7.10 Evolution of an Ocean
7.35 Evolution: Time for a Change
8.0 The Philosophy of Science: 1
(to 8.25)
Mark Curry and Maggie Philbin welcome the weekend with more cartoons, Pop music and competitions. The mobile picture unit reports from Blackpool on 100 years of seaside trams and Michael Jordan explores the wildlife on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
Studio guests are Paul King and Ron Pickering
Gary Davies presents his Pop profile of Amazulu. Cartoons today include
Popeye, Bullwinkle, Battle of the Planets and Top Cat.
Mark says, 'The control room will be full of scrap - and ideas on how to use it!' Producer TONY HARRISON Editor DAVID BROWN BBC Manchester
Gambler Sam Leeds and Mayor Joe Madden are rivals for the love of Sally Barr. When Leeds kills a man in self-defence Madden orders him to leave town.
However, on the trail Leeds comes across evidence of an Apache raiding party and rides back to warn the town, but no one believes him.
Screenplay by DAVID CHANDLER
Produced by VAL LEWTON
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1.0 News Summary Weather News MICHAEL FISH
with Jan Leeming Weather News
Flight to Oblivion
With the crucial test flight of the Z-400 fighter plane imminent, strange happenings at the San Remo Air Force Base send Diana undercover to find a visiting rock band whose management have a far more sinister act to perform....
Written by PATRICK MATHEWS
Directed by ALAN CROSLAND (R) * CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Three family teams from Willesden Green,
Great Yarmouth and Melton Mowbray compete in a merry joust in the sawdust ring.
Blackpool Tower Circus once again plays host to this
Pot-pourri of circus thrills and hilarious spills.
Hosted by Keith Chegwin Referee Suzanne Dando
Ringmaster Norman Barrett and Representing the world of international circus: Columbian high wire performers The Gusmans, awarded top honours at the 1984 International Monte-
Carlo Festival, and Aisa and Atlas with a non-stop exhibition of juggling skills. Designer JOHN HOLLAND Director ALAN WALSH
Producer GEOFFREY WILSON BBC Manchester
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starring
Fred Astaire
James Franciscus Barbara Eden
Undercover agent
'Lucky' Vincent is hot on the trail of gang boss
Solly Kramer and his gambling-extortion racket. His investigations lead him into deep trouble but just when 'Lucky's' luck seems to have run out enter Daniel and his five Dobermans!
Screenplay by MICHAEL KRAIKE
WILLIAM GOLDSTEIN. RICHARD CHAPMAN Produced by DAVID CHUDNOW Directed by BYRON CHUDNOW
(First showing on British television) * FILMS: page 16
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by JEREMY LLOYD and DAVID CROFT Gambling Fever starring
Grace Bros have installed closed circuit television as a security measure. The staff find a use for it that couldn't be more insecure. executive producer DAVID CROFT Produced and directed by MARTIN SHARDLOW (R)
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with Jan Leeming Weather News
by JAMES CLAVELL
A serial in five parts starring
Richard Chamberlain Toshiro Mifune Yoko Shimada Alan Badel and John Rhys-Davies
Narrated by Orson Welles 2: After his first terrifying and humiliating experience of Japanese customs in Anjiro, Blackthorne has been brought before Toranaga,
Lord of the Kwanto, the eight Provinces and Chief General of the Armies of the East in Osaka Castle. Toranaga shows interest in Blackthorne but is himself trapped within the castle Walls at the mercy of his hated enemy, Lord Ishido, Protector of the Heir and Chief General of the Armies of the West. Ishido had demanded the foreigner's Imprisonment in Osaka's death row prison and Blackthorne now awaits his fate - crucifixion! For no one incarcerated there has yet survived ...
Written and produced by ERIC BERCOVICI
Directed by JERRY LONDON (R) * CEEFAX SUBTITLES
starring
Elvis Presley with Ina Balin Victor French
Reformed outlaw Jess Wade is lured to a Mexican border town by his former companions. Forced to visit their mountain hideout, he discovers the outlaws have framed him for the theft of a Victory gun - a cannon cast in precious metals.
Elvis Presley stars in one of the straight dramatic roles of his acting career.
Written, produced and directed by CHARLES MARQUIS WARREN 0 FILMS: page 16
