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in Indian Signs
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. (Answers to your comments 11.00am)

Weather followed by Neighbours

Robert Kilroy-Silk discusses the issues you are talking about. For studio audience details, ring [number removed]from 9.00am to 6.00pm.
Directors LINDA NASH. ANN MORLEY Producers DI BURGESS
SUE NIX . HARVEY WOOLFE
Deputy editor JOHN GETGOOD
Editor DAVID W1CKHAM

Weather followed by The Flintstones
Fred El Terrifico
Fred adopts the matador look for a holiday in Rockapulco, but rather than hearing the cries of 'Toro! Toro!' it's a case of 'Trouble! Trouble!' A HANNA BARBERA production (R)

Andy Crane with programme news and birthday greetings followed by Play School
Presenter Carol Chell
Guest Mike Amatt
Story: Sam the Super Builder by CHARLES WHALEY
Illustrated by CLAIRE STANLEY (R) and Willo the Wisp Boring Old Edna (R)

with Gary Watson

Weather followed by Open Air with Pattie Coldwell and Eamonn Holmes
Phone them on [number removed]Producers LIZBARRON. PAULCOLBERT TONY HARRISON. RACHEL PURNELL GEOFF WILSON. SUE WOODWARD
Deputy editor maggie SUTCLIFFE Editor PETER weil BBC North West

Weather followed by Daytime Live with Pamela Armstrong Alan Titchmarsh and Ross Davidson Fifty minutes of entertainment live at lunchtime. Join regular guest Rabbi Lionel Blue for more advice in Blue Notes.

with Michael Buerk
Weather IAN MCCASKILL

Debra plots her revenge against Shane. Zoe comes home from hospital.
This week's cast:
Written by PETER CONNAH
REG WATSON. CHRISTINE SCHOFIELD ROGER MOULTON. CHRISTINE STANTON Directed by PAUL MOLONEY , ANDREW FRIEDMAN

Hosted by Henry Kelly Eight contestants have already won through to the semi-finals. This week, seven new competitors pit their wits to find who will join them later this month. One will win today's challenge and the other six will return tomorrow to try again.
Series executive DAVE ROSS Director ANNIE LEWIS
Executive producer BILL MASON A REG GRUNCY production in association with BBCtv

Written by Don Mullally.
starring Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside, with Don Galloway as Det Sgt Ed Brown Officer, Barbara Anderson as Eve Whitfield and Don Mitchell as Mark Sanger.
Guest star Ivan Dixon as Charles 'Bat' Masterson.

A professional footballer puts his reputation and job on the line to save his brother from prison. (R)

Peter Hudson and David Halls go home to New Zealand to begin their
Christmas celebrations with a party on a friend's boat.
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: Jimbo and the Whale
(R)

Last in the Series
Floella Benjamin
With Ben, Daniel, Jane, Leah, Natalie, Robert and children from Holy Trinity Primary School
Story: "Lost in Town" by Peter Bonnici
Illustrations by Lisa Kopper
Storytellers Perminderpal Gill, Brian Jameson

starring Roland Rat Superstar with Bob Todd as the Fiddler
Ratman is seen robbing a bank. Has our rodent superhero turned to a life of crime? Pink Bucketman plans to clear Ratman's name.
Written by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH and DAVID CLARIDGE
Producer OLIVER MACFARLANE Director PETER LESLIE

Wicket decides to restore an old war wagon once used to defeat the Duloks.

A 13-part serial by VALERIE GEORGESON from a story by MARGARET STUART BARRY 7: Who is the mysterious fortune-teller at Lady
Fox-Custard's jumble sale?
'George' supplied by ADS AGENCY
Designer DAVID LASKEY
Producer ANGELA BEECHING Director DAVID BELL

with Mark Curry, Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding

Presented by Angela Rippon This is the last week for teams to win medals and go forward to qualify for the final stages and the chance to become Masterteam 87. Assistant producer JAN BINNIE GORDON
Executive producer DAVE ROSS Directors
JOHN M. A. LANE. MARK SAXE Producer PETER FITTON

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 for conversation and entertainment live from the Television Theatre.

Coming to a television set near you -
The world's tallest man ... The inside of Derek Jameson 's brain ... The true story of the First World War ...
The world's first underwater audience....
The life story of Kim Wilde ... All this and more in the wild and wacky Kenny Everett Television Show ...
Don't miss it! Written by BARRY CRYER , JOHN LANGDON
ANDREW MARSHALL , DAVID RENWICK PAUL MINETT and BRIAN LEVESON Music by MIKE MORAN Sound SCOTT TALBOTT and LAURIE TAYLOR
Lighting director BILL MILLAR Director KEVIN BISHOP Producer PAUL CIANI
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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 Noel's contestants in Whatever Next Sound ALAN MACHIN
Lighting ALAN JEFFREY Designer JOHN STOUT
Producer MICHAEL HURLL

with Martyn Lewis and Debbie Thrower
Regional News; Weather

Tracy [text removed] was threatened with prison, quite illegally, if she didn't pay a credit-card debt of a few hundred pounds. Feeling there was nowhere to turn, she planned an overdose. Tracy's case shows how dangerous consumer credit can be. But is this hazard to our health as individuals now becoming a threat to the wellbeing of the nation?
As the Christmas spending spree reaches its frenzied peak, Richard Lindley reports on a borrowing boom that's left the average British household burdened with a mountain of debt as high as 80 per cent of its income.
Producer SARAH MANWARING WHITE Editor TIM GARDAM

by John Le Carre, dramatised by Arthur Hopcraft
Starring Peter Egan, Ray McAnally, Alan Howard, Rudiger Weigang, Jane Booker and Peggy Ashcroft
Fifth of seven episodes

'We are aiming for the very top, Sir Magnus. One day, America! Land of the free! Two men such as ourselves can live out our lives as spies without ever having spied on the Americans? It cannot be!'
(Shown last Wednesday on BBC2)
(Ceefax subtitles)

from Manchester
The Guinness Soccer Six
The first of three nights of exciting indoor action from the G-Mex Centre, where the top first-division clubs are competing for E170,000 in prize money.
Tonight Manchester United, Luton, Wimbledon, Watford, Newcastle United and the holders, Oxford United, play a series of 15-minute matches to decide which one of them joins the seeded clubs in Wednesday's finals.
Introduced by STEVE RIDER
Commentators JOHN MOTSON and TONY GUBBA
TV presentation JOHN SHREWSBURY and MARTIN WEBSTER

A compilation of items from the recent series Micro Live. Robots (R) (e)
For programme notes send A4 sae enclosing PO or cheque for 75p to: [address removed]