Andy Crane - starting with:

Laurel and Hardy in Strictly for the Birds
(R)

3.55 pm A Bear Behind
with Lindsey Coulson Boz and Bill Wallis
Every bee that ever was was partly sting and partly... Lindsey and Boz buzz off to the country.
Story: Arthur the Fat Boy by GARETH OWEN
Videotape editor TIM NICHOLSON
Executive producer ANGELA BEECHING
Producer MARGIE BARBOUR
Director NEL ROMANO

4.05 pm Ratman
Starring Roland Rat Superstar and Lorraine Chase in The Last Case for Ratman? Police Chief .......MIKE SAVAGE

4.20 pm Defenders of the Earth: The Evil of Dr Dark
Ming arranges the prison escape of Dr Damion Dark and orders him to locate the three pieces of the Orb of Konos.
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4.40 pm Simon and the Witch
Ninth of a 12-part serial by VALERIE GEORGESON from a story by MARGARET STUART BARRY.
The Holiday Club has been closed down, but who cares with a real live Witch around? (Cast page 62)

4.55 pm Newsround

5.05 pm Blue Peter
with Mark Curry, Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding
Welcome Mikhail! We want President Gorbachev to feel at home now he's arrived in Britain, so we've turned the studio into a little bit of Russia!
Mark creates a Russian dish and the programme shows you how to make a photo for the cover of this magazine.
Producers NICK HEATHCOTE, ANDREW WHITMAN, OLIVER MACFARLANE Editor LEWIS BRONZE
FEATURE: page 4
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