6.30-6.55 Business Breakfast
Business and financial news from
Paul Burden and Sarah Coburn.
Followed at 7.00am by the morning news programme with Laurie Mayer and Jill Dando. Headlines or news summaries every quarter hour.
Business news: 7.12, 7.40, 8.12, 8.40. Sport: 7.23, 7.50, 8.23, 8.50.
Weather, regional and traffic news:
6.55, 7.25, 7.55, 8.25.
0 CEEFAX BREAKFAST SERVICE: call up page 400 on teletext
Presented by Adrian Mills in Manchester and Alan Titchmarsh and Judi Spiers in Birmingham.
Regional News and Weather
Quiz hosted by Andy Craig.
With Rosemary Moon.
The BBC gardeners in Plymouth and Aberdeen have advice for the weekend's gardening. Plus the viewer's Open Line - [number removed]. Presented by Adrian Mills and Debi Jones.
GARDENING: page 19
Regional News and Weather
Introduced by Simon Parkin.
The Playbus stops today at the Tent Stop. Humphrey and Wobble Clown join Trish Cooke , Ricky Diamond , Sheila Hyde and Sue Monroe to tell the story Snoop and Swoop by Anna Standon. (R)
Cartoon about a dog. (R)
More reports from around the UK, including a weekly Scots-eye-view from Robert Sproul-Cran .
Regional News and Weather
Discussion with Robert Kilroy-Silk .
Lively conversation with Judi Spiers and Adrian Mills. Alan Titchmarsh reveals the winner of today's Brainwave quiz question.
Regional News and Weather
A mini guide to Dover, and John Thirlwell reports from
Marianske Lazne , Czechoslovakia. Presented by Penny Junor.
Judi Spiers and Alan Titchmarsh are joined by Simon Potter with all the showbiz gossip.
With Philip Hayton.
Weather Suzanne Chariton
Madge turns into a 'vamp'.
0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Quiz hosted by Henry Kelly.
Starring
Ronald Fraser , Barbara Windsor Seeking sanctuary, a band of criminals occupies an old island monastery - but will the surroundings change their habits?
Director Jeremy Summers 0 FILMS: pages 39-47
Introduced by Andi Peters.
Touche Turtle
Cartoon about a musketeer turtle. (R)
Why don't spiders stick to their own webs? Why are there rainbows? Why do we yawn?
Presented by Sophie Aldred and Simon Davies with Jo Korna. Director Rowan Newby Producer Alison Stewart
41 QUESTIONS: send your questions to 'Corners', BBC tv, London, W12 7RJ.
Cartoon. Elroy runs away with Astro.
In the last of the series Roy Castle and Cheryl Baker reveal the winner of the Guinness Book of Records cover competition. Record Breakers' US reporter, Ron Reagan Jr, rides the world's wildest roller-coaster, and Roy Castle meets Carl Lewis, the fastest man on earth. In the studio, Jean Boht, Bonnie Langford, Michael Groth and Mark Curry are among the stars who join hundreds of dancers in the world's longest chorus line. It's all in aid of the children's charity, Childline, and Esther Rantzen will be there to collect the cheque.
A news programme for children.
The drama series set in Tyneside. 18: Charley returns to the Riverfront Club; the Grovers enter a competition; Nicola makes a splash; and the heat is on Gill.
0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES
0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES
With Peter Sissons and Moira Stuart.
Weather Bernard Davey
Tonight, John Cleese and Paul McCartney talk to Terry Wogan. 0 FEATURE: page 29
Starring
Michael Keaton , Teri Garr
Michael Keaton of Beetlejuice and Batman fame stars in this hilarious tale of domestic trouble and strife. The Butlers are a traditional family, that is until Jack gets fired and his wife Caroline leaves their home and children in his less-than-capable hands to become the breadwinner.
Director Stan Dragotl
0 FILMS: pages 39-47
0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES
With Martyn Lewis. Regional News
Weekend Weather Bernard Davey 0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES (news only)
Starring
Mel Gibson
Sigourney Weaver Indonesia 1965: Guy Hamilton , a journalist with the Australian
Broadcasting Service, arrives in Jakarta on his first overseas assignment. He finds himself plunged into a world of revolution and fear with only one guide he can trust, photographer Billy Kwan. Then Guy meets Jill Bryant , an attache at the British Embassy, and their passionate affair has perilous consequences for them both. A tense political thriller from Peter Weir , the director of Witness.
41 BARRY NORMAN : page 39
0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Featuring the Everest Christmas
Carol Stakes from the Grand Hall, Olympia. All the competitors with clear rounds go forward to a jump-off against the clock to decide the winner of tonight's top prize. Introduced by David Vine. Commentary by Raymond Brooks-Ward and Stephen Hadley. 0 SPORT: page 4
Starring
George C Scott Joanna Cassidy
Ace criminal Walter Ballantine escapes from prison to mastermind a bank robbery. But the bank in question is a mobile structure in the middle of a shopping centre, so Ballantine decides to steal not just the money but the whole bankl George C Scott is the eccentric master crook assisted by a gang of misfits in this offbeat caper comedy, directed by ex-Broadway dancer, Gower Champion.
Based on the novel by Donald E Westlake
0 FILMS: pages 39-47
