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Schedule Monday 17th December 1979

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Radio 4

Give Or Take

Episode 1

Bank clerk Sam Baker is determined to win the football pools. But he upsets his wife Annabel. Can he win her round?

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV 8pm
30 min
Photograph courtesy of Revelation Films. Larger Workman (Eric Sykes). Copyright: Thames Television

The Plank

TV remake of the dialogue-free slapstick comedy, written, directed by and starring Eric Sykes, alongside Arthur Lowe.

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV 9pm
60 min
Minder. Image shows from L to R: Arthur Daley (George Cole), Terry (Dennis Waterman)

Minder

Series 1, Episode 8 - Come In T-64, Your Time Is Ticking Away

There's serious trouble for a mini-cab firm in which Arthur has a stake. Drivers are being beaten up and their cars sabotaged. As more and more of them are frightened off, Arthur ropes Terry in as a driver to find out who is behind the bother.

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