Cartoon adventures of a duck-billed platypus.

Third of a 15-part nature series. In the Water or Through the Air Bees collect pollen while the water shrew fishes. Music and narration by Derek Griffiths. • STEREO

Space-age cartoon fun.

Fun with the Chuckle brothers.
Perils of Porters. Paul and Barry become hospital porters. • STEREO

Cartoon adventures. The kids visit the Hall of Bones.

Pop stars Chesney Hawkes and Dannii Minogue and organist Carlo Curley provide this morning's music in the studio, and there's a chance to Get Your Own Backon quiz presenter Dave Benson Phillips. Paula Danziger recommends what's worth reading in Book It!and there's a competition to win a trip to Florida to celebrate Fred
Flintstone's 30th birthday. Plus Peter Simon with Double Dare and more cartoon action with Thundercats. With Sarah Greene, Phillip Schofield, Nick Ball and James Hickish.

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Introduced by Steve Rider.
Provisional Timetable
12.20 Football; 12.40 Motor sport
1.00 News; 1.05 Swimming
2.00 Racing; 2.15Trampolining
2.35 Racing; 2.50 Trampolining
3.10 Racing; 3.25 Gymnastics
3.50 Football; 4.00 Gymnastics
4.35 Final Score
Football
A roundup of the week's first round second leg European action.
Gymnastics and Trampolining From the National Indoor
Arena, Birmingham.
Gymnastics Classic
Following the opening of the five day Coca Cola Festival of Sport, this event features many of the competitors who performed in the recent World Championships in Indianapolis. Commentary by Barry Davies and Mitch Fenner.
Trampoline World Cup An annual event in which
Britain takes on nine of the top European nations and some of the best Canadian competitors. Britain has won the women's title seven of the nine times it has been held. With Hamilton Bland.
Swimming
Coverage from Birmingham continues with the Speedo Fastwater International.
Commentary by Hamilton Bland and Andy Jameson.
Racing
From Chepstow.
BBCtv's first televised National
Hunt meeting of the season.
2.05 South Wales Showers
Supplies Hurdle Race (H'Cap. 3m)
2.40 Mercedes Benz
Steeplechase (H'Cap. 3m)
3.15 Timeform Hurdle (2m). With Peter O'Sullevan and Richard Pitman.
Motor Racing
Round 12 of the Esso British
Touring Car Championship from Thruxton. Commentary by Murray Walker.
Gymnastics and trampoliningtelevision presentation Barbara Slater Producer Martin Hopkins

Trivia quiz presented by Andrew O'Connor. Which of tonight's three contestants will win the chance to play for this week's holiday of a lifetime? Director Bill Morton
Executive producer Stephen Leahy An Action Time production for BBCtv STEREO
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Family pairs compete to see who will go for the conveyor belt and its host of prizes. With Rosemarie Ford.
Director John Gorman Producer David Taylor • STEREO
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Anneka Rice enlists the help of an undertaker, a town crier, a blacksmith and dozens of scaffolders to help with this week's challenge. Directors David Cumming and Tom Guttendge
A Mentom production forBBCtv
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Starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson.

A dull weekend turns into a very painful lesson for Dorien.
Episode written by Peter Tilbury
An Alomo production for BBCtv
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Dorien is stood up and a potential dull weekend ensues until she persuades Tracey and Sharon to go on an adventure weekend with her which turns into a painful lesson indeed...

The sixth in the lavish 12-part drama set in London during the 1920s, devised by Upstairs, Downstairs creators Eileen
Atkins and Jean Marsh. Starring Stella Gonet Louise Lombard
Having decided to set up in business, Beatrice and Evie try to get financial backing.
Episode written by Michael Robson Producer Jeremy Gwilt
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Having decided to set up in business, Beatrice and Evie try to get financial backing for their venture.

With Michael Buerk.
Weather Bernard Davey
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Clive James casts a wry eye over the world's small screens and from them culls the fastest and the funniest television anywhere. He also gives his own unique interpretation of the week's international news, while commentators and celebrity guests beam in by satellite from around the world.
James is joined in the studio by his special guest, the American writer and actress
Carrie Fisher.
Series producer Beatrice Ballard
Executive producer Richard Drewett

Thriller starring
Angie Dickinson
Lynda Carter
When TV reporter Patricia Traymore begins a profile of the glamorous Senator Abigail Winslow she is plunged into a series of mysterious and frightening events that threaten to engulf her.
A haunted home, a deadly secret and a murder years before are just the beginning.
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First showing on network television for this terrifying thriller, starring Gerald McRaney Shawnee Smith
Christopher Wilder is a psychopath wanted across
America for the abduction and assault of teenage girls.
Attractive and credible he lures
16-year-old Tina Risico into his car, beginning a terrifying mental and physical ordeal.
Gerald McRaney is well known for his role as Major Dad in the series of the same name which was recently seen on BBCtv.
Director Sandor Stem • FILMS: pages 39-44