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A Star is Almost Born (R)
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National and international news summaries on the hour and half hour
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Every day this week they'll be investigating all your Problems
Deputy editor STEVE PHELPS Editor NICK HAYES
If you have something you want investigated write to Watchdog.
BBCtv, Lime Grove. London W12 7RJ or ring the Watchdog hotline on [number removed]
Join Robert Kilroy-Silk , his studio audience and guests as they discuss a subject that touches your life.
Presented by Isobel Ward A magazine programme about disabled people, their families and carers.
Producer CHRISTOPHER HUTCMNS
Phillip Schofield with programme news and your birthday greetings.
Presenter Kate Copstick Guest Fred Harris
Story: Knit One, Purl One by SUSAN EAMES (R)
by Peter Firmin
Pinny and Victor are taken into the kitchen and when they fall into Jo's salad they find a friend.
Read by Matilda Thorpe
with Diana Quick
with Susan Hampshire and Geoff Hamilton
A practical guide to the care of house plants
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Bob Wellings
Pattie Coldwell and Eamonn Holmes with your chance to talk back to the programme makers with your comments and gripes on last night's TV. Open Air help line: [number removed]including at:
12.0 News and Weather
Paul Coia presents the programme and asks teams from all over the country, 'Name a town in England with an explanation after its name?' 'What is the British electoral system called?' and 'Which classic horse race is run in Doncaster?'
The answers to these questions and many more can be found on the amazing Domesday discs. All you wanted to know about Britain in the 80s is contained on two laser discs and teams compete to win this treasure trove of information. Director MAY MILLER
Producer PHILIP CHILVERS
with Martyn Lewis
Weather JOHN KETTLEY
Tensions rise in the Ramsay household and Max makes an important decision. This week's cast:
Written by CHRISTINE MCCOURT Directed by MANDY SMITH
A See-Saw programme. (R)
Selina Scott looks at the best in party dressing from the High Street to hire shops, and also by royal wedding dress designer Lindka Cierach
Jeff Banks chooses some last minute gifts for those in a hurry to leave the country and Jane Lomas examines the precarious business of fashion design.
Producer ROGER CASSTLES BBC Pebble Mill
by Cyril Abraham
Starring Peter Gilmore, Anne Stallybrass
and Brian Rawlinson, Philip Bond, Howard Lang, Jessica Benton
James sails to Portugal, and is able to bargain for possession of the first square-rigged clipper. White sails billow against blue sky as he sails for South America. (R)
The Wrong Stuff
The Hogans are visited by Colonel Skip Franklin - the man who taught Michael to fly and saved his life. The boys are impressed by the Colonel's colourful language and stories but Valerie isn't, especially when Willie adopts his bad manners, bad language and general obnoxiousness.
Teleplay by CHIP AND DOUG KEYES Story by ERIC COHEN
Directed by PETER BALDWIN
Phillip Schofield - starting with:
Pie in the Sky
Holidays are in the air today when the Pieman and Piewife return from the seaside to find the Piepilot waiting for the last songpie before his holiday.
by BARRY MURRAY starring Paul Daniels The Wobblers (2)
The Wobblers are giving all the Puzzleopolians a big problem. Wizbit solves the situation with the help of an Ogle Box.
Directed by PHIL BISHOP
At the fort of the Black Eagle Mendoza was held to blame for the attack by the Spanish soldiers. He was about to be shot when the three children arrived and saved his life, but Esteban demanded the return of the gold piece Mendoza took from his precious medallion...
by VALERIE GEORGESON from a story by JOAN EADINGTON
Mam and Dad have now revealed that Marilyn is expecting a baby, and Jonny is thrilled to learn he'll be an uncle. But what is Mr Badger going to say to him?
Fizzy supplied by PAULINE CUFT Designer RICHARD DUPRE
Producer ANGELA BEECHING Director CHRISTINE SECOMBE
Top Cats!
Nine prize pussies line up for today's contest. Which will be awarded the Supreme Champion's silver cup?
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Presented by Angela Rippon The MUGWUMPS from
Lancashire are waiting to make a bid to become Masterteam of 1986.
with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell Weather IAN MCCASKILL
John Stapleton
Linda Mitchell and Caroline Righton bring you all tonight's headlines from London and the south east. Plus all the day's sport with MICHAEL WALE Editor JANE DRABBLE
Life on the haunted fish tank continues as ever, live from the Terryvision theatre.
Once again Dave Lee Travis introduces some famous hit records from the past, helped by various film makers who were asked to present the images that these great old songs evoked for them. This is what they saw. Producer JOHN KING BBC Pebble Mill
High Speed - Low Level
How do you find a small dam in a remote Welsh valley when flying across country at 250 feet and 500mph? What happens if the cabin pressure fails in a BAC 1-11 airliner at 37,000 feet? How does a twinengined Andover transport handle when an engine fails on take-off? What is a helicopter's 'avoid curve' and why is it normally forbidden to find out?
The multi-national students of the Empire Test Pilots' School find the answers in their quest to become military test pilots.
Narrator Andrew Faulds Film editor COLIN JONES Producer BRIAN JOHNSON
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by RICHARD OMMANNEY
Both Sam and Daphne move into the basement. This does not bode well for a life of domestic bliss - an unexpected visitor highlights the problems.
Producer DAVID ASKEY
Director MANDIE FLETCHER (R)
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Julia Somerville and Andrew Harvey present the day's news with BBC teams at home and abroad. Regional News Weather
A weekly window on life in Britain and around the world through the eyes of television's top reporters: Fred Emery , Gavin Hewitt Richard Lindley
Tom Mangold , John Penycate John Ware , Robin Denselow and Robert Harris Editor DAVID DICKINSON
starring
James Caan Alan Arkin Loretta Swit
Valerie Harper Freebie and his constant companion the Bean are two tough, big-city cops, whose methods are decidedly unconventional.
Working on a case against a syndicate boss, they discover that there is a contract on him. In order to bring him to trial they must first keep him alive. Fights, chases, collisions and mayhem follow as the two zany policemen try to protect the guilty man.
Screenplay by ROBERT KAUFMAN Produced and directed by RICHARD RUSH
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