The Suntory
World Matchplay Championship from the West
Course, Wentworth
Twelve of the leading players in world golf compete at 36-hole matchplay for prize money of £ 110,000, HARRY CARPENTER introduces coverage of today's first-round matches. Commentators PETER ALLISS , CLIVE CLARK , ALEX HAY , MARK MCCORMACK , TONY JACKLIN
Producers RICHARD TILLING , ALISTAIR SCOTT Editor DAVID KENNING

Weather MICHAEL FISH

Including Film Focus with Tony Bilbow. Plus Toys from Pebble Mill: Toy-maker Richard Blizzard with Christmas in mind demonstrates how you can make your own toys.

Further coverage from Wentworth
3.53 Regional News (exc London)

Story: The North Wind and the Sun (traditional)
Guest storyteller Julie Stevens Presenters
Sarah Long , Stuart McGugan
Pianist PETER GOSLING Designer LES MCCULLUM
Film cameraman NIGEL MEAKING Film editor MICHAEL CROZIER Director LESLIE PITT
Series producer JUDY WHITEFIELD

Touché's Last Stand

with John Gregg
Chase Through the Night by MAX FETCHEN Today: Part 4

A serial in 17 parts 2:Grandfather
The orphan Heidi has gone to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps.
Produced by INTERTEL TELEVISION AG
English version directed by LOUIS ELMAN for LEAH INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTIONS

with Simon Groom
Sarah Greene and Peter Duncan
Assistant editor JOHN ADCOCK Editor BIDDY BAXTER

Paddington Weighs In

with Jan Leeming ; Weatherman

FRANK BOUGH , SUE LAWLEY
RICHARD KERSHAW , HUGH SCULLY and SUE COOK provide you with the background to the news of the day and present the features and stories that make up the scene Nationwide.
Including: Grass Roots, presented by Gillian Miles from Spotlight South West in Plymouth.

The latest news from the world of science and technology presented by Kieran Prendiville Michael Rodd , Judith Hann with SU INGLE
Unconvinced that the sun's stopped shining - or that you're prime minister somewhere across the Universe? Try the latest cosmology to test your doubts. And a look at how BL has tested the Metro.
Producers LAURIE JOHN
ANDY WISEMAN , JOHN GROOM
Studio director JON PALFREMAN Editor DAVID FILKIN

Terry Wogan hosts the comedy quiz game all the family can play at home - in which contestants attempt to match their 'blanks' with six star guests: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Windsor Davies, Carol Drinkwater, Alfred Marks, Beryl Reid, Barbara Windsor

Presented by arrangement with Goodson-Todman Inc and Talbot TV Ltd Music

by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn
Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne
with Derek Fowlds

Are there occasions when a Minister should be kept in the dark? Jim Hacker thinks not, whereas Sir Humphrey Appleby is a great believer in not telling Ministers more than they need to know...

with Richard Baker and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weatherman

A serial in 12 episodes by ANDREA NEWMAN starring
6:Vacant Possession - January 1961
' I went into the whole thing with very high hopes. I really did. Then I realised what I'd done. I should never have let Mack talk me into it. I've ruined my life and nobody can help me. I've just got to salvage the bits as best I can.'
Programme adviser CHARLES PRICE Studio lighting WARWICK FIELDING Studio sound NORMAN BENNETT Produced by GEORGE GALLACCIO Directed by KENNY MCCAIN
Theme music on single (RESL 82), from record shops

from the Wembley Arena The 1980 Horse of the Year Show featuring
The Norwich Union Championship (Holder: ROWLAND FERNYHOUGH with Bouncer)
The ' Puissance ' - the controversial competition that conjures up all sorts of memories, like Harvey Smith arguing with the judges because he wanted the big red wall made even higher. What height will the wall reach this year? Introduced by DAVID VINE
Commentators DORIAN WILLIAMS
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD , HUGHTHOMAS
Producer JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

starring Telly Savalas as Police Lieutenant Theo Kojak with guest stars Henry Darrow Malachi Throne , Louise Sorel
Before the Devil Knows
One million dollars in Government bonds. Two impudent, brilliant cat burglars pull off an almost impossible robbery. But one of them is callously murdered in the get-away - and Le Jon, the survivor, becomes the target for a deadly professional hit man.
Written by GENE R. KEARNEY
Directed by CHARLES DUBIN