in Pardon My Wrench
An RKO film

with John Stapleton and Kirsty Wark
Reports from Mark Easton
Bill Neely , Caroline Righton Gail Foley , James Cox and Anita Findlay
National and international news and analysis on the hour and half hour. Winter Olympics 88 - all the latest from Calgary including speed skating and ice dancing.

8.55 Regional News and Weather

Weather followed by Open Air
Eamonn Holmes with a special extended early edition

Weather followed by Going for Gold

Andy Crane with programme news and birthday greetings followed by Play School
Ben introduces his own pet - a dog called Jock - and there's a film about a horse called Hercules.
Presenters Ben Thomas Carol Chell
Story: Hercules (R) and The Wombles by ELISABETH BERESFORD
Told by Bernard Cribbins (R)

with David King and his dog Brock

Weather followed by Open Air with Pattie Coldwell and Eamonn Holmes Ring [number removed]or write to: Open Air,
PO Box 27, Oxford Road, Manchester M60 1SJ

Weather followed by Olympic Report
The XV Olympic Winter Games
Highlights of the original set pattern in the ice-dance championship, which may decide who succeeds Torvill and Dean as Olympic champions.
Also today, the women's
500m speed skating event in which East Germany's KARIN KANIA , in her final Olympics, was trying to add to her tally of three gold and two silver medals.
Plus, how the final ice-hockey group tables looked after the completion of the first round.
Television presentation CTV

with Michael Buerk
Weather MICHAEL FISH

Edna gets a shock when she files for divorce.
(For cast see page 47. Shown again at 5.35pm)

Hosted by Henry Kelly
With six contestants left, who is going to be today's winner? The first four to win must 'beat the buzzer'.

starring
Second Chances
Gary learns the secret of Cathy's past. Mack gets too close to the Wolfbridge
Group, so they take steps to silence him.
Written by JOEL FEIGENBAUM Directed by BILL DUKE

starring with Doc Day Afternoon
It's a bad day for Valerie - the roof needs repairing and there's a death in the family. Written by UNDA MARSH and MARGIE PETERS Directed by ASAAD KELADA (R)

Is fashion Down Under all swinging corks and bikini bottoms? Jeff Banks and Caryn Franklin celebrate the arrival of the first sheep in Australia 200 years ago. Bruce Oldfield and Jean Muir represent the UK in a major fashion show featuring wool collections by the world's leading designers. There's a visit to a sheep station, a Merino stud and yes ... there's swimwear too!
Producer CLARE STRIDE
Series producer ROGER CASSTLES BBC Pebble Mill

Andy Crane - starting with:

Henry's Cat: The Competition
(R)

A See-Saw programme
with Johnny Ball
(R)

(R)

by Natalie Babbitt
Told for Jackanory by Michael Maloney

(R)

with Terry Nutkins Nick Davies and Chris Packham
It's competition time! Who can grip like an orang-utan?
Or swing like a gibbon?
Or drink like a butterfly?
Or shoot like an archer fish?
The Really Wild Show audience!
There are games for feet, hands, eyes and even tongues and the chance to meet the weirdest animal in Britain!
Producers PAUL APPLEBY ALASTAIR FOTHERGILL BBC Bristol

A series of 20 programmes Episode 15 by BARRY PURCHESE
Ziggy and Robbie set out to get their revenge on Mauler and Vince becomes the hero of the hour. Ronnie has a very bad experience indeed. This week's cast:
Devised by PHIL REDMOND Designer COLIN BLAYMIRES
Costume designer JACKY LEVY Make-up designer LISA WESTCOTT
Producer RONALD SMEDLEY Director ALBERT BARBER
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with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell Weather IAN MCCASKILL

London Plus, Spotlight Points West, Look East Look North, South Today
North West Tonight Midlands Today

with Frank Bough
The Italians simply love a trier. A little word here and there opens doors and broadens smiles. So, Frank decides a BBC course in Italian will help him see the country from a slightly different angle. He starts his four-part lesson in Rimini. Kathy Tayler goes further afield to Pluto - not the Planet, the cartoon character. She is joined by all the other larger-than-life stars of Florida's Disneyworld.
And meet the unlikely lads, Scott, Paul and Ozzie: three Liverpudlian teenagers who take a break from standing in the Jobcentre, to see if they can have a holiday on their dole money.
Series producer PATRICIA HOULIHAN
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by Charlie Humphreys.
"You two, you've got to see Pat. Get it sorted for once and for all."
Feature: page 9
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Questionmaster David Coleman is joined by captains Bill Beaumont and Emlyn Hughes and their teams of top sporting celebrities.
Director MICK DEMPSEY Producer MIKE ADLEY BBC Manchester
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Oasis
Narrated by David Attenborough
An oasis is a 'desert island', an island of fertile irrigated land in a vast sea of desert. At its heart a spring of ancient water bubbles from the sands of the Sahara, making life possible for men and animals alike. Some animals are permanent castaways at the oasis - the highly venomous homed viper, energetic marsh frogs, the rare and delightful desert sparrow.
Others, like the tribesmen with their flocks of goats and camels travel many miles to seek out the precious water. In spring and autumn millions of migrant birds pause to feed and rest in the shade of palm trees. Photography MIKE HERD Film editor ALAN HOIDA Producer DILYS BREESE
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with Martyn Lewis and Debbie Thrower
Regional News; Weather

by DAVID MARTIN starring
'For my last guests tonight....' With these words, chat show host Michael Flynn introduces Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne. Jack and Jimmy were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border. Since that almost fatal moment their lives have become inextricably mixed. Michael wants a sob story with a happy ending. What he gets is something else entirely.
CameramanJOHN MERRYFIELD Scene man HUNTER GALBRAITH Designer David MCKENZIE
Executive producer BILL BRYDEN
Produced by NORMAN MCCANDLISH Directed by CHRISTOPHER BAKER BBC Scotland
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Presented by Anna Ford with Craig Charles
One year after the BBC and ITV launched their AIDS health campaign the new series of Network begins with some of the controversies raised by the past year's
AIDS programming. Has TV increased our awareness of AIDS enough? How should broadcasters portray sexual relationships in the AIDS era? Should 'safer sex' information be more explicit? Just some of the issues viewers and broadcasters will be discussing in the Network studio following a film made by SIMON WATNEY , who works in AIDS health education.
Studio director NIGEL FINNIS
Executive producer JEREMY GIBSON Producer ROBIN GUTCH
If you want to use Network, write to 'Network,' "BBCtv Centre, London
W12 8QT or leave a message any time on [number removed].