Listings
: News Headlines followed by The Flintstones
Foxy Grandma (R): Weather
: Breakfast Time
with Frank Bough Sally Magnusson and Jeremy PaxmanBob Friend views life across the Atlantic.
Sports news from Sally Jones
Contributors
Unknown:
Frank
Bough
Unknown:
Sally
Magnusson
Unknown:
Jeremy
Paxman
Unknown:
Bob
Friend
Unknown:
Sally
Jones
: Watchdog
Presented by John Stapleton Have you got a grouse about gas? Today your chance to grill Ron Probert , Marketing Director of newly-privatised British Gas. Is the change good or bad for consumers? u you want someone in the Hot Seat, write to Watchdog. BBCtv. LimeGrove, London W12 7RJ or ring the Watchdog hotline: [number removed]
Contributors
Presented By:
John
Stapleton
Unknown:
Ron
Probert
: Advice Shop
Margo MacDonald looks at what the Government's'Restart' schemes can offer people who have been out of work for a long time. Directed by BRYN BROOKS
Produced by TONY MATTHEWS (e) For leaflet send large 24p sae to: [address removed]
Contributors
Unknown:
Margo
MacDonald
Directed By:
Bryn
Brooks
Produced By:
Tony
Matthews
: Children's BBC
Phillip Schofield with programme news and your birthday greetings.Contributors
Presenter:
Phillip
Schofield
: Play School
Presenter Sarah Long Guest Stuart Bradley Story: The Lion and the MouseA fable from Aesop (R)
Contributors
Presenter:
Sarah
Long
Presenter:
Guest Stuart
Bradley
: Willo the Wisp
Magic GolfWritten and directed by NICK SPARGO (R)
Contributors
Directed By:
Nick
Spargo
: Open Air
with Pattie Coldwell Bob Wellings and Eamonn HolmesBBC Manchester
including at:
Contributors
Presenter:
Pattie
Coldwell
Presenter:
Bob
Wellings
Presenter:
Eamonn
Holmes
Deputy Editor:
Cyril
Gates
Editor:
Peter
Weil
: The Tom O'Connor Roadshow
Live from the DerbyAssembly Rooms Tom O'Connor and 'Out and About' girl
Debbie Greenwood bring you the sights and sounds of Derby, as well as the best of British show business.
Series producer STEVE WEDDLE Executive producer PETER HERCOMBE BBC Pebble Mill
Contributors
Unknown:
Tom
O'Connor
Unknown:
Debbie
Greenwood
Producer:
Steve
Weddle
Producer:
Peter
Hercombe
: One O'Clock News
with Martyn LewisWeather MICHAEL FISH
Contributors
Unknown:
Martyn
Lewis
Unknown:
Weather
Michael
: Neighbours
Maria tells Shane aboutDanny's father. Paul helps Scott and Kim.
: Chock-a-Block
A See-Saw programme (R): The Wednesday Matinee: The Loneliest Runner
starringLance Kerwin with Brian Keith Michael Landon
John Curtis became one of America's finest athletes, eventually gaining success as an Olympic gold medallist, yet his childhood was one of loneliness and humiliation. This story tells of John's withdrawal from his family and friends because of his chronic incontinence. As a result of his loneliness,
John trained continually as an athlete and eventually became a hero to the people he was afraid of. Screenplay, produced and directed by MICHAEL LANDON
0 FILMS: page 15
Contributors
Unknown:
Lance
Kerwin
Unknown:
Brian
Keith
Unknown:
Michael
Landon
Unknown:
John
Curtis
Directed By:
Michael
Landon
John Curtis (young):
Lance
Kerwin
John Curtis (adult):
Michael
Landon
Arnold Curtis:
Brian
Keith
Alice Curtis:
Deann
Mears
Nancy:
Melissa Sue
Anderson
Rafer Johnson:
Himself
Tony:
Randy
Faustino
Donnie:
Dermott
Downs
Dr Claymer:
Walker
Edmiston
Security guard:
Herb
Vigran
George Sanders:
Cliff
Bellow
: Off the Record
Martin Shaw talks toSteve Blacknell about his record collection and illustrates some of his favourites with archive footage.
