followed by The Flintstones Trouble-in-Law (R)

with Frank Bough
Sally Magnusson and Jeremy Paxman Reports from
Penny Bustin, James Cox Margaret Gilmore Peter Marshall
Guy Michelmore and Michael Stewart

Can you feed a family of four on E20 food budget a week? With the season of goodwill and over indulgence closing in fast Lynn Faulds Wood and John Stapleton find out what sort of Christmas lunch you can expect on the Welfare State.

Got something to say?
Then say it on Day to Day. Join Robert Kilroy-Silk , his studio audience and guests as they discuss a topic that touches your life.
To take part in the studio audience of a future programme ring [number removed]

With Christmas in the air, what help is on offer to people who are elderly or housebound and living alone? Margo MacDonald introduces this week's topic: Fighting Isolation. (e)

Phillip Schofield with programme news and your birthday greetings.

'Everything in the King's collection is different. But what he wants, and what he doesn't have, is a collection of pleasant sounds ...'
Presenter FloeUa Benjamin Guest Mike Amatt
Story: The King's Collection by RUTH CRAFT
Illustrated by ELISA TRIMBY

With the voices of Kenneth Williams
(R)

with Geoffrey Wheeler

Did you know that boiling water can burn a toddler's skin like acid? They certainly know at the burns unit of the Birmingham Accident Hospital, where nearly half of last year's 500 admissions were children under the age of 5. 'Something simple like a scald,' in the words of a consultant at the unit,
'inevitably leaves a scar.' Yet for victims past and present, much is being done to ease the pain of treatment and the stigma of injury. Producer DAVID NELSON

invites you to give your views on the TV programmes you like - and the ones you don't! The Open Air number is [number removed]
Deputy editor CYRIL GATES Editor PETER WEIL BBC Manchester including at

The last day of the quarter-finals as Paul Coia asks the teams to play Domesday Detectives.
The answers to his questions can be found on the amazing Domesday laser discs, and the teams compete to win this treasure trove of information.

with Martyn Lewis
Weather MICHAEL FISH

Max moves into a bedsitter.
Mrs Forbes forgets to pass on some vital information.

A See-Saw programme
(R)

starring
Dorothy McGuire Guy Madison
Robert Mitchum Cliff Harper , a discharged GI, returns to his home town after spending four years with the Marines in the Pacific.
Disillusioned and aimless, he drifts into a relationship with the widow of a flyer whose love and understanding help him readjust to civilian life.
Screenplay by ALLEN RIVKIN
Based on the novel They Dream of Home byNIVEN BUSCH
Produced by DORE SCHARY
Directed by EDWARD DMYTRYK
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Phillip Schofield - starting with Scragtag and His Tea-time Telly with special guests The
Chucklehounds Scragtag 's in a panic because his chest of drawers has been sold with all his bits and pieces in it. Don't worry though, he and Tim are hot on its trail and they won't give up searching until they've found it. Find out where the trail leads them and what new friends they make on the way. Tune in! Scragtag's assistant Marcus Kimber
Music by MICHAEL OMER Production ROY MILANI Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE

(R)

by Valerie Georgeson from a story by Joan Eadington

Rita and Mavis still haven't moved the bike, and no-one's quite sure whether Dad has heard about the plans for the anniversary party.
(For cast see page 48)

(R)

with Roy Castle, Fiona Kennedy and Julian Farino

Will the world record of 121 skips over a single rope by 90 people take a turn for the better, and will another type of jumping record go to the dogs? Find out in this action-packed last programme of the series.

by Barry Purchese
A series of 24 programmes

Examination time at Grange Hill brings special problems for Zammo and Fay. Ant has chosen his options, but Mr Bronson has other ideas.

This week's cast: [see below]
(R) (Ceefax subtitles)

Presented by Angela Rippon The fourth quarter-final is played tonight - the last chance to win through to the semi-finals. The tension builds for the competing teams of THE GOOD GUESSERS from Hull and the BRANDYWELL PRIDE from Northern Ireland.

with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell Weather JOHN KETTLEY

A nine-round contest to decide the overall champions as this year's
Telly Addicts challenge the PAIN FAMILY, champions of 1985. Noel Edmonds poses the questions in this battle of the giants.
Director ANNETTE MARTIN Producer TIM MANNING
Executive producer JOHN KING BBC Pebble Mill

by Tony McHale.
"I find it very hard to work, Barry, when my flat suddenly seems to resemble a cross between a disco and a fairy grotto."
(Ceefax Subtitles)

Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Starring Tony Hancock and featuring Sidney James
with John Le Mesurier (R)

During the long march of progress (or was it June?) the invention of the wheel proved to be of great benefit to man and womankind. Just how far it's rolled since then can be seen in tonight's programme, which is devoted almost exclusively to transport.
Tom and his regular team of CHRIS EMMETT.
CAROLINE GRUBER. JEFF STEVENSON and MICK WALKER are joined by guest Adrian Walsh (if his bus arrives on time) in a lighthearted look at the merits of timetables and trains, boats and planes.
Why is it that buses always arrive in threes? Why do train platform announcements sound like frying porters' hats? Why is an aircraft named after an elephant (if they can't fly)? Fancy calling your pet elephant Concorde! Script associate BARRY FAULKNER Sound supervisor DAVID THOMPSON Lighting director ALAN HORNE Set designer MARTIN METHVEN Production RICK GARDNER

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

with Barry Norman
The programme that keeps you in touch with the world of cinema.
Heartbreak Ridge:
Clint Eastwood stars as a tough gunnery sergeant who trains marines, but whose domestic life is in disarray. Marsha Mason plays his ex-wife, and Clint Eastwood directs. And as 1986 comes to a close, a preview of some of the major releases for the New Year.
Director JANE PROWSE ProducerJANE LUSH

presented by William Woollard
Last May saw the launch of the competition to find the best company suggestion schemes.
There will be five winners and a top prize of a holiday for two in America.
Tonight, in this final programme of the series, the entries from companies as small as 115 workers, up to the giants that employ a quarter of a million, are judged. Will the Davids triumph over the Goliaths? Researcher KAREN EDWARDS Director JULIAN STENHOUSE Producer BRYN BROOKS (e)