in Rule 'Em and Weep
King Boule of Bulvania has been overthrown by an evil usurper who has thrown his sweetheart Ramona in jail. He needs help - never fear, the Masquers are here.
An RKO film
with Jeremy Paxman and John Stapleton
Regional news and travel updates at 7.27, 7.57, 8.27
Weather followed by Dallas
Bail Out
Jenna is released on bail but has some crushing news for Bobby. Pam receives new word of Mark. She has new hope, but a guilty conscience is about to blow all that. Written by DAVID PAULSEN
Directed by MICHAEL PREECE (R) (For cast see page 41)
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The Shoulder Stand (R)
Weather followed by Small World
A series featuring some of the finest model-makers and collectors. Today:
Fairgrounds in Miniature
Arthur New in Devon, who makes fairgrounds in miniature, had to start again after 30 years' work was destroyed in a fire.
Presenter Eric Thompson Director JENNI BURROWS Producer PAUL SMITH BBC Bristol (R)
The Lonesome Stranger (R)
Andy Crane - starting with Play School
As quiet daytimes give way to nights
Listen and gaze at carnival sights
Presenters Carol Chell Wayne Jackman
Story: The Man Who Took the Indoors Out by ARNOLD LOBEL (R) and Paddington
Paddington Weighs In (R)
with Robert Glenister
Weather followed by Your Mind in Their Hands
The treatment of mental illness in the National Health Service investigated by Dr Alan Maryon Davis. 5:
Schizophrenia Paul was a brilliant undergraduate at Oxford. Today he is reading for a Doctorate in History. In the few years between he was tormented by thought disturbance, persecution complex and voices in the head.
Producer DAVID CORDINGLEY (R)
Pattie Coldwell and Harry Greene move on to the second stage of landscaping the garden designed by Faith and Geoff Whiten. Rick Ball takes a craftsman's advice on repairing and replacing the leaded lights at Number 50, while in Troubleshoot Harry shows a keen decorator how to remove a radiator.
For fact sheet send cheque or postal order (payable to Housefax) to: [address removed]
Enclose 95p for double issue (7 and 8) or £4.30 for the whole series (1-10)
Weather followed by The Animals
Roadshow
Desmond Morris and Sarah Kennedy visit the oldest cat club in the world as it celebrates its centenary in Victorian style. And Sarah follows the hedgehog express to the hospital which puts the heart back into injured animals. (R)
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The Old Pioneer and Pipe Dreams (R)
with Philip Hayton
Weather Ian McCaskill
Des and Daphne accept an invitation to Madge's dinner party - is this the start of a reconciliation?
Written by REG WATSON Directed by TONY OSICKA
Lawn Tennis Championships from the All England Club Live coverage from Centre and Number 1 Courts, plus news and results of all this afternoon's matches, brought to you by the BBC's Outside Broadcast team. Introduced by HARRY CARPENTER
Commentator DAN MASKELL JOHN BARRETT
GERALD WILLIAMS. BARRY DA VIES MARK COX. BILL
THRELFALL ANN JONES and VIRGINIA WADE Television presentation
JOHNNIE WATHERSTON. FRED VINER ALASTAIR SCOTT. HUW JONES and WENDY SHEPPARD
Executive producer MARTIN HOPKINS Editor JOHN ROWLINSON
Andy Crane - starting with The Biskitts
Today's stories are: Moving Day and A Biskitt Hallowe'en (R)
by TERRY RAVENSCROFT starring David Copperfield with Sally Dewhurst
Anthony Howes , Carol Chell Ron Tarr and Matthew Devitt Gone Fishing
Today, Tony is angling for a fishing rod, Coppers prepares a paella to music and Mrs Thingy flies in through the window. Now guess the plot! Designer ROBERT STEER Director DAVID CRICHTON Producer JUDY WHITFIELD
with Mark Curry, Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding
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with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell
Weather BERNARD DAVEY
Presenting hits and videos from the Top 40 chart
Introduced by Mark Goodier and Nicky Campbell
by Gerry Huxham.
"There's nothing left, is there Dad? What we started out with. Mum. You. Me. Even Roly. All scattered."
(For cast see page 48)
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The science power game with Kenny Everett assisted by Cleo Rocos Tonight's guest expert Mary Archer
Can last week's Brainstorm champion hold on to the title? Or will he be drained of all his power and evaporated horribly?
Series editor DAVID FILKIN
Director STUART MCDONALD Producer ROB BAYLY (Win a Brainstorm sweatshirt, Ceefaxpage 187)
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written by CARLA LANE
Title music by DAVID MACKAY Directed by SUSAN BELBIN
Produced by ROBIN NASH (R)
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Martyn Lewis and Philip Hayton present the day's news
Regional News; Weather
Beginning a retrospective season of outstanding plays written for television by David Mercer.
"The Parachute" was first shown in 1968.
Starring Alan Badel as Baron von Reger, Jill Bennett as Anna and John Osborne as Werner
also starring Isabel Dean, Esmond Knight
Werner von Reger, a young German officer in 1940, prepares to test a new parachute. As he does so his mind travels in flashback over the conflicts of his childhood and youth. By extension, his story mirrors a whole era of European history.
(R)
Feature: page 12 and Woddis On: page 81
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The best of this fourth day's action is introduced by DESMOND LYNAM.
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