Peter Simon introduces a bumper package of Saturday morning entertainment. Starting with Bananaman
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Eric is just another schoolboy - but when danger calls a few mouthfuls of his special bananas and Eric is Bananaman.
With the voices of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden Jill Shilling
Written by BERNIE KAY Music by DAVE COOKE
Produced and directed by TERRY WARD (R)
8.25am Corners
Presented by Sophie Aldred Stephen Johnson with Jo Koma
Why is Comers called Comers?
Why do humming tops hum? Why do twins look alike? Designer PAUL SUDLOW
Producer ALISON STEWART (R) Questions to Comers, BBCtv, London W128QT
8.40am Eggs 'n' Baker
The second in a series of six pop and cookery programmes with Cheryl Baker. Today her guest is Steven Dante whose first hit single I'm Too Scared was in the charts in July. Cheryl shows us what Dutch children have for breakfast and makes some very unusual kinds of sandwiches.
Director JOHN NORTHOVER
Producer MADELINE WILTSHIRE BBC North West
9.00am Going Live! with Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene
Featuring Double Dare! with Mr Bronson and Miss Booth from Grange Hill, Video Vote, A Cutest Kitten Competition, Erasure, Liveline, Helen Daniels from Neighbours. Double cartoon action with The Raccoons and Thundercats, Trevor and Simon on two wheels, Fanfact File, Jane Goldman's fashion tips, competitions, pen pals, pop music ... all this and a man who can talk backwards, Going Live! on a TV set near you!
Editor CHRIS BELUNGER

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1.00pm News Summary

with Moira Stuart ; Weather

Return of the Hero
The new doctor arrives in Coopers Crossing and he's got a lot to learn about the Outback. A war hero returns to the town but he doesn't remain a hero for long when the locals discover he is suffering from AIDS - and ignorance and prejudice rule.
Written by TONY MORPHETT Directed by MARK CALLAN
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starring Noel Edmonds special guest star Spike Milligan also featuring
Phillip Schofield Lisa Maxwell
Clarence and Joy Pickles
Howdy pardners! Dang ma britches and whop ma hide if we ain't off on the root'n'est toot'n'est roadshow that ever hit the trail. So saddle up, you pesky varmints, and ride a spell with us, our phone games, our special guests and our 'Wait Till I Get You
Home' kinfolk as we head out west.... and we don't mean Penzance. Yee-haw! (We've run out of cowboy slang now) Script associate MARTIN BOOTH Sound DAVID THOMPSON Lighting ERIC WALLIS
Designer MARTIN METHVEN Produced and directed by MICHAEL LEGGO

starring Bob Monkhouse More exciting prizes to be won on television's bingo quiz show as four hopeful contestants compete for the chance of a dream holiday. Game devised by TERRY MARDELL and DAVID MOORE Programme associates
COLIN EDMONDS , JOHN JUNKIN Lighting FRED WRIGHT Sound JOHN DELANY Designer DACRE PUNT Director BILL MORTON
Produced by GEOFF MILES
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starring Russ Abbot special guest star Les Dennis featuring Bella Emberg and Maggie Moone Tom Bright
Suzy Aitchison Paul Shearer
Russ is in charge of the sound effects in a radio studio for what he thinks is a recording of a war play. The actors arrive and Russ finds that he is in for a terrible shock. Two cowboys reminisce about the old days and Noel Coward , fresh from his steam cabinet, stars in his latest epic Return to Zenda. Written by COLIN BOSTOCK SMITH BARRY CRYER. PAUL MINETT and BRIAN LEVESON. PETER VINCENT DICK VOSBURGH
Additional material TOM BRIGHT RICHARD EADIE. DAVID JOSE MICK SHIRLEY
Script associates PETER VINCENT and BARRY CRYER
Musical director ALYN AINSWORTH Choreographer TUDOR DAVIES
Sound supervisor LAURIE TAYLOR Lighting director BILL MILLAR
Designers ANDREW HOWE DAVIES and JOHN ANDERSON
Produced and directed by JOHN BISHOP
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based on the books by JAMES HERRIOT
A Present from Dublin by ANTHONY STEVEN starring
Calum welcomes the new arrivals - one that bites and one that fits Siegfried's cooking and cleaning requirements ...
Music composed by JOHNNY PEARSON
Designer NIGEL CURZON Producer BILL SELLARS
Director JEREMY SUMMERS
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Moira Stuart presents the day's news with BBC teams at home and abroad. Weather

starring
George C. Scott
Rebecca De Momay
Ian McShane Paris 1899. The quiet of the still, misty night is pierced by a series of blood-curdling screams coming from the direction of an old building on the corner of the Rue Morgue. Inside is a scene of gory devastation and a disturbing enigma for Inspector August Dupin, France's finest detective. Who - or what - is responsible and how did the killer escape from a room locked from the inside?
Thus begins a chilling story from Edgar Allan Poe.
Screenplay by DAVID EPSTEIN Produced by ROBERT HALMI
Directed by JEANNOT SZWARC
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from Wembley Arena featuring the Everest Double Glazing Grand Prix
Only the top horses and riders throughout the week are qualified to compete for the E5,000 first prize in this, the climax of the show jumping, won last year by Michael Whitaker with Next Warren Point. The Pony Club will have their own celebrations as the Prince Philip Cup is presented to the new champions in the mounted games.
All the champions will join together for the traditional closing of the show, the Cavalcade and the singing of Auld Lang Syne.
Introduced by DAVID VINE Commentators
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD and STEPHEN HADLEY Producers
WENDY SHEPPARD. HUW JONES

starring
Harry Hamlin
Joseph Bottoms Dennis Hopper
By day Steve, Buddy and Roger try to make it in the cut-throat world of rock 'n' roll on LA's Sunset Strip.
But by night there's a different Los Angeles - one of cruising Corvettes, neon sidewalks and a daredevil lOOmph race down the dark, nightmare twists of Mulholland Drive to see who can be King of the Mountain.
Screenplay by H. R. CHRISTIAN
Produced by JACK FROST SANDERS Directed by NOEL NOSSECK
(First showing on British television)
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