Saturday 24/03/1979 BBC1

 

9.20 Feeling Great!...Roy Castle discovers that bread and potatoes are not nearly as fattening as people think

9.30 Multi-Coloured Swap Shop...with Noel Edmonds and John Craven, Keith Chegwin and Maggie Philbin.

Music : The Dead End Kids, Kate Bush and Showaddywaddy

Cartoons : Boss Cat (...Space Monkey) and Huckleberry Hound (...Pony Boy Huck)

12.28 Weather...Ian McCaskill.

12.30 Grandstand...Introduced by Frank Bough

5.15 News...with Richard Baker, Weatherman.

5.30 The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries...The Mystery of the Solid Gold Kicker.

6.20 Jim'll Fix It...with Jimmy Saville

6.55 Saturday Night at the Movies : The Last Wagon

8.30 The Dick Emery Show...with special guest Roy Kinnear.

9.00 The Dukes of Hazzard...Repo Man.

9.50 The News...with Richard Baker, Weather.

10.00 Match of the day...introduced by Jimmy Hill.

11.00 Saturday Night at the Mill...with Bob Langley and Tony Lewis

12.20 Weatherman: Closedown

 

Sunday 25/03/1979 BBC1

 

9.00 Mister Men

9.15 Nai Zindagi-Naya Jeevan

9.45 Company Account...2 : The Control of Working Capital , featuring Ronnie Corbett and John Cleese.

10.10 Having a Baby...2 : Starting a baby isn't always easy.

10.35 Let's Go...20 : Let's Go and Join a Club.

10.45 Workers on the Board...7 : Democracy at Work

11.10 Ensemble...part 22 of a 24 part French course

11.35 The Skill of Lip-Reading...12 : Five by Four or Six by Five.

11.50 Multi-Racial Britain...2 : Racism and Reaction.

12.15 Sunday Worship...The last of three programmes from Wesley College, Bristol.

1.00 Farming

1.25 Mr Smith's Vegetable Garden...2 : A Good Return for Effort.

1.50 News Headlines

1.55 Film Matinee : Deep in My Heart

4.00 My Little Buckaroo...A Warner Bros Cartoon.

4.05 Young Scientist of the Year 1979...The Final.

4.45 Eurovision Song Contest Previews...part 2 , introduced by Terry Wogan.

5.20 Antiques Roadshow...this week : Buxton.

5.50 News...with Peter Woods ; Weatherman.

6.00 The Peppermint Pig...part 5 , the final episode.

6.30 Feeling Great!...Roy Castle finds out from Dr Philip James why we should be eating more dietary fibre.

6.40 Songs of Praise...from Bangor, Northern Ireland.

7.15 My Son, My Son...part 2 of eight episodes.

8.10 The Sunday Film : Magee and the Lady.

9.45 That's Life...with Esther Rantzen and reporters Paul Heiney and Chris Serle and also Cyril Fletcher.

10.30 The News...with Peter Woods and Weather

10.40 Everyman...The Seventh Enemy.

11.15 Read All About It...The Paperback Programme.

11.50 A Woman's Place...Housewives' Choice.

12.15 Weatherman

Closedown

 

Monday 26/03/1979 BBC1 Midlands

 

