Selina Scott and Nick Ross look ahead to the final weekend before Christmas with the help of studio guests and Breakfast Time regulars.

with Richard Whitmore and Moira Stuart
Weather Ian McCaskill

Join Paul Coia ,
Marian Foster and Bob Langley at a festive and fun-filled Pebble Mill party. Happy Christmas! Back on 3 January

A See-Saw programme

Self-Sufficiency at Fachongle Isaf
John Seymour explains how he fell almost by accident into self-sufficiency.
Narrator Deryck Guyler
Film editor PETER GIBBS. Written and produced by DON HAWORTH BBC Manchester

also starring Desi Amaz
Richard Carlson When madcap heiress
Connie Casey decides to attend her father's old college in Pottawatomie, four young footballers are hired to watch over her. Although expressly forbidden to display their skills on the field, the foursome cannot resist the temptation - and successfully put this minor establishment on the map.
This exuberant musical comedy is based on a successful stage show by Rodgers and Hart.
Screenplay by JOHN TWIST
Based on the musical, with music by RICHARD RODGERS and lyrics by LORENZ HART
Produced and directed by GEORGE ABBOTT
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Presenter Ben Thomas Guests Chloe Ashcroft Kate Copstick Brian Jameson
Story: Len the Alien's Christmas by PENNY CASDAGLI
Musical director JONATHAN COHEN Stills photographer JOHN JEFFORD Directors
JOHN M. A. LANE , GREG CHILDS Series producer ANNE GOBEY Editor CYNTHIA FELGATE

Voices of Susan Sherida, Peter Hawkins
Written and drawn by Peter Maddocks

Hosted by Stu Francis
with special guest stars Keith Harris with Orville and Cuddles The Great Soprendo, Chas & Dave, Ralph McTell
also featuring Sara Hollamby and Ling Tai
It's the festive season and Stu and the gang celebrate in true Crackerjack style!
Sing along with Chas & Dave and Ralph McTell. Thrill to The Great Soprendo's immaculate illusions. Laugh along with Keith Harris and his mates, Orville and Cuddles. Join in gallons of slush and slosh as four very famous celebrities go under the gunge-tubes! There are surprises galore in this very special Crackerjack. Don't miss it!

with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell

Haredevil Hare

Introduced by Jimmy Hill Queen's Park Rangers v Liverpool
Since spending £350,000 to install England's only artificial playing pitch in 1981, QPR have put together the finest home record of any club in the four divisions of the Football League-better even than that of Liverpool, champions for the past three seasons. Liverpool's one previous experience of this wall-to-wall carpet pitch brought no complaints-substitute Steve Nicol's lone goal earned them three points in October last year.
By Anfield standards, this season's first half has been only moderate. So has
Rangers'-that is why both clubs will be striving for three points to put in their Christmas stocking tonight. Commentator BARRY DAVIES Studio director MURRAY NEEDHAM Series producer JOHN SHREWSBURY Editor BOB ABRAHAMS

with Julia Somerville
Weekend Weather
IAN MCCASKILL

The last of three films featuring one of Hollywood's most versatile stars with Alain Delon Paul Scofield
Suspected of selling out to the Russians, Cross - an ageing CIA agent - is considered 'dispensable' by his employers. They hire
Scorpio, a skilled assassin, to kill the undercover agent - a task he finds more difficult than usual. The settings for this contemporary thriller are Washington, Vienna and Paris, but it's the sordid, murderous world of international espionage which dominates the film.
Screenplay by DAVID W. RlNTELS and GERALD WILSON
Produced by WALTER MIRISCH Directed by MICHAEL WINNER
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3: In Retrospect
Harold Macmillan, as Churchill's political adviser, was involved in one of the most controversial decisions of World War H.
Following the surrender of the Germans in May 1945, the Allies were responsible for the fate of some 40,000 Cossacks and White
Russians, including wives and children, who had supported the Germans against the Russians.
'To hand them over to the Russians is condemning them to slavery, torture and probably death',
Harold Macmillan recorded at the time, as revealed by his recently published War Diaries. But they were handed over to Stalin's army and many were shot. In conversations with Ludovic Kennedy , Lord
Stockton, now in his 91st year, talks for the first time about why the decision was made and his feelings in retrospect.
Editor ELWYN PARRY JONES Producer NICK WELLS

Linda Ronstadt with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra
With hits from country to rock and roll to Gilbert and Sullivan, Linda Ronstadt now turns her hand to the classic songwriting of such legends as Irving Berlin and the Gershwins. This live performance was recorded in front of an enthusiastic audience in Santa Barbara, California.
Director DAVID LEWIS Producer PETER ASHER Television presentation MICHAEL APPLETON