6.30-6.55 Business Breakfast
News headlines or summaries every quarter hour.
Topical discussion programme.
Today: asparagus with speck (an Italian dried bacon) and baked savoy cabbage. Recipe on Ceefax page 615
and Regional News; Weather
With Philippa Forrester.
The Christmas Tree Stop.
Animation.
The Christmas Roadshow from somewhere in Britain.
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and Regional News; Weather
With Mike Smith and Kate Copstick. Family quiz show. • STEREO
Russell Grant meets more celebrities and their pets. Debi Jones continues her karaoke capers, and Miriam Stoppard talks to women in the news.
With Mairi Maciver.
and Regional News; Weather
Presented byjudi Spiers. • STEREO
Followed by Weather
Madge makes a blunder which could ruin Joe's custody chances.
(For cast see Monday. Rptd at 5.35pm)
(Stereo)
(Teletext subtitles: page 888)
Hosted by Henry Kelly.
A tense drama starring
Eric Portman Paris, 1913: the relationship between a skilled safecracker and a police chief is complicated by the fact that they are both attracted to the same girl.
Director Robert Hamer
* FILMS: pages 55-64
With Andi Peters.
Bodger and Badger
Last part in the comedy drama. Badger's having a bath because it's class photograph time.
(Stereo)
Cartoon. (Repeat)
Last part of the science fiction comedy thriller. Somebody is up to no good. Sean suspects the Brigadier and Giselle. • STEREO
Documentary series. Sarah Bates tries to find out why death is a taboo subject. • STEREO
The news for children.
Children's fantasy drama.
At Webster Junior High School Hot Rod Brown entertains the class instead of studying. But he needs to pass his exams. With Tobey Maguire and Whoopi Goldberg.
(For cast see Monday. Shown at 1.30pm) STEREO
TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
With Anna Ford and Chris Lowe.
Weather Peter Cockroft
General knowledge game show hosted by Paul Daniels. Director Tony Newman Producer Stanley Appel • STEREO
Dot Cotton tries to force Nick to face up to the truth.
Episodes written by Michael Russell
(Stereo)
(Teletext Subtitles: page 888)
David Coleman tests the stars.
Ian Botham lines up with the England and British Lions hooker Brian Moore , and five times World Darts Champion Eric Bristow. Bill Beaumont is joined by Liverpool and England striker John Barnes , and Nottinghamshire and England all-rounder Chris Lewis.
Executive producer Mike Adley
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• TELETEXTSUBTITLES: page 888 • COMPETITION: page 10
• IAN BOTHAM 'S KIND OF DAY: page 122
John Humphrys with the latest national and international news stories from correspondents at home and abroad.
Regional News Weather
Peter Cockroft
* TELETEXT SUBTITLES (news): page 888
The conclusion of a two-part drama based on the true story of a marriage that turned into a nightmare. Starring
Michael Biehn
Charles Raynor 's increasingly eccentric and violent behaviour finally drives his wife Katherine away. She packs her bags and returns to her parents' home in Albuquerque where she establishes a successful nursery school. To her psychotic husband, this is an unforgivable crime and he sets about plotting his revenge.
Some time later he arrives in Albuquerque with a briefcase filled with guns, a rope, firecrackers, knives, pins and surgical gloves, ready to perform macabre surgery on the person he hates most. With guest star Cloris Leachman. (For cas r see Monday) • DRAMA: page 4
• FILMS: pages 55-64
A critical look at the week's cinema releases.
In the last regular edition of the year, Barry Norman previews The People under the Stairs, a gory tale of the haves and have-nots of the post-Reagan era from writer and director
Wes Craven.
Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster , whose films include Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone and, more recently, Silence of the Lambs, marks her feature-film directing debut by talking about her film
Little Man Tate. It is the remarkable story of Fred Tate , played by Adam Hann-Byrd , a 7-year-old genius being brought up by his single mother.
And Delicatessen, an anarchic black comedy from France. In the current season of festive over indulgence, this film could well make you decide to become a vegetarian. Director Shaun Williams
Producer Bruce Thompson * STEREO
* COMPETITION: nng0[number removed].
Calls are charged at 36p per minute cheap rate. 48p at all other times. 0 BARRY NORMAN : page 52
The ex-cleaning lady from
Big Pond in Nova Scotia, Rita MacNeil , has taken Europe by storm this year. Tonight she is in concert at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh with some of her greatest hits - Flying on Your Own, Walk On Through, Steal Me A way and the title track from her new album, Home I'll Be. She also completes a family pilgrimage to the Scottish islands of Barra from which her forebears migrated almost two centuries ago. The result is her latest song, The Crossing. Producer David Martin Director David G Croft • STEREO
