A programme for children at home
Presenters this week, Miranda Connell, Brian Cant
Today's story: 'Dark is Fun' by Jill Tomlinson

The scene in Play School for the whole week is night. The programmes will include games with shadows and silhouettes, and, of course, fireworks!
(Colour)
(to 11.20)

Last of five documentaries on teenagers

How irresponsible are teenagers? Four young men who have been 'in trouble' talk about how it happened, whom they blame, and the extent to which it has affected their lives.

The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson and Peter Woods
with Martin Bell, Michael Blakey, Michael Clayton, Tom Mangold, Brian Saxton, David Tindall, Richard Whitmore and the correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
followed by The Weather
(Colour)

The High Chaparral ...is the bid of a family seeking roots in the newly won West

See colour feature on centre pages
(Colour)

Devised and written by Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor
An encyclopaedia of the air
starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden
with Jo Kendall, Nick McArdle, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

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by Don Shaw
with George Cole as Paul Bishop
and Maurice Denham as Crowther

Paul Bishop is a declared bankrupt, and as such is a lonely and vulnerable man. Prison would be much more preferable than what is about to happen to him...
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A new series of profiles on the life and work of artists of international stature

Richard Smith, the British painter, is interested in films. The form of this programme includes what he calls 'life wreckage' of radio programmes, commercials, packaging, and consumer goods.
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Late Night Line-Up's selection of some of the interesting and amusing moments from programmes seen on BBC-2 during October
Introduced by Sheridan Morley
(Colour)