in South Sea Sickness
An RKO film

with Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark
Sports news from Bob Wilson

Weather followed by Open Air
Join Eamonn Holmes with your comments on last night's television, and ring [number removed].

Andy Crane - starting with Playbus which stops today at The Playground Stop where the children work in the garden and Lizzie tries to remember being small. Presenter
Dave Benson Phillips Puppeteer JANE EVE
Storyteller Anthony Lapsley Story: Sticky Beak and the Mystery of the Shrinking
Devil by MARCIA VAUGHAN , illustrations by ESTER KASEPUU
Music JONATHAN COHEN
Producer BARBARA RODDAM
10.50am Paddington A Picnic on the River by MICHAEL BOND Narrated by Michael Hordem (R)

Viewers' Own Poetry (2) with Nicolette McKenzie and Edmund Pegge

Weather followed by Open Air
Eamonn Holmes and Pattie Coldwell invite you to challenge the programme makers or interview television personalities. Producers CHARLES BRUCE , DON JONES , ROGER WILKES ,
LIZ MCCALLUM , KAREN BLUMENFELD. TONY HARRISON
Director ROGER NEALE
Editor SUSAN L. WOODWARD BBC North West

Weather followed by Daytime Live with Sue Cook ,
Alan Titchmarsh and Floella Benjamin. Today in Stepping Out there's more practical advice for people wishing to stop taking tranquillisers.
(Special helpline available from 1.00pm to 6.00pm on 0[number removed].) Editor STEVE WEDDLE

with Philip Hayton Weather BILL GILES

Lucy faces a frightening future. Scott's pride leads him to make a major financial decision.
Written by DAVID PHILLIPS
Directed by KENDAL FLANAGAN
(Cast page 57.Repeated at 5.35pm)

Hosted by Henry Kelly
In today's Going for Gold six remaining contestants battle it out for a place in this week's heat final.

Starring Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott.
A family man bored by his routine life begins an affair with a gangster's moll. But when her old boyfriend gets out of jail, his troubles begin....
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Greatest Man in Siam; Recruiting Days (R)

Andy Crane - starting with Green Claws with Nick Mercer and Stella Goodier.
There's trouble at the royal palace and Green Claws is asked to help out. Everyone joins in: Iris searches high and low.... and Owlma is trying her hardest to help - if only Green Claws could understand her!
Claws Family stories by Sonya Dann
Illustrations Jane Gedye Script by Ursula Jones Director Adrian Mills
Producer Christine Hewitt
4.05pm Touche Turtle Takes Two to Tangle
4.15pm Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl told by Joss Ackland for Jackanory
2: The Secret Methods
4.25pm Hokey Wolf Castle Hastle
The fastest-talking con artist ever, Hokey Wolf is full of fun.
4.35pm What's That Noise?
WTN Sound Studios: 4.35pm. This is it - 'the Performance'. Craig Charles, put on your dancing shoes.
1. Put out the red carpet for Gary Glitter.
2. The York Waits show how it happened way back when....
3. Nigel Kennedy is tuning up his violin in New York.
4. Then Jerico are making the walls rock!
5. John Holt will tell how to put the lights on it all.
6. Wells School have done it again with a trio of soloists.
7. And there's Kid 'n' Play - get with that 'kick' step.
No, Craig, we don't need the parachute ... Oh, all right! Format devised by Tim Graham and Richard Addison Executive producer Christopher Pilkington Directed by Steve Smith Produced by Pippa Dyson
5.00pm Newsround with John Craven Roger Finn and Helen Rollason Editor John Craven
5.05pm Grange Hill Fifth of 20 episodes by Kay Trainor
Susi and Chrissy find a way to get some nice, new clothes - on approval. Mr Bronson takes a dim view of Danny's extra-mural activities. This week's cast:
Devised by Phil Redmond
Script editor Leigh Jackson
Production associate Albert Barber Producer Ronald Smedley Director John Smith
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with Nicholas Witchell and Andrew Harvey
Weather MICHAEL FISH

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

with Judith Hann , Maggie Philbin , Peter Macann and Howard Stableford.
Including this week a look at past finalists from the Prince of Wales Award for Innovation and Production. Some are now multi-million-pound businesses; but whatever happened to the electrostatic garden sprayer, or the remarkable plane which would fly almost as slowly as a helicopter? Producer MARTIN MORTIMORE
Studio director STUART MCDONALD Editor RICHARD REISZ

by Tony McHale.
"If you don't have a blood test you're wrong and if you do you're still wrong..."
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Questionmaster David Coleman
Tonight Bill Beaumont lines up with the Manchester
United and Northern Ireland striker Norman Whiteside and the Northamptonshire and England Test batsman,
Allan Lamb Ian Botham has invited along the reigning Commonwealth Games heptathlon gold medallist,
Judy Simpson and Britain's 1987 Open winner, Nick Faldo. Director MICK DEMPSEY Producer MIKE ADLEY BBC North West
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with Michael Buerk
Regional News; Weather

starring
Gene Hackman Fernando Rey Roy Scheider.
Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle, a tough New York policeman, becomes obsessed with breaking a narcotics ring operating between Marseilles and America, and in his pursuit of the truth gradually finds himself at odds with both criminals and his superiors. This Oscar-winning film is famous for its car chase never surpassed for virtuosity or excitement.
Screenplay by ERNEST TOYMAN
Based on the book by ROBIN MOORE Produced by PHILIP D'ANTONI Directed by WILLIAM FRIEDKIN
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Barry Norman presents his review of the week's releases. Cocktail - Tom Cruise stars as a Manhattan barman on the make in New York.
Seasoned pro Bryan Brown leads him into a world of easy money and sex.
For Queen and Country -
This stars American Denzel Washington as a black
British paratrooper who has served his Queen and country in Northern Ireland and the Falklands. Leaving the army he faces not only racism in the high-rise slums, but also a new law depriving him of his British citizenship. Director DOMIMC BRIGSTOCKE producerJANE LUSH
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Tonight's Network looks at children's television: is it too influenced by the USA? Does it often consist of frenetic, mindless programmes? Does it simply act as a childminder generating passivity and dependence? Or is the real danger that deregulation will mean the end of children's programmes? Anna Ford chairs a discussion involving broadcasters, teachers, parents and children. Also, Kim Howells introduces viewers' criticisms (and producers' defences) of a variety of programmes. Studio director LINDA NASH Producer GEOFF GRIFFITHS
Ifuou want to use 'Network to
Criticise television, write to: Network,
BBCtv Centre, London W12 8QT, or telephone [number removed].