6.45 Motion and Newton's Laws
7.10 An Introduction to Economics
7.35 Animal Physiology: The Placenta
8.00 Managing Schools: Presnett Comprehensive
Peter Simon introduces a bumper package of Saturday entertainment starting with Ovide
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.
Just for Laughs
8.40am ChuckleVision starring the Chuckle Brothers with Billy Butler.
Angling for success, Paul and Barry spin a line and take up fishing. And Billy Butler tells the tale of Slimeball Simon. Writer JOHN SAYLE
Director JOHN NORTHOVER Producer MARTIN HUGHES BBC North West
9.00am Going Live! with Sarah Greene and Phillip Schofield.
Featuring heat one of the BBC Young Entertainer of the Year competition, film previews with special guest
Mark Hamill.
Cartoon action with Muppet Babies and Droids. There's music from Yazz and Def Leppard and really wild visitors with Terry Nutkins. Going Live! gives you the chance to nominate candidates for Comic Relief's gunk tank.
Trevor and Simon take Anthea Turner to meet some Vikings. There's Press Conference,
Soapbox plus Live Line and all sorts. Join the Going Live! gang at 9.00am and find out more! Editor CHRIS BELLINGER
JOHN KETTLEY
See panel including at
12.50pm News Summary
with Moira Stuart ; Weather
starringwith
A Love Story
When Geoff informs his patient, Susan Fowler , that she is pregnant he doesn't bargain for the role he'll play.
Written by CASSANDRA CARTER Directed by MARK DEFRIEST
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Your letter
Was only the start of it, One letter,
And now you're a part of it. If you have an entertaining and original secret dream that you would like 'fixed' for yourself or as a surprise for someone else, maybe
Jimmy Savile can help. Lighting BRENDAN CARR Sound JIM CADMAN
Designer ROSEMARY HESTER
Series producer ROGER ORDISH Produced and directed by STANLEY APPEL
* FURTHER INFORMATION: write to Jimmy Savile
BBCtv, Television Centre. London W12 8QT
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starring Syd Little and Eddie Large with special guests Frank Carson
Jacqueline Clarke The Minitones
Fine Young Cannibals with The Banshees
The Claddath Dancers Craig Crosby
Eddie teams up with two new Partners to open the show as 'Bros' - as they have never been seen before.
Syd's music spot has a distinct flavour of Ireland.
Frank Carson and Eddie add a touch of the blarney.
Popeye and Olive Oyl close the show with their own Top of the Pops chart rundown.
Written by RUSSEL LANE
BRAD ASHTON , EDDIE BAYUSS Script associate RUSSEL LANE Music by RONNIE HAZLEHURST AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Choreographer JEFF THACKER Sound BOB FOLEY
Lighting GRAHAM RIMMINGTON Design BOB COVE
Director MARTIN SHARDLOW Producer BILL WILSON
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Starring Paul Daniels with the superb trick cycling of Kid Lima and on the trapeze, the Ayak Brothers.
Featuring Debbie McGee. Musical director BURT RHODES
Programme associate ALI BONGO Technical consultant GIL LEANEY Sound KEITH MAYES Lighting BILL MILLAR
Designer JAMES GRANT
Produced and directed by GEOFF MILES
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An eight-part series starring John Nettles s as Det Sgt Bergerac
3: Tangos in the Night § by JOHN FLETCHER , with 0 Terence Alexander Sean Arnold
Louise Jameson and Stephen McGann and Hetty Baynes.
Jim is called in to investigate the theft of diamonds from Lady Trowbridge, one of Jersey's leading socialites.
Series created by ROBERT BANKS
STEWART Tango music by TEDDY PEIRO
Choreography by SHEILA O'NEILL Make-up designer VIVIEN RILEY
Production associate JEREMY GWILT Film editor MASAHIRO HIRAKUBO Photography JOHN BAKER
Produced by GEORGE GALLACCIO Directed by STUART URBAN
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with Michael Buerk Weather
Starring
Payback
A female cop is wounded in a professional hit which kills her partner and the Grand Jury witness they are protecting. Jordan, the policewoman, is unable to remember the event or the face of the killer and calls on Jack Killian 's friendship as she struggles with the guilt over her partner's death. But the man who stands to lose most by her living wants the loose ends tied up ...
Written by DEBORAH ARAKEUAN Directed by KEVIN HOOKS
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Starring
Nick Nolte
Tuesday Weld.
Overwhelmed by the senseless horrors of the Vietnam War, newspaperman
John Converse decides to register his opposition by means of a desperate act. He draws his buddy Ray Hicks and his wife Marge into a scheme to ship a consignment of heroin to the United States. Their plan backfires and Converse finds the violence of Vietnam has been destructively brought home.
Screenplay by JUDITH RASCOE and ROBERT STONE based on the novel Dog Soldiers by ROBERT STONE Produced by HERB JAFFE and GABRIEL KATZKA Directed by KAREL REISZ
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6.45 Pure Maths: Curves from Parameters
7.10 Women Speaking: part 1
7.35 Managing Schools: Presnett Comprehensive
8.00 Instruments - Made to Measure