6.40 Open University...6.40 Wealth in Britain, 7.30 ConicSections

7.55 Closedown

9.38 For Schools, Colleges

9.38 Everyday Maths...Say it with Figures : 2

10.00 Merry-Go-Round...Making Poems

10.23 Exploring Science...Planning the Enviroment

10.45 Closedown

11.00 For Schools, Colleges

11.00 A Good Read...:10

11.22 Music Time...Coppelia : Puppet film

11.45 General Studies...Genetics and Society, Human Genetics...Narrator Michael Rodd

12.10 Closedown

12.45 Midday News ...Weatherman Jack Scott.

1.00 Pebble Mill...with Bob Langley, Marian Foster, Donny MacLeod and Tony Francis.

1.45 Barnaby

2.01 For Schools, Colleges

2.01 Words and Pictures...What Is It?

2.18 Twentieth-Century History...India - the Brightest Jewel

2.40 Going to Work...Working Away from Home

3.00 Closedown

3.15 Songs of Praise...From Bangor, Northern Ireland

3.53 Regional News

3.55 Play School...with Carol Chell and Stuart McGugan. The story is 'A Number of Bears' by Dean Walley.

4.20 Huckleberry Hound...Jolly Roger and Out

4.25 Jackanory...with Brendan Price reading 'At Willie Tucker's Place'.

4.40 Baggy Pants and the Nitwits...The Moving Man, The Dynamic Energy Robber.

5.00 John Craven's Newsround

5.10 Blue Peter...with Lesley Judd, Simon Groom and Christopher Wenner.

5.40 Evening News...with Peter Woods, Weatherman.

5.55 Midlands Today Look East

6.20 Nationwide

6.50 A Question of Sport...Questionmaster David Coleman.Emlyn Hughes and Gareth Edwards captain the two teams.

Guests are : Keith Fielding, Osvaldo Ardiles, Sharon Colyear and John Watson.

7.20 The Rockford Files...South by Southeast.

8.10 Panorama

9.0 The Nine O'Clock News...with Peter Woods; Weatherman.

9.25 The Monday Film : In the Glitter Palace

11.0 Tonight...Presented by Valerie Singleton and Donald MacCormick

11.40 Weatherman...followed by Regional News and Weather.

Closedown.

 

Tuesday 27/03/1979 BBC1 Midlands

 

6.40 Open University...6.40 Cognitive Maps, 7.05 Building of Florence Cathedral, 7.30 Mineral Processing

7.55 Closedown

9.10 For Schools, Colleges

9.10 Tele-Journal

9.38 Out of the Past...Living in the Iron Age : 3

10.05 Look and Read...King's Dragon

10.30 Let's Go...Let's Go and Join a Club, presented by Brian Rix

10.45 Closedown

11.00 For Schools, Colleges

11.00 Watch...David and Saul

11.17 Going to Work...Working Away from Home

11.38 Shakespeare in Perspective...Henry VIII

12.05 A Job Worth Doing?...Taking Responsibility

12.30 Closedown

12.45 Midday News ...Weatherman Jack Scott.

1.00 Pebble Mill...including Medicine Matters with Dr David Devlin.

1.45 Playboard...with the Playboard Puppet Theatre and Christopher Lillicrap.

2.00 Closedown

2.14 For Schools, Colleges

2.14-2.30 Appuntamento in Italia...Usanze e Costumi

2.40 Tv Club...A Place Like Home...Janice

3.00 Closedown

3.20 Pobol y Cwm...serial

3.53 Regional News

3.55 Play School...with Carol Chell and Stuart McGugan. The story is 'Sidney Splodgett's Statue' by Kathy Squires.

4.20 Winsome Witch...Have Broom Will Travel

4.25 Jackanory...with Brendan Price reading 'At Willie Tucker's Place'.

4.40 Star Turn...Graeme Garden invites Bernie Clifton, Lesley Judd and Johnny Morris to compete with Richard Stilgoe, June Whitfield and Derek Griffiths in a series of peculiar acting games, including Ivor Motion Makes History written by Johnny Ball.

5.00 John Craven's Newsround

5.10 Stopwatch...Stop with Peter Purves.

5.40 Evening News...Richard Whitmore, Weatherman.

5.55 Reporting England

6.20 Nationwide

6.45 Major Minor...Presented by Steve Race. A piano competition designed to test the skill and musicianship of 10 to 12 year old Midland classical pianists : The Grand Final.

7.15 Blake's Seven...The Keeper.

8.10 Dallas

9.0 The Nine O'Clock News...with Richard Whitmore; Weatherman.

9.25 The Miser...or The Laird o' Grippy. Adapted from Moliere's L'Avare by Robert Kemp with Rikki Fulton as The Miser.

11.15 Tonight

11.45 Worlds Without Sun...2 : Caves in the Sea

12.10 - 12.15 Weatherman...followed by Regional News and Weather.

