in Deal Me In
An RKO film

with John Stapleton and Jeremy Paxman. News on the hour and half-hour read by Jill Dando. The latest sports news from Sally Jones.
Weather forecasts from Francis Wilson at 7.25,
7.55 and 8.25.
Regional news and travel updates at 7.27, 7.57 and 8.27. Reports from
BILL NEELY , ANITA FINDLEY, CHARLIE LEE-POTTER ,
MARK EASTON, BILL TURNBULL and CAROLINE RIGHTON.

The Girls' Night Out
Wilma could never have imagined that a rare night out with Fred would result in her husband cutting a record and becoming Bedrock's hottest teenage idol! (R)

Weather followed by Open Air
Ring Susan Rae and Natalie Anglesey with your views on last night's television. The number is [number removed].

They would be away for less than a week but it would be unforgettable. Kerry and Peter [text removed] ,
Denise [text removed] , Adrian [text removed] and Lee [text removed] were just five of the 286 children to be seen off at Heathrow Airport by HRH The Princess of Wales - on their way to Florida and all the fun of Walt Disney World.
For many of the children, it s a dream come true. A charity has taken more than a year to raise the money and plan the trip. The young holiday-makers have one thing in common. Almost all of them are very seriously ill. For some, it may be the last holiday of their lives....
Narrated by Phillip Schofield. Producer JULIA MCLAREN

Weather followed by Going for Gold

Andy Crane - starting with Playbus
The Dot Stop
How many fingers? How many toes? Ten. And ten are the dots for dotty Dot to tot.
Music PAUL READE
Percussion LIZ KITCHEN Director JOHN PROWSE
10.50am Paddington
Paddington Turns Detective Narrated by Michael Hordern. (R)

with Judi Dench

Weather followed by Open Air with Susan Rae , Bob Wellings and Natalie Anglesey

Weather followed by Daytime Live with Alan Titchmarsh and Judi Spiers.
Style guru Samantha Meah gives advice on how to dress up like a Christmas tree at this year's festive parties.

with Philip Hayton
Weather MICHAEL FISH

Paul wants to move out of Ramsay Street.
Written by LOIS BOSTON
Directed by KENDAL FLANAGAN
(Cast page 52. Repeated at 5. 35pm)

Hosted by Henry Kelly.
Seven remaining semi-finalists compete for a place in the final and the chance to win a trip to Australia's gold-mining areas and the famous Gold Coast in Queensland.
Join them as they play Beat the Buzzer, Four in a Row and the Head to Head.

starring
Robert Taylor Kay Kendall
Robert Morley.
When the Duke of Burgundy agrees to a marriage between his ward Isabelle and the ageing Lord Crawford, the lord sends his nephew
Quentin Durward to advance his suit. But Durward soon finds Isabelle has a mind of her own and has no wish to be used as a pawn in the intrigues of Burgundy and the scheming King Louis XI of France.
Screenplay by ROBERT ARDREY from the novel by SIR WALTER SCOTT Producer PANDRO s. BERMAN Director RICHARD THORPE
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Andy Crane - starting with Two by Two
The last of 15 programmes presented by Jenny Powell. Jenny finds out that silence has much to say.
Songs written and performed by Derek Griffiths.
Series producer JANE TARLETON Producer ANNE DENEHY

The Outcast

A Newsround special with John Craven.
On a group of islands up the Gambia River in West Africa, John watches an amazing project in action - helping tame chimpanzees get used to life in the wild again. Most of them were captured by hunters when they were babies. How will they cope with their new-found freedom?
Camera DERRICK COLLIER Sound BOB PRABHU
Picture editor EMYR CUMMINS Editor JOHN CRAVEN
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by ROBERT WESTALL.
A ghost story, dramatised by WILLIAM CORLETT.
Last of three episodes.
Anne, reunited with Pat and Timmo, solves the mystery of the Watch House and helps the old feller to rest in peace.
Music by RODNEY NEWTON Designer BOB HUTTON
Executive producer PAUL STONE Producer BRENDA ENNIS Director LAN KEILL

with Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton

London Plus, Spotlight, Points West, Look East,
Look North, South Today, North West Tonight, Midlands Today.
Weather JOHN KETTLEY

Prince Wogan plants five magic beans, goes to sleep for 100 years and wakes up in Shepherd's Bush Green only to find that his slippers don't fit and the ball starts at seven o'clock.
Spinning fairy tales will be Christopher Biggins Bernard Cribbins Jim Davidson Roy Hudd
Little and Large Barbara Windsor and a rather surprising Cinderella.
Programme associate JEFF THACKER Producer JON PLOWMAN Director JOHN BURROWES
Series producer PETER WEIL

starring Les Dawson with Roy Barraclough , Graeme Garden ,
Brian Godfrey , Peter Goodwright , Johnny More , Mo Moreland , Patrick Mower , Toni Palmer , and Jane Marie Osborne , the Roly Polys.
Les's talents are shown to their fullest in this hilarious mixture of comedy and music. Script associate BARRY CRYER
Musical director ALYN AINSWORTH Choreographer JEFF RICHER Written by LES DAWSON,
BARRY CRYER. DAVID NOBBS.
PAUL MINETT and BRIAN LEVESON Designer MARTIN METHVEN Produced and directed by JOHN BISHOP (R)
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with Anne Robinson

with Michael Buerk
Regional News; Weather

Screenplay by ANTHONY SIMMONS , based on the novel The Naughty Girls by ARTHUR WISE.
Starring John Hurt Karen Young
John McMartin
Barbara Bosson , Guy Boyd. Also introducing Cassie Barasch and Ellie Raab. 'She's a 9-year-old kid ... 9-year-old kids aren't into blackmail.'
Music by LAURENCE JUBER Costume LES LANSDOWN Make-up JAN NETHERCOT Designer GERRY SCOTT
Photography JOHN HOOPER Produced by LOUIS MARKS
Directed by ANTHONY SIMMONS
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Even on Christmas Day someone has to man the pumps and milk the cows.
Who are these unsung heroes who work so that the rest of us can play?
Narrator Noel Edmonds Written by GLYN WORSNIP
Videotape editor JOHN PAROUSSI Executive producer JENNY BARRACLOUGH
Producer WENDY STURGESS

Introduced by Barry Norman. The Cruel Sea
Tonight starring Jack Hawkins Donald Sinden
Denholm Elliott
Virginia McKenna.
This story of a Royal
Navy corvette and her part in the Battle of the Atlantic ranks among the classic British war films.
Screenplay by ERIC AMBLER from the novel by NICHOLAS MONSARRAT
Produced by LESLIE NORMAN Directed by CHARLES FREND
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