(R)

with Nicholas Witchell and Kirsty Wark.

BBC Bristol
(R)
(Ceefax subtitles)

Presented by Susan Hicks.
(R)
(Ceefax subtitles)

Weather followed by Four Square

Simon Parkin - starting with

Playbus: The Playground Stop
Where the children make signs for their street and Lizzie uses her hands instead.
Presenter: Dave Benson Phillips.
Puppeteer: Jane Eve.
Storyteller: Anthony Lapsley.
(R)

Barney's Big Spring Clean (R)

with Anna Carteret.

Cameraman Sid Perou, with the help of the Cave Diving Group, has been underground in Northern England and the West Country to recreate some of the dramatic happenings in the hidden depths.
Narrator: Ken Cooper

Heathers (R)

Scalp hunters arrive disguised as lawmen. (R)

with Philip Hayton.
Weather John Kettley

Gail meets her 'real' father while Scott, Mike and Pete discover a new world outside Ramsey Street.
(Cast page 34. Repeated at 5.35pm)
(Ceefax subtitles)

Hosted by John Sachs.
Another first round of Four Square where the contestants are asked to 'Face the Maze' and 'Pair the Squares' when they play the game with the 'gremlins'.

BBC Elstree

Starring Alan Ladd

Neale, Pedro and Bill are three high-flying, hell-raising pilots on the Calcutta-Chungking route. But they are brought down to earth when Bill is murdered for no apparent reason.

Films: page 16

Introduced by Andy Crane - starting with

Doodle
(R)

4.05pm Laurel and Hardy: Plumber Pudding
(R)

4.10pm Heathcliff with Cats and Co: Heathcliff Gets Canned; Wacked Out

4.35pm Wildside
The ozone layer is the Earth's space-suit, so how can the hole in it be fixed?
Charles Guest films the badgers and foxes in his garden. Golden Lion Tamarins are almost extinct. Can zoos save them? Christopher Ambler finds out!
(Ceefax Subtitles)

5.00pm Newsround

5.10pm Grange Hill: Episode 5
by Kay Trainor.
Susi and Chrissy find a way to get some nice, new clothes.
(For cast see page 55)
(R)
(Ceefax subtitles)

(Ceefax subtitles)

with John Humphrys and Andrew Harvey.

Weather Bill Giles

Peter Macann, Howard Stableford and Judith Hann survey what's new in science, technology and medicine, in Britain and around the world.

This week: why the Japanese have designed a skyscraper with a four ton weight on the top; and the solar power station in the middle of Europe's only desert.

by Juliet Ace.
"If Arthur's there, he'll murder you, Ricky. I wouldn't be in your shoes for all the tea in China..."
(For cast see page 49)
(Ceefax subtitles)

by David Croft and Jimmy Perry.

In which our heroes discover an unexploded bomb in the vault of Captain Mainwaring's bank.
and the voice of Bud Flanagan. (R)

A series of seven programmes.

7.30am: the Scottish Highlands. In driving rain and freezing conditions, George Rafferty operates on a reindeer high up on Cairngorm.
Midnight: shotguns fire all around Grantown-on-Spey to welcome a new year. New Year's morning brings an emergency operation on a dog with a swollen womb. For George a successful recovery would be the most rewarding way to start the new year.

(Ceefax subtitles)

with Michael Buerk.

Regional News; Weather

by Murray Smith.
A series of ten programmes.

Frank settles in at the Paradise Club, Danny's would-be assassins are on trial for attempted murder and the outrageous Great Crane Robbery seals the fate of Glasgow gangster Elliot Rossini.
A Zenith production for BBCtv
(Ceefax subtitles)

Erik the Viking is the brainchild of Terry Jones, who originally conceived the idea as a children's story. He has now brought his vision to the screen with a welter of special effects. Tim Robbins, Mickey Rooney and John Cleese star.

On location Kenneth Branagh, in keeping up with his reputation as the new Olivier, has taken on the daunting task of remaking Henry V. Comparison with the original will be inevitable, and Branagh explains how his version will differ from the 1944 original.

Barry Norman: page 16

Patricia Routledge, the actress, associates heaven with the popping of champagne corks, an orchestra tuning up, and the sound of her mother's voice. Talking to Bishop Richard Holloway, she movingly shares how the deaths of people she loved affect the way she lives today.

Starring Robert Urich

Fired for failing to prevent the kidnapping of the daughter of a wealthy conductor, Spenser discovers the sinister reason for the girl's abduction - a reason that the father wishes to conceal.