7.15 Viewing with Electrons

7.40 Classical Greece: Sculpture

8.5 An Option for Eternity

(Repeat)

A film serial in 11 episodes

Francois, on his quest for the agent who will help him to get his message through to the French, falls in with a group of strolling players.

A series of ten programmes
5: Triple Jump - RON PICKERING with TOM MCNAB and JOHN CROTTY
BBC Bristol

Today: A Sweet Joke on Gotham City
Sinisterly smiling Sweetooth sabotages the city's water supply with chocolate syrup!
(Repeat)

The immortal words which inspired the celebrated song refer to Sylvester the cat, who finds the little bird is not as yellow as it looks!

in The Time of Their Lives with Marjorie Reynolds , Binnie Barnes 1780. When Horatio Prim and Mistress Melody Allen are mistakenly shot by George Washing ton's soldiers, they are condemned to a ghostly existence for 166 years in the colonial mansion Danbury Acres. But the shades' peace is disturbed - and the fun begins - when the old house is restored and people move in. Screenplay by VAL BURTON
WALTER DE LEON , BRADFORD ROPES Produced by VAL BURTON
Directed by CHARLES BARTON
(Block and white). Films: page 18

Joe McDoakes ... gets conflicting advice on how to keep his hair on.
(Black and white)

Introduced by David Coleman
12.35*
Football Focus
On the opening day of the Football League season, BOB WILSON returns with his popular football magazine programme, reporting the soccer news from both home and abroad.
1.15; 2.5; 2.35; 3.35; 4.10* Eventing from Locko Park, Derby
The Midland Bank Horse Trials
Britain's top riders compete for the 1980 Open Championship - the most prestigious one-day event title in the equestrian calendar. Among those tackling this afternoon's cross-country course will be LUCINDA PRIOR-PALMER and CAPTAIN
MARK PHILLIPS.
Commentators DORIAN williams
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD and MICHAEL TUCKER
1.50; 2.20; 2.50; 3.20*
Racing from Newbury
2.0 Swift Binocular Handicap (7f)
2.30 The Geoffrey Freer Stakes (Im 5f 60y)
Five-year-old Nicholas Bill , who made a shock-winning reappearance in Newmarket's Princess of Wales Stakes, heads a strong field for this valuable prize.
3.0 The ATS Trophy (Limited Handicap. 1½m)
3.30 Washington Singer Stakes (6f) Commentators JULIAN WILSON and JIMMY LINDLEY
3.5; 3.55; 4.30* AtMetics from Crystal Palace
TheSunsilkWAAA Championships Scotland's 16-year-old LINSEY MAC DONALD, who captured the hearts of British viewers during the Olympic Games, competes today in the 400m. HEATHER HUNTE , SONIA LANNAMAN, KATHY SMALL-WOOD and TESSA SANDERSON head a strong line-up which promises to provide a very competitive afternoon's athletics.
Organised by the WAAA
Commentators RON PICKERING and STUART STOREY
3.50* Half-time Football Scores
4.40* Final Score: Grandstand's vidiprinter provides the first Football League results of the season. Plus classified results, match reports and all the latest news of today's sporting events.
Today's timetable:
12.35 Football Focus
1.5 Sports Round-up: 1.15 Horse Trials
1.54 Racing: 2.5 Horse Trials
2.29 Racing; 2.35 Horse Trials
2.50 Racing; 3.5 Athletics
3.26 Racing; 3.35 Horse Trials
3.50 Football Scores; 3.55 Athletics
4.19 Horse Trials; 4.31 Athletics
4.40 Final Score
* Timings subject to alteration Television presentation:
Football Focus MIKE MURFHY Horse Trials JIM RESIDE Racing john MCNICHOLAS
Athletics JOHN SHREWSBURY
Producer Grandstand MARTIN HOPKINS Editor Grandstand HAROLD ANDERSON
Soccer scores and pools news on Ceefax

with Peter Woods ; Weatherman

with Walter Slezak, Susan Hampshire and The Shadows

When Johnnie and his friends lose their jobs entertaining the passengers on a Mediterranean cruise, they suddenly find themselves in the middle of a very exotic film set - and that's just the beginning of their troubles...

Films: page 18

(Jeux sans Frontieres)
The second international heat in which eight teams compete for the Jeux sans Frontières Silver Trophy and the chance to represent their country in the International Final. Great Britain: Rhuddlan
Belgium: Marche en Famenne France: Perigueux Germany: Todtnau Italy: Teramo
Portugal: Vilamoura Switzerland: Cernier Yugoslavia: Kikinda
Introduced from Vilamoura, Portugal, by jose FIALHO GOUVEIA and ELADIO CLIMACO
International referees GENNARO OLIVIERI and GUIDO PANCALDI
Commentator STUART HALL
Producer GEOFF WILSON
Executive producer BARNEY COLEHAN
Presented by the PORTUGUESE TV SERVICE BBC Manchester

by RAY BRADBURY
A three-part film starring
2: The Settlers
February 2004. With the Martians wiped out by chickenpox, colonisation of Mars proceeds rapidly. Settlers pour in, each in search of a dream: Fr Peregrine wants to meet Christ in person; the Lustigs to find their missing son; the Parkhills to make their fortune; and Wilder himself to make contact with a Martian.
Teleplay by RICHARD MATHESON Produced by ANDREW DONALLY and MILTON SUBOTSKY
Directed by MICHAEL ANDERSON A CHARLES FRIED production
(Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man on Wednesday at 11.17 pm)

with Peter Woods ; Weather

starring Al Pacino with John Randolph , Jack Kehoe
The violent and corrupt world of the undercover cop is brought vividly to life in the true story of Frank Serpico. Joining the New York City Police as an idealistic young rookie he refuses the pay-offs which are commonplace. When he is transferred to plain-clothes work his uncompromising idealism and his unconventional behaviour isolate him from his colleagues making him an outcast -in jeopardy from both sides of the law.
Screenplay by WALDO SALT and NORMAN WEXLER based on the book by PETER MAAS Produced by MARTIN BREGMAN
Directed by SIDNEY LUMET. Films: page IS (First showing on British television)