with Frank Bough Sally Magnusson and Jeremy Paxman

with Margo MacDonald
Today's topic: cheap holidays for pensioners - plus the Pleasures of the local leisure centre for the over-50s.
Produced by JEREMY ORLEBAR
Series producer TONY MATTHEWS (e)

(R)

(R)

Presented by Chris, Daniel, Liz, Kate, Rhys, Andrea and Emma - the Cardiff gang!
Kate has a day in bed whilst the gang play tug o' war without a rope, make tomato surprise without tomato, and say goodbye, without Kate!

Andy Crane with programme news and your birthday greetings.

Presenters Wayne Jackman and Elizabeth Watts
Story: The Monster Hunt by IAN AND WENDY NEWSHAM

(R)

with Joanna Lumley

with Loretta Swit as Ellen Shanklin
The Cartwrights are held hostage at the Ponderosa by men for whom the Civil War never ended ...
Written by WILLIAM KELLEY Directed by LEO PENN (R) (For other cast see page 55)

Fish Anonymous
12.0 News and Weather

with Eamonn Holmes and Pattie Coldwell

with Martyn Lewis
Weather Bernard Davey

Jim gives Max false hopes about the future.
(For cast see page 55. Shown again tomorrow at 10.5 am)

by Peter Firmin
(R)

with Brian Cant. (R)

Second of atwo-part story The Tent Dwellers
Heavily criticised for his mischievous attempt to help a friend, Joe finds an unexpected defender in Sister Benjamin and resolves to repay his daughter's love in the only way he knows. (R) (For cast see page 55)

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Presented by Jimmy Savile Think Bike
The last of nine programmes which show how many serious child accidents are preventable.
Director JULIA DRUM
Producer PETER RIDING (R) (e)
For free booklet send your name and address on a postcard to: Play it Safe!, [address removed]

Andy Crane - starting with:

Lay on Five
with Floella Benjamin and Robin Stevens
Floella learns a dance routine at Lee Bank School and sings with the children from Myatt Garden. There's more music when Fribble makes a pop star puppet, and even the studio cameras get in on the act, when they decide to show Floella a trick or two.
(R)

by Eric Hill
Told by Paul Nicholas

A 20-part serial by VALERIE GEORGESON from a story by JOAN EADINGTON
6: Rita and Mavis are looking after something for their film-director boyfriends,
Alexander and Bruneveldt.... but how long will Mam put up with it?
(For cast see page 56) (R)

(R)

with Janet Ellis, Mark Curry, Caron Keating
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Robbie Vincent and Angharad Mair present the family health challenge. This week you can match yourself against the ROBINSON FAMILY from Greenock and take a look at the other side of school dinners.
Producer DAVID WILLIAMS
Series producer DAVID CORDINGLEY (e)

with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell

Weather John Kettley

by Tony McHale.
'It never gets to the stage where "it's been one of those years". The axe falls long before then'.
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with Howard Stableford Judith Hann Peter Macann and Maggie Philbin , bringing you the new and fantastic from the world of science. This week: the remarkable
British telescope, 4,000 metres up a Hawaiian mountain, which opens up a totally new window on the universe. Producers
DANA PURVIS. VIV KING
CYNTHIA PAGE. MARTIN MORTIMORE Studio director STUART MCDONALD Editor RICHARD REISZ

Emlyn Hughes and Bill Beaumont captain two teams of sporting celebrities. Their guests this week are: from soccer, the Everton and England midfield player
Peter Reid ; from athletics, the European indoor 400m gold medallist Todd Bennett ; from ski-ing, Britain's downhill star Martin Bell and from Rugby Union, the Irish fullback Hugo MacNeill. Questionmaster David Coleman tests their knowledge of the faces, facts and feats, reviving memories of the greatest - and funniest - moments in sport.
Also the last in a series of questions in a week by week sporting challenge for viewers.
Director JOHN TAIT
Producer MIKE ADLEY BBC Manchester
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Martyn Lewis and Philip Hayton present the day's news with BBC teams at home and abroad Regional News Weather

The programme which enables the viewer to help solve and prevent crime. With Nick Ross and Sue Cook
Viewers across the country have rung in with information which has helped solve some of the nations most serious crimes.
Tonight police need your help again to find thieves who took dangerous firearms from a gun shop in the Midlands. In Hertfordshire, treasured watercolours were taken from a housewife by armed robbers posing as telephone engineers.
And in south London, a private detective was brutally murdered after a drink in a pub. He worked all over the country; someone must know his killer.
Nick Ross and Sue Cook , along with detectives from around the country, are waiting for your call to the Crimewatch studio. Police officers David Hatcher and Helen Phelps report from the Incident Desk. If you can help, call Crimewatch UK on [number removed]anytime from
9.30 pm until midnight.
Studio director pieter MORPURGO Producer PETER GRIMSDALE Editor PETER CHAFER
Details on Ceefax page 186
(Crimewatch Update is at 11.30pm)

When a popular racing commentator is found in a deep coma, there are only two explanations. Either a deadly rival has slipped an undetectable narcotic into his hoover bag, or someone else has.
Starring Victoria Wood with Julie Walters and Celia Imrie
Duncan Preston , Susie Blake also ANNE REID. DORA BRYAN
NICKY CROYDON, SIMON GREEN
GERARD KELLY
MICHAEL NIGHTINGALE
MEG JOHNSON. DAVID ADAMS
LIZ D'ESTERE
Written by victoria WOOD
Musical director DAVID FIRMAN Produced and directed by GEOFF POSNER

Victoria Wood casts a comic glance at the world with the help of Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston and Susie Blake.

starring
Stolen
A desperate woman's plea to find her stolen baby leads
Houston into the murky and vicious world of black-market adoption.
Written by MARGIE GORDON Directed by CLIFF BOLE

Developments and reminders from the Crimewatch team.

To California this week to ask the question: 'Do Americans live on just steaks and hamburgers?' No! Heart attack deaths have gone down in the United States by over a third and one of the big factors has been the changes that have taken place in their national diet.
Former Wimbledon champion Stan Smith talks about the changes he's made in the food he eats.
Tony Lewis investigates why the British diet contributes so much to the United
Kingdom's high rate of heart disease and Delia Smith shows us the foods we should be trying to eat less of. And Anton Mosimann , head chef of London's Dorchester Hotel, shows us the healthy food that his customers pay nearly £40-a-head for.
Photography TOM FRISWELL
Film editor RICHARD TRA YLER SMITH Director TONY MCAVOY Producer BARRY LYNCH BBC Wales
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