and Regional News; Weather
...But First This
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Narrated by Tony Farmer. (Rpt;
The Rise and Fall ofHumpty Dumpty. With the voice of Roger Daltry.
Cartoon.
and Regional News: Weather
Puppet show.
Cartoon.
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and Regional News; Weather
Cartoon adventures.
High-energy sports programme. Today: karate, orienteering and tchoukball.
Chart news and gossip. • STEREO
The Why Bird Stop.
Cartoon adventures.
Stone-age cartoon.
A musical starring Michelle Pfeiffer
Maxwell Caulfield
September 1961: it's back to school for the students of Rydell High. As the T-Birds and Pink Ladies reassemble, a handsome Englishman joins the senior class - and falls for the most beautiful Pink Lady.
Director Patricia Birch
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Cartoon.
12.55pm Regional News; Weather
Followed by Weather
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The third of Jim Henson 's mad Muppet films. Broadway beckons when the Muppets decide to take their college show to New York. But, in the best musical tradition, it takes a long time to become an overnight success.
Guest stars include Art Carney, Elliott Gould, Gregory Hines, Liza Minnelli, Joan Rivers and Brooke Shields. With Jim Henson, James Coco, Dabney Coleman, Linda Lavin, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Richard Hunt, Jerry Nelson, Juliana Donald, Lonny Price and Louis Zorich.
Director Frank Oz
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Starring
Michael Caine
Stanley Baker Jack Hawkins
1879: the true story of how eight officers and 97 men desperately tried to defend the small British garrison at Rorke's Drift from 4,000 Zulu warriors.
Director Cy Endfield
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With Moira Stuart. Weather Bill Giles
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Madge crosses swords with Paul when she declares the Waterhole a no-smoking zone. Colin tries to worm his way back into Dorothy's affections. Doug and Pam are cheered up by the promise of some money.
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Classic shipboard disaster movie. starring Gene Hackman Ernest Borgnine
New Year's Eve on the high seas, and the passengers of the Poseidon are celebrating in style. Suddenly the ship is hit by a tidal wave, turns turtle and slowly begins to sink. Will anyone manage to escape the floating death trap?
Director Ronald Neame
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Phillip Schofield surveys the most-watched programmes in the history of British television. 1985. His guests are:
Lynda Baron, who was Nurse Gladys in the comedy series Open All Hours, and Barry McGuigan, whose successful challenge for Eusebio Pedroza's World
Featherweight Championship attracted more viewers than any other sporting event.
There are clips from Dempsey and Makepeace and The Practice. Plus, the miners' strike, Queen stealing the show at Live Aid, a theft from the Queen Vic in EastEnders, and Compo admiring "the mysterious feet of Nora Batty" in Last of the Summer Wine.
Director/Producer Bill Wilson
(Stereo)
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Comedy series about two incompatible neighbours written by Richard Ommanney , creator of Three Up, Two Down, and starring
Gareth Hunt , Louisa Rix Vince's ornamental pond project reaches "stage two". Gilly needs Vince's help to extinguish an old flame.
Director/Producer Sue Bysh STEREO
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Moira Stuart presents the latest national and international reports. Regional News
Weather Bill Giles
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A Sidney Lumet thriller, starring
Jane Fonda
Jeff Bridges
Waking up in an unfamiliar bed is not unusual for alcoholic actress Alex Sternbergen. She is used to not remembering the night before - she drinks to forget. But this particular morning is different. The man lying next to her has a knife in his heart, and now Alex needs to remember what happened.
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Now that it is officially admitted that Britain's current economic recession is the longest since the Second World War, a bitter debate has broken out about its origins. Economists and politicians are divided over a question which lay behind the election campaign: what caused Britain's recession and was it avoidable? Peter Jay , the BBC's Economics Editor, talks to those who have shaped
Britain's recent policy and asks was the slump inevitable? Producer Gerard Baker
Editor David Jordan
(Postponed from 9 March)
American police drama series, starring Sharon Gless Tyne Daly
Parting Shots. A cop killer is on the loose.
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