Football Association Coaching: Tactics, Skills
10: Defending (2)
Coaches: R. ATKINSON , M. SMITH
G. TAYLOR , A. WADE
C. HUGHES , R. RUSSELL Players: K. KEEGAN
T. BROOKING , V. HILAIRE

by DAVID MCKEE
Narration RAY BROOKS

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Why Don't You just switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead?

With Jeremy James, Bill Hartston

continues the holiday season of films starring the screen's best-loved canine star
With MICHAEL JAMES WIXTED
ROBERT ROCKWELL , JACK BANNON SKIP HOMEIER , CAROLYN KEARNEY SALLY FRASER , ROD
HUGHES JACK BROWN , MYRON HEALEY
ROBERT FOULK , MICHAEL CLOUGH
The story of a mute little boy, who befriends Lassie and her pups and saves them from extreme danger.
Produced by ROBERT GOLDEN
Directed by DICK MODER and JACK B. HIVELY

The evil Zoltar contaminates Earth's water supplies in Spectra's latest attempts to conquer Earth...

in Haunted Mouse
An MGM cartoon

Weather JIM BACON

A See-Saw programme.
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Last of six programmes The Good Life
Vince, Ross and Laurie are dismayed to learn that Rick intends to close down his popular, beach-side cafe because an old friend has offered him an easier, more profitable job.

The feature film starring
Luke Halpin , Pamela Franklin Tom Helmore and Flipper
Threatened with being parted from his pet dolphin Flipper, young Sandy runs away to a remote island where he hopes they will never be found.
Screenplay by ART ARTHUR based on a story by IVAN TORS Produced by IVAN TORS
Director LEON BENSON. Films: page 116

starring Leonide Massine Tamara Toumanova Alexander Danilova
LEONIDE MASSINE and TAMARA TOUMANOVA with the BALLET RUSSE DE MONTE CARLO dance to the pulsating rhythms of Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol.
Choreography LEONIDE MASSINE Director JEAN NEGULESCO

A cartoon series
Mighty Mouse overcomes the magic of an evil wizard.

with Bernard Cribbins
The Mystery of Mr Jones 's Disappearing Taxi by JOAN AIKEN 2:The Plot Thickens

A series of nine programmes Introduced by Johnny Morris With TERRY
NUTKINS Johnny and Terry are back on the air with their three regular animal helpers: Rocky the rock-hopper penguin, Brolly the umbrella cockatoo and, of course, Gemini the sealion about whom Terry has some important news.
Did you know that there was once a magpie that collected hundreds of golf balls? Or that one common hamster hoarded 50 kilos of grain? Johnny's guests include a lot of animals that make strange collections. Also appearing with Johnny: a pigmy hippo, a mermaid, and a unicorn!
Producer MIKE BEYNON. BBC Bristol

Cold Sheep

with John Edmunds ; Weatherman

Grand Final
One hundred judges in BBC centres throughout the country, and our viewers at home, are invited to choose The Rising Star of 1980. Frankie Vaughan and Jenny Lee -Wright introduce the finalists from the ABC Theatre, Blackpool. THE RISING STARS ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HERRMANN
Designer PETER MAVIUS Director TONY HARRISON
Producer BARNEY COLEHAN BBC Manchester

The famous adventure film starring Henry Brandon
Herbert Nelson , Dan Haggerty
Alaskan legends describe winters so severe that Siberian snow tigers have crossed the frozen Bering Straits, hunting for food. This beautifully photographed film tells the story of a trapper who, having killed one of these magnificent creatures, has to fight for his own survival in the frozen mountains inhabited by its mate.
Written and directed by STEWART RAFFILL (First showing on British television) Films: page 116

with John Edmunds ; Weatherman

Christmas Write Your Own RADIO TIMES Billing Contest
Re-arrange the following well-known words into a sequence which best describes highlights from the last series:
Mel starring and Pamela Jones Atkinson Griff Smith Rowan Stephenson
Hardie producers LLOYD and LOWREY WILSON, JOHN HITCHCOCK
Director COLIN DAVID
Designers SEAN BILL
(Write your answer here.......................................)

Barry Norman looks back at the films of 1980 and selects his 12 best.
Will Kramer vs Kramer make the final list? How does Stanley Kubrick's The Shining compare with Brian de Palma 's Dressed to Kill? Is Kagemusha the best foreign-language film? Where does British director Alan Parker 's Fame rank? Did Peter Sellers give the best comedy performance in Being There?
Director JILL MARSHALL Producer JUDY LINDSAY

The second of two programmes Written and presented by John Sergeant
Who Calls the Tune?
The Common Market increasingly affects our lives. But who makes the decisions? Is it ' them ' - the bureaucrats in Brussels? What say do we have?
Tonight's film looks at the way the different institutions of the EEC work - The Council of Ministers, The Commission, The European Parliament and Court - and questions Roy Jenkins , the retiring President, to find out where the real power lies.
Photography
FRED HAMILTON Sound RON MCMORRAN , RON EDMONDS Film editor LES NEWMAN
ProducerANTHONY DE LOTBINIÈRE

International Golf Challenge
Fourth of six programmes in this special series for Christmas.
Today: Sally Little v Johnny Miller