start your day with news, sport, weather and travel available to all viewers.
in Duck Soup
An RKO film
with Frank Bough Sally Magnusson Jeremy Paxman
Eamonn Holmes invites you to phone him on [number removed]with your views on the weekend's television. Natalie Anglesey and Mike Shaft are the reporters. Producers
LIZ BARRON. PAUL COLBERT
TONY HARRISON. RACHEL PURNELL GEOFF WILSON SUE WOODWARD
Deputy editor MAGGIE SUTCLIFFE Editor PETER WEIL BBC North West
(Answers to your comments 11.00am)
Weather followed by Neighbours
Robert Kilroy-Silk discusses the issues you are talking about with an informed studio audience.
Directors LINDA NASH. ANN MORLEY Producers DI BURGESS. SUE NIX HARVEY WOOLFE
Deputy editor JOHN GETGOOD Editor DAVID WICKHAM
Weather followed by The Flintstones Once upon a Coward
A HANNA BARBERA production (R)
Andy Crane with programme news and birthday greetings followed by Play School
Presenter Ben Thomas Guest Janet Palmer
Story: The Blind Men and the Elephant by J. G. SAXE (R) and Pinny's House by PETER FIRMIN
Pinny and the Honey Bees Music by AR LOG
Directed and animated by OLIVER POSTGATE (R)
with Barry Foster
Weather followed by Open Air
Pattie Coldwell and Eamonn Holmes open the airwaves to viewers and try to persuade the programme-makers to answer your queries.
Phone them on [number removed]
Weather followed by Daytime Live with Pamela Armstrong Alan Titchmarsh Ross Davidson and Judi Spiers
The lunchtime magazine live from Pebble Mill
Today, more advice in Blue
Notes with Rabbi Lionel Blue. BBC Pebble Mill
with Michael Buerk
Weather JOHN KETTLEY
Bradley and Lucy get 'engaged'. Jim hears a startling revelation.
(For cast see page 75. Shown again tomorrow at 9.00am)
Hosted by Henry Kelly
Seven contestants from all over Europe fly in to London today to compete in this general knowledge quiz programme. One will win today's challenge and the other six return tomorrow to try again.
The first hurdle is the Teaser Round, where the first four contestants to answer correctly continue the run to be today's winner on Going for Gold.
Series co-ordinator ANDREA CONWAY Director ANNIE LEWIS
Executive producer BILL MASON A REG GRUNDY production in association with BBCtv
Written by Robert van Scoyk, Sy Salkowitz.
Starring Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside.
A blind girl is in deadly danger when a murderer believes she was an eye-witness to his crime. (R)
More of the special style and humour of Peter Hudson and favourite cooks serve up more of their own recipes.
Special guest Timothy West A BBCtv production in association with FRIDAY PRODUCTIONS LTD Produced and directed by ALAN WALSH
BBC North West
Andy Crane - starting with:
Jimbo and the Jet Set: Winter Wonderland
(R)
Floella Benjamin
With Antonica, Ben, Erin, Harry and Katrina
Story: "Village Fair" by Peter Bonnici
Illustrations by Lisa Kopper
Storytellers Perminderpal Gill, Brian Jameson
starring Roland Rat Superstar and Alexei Sayle as Fatman in The Lollipop Lady Caper
London's lollipop ladies are disappearing and children can't get to school. Ratman is called to lick the problem but does he bite off more than he can chew?
Mring-Mring, the wingless Gupin, learns that his homeland is in great danger because a magic key has broken - the key to a chest containing the energy that protects the Gupins from their enemies, the Grass Trekkers.
A 13-part serial by VALERIE GEORGESON from a story by MARGARET STUART BARRY
3: After only one day at school, the Witch decides to play truant. She thinks up a song for the European Song Contest. Meanwhile, Jimmy has a lot of bad luck.
'George' supplied by ADS AGENCY
Designer DAVID LASKEY
Producer ANGELA BEECHING Director DAVID BELL
(Part 4 tomorrow at 4. 15pm)
with Mark Curry, Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding
Back Pages: 110
Presented by Angela Rippon Over halfway through the competition, there are three gold and three silver medal-winning teams on the leader board - all hoping to qualify for the finals of Masterteam 87 in December.
with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell
Weather BERNARD DAVEY
John Stapleton
Lucy Meacock and Steve Clark bring you all tonight's headlines from London and the south east, and the interviews that will make tomorrow's talking points.
Plus all the day's sport from Michael Wale
Editor RACHEL ATTWELL
Join Terry and his guests.
starring Noel Edmonds
Presented with an unusual situation, can you foresee the outcome? Shown a picture of a person, can you see into their personality? Pit your wits against the contestants in tonight's Whatever Next.... Sound ALAN MACHIN
Lighting ALAN JEFFREY Designer JOHN STOUT
Producer MICHAEL HURLL
with Martyn Lewis and Debbie Thrower
Regional News; Weather
The Storm beyond the Crash What will be the fallout from the Great Crash in the stock markets this autumn? Does it signal a historic decline in America's status as economic superpower? How vulnerable is Britain to the consequences? Will Hutton reports on the crisis in confidence that stretches across America and the bitter mood towards Europe and Japan. As
America licks its wounds, will it propel the world into a slump?
Producer PETER MOLLOY Editor TIM GARDAM
by JOHN LE CARRE dramatised in seven episodes by ARTHUR HOPCRAFT
3: 'In the refugee camps you'll find Hungarians,
Poles, Czechs, Romanians, Yugoslavs. Babes in arms, grandmothers, rapists, thieves - and, of course, the odd spy here and there.
Which is why you'll be doing the rounds of the camps,
Magnus - to sort out the wheat from the chaff.'
Music composed by MICHAEL STOREY Producer COUN ROGERS Director PETER SMITH
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Presented by Barry Norman Cry Freedom - Richard Attenborough 's moving tribute to black activist Steve Biko (Denzel Washington) and reporter Donald Woods (Kevin Kline ). Inner Space takes miniaturisation effects to new limits in this comedy starring Dennis Quaid and Martin Short. The Kitchen
Toto, a first feature by Harry Hook, is set in Kenya in 1949 at the time of the struggle for independence.
Director DOMINIC BRIGSTOCKE Producer BRUCE THOMPSON
The Tennents United Kingdom Championship
Two more quarter-final places to be decided tonight - and if the play goes along with seedings, DENNIS TAYLOR and NEAL FOULDS ought to go through. Complications though provided by WILLIE THORNE and TONY MEO.
Introduced by DAVID VINE