followed by The Flintstones
Kleptomaniac Caper (R)

with Frank Bough Sally Magnusson and Jeremy Paxman with the latest sports news and comment from Bob Wilson
National and international news and analysis on the hour and half hour.
Weather forecasts from Francis Wilson at 7.25, 7.55 and 8.25
Regional news and travel updates at 7.15, 7.45 and 8.15

The consumer show with your interests at heart. Whatever concerns you, Lynn Faulds Wood and John Stapleton will be on hand to investigate the problems you send them. Hotline - [number removed]
Deputy editor STEVE PHELPS Editor NICK HAYES

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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 future programmes ring [number removed]

Margo MacDonald with a few special Christmas messages.

Phillip Schofield with programme news and your birthday greetings.

Presenter Floella Benjamin Guest Fred Harris Story:
Grotty and the Housework by CATHERINE GAVIN

with the voices of Kenneth Williams
(R)

with Geoffrey Wheeler

A quiz with a difference hosted by Chris Kelly before an invited audience.
Drinks expert Jill Goolden and food writer and cookery presenter Michael Smith against
Crafty cook Michael Barry and actor and wine writer Oz Clarke

Eamonn Holmes and Pattie Coldwell with 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]including at

The second semi-final as Paul Coia asks the remaining teams to play Domesday Detectives.
All you wanted to know about Britain in the 80s is contained on two laser discs and the teams compete to win this treasure trove of information.

with Martyn Lewis

Weather Michael Fish

Shane suspects
Nick Burman 's intentions. Max tangles with the police. Written by ALAN COLEMAN Directed by COLIN BUDDS

with Don Spencer
Hey Mum I've got energy to burn
Show me something I should learn
(R)

Starring Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell

Northern Italy 1943. Even when a POW transit camp is taken over by the Nazis, sisters of a nearby convent continue to smuggle children to safety. But the new Commandant refuses to be beaten and orders an example made...
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Phillip Schofield - starting with Scragtag and His
Tea-time Telly
Scragtag makes some new friends when he pays a Christmas visit to a hospital and is delighted to find a telly in the ward that gets TTV!
There are more funnies with The Wummies and a special festive edition of Computicals! Scragtag's assistant Marcus Kimber Anita's voice
ROSELLA LONGINOTTI Music by MICHAEL OMER Director IAN STUBBS Producer ROY MILAN1 Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE

(R)

Told by Tony Robinson

On the way home Odysseus loses his clothes but finds some friends.

Created and written by Bob Block

Emotion circuits run high when Robots 35 and 20 become a galactic Romeo and Juliet, when Miss Appleby visits the Renaissance, and when Dinwiddy Snurdle activates his homing device!

with Janet Ellis, Peter Duncan, Mark Curry and Caron Keating

Sight Saver SOS! It's still not too late to organise your own Bring and Buy Sale to help save the sight of thousands of babies, children and adults in Malawi.
Get a grown-up you know to write off today for your Bring and Buy Sale kit from: Blue Peter Sight Saver Appeal [address removed].
Good luck and thank you!
(Ceefax subtitles)

Presented by Angela Rippon Tonight's nail-biting semi-final is the last chance for a team to win a place in tomorrow's final. Director PETER FITTON
Programme associate ROSALIND GOLD Producer DAVE ROSS

with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell Weather JOHN KETTLEY

Presenting hits and videos from the Top 40
Introduced by Mike Smith Sound MICHAEL MCCARTHY Lighting RON BRISTOW
Produced and directed by STANLEY APPEL

by Billy Hamon.
'You're just an old romantic at heart, aren't you, Charlie?'
(Ceefax Subtitles)

with Judith Hann, Peter Macann, Maggie Philbin, Howard Stableford and mystery guest celebrities.

It's green, seems to be designed to fit on to something, there's a metal strip at one end, a metal loop at the other. So what is it? And what's the little illuminated box? Or the shiny funnel with a lens?
Join in as our audience try to choose between conflicting explanations - and find out if truth can be stranger than fiction.

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Emlyn Hughes and Bill Beaumont captain two teams of sporting celebrities. Their guests this week include snooker's world No 1, Steve Davis ; the European and Commonwealth 400m gold medallist Roger Black ; the England hockey star from the recent World Cup final, striker Sean Kerly ; and the British Lions and Scotland captain Colin Deans.
David Coleman questions their knowledge of the faces, facts and feats in sport. Director JOHN TAIT
Producer MIKE ADLEY BBC Manchester
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Nicholas Witchell and Andrew Harvey present the day's news with BBC teams at home and abroad. Regional News Weather

The programme which enables the viewer to solve and prevent crime.
With Nick Ross and Sue Cook Since 1984 more than 120 elderly women have been conned out of their pension books. From Colchester to Bristol to Coventry, two women have been posing as DHSS officials on doorsteps and at hospital bedsides. They have cashed over E20,000 from the stolen pensions and left their victims frightened and disturbed. Viewers from across the country might help find the pension pinchers and there's advice for all old people on how to be safe from confidence tricksters, bogus callers and doorstep thieves.
From a single haul in Tayside a spectacular Aladdin's Cave - up to a million pounds worth of property - if you've been burgled look out for your treasured heirloom.
And in the last edition of the year, a look back at the major cases which are still open but viewers might still solve. If you can help, call Crimewatch on [number removed]anytime from
9.25 until midnight.
Studio director PIETER MORPURGO Producer SAM ORGAN Editor PETER CHAFER
(Crimewatch Update at 11.30 pm)

Caged C.J. faces more than the loss of her reputation when a car crash leaves her with amnesia - she falls into the clutches of a police force who use the local women's prison as a front for a high-class bordello....
Written by WILLIAM T. CONWAY Directed by CUFF BOLE

Developments and reminders from the Crimewatch team.

Last in the series starring
Together Again for the First Time
Written by COLEMAN MITCHELL and GEOFFREY NEIGHER
Directed by TONY MORDENTE (R)