The Search for the W and Z
A look at Whitby in North Yorkshire.
Second of a six-part series. How Tokyo's red-light district was once an area for actors and artists.
9.00 Quinze Minutes
9.15 Teaching Today
9.45 Watch
10.00 Look and Read
10.20 Around Scotland: Finding Your Way
10.40 Into Music (Stereo)
11.00 Let's See
11.15 English Express
11.35 TV6: Out of the Doll's House
12.00 English File
12.30 Scene
1.00 Standard Grade Physical Education
1.20 The Brollys
1.35 Crystal Tipps and Alistair
1.40 English Time
2.00 News and Weather
followed by Words and Pictures
The Isles of Scilly.
Documentary on an emotion which makes lives hell. * TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
A National Geographic film showing unusual wildlife in an untouched habitat.
Celebrated writer W Somerset Maugham introduces dramatisations of three of his short stories.
The Ant and the Grasshopper
Tom invents new ways to sponge off his brother.
Winter Cruise
A spinster drives the crew of a cargo ship to distraction.
Gigolo and Gigolette
Standing high on a platform about to dive into a pool of flames, a cabaret artist loses her nerve. With Glynis Johns.
Directors Pat Jackson, Anthony Pelissier and Harold French
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Featuring drag racing.
Gerry Anderson 's classic Supermarionation series. City of Fire. A 350-storey tower becomes an inferno.
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Starring Phil Silvers
Emma Ritzik wants her husband to leave the army.
With Anthony Howard. A Granada production for BBCtv
Former detective Chris Moyse returns to the British Virgin Islands, where he was a drugs intelligence officer for more than two years, to give his views on the fight against cocaine smugglers. Producer Jim McDougall
A series of six film essays about inspirational gardens.
Monet's Passion. Molly Parkin takes her brushes and easel to
Giverny, in north west France, where impressionist painter Claude Monet spent 40 years creating his garden. Art historian John House compares Monet's garden paintings with views of the garden today, while Stephen Lacey takes a horticultural view. With Leo McKern as the voice of Monet.
Producer Andrew Gosling
Executive producer Tony Laryea
A Catalyst Television production for BBCtv ● GARDENING: page 14
Vintage comedy adapted by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in nine parts, starring
Cyril Cusack , Roy Dotrice Wendy Hiller
1: The Magnificent Idea of Barthelemy Piechut. Richly matured since its first showing 18 years ago, this comedy concerns the brouhaha caused by the building of a public pissoir in a French village.
From the novel by Gabriel Chevallier Producer Michael Mills 0 DRAMA: page 5
The fascinating story of motor racing.
1: The Fastest Men on Earth The first Grand Prix was won
85 years ago at 73mph. This year's Indianapolis winner averaged 176mph.
Producer Michael Schooley
Executive producer Ivan Rendall 0 STEREO
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Comedy news quiz hosted by Angus Deayton, with captains Ian Hislop (editor of Private Eye) and Paul Merton (of Whose Line Is It Anyway?), plus actress Sandi Toksvig and Punch editor David Thomas.
A Hat Trick production for BBCtv
(Stereo)
Continuing the Made in Japan season. Two boys told to be quiet by their father take him at his word. In
Japanese with English subtitles. Director Yasujiro Ozu
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