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Huck and Jim built a hut on the raft, which Jim was able to hide in when a skiff approached them. They were looking for a runaway slave. Huck told them his father was ill with the smallpox in the hut. The man gave Huck some money and beat a hasty retreat. At night the raft was run down by a paddlesteamer and sunk. Huck can't find
Jim. Has he been drowned? 18: Meet the Grangerfords (For cast see page 34. R)
Out and about in Pollok
Country Pack, Glasgow.
Ross comes face to face with a hairy Highlander, and Sam starts talking to a banana! (R)
Story: Merrylegs by Peter Wiltshire
'Musical Gharbar' continues with another compilation of selected items from popular artists.
An Asian Unit presentation BBC Pebble Mill
with Moira Stuart and Chris Lowe
Weather News
1.27 Regional News
(London and SE: Financial Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)
A See-Saw programme (R)
by David McKee (R)
with Brian Cant
Wally's wagon arrives in the west with some wheels.
Watch for words that begin with W.
(R)
by ELISABETH BERESFORD
Told by Bernard Cribbins Music by MIKE BATT
Animated by BARRY LEITH Directed by IVOR WOOD (R)
Zoltar Strikes Out
A baseball stadium is the setting for Zoltar's latest scheme to destroy the planet Earth. (R)
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with Dennis Weaver and Clint Howard
A series of outdoor adventure stories about a boy and his giant pet bear.
Jennifer Mark and Ben search for Jennifer, a 5-year-old girl lost in the Everglades. Producer GEORGE SHERMAN
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Nicholas Witchell and Andrew Harvey present the latest pictures, stories and events of the day from Britain and around the world
followed by Weather News
Surrealism, the Bauhaus, modernism, and now Wogan. Is art imitating life or has the cat got your tongue sandwich?
A quiet day's bird-watching takes on a new dimension when you're only a centimetre high. David Bellamy finds himself a little too close for comfort when he drops in on the birds of the sea.
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A six-part drama serial by CHRISTOPHER GREEN starring
4: As the young executives arrive at Whinn Rigg for the start of the first special course Joe has to decide whether he should jeopardise all their combined work and efforts for the sake of his own personal feelings -or fight.
Music composed by DARYL RUNSWICK Script editor MAGGIE ALLEN OB cameramen
STAN BRADLEY. IAN TURNER Produced by BOB MCINTOSH
Directed by ROGER CHEVELEY BBC Scotland
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The fourth in a series of six documentaries about people of today.
Sister Wives
Polygamy is illegal in every state in the USA. But in Salt Lake City, Utah, there are several thousand men who have married three, four or even ten wives.
Albert Barlow is 83 years old. He has been thrown into prison twice because he married Kate, Vi and Maureen. He now enjoys his large family of 34 children, and at the latest count, 270 grandchildren.
Roy Potter was sacked from his job as a policeman when it was discovered that he had married Denise, Vera and Mary. His young wives live in houses 30 miles apart.
Boyde Jentszch is a young lawyer with four wives. They live in two houses, each wife with her own bedroom.
The men explain why they marry several wives. The women talk frankly about jealousy, and discuss the joys and problems of sharing a husband and a household with their sister wives. Photography DAVID WHITSON Film editor DAVID ELLIOTT
Series producer EDWARD MIRZOEFF Producer LOUISE PANTON
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Introduced by David Jacobs
The excitement builds at The Assembly Rooms, Derby, as the second semi-finalists, NORTH WEST and HOME COUNTIES SOUTH, battle for a place in the final.
This week ANDY ROSS remembers the elegant Duke Ellington with the dancing of Lorna Lee and Michael Stylianos, who also choreographed all the dance band era routines through the series.
Commentator CHARLES NOVE Arranged by ERIC D. MORLEY Sound ALAN FOX
Lighting JOHN CROWTHER Director DAVID PICKTHALL Producer SIMON BETTS
and tonight's guest stars Paul Burke , Marion Ross Randi Oakes
William Windom
Suddenly Innocent
Nude sunbathing in Malibu. The facts laid bare.
Trial by media. The strange case of Dr Matthew Collins. Who really murdered his wife?
In full colour-My Fair Lady of Sunset Boulevard.
All in this week's edition of Glitter magazine.
Written by RUDOLPH BORCHERT Directed by RICHARD A. WELLS
