(R)

with John Stapleton and Sally Magnusson
News summaries read by Jill Dando on the hour and the half-hour.
Sports news from Bob Wilson.
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.

Susan Rae and Mike Shaft

with Robert Kilroy-Silk

The Long, Long, Long Weekend (R)

Simon Parkin - starting with Playbus
The Patch Stop where Sam meets Shetland ponies and makes a patchwork of pictures.
Patch's friend .....AMBER LEIGH
Storyteller Matthew Devitt
Story: Jo-Jo the Melon Donkey by MICHAEL MORPURGO illustrated by CHRIS MOLAN Producer ANNE GOBEY

Running Out of Steam (R)

with Cyril Luckham

Hosted by Mavis Nicholson and Susan Rae. Mike Shaft in Query Comer has the answers to your questions about television. Ring him on [number removed], or write to:
Query Corner, Open Air, PO Box 27, Oxford Road, Manchester M60 1SJ.

Weather followed by Daytime Live with Alan Titchmarsh and Judi Spiers
The latest big screen releases. Plus music from Kim Wilde.
12.55pm Regional News and Weather

with Martyn Lewis
Weather BERNARD DAVEY

Jim arrives home to some unwelcome surprises. Written by WAYNE DOYLE Directed by MARK PIPER (For cast see page 41. Repeated at 5.35pm)

Henry Kelly quizzes the remaining semi-finalists.

A musical matinee continues this star season.
Today with Dennis Morgan Jack Carson.
Comedian Jack Carson has a problem - no directors or stars will make a movie with him. So he tries trickery, promising waitress Judy Adams stardom if she will help.
A lively and lighthearted look behind the scenes in Hollywood, featuring many Warner Brothers stars, and songs by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne. and GARY COOPER ,
JOAN CRAWFORD , ERROL FLYNN ,
SYDNEY GREENSTREET, DANNY KAYE , PATRICIA NEAL ,
ELEANOR PARKER , RONALD REAGAN , EDWARD G. ROBINSON and JANE WYMAN
Screenplay by JACK ROSE and MEL SHAVELSON
Produced by ALEX GOTTLIEB Directed by DAVID BUTLER
('Doris Day in Midnight Lace' next Saturday)
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(R)

Andy Crane - starting with Dooby Duck 's Disco Bus This week Dooby Duck's
Mobile disco comes from the Big Country for a Dooby
Duck country-and-western special.
Created by ROGER STEVENSON and HARRY STUART Executive producer
CHRISTOPHER PILKINGTON Production PETER LESLIE
3.55pm Henry's Cat Out for the Count by ROB GODFREY and STAN HAYWARD
Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit find themselves in Transylvania and once again they foil Rum Baba's attempt to rule the world!
Narrated and directed by Bob Godfrey
Animation KEVIN BALDWIN Production MIKE HAYES (R)
4.10pm My Friend Walter by MICHAEL MORPURGO Told for Jackanory in five daily parts by Miranda Richardson , with Thea Redmond as Bess James Lance as Will and Richard O'Callaghan as Sir Walter Raleigh Part 4
Designer JACKIE JACKSON
Executive producer ANGELA BEECWNG Producer MARGIE BARBOUR Director NEL ROMANO
4.25pm Hokey Wolf
He's been called the fastest-talking con artist ever dressed in wolfs clothing, but whatever else he may be Hokey Wolf is full of fun. Tricks and Treats
4.30pm
The Quack Chat Show with Keith Harris and Orville Cuddles can't believe his eyes when 'muscles' Orville gets stuck in! On the Show Off Spot
ROYCE PRIMARY SCHOOL,
HULME, second-year steel band feel the 'pulse' with Coconut Woman. ,
Antony Johns , 'Ant the Feet and the 'Mersey Mob' from the MERSEYSIDE DANCE AND DRAMA CENTRE are getting Orville to 'blink' in time.
Keith Woolfenden , 'Kiwi the Paint', and the 'Graffiti Gang from ST PATRICK 'S SCHOOL,
OLDHAM, are 'body building and one of their star pupils John McCann 'flips' in for a 'quick chat chit chat'.
On Orvilles's Flying Visit,
Yvonne Dickson ties him up in knots when he visits
Waverley Market in Edinburgh.
Musical director GEORGE HASTINGS Designer DAVE WILSON Executive producer
CHRISTOPHER PILKINGTON Producer PIPPA DYSON
4.55pm Newsround with John Craven , Roger Finn and Helen Rollason
The up-to-the-minute news service for Britain's children. Producer SUSIE STAPLES Editor JOHN CRAVEN
5.05pm Blue Peter with Mark Curry , Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding
If the mild weather has got your green fingers itching, watch out for a new competition with do-it-yourself plant kits as prizes.
You don't even need a garden!
Producers NICK HEATHCOTE ,
ANDREW WHITMAN. OUVER MACFARLANE Editor LEWIS BRONZE
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with Nicholas Witchell and Anna Ford
Weather JOHN KETTLEY

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

by Rob Gittins.
"What kind of man is it that can shoot off and leave his own daughter in the dark?"
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with Desmond Lynam and Anne Gregg
No new destination has caused such a flutter in the hearts of romantics over the past decade as the Seychelles.
Paradise found and affordable for that most special of all holidays, the honeymoon. But after over ten years on the books of charter operators is it also paradise lost? Anne finds islands and beaches where only turtles have honeymooned.
Series producer PATRICIA HOULIHAN
(Repeatedtomorrow. 5.30pm on BBC2)
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written by FRANCIS GREIG starring Julia Watson and Natalie Ogle featuring Martin Jacobs and Virginia Stride .
Despite their different backgrounds, Victoria Morrison and Dawn McKenzie are great friends - most of the time. Dawn shares Victoria's flat, and a deep dislike for the restaurant where Victoria is a commis-chef and Dawn is a waitress - not least because of the unwelcome attentions of Fred Ponsonby, the chef.
Studio sound DAVID THOMPSON Studio lighting DON BABBAGE
Designer BRYAN ELLIS
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Martvn Lewis presents the day's news with BBC teams at home and abroad.
Regional News; Weather

written by PENNY CROFT Last in the present series starring Simon Cadell and Carol Royle.
With impending fatherhood and a little help from Ben, Larry throws caution to the wind.
and Ronald Fraser as Mr Chambers
Title music written and sung by PENNY CROFT
Designer GARRY FREEMAN
Produced and directed by SUSAN BELBIN (R)
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With Sir Robin Day
The weekly opportunity for the general public to pose the questions and debate the answers with those in power, those who seek it and those who influence events.
With Sir Robin Day this evening at the Greenwood Theatre in London are Stuart Holland , MP Helen Liddell
Lord Rees-Mogg William Waldegrave , MP Director ANN MORLEY
Producer ANNA CARRAGHER Editor BARBARA MAXWELL

Resident professionals Ian Woosnam of Wales and Rodger Davis of Australia are joined today by two great names of screen and sport. Nigel Mansell (despite suffering from chicken pox) and Sean Connery tee off for the Whyte and Mackay Scotch Trophy.
Peter Alliss is the host at the Ailsa Course of the Turnberry Hotel.

Embassy World Indoor Bowls Championship
The evening session will decide the second player to reach the singles semi-finals. Introduced by David Icke