with Frank Bough and Fern Britton
For regular features see Monday
Plus today: Gardening
Tips from Alan Titchmarsh between
7.30 and 7.45
Pop News between 7.45 and 8.0 Food and Cooking with Glynn Christian between 8.30 and 9.0
Presenter Brian Jameson Guest Kate Copstick
with Richard Whitmore and Frances Coverdale Weather JIM BACON
(London and SE: Financial Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)
A taste of traditional Japanese performing arts with the Demon Drummers of Sado, currently on a world tour.
A See-Saw programme written by PETER FIRMIN and OLIVER POSTGATE
Bagpuss, an old cloth cat, lives with his friends in the window of Emily's shop ... where anything can happen.
Music by SANDRA KERR and JOHN FAULKNER
English version written and told by Eric Thompson.
The wind is blowing very hard, Rushing around in the backyard Presenter Chloe Ashcroft Guest lain Lauchlan
Story: Titch. Written and illustrated by PAT HUTCHINS
Musical director CHRIS WALKER Percussionist PETER BEAMENT Graphics TOM BROOKS Designer DON GILES
Director AUSON STEWART
Producer BARBARA RODDAM
Series producer ANNE GOBEY Editor CYNTHIA FELGATE
(Repeat)
with Norman Beaton
Jet, a Gift to the Family by GEOFFREY KILNER. Today: part 5
Adapted by pauline CARTER Pictures by ANDY CARROLL Designer JO DAY
Producer ANGELA BEECHING Director DAVID BELL
A series of six programmes starring
3: The Small Planet of Secrets by COLIN BENNETT
Test your powers of observation against those of the students of the SOLVE Academy while you watch the dramatic adventure of Captain Zep in space. Stay alert and take notes.
There are special SOLVE logos to be won for those who can answer Captain Zep's final questions.
Case No 3: Spaceship Zep One is in trouble. The steer veer breaks down and Captain Zep is forced to splash down on the nearest planet The people on Planet X are dying. They've run out of water. The old President Harry Houston knows the whereabouts of some secret supplies but he is assassinated just as ... Who is responsible and can the people be saved. Illustrators TREVOR goring , PETER JONES Graphic designer RAY OGDEN Director MICHAEL FORTE
Producer CHRISTOPHER PILKINGTON
To claim your SOLVE logo and certificate send your answers, together with a large stamped addressed envelope, to Captain
Zep, BBC Television, London [Postcode removed]
The last of an adventure in three parts based on a Jules Verne story
Marcel Zodiac has been sent as a spy to Steel City. Then, disguised as a man called Moltke, he got a job as chief designer to Professor Janus who he finds has constructed a long-range gun that he intends to fire on Fortuna - where Marcel's family live. Story told by James Laurenson
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including
The News with tonight's Weather and Regional Magazines
Presented by Sarah Kennedy and Beverly Anderson
News read by Richard Whitmore
Contributions from The Special Correspondents, Sixty Minutes' own team ot humorists.
Your countdown through Sixty Minutes
5.40 The News
5.54* Weather
5.55* Regional Magazines
6.38* Closing headlines
The feature film starring
Michael Caine leads an all-star cast as an entomologist assigned by the White House to avert a national disaster. A plague of killer bees headed for Houston have already claimed their first victims at an Air Force missile base in Texas. Further victims follow as scientists and generals fight desperately to contain and halt the deadly advance of the swarm.
Screenplay by STIRLING siluphant
Based on a novel by ARTHUR HERZOG
Produced and directed by IRWIN ALLEN
with Sue Lawley
Weekend Weather BILL GILES
from Canada
The Original Set Pattern Dance
'Superb in concept, brilliant in execution... the most original OSP in history.'
Will the experts finally run out of superlatives when the strains of Rimsky-Korsakov echo around the Civic Centre in Ottawa as Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean perform their stunning paso doble routine?
The Pairs Free Programme
Despite East German and American efforts to topple the favourites, Soviet domination of pairs skating continues with new Olympic Champions Elena Valova and Oleg Vassiliev. Commentator ALAN WEEKS
Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM
TV presentation crv and JIM RESIDE
written by ROY CLARKE , starring
The Vicar tells Potter that the church needs a new boiler. Potter, with all his experience, has an immediate plan to raise the necessary funds.
Designer PAUL ALLEN. Produced and directed by BERNARD THOMPSON
starring
Robert Mitchum , Teresa Wright
The prairie lands of New Mexico at the turn of the century: Medora Callum raises orphan Jeb Rand as her own. But because of a childhood trauma, Jeb is unable to return her affection. When lonely Jeb falls in love with Medora's daughter, he sparks off a disastrous chain of destruction and revenge, in this chilling Western.
Screenplay by NIVEN BUSCH
Produced by MILTON SPERLING Directed by RAOUL WALSH