On this Holiday Monday Play School starts its ninth year of programmes with a visit to the fishing village of Dunure in Scotland.
Story: "King Canute" (traditional)
Presenters this week: Toni Arthur, Brian Cant

(Repeated today on BBC2 at 4.25 pm)
(Colour)

English version written and told by Eric Thompson.

[Repeat]

Starring Pete Duel as Smith and Ben Murphy as Jones
with guest stars J.D. Cannon, Andy Devine, Wally Cox, Sheree North

Matt, a not-too-successful prospector, suddenly strikes it rich. With the help of his wife and son he captures Smith and Jones and the price on their two heads is far more rewarding than digging for gold. But from then on things don't quite pan out for Matt...

Guided by Kenneth Allsop, David Attenborough, Joyce Grenfell and Tony Soper

A second chance to cross our spectacular planet from Alaska to Australia - and to visit and see some of its greatest wonders and more extraordinary creatures. Introduced by astronaut James Lovell
(from Bristol: first shown on BBC1)

Julian Bream and John Williams, Britain's top classical guitarists, are old friends and sometimes get together for duets, notably one evening last November in Full House. Tonight's repeat of that occasion shows them playing works by Granados, William Lawes and Manuel de Falla.

Introduced by Michael Reinhold and Meryl O'Keeffe

Including: Taking the Waters
Treatment at our most famous spa, in Bath, is threatened - before long hydrotherapy will no longer be available on the NHS. What do the regulars get out of their dousings? What do the different treatments actually achieve?

New light has been thrown on the great explorer by the discovery of 87 hitherto unpublished letters which show him as a man of powerful feelings and amazing tenacity, but hardly the legendary saint the Victorians tried to make of him.

BBC Scotland

A duel of words and wit between Patrick Campbell, Sue Lloyd, Richard Briers and Frank Muir, Helen Mirren, Tony Britton
Referee Robert Robinson
(from Manchester)
My Choice: page 5

starring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner

Writer Harry Street lies injured and dangerously ill in an African hunting camp. Attended by his wife, he begins to review his life - the search for love and adventure that has brought him to the hot plains beneath the mountain of Kilimanjaro.

(This Week's Films: page 9)
(Colour)