Weather JIM BACON
with Donny MacLeod
Marian Foster and Bob Langley
Editor JIM DUMIGHAN. BBC Birmingham
from Ealing Abbey
Story: Five Foolish Fishermen (traditional) Presenters
Sarah Long , Johnny Ball
Told by Paul Jones
Long ago in the city of Baghdad, there lived a man called Sinbad. He made so many voyages and had so many adventures he became known as Sinbad the Sailor.
A cartoon film made by Czechoslovak Filmexport
with Simon Groom, Sarah Greene and Peter Duncan. Nadelek Lowen! That's 'Merry Christmas' in Cornish, and today four brothers from Bodmin, Merv, Andy, Chris and Neil, otherwise known as Bucca, make their very first appearance on TV. They'll be singing old favourites like 'Tom Bawcock's Eve' and playing some of their amazing collection of 40 instruments, including the bombarde.
And Sarah tells the story of the Unknown Armada, when Mousehole, Newlyn, Penzance and Paul were invaded by Spanish troops in 1595. Story Dorothy Smith
Drawings Robert Broomfield Producer Renny Rye
Assistant editor John Adcock Editor Biddy Baxter
Classic tales of fear and imagination
Today Freddie Jones tells
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H. G. WELLS
They found him lying dead in a mangrove swamp with one of these orchids crushed up under his body. Maybe that plant cost him his life to obtain.
with Kenneth Kendall Weatherman
Look East. Look North
Look North West, Midlands Today Nationwide (London and SE) Points West, South Today Spotlight South West
Frank Bough , Sue Lawley
Richard Kershaw , Hugh Scully and Sue Cook are the team that each weekday presents the features and films that make up the scene Nationwide. including HUGH SCULLY with a special Christmas edition of Watchdog
TV's most famous sci-fi series starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock
Way off course with 'way out' space-hippie passengers seeking the way out to their planetary paradise a disconcerted Captain Kirk has difficulty in imposing discipline.
Surprisingly, the austere Mr Spock shows sympathetic understanding, even to the extent of singing a song, but the sound Dr Sevrin produces is more lethal.
Presented by David Dimbleby
The issues, the people, and the stories that matter, reported by television's top journalists: MICHAEL COCKERELL
RICHARD LINDLEY , TOM MANGOLD
JEREMY PAXMAN , JOHN STAPLETON PHILIP TIBENHAM , PETER TAYLOR
Deputy editor ELWYN PARRY JONES Editor ROGER BOLTON
with Richard Baker; Weatherman
starring
Clint Eastwood Robert Duvall
Joe Kidd may have become the town drunk-but he's still fast with a gun. When range war breaks out between wealthy businessmen and the local farmers,
Joe is prepared to join in the fight - for a fee ...
Screenplay by ELMORE LEONARD Produced by SIDNEY BECKERMAN
Directed by JOHN STURGES. Films: page 23
Barry Norman with a Christmas round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Sam Jones plays the super hero and Melody Anderson his lovely side-kick Dale Arden, in Flash Gordon, producer Dino de Laurentiis' galactic adventure based on the popular 1930s comic strip.
Woody Allen, who stars as Sandy Bates, the famous film director in Stardust Memories, comments in York about the similarities between his own life and the character he plays.
Clint Eastwood wishes his British fans a merry Christmas and talks about his latest comedy role in Any Which Way You Can, in which he co-stars again with Sondra Locke and Clyde the orangutan.
Anthony Burton, in the last of eight films, follows the 'Clan Line' from York to Leeds, Harrogate and Knaresborough and visits the National Railway Museum and The Royal Station Hotel, York.
First transmitted in 1980, Anthony Burton discovers more about Britain's industrial past and the role of railway companies in the 19th Century. Show more
