6.45 Maths: Shrinking Polygons
7.10 Emperor Augustus: Portrait and Image
7.35 The Origins of State Social Work
8.00 Engineering: Crates and Ale

When There Was Someone Else
Told by Richard Briers Written by GRANGE CAVELEY Animation BOB GODFREY (R)

The family of monsters that live in Loch Ness
Elspeth and Angus Meet the Loch Ness Monster (R)

By the Book
With their toys in storage while the nursery is being painted, the Babies turn to the classics and are soon singing and dancing their way through The Wizard of Oz, Robin Hood and Peter Pan.
Created for TV by JIM HENSON (R)

starring
Andrew O'Connor Bernie Nolan
Kate Copstick Terry Randall
The Flashing Blade suffers an attack of the Killer Frogs and at the Wirral Good Friends, Sabrina has a terrible dark secret, while
Terry is suffering from pangs of love. Or is it heartburn? Director GRAEME HARPER Producer STEVE HAGGARD
Series producer MARTIN HUGHES Editor EDWARD PUGH BBC North West

BERNARD DAVEY

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1.00 News Summary

with Moira Stuart Weather

The search is on to find the First Class of 1988. Debbie Greenwood asks the questions on pop, feature films and videos, and goes down to the arcade for some very competitive athletics! Tonight PLESSINGTON HIGH SCHOOL from Birkenhead challenge TRING SCHOOL from Hertfordshire.
Designer DUGALD FINDLAY Director JUSTIN c. ADAMS
Series producer CHARLES NAIRN Producer ANNE SOMERS

starring
Gregory Peck David Niven
Anthony Quinn Stanley Baker
Anthony Quayle
Buried deep in the solid rock of a cliff and impregnable to assault by plane or ship, the German guns on the Greek island of Navarone must be destroyed if the lives of 2,000 British soldiers are to be saved. A crack team of commandos is assembled for this perilous mission, each with a special and deadly talent. An all-star cast features in this exciting screen version of Alistair MacLean 's Second World War adventure.
Written and produced by CARL FOREMAN
Directed by J. LEE THOMSON
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starring Bob Monkhouse who introduces six more new-to-network TV acts, and reveals the winner from last week's show. Remember, you are the starmaker! Programme consultant HUGHIE GREEN
Script editor COLIN EDMONDS Script associate JOHN JUNKIN Additional script and research GAVIN OSBON
Musical director JOHN COLEMAN Staging DI COOKE
Sound HUGH BARKER
Lighting DICKIE HIGHAM
Designer VICTOR MEREDITH Production STEWART MORRIS

with Moira Stuart
Weather

starring George Segal Susan Saint James Jack Warden
'I'm Jewish, my son is black and my lawyer smokes pot! Don't tell me I'm not in trouble!' George Segal plays Walter Whitney who, at the age of 39, has everything going for him - a beautiful house, a Rolls Royce, a top executive job and membership at an exclusive golf club. Until the day that Roger Porter , a black teenager, walks into his office with an amazing claim ... Denzel Washington , Oscar nominee for his performance as Steve Biko in Cry Freedom, stars as Roger, Walter's secret past.
Screenplay by STANLEY SHAPIRO Produced by CARTER DEHAVEN and STANLEY SHAPIRO
Directed by MICHAEL SCHULTZ
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Introduced by Sally Jones
Tonight the early games from the Conference semi-finals. Eight teams now remain in the race to become 1988 NBA champions with these series being the best of seven.
Television presentation WTBS/CBS
Executive producer DEREK BRANDON Producer MIKE WILMOT
A CHEERLEADER production for BBCtv

First of two programmes
American singer/songwriter John Denver , whose gentle, evocative compositions have made him an international star for nearly two decades, recorded this television special at the National Exhibition Centre,
Birmingham. Annie's Song and Wild Montana Skies feature in his repertoire. Producer JOHN G SMITH BBC Pebble Mill (R)
(Programme 2 Thursday 11.00pm)

starring James Garner in Local Man Eaten by Newspaper
When Jim is asked to find out who burgled a top
Hollywood doctor's office, his investigations lead him to a local muck-raking scandal sheet with a link to an underworld king-pin.
Written by JUANITA BARTLETT
Directed by META ROSENBERG (R)