with JEREMY JAMES and BILL HARTSTON
Improve your game and learn some new tricks! 5: The King
(Master Game starts again next week)

Football Association Coaching: Tactics, Skills
A series of 14 programmes
7: Attacking in the AttackingThird of the Field (1)
Coaches: R. GREENWOOD
D. HOWE , D. SEXTON
Players : K. KEEGAN , T. BROOKING
R. WILKINS , P. SHILTON , L. BLISSETT And supporting match action showing the relationship between coaching, practice and performance.
Producer BOB ABRAHAMS

Presented by Noel Edmonds with Keith Chegwin , John Craven and Maggie Philbin and Terry Wogan !
Go to the pantomime the Swap Shop way-when NOEL, JOHN and MAGGIE present their version of Cinderella - but has anyone told KEITH? Plus jokes, cartoons, prizes, swaps and the best in music. Ring in (after 9.30) on [number removed]Producer CRISPIN EVANS Editor ROSEMARY GILL

Introduced by Frank Bough
12.20*
Football Focus with BOB WILSON
12.50; 1.25*
Synchronised Swimming from Coventry
The Mazda Cars International
This exciting sport has been included in the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984; today's event gives an indication of the standards expected. There are solo and duet performances from some of the world's leading swimmers from Canada, the USA and Great Britain. Commentators
ALAN WEEKS and CAROL DELLEVOET
1.5; 1.35; 2.15*
Racing from Wetherby
1.15 The Stelrad Handicap Steeplechase (3m lOOy)
1.45 The Haig Novices' Hurdle (Qualifier. 2m)
2.20 The Sankey Home Improvements Handicap Hurdle Race (3m) Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN and RICHARD PITMAN
1.55*
Racing from
Leopardstown
2.5 The Sweeps Hurdle (2m)
Fred Rimell 's Celtic Isle is a British challenger for Ireland's richest hurdle race, worth over £20,000 and won last year by lady rider Anne Ferris on Irian.
Commentator MICHAEL O'HEHIR
Today's timetable:
12.20 Football Focus; 12.50 Swimming
1.5 Racing - Wetherby: 1.25 Swimming
1.35 Racing - Wetherby; 1.55 Racing - Leopardstown; 2.15 Racing - Wetherby * Timings subject to alteration Television presentation:
Football Focus BOB ABRAHAMS Swimming JOHN PHILIPS
Racing - Wetherby KEITH PHILLIPS Racing - Leopardstown RTE
Producer Grandstand MARTIN HOPKINS Editor Grandstand HAROLD ANDERSON

starring Roy Castle with Norris MeWhirter , editor of the Guinness Book of Records.
Interest in the amazing world of record-breaking is on the increase and people will go to extraordinary lengths to get their names in the record books. How would you like to wear a beard consisting of over 21,000 living bees, or perform 56 skips on a tightrope? The people who can are some of the guests appearing in this international show.
Special guest Wayne Sleep
Musical arrangements FRANK BARBER JOHNNY PEARSON , DEREK WARNE
Musical director JOHNNY PEARSON Choreography SALLY GILPIN Designer ROGER CANN
Producer ALAN RUSSELL

with Barbara Woodhouse introduced by Harold Williamson Having trained more dogs than anyone else in Great Britain, BARBARA WOODHOUSE now turns to taming wild animals, ponies and pigs. She learnt how to cast a spell on animals in the Argentine over 45 years ago and in this programme passes on her secret for ' talking ' to them.
Cartoons THELWELL
Film cameraman GEORGE MORSE Film editor MARGARETTE RENDALL Producer CHARLES CASTLE

starring Rod Hull and Emu
A holiday entertainment for Christmas with special guests The Corona Kids, Larry Parker
The Brother Lees , Showaddywaddy
Designer MALCOLM THORNTON Producer MIKE STEPHENS
Executive producer PETER RIDSDALE SCOTT

Frank Bough introduces a round-up of the day's sports news, including the Classified Football Results.

Starring Basil Brush with Billy Boyle, and guest stars Michael Hordern, Dilys Watling, The Pasadena Roof Orchestra and Legs & Co.

Basil and Billy find themselves back in the 1930s as they join the maiden cruise of a luxury liner. A fabulous ruby is stolen, they become the prime suspects and in the ensuing chase, find themselves in the most unexpected places.

with Richard Baker ; Weatherman

The feature film starring
New York, 1929. It is a dark rainy night. Roxy Robinson is trapped in a deserted alleyway by four hoods who are carrying a dreaded new weapon-the 'Splurge Gun ! In seconds Roxy is splurged. Bugsy Malone is an enormously entertaining musical set in a world of would-be hoodlums, showgirls and dreamers. It is also a world where you never see an adult.
Words and music by PAUL WILLIAMS
Produced by ALAN MARSHALL Written and directed by ALAN PARKER
(First showing on British television). Films: p 116

For Whom the Jingle Bells Toll A seasonal escapade starring
Dick Emery with special guests Roy Kinnear , Harry H. Corbett
Iain Cuthbertson , Lee Montague and June Whitfield and featuring Annie Ross , Glynn Edwards
Script by JOHN AND STEVEN SINGER
Film cameraman EUGENE CARR
Sound recordist DOUG MAWSON Film editor JOHN DUNSTAN
Designer TONY SNOADEN Producer HAROLD SNOAD
Ceejax sub-titles: page 170

with Richard Baker ; Weather

by FREDERICK LONSDALE
Two unmarried couples spend a month on approval to decide whether marriage would be the bliss they think it would be - with extraordinary results.
Costume designer ODETTE BARROW
Lighting DENNIS CHANNON
Designer DON HOMFRAY
Producer CEDRIC MESSINA
Director DAVID GILES

International Golf Challenge
The opening match of this week's special series of six programmes for Christmas between two of the world's great women golfers Nancy Lopez-Melton and Sally Little and top American golfers Johnny Miller and Jerry Pate. The matches are played at the Woburn Golf and Country Club for the Phoenix Assurance Trophy. The ladies play off forward tees but that is the only concession they receive on nine testing holes at the beautiful Duke's Course in the heart of the Duke of Bedford's estate.
Prize money of$60,000 is at stake over the series, which starts today with a four-ball match.
Commentator PETER ALLISS
Assistant producer DENIS KELLY Director RICHARD TILLING Producer DAVID KENNING