in Any Old Port
It's on with the gloves when Stan and Ollie spring to the defence of a damsel in distress - at least as far as Stan is concerned

A series of six programmes about tricksters, cheats and swindlers. Presented by Jeremy Beadle with Madeline Smith, Bernard Holley Mike Savage, Janet Ellis and Roy Macready
1: The Hoaxers
'Those who deceive for non-malicious fun.' Including these personalities and their naughty deeds: Theodore Hook and 'The Berners Street Hoax'; Phineas T. Barnum with his 'Mermaids and Bearded Babies Horace de Vere Cole's 'Venice Horses Hoax'; and the 'Society against Indecent Animals'.
Costume designer Margaret Harwood Designer John Coleman Produced by Clive Doig Back Page: page 86

Written and presented by General Sir John Hackett , GCB, CBE, DSO, MC The best known of British wars in the Victorian age is commemorated by the Crimea Medal. A war widely known for the Charge of the Light Brigade, for the ' thin red line' and for Florence Nightingale. This programme looks at the background to the Crimea Medal, with its clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, Sebastopol and Azov.
Director STUART DEWEY
Producer PHILIP CHILVERS

A series of ten programmes with JOHN THAW 2:Beginnings
Birth is the beginning of a relationship between mother and baby. A difficult birth may delay the formation of this relationship or a mother may just find herself rejecting her baby. Two mothers talk about their difficulties and how they overcame them.
Film editor MIKE PAVETT Producer BERNARD ADAMS

including sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather

starring Gary Cooper , Grace Kelly Marshal Kane 's wedding celebrations are interrupted by the news that his old enemy, Miller, is arriving in town on the noon train. Gary Cooper is the Marshal abandoned by the townspeople to face a vengeful killer and his gang of outlaws.
Screenplay by CARL FOREMAN Director FRED ZINNEMANN
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Every Tuesday evening in London's Greenwood Theatre and every Thursday in the BBC's Manchester studios, Russell Harty invites you to join him. There'll be guests, an audience, some music and a lot of entertainment.
Studio director RON ISTED Producer TOM GUTTERIDGE Editor GORDON WATTS

BBC2 Snooker Championship
The second frame in the series of 14 programmes for the 1981 Pot Black Trophy, featuring in Group 2: Eddie Charlton (Australia) reigning Pot Black Champion v Alex Higgins (Northern Ireland) former World Champion.
A contrast in styles as ' 'Steady' Eddie defends his title against the ' Hurricane '. This is the first time that they have met on Pot Black! Introduced by ALAN WEEKS Referee JOHN WILLIAMS Commentator TED LOWE
Director ROY NORTON
Producer REG PERRIN. BBC Birmingham

A series of 13 programmes Written and presented by Robert Kee 6: Parnell
No man ever disturbed British democratic politics so profoundly as Charles Stewart Parnell. He raised Irish national political feeling to the most effective level it had ever achieved, and no British Prime Minister could rule without taking Parnell into consideration. His rise was meteoric; his fall was equally so. Overnight he lost his power in one of the greatest sexual scandals in the history of politics.
Film cameramen JOHN BECK , IAN STONE Film editor PETER HARRIS Director JOHN BIRD
Series producer JEREMY ISAACS Producer JENNY CROPPER
Extracts from this programme appear in THE LISTENER dated 8 January)

The first of six programmes
' On again ', ' The Widow of Bridlington ' and ' Jake's Family tree ' are among the songs and stories presented to an audience at The Watermill Theatre, Newbury. Sharing the bill are
Richard and Linda Thompson with music that has taken them to join the best of British singersongwriters.
Also featuring musicians
SIMON NICOL and ALAN WILLIAMS
Lighting JOHN BORLEY Sound PETER ROSE
Producer COLIN GODMAN BBC Bristol

The latest news and weather forecast from LINDA ALEXANDER , plus the evening's sports results from DAVID ICKE.