6.40 Computers - File Processing
7.5 A Portrait of Summer School
7.30 Graduates for Growth
Discover 11,128,835 listings and 280,433 playable programmes from the BBC
6.40 Computers - File Processing
7.5 A Portrait of Summer School
7.30 Graduates for Growth
Capricorn Game
7 : Number Games
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds, and adults watching with them. (Repeat)
William Woollard illustrates some of the changes taking place in electronic communication systems - with the help of Prestel, a word processor and a home computer - and comments on the success of Voyager One's encounter with Saturn.
Jenny, in the 21st century, hears about a plan to build a space elevator based on the idea of Arthur C. Clarke.
With Jayne Lester, Rosemary Frankau, Nicholas Young, Iain Anders
Y Cadno (The fox)
Weather JACK SCOTT
A programme for children under 5 Story: Clouds written by PEGGY BLAKELEY illustrated by KAZUO NIIZAKA Presenters
Sarah Long , Johnny Ball
Musical director MICHAEL OMER Graphic designer JOANNA ISLES Designer SANDY GARFIELD
Written and directed by NEL ROMANO Produced by MARGIE BARBOUR
Series producer JUDY WHITFIELD
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
An animated series of science fiction stories.
Selected from an earlier age and given incredible powers, three teenagers return to Earth in their spaceship headquarters with a mission - to guard the human race from evil. (Repeat)
by Michael Bond
(Repeat)
with Kenneth Kendall Weatherman
International Athletics from Oslo
The Bislett Games
STEVE OVETT and SEBASTIAN COE have set up five World Records on this track in the last two years, and both are scheduled to compete tonight. This meeting is regarded as one of the top invitation events in the calendar, and 38 world records have been established on this track. ALLAN WELLS , ED MOSES, JOHN WALKER and MIRUTS YIFTER are also among the entries. Commentators
DAVID COLEMAN , RON PICKERING
The Lawn Tennis Championships
HARRY CARPENTER introduces the best of the action, and reviews the main news and results of the fifth day.
Athletics television presentation by NORWEGIAN TV
from Oslo
The Bislett Games .. Further coverage of this top invitation event.
Commentators
DAVID COLEMAN , RON PICKERING
Television presentation by NORWEGIAN TELEVISION
with Richard Baker and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weekend Weather JACK SCOTT
A series starring Don Murray as Sid Fairgate, Michele Lee as Karen Fairgate, John Pleshette as Richard Avery, Constance McCashin as Laura Avery, Joan Van Ark as Valene Ewing, Ted Shakelford as Gary Ewing, Kim Lankford as Ginger Ward, James Houghton as Kenny Ward
with Donna Mills as Abby and Claudia Lanow as Diana Fairgate
It is a difficult time for Sid and Karen's daughter, Diana, as she tries to cope with the problems of sexual development. Abby has no such hang-ups as she sets out to seduce Richard.
Theme music on Top BBC tv Themes Vol 3 (record REH 391, cassette ZCR391), from record shops
LONDON
Public School: 8: 'You're so close to Eton....you can beat them.'
As the National Schools Regatta approaches, the Radley coach is worried that his crew is not fast enough.
SOUTH WEST
Mightier Than the Sword: 3
A profile of R.F. Delderfield, playwright and novelist, born in London, he adopted Devon. He never lost his Cockney accent nor the common touch and asked nothing more than that his writings should reach out to people - and entertain them.
SOUTH
Bioscope Days
From private film collections in the South John Huntley shows Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1896, scenes from the trenches in 1916, the road-testing of the Trojan car, and the opening of bridges in Poole and Reading.
WEST
Event: 2
Anthony Rossiter at the Bruton Gallery, Somerset, reflects about the meaning of his life as he prepares for an exhibition of his paintings.
MIDLANDS
Straight Talk
Mike Dornan meets General Sir John Hackett, former C-in-C of the Rhine Army.
EAST
Weekend
John Mountford introduces the who, why, what, where and when of life in the Eastern Counties.
NORTH WEST
Sweet and Sour
Stuart Hall and Bill Grundy show how passionately they care about issues they approve or abhor.
NORTH EAST
Phone-in Now
Mike Neville introduces a citizens' action desk - ring Newcastle [number removed] before, during or after the programme. Tonight: a back-bench debate with Dr Jack Cunningham and a Conservative MP.
NORTH
Class
In the first of four programmes, drama teacher Steve Rowley introduces examples of new work from Northern schools.
SCOTLAND
The Beechgrove Garden
George Barron and Jim McColl are in Aberdeen for the 50th programme, including a gardeners' question time.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Rock in the City
The fourth of a series of five rock music concerts recorded at Maysfield Leisure Centre and the Ulster Hall, Belfast. Tonight: Stage B and Dino and the Dolphins.
WALES
Week In, Week Out: people, places, events in Wales and beyond reported by Vincent Kane with Bob Humphreys. (until 11.5)
11.5 News of Wales
11.6-12.40 am Speed King
by Roger Milner.
Starring Robert Hardy as Sir Malcolm Campbell , with Jennifer Hilary as Lady Campbell and Jack Galloway as Leo Villa.
In 1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell's obsession is to win the World's Land Speed Record in his car Bluebird. Speed King is about the man, the car, and the ruthless, but irresistible, public ambition of a world hero.
starring
Alan Aida , Marlo Thomas with Marian Hailey
Elizabeth Wilson Stephen Strimpell
Jenny Marsh , pregnant and unmarried, leaves her native Connecticut for New York, where she strikes up a friendship with Delano, a young film-maker. Eventually, he suggests a marriage of convenience which would give him the family he needs to avoid being drafted and her a father for her child.
Written by MARVIN lavut and GEORGE BLOOMFIELD
Produced by EDGAR J. SCHERICK Directed by GEORGE BLOOMFIELD