Sarah Greene and Phillip Schofield introduce a bumper package of Saturday morning entertainment.
Starting with Corners

Laughs and larks with the Chuckle Brothers. Today Paul and Barry investigate the history of dance. There's also Billy Butler's Armchair Theatre and magic from Simon Lovell.
BBC North West (R)

The Best Friend I Never Had Created for television by JIM HENSON

with Sarah Greene and Phillip Schofield.
This morning's live band is The Christians with their latest single When The Fingers Point. Wildlife expert Jessica Holm reports from a country show featuring a host of rare and unusual animals. Revealing some of the secrets of Queen Victoria's personal life through her diaries is handwriting expert Diane Simpson.
Also going live this morning, the man in charge of Radio 1, Johnny Beerling and DJ
Mike Smith. They'll be in the hot seat facing your questions for the Going Live Press Conference - you can call them on [number removed]. Peter Simon hosts another outrageous edition of the Double Dare quiz.

BILL GILES

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with Debbie Thrower Weather

Today featuring Tom and Jerry in That's My Pup and two cartoon classics The Counterfeit Cat and The Mouse That Jack Built. Producer DAVID PLATT

It's England v Scotland tonight as the MCSKIMMING family from Paisley take on the SALMONS of St Albans.
Noel Edmonds serves up this feast of television, old and new, and you can bet it's 'clips with everything'! Director ANNETTE MARTIN Producer TIM MANNING
Executive producer JOHN KING BBC Pebble Mill

by JEREMY LLOYD and DAVID CROIT
In order to get the airmen back to Blighty, Rene and co disguise themselves as roadworkers, but as usual it all ends in a right 'nause-up'.
Directed by DAVID CROFT and ROBIN CARR (R)
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starring Bob Monkhouse More exciting prizes to be won on television's bingo quiz show as four hopeful contestants compete for the chance of a dream holiday by winning the final round. Game devised by TERRY MARDELL and DAVID MOORE Programme associates
COLIN EDMONDS. JOHN JUNKIN Sound LEN SHOREY
Designer DONAL WOODS
Series producer JOHN BISHOP Produced and directed by GEOFF MILES
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Starring Russ Abbot
Special guest star Les Dennis
featuring Bella Emberg
and Maggie Moone, Tom Bright, Suzy Aitchison, Paul Shearer

The series continues with more great comedy from Russ and his supporting team. Not everything goes right when recording these shows - it certainly didn't at the Hotel du Lac which is run by no less an eccentric than Cooperman.
Frankenstein creates a monster and becomes confused as to which brain he has used, and it's back to nappies for Russ, Les, Bella and Maggie as they create havoc in their playpen.
The show also features the latest remake of the Thriller video - is it Michael Jackson or his sister Janet?
Written by GARY CLAPPERTON, SIMON KRISTOPHER, PAUL MINETT and BRIAN LEVESON Additional material JOHN LANGDON, ERIC T. SEARLE
Script associates BARRY CRYER and JOHN LANGDON
Musical director ALYN AINSWORTH
Choreographer TUDOR DAVIES
Sound supervisor MIKE FELTON
Lighting director ERIC WALLIS
Designers MARTIN METHVEN and GARRY FREEMAN
Produced and directed by JOHN BISHOP
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by Paul Unwin and Jeremy Brock
A 15-part series

'I'm not letting it rest. When I catch him he's going to wish he'd never been born.'
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Debbie Thrower; Weather

Starring Robert Mitchum, Wilford Brimley

Before turning in his badge, Detective Red Haines must transfer habitual safecracker and boyhood friend, John Thompson from Levenworth to Huntsville prison. But Thompson escapes with the help of a mysterious woman, and Haines is accused of helping him. Now the detective must prove his innocence.

(First showing on British television)
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Conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.
Also appearing Carol Cleveland, Rita Davies.
(R)

Starring Don Johnson as Sonny Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo Tubbs
with Phanie Napoli as Angelyno, John Leguizamo as Calderone

The word on the street is that Ricardo Tubbs has a price on his head - but there are two buyers. Tubbs is about to make the painful discovery that some fathers may never be known, while others are never forgotten...

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starring
Donald Pleasence
Norman Rossington and Christopher Lee
Someone or something is stalking the subterranean shadows of the London Underground. Something with a taste for commuters - raw!
So leave your car at home, have your tickets ready, and mind the doors ...
Screenplay by CERI JONES
Produced by PAUL MASLANSKY Directed by GARY SHERMAN
(First showing on British televison)
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