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in Birthday Blues
An RKO film

with Kirsty Wark and Jeremy Paxman.

Weather followed by Open Air
Eamonn Holmes and Natalie Anglesey take your questions and comments about the weekend's television. Ring them on [number removed].

Robert Kilroy-Silk with lively and topical discussion.

Weather followed by The Pink Panther Show
(R)

Andy Crane - starting with Playbus which stops today at The Why Bird Stop where the bus driver helps Why to get her tree ready for Christmas.
Stories: The Shooting Star by SONYA A DANN.
Father Christmas Loses His Beard by WAYNE JACKMAN. Driver Brian Jameson
Puppeteer
FIONA BEYNON BROWN Title music RICHARD BROWN Title design PAUL JOHNSON Designer TONY LAWRENCE Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
Director CLARE BRADLEY Producer PENNY LLOYD
A FELGATE production for BBCtv
10.50am Paddington Paddington Cleans Up by MICHAEL BOND narrated by Michael Hordem.
Music by HERBERT CHAPPELL Animated and directed by IVOR WOOD (R)

with Judi Dench

Weather followed by Open Air with Eamonn Holmes , Pattie Coldwell and Natalie Anglesey

Weather followed by Daytime Live with Sue Cook ,
Alan Titchmarsh , Judi Spiers and Simon Potter.
Today there's Christmas cooking tips with a French flavour, as top chef
Raymond Blanc rustles up a yuletide spread. Editor STEVE WEDDLE BBC Pebble Mill

with Philip Hayton.
Weather MICHAEL FISH

A row between Madge and Mrs Mangel ends in disaster. This week's cast:
Written by JOHN UPTON
Directed by KENDAL FLANAGAN

Hosted by Henry Kelly. Semi-final week.
Semi-finalists from Wales, Sweden, the Netherlands,
England, Northern Ireland, Denmark and Austria return to compete for a place in the finals, a chance to win the prestigious title of European Quiz Champion and the trip to Australia.

starring Dan Haggerty Denver Pyle
USA: In the early 1840s, Jacob Fremont decides to forego the comforts of civilisation and to make his home in the south west mountains, with the wild animals as his neighbours. Undaunted by warnings of the swaggering
Big Bill Driggers , he embarks on his solo odyssey, only to discover that there really are dangers in the wilderness....
Screenplay by DAVID O'MALLEY
Produced by CHARLES E. SELLIER JR Directed by RICHARD FRIEDENBERG
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Andy Crane - starting with Laurel and Hardy in Birds of a Feather (R)
4.00pm A Bear Behind with Lindsey Coulson and Bill Wallis as Boz
Whenever I walk in a London street,
I'm ever so careful to watch my feet.
Lindsey and Boz make sure they walk in the squares on their trip to London. Story: Skimbleshanks by T. S. ELIOT
Engineering manager IAN DOW Videotape editor TIM NICHOLSON
Executive producer ANGELA BEECHING Producer MARGIE BARBOUR Director NEL ROMANO

Narrated by John Alderton.

Ming plots to steal the crown jewels of England so that he can grow invincible crystal soldiers and conquer the world!
Ceefax Subtitles

Eleventh of a 12-part serial by VALERIE GEORGESON from a story by MARGARET STUART BARRY.
Sally becomes a spy, and the Witch becomes a cleaner.
Designer STEVE SHARRATT Producer ANGELA BEECHlNG Director david BELL

with Mark Curry, Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding
Last of the Summer Wine! Go behind the scenes as Compo, Clegg and Seymour put together their Christmas programme. But who's that punk lurking in Nora Batty's cafe? It couldn't be Yvette, could it?
(Subtitles)

with Nicholas Witchell and Andrew Harvey

Richard Bath, Penny Bustin and Deborah Hall bring you tonight's news and views from London and the south east.
Plus sport from Michael Wale Editor FIONA CHESTERTON
Weather JOHN KETTLEY

Terry brings a little pre-Christmas cheer to the nation in the company of those who've managed to elbow their way through pre-Christmas shoppers in Shepherd's Bush High Street. Series producer PETER WEIL Director TOM CORCORAN Producer JON PLOWMAN

Watchdog brings you its own Christmas cracker, with a whole host of consumer items for Lynn Faulds Wood and John Stapleton. Plus a special report on why some pensioners and some of the disabled are facing a bleak festive season.
Reporters MIKE EMBLEY
MICHAL LEVIN , SARAH SPILLER Deputy editor MIKE KAVANAGH Editor NICK HAYES
Write to Watchdog, BBCtv,
London W12 8QT, or ring the hotline on [number removed]

with Michael Buerk
Regional News; Weather

starring
James Brolin
Lindsay Wagner Anthony Quinn James Coburn
Ernest Borgnine.
Michael Serrano , a millionaire drugs dealer, lives in a high-security, luxury villa in Colombia, surrounded by armed guards and hoarding a fortune in dollars. Four men are determined to steal his money - they are led by Stone, a former Green Beret.
Willing to gamble everything, they parachute into the region - getting in proves no problem, but getting out... ?
Produced by JOE RAFFILL and GERALD GREEN
Written and directed by STEWART RAFFILL
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Final episode of a serial in seven parts by ANDREW DAVIES starring Peter Davison with Graham Crowden Barbara Flynn
David Troughton
Amanda Hillwood , John Bird and Paul Jesson as Prettiman. Catastrophe Theory A 25 per cent cut in funding causes hysteria within the University.
With the close of the series a lovely light goes out DAILY MAIL By the end I was begging for more
DAILY MIRROR
Produced by KEN RIDDINGTON Directed by DAVID TUCKER
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starring
Howard Keel
Ann Blyth
Fernando Lamas
In this 1954 version of the famous operetta Howard Keel is the sergeant in the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police with Ann Blyth as Rose Marie , the girl he loses to a handsome French trapper, played by Fernando Lamas.
The spectacular scenery of the Rockies forms the background for this colourful musical romance which includes the famous songs Rose Marie and the Indian Love Call, and the spectacular staging of Totem Tom by Busby Berkeley.
Screenplay Dy RONALD MILLER and GEORGE FROESCHEL
Based on the operetta by OTTO A. HARBACH and OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN 11
Directed by MERVIN LEROY
('Brigadoon' tomorrow at 11.55pm)