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The Stella Artois Grass Court Championships from Queen's Club, London. Live coverage of today's quarter-finals of this major men's championship. Introduced by BARRY DAVIES Commentators
DA.N MASKELL, JOHN BARRETT

Contributors

Introduced By:
Barry Davies
Unknown:
John Barrett

with Peter Seabrook
A private garden laid out more than 40 years ago in Guisborough shows a great variety of shape and colour against a back-drop of the Cleveland Hills. Herbaceous borders flank a rose pergola with a curious history, and an unusual fern-house provides an ideal climate for a fascinating collection of plants.
Produced by raiur HICKS "BC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Seabrook
Unknown:
Cleveland Hills.

with Robert Erskine
A series of 13 programmes about 25 centuries of coins.
9: An Art for the Merchant
In the late Middle Ages, splendid Gothic gold served the upsurge of European trade.
Directed by JOHN burrowes
Produced by BETTY white (Repeal)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Erskine
Directed By:
John Burrowes
Produced By:
Betty White

American entertainment television, transmitted coast-to-coast, is the product of a fierce battle for profits between the big three networks. How do these pressures operate, and how do they affect the programmes - and the audience? With Mike Dann, Herminio Traviesas, Norman Lear, George Gerbner, Don Roberts, Bob Liebert and two American families
Narrated by MICHAEL DEAN
Film editor FRANCO ROSSO

Director PAUL kriwaczek
Producer JOHN radcliffe
(Next Friday: the Truth Game)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Dann
Unknown:
Herminio Traviesas
Unknown:
Norman Lear
Unknown:
George Gerbner
Unknown:
Don Roberts
Unknown:
Bob Liebert
Unknown:
Michael Dean
Editor:
Franco Rosso
Director:
Paul Kriwaczek
Producer:
John Radcliffe

From the books by James Herriot.
Adapted by Johnny Byrne.
A serial in 13 episodes.

James seems to be falling into the routine of being a country vet, but that routine is shattered when Siegfried employs a secretary and James meets Helen Alderson...
(BBC Birmingham)
(First shown on BBC1)

Contributors

Author:
James Herriot
Adapted by:
Johnny Byrne
Theme Music:
Johnny Pearson
Producer:
Bill Sellars
Director:
Christopher Baker
James Herriot:
Christopher Timothy
Siegfried Farnon:
Robert Hardy
Tristan Farnon:
Peter Davison
Mrs Hall:
Mary Hignett
Helen Alderson:
Carol Drinkwater
Miss Harbottle:
Madge Ryan
Mrs Pumphrey:
Margaretta Scott
Hodgekin:
Teddy Turner
Frangois:
Grahame Rowe
Dixon:
Michael Stainton

from Parkstone Golf Club, Dorset
The second programme of a new series in which Peter Alliss plays golf and talks with well-known people.
His guest this week is best-selling author Leslie Thomas who made his name with The Virgin Soldiers. He talks of some of the background to a life that has led him from a childhood in a Dr Barnardo's orphanage to tax-exile in Jersey.
Producers cavid kenning, 4. P. Wilkinson

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Alliss
Unknown:
Leslie Thomas
Unknown:
P. Wilkinson

Sixteen champion darts players compete for the BBC2 Bullseye Trophy
Featuring the Semi-finals
Colin Baker v Tony Sontag and Tim Stedman v Nick Virachkul
Three Englishmen and an American remain from the original field of 16. Baker and Sontag, fellow Londoners, meet in a match between two of England's youngest Internationals; while Stedman. the surprise packet of the tournament, takes on America's leading player, the inscrutable Virachkul, in what should be a fascinating contest. Introduced by Peter Purves Commentators Sid Waddell, Tony Green
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Darts player:
Colin Baker
Darts player:
Tony Sontag
Darts player:
Tim Stedman
Darts player:
Nick Virachkul
Presenter:
Peter Purves
Commentator:
Sid Waddell
Commentator:
Tony Green
Producer:
Nick Hunter

BBC Two England

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