Operation Barney (R)
with Frank Bough
Sally Magnusson and Jeremy Paxman
Reports from James Cox Margaret Gilmore Peter Marshall
Guy Michelmore Penny
Bustin Michael Stewart
The consumer show with your interests at heart. Whatever concerns you, Lynn Faulds Wood and John Stapleton are on hand to investigate the Problems you send them.
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Directed by JEREMY ORLEBAR
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Phillip Schofield with programme news and your birthday greetings.
What Shall I Wear Today? Presenter Kate Copstick Guest Ben Bazell
Story: The Steeplejack by MOLLY COX (R)
by Peter Firmin
Pinny and Victor are swept up and find themselves out in the cold.
Read by Matilda Thorpe
with Diana Quick
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In this final programme of the series, Sarah Brown entertains vegetarian style. Exciting ideas for starters and spectacular stuffed souffle tomatoes. Buckwheat pancakes filled with a rich ratatouille, complemented by rum and raisin cheesecake. And a summer lunch-party given by vegetarian gourmet Colin Spencer.
Director PAULA GILDER
Producer JENNY STEVENS (R) (e)
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with Paul Coia
Teams from all over the country try to answer the questions that could win them the Domesday discs.
12.55 Regional News and Weather
with Martyn Lewis
Weather JOHN KETTLEY
Danny and Scott get a job on a farm. Des acts as an escort for Daphne, with disastrous results.
(For cast see page 47. Shown again tomorrow at 10.5 am)
A See-Saw programme
A tractor on the go - fishing for shrimps in Morecambe Bay.
(R)
starring
Mario Lanza Ann Blyth
The poor boy who becomes a star is one of Hollywood's favourite stories, so MGM went to town with this biopic of the Naples urchin transformed into the greatest singer in the world. Enrico Caruso was an opera singer but this evergreen musical also includes popular favourites, 'Ave Maria' and 'Because'.
Screenplay by SONYA LEVIEN and WILLIAM LUDWIG
Produced by JOE PASTERNAK Directed by RICHARD THORPE
0 IN THE PICTURE: page 26
Phillip Schofield - starting with:
Jimbo and the Jet Set: Quiet Please
(R)
starring
The Chuckle Brothers in Chimney Capers in which the Chucklehounds make a clean sweep ... Music DAVE COOKE
Designer ANDREW WILKINS Producer MARTIN HUGHES BBC Manchester
A shark guards the sunken treasure chest and Cavey guards the Teen Angels when they dive down to discover more.
(R)
by VALERIE GEORGESON from a story by JOAN EADINGTON
Albert has been busy trying to re-wire the cellar, and Jonny needs some new ideas for his miniature garden. (For cast see page 48)
with Roy Castle Fiona Kennedy and Julian Farino
Tara Hobbs was just 13 when she set a world record of 95 high-kicks, in one minute. She's 16 now. Will she beat the world speed record for 50 high-kicks, which has stood since 1931! Will it fall to the Starlight Express dancer or the karate expert who have come in to compete with her for it? Find out on today's programme.
Assistant producer SALLY FRASER Producer MICHAEL FORTE
A series of 24 programmes Episode 19 by BARRY PURCHESE
Roland has trouble waking up, and has a narrow squeak, but Zammo is in serious hot water when the police call. Devised by PHIL REDMOND Producer RONALD SMEDLEY
Director ROGER SINGLETON-TURNER (For cast see page 83) (R)
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Presented by Angela Rippon The top eight teams on the leaderboard are anxiously awaiting the outcome of tonight's games. Could they be eliminated on the penultimate night of the rolling knock-out quiz?
Thursday is the start of the quarter-final stages between those eight teams that arft left. One of them will be the Masterteam of 1986.
with Sue Lawley and Philip Hayton
Weather IAN MCCASKILL
Tonight's the night - who will be the Telly Addict family of 1986? With the help of his 'hoofer-doofer', Noel Edmonds asks the questions that will make one of this week's teams of contestants this year's champions.
Director ANNETTE MARTIN Producer TIM MANNING
Excutive producer JOHN KING BBC Pebble Mill
by Liane Aukin.
"A lad of your age should be going steady and finding a girl of his own. If Lofty can find someone to marry him, you should be in with a chance..."
(For cast see page 72)
(Ceefax Subtitles)
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Starring Tony Hancock
and featuring Sidney James
Fifteen years is a long time - as Mr Hancock discovers when he invites some old army comrades to a reunion at 23 Railway Cuttings.
(R)
As an ex-schoolteacher of 'sums and drums', headmaster O'Connor dons his tattered mortar-board and takes a backwards glance at learning. Aided by his erudite pupils, CHRIS EMMETT and CAROLINE GRUBER , as well as story-tellers JEFF STEVENSON and MICK WALKER (still in their short trousers), Tom tries to find the roots of Pythagoras' theorem of laughter. Guest, Paul Shane , appears from behind the bicycle sheds to visit, and the 'public at large' gives its version of the verb 'to learn'. Script associate BARRY FAULKNER Sound supervisor DAVID THOMPSON Lighting director ANAN HORNE Set designer MARTIN METHVEN Production RICK GARDNER
with Julia Somerville and Andrew Harvey Regional News Weather
Billion Dollar Challenge Written and narrated by Ian Wooldridge
The America's Cup used to be the preserve of eccentric millionaires. But when
Australia took the cup in 1983 all that changed. Today, the paid crew-gladiators, the sponsors, the hi-technicians, and the media agents have come aboard.
Tonight's film follows teams from six nations - only one of which will win through to be the final challenger. Film editor DAVID THOMAS Producer BOB SAUNDERS
Executive producer TIM SLESSOR 0 FEATURE: page 98
with Barry Norman
Crocodile Dundee :
Paul Hogan stars as an Australian hunter from the outback who is taken to New York and discovers it to be rather different from home.
Crocodile Dundee has topped the US film charts for weeks - a surprising autumn hit.
Howard.... A New Breed of Hero: When Howard falls to earth from an alien planet, the world has to learn to adapt to a creature that bears a strong resemblance to a duck.
George Lucas produces. Director BRUCE THOMPSON Producer JANE LUSH
presented by William WooUard
Motivating workers to contribute to the success of their company and improve the quality of their working life is a difficult task.
Some firms pay for good suggestions, others expect it as part of the job. To see just how different and effective management attitudes towards motivation can be, one industry is examined - the car industry - in Britain, America, Sweden and Japan. Researcher KAREN EDWARDS Film editor ANDY KEMP Producer BRYN BROOKS
It's Not My Fault is it?
After Brenda rejects Lenny's seventh marriage proposal, he sinks into a deep depression and she has to face his family.
Written by EARL POMERAATZ
Directed by TONY MORDENTE (R)