starts your day with half-an-hour of news, sport, weather and travel available to all viewers, whether or not they have teletext sets.
with Frank Bough and Selina Scott
For timetable of regular features see Monday.
* Plus today:
Titch's Pitch, your gardening phone-in with Alan Titchmarsh , between
8.30 and 9.0
Food and Cooking: Glynn Christian between 8.30 and 9.0
Mickey Mouse's unusual symphony is a smashing success. Goofy offers some unconventional instruction on horsemanship, and Donald and Pluto struggle with a temperamental speedboat with a mind of its own.
A Walt Disney production
(Repeat)
Littlenose the Artist
Written and told by JOHN GRANT
just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead? ...
Your ideas, games and activities presented by the children of the Scottish Why Don't You ...? gang.
Producer CATHERINE MCFARLANE
Series producer PETER CHARLTON
The Cornhill Insurance Test Series
England v West Indies from The Oval Fifth day
PETER WEST introduces the whole ot this morning's play. Commentators RICHIE BENAUD , JIM LAKER
RAY ILLINGWORTH , TED DEXTER
with Frances Coverdale and Chris Lowe
Weather Ian McCaskill
A See-Saw programme
The Cornhill Insurance Test Series England v West Indies Further coverage
Ready, steady, one, two, three On your marks, get set,
Come on and dance with me Presenter Andrew Secombe Guest Jane Hardy
Story: Joe's Bouncing Feet by RUTH CRAFT
(Repeat. Repeated next Tuesday morning)
A cartoon science-fiction adventure story
G-Force fly to the Arabian Desert to help a young friend, the Sheikh of Aburra, and restore him to his rightful throne.
(Subtitles on Ceefax page 170)
An adventure in two parts
A small plane crashes in the mountains and Mark and Allison set out on a dangerous journey to find help for their injured parents.
(Repeat)
with Frances Coverdale Weatherman
(For regional details see Monday)
A four-part story by Terrance Dicks
A special story to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the longest-running science-fiction series in the world. starring Peter Davison, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, Richard Hurndall, Tom Baker and William Hartnell as the Doctor
(Part 2 tomorrow at 6.15 pm)
(Subtitles on Ceefax page 170)
An award-winning film made for television, starring
Carol Burnett , Ned Beatty
Sam Waterston , Timothy Hutton On 4 September 1969 Sgt Michael Mullen left his family's Iowa farm bound for Vietnam. He returned on 1 March 1970 in a standard US Army-issue silver-grey casket.
Based on a true story, Friendly Fire tells of the effect of Michael's death on his parents, Peg and Gene Mullen , who are confused by the army's explanation that their son has been killed by 'artillery fire from friendly forces'. Their bitterness and concern over the government's seeming indifference leads them into a personal crusade which attracts support from other bereaved parents and one C. D. B. Bryan, a writer, who eventually uncovers the truth behind the 'official' version.
Screenplay by FAY KAMIN
Based on the book by c D. B BRYAN Produced by PHILIP BARRY Directed by DAVID GREENE
(First showing on British television) Films: page 13
with Julia Somerville Weatherman
by Hugh McManus
Starring Ann Scott-Jones as Jean McLeod and Joseph Brady as Jim McLeod
'It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander.'
In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean McLeod attempts to hold her family together - but after a particularly severe beating...
BBC Scotland
(Subtitles on Ceefax page 170)
The First Million Miles The last of the series
Alan Whicker looks back at some of the people, places and experiences on which he reported during his first ten years in television.
That great cushion of wealth is tough to walk away from....'
Monte Carlo was glittering but wet, Paul Getty was the world's richest man and Peter Benjamin , a docker, had just won the pools when Alan Whicker encountered them in the 60s. The beautiful Baroness Thyssen seemed to have everything, including a millionaire husband. Suddenly divorce changed her life. Whicker visits her again to find out how she coped.
Assistant producer AMANDA THEUNISSEN Producer CHRISTOPHER LEWIS BBC Bristol
(Postponed from 18 July)
Gene Kelly hosts an unusual variety show brought together by satellite starring Ben Vereen of Roots fame Magician David Copperfield The Flying Wallendas
The Vienna Boys' Choir and the dancers of the Moulin Rouge
Directed by BRUCE GOWERS
Produced by ANDY FRIENDLY
Looking at Heat: Medical Uses
