Mr Mean and Mr Tickle by ROGER HARGREAVES Told by ARTHUR LOWE
Animation TERRY WARD

Weather JIM BACON

The Lawn Tennis Championships BBC outside broadcast cameras bring you
The Semi-finals of the Men's Singles.
Live coverage from the Centre Court, where today's two vital matches will decide who plays in Saturday's Men's Final.
Commentaries by DAN MASKELL , PETER WEST , JOHN BARRETT , ANN JONES and BILL THRELFALL
Introduced by HARRY CARPENTER with news, results, summaries.
TV presentation by FRED VINER , MARTIN HOPKINS . JOHN SHREWSBURY , JOHNNIE WATHERSTON , JOHN PHILIPS and JIM RESIDE Editor JONATHAN MARTIN

Story:
The Ant and the Grasshopper (traditional) Presenters
Chloe Ashcroft
Christopher Bramwell

A cartoon series. Buford, the smart but sleepy bloodhound, helps solve another baffling mystery. Dinky, the largest pup in the world, blunders into a further adventure.

Heat 2: South of England
PARK WOOD SCHOOL, BEDFORD
BRAMSTON SCHOOL, WITHAM, ESSEX SHOREDITCH SCHOOL, LONDON compete in a series of games on the field and in the pool at Witham Sports Centre, Essex introduced by Ron Pickering with special guest athlete Mike McFarlane
Production assistant TONY cox Producer PETER CHARLTON

with Peter Woods ; Weatherman

Including the news from London and the South East, and a special series on West End theatre.
Tonight Bob Wellings meets Keith Michell and Julia McKenzie , currently appearing in Ott the Twentieth Century at Her Majesty's Theatre.

The Lawn Tennis Championships
Coverage direct from the All England Club, including highlights of today's Men's singles semi-finals. Introduced by HARRY CARPENTER

with LEGS & CO
TOP OF THE POPS ORCHESTRA
Musical director JOHNNY PEARSON Choreography FLICK COLBY Sound ALAN MACHIN
Lighting DON BABBAGE
Designer TOM YARDLEY-JONES Producer PHIL BISHOP
Executive producer ROBIN NASH

America's comedy hit

An invitation to some home cooking and a taste of domesticity doesn't quite go as planned.

Starring Judd Hirsch as Alex Rieger
with Randall Carver as John Burns, Jeff Conaway as Bobby Wheeler, Tony Danza as Tony Banta, Danny De Vito as Louie de Palma, Marilu Henner as Elaine Nardo, Andy Kaufman as Latka Gravas
Special guest star Ellen Regan as Suzanne

by Roy Clarke
Starring Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde

Foggy takes Compo and Clegg to see a piece of history - the Steam Preservation Society's reopening of an old railway line.
(Repeat)

Kenneth Kendall; Weatherman

Weather news on Ceefax pages 181/2

A dramatised reconstruction of four famous Scottish murder cases which took place within a square mile of the city of Glasgow.
Based on the book by JACK HOUSE 4: A Kiss, a Fond Embrace (2) by JOAN LINGARD with and In the early hours of Sunday, 22 March 1857, Emile L'Angelier arrived home very ill indeed and after several hours of agony died. The result of the enquiry into his death shocked respectable Glasgow society and became the notorious case of Madeleine Smith.
Introduced by Andrew Keir
Script editor MACGIE ALLEN
Studio lighting JAMES CRAIG Designer DAVID MCKENZIE Producer BOB MCINTOSH Director FIONA CUMMING BBC Scotland

with Russell Harty
The weekly book programme which spotlights the author, investigates the opinions of the writer and offers to the reader a wide variety of suggestions - from genetics to knitting and from Barbara Cartland to Tamburlaine.
Research
DOROTHY SPOKES and CHRIS WILSOH
CHRIS WILSON
Director ROBIN LOUGH
Producer NIGEL WILLIAMS Editor RUSSELL HARTY

in The Old Boy Network
Perhaps you can't remember when you first heard the catchphrase ' Can you hear me, Mother? ', but you know who says it.
Very few people can remember a time when Sandy Powell wasn't part of Britain's comic furniture.
Tonight he recounts just some of the best parts of 60 years in show business. Recorded at the South-port Theatre.
Programme associate JIMMY PERRY Producer DON SAYER

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