6.45 Maths: L'Hopital's Rule
7.10 Britain: Granary for the Roman Empire?
7.35 Education: Taking the Initiative
8.00 Corrosion Prevention on Oil Rigs
Today's episode: Party (R)
Sporty-Ness and the Highland Games (R)
Around the Nursery in 80 Days
Created for TV by jim HENSON (R)
In the studio: Tony Dortie
Anthea Turner with the Roving Eye: Jenny Powell
This week the Roving Eye is all up in the air. Find out why in today's show. See how the pop predictions are faring in the charts. Watch for Nick Sanders ,
Thundercats and the weekly Florida reports. All this and of course the regular chance to phone in and register your opinions and vote for your favourite cartoons and videos. Director MOIRA BROWN
Location producer STEVE HAGGARD Production MARTIN HUGHES and PETER HAMILTON Editor EDWARD PUGH BBC North West
starring Roy Tatum Edie Kramer
Wildlife photographer Eric Whyte is worried that his beloved North Woods are being threatened by unscrupulous developers.
Enough is enough, and Eric decides to fight back.
The film features a host of wildlife performers including Bandito, the racoon from the Wilderness Family films. and Bandito with DAVID EIDSON , BILL DIAL
GEORGEANNE BOHLING
GWENDOLYN MASON
MILTON BELLAH , LOUIS FOX and GLENN GRAY
Produced by GEORGE P. MACRENARIS Written and directed by ROBERT RECTOR
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1.00 News Summary
with Moira Stuart
Weather
5.15 Regional News/Sport
with Debbie Greenwood
CATERHAM SCHOOL from
Surrey meet ALDERMAN WHITE COMPREHENSIVE from
Nottingham in the second semi-final.
Designer DUGALD FINDLAY Director JUSTIN c. ADAMS
Series producer CHARLES NAIRN Producer ANNE SOMERS
I starring
Chuck Connors Luke Halpin
Kathleen Maguire When young Sandy Ricks rescues an injured dolphin from a t ionda Keys reef he makes a lifelong friend. However
Sandy's fisherman father is facing ruin, and believes Flipper is a threat to the family's livelihood. So boy and dolphin must change the man's mind.
Filmed off Florida, the Bahamas and the Virgin
Islands, this original movie
Proved so popular that it lead to a sequel and the successful TV series.
Flipper and Mitzi Screenplay by ARTHUR WEISS
Story by RICOU BROWNING and JACK COWDEN
Produced by IVAN TORS
Directed by JAMES B. CLARK
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starring
Michael Barrymore Two Marks Rose
Marie Jessica Martin
Robert Meadmore
Mike Osman and featuring the Bluebell Girls
Tonight Michael is joined by impressionists Jessica Martin and Mike Osman and Irish singing star Rose Marie. The Two Marks demonstrate their stilt dancing expertise and when Jessica is joined by Robert Meadmore , Michael decides to upstage their song and dance by displaying his tap-dancing skills.
Written by GEOFF ATKINSON
KM FULLER and MICHAEL BARRYMORE Programme associate GEOFF ATKINSON
Choreographed and staged by JEFF RICHER
Musical director DON HUNT
Videotape editor JOHN SILLITTO
Sound supervisor JOHN CAULFIELD Lighting director STAN SNAPE Designer RICHARD MORRIS Produced and directed by KE\ 31 BISHOP
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starring
Francis Bigger , a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his performance and ends up in hospital under the care of Dr Tinkle. The hospital is about to enter a period of total chaos. The regular Carry On team is joined by Frankie Howerd as the fraudulent Francis in this 'bedpanorama of hospital life'.
Screenplay by TALBOT ROTHWELL
Produced by PETER ROGERS Directed by GERALD THOMAS
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with Moira Stuart Weather
The sixthof eightparts starring
When a beautiful ex-ballerina hires Jack to catch a thief, he discovers she has lost more than a stolen music-box.
Created and produced by ROBERT BANKS STEWART Director DON LEAVER (R)
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from Oak Tree Country Club, Oklahoma. The last of the major events of the year features a strong representation of European players. including Open
Champion SEVE BALLESTEROS. and NICK FALDO , runner-up in the US Open. The conditions in Oklahoma will be a big test for the players, with temperatures expected to be in the 100s.
Introduced by STEVE RIDER Television presentation ABC Produced by FRED VINER
starring
Beau Bridges Lloyd Bridges
For Kevin Pearse , a 29-year-old American living in Australia, surfing is more than a sport - it has become a way of life, a reason for existence. He abandons his job with his father, a business tycoon, to ride the Australian waves.
But tragedy shakes Kevin out of his cosy lifestyle.
Gradually, he finds other pressures building up on him - his girlfriend is pregnant, his father is dying. Kevin has to come to terms with himself and those he loves.
This story of disillusionment and reconciliation is told against a vivid background of Australian beaches and superbly photographed surfing scenes.
Screenplay by GEORGE KIRGO and PAUL SAVAGE Produced by FRANK ARNOLD Directed by DON CHAFFEY
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