Weather JIM BACON

With DONNY MACLEOD
MARIAN FOSTER and BOB LANGLEY including Film Focus with Tony Bilbow

A See-Saw programme

(Repeat)

(Shown on BBC2 at 11.0 am)

Touche and Dum Dum answer the cries of help in their own inimitable way.
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A serial in 17 parts

Heidi is homesick and runs out of the Frankfurt house. To cheer her up she is given a present - basketful of kittens. But its too much for Fraulein Rottenmeier and she theatens to punish Heidi. Klara defends her friend.

Produced by Intertel Television AG
English version directed by Louis Elman for Leah International Productions

with Simon Groom, Sarah Greene and Peter Duncan

Christmas is Coming!
Lighting the first candle on the Advent Crown means there are only four Blue Peters to go before the Great Day! There's an idea for a present to make for Dads and uncles, too, so don't despair if you've run out of pocket money.

by Saki
Not for the nervous! Classic tales of fear and imagination.

Today Jonathan Pryce tells Gabriel-Ernest by Saki

The boy laughed, a laugh in which the snarl had nearly driven out the chuckle, and then plunged out of view into a yielding tangle of weed and fern.
'What an extraordinary wild animal' thought Van Cheele.

with Richard Baker Weatherman

Look North, Look North West, South Today, Look East, Midlands Today, Points West, Spotlight South West

Then at 6.20 Nationwide
The team of Frank Bough, Sue Lawley, Richard Kershaw, Hugh Scully and Sue Cook provides you with the background to the news of the day and presents the features and stories that make up the scene Nationwide.

Including tonight:

Celtic Connections: Nationwide reporter Bill Kerr Elliott continues his 20th-century journey, discovering the contribution of the Celts to life in Britain. 'Play it again Sean' - Celts have always loved their music... and today it's still one of the strongest links between the Celtic people.

and Grass Roots: presented this week by Alan Towers from Midlands Today in Birmingham.

Terry Wogan hosts the last in the present series of the comedy quiz game all the family can play at home - in which contestants attempt to match their 'blanks' with six star guests: Lorraine Chase, Bernard Cribbins, Paul Daniels, Jill Gascoine, Pete Murray, Barbara Woodhouse

Presented by arrangement with Goodson-Todman Inc and Talbot TV Ltd

with Jan Leeming ; Weatherman

A series of eight programmes

The Borstal Allocation Centre at Strangeways is a prison within a prison. It holds up to 500 young men and boys aged 15 to 21. In theory they should only stay a few days, but in practice they can find themselves inside for as long as three months.

Although segregated from the adults, this is a taste of real prison life for boys whose average reading age is 12, and whose mathematical ability is no better than that of a nine-year-old. Yet here they are, experiencing the realities of our obsolete and overcrowded prison system.

A recent Parliamentary report has stated that the practice of keeping such young boys in a prison is a scandal. And Assistant Governor Frank Weigh asks, 'What kind of society is it that is producing these young criminals?'

(Final programme next Wednesday)

Starring Telly Savalas
with guest stars James Luisi, Louise Latham, Mike Margotta

Kojak is given 48 hours to prove that murdered policeman Tom Donnelly was not crooked.

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