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Simon Parkin gets fit after the culinary delights of Christmas, while Andi Peters and Philippa Forrester just watch TV, starting with Cartoon based on the stories by Alfred Bestall.
Adventures of a zany bunch of puppets. (R)
Cartoon adventures of a duck-billed platypus. (R)
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Cartoon. Touche Turtle is an unlikely musketeer. (R)
The magical adventures of Wizbit and the residents of Puzzleopolis. Professor Doom makes a doppelganger.It's all very confuddling.
With Paul Daniels. (R)
Cartoon. Will Mighty Mouse marry Pearl Pureheart? (R)
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Cartoon. Sailor Popeye now has a son, Popeye Jr. (R)
Intruders in uniform, something in sheepskin, and someone in a poncho. Yes it's the wild west of Liverpool! Director Alex Lonsdale
Producer Trevor Stephenson Long
Cartoon. Quick Draw McGraw with his sidekick Baba Looey sets out to clean up the west.
The Christmas Tree Stop.
Today's stories are The Little Fir Tree (trad) and Twelve
Cats for Christmas by Martin Leman. With
Vanessa Amberleigh , Simon Harbrow and Ellie Darvill. (R)
A cartoon based on Peanuts by Charles M Schulz. (R)
A look back at some of the hits of 1990. Today: January-June. (July-December tomorrow at 10.50am)
Starring
Danny Kaye
The biography of brash
Dixieland cornet player 'Red' Nichols, whose ambition is to form a band of his own. Louis Armstrong HIMSELF
Director Melville Shavelson * FILMS: pages 51-64
With Philip Hayton. Weather Bill Giles
Joe finds out who has been stealing his work.
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Starring
Michael Caine
Stanley Baker Jack Hawkins
1879: Cetewayo, ruler of the Zulu kingdom, inflicts a heavy defeat upon the British army at Isandhlwana and marches towards the small garrison of Rorke's Drift. Two officers desperately rally their meagre forces: eight officers and 97 men against 4,000 Zulus.
Director Cy Endfield
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Introduced by Andi Peters.
A two-part children's drama set in 19th-century Australia. 1: Mischievous 8-year-old
Ned O'Day has few hopes for a Christmas present until a remarkable thing happens - he thinks he sees Santa Claus.
(R) (Part 2 tomorrow at 3.50pm)
Dinosaurs were huge, agile, dangerous, caring, vegetarian animals, not just piles of bones. Watch them come to life with Terry Nutkins , Chris Packham and Sue Dawson.
Producer Paul Appleby
All your favourite moments including Edd the Duck helping Yvette Fielding in the studio, John Leslie with Britain's worst football team and Diane-Louise Jordan learning to be a firefighter. And there are spectacular performances by the Georgian State Dancers, Young Musican of the Year and the Boys.
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With Philip Hayton.
Weather Michael Fish
A contest of endurance from
Joensuu, Finland, for the Daf Trophy. Competitors are: J P Sigmarsson (Iceland); 0 D Wilson (USA); Adrian Smith (Great Britain); Ilkka Nummisto (Finland); Aap
Uspenski (Estonia, USSR); Laszlo Fekete (Hungary); Tjalling Van Den Bosch (Netherlands);
Henning Thorsen (Denmark). With Bill McFarlan and Jamie Reeves. Producer Simon Betts
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A special Christmas edition of the comedy series by Roy Clarke.
Starring Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde
It's Boxing Day, and Barry is in big trouble. Will Foggy's prized Christmas present come to his rescue?
Picture story: page 95
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Celebrates its 21st birthday. David Coleman tests the former captains.
On Bill Beaumont 's team:
Willie Carson champion jockey and Brendan Foster 1971
5,000m European Champion. On Ian Botham 's team:
Emlyn Hughes the former
Liverpool and England captain. Gareth Edwards the former
Wales and Lions scrum-half.
Executive producer Mike Adley ● SPORT: page 27
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With Michael Buerk.
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Weather Michael Fish
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This year saw the end of the Thatcher era, a united
Germany, the release of Nelson Mandela , World Cup mania and the Gulf crisis.
Jonathan Dimbleby presents a review of 1990 from key locations around the world and talks to some of the people behind the stories.
Producer Rosalind Erskine
First showing on network television. Comedian Lenny Henry filmed in performance at the Hackney Empire in 1989. With Jeff Beck and Robbie Coltrane.
Director Andy Hames 0 FILMS: pages 51-64
