starring
Stephen McNally , Julia Adams
At a small landing station on the bank of the Apache River eight people are trapped by marauding Indians. Sheriff Lane Dakota is forced to take command of the motley collection of characters and try to save them from a gruesome death.
Director LEE SHOLEM Films: page 13
A comedy film series starring andShelley Winters
Ed Steps Out
Chico encourages Ed to escort a friendly widow to a dinner and dance. But the evening getsoff to a very inauspicious start....
An entertainment for children starring Brian Cant with Toni Arthur
Carol Chell , Wayne Pritchett
Jonathan Cohen , Spike Heatley
Alan Rushton , Stephen Henderson Brian and Company play away with music, songs, puzzles and comedy.
Musical director JONATHAN COHEN Designer VIC MEREDITH
Director PETER CHARLTON Producer ANN REAY
Hey You. a BBC record of songs from the programme, No rec 209. is available from record shops, price 11.79
The Risk Takers
Is the insurance industry really operating in our best interests?
A closer look at the politicians, tactics and progress of Parliament. Presented by PETER HILL
Editor JOHN ANDERSON
Tribunal
Workers from Bradford re-enact a story of unemployment benefit.
Introduced by Nigel Starmer-Smith
The age-old rivalry between Scotland's principal cities is renewed this afternoon with Glasgow determined to make amends for the one point defeat by Edinburgh last season, which cost Glasgow the inter-district championship. Commentator Bill McLaren
Weather
A series for the BBC regions now seen throughout the country.
Tonight: BBC Northern Ireland Virgo, Geraldine and the Lunar Wall
Three of the routes to the top of Pigeon Rock in the kingdom of Mourne climbed by VALERIE MC-CARTNEY, JOHN ANDERSON , MICK CURRAN , RAYMOND ROWE , RICKY COWAN and ROGER GREEN . Talking to them as they climb
TEDDY HAWKINS and NEVIN MCGHEE
Producer JACK watson , in collaboration with the Northern Ireland Sports Council
Introduced by Melvyn Bragg The Parish Boy's Progress sub-title of Oliver Twist , Charles Dickens 's second novel. Oliver, the boy who asks for more, was an overnight success with the public. But there were thousands of real life parish boys in the work-houses and the slums of Victorian England. Tonight's programme compares the living conditions of the working classes in Dickens's time with those of characters in Oliver Twist , and looks at the author who created the most famous orphan of them all. Cast
Billy Boyle , Louisa Livingstone James Bree , Petra Markham Frank Duncan , Hilary Mason Godfrey James , John Moore
Michael Hawkins , Kenneth Waller Cheryl Kennedy and RAYMOND BOAL , JASON CLARK
GRAHAM FLETCHER , STEVE FLETCHER CHRIS LEONARD , ANDREW PAUL
Script and adaptation by NIGEL WILLIAMS Music composed and arranged by ALFRED RALSTON
Producer BEN REA
Assistant editor TONY CASH Editor BILL MORTON
(Chervl Kennedy is in ' Absent Friends ' at the' Garrick Theatre, London) Preview: page 17
by Peter Everett
Bored with the 1920s Christmas cocktail circuit, two spoiled darlings try a new stimulant, power...
Inishmaan - Another Day: the traditional island lives of this declining west of Ireland community vividly and simply filmed by CHRIS RODMELL.
New Ventures: a funny and touching film about fantasy and loneliness written and directed by MAGGIE PROOKS.
Introduced by Gavin Millar
Producer MICHAEL DIBB
People Make Television
Trinity Arts - Small Heath present Much of the Day
One day's activities of a Community Arts Project working on a long-term basis in an inner ring area of Birmingham. The programme shows the possibilities for community involvement in the creative use of a derelict site.
Made by the public in co-operation with the BBC Community Programme Unit
Weather
starring Bryant Haliday
William Sylvester , Yvonne Romain When Mark English takes his fiancee to see an exhibition of hypnotism and ventriloquism by the Great Vorelli, he is struck by the tension that seems to exist between Vorelli and his dummy, Hugo. It is almost as if Hugo were human.
Director LINDSAY SHONTEFF
