BBC One continuity announcement just prior to the Nine O'Clock News. Call My Bluff was about to start on the BBC's second channel, while a new episode of Starsky and Hutch would be on after.
Main news items: Ronald Reagan's recovery, West Yorkshire internal police enquiry, car bomb in N. Ireland, investigation into last year's North Sea Oil disaster and Prince Charles' visit to New Zealand.
The evening news was read by Richard Baker (b. 1925) who also introduced the first BBC television news broadcast on 5 July 1954. Baker retired as a newsreader in 1982.
see also: Richard Baker: The birth of TV news (BBC)
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