with the brightest features in sport from
Bob Wilson , Sally Jones and Paul McDowell Timetable:
National and international news on the hour and half hour with Sue Carpenter
Weather at 6.55, 7.25, 7.55,
8.25 and 8.55 with Francis Wilson

Condemned to be the butt of crude humour, or clad in the garb of awful euphemisms, at last the lavatory comes out of the closet.
Lucinda Lambton embarks on a pilgrimage through
Britain's loveliest lavatories and pays the debt of gratitude to Britain's plumbing pioneers and sanitary magnificos.
Executive producer ROGER MILLS Producer RICHARD LIGHTBODY

Margo Macdonald meets a group of people who have successfully claimed the social security benefits to which they are entitled.
(E) Tomorrow: Advice Line your chance to phone in For information on social security benefits see Ceefax page 188

with Children's BBCtv programme news and your birthday greetings

From small seeds The tall trees grow
Presenter Stuart McGugan Guest Janet Palmer Story: Alex's Bed by MARY DICKINSON (R)

by Bob Godfrey and Stan Hayward
(R)

A thought for the day with Dora Bryan

Presented by Chris Kelly
Michael Barry , Jill Goolden With a new series on its way, a chance to enjoy the best of last year's programmes.
For Hallowe'en, how to make pumpkin soup.... everything you wanted to know about woks ... a top chef prepares to cook Sunday lunch for under a tenner ... testing toasters ... and some crafty cheese on toast recipes. Producer JEREMY MILLS
Series producer PETER BAZALGETTE (R)

Pattie Coldwell
Eamonn Holmes and the Open Air team bring you debate, controversy, and fun, in which you can take part by phoning, visiting your local TV studio, or talking to Denise Robertson and Mike Neville in Newcastle on the Open Air Help Line: [number removed]

Today with Esther Rantzen

with Martyn Lewis
Weather Michael Fish

Scott places Kim Taylor in a compromising position while Des finds out just how vindictive Lorraine can be. (For cast see page 46. Shown again tomorrowat 10.0am)

How many creatures can you spot popping in and out of the water?
(R)

starring David Niven Margaret Leighton
A lavish, spectacular adventure of the French Revolution, based on the exploits of Baroness Orczy's famous character, the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Based on the novel by BARONESS ORCZY
Written, produced and directed by MICHAEL POWELL and EMERIC PRESSBURGER
0 FILMS: page 25

Phillip Schofield - starting with

Scragtag and His Tea-time Telly
7: Scragtag has finally finished his bookshelf buc is now having trouble fitting all his books on them. Tune in to hear one of Scragtag's stories from the Scragbook. Scragtag's assistant Marcus Kimber Anita Voice
ROSELLA LONGINOTTI Music by MICHAEL OMER Production ROY MILANI Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE

with Michael Barrymore

Today's story is about Bernard B. Kettle, a cowboy who carried two huge old-fashioned brass motor horns at his side.
Sebastian illustrates the story and Michael auditions for a part in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

with Paul Jones
What is made dirty by washing? See if one of the contestants knows the correct answer.

(R)

with Janet Ellis, Peter Duncan and Mark Curry

A Mammoth Task! When a worker at a Shropshire gravel pit first spotted a fragment of bone sticking out of the clay, he'd no idea that he'd just discovered the remains of one of the last mammoths on earth! Within hours the search was on as quarrymen, scientists and volunteers combined forces to dig out the rest of the skeleton of this giant prehistoric relative of the elephant. How did the mammoth meet its doom and could it really have been the very last one alive in prehistoric Britain? Mark investigates as he joins the team for the Great Mammoth Hunt!
(Ceefax subtitles)

Presented by Angela Rippon Will the PENDLEBURY
ALCHEMISTS come up with the right medicine or will the GOLDEN FLEECE of Halifax pull the wool over the eyes of the winning team in the knockout competition to find the Masterteam.

with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell Weather JOHN KETTLEY

London Plus, Spotlight
South Today, Points West Look East, Look North North West Tonight Midlands Today

by Michael Robartes.
'It's a wise man that knows his own son...'
(For cast see page 59)
(Ceefax Subtitles)

Written by BARRY CRYER and NEIL SHAND with ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK
What has brought
Reg Prescott out of his workshop and in to the kitchen? What are Hot Gossip up to at the Masquerade?
And how do you tell the difference between African and Indian elephants? Featuring Hot Gossip
Choreographer ARLENE PHILLIPS Musical director MIKE MORAN
Sound KEITH GUNN. SCOTT TALBOTT Lighting BILL MILLAR
Directed by KEVIN BISHOP Produced by JOHN BISHOP
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES

'I was never frightened of walking home alone in the dark, of being raped or mugged. I knew what was waiting for me at home was infinitely worse than that.'
Cruelty to children is always shocking to read about; such a painful idea that it is unthinkable that a child in our own street, our own family, could be suffering now. Tonight the results of a special national poll prove how common this cruelty is, how many forms it takes, how it causes life-long damage.
Presented by Esther Rantzen and Sue Cook , Childwatch is in two parts. This first part looks at how children can best protect themselves from People who might try to hurt them. It also sees the launch of ChildLine - the national free helpline for children in trouble or danger. (Childwatch continues after the Nine O'clock News)
0 FEATURE: page 4 INFO: page 91 and WODDIS ON: page 97

Julia Somerville and John Humphrys present the day's news with BBC teams at home and abroad
Regional News Weather

In this second part Esther Rantzen and Sue Cook talk to people who experienced cruelty as children.
What could and should have been done to help them? What can we do to help children suffering now? What should we all be doing to help those most at risk and least able to help themselves?
For free ChildLine ring [number removed], or you can write to ChildLine, [address removed]

with Sir Robin Day
The weekly opportunity for the general public to pose the questions and debate the answers with those in power, those who seek it and those who influence events.
Among Sir Robin Day's guests tonight at the Greenwood Theatre are:
The Rt Hon Paul Channon , mp Oonagh McDonald , MP Andrew Neil
Director ANN MORLEY
Producer ANNA CARRAGHER Editor BARBARA MAXWELL

starring
If You Want to Shoot the Rapids You Have to Get Wet Twelve years married, six children later, Susan decides her marriage has hit an all-time low and comes to Rhoda for counselling....
Written by CHARLOTTE BROWN Directed by HOWARD STORM (R)