Simon Parkin and Andi Peters - starting with
Heathcliff and Co

A Newsround special with Roger Finn.
Roger goes on walkabout in the remote mountain kingdom of Nepal. Trekking through the Himalayan foothills he meets the children and discovers the problems of this beautiful yet desperately poor country. Producer ANDREW MACGREGOR Editor JOHN CRAVEN (R)

Weather followed by Rolf Harris
Cartoon Time with The Bodyguard starring Tom and Jerry, Goose in the Rough and Bugs Bunny in Lighter Than Hare.

which stops today at the Play Tent Stop. Join Trish Cooke ,
Ricky Diamond , Joe Greco , Sheila Hyde and Jade Magri to tell the story:
Georgia and the Dragon by ROBIN KINGSLAND. Music RICHARD BROWN Director BRIAN JAMESON Producer ANN REAY (R)

by ELISABETH BERESFORD Warm and Cosy told by Bernard Cribbins. (H)

with Alan Bennett
Producer RALPH ROLLS (R)

Weather followed by Junior Kick Start
The grand final of BBCtv's motorcycle trials competition, in which six outstanding junior riders compete for the Norwich Union Trophy. Commentators
PETER PURVES and JACK STITES

Allan Beswick follows some of the residents of Lovat Road in their daily lives.

Weather followed by Dallas
Blast from the Past
Jack prepares to leave Dallas. Written by PETER DUNNE and JOEL J. FEIGENBAUM
Directed by MICHAEL PREECE (For cast see page 59) (R)
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New Plymouth
Producer BRYAN MCNERNEY (R)

with Michael Buerk
Weather SUZANNE CHARLTON

'Something evil was looking at me'. The mystery of Helen's haunted flat reaches its climax.
Written by MALCOLM FRAWLEY Directed by CHRIS SHEIL

starring
Claudette Colbert Fred MacMurray.
Married life is not quite as Betty expected after her husband announces, on their wedding night, he is quitting the rat-race to start a chicken farm. It is a task neither he nor Betty is qualified for - as events prove in this evergreen comedy.
Written and produced by CHESTER ERSKINE and FRED F. FINKLEHOFFE based on the book by BETTY MACDONALD
Directed by CHESTER ERSKINE (Blackandwhite)
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Andy Crane - starting with Laurel and Hardy in Flight of the Bumble Brains. (R)
4.00pm Caterpillar Trail with Stuart Bradley.
This week an old method of transport gives Stuart a new method of spotting wildlife! Director STEVE HOCKING
Producer ALISON STEWART
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4.10pm Mysterious Cities of Gold
18: Esteban and his companions have seen a golden city ... (R)
4.35pm
Friday Film Special: Pop Pirates
A schoolboy pop group, who call themselves the Pirates, find themselves involved with a different sort of piracy when they discover a secret tape-copying factory.
Produced by RALPH THOMAS Directed by JACK GROSSMAN
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with Nicholas Witchell and Andrew Harvey Weather BILL GILES

Top Girl band the Bangles perform Eternal Flame and Be with You, just for Terry. Director JOHN BURROWES Producer GRAHAM OWENS
Series producer PETER ESTALL

starring Paul Daniels. Will it be Lynette and Martyn, Suzanne and Paul or Claire and Phil who win through to the final game? Produced in association with TALBOT TELEVISION LTD and GROUP W. PRODUCTIONS Programme associates
COLIN EDMONDS. HOWARD HUNTRIDGE Sound MICHAEL MCCARTHY Lighting HENRY BARBER Designer CHRIS WEBSTER Director JOHN BURROWES Producer DAVID TAYLOR

No Bones About It
Blake is furious with Adam, accusing him of setting him up for the murder of Elsworth Chisolm and Tanner questions his vows as a priest as he admits his feelings to Sammy Jo.
Written by TITA BELL and ROBERT WOLFE Directed by MICHAEL LANGE
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Michael Buerk with news from Britain and around the world.
Regional News
Weekend Weather
BILL GILES

Also starring Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins.
A small town in Argentina. Dr Plarr, a Paraguayan exile, becomes involved in a terrorist plot when he is offered the chance to get his father out of jail. The plan goes badly wrong and Plarr must risk his life to save the innocent victims. A taut thriller from the director of The Long Good Friday and the Oscar-winning writer of Dangerous Liaisons.
PROFILE ON RICHARD GERE: page 31
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Living with Waltzing Matilda Alan Whicker talks to a cross-section of enterprising Poms. Mrs Dorrie Flatman left Liverpool in 1963 with three daughters and E45. Today she is one of Australia's wealthiest women. Dorrie is a brothel madam. Had Dorrie plied her trade in Britain, she would have ended up in jail. But this is Perth. Western
Australia, in some ways astonishingly permissive. where licensed brothels are illegal, but 'tolerated'. Film editor LIZ THOYTS
Directed by ROGER MILLS BBC Bristol (R)
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Starring Lana Turner, Ralph Bates, Trevor Howard.

In this chilling psychological suspense thriller Lana Turner plays a rich American widow who is crippled both physically and mentally. What dark secrets of her mysterious past account for her wanting to destroy the lives of her son and his wife? Part of the answer lies buried at the centre of the maze in the grounds of her English country mansion.
Screenplay by ROBERT B HUTTON and ROSEMARY WOOTTEN
Produced by KEVIN FRANCES Directed by DON CHAFFEY
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