6.45 Telecommunications: Modulation
7.10 The University of the Third Age
7.35 Last of the Liberties
8.0 Aggregate Demand and Supply
(to 8.25)
An adventure story in 13 episodes set in New Zealand in the 1860s.
8: Scott Hunter has come to Tucker's Gully to search for his missing father, only to find that he is suspected of murdering his partner, and that he has been seen with two bandits. The police sergeant sends a posse to hunt them down; there is a fight and the constable is killed. Sergeant O'Halloran is more determined than ever to get Scott's father. But how.' Produced by JOHN MCRAE
Directed by TOM PARKINSON (R)
Kidnap Caper
Voices TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR BILL ODDIE , GRAEME GARDEN
JILL SHILLING
Written by BERNIE KAY Music by DAVE COOKE
Produced by TREVOR BOND Directed by TERRY WARD (R)
with Mike Read, Keith Chegwin and Sarah Greene.
In store this morning another heat of Superstore Search for a SuperStar talent competition. Four more acts compete for this coveted trophy. Among the guests appearing in the music department are Matt Bianco. They play their new single live in the store.
Fast Forward's Joanna Munro is the special guest who's looking after the coffee shop this morning. Botanist David Bellamy is with Keith on the delivery van, but he's still able to take your calls on [number removed]. If you're thinking of having music lessons but haven't decided which instrument to learn, then Anne Fergusson from Which? magazine has some useful advice. She reports on a special SuperStore survey of musical instruments.
Also in store, all the latest pop videos and your favourite cartoons.
(see panel)
including at 12.55 News Summary
Weather News Ian McCaskill
Grandstand
12.15 - 5.5 pm
Introduced by Desmond Lynam
Timetable*
12.20 Football Focus 12.40 Athletics 1.0 Ice Hockey 1.40 Ski-ing 1.55 Racing 2.10 Rallying 2.25 Racing 2.40 Ice Hockey 2.55 Racing 3.10 Ice Hockey 3.30 Rugby League 3.50 Half-times 4.0 Rugby League 4.20 Athletics 4.40 Final score
*Timings are subject to alteration
Football Focus
with Bob Wilson
Athletics
from Madrid European Indoor Championships It's not often a British high jumper gets top billing, but at 2.30m Geoff Parsons gets it, and at 2.03m tall - 6ft 8in in the old money - he deserves it.
Commentators RON PICKERING, STUART STOREY
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Ice Hockey
Cleveland Bombers v Nottingham Panthers The Heineken League blasts back for its monthly date with Grandstand, the target is Wembley in April, ALAN WEEKS has pre-qualified.
Ski-ing
7 February - Morzine, France. Peter Wirnsberger is fallible - he came third. Incroyable. Can he be caught going downhill again? David Vine from Sweden.
Racing from Punchestown
Dawn Run relieved herself of jockey Tony Mullins recently at Cheltenham, tenaciously he held on, remounted and finished. Jonjo O'Neill hopes to adopt a more orthodox approach with the Festival looming. 2.0 Jack, Peter and Paul Doyle Hurdle (2m) 2.30 Diners Club 'Chase (2 1/2m) 3.0 Ladbroke Trial H'cap 'Chase (3m 6f) Commentators JULIAN WILSON and RICHARD PITMAN
Rallying
World Championships Blomquist and Grundel nurse the new Fords on their debut in Sweden, STEVE RIDER with the results of the ice test.
Rugby League
Silk Cut Challenge Cup round two - highlights and there are sure to be some. Commentators RAY FRENCH and ALEX MURPHY
Final Score
No ads, just the headlines and the news.
Television presentation:
Athletics TVE, Spain
Ice Hockey JOHNNIE WATHERSTON
Ski-ing SVT. Sweden
Racing RTE. Ireland
Rugby League KEITH PHILLIPS
Assistant editor. Grandstand BRIAN BARWICK
Producer. Grandstand MARTIN HOPKINS
Editor, Grandstand JOHN PHILIPS
Sports Flash!
