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9.15 Job Bank
Supporting the Police: Civilian Recruitment.
Civilian jobs in the police force - fingerprint officers and forensic scientists help to track down criminals and traffic wardens patrol streets. Producer DAVID MELDRUM
9.38 Going to Work
Settling In by bill LYONS
With SANDY RATCUFF , BILLY HAMON ANN MORRISH , RIO FANNING NICK CONWAY , NICK REDING
CASSIE MCFARLANE , PIPPA LAY
TONY MCPHERSON , GORDEN KAYE and RICHARD WALKER
Producer PAUL MITCHELL
10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo and Dibs sing 'Hammer with a hammer' and visit a carpenter's workshop. with YASMIN PETTIGREW
Producer RICHARD CALLANAN
10.15 Music Time 3: Sound Signals
Quiet sounds and loud signals. Presenters JONATHAN COHEN and HELEN SPEIRS
With BARRY TUCKWELL (hom) Producer ELIZABETH BENNETT
10.38 Twentieth-Century
History. 2: Boom and Bust
11.0 Zig Zag
The Arabs. 3: Sugar and Spice When the Crusaders returned from the East they did not come home empty-handed Carpets and metalwork, nougat and incense - the world of Islam had much to offer to backward places like Britain Presenters PAUL coia and SHEELAGH GILBEY Producer TOM STANIER
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11.23 Thinkabout
See How they Grow
Frank and Sally are sorting out clothes for the jumble sale when the children decide to lend a hand.
Producer PAT FARRINGTON
11.42 General Studies The Video Boom
CHRISTOPHER DUNKLEY looks at the new cable TV networks. Who will control them? Will they offer the viewer a greater choice of programmes - and services?
And will they present a threat to the existing BBC and ITV channels?
Producer SUE WEEKS
12.10 pm 16 Up
2: Welcome to the Working Week?
12.35 On the Rocks 3: United Kingdom
Continental drift
1.0 Wheels of Fire
3: My Dear Friends, the Land is Very Ugly
The Rajasthan Canal
1.30 Pages from Ceefax
1.38 Scotland this Century 3: The First World War
Veterans of the Great War talk about their experiences. Producer ROBERT CLARK BBC Scotland

Contributors

Producer:
David Meldrum
Unknown:
Sandy Ratcuff
Unknown:
Billy Hamon
Unknown:
Ann Morrish
Unknown:
Nick Conway
Unknown:
Nick Reding
Unknown:
Cassie McFarlane
Unknown:
Pippa Lay
Unknown:
Tony McPherson
Unknown:
Gorden Kaye
Unknown:
Richard Walker
Producer:
Paul Mitchell
Unknown:
Yasmin Pettigrew
Producer:
Richard Callanan
Presenters:
Jonathan Cohen
Presenters:
Helen Speirs
Unknown:
Barry Tuckwell
Producer:
Elizabeth Bennett
Producer:
Pat Farrington
Unknown:
Christopher Dunkley
Producer:
Robert Clark
Frank:
Jm Dunk
Sally:
Vicky Ucorish

Who shot Bobby? And why?
The clues perhaps are here in last year's thrilling series.
The Road Back
J.R., Sue Ellen , John Ross and Ray are trapped by a raging fire in the Southfork mansion.... The tragic news has a devastating effect on Miss Ellie ... Lucy keeps a vigil by Mickey's bedside as the doctors battle to save his life. Who will survive the Southfork inferno? Will events decide who will own Ewing Oil? Written by ARTHUR BERNARD LEWIS Directed by NICK HAVINGA (Continued tomorrow at 3.0 pm)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Sue Ellen
Unknown:
John Ross
Written By:
Arthur Bernard Lewis
Directed By:
Nick Havinga
J R:
Starring Larry Hagman
Bobby:
Patrick Duffy
Sue Ellen:
Linda Gray
Pam:
Victoria Principal
Lucy:
Charlene Tilton
Ray Krebbs:
Steve Kanaly
Donna:
Susan Howard
Cliff Barnes:
Ken Kercheval
Clayton:
Howard Keel
Mickey:
Timothy Patrick Murphy
Mark Graison:
John Beck
Afton:
Audrey Landers
Katherine:
Morgan Brittany
Aunt Lil Trotter:
Kate Reid
Peter:
Christopher Atkins
Holly Harwood:
Lois Chiles

More features from the world of dogs with Dennis McCarthy. Tonight Barbara Kelly and her Lhasa Apso, Tensing; mountain rescue dogs in the Peak District; vet Don Haxby answers your questions; top dog judge Joe Braddon casts an expert eye over hounds;
Chas walks to heel; and there is a look at the latest Japanese export that's a canine not a car. Producer mike DERBY BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis McCarthy.
Unknown:
Barbara Kelly
Unknown:
Don Haxby
Unknown:
Joe Braddon

continues BBC2's season of her films with Robert Newton Edward Chapman Nora Swinburne
When Amy Johnson broke the record for a soio flight to Australia in 1930 it made her a heroine in the eyes of Britain. And it brought her a husband in Jim Mollison , a fellow pilot with a similar spirit of adventure. Anna Neagle and Robert Newton star as the couple whose exploits thrilled the world but whose triumphs could not hide the unhappiness of their marriage.
Screenplay by miles MALLESON from a story by VISCOUNT CASTLEROSSE Produced and directed by HERBERT WILCOX
First showing on British television
• FILMS: page 29

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Newton
Unknown:
Edward Chapman
Unknown:
Nora Swinburne
Unknown:
Amy Johnson
Unknown:
Jim Mollison
Unknown:
Anna Neagle
Unknown:
Robert Newton
Story By:
Viscount Castlerosse
Directed By:
Herbert Wilcox
Amy Johnson:
Anna Neagle
Jim Mollison:
Robert Newton
Mr Johnson:
Edward Chapman
Mrs Johnson:
Joan Kemp-Welch
ATA commandant:
Nora Swinburne
Lord Wakefleld:
Charles Carson
Mac:
Brefni O'Rorke
Housekeeper:
Muriel George

by PETER SPENCE starring Designer
IAN RAWNSLEY
Producer GARETH GWENLAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Spence
Unknown:
Ian Rawnsley
Producer:
Gareth Gwenlan
Audrey fforbes-Hamilton:
Penelope Keith
Richard DeVere:
Peter Bowles
Marjory:
Angela Thorne
Mrs Polouvicka:
Daphne Heard
Brabinger:
John Rudling
Mrs Patterson:
Daphneoxenford
Trotter:
Michael Ripper
Linda:
Jayne Lester

A comedy series 4: Waggons Ha!
Written by RAY MANSELL and PAUL BENN
Trail-blazing Percy is under attack from all sides. Will Bert be taken for a ride? And who's that massing on the skyline?
Designer STEPHAN PACZAI Produced and directed by DAVID ASKEY

Contributors

Written By:
Ray Mansell
Written By:
Paul Benn
Designer:
Stephan Paczai
Directed By:
David Askey
Percy James:
Kenneth Cope
Isobel James:
Anne Carroll
Betty James:
Debbie Arnold
Tom Henderson:
John Normington
Rita Henderson:
Shirley Stelfox
The Kid:
Gordon Rollings
Cyril:
Robert Owen
Bert:
Mike Walling

Kelly's due to appear in a Royal Gala show, but the producers are not what they seem - but then who is?! Written by KELLY MONTEITH , NEIL SHAND featuring
John Barron , John Bluthal Donald Gee and Hugh Lloyd
With ENN REITEL
BERNARD SPEAR , VICTOR SPINETTI TRUDIE STYLER , LAN
OLIVER DIANA GOODMAN , LENI HARPER and Pippa Page
Sound LAURIE TAYLOR
Lighting DUNCAN BROWN Designers
JO DAY, MALCOLM THORNTON Produced and directed by JOHN HLBY
(Kelly Monteith joins the Blankety Blank team on Friday 6.55 pm)

Contributors

Written By:
Kelly Monteith
Written By:
Neil Shand
Unknown:
John Barron
Unknown:
John Bluthal
Unknown:
Donald Gee
Unknown:
Hugh Lloyd
Unknown:
With Enn Reitel
Unknown:
Bernard Spear
Unknown:
Victor Spinetti
Unknown:
Trudie Styler
Unknown:
Oliver Diana Goodman
Unknown:
Leni Harper
Unknown:
Malcolm Thornton
Directed By:
John Hlby
Directed By:
Kelly Monteith

by GRAHAM GREENE
Screenplay by RICHARD BROKE also starring Greta Scacchi Clarissa Kaye Hugh Burden
David de Keyser Jacques Herlin with Cyril Cusack and Barry Humphries
Doctor Fischer likes to test to its limits the greed of the rich. His dinner parties, where millionaires are humiliated and then rewarded, are notorious. But Jones, an impoverished Englishman, presents Fischer with his greatest challenge. He can buy the very rich, but can he corrupt someone with no money at all?
Music composed by TREVOR JONES
Designer AUSTEN SPRIGGS
Sound recordist JOHN MURPHY Editor KEN PEARCE
Photography KEN WESTBURY Producer RICHARD BROKE
Director MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG
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Contributors

Play By:
Richard Broke
Unknown:
Greta Scacchi
Unknown:
Clarissa Kaye
Unknown:
Hugh Burden
Unknown:
David de Keyser
Unknown:
Jacques Herlin
Unknown:
Cyril Cusack
Unknown:
Barry Humphries
Unknown:
Doctor Fischer
Composed By:
Trevor Jones
Designer:
Austen Spriggs
Unknown:
John Murphy
Editor:
Ken Pearce
Director:
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Doctor Fischer:
James Mason
Jones:
Alan Bates
Anna-Luise:
Greta Scacchi
Steiner:
Cyril Cusack
Mrs Montgomery:
Clarissa Kaye
Richard Deane:
Barry Humphries
Divisionaire Krueger:
Hugh Burden
Belmont:
David de Keyser
Mr Kips:
Jacques Herun
Albert NICHOLAS:
Le Prevost
Doctor:
Simon Chandler

including the Labour Party Conference Report
The Labour Party begins its annual conference today in Blackpool, one year into Neil Kinnock 's leadership. The party faces important decisions, noticeably on defence and the method of reselecting labour MPs.
John Tusa and Vincent Hanna present a full report on today's events at Blackpool, with Donald MacCormick and Jenni Murray in London to assess the news at home and abroad.
Producer DAVE STANFORD Editor DAVID DICKINSON
(Hanna in Conference on page 46)

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Kinnock
Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Vincent Hanna
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Editor:
David Dickinson

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