in Nightclub Daze
The hapless hero gets tough in a blood transfusion error with a gangland boss.
An RKO film
with John Stapleton and Sally Magnusson
8.55am Regional News and Weather
Weather followed by Open Air
Join Eamonn Holmes and Mike Shaft with your calls and comments on television.
Ring [number removed]
with Robert Kilroy-Silk
Andy Crane - starting with Playbus stops today at The Patch Stop at Four Elms, Kent where Sam Patch meets a cow, a duck and a collie.
Patch's friend .....AMBER LEIGH Storyteller Derek Griffiths Story: King Greenfingers - Tip Away by KATHLEEN DEAN , illustrated by KRISTINA STEPHENSON Music JONATHAN COHEN
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE Producer ANNE GOBEY
A FELGATE production for BBCtv
written by TERRY MOESKER Possum
The day had been both hard and long ...
Voice Jill McKay
Animation MARK TROUNCE Produced by ANNE JOLLIFFE
Viewers' Own Poetry (1) with Garard Green
Mavis Nicholson and Eamonn Holmes take all your calls and questions on television.
Weather followed by Daytime Live with Alan Titchmarsh and Judi Spiers
Live coverage of the closing stages of the Lombard RAC Rally. Plus music from Womack and Womack.
with Philip Hayton
Weather John Kettley
As Henry starts out on a new business venture, Paul and Gail realise there is more to their marriage than a business contract.
Written by CHRIS MCCOURT
(For cast see page 92. Repeated at
5.35pm)
Hosted by Henry Kelly
Starring Eddie Cantor, Joan Davis
Former variety artists Sam and Susie Parker discover a document signed by George Washington, awarding Sam's ancestors $50,000. When the vaudevillian stakes his claim he finds that the government owes him millions of dollars in interest... This musical comedy stars the engaging team of Cantor and Davis in a vehicle tailor-made for their lively talents.
Films: page 35
in Buckaroo Bugs
Andy Crane - starting with Charlie Chalk written by JOCELYN STEVENSON
The Mountain that Moaned
Explorers Charlie, Lewis and Arnold set off to discover why the mountain moans. Voices Michael Williams John Wells
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Music and lyrics by MIKE REDWAY Director of animation DEREK MOGFORD
Film editor MARTIN BOHAN Song vocals KEN BARRIE
Created, designed and produced by IVOR WOOD
A new series of adventures Lassie Meets a Challenge When a young deer is injured, Lassie takes control.
A ten-part series by JIM AND DUNCAN ELDRIDGE 6: In Danger
Clyde and Herbert are released from prison and, with Bonnie, vow revenge on Bryan. So do Slug, Juggs, Wally and Wiggis ...
Incidental music JONATHAN COHEN Designer DINAH WALKER Producer JEREMY SWAN
with John Craven
Roger Finn , Helen Rollason The up-to-the-minute news service for Britain's children Editor JOHN CRAVEN
with Mark Curry Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding
Jupiter Watch: This week, astronomers all over the world will point their telescopes at the giant planet Jupiter. Astronomer Heather Couper reveals what binoculars can show of the solar system.
(Ceefax Subtitles)
with Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton
Weather MICHAEL FISH
by Jane Hollowood.
"I can't talk to him and I can't bear him touching me... I can't even stand it if he says I look nice."
(Ceefax subtitles)
Howard Stableford Judith Hann
Maggie Philbin and Peter Macann reporting on new ideas which could change the way we live. This week: the Bavarian cows that are going to the car wash; and the sculptor who's creating fantastic objects - inside a computer. Producers
MARTIN MORTIMORE , CYNTHIA PAGE EDWARD briffa , JACK WEBER
Studio director PHILIP DOLUNG Editor RICHARD REISZ
with Michael Buerk
Regional News; Weather
Emma Thompson with Kenneth Branagh Robbie Coltrane Mark Kingston Phyllida Law
Imelda Staunton Join Emma for:
Splitting the Atom,
Mopperette, Women in Power, police, Turn on the Tap Woman in a Tree,
Sauna, Mr and Mrs McNulty , Night Thoughts.
Written by EMMA THOMPSON Musical director
CHRISTOPHER WALKER
Choreography GILLIAN GREGORY Producer HUMPHREY BARCLAY Director JOHN STROUD
A HUMPHREY BARCLAY production for BBC North West
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES
with Sir Robin Day
The weekly opportunity for the general public to pose the questions and debate the answers with those in power, those who seek it and those who influence events.
With Sir Robin Day this evening at the Greenwood Theatre in London are: Gordon Brown , MP Alex Carlile , mp
Rt Hon Cecil Parkinson , MP Barbara Amiel
Director ANN MORLEY
Producer ANNA CARRAGHER Editor BARBARA MAXWELL
Tennent's UK Professional Snooker Championship
The last two semi-final places will have been determined by the outcome of today's two quarter-finals.
DAVID VINE introduces highlights from Preston Guild Hall.
Television presentation
KEITH PHILLIPS , PETER HAYWARD Executive producer KEITH MACKENZIE
