With Laurie Mayer and Jill Dando.
6.34-6.55 Business Breakfast (For full details see page 41)
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Weather followed by Open Air
Eamonn Holmes takes your queries and comments on last night's television. Call [number removed].
Gloria Hunniford discusses issues of the day with the people who matter in front of a studio audience. Producer Nicola Moody Editor Charles Miller
Weather followed by Matchpoint
Hosted by Angela Rippon.
Introduced by Simon Parkin.
Playdays
The Playbus stops today at the Playground Stop where Dave helps the children fly their kites. Presented by Dave Benson Phillips and Elizabeth Watts. Producer Barbara Roddam Executive producer Cynthia Felgate
A Felgate production for BBCtv (R)
10.50am Bunyip A cartoon series.
The birds have a sing song but the lyrebird confounds them all with a bit of Aussie nostalgia.
Voices by Jill McKay. Animation Mark Trounce
Producer/Director Anne Jolliffe (R)
Patricia Routledge reads from Julian of Norwich.
Weather followed by Open Air
With Eamonn Holmes and Jayne Irving.
Producer Malcolm Betney
Weather followed by Daytime Live
The lunchtime magazine live from Pebble Mill. Today another report from animal advocate Jim Cronin.
With Andy Craig and Judi Spiers. Editor Simon Shaw
Executive editor Steve Weddle
With Philip Hayton. Weather Bill Giles
Jane gives Harold a lesson in morality.
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Sibling rivals: a brother and a sister team play Rugby Twos; and a ladies' team from Rugby take part in their first game of the championships.
Hosted by Angela Rippon. Director Rick Gardner Producer Dave Ross BBC Elstree
Starring
Norman Wisdom Jerry Desmonde
The stirring story of Norman Pitkin , Grimsdale Dairies ' only milkman, waging war against a takeover by Consolidated's milkfloats.
Screenplay by Jack Davies ,
Norman Wisdom. Eddie Leslie and Henry Blyth
Director Robert Asher
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Introduced by Andi Peters
Laurel and Hardy
Stan and Ollie go to a haunted house.
(R)
3.55pm ChuckleVision
Starring the Chuckle Brothers. Paul and Barry set out to prove they're completely shipshape-less!
BBC North (R)
4.10pm Ovide
There's no shortage of adventures for Ovide the duck-billed platypus.
(R)
4.25pm Simon and the Witch: 9
A 13-part serial by Valerie Georgeson from a story by Margaret Stuart Barry.
Spooky things are happening as the Hallowe'en party nears.
Producer Angela Beeching Director David Bell (R)
4.35pm Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
Shredder gives futuristic laser weapons to monster Tony 'The Butcher' Vivaldi.
5.00pm Newsround
The news show for children.
5.10pm The Lowdown: Fighting for Breath
Real life stories about children today, told by children themselves.
'Having asthma is a real pain. When you have an attack your airways close up and you can't breathe in or out. You make a wheezing sound. It's very frightening.' The words of 11 -year-old Gayle Blackman, victim of the most common childhood disease in Britain. Gayle's asthma became so bad that she was urged to go to
Pilgrims in Sussex, Europe's only boarding school for asthmatics. The Lowdown follows her progress. Director Phil Shepherd
Executive producer Eric Rowan
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With Peter Sissons and Anna Ford.
Weather Ian McCaskill
Helen Atkinson Wood hosts another instalment of this show, where a celebrity panel guesses the lifestyle of two unusual guests drawn from the general public. Director Gordon Elsbury Producer Andy Lipman Executive producer Janet Street Porter
A Wall to Wall TV production for BBCtv
Episode by Tony Jordan.
Den Watts is buried, but will the most important mourner be present at the funeral? And Nick Cotton gets an unwelcome blast from the past.
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A comedy series by Peter Spence starring
Penelope Keith Peter Bowles
An old friend of Audrey and Marjory comes to stay.
Designer Ian Rawnsley
Producer Gareth Gwenlan (R)
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Last in the series.
With Bill Beaumont :
Barry McGuigan Former boxing featherweight world champion
Ann Brigtitwell
The only British woman to win an Olympic track title. With Ian Botham :
Gareth Edwards
Former Welsh rugby union star Mick Channon
Played football for England nearly 50 times.
Plus the result of the Viewers' Mystery Guest Competition.
Questionmaster: David Coleman.
Producer Mick Dempsey
Executive producer Mike Adley Answer: athlete Roger Black and former Arsenal footballer Pat Rice
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By the Labour Party
With Michael Buerk.
Regional News; Weather
A two-part political thriller based on the novel by Morris West .
Starring
Caroline Goodall
Martin Shaw
1: Just before his death, Charles Pamell Cassidy , premier of New South Wales, makes an unofficial trip to London to see his estranged daughter Charlie and his grandson. Charlie soon learns that family reconciliation was not
Cassidy's only motive for the visit. He leaves her a legacy of political and business corruption worth millions, together with a challenge.
Screenplay by Joanna Murray Smith
Director Carl Schultz
A Five Arrows production
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Internal Affairs is a thriller with Richard Gere as a crooked cop. When the Internal Affairs Department investigates a case, they discover Gere is involved with underworld dealings.
See You in the Morning stars Jeff Bridges and Farrah Fawcett as a couple whose marriage fails. When
Bridges later meets and marries a woman with her own children, he finds his affections have to be shared between his own and his adopted family.
And Jessica Lange talks about her role in her forthcoming film Music Box, directed by Costa-Gavras. Director Catus Julyan
Producer Bruce Thompson
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