A series of five programmes With JAKE DOWNEY
With RAY STEVENS , PAUL WHETNALL, NORA PERRY , KAREN BRIDGE
Holding the racket, three basic moves, selecting equipment and how the game began.
Director Huw Jones
Producer BERNARD ADAMS
Televised at Oswestry Leisure Centre
Book, The Badminton Story, (£6.75 hardback, £4.50 paperback) from bookshops

Presented by Noel Edmonds with Keith Chegwin , John Craven and Maggie Philbin
Join in the very best of non-stop live entertainment including cartoons, pop, news and views, jokes, swapping, prizes, action, fashion, movies, competitions, the experts, the collectors, the stars and you. Ring in (after 9.30) on [number removed]Producer CRISPIN EVANS Editor ROSEMARY GILL

Introduced by Frank Bough
12.35*
Football Focus
BOB WILSON previews today's important League games and looks forward to England's vital World Cup match next week.
1.5; 2.5; 3.50*
International Golf from the West Course, Wentworth
The Suntory
World Matchplay Championship
The semi-finals of this 36-hole matchplay event worth £100,000 in prize money. The defending champion, BILL ROGERS , and last year's runner-up, ISAO AOKI, will be amongst those hoping to compete for a place in tomorrow's final.
Commentators HARRY CARPENTER
PETER ALLISS , CLIVE CLARK ALEX HAY , MARK MCCORMACK and TONY JACKLIN
1.50; 2.20; 2.50; 3.25*
Racing from Ascot
2.0 The Hyperion Stakes (7f)
2.30 The Princess Royal Stakes (Group 3. 1½m)
The season's final Group race for 3-year-old fillies, worth over £10,000 to the winner.
3.0 The Bovis Stakes (H'cap. 5f)
3.35 The Cornwallis Stakes (Group 3. 5f)
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN JULIAN WILSON and JIMMY LINDLEY
2.35; 3.5*
International
Show Jumping from the Wembley Arena
The 1980 Horse of the Year Show featuring
The Calor Gas International Championship of the Year
Since winning this event last year, MICHAEL WHITAKER has had unbelievable success, his greatest triumph being victory in the Hick-stead Derby.
This class is open to riders between the ages of 16 and 23 and with our youngsters doing so well at the moment, the standard is bound to be high. Commentator
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD
3.45* Half-time Football Scores
4.40* Final Score
Grandstand's vidiprinter provides television's fastest results service followed by 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 Golf
1.30 Sports Round-up
1.50 Racing; 2.5 Golf
2.20 Racing; 2.35 Show Jumping
2.50 Racing; 3.5 Show Jumping
3.25 Racing: 3.45 Football Scores
3.50 Golf: 4.40 Final Score
Timings subject to alteration
Television presentation:
Football Focus BOB ABRAHAMS
Golf DAVID KENNING , RICHARD TILLING and ALASTAIR SCOTT Racing BILL TAYLOR
Show Jumping JOHNNIE WATBERSTON
Grandstand studio director JIM RESIDE Grandstand producer MARTIN HOPKINS Grandstand editor HAROLD ANDERSON
Results from all today's race meetings on Ceefax

A series of ten programmes Introduced by Billy Boyle Special guests Annie Ross with Freddie Earlle
Deborah Graeme and Paul Hennen
Basil and Billy bounce back with the first of a new series. Tonight they are joined by international jazz star ANNIE ROSS for a half-hour of fun, music and boom-boom laughs.
Script by PETER ROBINSON , JOHN MORLEY and COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH
Musical director NIGEL HESS Sound DAVID WEIR
Lighting JOHN ABBOTT
Designer CHARLES BOND Producer PAUL CIANI

with Jan Leeming Weatherman

starring
Larry Grayson with Isla St Clair and surprise guests
Family couples from all over the country join Larry and Isla in games that can be played at home, and test their general knowledge, skill and ingenuity.
Orchestra conducted by RONNIE HAZLEHURST
Programme associate TONY HAWKS Designer JOHN ANDERSON Director KEITH STEWART
Producer MARCUS PLANTIN

A series in 16 parts with Stephanie Turner as Inspector Jean Darblay 7: Coming Back written by TONY PARKER
Tom Darblay and Mick Grainger share similar feelings of apprehension at moving away from unfamiliar territory. But Tom is only leaving Jean for a day or two, while Mick is leaving prison after six years-and returning to his wife.
Series created by IAN KENNEDY MARTIN Story editor JOAN CLARK Lighting BOB GELL
Designer IAN ASHURST
Producer TERENCE Williams Director CAROL WILKS

Join Paul Daniels for another programme in which television's top comedy magic star entertains in his own unusual fashion and introduces his guests:
Illusionist Jeffery Atkins presenting the ' Radium Girl'
Jugglers Teddy Peiro and Patricio with their crazy golf
Austria's magical eccentric Otto Wessely
With THE PAUL DANIELS MAGIC SET
Choreography NORMAN MAEN Musical director KEN JONES
Programme associate ALI BONGO Sound KEITH GUNN
Lighting ERIC WALLIS Designer JOHN O'HARA Director john HUGHES
Produced by JOHN FISHER

with Jan Leeming Weather

'rom the Wembley Arena fhe 1980 Horse of the Year Show Featuring
The Radio Rentals Championship
(Holder: EDDIE MACKEN with Boomerang)
The final night of this marvellous show with E7,000 in prize money for the featured event.
For many, though, the climax of the week is not tonight's main class but the final of the Pony Club Games where emotions run high and the noise in Wembley Arena is unbelievable.
Introduced by DAVID VINE
Commentators DORIAN WILLIAMS and RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD
Producer JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

Join Michael Parkinson and his weekend guests for conversation, entertainment and the occasional surprise.
Music HARRY STONEHAM
Programme associate CHRIS GREENWOOD Assistant producers
GRAHAM LINDSAY , GILL STRIBLINGWEIGBT Director BRUCE milliard Produced by JOHN FISHER

Starring James Booth, Richard Briers
Major Upton, seedy boss of Rentadick Inc, is surrounded by fellow private detectives of equal incompetence. When his firm is hired to keep watch on an inventor's wife and a secret nerve gas formula, confusion - and deadly gas - is soon in the air. This bawdy British comedy was written by members of the Monty Python team and marked the big-screen debut of the late Richard Beckinsale.
(First showing on British television) Films: page 25