with Jeremy Paxman and Sally Jones
Including the Faces of 87 - Breakfast Time looks back at the year's headline-makers.
Weather followed by Neighbours
Simon Parkin - starting with:
Laurel and Hardy: The Stone Age Kid
(R)
The gang take their wigs for an airing on the Mersey Ferry and hang on to their bows for a trip on a lifeboat.
BBC North West
(R)
with Simon Parkin
(R)
Story: "The Princess and the Pea"
with Joanna Lumley (R)
Weather followed by The Littlest Hobo
Photo Finish (R)
It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown (R)
Weather followed by Montreux Rock
Festival 1987
First of three programmes. An opportunity to see some of the highlights of this year's Montreux Rock Festival, featuring
Simply Red, Paul Young
Depeche Mode, Kim Wilde and many more. (R)
with Michael Buerk
Weather JOHN KETTLEY
Shane and Tom have to carry out an unpleasant task. A new family arrives in the street.
starring Robert Ryan
Chuck Connors and Nanette Newman In this spectacular adventure inspired by the work of JULES VERNE , six victims of a shipwreck are rescued by the futuristic submarine
Nautilus and taken to the mysterious underwater city of Templemar - a self-sufficient community created by Captain Nemo. Refused permission to leave, the guests attempt to escape from the underwater paradise.
Screenplay by pip AND JANE BAKER and R. WRIGHT CAMPBELL
Produced by BERTRAM OSTRER Directed by JAMES HILL
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Andy Crane - starting with:
A Paddington Special: Paddington Goes to School
by Michael Bond
(R)
The last of a 13-part serial by VALERIE GEORGESON from a story by MARGARET STUART BARRY
The great day has arrived! Everyone waits with bated breath as the curtain goes up on The Sleeping Beauty.
Designer DAVID LASKEY
Producer ANGELA BEECHING Director DAVID BELL
A feature originally made for the cinema by the Children's Film Foundation. The Glitterball has arrived unexpectedly from outer space. It has extraordinary powers and causes a lot of problems for young Max and his friend Pete when they discover that other people want to steal it.
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Today: Piker's Peak Swing School
Designs on Jerry Producer
DAVID PLATT
with Philip Hayton and Debbie Thrower
Weather MICHAEL FISH
Tonight it's the HOOFERS against the DOOFERS, as two teams of Britain's top TV critics and columnists join Noel Edmonds for a special edition of the small screen quiz.
Will the Press impress? Tune in to find out....
Director ANNETTE MARTIN Producer TIM MANNING
Executive producer JOHN KING BBC Pebble Mill
by Bill Lyons.
"Screw Willmott, screw this poxy pub and screw Walford."
(Ceefax subtitles)
Presented by David Frost with Norris McWhirter
More potential achievers of perfection are inducted into 'the most exclusive club in the world' whose existing members include
Paul McCartney ,
Sir Edmund Hillary , Katharine Hepburn , Sir Donald Bradman and Billie Jean King. David Frost also introduces other accomplishments, both serious and light-hearted, that have found their way into the record books. The programme includes a tribute to Elvis Presley with special guest Simon Bowman , plus American rock star
Luis Cardenas with his 75-piece 'status cymbal', the world's largest drum kit. Musical director
RONNIE HAZLEHURST
Script editor FRED METCALF Designer vie MEREDITH Director MICHAEL LEGGO Producer ALAN RUSSELL
• CEEFAX SUBTITLES
with Michael Buerk and Debbie Thrower Regional News Weather
The two first ladies of the New York Police Department. Starring
Greed
Luck 'n' Bucks is the most popular game show on television, its ever-smiling host a household name. But there's something rotten in the state of this contest and, in the fruitiest undercover job of their careers, Christine and Mary Beth are invited to 'come on down'...
Written by DOUGLAS STEINBERG Directed by NESSA HYAMS
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES
1987 was the year of Zeebrugge.... Irangate.... Terry Waite. ...
Mikhail Gorbachev. ...Gulf War.... Hungerford ... General Election....Sri Lanka.... King's Cross...Branson's balloons.... AIDS....Enniskillen.... Jeffrey Archer.... Parkinson's return....
Two Davids.... Summit.... Crash of 87 ... Hurricane....
South Korea.... Fred Astaire ...Lester Piggott. ... Van Gogh. ... Philippines....Gary Hart.... South Africa....Windsor jewels... Child abuse.... Abortion Bill....
starring
Natalie Wood
Warren Beatty
Deanie Loomis is in love with Bud Stamper , high school football hero and the most desirable boy in town. Her mother is shocked by the strength of Deanie's passion; nice girls, she says, don't feel 'that way'. Bud's father insists on him going to Yale before any marriage, and the young lovers find the strain on their relationship unbearable.
Playwright William Inge won an Oscar for this tale of young love and parental misunderstanding set in a small Kansas town in the mid-20s.
Written by WILLIAM INGE Directed by ELIA KAZAN
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