starts your day with half-an-hour of news, sport, weather and travel available to all viewers, whether or not they have teletext sets.
Frank Bough and Fern Britton are the Breakfast Time hosts to people and personalities making the headlines.
Daily timetable:
News with Debbie Rix (Fern Britton, Tues, Wed) 6.30, 7.0, 7.30, 8.0,
8.30, with headlines on every quarter hour
Weather with Francis Wilson : 6.31,
6.57, 7.27, 7.57, 8.27
Sport with David Icke and Bob Wilson : 6.40 and 7.40
Regional News, weather and traffic:
6.45, 7.15, 7.45, 8.15
TV Choice with David Wheal at 6.55 Review of the Papers: 7.18 and 8.18
Your Stars with Russell Grant : 8.33 Plus today:
New Films and Pop Records between
7.45 and 8.0
Russell Grant 's Zodiac Jukebox, record or cassette, REH/ZCR 491 from retailers
from Lanhydrock, Cornwall
Roy Lancaster picks out some of the choice plants in this splendid National Trust Garden and Clay Jones explores the extensive propagation unit for trees and shrubs. Head Gardener Peter Borlase has some controversial advice on tree pruning.
Production assistant JEAN LAUGHTON Producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill
from Shanghai, China
with Philip Hayton and Frances Coverdale Weather MICHAEL FISH
12.57 Regional News
(London and SE: Financial Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)
Superstar singer Dionne Warwick makes a welcome return and Moyra Bremner begins a week of household tips to help with the spring-cleaning.
Editor PETER HERCOMBE BBC Pebble Mill
A See-Saw programme
Depression
What is depression? How can you help both yourself and others through it?
Producer SUZANNE DAVIES
Written and presented by Michael Wood
In his search for Ethelred, MICHAEL WOOD sets out to discover the truth behind the legend. Was Ethelred really unready? Through one of the most remarkable pieces of English historical writing, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a story of disaster, defeat and governmental collapse unfolds.
Producer DEREK TOWERS. BBC Manchester
Book, In Search of the Dark Ages. £3.95 from booksellers
The King's Army 2: Battle
The 11 regiments of the King's Army, having prepared themselves, march to the battlefield at Breamore House to fight for King Charles I. Arraigned against them are a 'rabble of crop-headed Parliamentarians, AntiChrists, Levellers, Scottish mercenaries and other degenerates' of the Roundhead Association. With flags flying, cannons belching, muskets crackling and pikemen yelling, the two armies collide and everyone has a wonderful time!
Film editor BARRIE JOHNSTON Producer JOHN COLEMAN
Tom and Jerry play cat and mouse
MGM cartoons
Presenter Stuart McGugan Guest Carol Leader
Story: Hiccups by JEAN WATSON Storyteller Ruth Madoc and featuring an animal fable by ARNOLD LOBEL
(Repeat)
A series of four programmes
There aren't many trains at Weybury Junction so CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP can always find time to tell a tale about the Back Alley Kids.
2: How Spider Smith and Swotty Hard-wick found out what friends are for.
Producer ALAN RUSSELL
Executive producer DAVID BROWN BBC Manchester
Escape to Danger
That famous collie dog, Lassie, now works for the US Forest Rangers. In today's story it is her job to rescue a pet racoon when it strays into danger among the wild animals of the forest.
with Paul McDowell
Petra, the programme's very first dog, survived the upheaval and today you can see her in her new place of honour in the Blue Peter garden.
Assistant editor LEWIS BRONZE Editor BIDDY BAXTER
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The News and tonight's Weather
Nick Ross , Sarah Kennedy and Sally Magnusson present the issues of the hour.
News read by Moira Stuart
HUGH SCULLY with latest investigations from the Watchdog unit, and humorous contributions from The Special Correspondents.
Your Sixty Minutes countdown
5.40 The News
5.54* Weather
6.38* Closing headlines
For tonight's cartoon fun Rolf Harris introduces some characters from the circus world, including a discontented baby elephant, a slap-happy lion, a runaway seal and an entire cast of performing fleas.
Directed by JONATHAN DENT
Produced by DAVID PLATT
The adventure series starring
James Farentino as Frank Chaney , pilot of a super-helicopter geared to combat crime with the most sophisticated aerial technology, weaponry and surveillance systems available. Godchild
The Blue Thunder crew are called in to protect the daughter of a deceased underworld head. They want to prevent the information she possesses on Mafia secrets falling into the wrong hands.
Barry Took with your comments in the programme you help to write.
Producer CAROL WHITE
Send letters to: Barry Took , Points of View, BBC Television Centre, London [Postcode removed]
with Sue Lawley and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world
Weatherman
starring Donald Sutherland
Brooke Adams , Paul Mazursky
Once it took a gun, a mask and a fast getaway car to rob a bank. But in today's age of computers and electronic surveillance the modern criminal has to find new methods. Donald Sutherland is Reese, a civil engineer bored with his life and determined to make good. Paul Mazursky is Norman, a man in a mess with one talent - to rig computers. And Brooke Adams is the girl who is the hitch in the plan that had appeared so ' simple....
Screenplay by RAYNOLD GIDEON
BRUCE A. EVANS and STUART MARGOLIN Produced by PETER SAMUELSON and JOHN B. BENNETT
Directed by NOEL BLACK
(First showing on British television) Films: page 17
with Iain Johnstone including regular reviews of current releases and news of the latest films in production, and the personalities involved.
The Academy Awards take place tonight in Hollywood. Meryl Streep's performance as Karen Silkwood has won her a fifth Oscar nomination. Silkwood is the true story of a young woman who died in a mysterious car crash while she was trying to expose the dangers in the plutonium plant where she worked.
Debra Winger talks about her role in Terms of Endearment and her attitude to her own Oscar nominations, past and present.
(An edited version of the Academy Awards tomorrow at 10.50 - see page 4)
The international singing star presents top entertainment in a variety of music and comedy and more music, with guest star Cybill Shepherd Songs include:
'For once in my life', '9 to 5', 'My way', 'Can't buy me love', and 'Darlin'.
(Programme recorded in America)
