6.40 Maths: Coping with Irrationality
7.05 Data Modelling - the Wood from the Trees

The Playbus stops today at the Patch Stop where Peggy bird-watches and spots oily guillemots.
Storyteller: Simon Davies. Producer Anne Gobey (R)

The babies are caught by the Hollywood bug and make their own video. Created for television by Jim Henson (R)

The boys are back in town! Charlotte Hindle joins New Kids on the Block - Danny, Donny, Joe, Jon and Jordan - on their UK tour. Back in the station,
Ross King opens a kissing gate and finds singer Sam Brown.
Also on the show: television's whizziest quiz, It's Tough at the Top, the continuing saga of Defenders of the Earth and two brand-new features - Rapattack and Photoromance.
Studio director Alan Yardley Series producer Martyn Day BBC North
(New Kids on the Block are guests on 'Wogan' on Monday at 7.00pm)

An animated adventure film featuring the voices of John Ritter, James Earl Jones, Harry Morgan, Victor Buono and James Gregory.

It is a time between the waning Age of Magic and the dawning Age of Science: a century when wizards rule the earth and dragons rule the skies. It is also an era when one man is brought back from the 20th century to help recapture the Red Crown that empowers the evil Ommadon.
FILMS: pages 16-21

With Michael Fish

Introduced by Desmond Lynam from Wembley. Provisional Timetable
12.35 Football; 1.00 News
1.05 Snooker; 2.00 Squash
2.25 Boxing; 2.40 Rugby
4.40 Final Score
Rugby League From Wembley.
Silk Cut Challenge Cup Final. Wigan v Warrington.
Live coverage of the match, with Warrington given little chance in the 'year of the underdog'. Commentators: Ray French, Alex Murphy and Martin Offiah.
Snooker
From the Crucible, Sheffield. Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship. The final begins.
Commentators: Ted Lowe Jack Kamehm and Clive Everton.
Football
1990 World Cup.
Group B - Argentina, USSR, Romania and Cameroon.
Reporter Gerald Sinstadt.
Squash
From Wembley.
Hi-Tech British Open
Women's Championship.
Martine Ie Moignan defends. Commentators: Tony Gubba and Jonah Barrington.
Boxing
From Latchmere
Leisure Centre.
Gary Jacobs v Alain Cuvillier. Commentator:
Harry Carpenter.
Television presentation:
Rugby league Keith Phillips Snooker Keith Mackenzie Squash Campbell Ferguson Boxing Bob Duncan
Producer Martin Hopkins Editor John Philips

With Moira Stuart.
Weather

Tony Robinson brings you more animated anarchy.
This week he concentrates on musical 'toons'.
Videotape editor Roy Demery Producer Nick Jones

An Australian drama series. An explosion at a gas field injures Geoff, and Kate accompanies him for therapy at Broken Hill. Will romance blossom?
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Starring Les Dawson.
Judge the seven acts on tonight's show, then cast your telephone vote for the one which impressed you most.
Programme consultant Hughie Green
Programme associate Garry Chambers
Musical director John Coleman Staging Di Cooke
Designer John Anderson Producer Stewart Morris
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A comedy by Richard Ommanney.
Sam and Daphne discover a new kind of friendship, creating a problem for Sam and Rhonda. Nick is still determined to go through with his article.
(R)
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Starring
Raymond Burr Barbara Hale
Forty million viewers and a live studio audience watch in horror as a famous film star shoots late-night chat-show host Steve Carr.
Are they witnesses to a cold-blooded murder or a cool-headed frame up?
Despite his friendship with Carr's widow, Perry takes on the case.
Screenplay by Joel Steiger Director Ron Stalof
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With Michael Buerk.
Weather

A drama series. Episode by Jacqueline Holborough. Jimmy the porter saves a man's life and finds himself in trouble with the police. Student nurse Alex finds her attempts to help a patient are not appreciated. So much for good intentions.
Series created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin
Producer Peter Norris
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Tonight's show, recorded at Paramount City Theatre in the heart of London's West End, is a smorgasbord of comedy and music.
The Rhinestone Cowboy, Julian Clary , joins
Arthur Smith and a host of sensational Anglo-American comedians.
With Jo Brand , Mark Steel and, from America,
Will Durst and Roger Kabler. With music from
Oleta Adams.
Director David G Croft Producers Juliet Blake and Trevor Hopkins
A Consolidated Comedy Division production for BBCtv

Starring
Sean Connery
Katharine Ross
Ace television reporter
Patrick Hale stumbles on a deadly nuclear arms-dealing plot while on an assignment in Hagreb, North Africa.
His investigations uncover a trail of double-talk and double-think linking international terrorists, the CIA and the world's most powerful politicians.
Before long Hale is racing to meet the most important deadline of his, or anybody else's career.
Writer/Producer/Director Richard Brooks
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