News, sport, travel, weather
With Frank Bough and Selina Scott
With Magnus Magnusson. Semi-final (Repeat)
Celebrity guests and flower arranging
Pat's Difficult Day
It's a crystal, crystal world. An aesthetic appreciation of nature, as viewed through crystals
Joan Fontaine in "Born to be Bad"
It's Thursday
Cartoon serial
Another Littlenose story, with John Grant
The Vengeance
John Craven's news round up for younger viewers
Fun and games in the studio with Simon and Janet introducing more items of interest. Janet takes to the skies in her bid to break the British civilian freefall record. She makes her first jump from an aircraft - a Hercules, along with the crack freefall parachute team the R.A.F. Falcons
Chris and Tracey move into their new flat
New advances in science and technology. This week a look at cable TV and the street cutter that lays a mile in a day, also a house in the desert which has been designed to use no energy in either heating or cooling. A new type of resuscitator which automaticall respirates if the patient stops breaching, and from America, how to fish for tuna using satellites. Maggie Philbin has the latest colour blindness test for children
The “Sparrows of St James’s" features House Sparrows - one of the most familiar birds in Britain. We see them in almost every public space, but how much we really know about them? Theo Cockerell's remarkable photography tries to answer some of the questions. The choice of St James's Park, London, as the setting for this programme reveals some of the character of the sparrows themselves. Producer Robin Prytherch explains: “Here, the sparrows are so used to people that the cameraman had an ideal opportunity to get close to the birds"
Weatherman
Alan Lipton is a virtual prisoner in his mother's flat in episode five. He is trapped by the Colonel who is also living there until his drugs deal is completed. Obsessed by the corruption he sees around him, Alan continues to write songs for the pop group who have become a minor cult. Soon after Stella’s baby is born. Johnny’s firm goes bankrupt and he stays home looking after the child while Stella goes to work
Tonight’s programme comes from Edinburgh and chaired, as usual, by Sir Robin Day. His guests are microelectronics millionaire Sir Clive Sinclair; Gavin Laird, General Secretary of the AUEW; Alan Clark, MP, the Under Secretary of State at the Department of Employment; and Charles Kennedy, the SUP MP for Ross and Cromarty.
The veteran entertainer's guests are Bob Hope, Ann-Margaret, The Hawkins Family and the Playboy Playmates
