Peter Simon introduces a bumper package of Saturday entertainment starting with Ovide
The Crimson Tide
Between the mad marshes and the Venetian Jetty, the Virgin Forest and the mysterious caverns, there's no shortage of adventures for Ovide the duckbilled platypus.
8.40am Roland's Rat Race starring Roland Rat Heat 3
The competition hots up this week as two more teams battle it out to clock up enough miles to race through to the final.
Meanwhile in the rodent whodunit Dial Rfor Rat,
Holmes and Watson are on the trail of the poisoned leeks! Today's teams:
Carmarthen and Frome
Written by DAVID CLARIDGE and DOMINIC MACDONALD Lighting [AN DEWAR
Designer ANDREW WILKINS Studio director JEM KIME Producer STEVE HAGGARD BBC North West
9.00am Going Live! with Sarah Greene and Phillip Schofield. Featuring Mr Bronson
(Michael Sheard ) Gonch
(John McMahon ) and Mandy (Melanie Hiscock ) from Grange Hill (you can call them on [number removed]), cartoon action with Visionaries and Muppet Babies, Andy Crane and his lookalikes, heat 5 of the Young Entertainer of the Year competition and Press Conference guest
Dr Alan Maryon Davis. Phillip finds out how they train pilots to fly jumbo jets and Richard Jackson looks at insect-eating plants! Join Phillip,
Sarah and Trevor and Simon for an action-packed show. Editor CHRIS BELLINGER