6.5 Maths Methods: Springs. 6.30 How Minerals arc Made. 6.55 Perfect Heat Engines. 7.20 Statistical: Binomial Distribution. 7.45 Molluscan Evolution.

The third of four programmes
The Anchor Booth kept ABC Television's main control informed of developments on the podium and floor during the Republican Convention of August 1976.
Producer GWYNN PRITCHARD
A BBC/Open University production

previews Can You Hear Me? and Work and Retirement.
A BBC/Open University production

Starring Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie

When a man is killed on his door-step and the Saint is suspected of the crime, he swings into righteous action. But a further series of shootings, knifings and stranglings ensue before the Saint can foil the plans of a gold-smuggling gang and corner their ruthless leader - the Tiger.

Martan Foster and Brian Watkins meet some of the animals that live in our homes. Today: Cots
Production assistant ANNE MtYNARn Producer JOHN KENYON
BBC Pebble Mill

with subtitles, followed by Weather

Fifty-two years ago Flt-Lt John Boothman, RAF, won the Schneider Trophy outright for Britain; a competition for racing seaplanes that cost both money and lives.
David Lomax tells of the men and machines that became part of aviation history.

Ludovic Kennedy discusses the drama serial My Cousin Rachel (BBC2), the adaptation of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (BBC2) and the investigation of the crisis in Britain's penal system Prison (ITV) with novelist and South Bank Show editor Melvyn Bragg, literary editor of The Sunday Times Claire Tomalin and Director of the Prison Reform Trust Dr Stephen Shaw.

from
Bamsdale Geoff Hamilton starts off an experimental organic garden,
Mary Spiller prunes roses, and Gardener
Royal, Ashley Stephenson recommends his own favourite bedding plants.
Production assistant JEAN LAUGHTON Producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill

by Carla Lane
Starring Geoffrey Palmer and Caroline Blakiston
with Hetty Baynes, Gay Wilde

Dramatised by PAULINE MACAULAY from a short story by GERALD DURRELL
Gerald fancies himself as a bit of a gourmet, and a trip to the gastronomic delights of France promises well. His wife Hilary is not so sure; she isn't sure of a lot of things about Gerald just recently, but the menu at the extravagantly recommended La petite chanson' provides an unexpected solution.
... a smashing piece of nonsense full of all sorts of evil under the sun.
(DAILY MAIL)
... told with relish in an elegant production ... Unusually fine photography by Remi Adefanasin. (THE DAILY TELEGRAPH) Producer TERRY COLES
Director PAUL BAMBOROUGH

The John Player All England
Championships from
Wembley Arena England get the top two seeded places in the Ladies' Doubles with GILLIAN GILKS and GILLIAN CLARK number one and NORA PERRY and JANE WEBSTER , World Champions, at number two. Commentators BARRY DAVIES , DEREK TALBOT
Television presentation BOB DUNCAN

A two-part TV drama starring Lorne Greene, Ben Gazzara with John Pleshette, Mo Malone
What would have happened if the man accused of assassinating President John F. Kennedy had not been shot by Jack Ruby and had lived to stand trial? Part two of this American production imaginatively dramatises the court proceedings that never were, with both prosecution and defence posing various theories behind the strange story of Lee Harvey Oswald.