An entertainment for children starring Brian Cant

starring Dan Blocker, Susan Clark.

The frontier days of the old West. John Killibrew, a gentle giant of a man, persuades a whole community to build a town in the High Sierras because he is convinced that a new railroad will run through it.

(Colour)

A Western film series
The Prodigal

The Worker Bosses

A close look at the politicians, the tactics and progress of Parliament. Presented by Peter Hill.

Weather

Singing tracks from his recent album Stardust

BBC2 Snooker Championship
The third game in the 16-frame tournament featuring two Pot Black Trophy winners:
John Spencer (Manchester), twice World Champion, v Eddie Charlton, the Australian Champion
(Birmingham)

from the novel by Iris Murdoch dramatised in four parts by Simon Raven
Financed by the Tintoretto, Randall has taken Lindsay to Rome. Miranda, in a highly emotional state and to attract attention, has climbed high into a tree and jumped. Part 4

Introduced by Melvyn Bragg and featuring:

Van Gogh in England
One hundred years ago Vincent Van Gogh worked in a London art gallery, taught in Isleworth, and preached in non-conformist chapels in Turnham Green and Petersham. This month the Victoria and Albert Museum celebrates the great Dutchman's years in England. In this film Edwin Mullins describes the English influences on Van Gogh, and explores the England that he knew.

Thom Gunn
Thom Gunn, poet-hero of the British beat generation, now lives in San Francisco. 2nd House filmed him reading from his latest collection, Moly, in the Californian landscape which inspires his poetry.

(Also being broadcast on Radio 3 in stereo)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (leader Erich Gruenberg)
play two compositions by Mike Oldfield
arranged for symphony orchestra and conducted by David Bedford
"Hergest Ridge" and "Tubular Bells"

"One of the most mature, vital, rich and humorous pieces of music to emerge from the pop idiom" (New Musical Express)
"A rock masterpiece" (The Guardian)
The Bells are re-running: page 4

Victor Cheiney is a farmworker, married with two children. He is under notice to quit his tied cottage. The bailiff is due in days, and Cheiney has nowhere to go. This true story of what happened is painful and shocking. The series of events that followed the eviction reached a point of tragedy that threatened to engulf the Cheineys, divide the family, and shatter the marriage.

Weather

Tony Bilbow and Philip Jenkinson present a round-up of what's going on in the film world, including "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" by the Canadian director Ted Kotcheff, and "Primate" by the American documentary film-maker Frederick Wiseman.

Featuring today Ireland v England, France v Wales

Ireland begin the defence of the Championship this afternoon in Dublin against England who, with new coach John Burgess and new captain Fran Cotton, hope to re-establish England as a side capable of winning the title outright for the first time since 1963. Wales, now coached by John Dawes, travel to Paris to take on a French side that its selectors hope will be the correct winning combination following two recent defeats by the touring Springboks.
Television presentation: Dublin: Irish TV Service; Paris: French TV Service

starring Peter Cushing
The Baron Frankenstein is experimenting to prove that the soul survives the body after death - using his own frozen body to prove his theory.
Hammer film season: page 5 This Week's Films: paoe 15