Yabba dabba doo! Roll on down to Bedrock to meet that most modern of Stone Age families.
(R)
Nicholas Witchell and Jill Dando with the most comprehensive news programme available in the morning.
Ceefax Breakfast Service: call up page 400 on teletext.
Eamonn Holmes and Jayne Irving are waiting to take your calls on [number removed]. And Roy Sheppard is out-and-about on the road.
If it's on your mind or in the news, Robert Kilroy-Silk and his studio audience are debating the subject.
Studio Audience: to participate, ring [number removed].
hosted by John Sachs.
introduced by Simon Parkin - starting with
Playbus
which stops today at The Patch Stop at Rotherhithe, London, where Sam Patch meets a swan and a water boatman.
Patch's friend .... AMBER LEIGH Storyteller: Brian Cant. Director ROGER DACIER
Producer ANNE GOBEY (R)
10.50am Rupert the Bear
based on the stories by Alfred Bestall.
Rupert and the Sea Sprites
Storyteller: Ray Brooks. (R)
with Barry Foster.
Join Eamonn Holmes and Jayne Irving in the Open Air studio. Call [number removed] to take part.
Roy Sheppard is on the road bringing the camera to the viewers. Behind the Scenes joins Michael Caine and Cheryl Ladd on location during the making of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
with Alan Titchmarsh and Judy Spiers.
The lunchtime magazine live from Pebble Mill including the latest on healthy living from Diana Moran in Fabulous at 50.
Plus a live outside broadcast reunites old friends in We'll Meet Again.
Philip Hayton with the latest news and comment from Britain and around the world.
Weather Suzanne Charlton
Mrs Mangel reveals
'something nasty in the woodshed'. Henry sets a trap for the phantom graffiti artist.
Written by PENNY FRASER Directed by TONY OSICKA
(Cast page 44. Repeated at 5.35pm)
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hosted by John Sachs.
After eight weeks and 32 contestants, Four Square is down to the last two - one of them will be selecting bus, train, boat or plane to whisk them off on a trip of a lifetime.
Q: Who will it be?
A: The Four Square champion of 1989. Director NICK VAUGHAN BARRATT Producer DAVE ross
starring and
Charles Strickland is a London stockbroker with responsibilities, who abandons everything to become a painter.
Produced by DAVID L. LOEW Adapted and directed by ALBERT LEWIN
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introduced by Andy Crane - starting with Poddington Peas
3.55pm Penny Crayon: Silly Daydream
Written and created by Peter Maddocks
Producer Simon Maddocks Director Guy Maddocks
4.10pm Clockwise: Grand Final
Presenter: Charlotte Hindle. Roly and Rebecca from Stroud, Rhys and Miriam from Aberaeron and Matthew and Lucy from Torquay compete to become Clockwise champions of 1989. Executive producer
Christopher Pilkington Director Claire Winyard Producer Sally Fraser
4.20pm Fantastic Max: Journey to the Centre of My Sister: 2
A sinister virus alien invades Zoe and our heroes have to miniaturise down to capture him.
4.35pm Bluebirds: A six-part series by Angela Ince and Shirley Lowe. 5: Hostages
Incidental music Jonathan Cohen Designer Pia Graham Producer Jeremy Swan
5.00pm Newsround
5.05pm Blue Peter: with Caron Keating, Yvette Fielding and John Leslie.
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with John Humphrys and Moira Stuart.
Weather Ian McCaskill
by Jane Galletly.
'He can't just come right out with it, Sharon. He needs time to explain. There's the children to think of'.
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Les Dawson has become a comedy institution and that's where he belongs - judge for yourself in this half-hour of song, dance and humour. Special guest stars: Brian Blessed and David Essex with Brenda Cochrane
Lia Malcolm and Jay Jolley. Musical director JOHN COLEMAN
Choreography GRAHAM FLETCHER Script editor CHARUE ADAMS Written by LES DAWSON.
CHARLIE ADAMS. PAUL ALEXANDER. GAVIN OSBON and ANDY WALKER Sound HUGH BARKER
Lighting DICKIE HIGHAM Design JOHN ANDERSON
Production STEWART MORRIS
starring Susie Blake, Mike Doyle, James Gaddas, Mike Hayley and Caroline Leddy.
Original humour from performers who guarantee something different for the weekend - even on Thursday - including a look at Britain on the 27th day of a national traffic jam.
with Philip Hayton. Regional News Weather
With Peter Sissons are: Eric Forth , mp Ian Hislop
Sir Russell Johnston , MP Ann Taylor , MP Director
ANN MORLEY
Producer Editor SUE ROBERTSON BARBARA MAXWELL
starring and Open and Shut Case
A homicide case crumbles. Written by TERRY FISHER and STEVE BROWN
Directed by NICK SGARRO (R)
Fourth of six programmes. Martyn Lewis and Lynne Perrie examine the various treatments available. Several have received a bad press in the past but progress in controlling side-effects is helping to improve the quality of patients' lives. Cameraman ASHLEY ROWE
Director RICHARD TRAYLER-SMTTH Producer SARAH BREWSTER
A Prospect Pictures production forBBCtv
