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8.55am Regional News and Weather

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with sensational Simon Parkin, amazing Andi Peters, sparkling Stephanie Lowe and some of your favourite programmes, starting with:
Rolf Harris Cartoon Time

9.25am Why Don't You...?
A phone call sends the gang hurrying for the ferry. Verity's bag has everything they need - although the soup isn't quite as she planned. Ben stays behind doing something mysterious in the cellar.
BBC North West (R)

10.00am News; Weather
followed by Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show: Snoopy Foot
A cartoon based on the Peanuts strip by CHARLES M. SCHULTZ (R)

10.30am Playbus

The Why Bird Stop
What would you put on the 'd' shelf? Simon and Why have a few ideas.
Puppeteer FIONA BEYNON BROWN
Story: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by LAURA JOFFE NUMEROFF

10.55am
Five to Eleven with Jancis Harvey

11.00am News; Weather
followed by Popeye Double Bill

11.15am The O Zone
with Andy Crane
Today Bros fly back from France with their new single and there's TV's first look at the new top 40.
Researcher LOUISE MUSGRAVE

11.25am Superman
The Deadly Rock

11.50am Bananaman
Destination Danger (R)

Weather followed by Dallas starring
The Dark at the End of the Tunnel
JR finally gets what he always wanted ... almost, but will the cost be too steep, even for him? Southfork becomes a troubled place with the latest news from Washington and confrontation becomes the name of the game ...
Written by CALVIN CLEMENTS JR Directed by LARRY HAGMAN (R)
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with Philip Hayton
Weather JOHN KETTLEY

The verdict is delivered on the youths who caused Daphne's accident. Written by SALLY WEBB Directed by TONY osicka
(Cast page 54. Repeated at 5. 35pm)
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In today's programme of non-stop music, Wendy Eathorne is the star singer and Alan Morrison the star cornet soloist.
First Old Boys Association Silver Band conductor
Alfred Burch.
Producer ALAN TONGUE
BBC Northern Ireland (R)

starring with Encounters
Karen believes she has found her husband's killer, Gary becomes a talent scout and Richard realises a dream. Writers
JAMES AND MONA HOUGHTON
Directed by ALEXANDER SINGER (R)

starring
Close Encounters
Michael becomes an object of fun after he claims to have seen a UFO. Written by CHIP. DOUG AND BOB KEYES Directed by KENT BATEMAN

with Bernard Falk
The Flying Scotsman must be the most famous railway engine in the world. At the start of this new series, Bernard Falk meets
George Hinchcliffe , the man who for the last 25 years has been the Flying Scotsman's minder.
Travelling with, and often driving, this famous locomotive, George is the envy of boys of every age. Producer KEN STEPHINSON
A FALKMAN TELEVISION production for BBCtv
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Circus Today

Andy Crane - starting with by BARRY MURRAY starring Paul Daniels Treasure
It's all bad news for
Squidgy Bog.
Directed by PHIL BISHOP (R)

Junior's Genie and Mighty Olive at Bat (R)

Truck Racer
It's new, it's exciting, it's the fastest-growing motor sport in Europe today: it's truck racing!
Peter has to learn to manoeuvre a 40-foot trailer backwards at three miles per hour before he's allowed to join the top truck racing drivers at one of the world's most famous racing tracks - the Paul Ricard Circuit in the south of France.
Film editor ROBIN imray
Producer ROB BENFIELD (R)
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with Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton Weather BILL GILES

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.
0 WRITE TO: Newsroom South East, BBC Elstree Centre. Clarendon Road. Borehamwood. Hertfordshire
WD6 1JF if you have any news.

Live and lively entertainment from Terry and his guests. Directors
TONY NEWMAN. TOM CORCORAN Producers
JANE O'BRIEN , GRAHAM OWENS Series producer PETER ESTALL

starring
Piano Movers
No normal person would agree to lift a piano up ten flights of stairs, even if it is for a friend who's entertaining a record producer and is determined to become the second Barbra Streisand. But nothing Balki does is normal....
Written by ROBERT BLAIR Directed by JOEL ZWICK
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starring written by ANDREW NICKOLDS and STAN HEY
Enterprise Zones
'This must be a mistake, right? Geezers getting money out of banks with no questions asked ! I'd better check this out.'
With TREVA ETIENNE
PHILIP FOX. MARK MONERO Music JOE DWORNIAK , DUNCAN BRIDGEMAN
Produced and directed by GEOFF POSNER (R)
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written by CARLA LANE.
Adrian buys some videos hoping to make money.
Title music by DAVID MACKAY Designer PAUL TRERISE
Produced and directed by ROBIN NASH (R)
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with Michael Buerk Weather

Blind to Science by Richard Gregory
'In Britain, public policy for science remains unimaginative and ungenerous and the British record for responding to technological innovation is a poor one,' says Professor
Richard Gregory , well-known scientist and founder of the Bristol Exploratory.
Meanwhile in Paris, the French Government has spent E500 million on a new science centre designed to promote public involvement in science and technology.
In this film Professor Gregory examines one of our national shortcomings, 'that we are blind to science'. Photography
MIKE FOX , GRAHAM SMITH
Film editor DAVID BARRETT Producer CAROL HASLAM
Executive producer DAVID PEARSON Director CHRISTOPHER HALE
A HAWKSHEAD production for BBCtv
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from the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool.
Angela Rippon introduces the second programme of this 40th anniversary series featuring the finest amateur competition dancers in the UK.
Tonight Home Counties South dance against
Scotland, and in special cabaret, the incomparable
Latin Champions Donnie Burns and Gaynor Fairweather perform a routine that helped to win them the World
Professional title for the fifth successive time!
Commentator Charles Nove Musical director ANDY Ross Arranged by ERIC MORLEY Sound JOHN DRAKE Lighting RON MINTY
Designer GARY PRITCHARD Director PETER FITTON Producer SIMON BETTS

Jimmy Perry looks back at the heyday of music hall in the 1930s and 40s. Tonight's programme includes the great Gus Elen , the male impersonator Ella Shields , and a rare chance to see Little Tich in action.
Recorded at the headquarters of the Grand Order of Water Rats in London. Written by JIMMY PERRY Produced by PAT PARRISH

1992 Is Too Late
Reporter David Lomax As 1992 and the single
European market draws nearer, are British firms preparing for this opportunity? Follow one company's efforts to break into the German market.
Assistant producer NICOLE CHURCH Series editor BRIAN DAVIES (R) (e)