6.20 Genetics: Meiosis
6.45 Made Without Flaw
7.10 Photochemistry: Colour
7.35 The Gambler, Dostoevsky
8.0 Work and Retirement
(Repeat)
with Mike Read, Keith Chegwin, Sarah Greene and John Craven
Depeche Mode are in Superstore's music department this morning. Give them a call on [number removed], and singing live in the main hall, Floella Benjamin's friend Reggae Rita.
If you think you can 'beat the DJS' then pit your wits against general manager Mike and his special guest Tim Rice. Also Roald Dahl is in the books department to read some rhymes. He'll be joined by artist and book illustrator Quentin Blake. You could win their star bargain.
Steve Levine, who was voted record producer of the year, is in the store. Find out about the special recording tricks that can make a record into a smash hit.
What do spacemen have for breakfast? Mat Levine has got a shuttle menu to show you what they really eat.
Keith will be out and about with the delivery van. He looks at a 1,000-year-old pair of shoes left behind by the Vikings.
John takes a look at the prizewinners' progress when they became journalists for a day on a local newspaper.
Sarah will have all the latest customer services information for you.
The address for all your customer enquiries is: Saturday Superstore, [address removed].
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12.12 pm Weather Ian McCaskill
See panel including at 12.45 News Summary
This week's crazy comic competition from the circus ring at Blackpool Tower.
The teams: shop assistants from London and Manchester
Hosted by Keith Chegwin Referee Suzanne Dando
Ringmaster Norman Barrett
Representing the world of circus: those daring young people The Flying Rochelles and once again the 14 little lovely Coco-Tots
Designer DAVID WILSON
Director KEITH MACKENZIE Producer GEOFFREY WILSON BBC Manchester
with Jan Leeming Weatherman
The last of the series with Jimmy Savile OBE
What could Jim fix for you?
If it's unusual, possible, entertaining or daring and you do not think it has been done before, drop him a line.
Sound RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN
Lighting PETER WESSON. Designer JOHN STOUT Director PETER CAMPBELL Producer ROGER ORDISH
starring
Paul Newman , Robert Redford
Superstars Newman and Redford are successfully teamed up once again in this exuberant Oscar-winning story of gangsters and deception set in Chicago during the 30s. To the accompaniment of Scott Joplin 's ragtime music, the pair set out to avenge the murder of a fellow con artist by making racketeer Doyle Lonnegan the victim of the most elaborate and outrageous confidence trick of all time!
Screenplay by DAVID s. WARD Produced by TONY BILL , MICHAEL PHILLIPS AND JULIA PHILLIPS
Directed by GEORGE ROY HILL. Films: page 18
by PAULA MILNE
A serial in eight episodes starring
4:Manifold Depression
Donna and Jen, struggling through a rigorous training programme, suddenly find they've become local celebrities. In the midst of all this frantic activity, an old school friend arrives....
Cast in order of appearance:
Music by JIM BYWATER , GAVIN RICHARDS and ADAM KOTZ Studio lighting DAVID OGLE Studio sound BRIAN DEWAR DesignerBOB SMART
Producer CAROL ROBERTSON
Directed by MICHAEL SIMPSON
* Subtitles on Ceefax page 170
with Jan Leeming ; Weatherman
Live by satellite from Ottawa
The Ice Dance Championship
Tonight the curtain comes down on the amateur career of one of the sporting world's most popular and successful partnerships.
Nottingham's Olympic Champions JAYNE TORVILL and CHRISTOPHER DEAN are skating for gold again, this time in search of their fourth consecutive world title. Four minutes of artistic brilliance to Ravel's 'Bolero' will secure them a special chapter in the success story of British ice dancing, 16 World Championship victories since Jean Westwood and Lawrence Demmy began it all in Paris 32 years ago. Commentator ALAN WEEKS
Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM
Television presentation by ctv
The BBC Book of Skating, £5.75 from booksellers
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Terry Wogan hosts his own talk show. Tonight's guests include:
Joan Collins , the international superstar whose portrayal of 'superbitch' Alexis has made Dynasty a worldwide success;
Sheila Graham , the celebrated Hollywood gossip columnist and the author of Beloved Infidel - the story of her life with F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Programme associate CHRIS GREENWOOD Sound MICHAEL MCCARTHY
Designer BOB COVE. Director DAVID TAYLOR Producer MARCUS PLANTIN
starring James Farentino, Joan Hackett
A series of unexplained fires and mysterious happenings gradually turn a girls' school into a place of terror and death. Kevin Leahy - ex-minister expelled from the church - turns up at the school determined to fight the evil possessing everyone - but the forces are terrifyingly powerful.
Films: page 18