Producer JON PLOWMAN (R)
Contributors
Talks:
Martin
Shaw
Unknown:
Steve
Blacknell
Producer:
Jon
Plowman
: Box Clever
Hosted by Emlyn HughesA family quiz played as a strategic board game with moves dependent on correct answers to questions put by grSueKingsman.
Director JEREMY MILLS
"oducer HENRY MURRAY
Contributors
Unknown:
Emlyn
Hughes
Director:
Jeremy
Mills
Unknown:
Henry
Murray
: Children's BBC
Phillip Schofield - starting with:Corners
An introduction to a new series with Tracy Brabin, Simon Davies and introducing Jo Korna
"you're puzzled, send in a question to Corners, [address removed]
Back Pages: 86
Contributors
Unknown:
Tracy
Brabin
Unknown:
Jo
Korna
: Stilgoe's On
Presented by Richard StilgoeToday's programme has a magical' twist with a guest appearance by The Great Soprendo. (R)
Contributors
Presented By:
Richard
Stilgoe
: The Witch in the Cherry Tree
Illustrated by JENNY WILLIAMS and Jam illustrated by HELEN CRAIG read by Liza Goddard for JackanoryTwo picture books by MARGARET MAHY tell the stories of two ordinary families who have extraordinary experiences - a visiting cake-burglar, and a father with a passion for Jam-making.
Contributors
Unknown:
Jenny
Williams
Illustrated By:
Helen
Craig
Read By:
Liza
Goddard
Unknown:
Margaret
Mahy
: Bananaman
The Final Orbit (R): You Should Be So Lucky!
starring Vince Purity and his big board game. Oh yea, oh yea, oh yea, the all-star showvan is on the road!The schools are
JANET DUPONT STAGE SCHOOL, Leicester and SHEILA ANN STUDIOS, Swansea.
Written and devised by COLIN BENNETT
Assistant producer CLAIRE WINYARD Producer CHRISTOPHER PILKINGTON
Contributors
Unknown:
Vince
Purity
Unknown:
Janet
Dupont
Unknown:
Sheila
Ann
Unknown:
Colin
Bennett
Producer:
Claire
Winyard
Producer:
Christopher
Pilkington
Purettes .............:
Donna
Young
Purettes ............:
Julie
Newell,
Purettes ............:
Alex
Cowens
Purettes ............:
Joanna
Borman
Jock:
Mike
McNaught
Janice:
Chrissy
Lee
: Treasure Houses
with Mark CurryWestminster Abbey by DOROTHY SMITH
The Abbey Church is called a 'Royal Peculiar,' which means that the Dean and Chapter are responsible to no one but the monarch.
It has been the theatre for royal dramas for almost 1,000 years. Mark tells some of the backstage stories of splendour, intrigue and murder, from William the Conquerer's coronation to the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York.
Film cameraman NIALL KENNEDY
Film editor CHRISTOPHER RICHARDS Producer EDWARD BARNES Director JEREMY SWAN
Contributors
Unknown:
Mark
Curry
Unknown:
Westminster
Abbey
Unknown:
Dorothy
Smith
Unknown:
Niall
Kennedy
Editor:
Christopher
Richards
Producer:
Edward
Barnes
Director:
Jeremy
Swan
: First Class
The video quizDebbie Greenwood chairs this knock-out tournament to find the First Class of 1987. Tonight: BISHOP RAWSTORNE from Lancashire and BOSTON from Lincolnshire.
