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With Philippa Forrester.
The Playground Stop. ● STEREO
Animation.
Kenny Everett presents the celebrity improvisation quiz.
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Pam Rhodes discovers how counselling can help families get to know each other and looks at talking therapies for young people.
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Presented by Miriam Stoppard and Adrian Mills. With Debi Jones.
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With guests Lorraine Chase , Anna Karen (best known as Olive in On the Buses) and singer Marc Almond. * STEREO
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Word game presented by Rob Curling.
Seafaring drama, starring Alan Ladd Boston 1830s: determined to expose brutality in the merchant navy, Richard Henry Dana sets sail under the command of the notorious Captain Thompson. With Howard da Silva, Brian Donlevy and William Bendix.
Director John Farrow • FILMS: pages 37-42
With Andi Peters.
Animation.
Cartoon.
First of a three-part story told for Jackanory by Sandi Toksvig.
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Cartoon.
From the Welsh Mountain Zoo.
How budgies sleep on swaying branches, and a look at the world through insect eyes.
Plus arctic hares, fishy dragons and dangerous larvae. STEREO
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News for children.
Tony Robinson's six-part comedy.
The Sheriff invents a fabulous new game, and Robin gives the merry men a new colour co-ordinated look.
(Rpt) (Part 4 on Friday at 5.05pm)
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With Peter Sissons and Anna Ford.
Weather Rob McElwee
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Reports on an action-packed holiday on New Zealand's South Island which offers a lot more than sheep; a weekend break in Belgium which takes in the medieval city of Bruges; and a National Trust working holiday in Shropshire - take your shovel and pick for one of the cheapest breaks in Britain. Presented by Anneka Rice. Producer Simon Shaw
Series producer Jane Lush
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Pat plays surrogate mother to Mandy. Will Frank play the father role?
This week's episodes written by Tony Jordan
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Written by John Sullivan , starring Paul Nicholas , Jan Francis How does Penny tell Vince that she doesn't want to see him anymore when he hasn't contacted her for three weeks?
Director/Producer Ray Butt
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World snooker champion John Parrott captains the side facing Bill Beaumont 's team as David Coleman questions the stars. Plus round 4 in the viewers'
Mystery Guest competition. Executive producer Mike Adley
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With Michael Buerk.
Regional News
Weather Rob McElwee
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By the Labour Party
Last in the drama series about an all-woman minicab firm, written by Carole Hayman.
Building. It's supposed to be celebration night at Rides but Patrice is beside herself when
Beki runs away from home.
Producer Lavinia Warner
Director Diana Patrick
A Warner Sisters production for BBCtv
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Tonight's reviews include High Heels, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar 's tale of life, love and murder between mother and daughter. Freejack stars Emilio Estevez , Mickjagger and Anthony Hopkins in a futuristic thriller, in which a racing driver awakens 20 years into the future pursued by bounty hunters.
And Michael Douglas talks about his controversial new film, Basic Instinct. Director Heather Goodman Producer Bruce Thompson • STEREO
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A feature-length episode introducing a stylish American drama series about an unlikely pair of private investigators in the Los
Angeles of 1956, starring
Michael Woods , Josh Brolin Jack Cleary , a former policeman, unwillingly inherits his dead brother's private detective agency and the junior partner - a wild young rock 'n' roller.
Together they discover the truth behind Nick Cleary's death.
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