The Big Bank Robbery (R)

with Frank Bough Sally Magnusson and Jeremy Paxman
Bob Friend delves behind the headlines to report on life in the USA.
Sports news from Sally Jones

Today's edition of Britain's brightest consumer show brings you Hot Seat - your chance to interrogate the people whose decisions directly affect your life - anything from telephones to travel agents, builders to buses.
From complaints in the High Street to tangles with red tape and just plain fraud - in fact whatever concerns you - Watchdog is ready to follow up your stories of wrongdoing and injustice.
Deputy editor STEVE PHELPS Editor NICK HAYES
If you have something you want investigated write to Watchdog,
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Margo MacDonald looks at two ways of getting your home ready to beat the cold this winter. (e)
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with Children's BBCtv programme news and your birthday greetings.

Presenter Sarah Long Guest Stuart Bradley Story: Break of Day by KATHY MEAGHER (R)

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with Catherine Griller

A tour of the West Country with Angela Rippon South Somerset
Angela discovers what could have been King Arthur's Camelot, a village that inspired the poet T. S. Eliot , the last resting place of a Concorde and the silk farm that produced the raw material for the Princess of Wales's wedding dress.
Photography STEVE WAGSTAFF Film editor BERNARD GOODSALL Series producer PAUL SMITH Director NICK KENNERLEY

with Pattie Coldwell Bob Wellings and Eamonn Holmes

Tennents United Kingdom Championship
DAVID VINE introduces highlights from yesterday's last third-round matches from the Guild Hall, Preston.
Commentators TED LOWE, JACK KARNEHM, CLIVE EVERTON
Summarisers JIM MEADOWCROFT, JOHN SPENCER, JOHN VIRGO
Television presentation KEITH PHILLIPS, MIKE ADLEY, PETER HAYWARD
Producer KEITH MACKENZIE
Executive producer NICK HUNTER

with Martyn Lewis
Weather MICHAEL FISH

Scott hears from an old friend. The Ramsey boys have a secret.
(For cast see page 47. Shown again tomorrow at 10.0 am)

A See-Saw programme
by Roger Hargreaves

starring Bette Davis, Penny Fuller, George Hearn
Despite the loss of her husband, Esther Cimino is determined to retain their music store and lifestyle. But at 73 she is inclined to be forgetful, and occasionally irrational. When she is hospitalised and casually diagnosed as irreversibly senile only her grand-daughter contests the view. Together she and the redoubtable widow begin a struggle to regain Mrs Cimino's independence. Bette Davis gives one of the most powerful performances of her later career in this moving drama.
Screenplay by JOHN GAY
Based on the book by ROBERT OLIPHANT
Produced and directed by GEORGE SCHAEFER
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A guide to emergency first aid presented by Dr Alan Maryon Davis
Suppose someone's heart stopped beating; it might be your father, your mother, your husband or your child. You would have just three minutes to save them. Would you know what to do? (R) (e) You can learn more at a two-hour session somewhere close to your home. For details and a free leaflet on emergency first aid write to:
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Book, Save a Life: An Instructor's Guide. £2.95 from booksellers
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Phillip Schofield - starting with:

Pinny's House: Pinny's Party
by Peter Firmin
Pinny and Victor are both so small that they can dress up in sweet papers!
Read by Matilda Thorpe

with Don Spencer
What would you like to be
What would you like to be
If an animal
You could choose to be?

with Tony Hart and Margot Wilson Pipes
Piping fabric paint, homemade tubes, blowing through straws, chimneys and two pinball machines.
Watch out for more of your work in today's Gallery. Director MARTYN SUKER
Assistant producer CLAIRE WINYARD Producer CHRISTOPHER PILKINGTON

by LUCY M. BOSTON
Dramatised in four parts by JOHN STADELMAN
1: Tolly is invited by his great-grandmother to spend Christmas at her remote and mysterious house in the country.
OB Lighting JOHN MASON
Designer ALAN SPALDING
Producer PAUL STONE
Director COLIN CANT
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Presented by Angela Rippon In the Spotlight tonight is a team from Penketh called the BAKER'S DOZEN (no, there are only three of them). Among the categories to choose from are classical music, sport, the 1970s, geography, current affairs and television. Something for everyone in Masterteam.

with Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton
Weather JOHN KETTLEY

Selina Scott is photographed by top fashion photographer Tony McGee, Jeff Banks rummages among secondhand clothes in Manchester, Jane Lomas looks at the changing face of High Street shopping and Leigh Bowery goes night-clubbing. Assistant producers CHRIS SALT, CLARE STRIDE
BBC Pebble Mill (R)

Territorial Imperative Parmalee's presence continues to cause alarm, but Cliff Bames seems more interested in April's claims. J.R. fears for his reputation as Calhoun reveals a daring plan - and Mandy reveals even more.
Written by DAVID PAULSEN
Directed by MICHAEL PREECE
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with Julia Somerville and John Humphrys Regional News Weather

Dramatic journeys in five people's lives with Desmond Wilcox The Golden Voyage
Fifty years ago the Queen Mary sailed on her historic maiden voyage to New York - the largest, most elegant and most celebrated of the great passenger liners. Even before her launch she had become a maritime legend, and went on to win the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing. Half a century later, some veterans of that trip met at a party with HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, before sailing on the QE2 to re-create that dramatic first transatlantic crossing. But for a handful of survivors of that maiden journey, including Larry Adler, it was to be a commemorative voyage with a difference; not all went as planned. There was romance, sentiment - and drama.
Research JAN RIDDELL
Film cameraman ALEX SCOTT
Film editor MARGARET RENWICK
Director ALEX MCCALL
Producer DESMOND WILCOX BBC Scotland
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Introduced by Steve Rider Championship Snooker
Tennents United Kingdom Championship
More action from the Guild Hall, Preston in the best-of-17-frame quarter-finals.
Heavyweight Championship Boxing from Wolverhampton Horace Notice
(Commonwealth Champion) v Proud Kilimanjaro (Challenger)
There should be plenty of 'home' support tonight for the unbeaten Notice, who was bom nearby and is now one of Terry Lawless's stable. But in his first defence of the Commonwealth title he faces a real giant in the 6' 5", 16 1/2stone Zimbabwe challenger. This evening's Ron Gray promotion is organised in association with Barrett/Duff.
Commentator HARRY CARPENTER
Rowing's Perfect Pair
Few sportsmen in the world can match the feats of Steve Redgrave and Andy Holmes , who won Olympic gold in Britain's coxed four in 1984, and this summer added Commonwealth and World titles for good measure.
GERALD SINSTADT reports on the mental and physical effort that has produced British rowing's most successful pairing.
Plus a look ahead to the Sports Review of the Year, and some of the candidates for this year's Sports Personality title, for whom you can vote by using the coupon on the opposite page. Television presentation:
Snooker NICK HUNTER
Boxing BOB DUNCAN
Producer CHARLES BALcmN
Editor JOHN ROWLINSON