Closedown.

 

Wednesday 28/03/1979 BBC1 Midlands

 

7.05 Open University...7.05 Calling the Tune, 7.30 Mathematical Functions

7.55 Closedown

9.38 For Schools, Colleges

9.38 It's Maths...Capacity and Mass

10.00 TV Club...A Place Like Home : Janice

10.23 - 10.50 Music Time : Coppelia

11.00 Near and Far...Using the Elements

11.23 Words and Pictures...What is it?

11.40 Biology...Artificial Selection

12.00 Closedown

12.45 Midday News ...Weatherman Michael Fish.

1.00 Pebble Mill...including Posh Nosh with Michael Smith.

1.45 Fingerbobs...House.

2.01 For Schools, Colleges

2.01 Watch...David and Saul

2.18 Science All Around...Light and Shade

2.40 Physical Science...Free Fall

3.00 Closedown

3.20 Pobol y Cwm...serial

3.53 Regional News

3.55 Play School...with Carol Chell and Stuart McGugan. The story is 'Pia in Alaska' by Sven Gillsater.

4.20 Touche Turtle...High Goon

4.25 Jackanory...with Brendan Price reading 'At Willie Tucker's Place'.

4.40 Take Hart...with Tony Hart, Colin Bennett and Morph

5.00 John Craven's Newsround

5.10 Out of Bounds...episode 2.

5.35 The Perishers...featuring Leonard Rossiter as Boot.

5.40 Evening News...Kenneth Kendall, Weatherman.

5.55 Reporting England

6.20 Nationwide

6.50 The Wonderful World of Disney...The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton, part 1

7.35 Morecombe and Wise at the BBC

8.10 Accident...part 1

9.00 A Party Political Broadcast...by the Labour Party.

9.10 Main News...with Kenneth Kendall; Weatherman.

9.35 Sportsnight...introduced by Harry Carpenter.

10.30 Tonight

11.20 Most Wanted...Ms Murder

12.10 - 12.15 Weatherman...followed by Regional News and Weather.

Closedown.

 

Thursday 29/03/1979 BBC1 Midlands

 

6.40 Open University...6.40 Two Control Problems, 7.05 Woodland Decomposers, 7.30 Instrumentation : Pressure Transducers

7.55 Closedown

9.41 For Schools, Colleges

9.41 Merry-go-Round...Making Poems

10.03 Scan...5 : Say it with Symbols

10.25 - 10.45 Mathshow...Same Again

11.00 Scene...What a Waste!

11.30 Hyn o Fyd...Y Rhufeiniad : Seiat Holi

11.50 Closedown

12.45 Midday News ...Weatherman Michael Fish.

1.00 Pebble Mill...including the film feature Focus with Tony Bilbow.

1.45 Ragtime

2.00 Closedown

2.15 For Schools, Colleges

2.15 - 2.35 A Good Read...programme 10.

2.45 Encounter Italy...A Land of Custom.

3.00 Closedown

3.53 Regional News

3.55 Play School...with Carol Chell and Stuart McGugan. The story is 'Indian Two Feet and his Horse' by Margaret Friskey.

4.20 Don and Pete...Peter Glaze and Don Maclean help with a horse.

4.25 Jackanory...with Brendan Price reading 'At Willie Tucker's Place'.

4.40 Tarzan Lord of the Jungle...Tarzan and the Sunken City of Atlantis.

5.00 John Craven's Newsround

5.05 Blue Peter...with Lesley Judd, Simon Groom and Christopher Wenner.

5.35 The Perishers...featuring Leonard Rossiter as Boot.

5.40 Evening News...Angela Rippon, Weatherman.

5.55 Reporting England

6.20 Nationwide

6.55 Tomorrow's World...with Judith Hann, Kieran Prendiville and Michael Rodd.

7.20 Top of the Pops...introduced by Mike Read.

7.55 Blankety-Blank...hosted by Terry Wogan

8.30 Potter...starring Arthur Lowe.

9.00 Nine O'Clock News...with Angela Rippon; Weatherman.

9.25 The Good Old Days...introduced by Leonard Sachs with :

Ken Dodd, Valerie Masterson, The King's Singers, Doreen Hermitage, Bill Drysdale and Chrissie Cartwright, The Duo Lanka, Albert Aldred and Members of the Players Theatre, London.

