Frank Bough and Sue Cook get the weekend off to a bright start with news, comment and features. Including today -
The latest in pop videos with Mike Smith at 7.32
Lynn Faulds Wood presents Danger Watch - a consumer notebook at 8.15
Steve Blacknell with his preview of weekend events in What's On
Glyn Worsnip 's reflections on the past week in Worsnip's Diary
Glynn Christian has weekend shopping advice from Glynn's Barrow and Alan Titchmarsh takes your calls on those gardening problems. Ring him on [number removed].
Up and down, splashing around
Go the waves you see on the sea
Presenter Brian Jameson Guest Sheelagh Gilbey
Story: The Story of Grace
Darling by BARBARA RODDAM Musical director PETER PONTZEN Percussionist LYN EDWARDS Graphics TOM BROOKS
Photographer JOHN JEFFORD Series producer ANNE GOBEY
Editor CYNTHIA FELGATE
with Moira Stuart and Chris Lowe
Weather News MICHAEL FISH
Rasa Singapura
Shortly before he died,
Donny MacLeod completed his last assignment for
Pebble Mill at One. Today, a special compilation of his reports from Singapore.
On his arrival he travelled by trishaw to one of the legendary watering holes of the Far East - Raffles Hotel. Donny also investigated the influence of the Chinese spirits on life in Singapore and spent a day with cookery writer Violet Oon.
A See-Saw programme with Carol Chell and Don Spencer
Bug is bothered when Whizz gives Voice the solution to the last Earth Search. Is it going to attract the Bugbites? Voice transmits some baffling 'distraction data' to divert any who might be 'Bugbiting-by' and sets Whizz and Bug a terrain crossing and challenges them to beat the present 'winks' record.
When it's 'time to return' Whizz looks at the Earth
Search clue and asks the right question: 'Where on earth does this go?' Do you know where it fits ? Music PETER GOSLING Graphics IAN HEWETT
Video effects DANNY POPKIN Designer NICK SOMERVILLE Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
Production pippa DYSON
Day of the Fugitive
In this week's story the Hobo puts his own life in danger when he goes to help a sick refugee.
Chairman Johnny Ball
There's a semi-ornithological connection between each of this week's hobbies.
Can the panel wing its way to victory? Julie-Ann Steel Alison Bettles
Stephen Mullen Darren Traynor try to guess the hobby while Lindsey Firth
Daniel Titcomb Alison Dynes and guest star
Duncan Goodhew try to score as many 'nos' as possible.
Designer ROCHELLE SELWYN Producer LAN OLIVER
An eight-part serial by ANTHONY READ
2: The Adventure of the Disappearing Dispatch Case Part 2
(Repeat. For cast see page 49)
Book 5.25 hardback /£1.25 paperback
with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell followed by Weather News
One man and his guests. Rams, black sheep and sacrificial lambs shepherded into the Television Theatre to entertain ewe, live from bosky Shepherd's Bush.
Michael Wood together with Sarah Greene launches a major project to mark the 900th anniversary next year of William the Conqueror's Domesday Book. It will create a new 20th-century Domesday Book, using the most modern information technology on interactive video discs.
More than a million people from over 12,000 schools and other organisations are to help compile a contemporary snapshot of life as they see it. This will become a unique source of facts, figures, graphics and photographs prepared by the communities it depicts. Combined with data from national and official archives, it will make information about Britain more easily available to everyone than ever before. Tonight's programme launches a national photographic competition. Film directors
SANDRA GREGORY. JONATHAN DARBY Studio director PATRICK HARPUR Producer ERIC ROWAN
Editor PETER ARMSTRONG
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Harper Gate
The tragic implications of a major bribery scandal land right on Mac's doorstep when his girlfriend is ruthlessly killed and he is framed for murder. Henry is unable to help for fear of blowing the agency's cover and Dani finds herself dangerously alone in trying to prove Mac's innocence.
Written by BOB SHAYNE
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with Julia Somerville
Weekend Weather News
MICHAEL FISH
by BRIAN CLARK
A serial in eight parts starring
Peter Barkworth Julia Foster
Rowena Cooper
7: Mary Brett creates another crisis but this time it is Edward who is estranged from the family.
Title and incidental music CARL DAVIS '
Designer SALLY ENGELBACH
Executive producer MARK SHIVAS Producer RUTH BOSWELL Directors
BARRY DAVIS , NICHOLAS MALLETT
Tony Hancock committed suicide in Australia in 1968. From 1954 to 1961 he was one of the most acclaimed and certainly the most popular of BBC radio and television comedians.
This film celebrates the years when Hancock, 'the lad 'imself, was at his peak. It includes many extracts from some of his most memorable half-hours including Twelve Angry Men, The Ladies' Man, The Radio Ham, The Bowmans and The Blood Donor.
The film looks back on Hancock's career in the company of his friends and collaborators, among them scriptwriters Alan Simpson and Ray Galton, radio producer Dennis Main Wilson and BBCtv producer Duncan Wood, along with Bill Kerr, Patrick Cargill, Hugh Lloyd, Patricia Hayes and Eric Sykes.
FEATURE: page 82
(BBC videos starring Tony Hancock £24.95 each: The Blood Donor, BBCV/B 7004 The Lift, BBCV/B 7034 The Bowmans, BBCV/B 703S The Radio Ham, BBCV/B 7036)
starring
Glenda Jackson Oliver Reed
In this riotous look at school life
Conor MacMichael is a dedicated teacher of maladjusted teenagers with a variety of social and sexual problems. Her efforts to understand and help her difficult pupils and to improve conditions at Selkirk School are continually frustrated by the overbearing, pompous headmaster, Terence Sutton. There are problems in her relationship with her boyfriend too, when her preoccupation with her job spills into her private life.
Screenplay by JUDD BERNARD based on the novel by SANDY HUTSON Produced by JUDD BERNARD
Directed by SILVIO NARIZZANO o FILMS: page 23
