Starting with 6.30-6.55 Business Breakfast
News headlines or summaries every quarter hour.
Summer entertainment with Simon Parkin ,
Philippa Forrester and Esther McVey.
9.05 Bravestarr 9.25
Ipso Facto 10.00 News; Regional News; Weather
10.05 Playdays - the Playground Stop 10.25 Clockwise
and Regional News; Weather
Classic western series. A former gun-fighter's new life as a ranch-hand is put in jeopardy.
Andy Crane visits the Greek island of Mykonos.
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and Regional News; Weather
The giant panda was once plentiful in China's mountainous bamboo forest. Today, only 1,000 remain. Can international efforts to breed the panda and preserve its habitat safeguard its future?
A National Geographic Society/ WQED production
12.55 Regional News; Weather
Followed by Weather
Joe discovers he hasn't got what it takes to be a childminder and Kerry has trouble getting her big news through to him.
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Freshwater Fish.
Gilli Davies discovers the relative merits of wild brown trout and its farmed rainbow cousin.
A portrait of actress Jessie Matthews.
John Pitman tells the bitter-sweet story of the girl who rose from the backstreets of Soho to become Britain's leading lady. With contributions from Dirk Bogarde , Harry Matthews , Lord and Lady Elwyn Jones ,
Catherine Countess Grixoni , Vincent Shaw and Chili Bouchier.
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England v West Indies Further live coverage of the final day's play in the third Test from Trent Bridge. With Tony Lewis.
Clay animation from Italy.
Introduced by Andi Peters.
The All New Popeye Show
Cartoon capers with the spinach-guzzling sailor. (Rpt)
Featuring a spider that walks on water, a snail that drills through rock, Britain's most dangerous bird and the world's fastest crabs. With Terry Nutkins , Nicola Davies and Chris Packham.
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The news for children.
Children's drama.
My Son the Banker
Mark Wedloe causes a panic at the bank when he brings in his best friend,
Ben the bear, as collateral for a loan.
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With Peter Sissons and Anna Ford.
Weather Michael Fish
A series celebrating sporting activities for both participants and armchair athletes. Plus profiles of the people behind sport. This week
Paula Hamilton puts on her hiking boots to go climbing in the French Alps. Meet America's sexiest sportsmen on the volley ball circuit who earn millions in sponsorship money and attract groupies known as the 'volley dollies'. And try your hand at reeling in a conger eel with John Fashanu and Jim Allen who must land a 401b whopper if they are to gain entry to the Conger Eel Club of Great Britain.
Series producer Jaswinder Banal
A Hewland International production for BBCtv
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Ricky and Sam arrive back in the Square to face the music. Meanwhile, Grant's return brings a dilemma for Sharon.
Episode written by Rob Gittins
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A second chance to see
Michael Aitkens 's comedy series about the eccentric inhabitants of the Bayview Retirement Village. Starring
Graham Crowden
Stephanie Cole
Tom Ballard is dumped by his son and daughter-in-law at
Bayview. Tom, an idealist and bird impersonator, meets
Diana Trent , an acid-tongued pessimist and it's blood at first sight. But when Tom takes on the yuppie management over the question of the revolting food he finally gains a grudging repect from Diana. Stephanie Cole may be familiar to many as the prison-camp doctor from
Tenko and Graham Crowden as the lovable, whisky-sodden Dr McCannon from Andrew
Davies's satire A Very Peculiar Practice.
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Jim Davidson is the host as tonight's snooker stars play against the clock on behalf of contestants, with time won for them by their partners' general knowledge. This week, Canada's Cliff Thorburn plus quick-fire potters
Steve James and Neal Foulds partner the contestants, while good-humoured order will be kept, as usual, by able assistant and referee John 'Mr Trick Shot' Virgo. Director Nick Hurran
Producer John Burrowes
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Martyn Lewis with the latest national and international news from correspondents at home and abroad. Regional News Weather
Michael Fish
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First showing on I network television, of this powerful 1988 thriller based on what has been called the most violent and bloody shoot-out in FBI history. Starring
David Soul
Michael Gross
Starsky and Hutch heart-throb and erstwhile pop star David Soul forsakes his usual good-guy roles to play a partner in crime in this drama based on an incident in Miami in 1986. Mike and Bill seem to live unremarkable, everyday suburban lives, but behind their masks of normality lie deeply disturbed personalities which lead them inexorably to commit robbery and cold-blooded murder.
Director Dick Lowry
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Emmy award-winning crime series about two tough, fast-talking New York women detectives.
Starring
Sharon Gless
Tyne Daly
Ordinary Hero. While a counterfeit jeans racket makes Cagney blue, the case of Eddie Carrena disturbs Mary Beth. Awarded a medal for courage in helping a mugger, the ensuing publicity reveals
Eddie as an illegal immigrant who is threatened with deportation back to Chile. Can the land of the free also be the home of the brave?
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