On home territory and with the likes of Joe Luis Gonzales and Jose Abascal to call on, the Spanish will be hoping to make their mark In the track events, at this year's European Indoor Games in Madrid (Saturday and Sunday, BBC1 and 2, International Athletics). But it's not just the other runners that will provide the challenge. The track at the Sports Palace is only 164m long, which makes those bends very tight indeed, something which is going to prove testing during overtaking, especially for the middle distance runners, and something which will be in the mind of Kirsty McDermott, Britain's three As 800m champion, who will be wanting to erase the memory of last year's 800m final in Athens, in which, seemingly set for a medal, she fell on the very last bend.
with Jan Leeming Weather News
Welcome to an evening of culture and refinement in the Muppet Theatre. Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem Band perform a minuet in G major, prima donna Miss Piggy sings Wagnerian highlights, and tonight's special guest star Rudolf Nureyev dances the famous pas de pig from Swine Lake. For once Sam, the American Eagle, can have no cause for complaint!
with Jimmy Savile If you have a dream
And you've got what it takes, To stand for an hour
In a pit full of snakes ...
If you have an entertaining and original secret dream that you would like 'fixed' for yourself or as a surprise for someone else, write to: Jimmy Savile ,
BBC Television Centre,
Wood Lane, London W12 8QT. Lighting ERIC WALUS
Sound RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN Designer BOB STEER
Director MICHAEL LEGGO Producer ROGER ORDISH
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starring Noel Edmonds with Mike Smith
The last programme of the present series is an all winners show. Can anyone beat the Y-front pants jumping record? Who owns the fastest lawnmower and how many people can get into a supermarket trolley? Noel presents the final Golden
Egg Awards and the daring Whirly Wheeler goes high into orbit.
Sound DAVID THOMPSON Lighting TERRY BRETT
Production MICHAEL HURLL
starring Paul Daniels
Play along at home in this new comedy quiz show in which couples compete for and against the clock - leading up to the exciting final game where
Every Second Counts. Sound MICHAEL MCCARTHY Lighting PETER WESSON
Designer david BUCKINGHAM Director TONY NEWMAN Producer DAVID TAYLOR
starring
Les Dennis and Dustin Gee
In the final show of the series Edna Everage meets Les Patterson.
As a fitting tribute to Dustin Gee the series ends with him performing in the guise of Sherlock Holmes , one of his best-loved and most popular impressions, that of Larry Grayson.
Les and Dustin's guests this week are comedian
Dean Park and speciality act Sonny Hayes & Co.
Script associateNEIL SHAND Musical director KEN JONES
Choreographer ALAN HARDING SoundHUGH BARKER
LightingDICKIE HIGHAM
Designers ANDREW HOWE DAVIES BRUCE MACADIE
Produced and directed by JOHN BISHOP
Last in the series devised by JOE WATERS
Spy in the Camp written by ERIC PAICE
Steven Bentley has returned from the dead - and he holds three million pounds worth of shares. Jeanette is questioned by the police and Kelly is enjoying the high life. But who is the mysterious sheikh; why does he invite everyone to a country house party?
Music by DAVID MINDEL and DON GOULD Designer RAYMOND LANGHORN Videotape editor ALAN DIXON Script editor MERVYN HAISMAN Director TOM COTTER Producer JOE WATERS
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Jan Leeming ; Weather News
starring
Sophia Loren
John Cassavetes Robert Vaughn George Kennedy Max Von Sydow
The records say that US
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in Germany, December 1945. But was he the target for a hired killer? In August 1945 the Reichsbank gold reserve worth$250 million, is stolen while being shipped to
Frankfurt and 59 American soldiers guarding the gold are killed. Harassed by the Russians about recovering the gold, Patton decides to take over the investigations.
Screenplay by ALVIN BORETZ
Based on the novel The Algonquin Project by FREDERICK NOLAN Produced by ARTHUR LEWIS Directed by JOHN HOUGH
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continues a season of films to thrill and chill, tonight starring Peter Cushing John Hurt
At a flapper party in the 20s two dizzy couples challenge each other to a motor car race to Land's End. The thrills turn to terror as the race detours in the fog to a dark and lonely mansion where Peter Cushing offers hospitality at a gruesome price, and a terrifying secret lies in the attic.
Screenplay by JOHN ELDER Produced by KEVIN FRANCIS Directed by FREDDIE FRANCIS
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