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Simon Parkin and Andi Peters with a morning of holiday entertainment - starting with:

Heathcliff and Co
Starring that favourite alley-cat Heathcliff, the terror of the town in Rebel without Claws and The Farming Life Ain for Me (R)

with Nick Sanders First of three daily programmes in which Nick takes his narrowboat, bicycle and hot air balloon around some of the British canals. Today he learns about restoring old narrowboats.

Weather followed by Rolf Harris
Cartoon Time

which stops today at The Playground Stop where the children play hide-and-seek, so Lizzie hides as well.
Presenter
Dave Benson Phillips
Puppeteer RONNIE LE DREW
Storyteller Anthony Lapsley Music JONATHAN COHEN Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
A FELGATE production for BBCtv (R)

by ELISABETH BERESFORD Hiccups told by Bernard Cribbins Music hv MIKK HATT
Animated hv BARRY LEITH Directed by IVOR wool ) (R)

with Alan Bennett (R)

Weather followed by Junior Kick Start
The first of four daily programmes in which outstanding young riders from all areas of Great Britain demonstrate exceptional skills in this motorised gymkhana - the first heat of BBCtv's motorcycle trials competition for the Norwich Union
Trophy. Today's heat, from Lord Hesketh's estate in Northamptonshire, confronts six riders with a tricky, hazardous course.
Commentators
PETER PURVES and JACK STITES
Producer JOHN G. SMITH BBC Pebble Mill

Playwright Peter Terson and reporter Dennis Skillicorn travel by gypsy wagon along the old pilgrims' route from Winchester to Canterbury. In this ninth programme of the series they visit Aylesford Priory and join in the fun of the annual Maidstone
Carnival. Rejoining the Pilgrims' Way at Thurnham they pass through
Hollingbourne and find a camp site where they meet up with a genuine gypsy family. who tell the travellers what it is really like to spend life on the road!
Producer JOHN COLEMAN

Weather followed by Dallas
Serendipity
A disaster in Colombia sends tremors back to Dallas - where there are other rumblings over JR's manipulative ways.
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Naseby Bryan McNerney asks that the battlefield of Naseby should be spared from development.

with Michael Buerk
Weather BILL GILES

Scott's friends show what good neighbours they really are.
Written by LYN OGILVY Directed by CHRIS SHEIL

with Floella Benjamin and Suzanne Dando
This week,
Dr Vernon Coleman comments on the stresses and strains of A Day in the Life of.... a Currency Broker, and Sue Campbell scores Dando Does ...
Swimming. Heart exercise and fitness addictions are also investigated.
Producer ALAN RUSSELL BBC Bristol

starring
Anthony Steel
Ludmilla Tcherina
Antonio. Anna and Kit Kelly are honeymooning in Spain. But their togetherness is threatened by dancer Antonio.
Written, produced and directed by MICHAEL POWELL
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Andy Crane - starting with:

ChuckleVision
Starring The Chuckle Brothers with Billy Butler.

Writer JOHN Sayle
Director JOHN NORTHOVER
Producer MARTIN HUGHES
BBC North West (R)

4.10pm Laurel and Hardy: Secret Agents 000
(R)

4.15pm Jonny Briggs: 17
A 20-part serial by VALERIE GEORGESON from a story by JOAN EADINGTON
Rita and Mavis find themselves trapped. Razzle and Fizzy
Razzle supplied by PAULINE CLIFT
Producer ANGELA BEECHING
Director CHRISTINE SECOMBE
(R)

4.35pm Belle and Sebastian: A Snowy Reunion

5.00pm Newsround

5.10pm Knowhow
Written and presented by Johnny Ball, Ann de Caires and Mark Salter
Episode 3 of Hyperspace Hotel written by James Follett
Studio director BRENDA BARRIE Producer JANE TARLETON
(R)

Nicholas Witchell and Laurie Mayer with news and comment from Britain and around the world.
Weather IAN MCCASKILL

Guy Michelmore keeps you in touch with what's going on around the capital region of the country.
With reports from studios around the south east.
Michael Wale on the local sports scene and Cathy McGowan around town.

Peter Macann
Howard Stableford
Judith Hann and Maggie Philbin reporting on new ideas which could change the way we live.
This week: the robots which demonstrate how tomorrow's computers are designed to function like a human brain.
And Bob Symes presents another round-up of new inventions - on a fiery theme! Producers JACK WEBER
CYNTHIA PAGE. MARTIN MORTIMORE. EDWARD BRIFFA. MARTIN FREETH Director PHILIP DOLLING Editor RICHARD REISZ

by Susan Boyd.
"You ought to sort yourself out. Ian. You're getting to be a joke. Suspicious and paranoid."
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(Ceefax subtitles)

Alan Whicker talks to a cross-section of enterprising Poms who have gone to live and work 'down under'.
When Ray Wilmott was a boy he used to follow the Beaufort Hunt on foot. Now that he's made his fortune, he has invented his own hunt in New South Wales.
When Len Evans went down under, you were considered a 'pansy' if you drank dry white wine. Len became Australia's most respected vigneron, gourmet and wine critic.
Dennis Gowing was a penniless orphan from London. But he achieved the dream of many Australians. His horse won the Melbourne Cup and he formed a liaison with Miss Australia.
Assistant producer MO BOWYER Directed by ROGER MILLS BBC Bristol (R)
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with Anne Robinson Producer IAN STUBBS
0 WRITE TO: Points of View.
BBCtv Centre. London W12 7RJ
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with Michael Buerk
Regional News; Weather

starring
Loretta Swit Tyne Daly.
Christine Cagney and Mary Beth Lacey are partners, newly-promoted detectives in the 14th Precinct. But their struggle against crime in the violent streets of New York is hampered by the prejudice of their male colleagues. So
Cagney and Lacey decide that they will have to earn respect the hard way - on their own. A special screening of the original feature-length pilot.
Screenplay by BARBARA AVEDON
Produced by RICHARD M. ROSENBLOOM Directed by TE1) POST
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Barry Norman presents his review of the week's releases. In Beaches Bette Midler takes on her first serious film role since The Rose. She stars with Barbara Hershey in a story of profound life-long friendship from childhood to beyond the grave.
Plus Cocoon: The Return.
Don Ameche repeats his Oscar-winning performance back on earth when aliens give him and his friends a new lease of life.
Director DEBORAH WEARN
Producer DOMINIC BRIGSTOCKE
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Anna Ford and her guests take a critical look at the way disabled people are portrayed on television, both in programmes aimed at people with disabilities and in dramas, documentaries and other parts of the output.
Are disabled people fairly and accurately represented or are they, more often, patronised or ignored?
Broadcasters and viewers discuss the issues following a film made by a woman who is, herself, disabled.
Studio director LINDA NASH Film director EMMA READ Producer GEOFF GRIFFITHS