Yabba dabba doo! Roll on down to Bedrock to meet that most modern of Stone Age families.
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Starting with news summary and 6.34-6.55 Breakfast Business The latest business and financial news from
Paul Burden , Fiona Foster and the Breakfast Business team.
6.55am Weather; local news and travel.
7.00am Nicholas Witchell and Jill Dando with the most comprehensive television news programme available in the morning.
Newspaper reviews from Paul Callan.
Weather: Francis Wilson. (For full details see page 30)
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A whole morning of holiday entertainment introduced by Simon Parkin, Andi Peters and Lisa Jones and starting with
Pop Pirates
A school-boy pop group called The Pirates find themselves involved with a different sort of piracy when they discover a secret tape-copying factory.
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Weather followed by Going for Gold
Starting with Playbus
Which stops today at
At Yattendon, Berkshire, where Peggy Patch prepares for Christmas and looks for a reindeer.
Storyteller: Brian Cant.
Story: Tosca's Christmas, illustrated by Anne Mortimer , written by Matthew Sturgis. Music JONATHAN COHEN Producer ANNE GOBEY
Written by Grange Calveley. When It Was Christmas
Told by Richard Briers.
Animation by BOB GODFREY (R)
With Cyril Shaps.
Weather followed by Christmas
Children's BBC
Starting with Lyle the Crocodile
An animated story of the world's cleverest crocodile. When the Primm family move into a house on East
88th Street, the last thing they expect to find is a juggling, dancing crocodile called Lyle. Narrated by Tony Randall. Director MICHAEL SPOORN
Is this the end of an era?
Linus and Lucy are about to leave the neighbourhood and Charlie Brown can only wonder about the future. Based on characters created by CHARLES M. SCHULTZ
Weather followed by Daytime Live
With Alan Titchmarsh ,
Judi Spiers and Andy Craig. Step into Christmas with music and entertainment live from Pebble Mill.
With Martyn Lewis.
Weather Bernard Davey.
The Ramsay Street 'mosquito plague' turns into a ticklish problem.
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Hosted by Henry Kelly.
Starring and When their mother falls ill on holiday in France, the Grey children find themselves marooned in a chateau hotel.
For 16-year-old Joss this is the last summer of innocence, as she takes responsibility for her siblings and falls in love with the debonair Eliot.
Screenplay by HOWARD KOCH. Based on the novel by RUMER GODDEN
Produced by VICTOR SAVILLE Directed by LEWIS GILBERT
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Introduced by Andy Crane and starting with
Between the mad marshes and the Venetian Jetty, the Virgin forest and the mysterious caverns, there's no shortage of adventures for Ovide the duck-billed platypus.
The Invisible Strength Potion (R)
Bringing Up Norky
When young Norky comes to stay he causes trouble by eating all the cookies and blaming Wicket.
By Martin Waddell. 4: The Wings Test
Told for Jackanory by Christopher Timothy.
Vital world events and the latest in sport, in school and in space make up Britain's top news show for children.
With Caron Keating, Yvette Fielding and John Leslie
Christmas Carols! Your Christmas starts here, complete with last-minute ideas for presents, our special entertainment and carols around the tree.
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(Shown at 1.30pm)
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Anna Ford and Andrew Harvey present the latest stories and pictures from
Britain and around the world. Weather Ian McCaskill.
by Paul Doust.
"Let me introduce myself Mr Beale. I'm an Environmental Health Officer."
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Starring Les Dawson.
Join Les and his friends for lots of fun and frolics in the comedy quiz show with fabulous prizes. This week's special guests are: Ray Clemence, Pat Coombs, Barry Cryer, Derek Hatton, Aimi MacDonald and Lisa Maxwell.
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Andrea visits a knitters' Nirvana - Whitfield in Sussex, where pensioner Keith Soper, has taken on the mammoth task of constructing a new Community Centre in wool! (Answer to last week's quiz: Cast off three and don't steam the reverse side.)
Written by and starring Victoria Wood.
With Patricia Hodge, Deborah Grant, Phyllis Calvert, Lill Roughley, Roger Brierley, John Nettleton, Jim Broadbent, Bryan Burdon, Celia Imrie, Susie Blake, Richard Lintern, Dawn Archibald and Susan Leong.
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Victoria succumbs to pressure from her friend Jane to go to a party and ends up, just as she fears, in a room full of strangers. A strategy for social survival has to be developed.
With Martyn Lewis and BBC reporters around the world. Regional News; Weather
Starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones.
The Undiscovered Version With Chris Langham Rosemary Martin and Heather Tobias. And in Olympus III
Original music by PETER BREWIS Written by CLIVE ANDERSON
ROBIN DRISCOLL. GRAEME GARDEN SIMON GREENALL. CHRIS LANGHAM PETE MCCARTHY. GRIFF RHYS JONES MEL SMITH , PAUL SMITH and TERRY KYAN
Director JOHN KILBY Producer JAMIE RIX
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Sketches starring Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith with Chris Langham, Rosemary Martin and Heather Tobias. The head-to-head 'duologue' is on the subject of rock concerts.
By Carla Lane. It is Christmas Eve. Bruce and Renee speak to us from the appropriate corners of their home and we discover that, after 23 years of marriage, they know absolutely nothing about each other.
Producer Fiona Finlay Director Guy Slater
Starring and
Jason Rhodes has been living a nightmare for over ten years, certain that his son is still alive in a forgotten POW camp in Laos. Frustrated by the proper channels he takes matters into his own hands, and recruits a team of crack Vietnam veterans.
Written by JOE GAYTON
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