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in Kitchen Cynic
An RKO film
with John Stapleton and Kirsty Wark
National and international news and analysis on the hour and half-hour read by Jill Dando
The latest sports news and comment from Bob Wilson
Weather forecasts from Francis Wilson at 7.25, 7.55, and 8.25
Regional news and travel updates at 7.27, 7.57, and
8.27
Weather
Andy Crane presents a whole morning of summer entertainment assisted by Siobhan Mayer, Colin Heywood and Sue Devaney.
There's music, competitions, fashion, new films, videos and star guests as well as some of your favourite programmes.
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Starting with -
The Pink Panther Show
Today: Pink In; Don't Hustle Ant with Muscle; The Pink Tail Fly (R)
9.25 Record Breakers
First of ten programmes
Roy Castle and Cheryl Baker host television's top record breaking show.
In today's programme there's an attempt to build the world's longest sandcastle.
Norris McWhirter highlights this year's outstanding record achievements.
Adventurer Tom McClean talks about his single-handed row across the Atlantic, the fastest ever.
Memory man Creighton Carvello attempts an astonishing feat of 'brute learning' for a new world record.
Director Kathryn Wolfe Producer Eric Rowan (R)
10.00am News; Weather followed by
But First This!
starting with:
The Really Wild Show: The first of four programmes with Terry Nutkins, Nick Davies and Chris Packham
The Really Wild Show goes European! Chris visits Holland to photograph white storks, and the Euro-audience communicate like animals - using mime.
There's a slimy, jawless fish, an American invader, and the wildlife on your hands!
Executive producer Mike Beynon Producer Paul Appleby BBC Bristol (R)
10.30 Play School
Under the sun, under the sun
We all live under the one and the same sun
Presenters Elizabeth Watts, Wayne Jackman
Story: "Amber's Other Grandparents" written by Peter Bonnici illustrated by Lisa Kopper (R)
10.55 Five to Eleven: with Maya Angelou
11.00 News; Weather followed by
But First This! starting with
SOS Coast Guard: 1: Disaster at Sea
A classic cliffhanger serial in 12 thrilling daily chapters.
Daring fighter of the sea, Coast Guard hero Terry Kent , is warned that a contract has been issued to supply a foreign power with a deadly disintegrating gas. Can the evil half-mad munitions inventor Boroff be behind all this?
Directed by William Witney and Alan James. A Republic serial.
11.35 The Flintstones: Boss for a Day
Yabba-dabba doo! Roll on down to Bedrock to meet that most modern of Stone Age families.
When Guzzo grants Fred's wish for a taste of power down at the quarry,
Flintstone the executive discovers that, sometimes, the Indians are better off than the chief!
A Hanna Barbera production (R)
Weather followed by NEW SERIES
The Garden Party
Introduced by Viv Lumsden and Eamonn Holmes
At the biggest outdoor event in Europe this year - the Glasgow International Garden Festival - the millions of visitors are joined by personalities and celebrities who are shaping opinion in summertime
Britain. Renaissance man Richard Jobson reflects on the new Top 20 - with music from Voice of the Beehive and opinion from INXS.
Glynn Christian offers culinary inspiration for 'Salad Days'. 9 FEATURE: page 14
with Michael Buerk Weather BILL GILES
'No, Mrs Mangel , Henry's a great bloke - I'm moving out because of the neighbours.' Written by GREG MILLIN Directed by STEVE MANN
Starring Raymond Burr as wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside
with Don Galloway as Det Sgt Ed Brown, Barbara Anderson as Officer Eve Whitfield, Don Mitchell as Mark Sanger
A law-school exercise for Mark causes a famous murder case to be reopened - a case in which certain suspicions fall upon Ed Brown. (R)
A marketplace of ideas
Join Judi Spiers and find out how you can save time, effort and above all, money.
This week, how to live out of a box; how to make the perfect pizza and design your own sweater. Not forgetting the tum-trimming exercises for a sleek new you. Director DAVE THOMAS
Producer ERICA GRIFFITHS (R) (e)
Notorious Landlady Man
A landlady calls a tenant at work and tells him to pack his bags immediately. He accuses her of irrational behaviour. She accuses him of being a quasi psychopath with a fetish for lingerie. No Free Rides in the Limo
A man hires a limousine but is too drunk to pay the bill.
He claims he did pay the bill but the driver was too drunk to remember.
Judge Joseph A. Wapner hears the evidence and gives a decision based on Californian law.
Host Doug Llewelyn
The first heat of television's international white water canoeing competition from
Llangollen, North Wales, for the Norwich Union Trophy. Commentators
CHRIS REA and JOHN GOSLING Producer JOHN G. SMITH
A WHITE RABBIT production for BBC Television (R)
Simon Parkin - starting with Yogi's Treasure Hunt
Today's story: Bewitched, Buddhad and Bewildered
Starring Roland Rat Superstar
with special guests Norman Collier, Alfred Marks, Prefab Sprout
Monday is here ratfans. This week the Rodent Roving Report comes from the London Fire Brigade Training Centre where Fergie tries to learn to be a fireman for the day. It sounds like fun when Cedric, the new sound man, causes chaos in the Rat Cave, where music is supplied by Prefab Sprout in the Rodent Pop Slot. Egyptian adventure serial "The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" reaches episode 5.
with Mark Curry, Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding.
Mark discovers why the Russians are so proud of their history when he visits the beautiful city of Leningrad, and Yvette meets a real live cosmonaut when she reports from the Soviet Spaceflight Control Centre.
CEEFAX SUBTITLES
with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell Weather JOHN KETTLEY
Lucy Meacock Steve Clarke Richard Bath bring you tonight's news and views from London and the South East.
Plus sport from Michael Wale
Editor FIONA CHESTERTON
Join Terry live at the Television Theatre, when his guests tonight include The Rt Hon
Sir Geoffrey Howe.
written by George Layton
starring Tony Britton and Nigel Havers
featuring Dinah Sheridan, Simon Williams
Events serve to remind Tom of the differences between the NHS and private practice and a sudden change in Toby's life has surprising repercussions.
CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Martyn Lewis and Philip Hayton present the day's news with BBC teams at home and abroad.
Regional News Weather
Who Is This Man Dukakis? As the son of Greek immigrants is about to be sent forth as the Democratic Party's challenger to recapture the American Presidency, Panorama examines the credentials of Michael Dukakis. As
Democrats prepare to gather for their Convention in Atlanta, Fred Emery assesses Mr Dukakis 's record over nine years as Governor of Massachusetts, and, from California to Georgia, asks voters whether or not they want a change from the Reagan years.
Producer FRANCESCA KIRBY-GREEN Editor TIM GARDAM
starring and Forgive Us Our Debts Caught between the ambitions of a would-be politician and his own conscience, Sonny Crockett attempts to unravel the case of Frank Hackman - a man he put in prison for the murder of a cop, a man now on Death Row awaiting execution, a man who might be innocent....
Written by GUSTAVE REININGER Directed by JAN ELIASBERG
Another chance to see
Dave Lee Travis introduce 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 in them.
Executive producer JOHN KING BBC Pebble Mill (R)
A mystery series based on the famous feature film. Tonight:
The Best Policy starring
Harry Lime is blackmailed into abducting an heiress by her ruthless
father Baron Mecklin. He arrives in Lucerne and finds the girl, but a near-fatal car accident presents them from continuing their journey ...
Screenplay by JOHN PLAYER Produced by FELIX JACKSON
Directed by JULIAN AYMES (R)
