followed by The Flintstones Dress Rehearsal
Frank Bough and Sally Magnusson introduce a new-look
Breakfast Time in a fresh studio setting. They are joined by Sally Jones Britain's first full-time female sportscaster and Jeremy Paxman reporting from the Labour Party
Conference in Blackpool. Using the unrivalled BBC network of regional news centres and 20 foreign bureaux, Breakfast Time provides up-to-the-minute coverage of the main national and international stories to provide a pacier and even more informative start to the day. Francis Wilson provides his distinctive view of the weather and a team of reporters file stories about what makes the nation tick. Plus regular news and traffic reports from your own region. Timetable:
National and international news on the hour and half-hour
Weather at 7.25, 7.55, 8.25, 8.55
Regional news and travel at 7.15, 7.45,8.15
Live coverage of the morning session of the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool Reporting team
Sir Robin Day and David Dimbleby with Vincent Hanna
What can you see that's old? Presenter Ben Thomas Guest Elizabeth Watts
Story: The Fat King and the Thin Cook by DONALD BISSET
Music director PAUL READE
Woodwind/Strings/Double Bass
MARTIN FRITH, BRIAN BROCKLEHURST Graphics JOANNA ISLES Editor cynthia FELGATE
Producer JOHN M. A. LANE (R)
Further live coverage from Blackpool
with Richard Whitmore and Frances Coverdale
News Headlines with subtitles
Weather News BILL GILES
A See-Saw programme
Postman Pat and Jess, his black-and-white cat, call in - as they do every day - at Mrs Goggin's post office.
Written by John Cunliffe. (R)
Coverage of the afternoon session from Blackpool
The Piepilot makes an emergency call to the Piewife and Pieman, having sighted a huge giant in the fields very near the piehouse! It turns out to be a false alarm but gives the perfect clue for the song pie.
by BARRY MURRAY starring Paul Daniels Sticky Stuff
Sticky Micky eats one of Professor Doom's never-ending toffees with a very sticky result. You will get stuck on this one.
Directed by PHIL BISHOP
A cartoon adventure story
When the Esperanza sank in the storm, Esteban and his friends were left drifting on a raft until they arrived on the shore of an unknown island.
with Paul Jones
Round 13 of the exciting lateral thinking noughts-and-crosses quiz game between teachers and pupils. Can today's challenger from CHERRY
WILUNGHAM COMPREHENSIVE, Lincoln, unseat Friday's champion?
Devised by CUVE DOIG
Director OLIVER MACFARLANE Producer ANGELA SHARP
with Janet Ellis, Peter Duncan and Mark Curry
Pussies Galore!
Blue Peter's new kitten will be making a special appearance at the world's biggest cat show at Olympia, and today's the day you can find out how your cat can enter the classes for non-Pedigree cats and kittens.
There have been thousands of suggestions for a name for Blue Peter 's mischievous
Siamese. Muffin, Suki, Bluey, Willow and Pip are all high on the list, so don't miss Janet, Peter and Mark's announcement of the top favourite.
(Ceefax subtitles)
Yabba-dabba-doo! Roll on down to Bedrock to meet that most modern of Stone-Age families.
Carry on, Nurse Fred
With little Pebbles now at home, Fred's efforts to achieve peace and tranquillity are severely tested by the baby nurse who takes over his cavehold. A HANNA-BARBERA production
Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell
Present the latest pictures, stories and events of the day from Britain and around the world followed by Weather News
John Stapleton
Linda Mitchell and Caroline Righton bring you all tonight's headlines from London and the south-east plus the interviews that will make tomorrow's talking points. The London Plus reporters are with the people making the news. Plus all the day's sport With MICHAEL WALE Editor JANE DRABBLE
An effervescent effusion emanating live from the Terryvision Theatre on Shepherd's Bush Green
John Humphrys and Andrew Harvey present the day's news with BBC teams at home and abroad Regional News Weather News
Disarm and Defend?
Labour promises to get rid of Britain's nuclear weapons after the next election, relying instead on strong conventional defence.
Would such a shift of strategy make Britain safer - or would it endanger the NATO alliance?
And how certain is Labour to carry out its pledge on the issue of nuclear disarmament, which split the party at the last election? Fred Emery reports from
Britain's nuclear bases and talks to Labour leader The Rt Hon Neil Kinnock , MP; Tory Defence Secretary The Rt
Hon George Younger , MP and his American counterpart, Casper Weinberger. Producer PETER BELL
Editor DAVID DICKINSON
starring James Coburn, Jennifer O'Neill
Dr Carey, a tough, unconventional hospital pathologist, is determined to prove his friend and colleague, David Tao, innocent of murder. A difficult problem since the 'victim' is the 15-year-old daughter of the hospital's belligerent director, added to which she died as the result of an illegal abortion.
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