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Sarah Greene ,
Phillip Schofield and Peter Simon introduce your Saturday morning entertainment. Starting with Paddington's
Birthday Bonanza
Narrated by Michael Hordern
by Brian Cant
Join the Going Live! gang for a very special Boxing Day programme. There are star guests, live music, competitions, treasure hunts, pen pals, jokes, video voters, and cartoons too.
Editor CHRIS BELLINGER
IAN MCCASKILL
Good grief! An action-packed feature film starring the entire Peanuts gang and their adventures at Camp Remote, where they brave the bullies and attempt to win the contest for 'top tent' in the hairiest, scariest river race you've ever seen!
(First showing on British television)
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starring
Steve McQueen James Garner
Richard Attenborough Charles Bronson In an attempt to contain unwilling
POWs, the Nazis brought them together in Stalag Luft North, a seemingly escape-proof top security camp run by the Germans during
World War II. Unwittingly they had assembled the finest escape team in military history. Adventure and excitement abound in this film, with its all-star cast headed by Steve McQueen.
Screenplay by JAMES CLAVELL and . w R. BURNETT
Based on the book by PAUL BRICKHILL
Produced and directed by JOHN STURGES
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It's champions all, as the Telly Addicts family of 1987 plays the Telly Addicts family of 1986 in a special holiday edition of Britain's favourite television quiz. Noel Edmonds puts the questions - but will the contestants have the answers?
BBC Pebble Mill
Introduced by Harry Gration All the headline-makers and day's results.
with Philip Hayton Weather
Starring Les Dawson
Tonight Les is in a festive mood, so watch out as he showers the contestants with more fabulous prizes. Joining Les tonight in a Dickensian mood are Lynda Baron,
Joe Brown, Geoff Capes, Lorraine Chase, Roy Hudd, Wendy Richard
Produced in association with Mark Goodson and Talbot TV Ltd
(Ceefax subtitles)
starring Bob Monkhouse
This year four contestants, all working within the health service, compete for prizes and cash to be donated to their hospital. On offer as always is the chance for one of them to win themselves a fabulous holiday. Game devised by TERRY MARDELL and DAVID MOORE Programme associates
COLIN EDMONDS , JOHN JUNKIN Lighting BILL MILLAR Sound JOHN DELANY Designer jo DAY
Series producer JOHN BISHOP Produced and directed by GEOFF MILES
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In a special programme for the festive season Paul Daniels takes a magical trip back into childhood, re-creates one of his funniest routines, and attempts to saw a horse in half! He also introduces: from
Argentina the famous sleight-of-hand artist Rene Lavand; from France the spellbinding puppets of Philippe Genty; and from Korea the unusual climbing skills of The Brave Seamen.
Featuring Debbie McGee
(Ceefax Subtitles)
by Rod Beacham
Series created by Robert Banks Stewart
starring John Nettles with Terence Alexander, Sean Arnold, Louise Jameson
Guest stars Liza Goddard, Peter Jeffrey, James Maxwell
Murder and a series of apparently unrelated robberies bring Jim Bergerac face to face with his old adversary, Philippa Vale, with unforeseen consequences for them both.
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from the BBC Newsroom
Philip Hayton with the latest pictures, stories and events from Britain and around the world. Weather
A Hercule Poirot murder mystery.
Tonight starring Peter Ustinov
'Everyone has the alibi, so you see nobody did it. And yet we still have a body.' (Poirot)
On a spectacular island in the Adriatic, a group of the wealthy (and not so wealthy) gather to drink, relax and bitch in a luxury hotel. It becomes clear that all are connected with one of the guests and for one of them the connection is a deadly one....
(First showing on British television)
(Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express' New Year's Eve at 8.45pm)
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starring
Michael Redgrave Googie Withers
Acknowledged as a masterpiece of British cinema, this five-part film includes the famous 'ventriloquist' sequence among its stories of comedy, murder, horror and the unknown. Architect
Walter Craig goes to the home of a new client, but finds the house and its inhabitants strangely familiar. Each of the guests has a story to tell and gradually Craig realises that he is living a recurring nightmare....
Screenplay by JOHN V. BAINES and ANGUS MACPHAIL
Produced by MICHAEL BALCON Directed by CAVALCANTI CHARLKS CRICHTON , BASIL DEARDEN and ROBERT HAMER
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