6.45 Teaching by Telephone
7.10 Talking Turtle: Computers in the Classroom
8.0 Cellular Growth
(to 8.25)
from a planet far away. (R)
(R)
with Mark Curry and Cheryl Baker
A live, fast-moving package of entertainment.
Train-crazy! Mark spends a day with a crowd of enthusiasts on board the City of Truro express and finds out what fascinates train spotters, as they travel through the glorious Yorkshire countryside.
There are No Limits to the travellers' tales when Jenny Powell and Tony Baker take time off from their frantic filming schedule to bring some behind-the-scenes stories of television's zaniest rock show.
'Hold on tight' says Samantha Fox when she calls in for a chat and to show her exotic new video - and while on the subject, Godley and Creme, pop's top video-directing team, reveal some of the tricks of their trade.
Plus competitions, cartoons, features, fashions, movies and madness.
Write to Mark and Cheryl at: The Saturday Picture Show [address removed]
More Picture Show facts on Ceefax page 187.
starring
Barry Bostwick
Persis Khambatta Edward Mulhare
Meet Megaforce, the most potent fighting force the world has ever seen, ready to combat evil wherever it may lie! Barry Bostwick leads the mean, clean, fighting machine with a dazzling array of futuristic hardware in this all-action fantasy adventure.
Screenplay by JAMES WHITTAKER ALBERT S. RUDDY. HAL NEEDHAM ANDRE MORGAN
Produced by ALBERT S. RUDDY Directed by HAL NEEDHAM
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Weather News IAN MCCASKILL
with Jan Leeming Weather News
from Stuttgart Introduced by Desmond Lynam Men's Marathon
While you've been away they'll have come three miles closer and at least one should be in the stadium ten minutes from now.
Men's 110m Hurdles Final COLIN JACKSON , the World Junior Champion, may mature very rapidly.
Women's 10,000m Final
Strange expression - fastest in the world 'on paper' - but INGRID KRISTIANSEN is precisely that, by the odd minute in 30. Plus heats of all the relays, carefully now.
Country and western singer Lightweight Louie Danvers performs, while Barbara Dickson provides some serious musical entertainment. Koo Stark and Susannah York guest star.
begins a run of films being shown for the first time on television. Today starring George C. Scott Timothy Hutton
Sean Penn , Tom Cruise
Bunker Hill Military
Academy has trained US
Army officers for 141 years. When the commanding officer, General Bache, announces that the academy is to close, the cadets under
Major Brian Moreland , decide on a protest action. Planned and executed with strict 'military' discipline their occupation soon escalates into a nightmare siege.
Three of Hollywood's most talented and popular young stars feature in this tense and powerful drama.
Screenplay by DARRYL PONICSAN and ROBERT MARK KAMEN
Based on the novel Father Sky by DEVERY FREEMAN
Produced by STANLEY R JAFFE and HOWARD B. JAFFE
Directed by HAROLD BECKER
(First showing on British television).
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with Jan Leeming Weather News
by Tom Sharpe
Dramatised in six parts by Malcolm Bradbury
However much Lady Maud Lynchwood may insist, Sir Giles is more than reluctant to give her any children. This triggers a manic chain of events, with many unforseen and surprising consequences.
(Ceefax subtitles)
Sir Giles is relucatant to give Lady Maud any children and this triggers a manic chain of events and consequences.
Also starring
Anne Bancroft
Mel and Edna Edison live on the 14th floor of a New York City apartment house. The air-conditioning has broken down, the toilet flushes continuously and the noise from the neighbouring apartment is unbearable. Outside, the awful midsummer heat makes the stench of the garbage worse. Then, with events at their blackest, Mel losses his job.... Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft give characteristically brilliant performances as the victims of urban paranoia, in Neil Simon 's sophisticated, bitter-sweet comedy.
Screenplay by NEIL SIMON Produced and directed by MELVIN FRANK
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