6.45 Engineering: Linkage Mechanisms
7.10 A Question of Fuel Supply
7.35 Telecommunications Networks
8.00 Sociology: The Moonies
Peter Simon introduces a bumper package of Saturday entertainment starting with Ovide
The Island Rally
8.40am Roland's Rat Race
Starring Roland Rat Heat 2
Teams from all over the British Isles compete to see who'll race through to the final.
Can the pop fans identify the songs and videos and will the rat fans spot the clues in the rodent whodunit Dial R for Rat? Today's teams:
Plymouth and Saffron Walden
Lighting IAN DEWAR
Designer ANDREW WILKINS Studio director JEM KIME Producer STEVE HAGGARD BBC North West
9.00am Going Live! with Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene.
Featuring the fourth heat of the Young Entertainer of the Year contest. Going Live! vet Nigel Taylor goes out and about on his calls,
Lenny Henry calls in with news of Comic Reliefs big day,
Heather Couper looks at pulsars and Mum of the Year visits Piccadilly Circus. There are cartoons and music, competitions and phonecalls. Join the Going Live! gang for an action-packed morning in Studio 7, it's all happening on a TV set near you.
Editor CHRIS BELLINGER
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IAN MCCASKILL
See panel including at
12.50pm News Summary
with Moira Stuart Weather
starring
My Name Is Sky
As a hippie community come to the outback to commune with nature, Geoff finds the city isn't all he remembered, while Chris has to deal with a difficult patient dying of emphysema.
Written by LUIS BAYONAS Directed by IAN BARRY
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Your letter
Was only the start of it, One letter,
And now you're a part of it. Jimmy Savile back with some Fix-Its.
Lighting BRENDAN CARR Sound MARTIN DEANE
Designer LOUISE JACKSON
Series producer ROGER ORDISH Produced and directed by STANLEY APPEL
49 WRITE TO: Jimmy Savile
BBCtv, Wood Lane, London W128QT
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starring
Syd Little and Eddie Large
Syd's opening guest is a portly David Bowie
Mike Reid has a day off from the Queen Vic to visit Eddie's restaurant and legends of rock 'n' roll are Syd's guests, to close the show.
Special guests Mike Reid
Duncan Goodhew Al Jarreau with Jess Conrad
Screaming Lord Sutch Wee Willy Harris Heinz
Chris Black and Band Written by RUSSELL LANE . BRAD ASHTON Script associate RUSSEL LANE
Muisic by RONNIE HAZELHURST AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Choreographer JEFF THACKER Sound BOB FOLEY
Lighting GRAHAM RIMMINGTON Design BOB COVE
Director MARTIN SHARDLOW Producer BILL wilson
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starring Bob Monkhouse.
From Belfast to London, from Glasgow to Exeter and from Newport to Newcastle, the production team have travelled the length and breadth of the country auditioning thousands of artists in the search for the stars of tomorrow. Tonight opportunity knocks for:
Act 1: Morgan Lee James
Act 2: Reading Mormon Choir Act 3: Sid Scouse Act 4: Zoe Tyler
Act 5: lone Brown Act 6: De-Comisar Programme consultant HUGHIE GREEN
Script editor COLIN EDMONDS Script associate JOHN JUNKIN Additional script
GAVIN OSBON. PAUL ALEXANDER Musical director JOHN COLEMAN Staging DI COOKE
Sound HUGH BARKER
Lighting DICKIE HIGHAM Design GARY FREEMAN
Production STEWART MORRIS
An eight-part series starring
6: When Did You Last See Your Father?by ROBERT BANKS STEWART with Terence Alexander
Sean Arnold , Louise Jameson and Benedict Taylor Tom Radcliffe.
When a young girl is attacked and robbed on the overnight ferry, Bergerac's investigations seem to point to two possible suspects. But when pressure is put on Jim to make an arrest, he finds himself at odds with Crozier.
Make-up designer BENITA BARRELL Designer PHIL ROBERSON Film editor PAUL GARRICK Photography IAN PUNTER
Produced by GEORGE GALLACCIO Directed by ALEX KIRBY
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with Michael Buerk Weather
starring
Bank Job
'This isn't news - this is an event.' Desperate men attempt to rob a bank, but when things go wrong, hostages are taken and the police begin tense negotiations. Caught in the raid, Killian acts as a go-between, while outside, television is looking at a Potential human tragedy in terms of ratings ...
Written by STEPHEN ZITO
Directed by MICHAEL ZINBERG
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Beginning a short season of films featuring this delightful screen star. Also starring James Cagney
From Chicago dime-a-dance girl to singing sensation, Ruth Etting 's career and private life were dominated by the aggressive and possessive
Martin Snyder. This is their story, set against the backdrop of America in the Roaring 20s. James Cagney received an Oscar nomination for his powerful performance, and is well-matched by Doris Day as the singer whose life is marred by tragedy.
Screenplay by DANIEL FUCHS and ISOBEL LENNART
Produced by JOE PASTERNAK Directed by CHARLES VIDOR
('Doris Day in Lover Come Back' tomorrow at 3. 00pm on BBC1)
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