Continues a celebration for his forthcoming 80th birthday.
With Betsy Drake, Franchot Tone

In this rarely seen romantic comedy Grant stars as an eligible bachelor doctor who becomes the object of a shop assistant's ambition. Unfortunately for her the store manager has some romantic ideas of his own so complications soon abound...
(First showing on British television)
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with subtitles, followed by Weather

Starring Ralph Waite, Ellen Corby, Jon Walmsley
The first of three movie specials reuniting the characters from the popular series The Waltons.

Erin finds herself facing the future torn between her past and her present. She becomes engaged to Paul Northridge , Ben's partner, but they cannot agree on a wedding day. Then Ashley. her former fiance, returns looking for her, and in a moment of pique she pays him some unexpected attention.

(Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain Friday at 5.40pm)

The first of two programmes
1983 has been eventful for darts on BBC television. It was the year of the shock win by Keith Deller in the World Professional Championship final in January at Jollees, Stoke-on-Trent. It was the year when the venue for the British Professional Championship burnt down five weeks before the event, and the new venue - the Coatham Bowl in Redcar - was found just in time. It was the year Eric Bristow , World No 1, was involved in two outstanding matches.
Tonight and on Friday night you can join Eric Bristow to relive the tension and drama of these matches, starting this evening with the semi-final of the Unipart British Professional Championship between Eric and Jocky Wilson.
Introduced by TONY GUBBA Commentator TONY GREEN
Producer KEITH PHILIPPS

The last in the present series
Presented by Tony Soper with Jeremy Cherfas and Brian Leith. A weekly look at wildlife and the issues affecting the living world.
Producers MICHAELBRIGHT.ROBIN HELLIES BBC Bristol
Wildlife news on Ceefax

The last in the present series
Introduced by Jonathan King
This week he visits New York with a special Christmas edition.
Executive producer MICHAELHURLL Producer GORDON ELSBURY

Frank Muir and John Amis face Denis Norden and Ian Wallace across the stage of The Westminster Theatre in a special festive edition of the popular contest of musical knowledge, to questions set by Steve Race Television presentation DOUGLASHESPE 0 FEATURE: page 4

The second part of Barry Manilow 's unique open-air concert from the grounds of Blenheim Palace, Oxford-shire, in which the American singer/ songwriter, against the backcloth of one of England's finest ancestral homes, performs his biggest 'hits' and some contemporary material.
Executive producer JOHN c SMITH BBC Pebble Mill

Weather

or The Last Years of Jean Jacques Rousseau
A feature film in two parts starring Francois Simon
Dominique Labourier Part 1
In the middle of the night of 8 June 1762 Rousseau, then aged 50, was suddenly awakened. His latest book, Emile, had been condemned by the Paris parliament. In this moving study of the effects of intolerance of Claude Goretta (director of The Lacemaker) follows this fragile and delicate philosopher's flight through Europe, persecuted by the Church and his fellow thinkers, stoned by the common people and deported by governments.
Screenplay by GEORGE HALDASand CLAUDEGORETTA Directed by CLAUDE GORETTA
A French/Swiss film with English subtitles (First showing on British television) Part 2: tomorrow 11.10 pm Christmas Films: page 15