10.20 Natalia Makarova...Prima Ballerina Assoluta. Omnibus features a study of a great dancer, presented by writer and ballet critic Clement Crisp.

11.10 Tonight...with the Robin Day interview

11.50 - 11.55 Weatherman...followed by Regional News and Weather.

Closedown.

 

Friday 30/03/1979 BBC1 Midlands

 

6.40 Open University...6.40 Cadences, 7.05 Action of Lysozyme, 7.30 Chemistry of Carbon Compounds

7.55 Closedown

9.30 For Schools, Colleges

9.30 Sports Acrobatics...with Annette Stapleton and members of the British Amateur Gymnastics Association

10.00 Look and Read...King's Dragon

10.23 - 10.45 Ffenestri...Wyau

11.05 Europe from the Air...New Lights

11.30 A Job Worth Doing?...Taking Responsibility

12.00 Peter Donaldson's Economics...10 : Keeping up with the Schmidts

12.25 Closedown

12.45 Midday News ...Weatherman Michael Fish.

1.00 Pebble Mill...including Dig This with Peter Seabrook.

1.45 Trumpton...The Greenhouse

2.02 For Schools, Colleges

2.02 - 2.25 Scene...What a Waste!.

2.35 General Studies...Genetics and Society, Human Genetics.

3.00 Closedown

3.25 Teliffant...Light entertainment.

3.53 Regional News

3.55 Play School...with Carol Chell and Stuart McGugan. The story is 'Cave Painting' by Michael Cole.

4.20 Hong Kong Phooey...Voltage Villain.

4.30 Jackanory...with Brendan Price reading 'At Willie Tucker's Place'.

4.45 Wildtrack...introduced by Tony Soper with Su Ingle.

5.10 Excuse Me!...Jon Skolmen, Chloe Ashcroft, Sam Dale and Liza Goddard with songs, poems and sketches..

5.35 The Perishers...featuring Leonard Rossiter as Boot.

5.40 Evening News...Peter Woods, Weatherman.

5.55 Reporting England

6.20 Nationwide

7.00 Barney Bear...in Bah Wilderness and The Flying Bear.

7.15 Wonder Woman...The Deadly Sting.

8.00 Dawson Watch...with Les Dawson

8.30 The Other One

9.00 Nine O'Clock News...with Peter Woods; Weatherman.

9.25 The National Skating Association Centenary Gala

10.15 The Garden Game

10.45 Regional and National News; Weather

10.50 - 12.35 Late Film : Paper Lion

 

 

 

very interesting mark :)

 

dallas! :o

9.30 Multi-Coloured Swap Shop - much preferred tiswas to this

5.20 Antiques Roadshow - and its still on

7.15 Blake's Seven - so bad it was actually good

7.20 Top of the Pops - ah the old thursday slot

 

Amazing TV before wall to wall soaps clogging up the schedules

 

Notice the early closedown on the beeb :P

9.30 Multi-Coloured Swap Shop - much preferred tiswas to this

 

 

absolutely.... tiswas was excellant, the template that all saturday morning kids shows has tried to copy ever since, but failed...

 

 

 

strange that 27 years later noel edmunds is hosting a game show that is far better then tarrents game show!

4.45 Eurovision Song Contest Previews...part 2 , introduced by Terry Wogan.

 

Why don't we still get this!!! -_-

 

Why don't we still get this!!! -_-

 

 

 

because it was crap :lol: