Starring Buster Crabbe. 12: War of the Planets
Starring Buster Crabbe. 12: Doom of the Dictator
Flash finally defeats Emperor Ming.
Top Priority
A tragic tale of our times.
A National Film Board of Canada production
By Josephine Poole and John King.
The story of a pony growing up in the wild. (R)
Harry Carpenter reviews the stories and meets some of the people who made the headlines.
Manchester United won the European Cup, Sir Ivor won the Derby and Graham Hill became motor racing World Champion. In Olympic year Jean-Claude Killy was the winter games star in Grenoble, while Chris Finnegan and David Hemery brought gold medals back to Britain from Mexico.
by David McKee. (R)
(R)
Castle Acre
Bryan McNerney visits the ruins of a Cluniac priory.
(R)
A Day in the Life of Holyrood Secondary School
A typical day running Scotland's biggest school.
Weather followed by Sport on Friday
Introduced by David Icke.
Bowls
BushmiUs Whiskey Irish Masters Final
From Ballymoney.
A pre-Commonwealth Games morale booster is a powerful incentive for the winner of this afternoon's best-of-five-set final, between two of Britain's top bowlers. Commentators:
Dougie Donnelly and Hugh Montgomery.
Ski Jumping
The third hill of the New Year
Four Hills tournament.
Ron Pickering reports from Innsbruck, Austria.
Also a look ahead to the weekend's sporting highlight - the third round of the FA Cup.
Television presentation: Bowls SUE ASHWORTH
Produced by DAVE GORDON including at
Hosted by Paul Coia.
Evelyn Glennie , the young virtuoso percussionist, introduces an Ulster
Orchestra concert. Bizet, arr Schedrin Carmen Suite
Miyoshi
Marimba Concerto
Ulster Orchestra led by Richard Howarth conducted by John Lubbock. Production ALAN TONGUE
Concert presented in association with Shell UK Limited.
(Shown on Tuesday at 8.30pm)
Starring and Blue Fin is a trawler, skippered by the tough and unyielding Bill Pascoe , who believes that his young son Steve will never make a good sailor.
This is the story of how Steve - known as 'Snook' - gets a chance to prove himself.
Produced by HAL MCELROY Directed by CARL SCHULTZ
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Cambridge Footlights 1989 Revue
The Footlights have a long and envied tradition. Peter Cook, John Cleese, Griff Rhys-Jones and Emma Thompson all served their comedy apprenticeships here. How will the crop of 89 compare? The second of two programmes tracing a year in the life of the Footlights, samples the pick of the year's songs and sketches.
Venue: the Arts Theatre, Cambridge.
If you have a new garden and aren't too sure about what plants to grow, then this new series is for you. Each week design and planting ideas will be shown in the demonstration garden at
Barnsdale, while visits to the mature gardens of Beth Chatto and Rosemary Verey provide a range of different ideas. The first programme of the series tackles the problem of poor soils and the selection of trees suitable for a small garden. Presented by Geoff Hamilton and Gay Search. Producer DENIS w. GARTSIDE BBC Pebble Mill
(Plant list on Ceefax page 617)
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'If you ask Glasgow people, they love what's happened. There's a brightness about the town without heavy industry. It's as if they've discovered how to work the sunroof.'
In the 19th century it was the second city of the British Empire. Now Glasgow starts the 90s as the first city in Europe.
Billy Connolly on the set of The Big Man, Wet Wet Wet on the Clyde, Graeme Souness at Ibrox, Muriel Gray in the Ashoka, Jim Sillars in Govan, Liz Lochhead in the Willow Tea Rooms, Scottish Ballet in St Mungo's Cathedral, Hue and Cry 100 ft above St George Square, Pastor Jack Glass in the Necropolis and many others join in a celebration of Glasgow, the European City of Culture. Directors Douglas MacKinnon and Caroline Roberts Producer John Archer
Embassy World Professional Darts Championship
From the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green, Surrey. The top 32 players in the world gather together this week for the 12th World Professional Darts Championship. This evening Leighton Rees, the first World Champion, returns to the international scene with a first-round match against the current number one in the world rankings, Eric Bristow.
'I'll tell you what I think of newspapermen. The hand of God reaching down into the mire couldn't elevate one of them to the depths of degradation.'
A hilarious satire in which a journalist exploits a human interest story to its limits.
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