in Poppa Knows Worst
An RKO film

with Jeremy Paxman and John Stapleton
8.55 Regional News and Weather

Weather followed by Dallas
The Ewing Connection
The Ewing brothers are intrigued by a mysterious stranger who claims he can help save Ewing Oil - who can he be?
Written by ARTHUR BERNARD LEWIS Directed by NICK HAVINGA (For cast see page 38) (R)
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Presented by Jimmy Savile 9: Under the Influence
Drinking and driving is responsible for 30,000 people being killed or injured each year. This programme looks at some of the facts, and suggests ways of enjoying yourself without driving 'under the influence'. (R)

Weather followed by Beauty Is in the Eye Every society has its own idea of beauty. This series of films looks at some of them. Thailand - Oriental Beauty Thailand is renowned for its beautiful women.
Jindarat Viriyawong 's delicate beauty belies the stamina she reveals when, as the leading dancer of the Thai National Ballet, she performs the Ram Sat Chatri. Producer BRIAN LEWIS (R)

Simon Parkin - starting with Play School
Presenters lain Lauchlan Chloe Ashcroft
Story: The Kindly Giant by WALTER KREYE and ADAM WURTZ (R) and Paddington
Paddington in Touch (R)

with Shirley Dixon

Weather followed by Wild Flower
Water Lilies
Most British flowering plants live on dry land, but water lilies are exceptions.
Michael Jordan reveals the secrets of their success. (R)
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Today, Chinese cooking.
String along with Singapore noodles, turn sprouting beans into a salad and prove that chicken with broccoli is more than a flash in the pan! Director JOHN ROONEY
Executive producer CYRIL GATES

Andre Previn in conversation with Richard Baker
Producer MICHAEL KERR (R)
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Weather followed by The Animals Roadshow
The Duke of Beaufort welcomes the show to
Badminton. Desmond Morris chats to
Captain Mark Phillips and Lucinda Green. Sarah Kennedy meets a glamorous rabbit. (R)
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with Michael Buerk
Weather Ian McCaskill

Scott and Eileen become heroes. Shane makes a serious accusation against Henry. Writer JOHN UPTON
Director GAYE ARNOLD
(For cast see page 38. Shown again at
5.35pm)

This second Gene Kelly musical matinee is his personal creation - a combination of action, pantomime and animation in an all-dancing movie in three separate sequences. Each is different in story and setting, but all show Kelly's lively choreographic style. Circus
Music by JACQUES IBERT
Ring around the Rosy
Music composed and conducted by ANDRE PREVIN
Sinbad the Sailor
Based on music by RMSKYKORSAKOV Cartoon sequence by HANNABARBERA
Produced by ARTHUR FREED Directed and choreographed by GENE KELLY
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starring and Dr No
Written by HOWARD OSTROFF (R)

Curtain Call at Bed-Rock (R)

Simon Parkin - starting with The Biskitts
Today's stories are:
Belling the Wildcat and King Max's War (R)

The first of six programmes with Nick Wilton , Floella Benjamin , Robert Harley and Sarah Mortimer
Do you want to know the best of the nation's jokes? Follow the gripping adventures of India Rubber Jones and his faithful chum, Cheeseplant? Hear the latest and daftest news from the Fast Forward news desk? See a hippo burp? Discover if Milton Keenze from the Planet Zymatron makes an appearance on your TV set? If the answer is yes, yes, yes, then watch Fast Forward today. The programme with a lot of funny bits! Production
DAVID CRICHTON. TREVOR MCCALLUM Series producer ANN REAY (R)

with John Craven, Helen Rollason and Roger Finn

with Simon O'Brien and Fiona Lee Fraser
A sports programme with Olympic hopefuls in mind.
Windsurfing and white-water canoeing are two of the competitions in Seoul. With the new mini-windsurfing boards, youngsters in Dorset take to the water with gold-medal ambitions, as do the young canoeists competing on the foaming waters of Bala, in North Wales. And there are medal ambitions in the ring for the boxers of the Newco Repton Amateur
Boxing Club in the East End of London, who demonstrate why they opt for pugilism rather than a more peaceful pastime.
Director ALAN YARDLEY Producer CHRIS FEAR BBC North West

with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell
Weather MICHAEL FISH

by Tony McHale.
"I know what you came up here for tonight Kathy. I'm not that stupid."
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The science power game with Kenny Everett assisted by Cleo Rocos
Watch the watts mount up as the Brainstormers win power - and then see who survives the 'brain drain' to be this week's champion.
Series editor DAVID FILKIN Director STUART MCDONALD Producer ROB BAYLY
Win '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 Moira Stuart present the day's news at home and abroad
Regional News; Weather

Third in a retrospective season of outstanding plays written for television by DAVID MERCER with Gerald, a highly intelligent senior civil servant, and his wife enjoy a 'civilised', delicately-balanced marriage, until Gerald decides he will seduce Julie, a brittle and vulnerable young colleague of his. This in turn disrupts Julie's delicate relationship with Ben, a violent and jealous draughtsman.
Producer GRAEME MCDONALD Directed by ALAN BRIDGES
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Mary Tyler Moore In the first of six programmes, one of television's funniest actresses talks frankly to Esther Rantzen about the triumphs of her career and the tragedies of her life. Overcoming alcohol addiction, illness and bereavement, she has survived, still smiling, still making people laugh. Director ROBIN BEXTOR
Producer DEBORAH PERKIN
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For the last 40 years, BBC stations outside London have reflected the richness and diversity of provincial life. The newest of these, in Newcastle, was opened today by HRH The Prince of Wales. To celebrate the BBC's regional operation, Ray Gosling explores the picture it has painted of Britain. With the help of people throughout the British Isles - and with examples from BBC regional programmes of the last years - he explores this tradition. It's a journey that brings documentary film-maker Philip Donnellan back to Wearside to recall the making of his classic study of shipbuilding, Sunderland Oak; that prompts young people in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Lewis to discuss their future; and asks playwrights Alan Plater and John Byrne to look again at the roots of their drama. It's an odyssey that introduces bhangra dancing, potholing, life in a tepee, the music of George Lloyd - and more! Cameraman RICHARD RANKEN
Film editors DEREK INGLIS, JANE WOOD
Executive producer JOHN MAPPLEBECK
Producer RICHARD ELSE
BBC Newcastle