Monday is Useful Box Day and the story is The Man Who Liked Junk by Christopher Fagg
If you look at the trees
When they're covered with leaves
The leaves make a pattern
That moves in the breeze
This week's presenters are Carol Chell, Gordon Clyde
Reporting the world tonight
John Timpson and Peter Woods, Martin Bell, Michael Blakey, Michael Clayton, Tom Mangold, Michael Sullivan, David Tindall, Richard Whitmore and the correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
followed by Weather
(Colour)
A film series about the untamed West in which a pioneer settler and his two sons fight to keep their hard-won cattle land
Johnny and Scott venture into remote and lawless mining territory to rescue a girl who has been kidnapped. They encounter opposition even more dangerous than they expected - not least from the girl herself
(Colour)
How do you remove a speck of dirt from somebody's eye? Is the burn caused by watching arc welding without goggles a temporary injury, or does it damage the eye beyond repair? If you look at the sun, either directly or during an eclipse, what sort of damage does this do?
These and other questions are discussed by two eye surgeons from London hospitals, and operating techniques in repairing damaged eyes are shown
(Colour)
Adapted by Barry Took from the Beachcomber column of the Daily Express
starring Spike Milligan
and featuring Julian Orchard, Frank Thornton, Ann Lancaster, Leon Thau, Paul McDowell, Josephine Gordon, Thelma Taylor, Bernard Jamieson
also appearing this week Fred Emney, Margaret Nolan, Bill Pertwee, Charlie Atom, Michael Earl, Bert Simms, Jay Neill
Spike and his friends: cover story on page 6
The man with a right-angled flute. Spike Milligan as (or should it be is?) Beachcomber, the zaniest character ever to step out of a newspaper page. Among the famous characters featured in this new series will be Dr Rhubarb, Mrs Whelkstuffer, TV's newest cookery expert, Roland Milk, poet, and Eric Badger, ballet critic. Tumbelova the ballerina will be a regular, likewise Dr Strabismus - Whom God Preserve - of Utrecht conducting experiments to prove the truth of old proverbs
(Colour)
A woman who wore a bucket on her head, a mother who wants to be buried, a man who saw the crucifixion on the face of the moon - another who thought he was Yuri Gagarin... These are the symptoms of classical madness - schizophrenia
It is an unsolved mystery of modern medicine. Tonight's Horizon looks at some of the possible explanations and their relevance not only to schizophrenics but to the mystery of the human mind
(Colour)
followed by Weather
(Colour)
Introduced by Mel Oxley
A programme to help you relax - or to keep you awake - with music, people, film, and talk of this and that with James Cameron's comments and Ian Hanson
(Colour)