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with Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark

Weather followed by Open Air
What did you think of the weekend's television?
Eamonn Holmes is waiting for your call on [number removed]. Senior director ROGER NEALE Producers HUGH FAUPEL DON JONES. ROGER WILKES
MALCOLM BETNEY. TONY HARRISON Editor SUSAN L. WOODWARD BBC North West

with Robert Kilroy-Silk

Weather followed by Dr Kildare
A Pyrotechnic Display
Kildare the teacher becomes Kildare the student as Rudy, Tom and Frankie reach the point when they must decide between personal feelings and professional ambition. (A new story starts tomorrow at 10.00am)

Simon Parkin - starting with PLAYBUS which stops today at The Why Bird Stop where the Who, What, When, Where and Why Bird, usually known as the Why Bird, helps the driver sort out lost property and uses her machine to tell her story.
Puppeteer FIONA BEYNON BROWN
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
Producer PENNY LLOYD
A FELGATE production for BBCtv (R)

10.50am RUPERT
based on the stories by ALFRED BESTALL.
Storyteller Ray Brooks
Today's story: Rupert and Morwenna (R)

Weather followed by Open Air with Eamonn Holmes and Bob Wellings

Weather followed by World Snooker
World Professional Snooker Championship
Day three. First-round matches for Tony Knowles and Dennis Taylor.
Introduced by David Icke Commentators TED LOWE. JACK KARNEHM and CLIVE EVERTON .

with Philip Hayton Weather BILL GILES

Helen has an unusual Christmas present for Scott and Charlene.
Written by ROGER MOULTON
Directed by KENDAL FLANAGAN

Brittany
Presented by Penny Junor with John Kettley and Matthew Collins
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World Professional Snooker Championship from the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.
David Icke brings further news of the first-round matches being played today. (Coverage continues on BBC2)

Mother Poole 's Visit
David advises Mrs Poole to vent her anger on her mother-in-law.

A series of ten programmes 3: Rockingham Castle
Lady Victoria Leatham takes time off from managing Burghley House to visit
Rockingham Castle - once a royal castle from where the kings of England used to run the country.
Producer BRIAN FAWCETT

Andy Crane - starting with:

Barney
with the voices of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Harry Enfield, Jan Ravens and Enn Reitel.
Barney on TV
Barney prepares for his first television job. Directed by BOB BALSER
Produced by JOHN COATES

3.55pm Batty Adventures
by CHRIS ALLEN
Today's adventure: Close Encounters of a Batty Kind
Batty meets some aliens. Batty (and other voices) played by C. J. Allen
Producer ANGELA BEECHING Director MARILYN FOX (R)

4.10pm Defenders of the Earth: The Gods Awake
Aided by a powerful mystic, Ming brings to life gods from another dimension to help him conquer the world. His plan goes out of control when he underestimates his collaborator.
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4.35pm The Bartons
A series of 12 programmes. 3: Half- Time
Paul is reserve for his local football team and his father waits eagerly to see if he gets a game.
Director RICHARD SARRELL
Executive producer NOEL PRICE

5.00pm Newsround
with John Craven Roger Finn and Helen Rollason
Producer SUSIE STAPLES Editor JOHN CRAVEN

5.05pm Blue Peter
with Mark Curry Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding
Producers NICK HEATHCOTE
OLIVER MCFARLANE. ROY MILANI Editor LEWIS BRONZE
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with Nicholas Witchell and Andrew Harvey
Weather SUZANNE CHARLTON

Guy Michelmore keeps you in touch with what's going on around the capital region of the county.
With reports from studios around the south east.
Michael Wale on the local sports scene and Cathy McGowan around town.
* WRITE TO: Newsroom South East, BBC Elstree Centre. Clarendon Road, Borehamwood. Hertfordshire WD6 1JF if you have any news.

featuring Kenneth Williams Hattie Jacques
Bernard Bresslaw
Sid James , Barbara Windsor and Frankie Howerd.
A compilation of some of the most outrageous moments from the Carry On films. Produced by PETER ROGERS Directed by GERALD THOMAS

written by GEORGE LAYTON starring Tony Britton and Nigel Havers featuring Dinah Sheridan , Simon Williams , Jane Booker.
A special occasion calls for special arrangements - and a lot of careful planning.
Designer DEREK EVANS
Produced and directed by HAROLD SNOAD (R)
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Nightlife
Narrated by David Attenborough
The sun goes down, the lights go out, and then, for human beings, it's the dead of night. But night is far from dead. It's the time when a whole other world of animals feed, fight, mate and live out their lives.
Through the eyes and ears of the animals of darkness, this programme unfolds the story of one imaginary night in the English countryside.
Photography OWEN NEWMAN
Film editor ANDREW JOHNSTON Written and produced by DILYS BREESE (R)
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with Michael Buerk
Regional News; Weather

The High Court is closed today. For the first time in history, judges have downed wigs to debate what they suspect may be a threat to justice itself. On trial are the Government's plans to reform the legal profession: are they the end of costly restrictive practices and a closed shop, or the abolition of an independent legal profession?
But whose law is it anyway? The consumers', who pay the bills, or the lawyers' themselves?
Joshua Rozenberg investigates the lawyers and cross-examines their arguments.

starring and God's Work
When Felipe Cruz , a young Wall Street hot shot, shows up in Miami, Crockett and Tubbs are convinced that he's returned to take a hand in his father's criminal empire.
Written by EDWARD TIVNAN Directed by JAN EUASBERG

Presented by Hugh Scully and Helen Madden.
This week, legal aid. Despite an annual bill of E450 million, the legal aid system is in crisis. Consumers complain of huge delays, poor service and unfair treatment.
With a new Act of Parliament and a new administrative body - the Legal Aid Board - changes are promised. But is it all too little too late? Series editor CHRIS LENT (e)
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Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship
David Vine with up-to-the minute news.
Producers KEITH PHILLIPS
MIKE ADLEY. PETER HAYWARD Executive producer KEITH MACKENZIE