They went in two by two, hurrah, hurrah...
Story: "Mr Penny's Umbrella" by Ann Reay

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)

with Peter Woods; Weather

Leeds or St Helens v Rochdale or Hull

Leeds 'Loiners' or the 'Saints,' both used to high honours in the game, must prove formidable opposition to either the 'Hornets' or the 'Airlie Birds.'

Barrie Gill and Gordon Wilkins
with Maxwell Boyd, Michael Frostick and Judith Jackson.

Since the border was shut between Spain and Gibraltar, 6,000 British motorists on the Rock have had only 17 miles of road to drive on. Tonight a report on the results of this 'imprisonment' in terms of car buying, the accident rate and driver behaviour.
From Hong Kong, spectacular coverage of the world's most unusual motor race-the Macao Grand Prix. Racing and sports cars fight it out among the sampans on the frontier with China.
And the Wheelbase Watchdog - more viewers' letters for and against the quality of British and foreign cars.

by Dennis Potter
Starring Frank Finlay as Casanova
with Norman Rossington as Lorenzo and Mr Hart, Patrick Newell as Schalon and Valerie Gearon as Pauline

Casanova comes to England where he is reduced to advertising in the newspapers for a lady companion.

Presented by Rene Cutforth

The D-Day operation, codename Overlord, was probably the best kept secret of the whole war. Everyone knew it was coming but no one knew exactly when or where. German Intelligence was geared to finding out. Hitler's two most important codebreaks came from Churchill himself and the BBC. Churchill, through his scrambler telephone in Whitehall; and the BBC, through its coded messages broadcast to Resistance workers in France.

and Weather

Richard Williams with the news, the views, the sounds of today's music.
Uriah Heep, Colin Blunstone