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 the 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 Pam Tibbetts 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
Ask Alison, your money phone-in with Alison Mitchell , between 8.30 and 9.0
from Gwynedd
Roy Lancaster and Clay Jones visit the delightful garden of Maldwyn Thomas in Dolgellau - it's small, packed full of interest and colour, and with a backdrop of Cader Idris , affords spectacular views.
Obtaining stone troughs for alpines is now virtually impossible. Using natural slate Maldwyn Thomas shows how to construct and plant up an unusual alternative.
Plant list on Ceefax page 261
0 HELPLINES: page 75
* Subtitles on Ceefax page 170
with Richard Whitmore and Frances Coverdale Weather BILL GILES
(London and SE: Financial Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)
A See-Saw programme
Some machines are fun to watch and make a funny sound! with CHLOE ASHCROFT and DON SPENCER
Musical director RICHARD BROWN Designer JOHN ASBRIDGE
Directed and produced by CHRISTINE HEWITT
The first of four programmes The Channel Islands
Set closer to France than England, the Channel Islands enjoy a remarkably mild climate. Exotic plants and animals, normally found much further south, flourish in the sunshine off the Gulf of St Malo. Andrew Cooper spent a summer away from the crowds filming the unique wildlife there.
Film editorDAVID SHARP Producer DENNIS ADAMS
With Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Hoagy Carmichael.
The Last Chance Club in Las Vegas holds bitter-sweet memories for glamorous ex-nightclub singer Linda Rollins. While her wealthy husband gambles recklessly Linda renews old acquaintances before theft, kidnapping and murder conspire to change her life - and her love...
Jane Russell sings 'I get along without you very well' and 'My resistance is low'-lyrics by Hoagy Carmichael -in this stylish mystery thriller.
Films: page 16
Romantic drama in which two very different men court a widow. In search of a gift for her son, the widow meets a sales clerk who proceeds to woo her. Her fiance is not impressed. Show more
Cat Feud and Dog Tales WARNER BROS cartoons
Presenter Floella Benjamin Guest Stuart Bradley
Story: Harry the Dirty Dog by GENE ZION
Illustrated by MARGARET BLOY GRAHAM
Return Home
with Simon Groom
Peter Duncan and Janet Ellis
Assistant editor LEWIS BRONZE Editor BIDDY BAXTER
including
The News and tonight's Weather with Nick Ross , Sarah Kennedy and Sally Magnusson
News, views and topical features from Britain and around the world. News read by Moira Stuart
During the week: HUGH SCULLY with Watchdog; plus contributions from Sixty Minutes' own team of humorists, 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 takes a look at comic variations on four well-known fairy stories.
Director JONATHAN DENT
Producer DAVID platt
A song and dance spectacular featuring the sights, sounds and music ot the city streets. Joining Lynda on the sidewalk are her special guests Tony Orlando and George Benson.
A LYN RON production
with Barry Took
Producer CAROL WHITE
The Stolen Children
Many of the children of the thousands killed in Argentina under the military regime in the late 70s were given illegally to childless army and police families. Some were perhaps, adopted by their parents' killers. Under the new democratic government their grandparents are now trying to find and regain the stolen children. Fred Emery reports on their desperate search, on the 'tug-of-love' conflicts and the battle in the courts.
Producer DAVID WICKHAM Editor PETER IBBOTSON
with Sue Lawley; Weatherman
continues the season of films in this vein, tonight starring
Cliff Gorman , Joe Bologna
In this cops-and-robbers caper New York policeman Joe confides to his colleague Tom that he has robbed a liquor store and is surprised when Tom proposes that they try to pull a really big job. Tired of the routines of police life, the pair hatch a plot that begins with a visit to the Mafia offering to steal anything worth two million dollars! Complications set in, however, as the would-be criminals put their bold plan into action....
Screenplay byDONALD E. WESTLAKE
Executive producer ELUOTT KASTNER
Directed by ARAM AVAKIAN. Films: p 16 (First showing on British television)
with Barry Norman
"Mr Mom": when young executive Michael Keaton is made redundant he and his wife Teri Garr agree to swap roles, in this domestic comedy.
"Swing Shift": Goldie Hawn talks about her latest film, set in war-time Los Angeles.
A location report on the making of "Splash", starring Daryl Hannah and Tom Hanks in an unlikely comedy about a mermaid in Manhattan.
Five programmes on the Youth Training Scheme in action.
1: Who Needs Guidance?
The organisations who run youth training schemes are required to provide every trainee with adequate 'guidance and support'.
But adults working in YTS need guidance and support too.
Film editor JOHN JENNISON
Producer IAN WOOLF