Designer jim LONGMUIR Director JUSTIN c. ADAMS Producer ANNE SOMERS
Series producer CHARLES NAIRN BBC Scotland
Contributors
Unknown:
Debbie
Greenwood
Designer:
Jim
Longmuir
Director:
Justin
C. Adams
Producer:
Anne
Somers
Producer:
Charles
Nairn
: Six O'Clock News
with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell Weather BILL GILESContributors
Unknown:
Nicholas
Witchell
Unknown:
Weather Bill
Giles
: Wogan
Thirty-five minutes of homely fun presenting the people to the people from the stage somewhere in the West End of Shepherd's Bush.: The Muppet Show
Tonight's guest star Ethel Merman can be counted on never to deliver a wrong note when she sings a selection of her hits and persuades Fozzie that there's no business like show business.Producer jim HENSON
Contributors
Unknown:
Ethel
Merman
Producer:
Jim
Henson
: Dallas
So Shall Ye ReapFrom little seeds ... J. R. discovers that when it's time to pay the piper, money can sometimes be insufficient. Bobby and Ray ponder the future for their unborn children, but Clayton is still obsessed with the past.
Meanwhile, Cliff is found to have stretched his financial credibility - with someone else's money ...
Written by LEONARD KATZMAN Directed by JERRY JAMESON
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Contributors
Written By:
Leonard
Katzman
Directed By:
Jerry
Jameson
Miss Ellie:
Barbara
Bel Geddes
Bobby:
Patrick
Duffy
Sue Ellen:
Linda
Gray
J R:
Larry
Hagman
Donna:
Susan
Howard
Ray:
Steve
Kanaly
Clayton:
Howard
Keel
Cliff:
Ken
Kercheval
Jenna:
Priscilla
Beaulieu Presley
Pam:
Victoria
Principal
April:
Sheree
J Wilson
Calhoun:
Hunter
von Leer
Wendell:
William
Smithers
Gordon:
Jim
Haynie
Jordan Lee:
Don
Starr
McSween:
James L
Brown
: Points of View
Anne Robinson with your comments in the programme you help to write.Producer VICKI MARRIOTT
Contributors
Unknown:
Anne
Robinson
Producer:
Vicki
Marriott
: Nine O'Clock News
with Julia Somerville and Andrew Harvey Regional News WeatherContributors
Unknown:
Julia
Somerville
Unknown:
Andrew
Harvey
: We Can Keep You Forever
... a Vietnamese guard tells his American prisoner.Were American POWs left behind in South-East Asia? On the banks of the Mekong river, Vietnam veteran Vincent Amone plans a rescue mission into Laos. On the other side, he believes, Americans are still held hostage; 'If the communists catch me, they'll shoot me.' In a remote corner of Vietnam, a Swedish engineer sees white men in a jungle prison camp. 'You seen Rambo? It was like that.... bamboo walls and guard towers.'
In Florida, Air Force wife Anne Hart discovers that, after American POWs were supposedly sent home, a US spy plane photographed her husband's initials stamped out in long grass in Laos. The intelligence report concluded: 'This was thought to be Capt Hart.' For ten years, nobody told her ...
Officially, US administrations and the Vietnamese have long denied prisoners were left behind. Today intelligence men, former Vietnam government officials and nearly 1,000 eyewitnesses say that they were. To MIA wives, their men were abandoned.
Production assistant JILL DALES Film editor MALCOLM DANIEL
Executive producer GEORGE CAREY Written and directed by CHRISTOPHER OLGIATI
FEATURE: page 76 and WODDIS ON: page 81
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Contributors
Unknown:
Vincent
Amone
Unknown:
Anne
Hart
Unknown:
Capt
Hart.
Editor:
Malcolm
Daniel
Producer:
George
Carey
Directed By:
Christopher
Olgiati
: Sportsnight
Introduced by Steve RiderHighlights from an important evening of football in the quarter-finals of the Littlewoods Cup. There are three all-First-Division ties tonight: ARSENAL v
NOTTINGHAM FOREST; WEST
HAM UNITED V TOTTENHAM
HOTSPUR; EVERTON V
LIVERPOOL. You can see the final live on BBC Television on Sunday 5 April.
Plus all the other sporting news from home and abroad. Commentators BARRY DAVIES and JOHN MOTSON
Television presentation JOHN SHREWSBURY
Producer CHARLES BALCHIN Editor JOHN ROWLINSON
Contributors
Introduced By:
Steve
Rider
Commentators:
Barry
Davies
Commentators:
John
Motson
Unknown:
John
Shrewsbury
Producer:
Charles
Balchin
Editor:
John
Rowlinson
: Weather
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