Ceefax AM starts your day with news, sport, weather and travel available to all viewers whether or not they have teletext sets.
Frank Bough and Debbie Greenwood with news, comment and guests Timetable:
National and international news on the hour and half hour read by Sue Carpenter
The weather forecast from
Francis Wilson at
6.55, 7.25, 7.55, 8.25, 8.55
Regional news, weather and travel from local BBC studios at
6.57, 7.27, 7.57, 8.27
Sports news at 7.20 and 8.20 A review of the morning papers at 8.37
Including this morning: Steve Blacknell's pop gossip at 7.32, and some extra surprises after the news at 9.0
The course of true love never does run true for Do-Right of the Mounties. Saw Mill
Silas ran away from the circus and now with his friend, Godik, has rented an attic in the house of an old woman. She seems to be involved in smuggling, and the two boys mean to find out more.
(R. Next part on Friday at 9.25 am)
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The Newsround team on tour
- meeting new people, visiting new places, and finding new stories around the country.
Presented by John Craven from the stage of the Radio 1 Roadshow at Weston-super-Mare. With Gary Davies and a Special Delivery report from Roger Finn
Greenpemt Oogle
A cartoon series in 12 parts 11:Welcome to Badenov Island (R)
just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead?
Games, tricks, puzzles and posers presented by the Belfast gang.
See the ballet in Stormont Castle, and Sean Paul's amazing wall-papering. Producer BRIAN WILLIS
Series producer PETER CHARLTON (R) Today's recipe and details of competitions on page 188 of Ceefax
Greenpemt Oogle
12: The Oogle Egg Drops In (R)
Inside out, upside down
Back to front, wrong way round!
Life is full of surprises
Presenter Carol Leader Guests
Andrew Secombe Simon Davies
Story: The Brush Man by MARGARET JOY
The Comhill Insurance Test Series
England v New Zealand from Trent Bridge Fourth day
PETER WEST introduces coverage of today's play.
with Laurie Mayer
News Headlines with subtitles
1.20 Regional News
Weather News Michael Fish
A See-Saw programme
Written by John Cunliffe. (R)
The Comhill Insurance Test Series
England v New Zealand PETER WEST introduces further coverage.
4.23 Regional News
A cartoon series set in Rome in the year AD 25.
When in Rome.... don't do as the Holidays do! For the Holidays have a peculiar knack of attracting trouble. That's
Showbiz Gus and Brutus become star attractions in the circus after the elder Holiday disables
Hammus Terrificus , a famous lion-tamer with an over-eager handshake.
A HANNA-BARBERA production
Klara's grandmama has come to stay in Frankfurt and life is much happier for Heidi. Homesickness
(R)
A selection from the popular American series starring
The Big Finish
All the kids are striving after fame, but what does it all mean? Could the answer lie with the janitor and his destitute friend?
Written by WILLIAM BLINN
Directed by ROBERT DOUGLAS (R)
with Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton followed by Weather News
John Stapleton
Linda Mitchell and Caroline Righton bring you the headlines from London and the south east plus the interviews that will make tomorrow's talking points. Sport from MICHAEL WALE Producer JANE DRABBLE Editor PHILIP HARDING
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
1970
The age of majority comes down to 18, ushering in the year of the young. The news - George Best makes football as attractive as rock 'n' roll, young Catholics in Holland want an end to priestly celibacy, and skinheads make reggae their own.
American campuses explode in fury at Nixon's Cambodian sideshow - four students die for their beliefs. The music:
Edison Lighthouse, Badfinger The Temptations, Jethro Tull Free, Deep Purple
Videotape editor MARK LAWRENCE Research URSULA MCCULLOCH and SUE GAGAN
Producer ANN FREER
Featuring, among many others, Bernard Bresslaw , Kenneth Connor , Charles Hawtrey , Frankie Howerd , Hattie Jacques ,
Sidney James , Terry Scott ,
Joan Sims , Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor
Produced by PETER ROGERS Directed by GERALD THOMAS
by Richard Cottan and Bob Goody
Cage and Moon continue to struggle for their own little corner of Wilderness Road as Alan and Keith fight (avoiding the Queensbury Rules) to deny them. Arch looks on as the non-caring captain as Nancy gets one in below the belt and Moon finds the pen mightier than the cordon bleu.
[Starring] Gary Olsen as Keith, Peter Jonfield as Alan, Veronica Quilligan as Nancy, Leslie Sands as Arch, David Sibley as Cage, Robin Driscoll as Moon
with Julia Somerville and Andrew Harvey Regional News Weather News
by GARETH JONES A five-part serial based on an idea by VICTORIA HINE with and 2: Viv Sharpe's in a right mess - in collision with the law, her kids in care, on the run from her husband and slap-bang in the middle of Bristol where no one wants to know. Is there salvation from the Angel Gabriel? Can Viv climb through the bureaucratic jungle to retrieve her kids? Can she keep fighting back?
Incidental music PAUL JONES
Make-up designer SUSIE BANCROFT Lighting DICK BENTLEY Designer ROB HINDS Producer CHRIS PARR DirectorPAUL SEED BBC Pebble Mill
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David Jacobs is your host and Charles Nove is the commentator from the magnificent Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, as HOME COUNTIES NORTH challenge
HOME COUNTIES SOUTH for a place in the Final.
This week's dance-band tribute from the Andy Ross Band and stylish World Latin Champions Donnie Burns and Gaynor Fairweather focuses on the witty American arranger and conductor Billy May. Arranged by ERIC D MORLEY Sound ALAN FOX
Lighting JOHN CROWTHER
Designer STEPHEN SHARRATT Director PETER FITTON Producer SIMON BETTS
The last in the current series in which Jimmy Perry presents another bill of variety acts of the 1930s and 40s, including CHARLES COBURN FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, GANJOU BROTHERS and JUANITA
AND TEDDY BROWN
Lighting DENNIS BUTCHER Sound GRAHAM HAINES Written by JIMMY PERRY Producer DON SAYER (R)
