6.45 Blancmanges and Snowflakes
7.10 Herod and Judaea
7.35 Geology: The Capitan Reef
8.00 Head Start: Children of the Dream
Today's episode: Star Bar (R)
Clever-Ness Helps with the Homework (R)
Of Mice and Muppets
Sherlock Gonzo battles the wicked Wall Wonker.
Created for TV by JIM HENSON (R)
Tony Dortie , Jenny Powell Anthea Turner. Smell the greasepaint, as you go backstage with Roving Eye. Choose your favourites and relax with Andrew Deutsch and Nick Sanders , but stand by to decide the UK Disco Dance Champion 88!
Phillip Schofield drops in with info on a competition, details on page 56.
Plus Thundercats, too!
Location producer STEVE HAGGARD Production PETER HAMILTON and MARTIN HUGHES Editor EDWARD PUGH BBC North West
Film. Starring Robert Newton, Linda Darnell
As the 17th-century Spanish Main trembles under the sway of the dreaded Blackbeard, Sir Henry Morgan sets out to rid the seas of this menace...
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1.00pm News Summary
with Moira Stuart Weather
starring
Do You Read Me?
Chris comes up against small-town attitudes when she prescribes the pill for a schoolgirl.
Written by GALLA HARDY Directed by COLIN BUDDS
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Starring Noel Edmonds
Special guest star Les Dennis
also featuring Bros, Clarence and Joy Pickles and a Special Mystery Guest
It's hot! It's steamy! It's exotic! It's sensational!
No - this isn't an advert for a late-night film - it's the next roadshow location. So, baggy shorts and stout boots at the ready. The men had better wear something practical as well. Who knows who may be encountered among the lichen and moss: Bros?
Script associate MARTIN BOOTH
Sound DAVID THOMPSON
Lighting ERIC WALLIS
Designer MARTIN METHVEN
Produced and directed by MICHAEL LEGGO
starring
Bob Monkhouse
More exciting prizes to be won on television's bingo quiz show as four hopeful contestants compete for the chance of a dream holiday. Game devised by TERRY MARDELL and DAVID MOORE Programme associates
COLIN EDMONDS and JOHN JUNKIN Lighting FRED WRIGHT Sound JOHN DELANY Designer DACRE PUNT Director BILL MORTON
Produced by GEOFF MILES
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starring Russ Abbot special guest star Les Dennis featuring Bella Emberg and Maggie Moone
Tom Bright , Suzy Aitchison Paul Shearer
Remote-control shoes, Lord Nelson's ironing, a tongue-twister of a chief constable and the final of 'Masterbrain of the Universe' - these are just some of the appetisers in a fun-packed half hour with Russ.
Written by GASCOIGNE ABBEY PAUL MINETT. BRIAN LEVESON
PETER ROBINSON. PETER VINCENT Additional material
ANDREW HASTINGS. DEREK HUDSON Script associates BARRY CRYER and PETER VINCENT
Musical director ALYN AINSWORTH Choreographer TUDOR DAVIES
Sound supervisor LAURIE TAYLOR Lighting director BILL MILLAR Designers JOHN ANDERSON and ANDREW HOWE DAVIES Produced and directed by JOHN BISHOP
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based on the books by JAMES HERRIOT Place of Honour by JOHNNY BYRNE starring with
Mrs Pumphrey sends trout, and Siegfried decides it's time he got onto the Pumphrey parcel list ...
. Music composed by JOHNNY PEARSON
Designer CHRIS RUGG
Producer BILL SELLARS
Director ROBERT TRONSON
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with Moira Stuart ; Weather
Starring Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams
When two Texas border guards unearth a jeep buried in the heart of the desert, they uncover more than just a rusty pile of junk. At the wheel are the bones of a long-dead driver and in the boot is a fortune in dollar bills. Soon FBI agents are swarming over the area and the pair realise that their discovery has also revived a deadly conspiracy covered up years before.
(First showing on British television)
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(Ceefax subtitles)
Based on NEIL SIMON 'S
Broadway hit, the comedy series about two room mates - for whom opposites attract only trouble. Starring
Jack Klugman as Oscar and Tony Randall as Felix The Laundry Orgy
Some things are sacred, like the weekly poker game with the guys. But Oscar has fixed a double-date with the Pigeon Sisters, only to face the ultimate passion-killer: Felix at his most fastidious. Written by JERRY BELSON and GARRY MARSHALL Directed by BRUCE BILSON
starring Christopher Lee Charles Gray
Patrick Mower
When the Due de Richleau discovers that his friend Simon Aron is taking part in a DiacK magic ritual, he fights to rescue Simon from the spell of the High Priest Mocata.
Screenplay by RICHARD MATHESON from the novel by DENNIS WHEATLEY Produced by ANTHONY NELSON KEYS Directed by TERENCE FISHER
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