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Alfred Brickrock Presents (R)
with Frank Bough Sally Magnusson and Jeremy Paxman
News summaries on the hour and half hour
The latest sports news and comment from Bob Wilson Timetable:
Weather with Francis Wilson at 7.25, 7.55, 8.25
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7.15, 7.45, 8.15
Today and every day this week
Lynn Faulds Wood and John Stapleton will investigate all your problems.
News Update and Weather
Join Robert Kilroy Silk , his studio audience and guests as they discuss a topic that touches your life.
Director BOB MARSLAND Editor HUGH PURCELL
Presented by Isobel Ward A magazine programme about disabled people, their families and carers.
Producer CHRISTOPHER HUTCHINS
(R)
Phillip Schofield with programme news and your birthday greetings.
Presenter Carol Chell Guest Mike Amatt
Story: Sam the Super Builder by CHARLES WHALEY
Illustrated by CLAIRE STANLEY
(R)
with Fulton Mackay
with Susan Hampshire and Geoff Hamilton
A practical guide to the care of houseplants
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with Bob Wellings Pattie Coldwell and Eamonn Holmes
Paul Coia presents the programme and asks teams from all over the country
'Where is the smallest home in Britain?' and 'In which town would you be most likely to see people playing uppies and downies?' The answers to these questions and many more can be found on the amazing Domesday discs. All you wanted to know about Britain in the 80s is contained on two laser discs and teams compete to win this treasure trove of information. Director MAY MILLER
Producer PHILIP CHILVERS
with Martyn Lewis
Weather IAN MCCASKILL
Des decides to revive his social life. Carol Brown is robbed. This week's cast:
Written by DAVID PHILLIPS Directed by RUSSELL WEBB
A See-Saw programme. (R)
Selina Scott visits an old family firm of shoemakers in Street, Somerset. Jane Lomas reports on the expanding world of mail-order fashion and Jeff Banks asks agony aunt Claire Rayner to 'give us a twirl'
Producer ROGER CASSTLES BBC Pebble Mill
by Michael J. Bird
starring Peter Gilmore Anne Stallybrass
and Edward Chapman, Brian Rawlinson, Philip Bond, Michael Billington, Jessica Benton, Howard Lang
The Charlotte Rhodes, badly damaged by violent storms, is foundering. Callon makes it a race for salvage, and Albert's steam pinnace is put to a spectacular test at sea.
(R)
starring with The Six
David has been spending a lot of time with a girl named Hilary. So why is he upset when Valerie invites her out for a weekend?
Written by CHIP AND DOUG KEYES Directed by ASAAD KELADA
Phillip Schofield - starting with:
Pie in the Sky
When the Pieman brings home a stray dog, the Piewife loses a day's baking and the Piepilot gains a friend. Featuring Astra as Fido
by BARRY MURRAY starring Paul Daniels The Wobblers (1)
Directed by phil BISHOP
Kraha and the Incas welcome the children as messengers of the gods. The way to the Cities of Gold has been lost, but their medallions are the keys. Esteban discovers something about his parents and how he came to be wearing the medallion.
by VALERIE GEORGESON from a story by JOAN EADINGTON
There is another baby on the way in the Briggs family -
Jonny is convinced it is Mam and Dad's.
Fizzy supplied by PAULINE CLIFT Designer RICHARD DUPRE
Producer ANGELA BEECHING Director CHRISTINE SECOMBE
with Janet Ellis, Mark Curry, Caron Keating
A-ha! Morten, Pal and Mags have returned from their world tour - and one of Norway's most famous heart-throbs will be making a flying visit to the studio, to launch their new video 'Cry Wolf'.
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Presented by Angela Rippon Can tonight's teams, PENNY BLACK from Stockton and TREASURY TAGS from
Nottingham, win through - or will the previous team maintain its winning streak? Director PETER FITTON
Programme associate Rosalind gold
Producer DAVE ROSS
with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell Weather MICHAEL FISH
John Stapleton
Linda Mitchell and Caroline Righton bring you all tonight's headlines from London and the south east. Plus all the day's sport from MICHAEL WALE Editor JANE DRABBLE
Live from the Television
Theatre on Shepherd's Bush Green , Terry brings you the famous, the notorious, the relevant and the celebrated. Director TONY NEWMAN Producer PETER ESTALL
Series producer FRANCES WHITAKER
Once again Dave Lee Travis introduces some famous hit records from the past helped by various film makers who were asked to present the images that these great old songs evoked for them. This is what they saw. Producer JOHN KING BBC Pebble Mill
'What is chiefly needed is skill rather than machinery'
(WILBUR WRIGHT , 1902)
Course No 44
How will a Hercules behave if you drop a 30-ton bulldozer from it? It's a test pilot's job to find out. But how do you become a test pilot?
At Boscombe Down is the Empire Test Pilots' School. Here hand-picked military pilots from all around the world are taught the exacting skills of test flying. The year-long course is reckoned to be the toughest in the services. This series follows the fortunes of the students of course No 44 as they learn a great deal about flying - and more about themselves. Narrator Andrew Faulds Film editor COLIN JONES Producer BRIAN JOHNSON
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by RICHARD OMMANNEY
Nick, a photographer, and his young wife Angie have just had their first baby, a boy. They know that the new addition will alter their lives and were planning to let the basement of their home to pay for a nanny so Angie could go back to work and life would return to normal.
But money is tight, so Nick's south London father Sam has a suggestion to alleviate the financial burden. However, Angle's mother Daphne arrives from Cheltenham with an alternative suggestion - and she's used to getting her own way.
Producer DAVID ASKEY
Director MANDIE FLETCHER (R)
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Julia Somerville and John Humphrys present the day's news with BBC teams at home and abroad Regional News Weather
A weekly window on life in Britain and around the world through the eyes of television's top reporters: Fred Emery , Gavin Hewitt Richard Lindley Tom Mangold John Penycate John Ware
Robin Denselow Robert Harris
Editor DAVID DICKINSON
starring
William Shatner Michelle Phillips Cybill Shepherd
Although Chris and Katie have a seemingly perfect marriage, in private Chris's dissatisfaction with their love life adds an unbearable tension to the relationship.
One night Chris turns to a hooker to fulfil the fantasies his wife fails to understand.... Moonlighting's Cybill
Shepherd appears as the call girl whose outward beauty hides a darker purpose....
Written by DENNIS NEMEC Produced by R. w GOODWIN
Directed by WILLIAM A. GRAHAM
(First showing on British television)
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The Marty Morgan Story
When Martin starts acting secretively, Ida is convinced he's having an affair and asks Rhoda to investigate.
Written by CHARLOTTE BROWN Directed by DOUG ROGERS (R)