.45* Final Score
Classified results and match reports from the last full Football League programme.
Today's timetable:
12.30 Football Focus; 12.55 Snooker
1.15 Cup Final City; 1.25 Racing
1.35 Show Jumping; 1.50 Racing
2.5 Meet the Teams; 2.20 Racing
2.40 Rugby League Cup Final
4.45 Final Score
* Timings subject to alteration
Television presentation:
Football FOCUS MIKE MURPHY
Snooker RICHARD TILLING and BILL TAYLOR Racing JOHN MCNICHOLAS
Show Jumping JOHNNIE WATHERSTON Rugby League Cup Final
NICK HUNTER and ALASTAIR SCOTT
Producer Grandstand MARTIN HOPKINS Editor Grandstand HAROLD ANDERSON .
Sporting Themes (record REH 348, cassette zcr 348), from record shops
Snooker scores and reports on Ceefax

Contributors

Introduced By:
Frank Bough
Unknown:
Bob Wilson
Unknown:
Jack Karnehm
Unknown:
Tony Gubba
Commentators:
Julian Wilson
Commentators:
Jimmy Lindley
Commentators:
Robert Smith
Unknown:
David Broome
Unknown:
Liz Edgar.
Unknown:
Raymond Brooks-Ward
Unknown:
Roger Millward
Unknown:
Eddie Waring
Unknown:
Alex Murphy
Unknown:
Mike Murphy
Unknown:
Snooker Richard Tilling
Unknown:
Bill Taylor
Unknown:
John McNicholas
Unknown:
Johnnie Watherston
Unknown:
Nick Hunter
Unknown:
Alastair Scott
Unknown:
Harold Anderson

starring Rolf Harris with his special guests Keith Harris and Suzi Quatro
Roll up this way What do you say
Pack your schoolbooks away It's Saturday OK? is the invitation to schoolchildren all over the country to join Rolf and his guests for half an hour of acting, painting - but above all, singing.
Featuring this week the children of FRAMWELLGATE MOOR JUNIOR SCHOOL,
DURHAM
Musical director BARRY Boom Script TONY HAWES
Designer RICHARD MCMANAN. SMITH Directed by BRIAN PENDERS Produced by JAMES MOIR
LP and cassette (same title: record REH 353, cassette ZCR 353) from record shops

Contributors

Unknown:
Rolf Harris
Unknown:
Keith Harris
Unknown:
Suzi Quatro
Director:
Barry Boom
Script:
Tony Hawes
Designer:
Richard McManan.
Directed By:
Brian Penders
Produced By:
James Moir

Starring Lynda Carter as Diana Prince and Wonder Woman and Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor

Today: Going, Going, Gone
A Russian spy-plane pilot sees a flying saucer attacking him and jettisons his nuclear load into American waters. The IADC, already hard pressed investigating laser thefts, have to react quickly as they are alerted to a black market auction of a nuclear warhead.

Woddis On... page 78

Contributors

Writer:
Patrick Mathews
Director:
Alan Crosland
Diana Prince/Wonder Woman:
Lynda Carter
Steve Trevor:
Lyle Waggoner
Zukov:
Bo Brudin
Mr Smith:
Charlie Brill
Lucas:
Kaz Garas
Como:
Hari Rhodes
Captain Louie:
Milton Selzer
Mr Jones:
Marc Lawrence
Mr Brown:
null Mako

starring Raquel Welch Tony Franciosa
In this action-packed spy spoof, bikini-clad Raquel Welch stars as Fathom Harvill , a Californian dental assistant and amateur sky-diving champion. While taking part in an aeronautics show in Spain, Fathom meets a young English-man who gets her enmeshed in an elaborate plot involving a supposed nuclear device lost in the Mediterranean, a jewel encrusted statuette and several highly professional agents who don't like her being in the way. Thrills and spills await Fathom before virtue can finally triumph ...
Screenplay by LORENZO SEMPLE JR
From the novel by LARRY FORRESTER Produced by JOHN KOHN
Directed by LESLIE MARTINSON Films: page 19

Contributors

Unknown:
Raquel Welch
Unknown:
Tony Franciosa
Unknown:
Raquel Welch
Unknown:
Fathom Harvill
Unknown:
Lorenzo Semple
Novel By:
Larry Forrester
Produced By:
John Kohn
Directed By:
Leslie Martinson
Fathom Harvill:
Raquel Welch
Peter Merriweather:
Tony Franciosa
Douglas Campbell:
Ronald Fraser
Jo-May Soon:
Greta Chi
Timothy:
Richard Briers
Mike:
Tony Adams
Serapkin:
Clive Revill
Mr Trivers:
Reg Lye
Mrs Trivers:
Ann Lancaster
Ulla:
Elizabeth Ercy
Mehmed:
Tutte Lemkow

A new series of programmes live from the Television Theatre in London starring Val Doonican with special guests Helen Reddy Shari Lewis with Lamb Chop Gheorghe Zamfir
Romanian pan-pipes virtuoso and Johnny Logan
Musical director RONNIE HAZLEHURST
Written by BARRY TOOK and VAL DOONICAN Costume designer NICHOLAS ROCKER Sound LARRY GOODSON
Lighting KEN MACGREGOR Designer DON TAYLOR
Production YVONNE LITTLEWOOD

Contributors

Unknown:
Val Doonican
Unknown:
Helen Reddy
Unknown:
Shari Lewis
Director:
Ronnie Hazlehurst
Written By:
Barry Took
Unknown:
Ken MacGregor
Designer:
Don Taylor
Unknown:
Yvonne Littlewood

starring with guest star
Community Spirit
A powerful oil company plans to drill for oil near the unspoiled harbour at Knots Landing. The residents launch a determined protest, led by Gary Ewing. The chief executive of the company descends on the community - guess who?
Written by DAVID JACOBS Directed by PETER LEVIN See Letters page

Contributors

Unknown:
Gary Ewing.
Written By:
David Jacobs
Directed By:
Peter Levin
Valene Ewing:
Joan van Ark
Gary Ewing:
Ted Shackleford
Sid Fairgate:
Don Murray
Actor:
Michele Lee
Richard Ayery:
John Pleshette
Laura Avery:
Constance McCashin
Kenny Ward:
James Houghton
Ginger Ward:
Kim Lankford
J R Ewing:
Larry Hagman

Bob Langley and guest presenter Hayley Mills introduce a cheerful, irreverent blend of music and conversation, live from the foyer of Pebble Mill. Among tonight's guests:
Mary Crosby, from the successful series Dallas, and the Royal Dancers and Musicians from the Kingdom of Bhutan
With KENNY BALL AND HIS JAZZMEN
Director ROY NORTON Producer ROY RONNIE

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Langley
Presenter:
Hayley Mills
Director:
Roy Norton
Producer:
Roy Ronnie

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BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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