with Frank Bough and Selina Scott
For timetable of regular features see Monday.
Plus today: Pop with Mike Smith between 7.45 and 8.0
The That's Life file with Esther Rantzen between 7.30 and 7.45; phone-in between 8.30 and 9.0

Flash and his companions Dale Arden and Zarkhov continue in their desperate mission to save Earth from the evil space lord, Ming the Merciless.

(Repeat)

with Peter Purves
Two dramatised documentaries which re-create history in the places where it was made.
1: Marie Antoinette at Versailles
Fourteen-year-old Maria Antonia travelled from Vienna to Versailles to marry a French prince she had never seen. As Marie Antoinette she ruled as a glittering Queen of Hearts until, 25 years later, she was driven away to die on the guillotine.
Written and researched by DOROTHY SMITH
Directed by Hugh david ofLsieux) {Tomorrowat9.50 am: StThérèseofLisieux)

Presenter Chloe Ashcroft

Gharbar celebrates Christmas with an Asian Christmas hymn by MASIHI NAU-JAWAN, and PARVEEN MIZA talks to THE REV RAJINDER DANIEL about the significance of Christmas.
The programme also includes a Tamil song by MANORMA MURTI, a Punjabi song by MUSARRAT NAZIR , a Gujarati song by GUNVANT PANDYA and a popular Hindi song by NAZIA HASSAN.
Producer KRISHAN GOULD
Executive producer ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill

A two-part adaptation of Eric Kastner's classic adventure story for children, starring Bryan Russell, Walter Slezak

On a visit to relatives, 11-year-old Emil Tischbein loses all his money on a bus to Berlin and enlists enterprising street urchin Gustav and his gang to track down the thief.
A Walt Disney production
(Part 2 tomorrow at 11.10am) (Repeat)

John Noakes and Shep review the adventures and travels of the Go with Noakes series.
Paddlers Must Wear Life Jackets
Producer DAVID BROWN BBC Manchester

with Richard Whitmore and Frances Coverdale

Weather Jim Bacon

12.57 Regional News
(London and SE: Financial Report, and News headlines with subtitles)

Joe Loss and his Orchestra provide the big band sound and Michael Smith is back in the kitchen.

A See-Saw programme
Keep your eyes wide open when the moon and the stars are out! with Chloe Ashcroft and Don Spencer
Musical director PETER GOSLING Bass guitar DAVE MOSES
Assistant producer ROBIN HALDANE Designer JOHN ASBRIDGE
Directed and produced by. CHRISTINEREWITT Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE

with Joan Blondell
One of Bing's most delightful musical romances, in which he plays Denny Martin , a crooning taxi-driver who inadvertently becomes the 'guardian' of a baby left in his cab by a young mother. Joan Blondell supplies the romantic interest as a young hotel telephonist in love with the carefree Crosby.
Screenplay by WILLIAM CONSELMAN based on a story by DAVID BUTLER and HERBERT POLESIE Directed by DAVID BUTLER
Christmas Films: page 15

'Imagine it snowing, not snowflakes but cornflakes,
A million crisp cornflakes pit -pattering down;
Instead of the glittering whiteness that snow makes,
The fields and the houses would be golden brown'
Presenters
Elizabeth Millbank , lain Lauchlan Story: Wake up, Bear.... it's Christmas by STEPHEN GAMMELL Director CHRISTINE HEWITT

The Last Angry Moose
A cartoon serial in four parts
2: Bullwinkle meets a famous Hollywood talent scout who promises to make him a star.

with Jan Francis
Peter Pan by J. M. BARRIE Today The Lagoon

From the stage of the Odeon Cinema, Hanley.

In the last of the present series Brian Trueman puts the questions to the 1982 and 1983 Screen Test champions and runners-up. All the films to be featured are Academy Award winners from the Walt Disney Studios. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinnochio, Song of the South and Mary Poppins.

BBC Manchester

with Paul McDowell

The last of a five-part serial by NINA BAWDEN
Dramatised by MARILYN FOX
With only one day to go before they return home, Carrie and Albert must find a way of helping Hepzibah and Mr Johnny out of their difficulties.
Executive producer ANNA HOME Director PAUL STONE

including
The News with tonight's Weather and Regional Magazines with Nick Ross , Desmond Wilcox , Beverly Anderson and Sally Magnusson including national and international news read by Moira Stuart.
Sixty Minutes reporters travel far and wide to bring you the people and the places that are making the news, at home and abroad.
Your countdown through Sixty Minutes
5.40 The News
5.53* Regional Magazines
6.15* Weather
6.38* Closing headlines

The feature film starring Dean Martin Brian Keith
Honor Blackman
The Wild West is no place for a woman, but a man can go crazy without one! This comedy Western has Joe Baker and his bunch of bandits abducting the wife of the cavalry colonel to trade her for a big gun. Joe is planning one last great haul before he settles down - and he knows where there's more gold stashed than in any bank!
Original story and screenplay by JAMES LEE BARRETT
Produced and directed by ANDREW V MCLACLEN
Christmas Films: page 15

with John Humphrys and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weatherman

The last of the present series Eyewitness Evidence.... Fact or Fiction?
Narrated by Anthony Clare
Would you make a good eye-witness? Here's your chance to find out with some experiments that could change your mind.
The evidence shows we can recall events that never happened. And recognise people that we have never seen. So Q.E.D. asks how far can we trust the evidence of eyewitnesses in the practical business of crime?
Film cameraman MICHAEL. A. SHEPHERD Film editor ROLAND TONGUE Series editor mick RHODES Producer DANA BURGIS
*Subtitles on Ceefax page 170

John Carpenter's horror film starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrooke, John Houseman
Legend has it that a treasure ship lured by wreckers on to the shallows off Antonio Bay was enveloped by a strange supernatural fog as it sank. When this fog returns, the murdered seamen will rise from their watery graves and seek vengeance. A hundred years later, on the eve of the town's centenary celebrations, a local radio station broadcasts a fog warning -the prelude to a harrowing night of terror for the people of Antonio Bay. (First showing on British television) Christmas Films: page 15