Lancashire, the League Champions, begin the defence of their title in the second season of this limited-over competition. After their successes of last year they will doubtless find that the other counties have improved and developed the specialist techniques required for success in this style of cricket.
Frank Bough introduces the programme which includes news of today's other fixtures: Derbyshire v Worcestershire, Nottinghamshire v Northamptonshire, Warwickshire v Gloucestershire
(Cricket starts here: page 6)

The best of the week's newsfilm from all over the world, together with other subjects of interest. For the deaf and hard of hearing a commentary appears visually

and Weather

A series of programmes of lunacy and laughter starring, as your hosts, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin
This week's star guest Milton Berle
and featuring Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzi, Henry Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Alan Sues, Jo Anne Worley, Teresa Graves, Pamela Rodgers, Jeremy Lloyd, Lily Tomlin, Judy Carne, and Gary Owens
A Schlatter/Friendly production for NBC

The Panama Canal was opened in 1914-the first man-made link between the Atlantic and the Pacific. For more than 50 years it has handled the ever-increasing traffic of world shipping. Today it can no longer cope. The modern solution is to cut another canal with nuclear explosives.
Five nations are now involved in the search for a new route. Their final decision will involve not just politics and economics but the social problems of the peoples who live there.
The Golden Isthmus is the story of 450 years of man's efforts to bridge the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and of the native peoples who have had to suffer them.
Written and narrated by David Howarth

Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition was inspired by the pictures of Victor Hartmann, most of which are now lost. The director of Musicamera, Barrie Gavin, has used his impressions of the music to guide the camera towards new images - among them a shopping precinct, a boutique, a power station, and an atomic research laboratory.
The film thus becomes a composition in its own right - not solely an accompaniment to the music. But is it right to make use of someone's music in this way?

This repeat showing of Musicamera is preceded by an examination of some of these issues.
With Bernard Keeffe talking to James Archibald, Howard Blake, Hans Keller.

by Henry James
Dramatised in four parts by Denis Constanduros

Mrs Gereth and her son Owen are visiting the Brigstocks. Mrs Gereth finds that Fleda Vetch, another guest, shares her views about the Brigstocks' house.
(A love for possessions: pages 6 and 7)

Written by John Fortune, John Wells and N.F. Simpson
With Hattie Jacques and Willoughby Goddard
with Keith Smith, Aubrey Morris, Diana King, Howard Goorney, Roland MacLeod, Olivia Breeze

A weekly look at the cinema with stars, previews, and a dig into the past
Introduced by Tony Bilbow with Philip Jenkinson
This week's guest Dirk Bogarde filmed in Rome where he now lives