with Jeremy Paxman, Sally Jones

A Hanna Barbera production
(R)

Weather followed by Neighbours

with Simon Parkin starting with:

Laurel and Hardy: Whing-a-Ding
(R)

Witches' blood, banana monsters and grisly hands are among the vital ingredients for an expedition to a cave full of monsters.

(R)

with Simon Parkin

(R)

Story: "Surprise for the King" by Mike Rosen and Ann Reay

with Joanna Lumley

Weather followed by The Littlest Hobo
Wolf Hunt (R)

An animated special All is not well in Wormingham as the town prepares for a masquerade ball. Bert Worm is forced to pose as a prince and escort the nasty Wormaline Wiggler.
Written and directed by RUSS HARRIS and JERRY REYNOLDS

Weather followed by Montreux Rock Festival 1987
An opportunity to see some of the highlights of this year's Montreux Rock Festival - featuring performances by Genesis, a-ha, Cameo,
Smokey Robinson , Mel and Kim,
Pretenders and many more
Lighting director WARWICK FIELDING Production manager NELL BANKS Researcher MARY O'CONNELL Producer and director MICHAEL HURLL
A SSR production in association with BBCtv

with Philip Hayton
Weather IAN MCCASKILL

Des and Daphne's homecoming isn't all they might have expected. Shane's desperation about his plight may force him to do something stupid.

Concludes a season of films in the afternoon on BBC1 during the Christmas holiday. Starring Jon Voight Faye Dunaway Ricky Schroder
Franco Zeffirelli 's deeply moving film features Jon Voight as 'The Champ', an ex-boxer on the skids through gambling and drink who is nonetheless idolised by his son TJ. But 'The Champ's' ex-wife, now remarried and living in style, makes a strong bid to reclaim her child. An intensively emotional 'tug of love' develops over TJ, who is winningly played by Ricky Schroder in this up-dated version of the 1931 classic.
Screenplay by WALTER NEWMAN Produced by DYSON LOVELL
Directed by FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI
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Andy Crane - starting with:

A Paddington Special: Paddington Goes to the Movies
by Michael Bond
(R)

The last in this set of stories
(R)

Thanks to a clever trick by Rigodon and Tico, the princess is saved. Willy Fog and his friends escape on an elephant, but the warriors give chase.

with Mark Curry, Caron Keating, Yvette Fielding and Janet Ellis
Don't miss the Blue Peter highlights of 1987 - when Mark rode a robot cow and fought in the American War of Independence. Caron was soaked under a Welsh waterfall, drenched on an air-sea rescue exercise in Scotland and dunked in the Irish Sea, swimming with Dorade the dolphin. And Yvette starred in the Moscow State Circus and spoke to the Cosmonauts aboard the Soviet Space Station.
Catch up with these and many more magic moments and look ahead to 1988.
(Ceefax subtitles)

Today:
A Haul in One
The Bee-Devilled Bruin Give and Tyke Producer
DAVID PLATT

with Philip Hayton Weather BILL GILES

looks back to last February when the programme celebrated its 200th edition with HRHThe Princess Royal joining Emlyn Hughes and Bill Beaumont.
They teamed up with the man who came close to becoming the World Formula One Motor Racing Champion, Nigel Mansell , the Scotland and British Lions fly-half, John Rutherford, and the European 100m gold medallist, Linford Christie. David Coleman questioned their knowledge of the faces, facts and feats, reviving memories of the greatest and the funniest moments in sport. Director JOHN tait
Producer MIKE ADLEY BBC North West (R)
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by Jane Hollowood.
"Fill it up Den, I feel like living dangerously."
(For cast see page 110)
(Ceefax subtitles)

A Hercule Poirot murder mystery starring
The sumptuous luxury of the world's most famous train makes a fitting setting for an investigation by Belgium's equally famous son. The
Orient Express is forced to make an unscheduled night stop. Most passengers sleep on, but for one it is the sleep from which no-one returns. Screenplay by PAUL DEHN
Produced by JOHN BRABOURNE and RICHARD GOODWIN
Directed by SIDNEY LUMET
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with Philip Hayton
Regional News; Weather

by CHRISTOPHER BOND
The Wedding
Designer DACRE PUNT
Producer GARETH GWENLAN (R)

by Jane Hollowood.
"It won't be quite the same when I'm not living here. I mean I'll come back, but it won't be the same."
(Ceefax subtitles)

A greeting from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie

Millionaire playboy
C.K. Dexter-Haven is determined to win back his beautiful ex-wife on the eve of her second marriage.
The film features nine superb COLE PORTER songs, with Bing singing True Love to Grace Kelly , Now You Has Love by Louis Armstrong and Well Did You Evah with Sinatra.
Screenplay by JOHN PATRICK , based on The Philadelphia Story by PHILIP BARRY
Produced by SOL C. SIEGEL
Directed by CHARLES WALTERS
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