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in Lord Epping Returns 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

with Robert Kilroy-Silk
Directors LINDA NASH. ANN MORLEY
Producers DI BURGESS
SUE NIX . HARVEY WOOLFE
Deputy editor JOHN GETGOOD
Editor DAVID WICKHAM

Weather followed by The Flintstones
Flintstone and the Lion
A HANNA-BARBERA production (R)

Andy Crane with programme news and birthday greetings followed by Play School
Presenter Floella Benjamin Guest Fred Harris
Story: Mr Rabbit and the Lovely Present by CHARLOTTE ZOLOTOW
Pictures by MAURICE SENDAK (R) and Willo the Wisp Wugged Wocks (R)

with Jan Harvey

Weather followed by Open Air with Pattie Coldwell and Eamonn Holmes

Weather followed by Daytime Live with Pamela Armstrong Alan Titchmarsh and Ross Davidson
Today advice in Blue Notes with Rabbi Lionel Blue.

with Michael Buerk Weather BILL GILES

Jean's secret is revealed. Nikki goes to her mother.
(For cast see page 63. Shown again tomorrow at 9.00am)

Hosted by Henry Kelly Which country will win through this week to join
England, Scotland, Sweden, Austria, Denmark, Northern Ireland and Wales in the first set of semi-finals next week?

starring Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside
Trip to
Hashbury Ed Brown is accused of police brutality after a teenage girl dies from a beating while he is investigating a hippy drug den. Who is the real assailant? Ironside tries to get the truth from hostile teenagers.

Peter and David invite friends to their Auckland home for a festive Christmas dinner - New Zealand style. A BBCtv production in association with FRIDAY PRODUCTIONS LTD Produced and directed by ALAN WALSH
BBC North West

Andy Crane starting with:

Laurel and Hardy: To Bee or Not to Bee
(R)

by BARRY MURRAY starring Paul Daniels Did You Know?
Thinking caps on for this one. You will learn more about magic in the next ten minutes than you have learned in the last ten years. Directed by PHIL BISHOP (R)

starring Roland Rat Superstar
Ratman and the Chief of Police are disgraced as the Princess Svetlana of Madagascar's pearls are stolen from right under their noses. Kiltman steps into
Ratman's tights to find out who is responsible.
Written by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH and DAVID CLARIDGE
Producer OLIVER MACFARLANE Director PETER LESLIE

Searching for an antidote which will stop the growth of a giant vine, Kneesaa meets the Ketes, the Tromes and the Bobber Birds.

A 13-part serial by VALERIE GEORGESON from a story by MARGARET STUART BARRY
9: Spooky things occur as the Hallowe'en party approaches.
'George' supplied by ADS AGENCY
Designer DAVID LASKEY
Producer ANGELA BEECHING Director DAVID BELL
(Part 10 tomorrow at 4. 15pm)

with Mark Curry, Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding

Emperor's Warriors!
Mark comes face-to-face with soldiers from the strangest 'army' in existence - the 2,000-year-old terracotta warriors from China. Some of these priceless 7,500 soldiers and horses have travelled to Britain for a historic exhibition in London.
Discover more and how you can enter a competition to win a mini warrior and be a VIP guest at the exhibition!
Back pages: 102

Presented by Angela Rippon Having fought off tough competition from over 60 teams, tonight's find themselves playing in the second of the quarter-finals.

Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell with the latest pictures, stories and events of the day from Britain and around the world.
Weather IAN MCCASKILL

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

With extracts from the first major production in Britain for over 30 years of RODGERS and HAMMERSTEIN'S South
Pacific. Joining Terry tonight are Nellie Forbush and Bloody Mary, otherwise known as Gemma Craven and Bertice Reading.

starring
Trouble in Paradise
Things look like boiling over when Larry's plans for a romantic dinner with Jennifer go awry and Balki suggests a solution - Myposian cuisine!
Written by MARK FINK Directed by JOEL ZWICK

Can Donny Osmond really be in tonight's show?
Why is Christopher Timothy playing a vet again?
What torture awaits Lionel Blair this week?
What is Harry Fowler doing in a pub with Kenny?
What a twist! What fun! What wackiness! What a show! Written by BARRY CRYER. JOHN LANGDON
ANDREW MARSHALL. DAVID RENWICK PAUL MINETT and BRIAN LEVESON Music by MIKE MORAN
Choreographer JEFF THACKER Visual effects designer KEVIN MOLLOY
Costume designer PIP BRYCE Makeup designer
CHRISTOPHER GREENWOOD Director KEVIN BISHOP Producer PAUL CIANI
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starring Noel Edmonds
Can you beat the challengers in predicting the outcome of unusual situations and are you a good judge of character? If so you'll love Whatever Next ... Sound ALAN MACHIN
Lighting ALAN JEFFREY Designer JOHN STOUT
Producer MICHAEL HURLL

with Martyn Lewis and Debbie Thrower
Regional News; Weather

The Troubled Madonna of the Philippines
Twenty one months ago,
Cory Aquino was swept to victory on a wave of 'People Power', a modern day
Madonna who had delivered the Philippines from the excesses of the Marcos dictatorship.
Today, President Aquino is struggling for her survival. Gavin Hewitt has spoken to Cory Aquino about the pressures she is under, and to ex-President Marcos who is in exile in Honolulu plotting his return.
Producer PETER BELL Editor TIM GARDAM

by JOHN LE CARRE Dramatised by ARTHUR HOPCRAFT
The sixth of seven episodes starring Peter Egan Ray McAnally Alan Howard
Rudiger Weigang Jane Booker and Peggy Ashcroft
'I am doing what I should have done 30 years ago, to Jack and Rick and all the mothers and fathers, for stealing my life off my plate, driving me into a lifetime's betrayal. We betray to be loyal. Betrayal is like imagining when the reality isn't good enough. Betrayal as hope and compensation. Betrayal as love. You were my promised land, Poppy. You gave my lies a reason.'
Music composed by MICHAEL STOREY Producer COLIN ROGERS Director PETER SMITH
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Presented by Barry Norman Masters of the Universe is a fantasy adventure on the classic theme of good versus evil. The film is based on a cartoon series, which in turn is based on a toy!
PHIL COLLINS deserts his drum kit to team up with JULIE WALTERS in Buster, based on the life of Great Train
Robber, Buster Edwards. Film 87 spent a day on the location.
Director ARCHIE BARON
Producer BRUCE THOMPSON

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