6.35 Inorganic Chemistry: Bonding
7.00 Cayley's Theorem

With Philippa Forrester. • STEREO
More fun with the wild puppets from Spencerville, Ohio.

Elephant animation. The entire family go on a winter holiday.

Cartoon. Mr Spacely tests a space-age stain remover.

The sixth of a 13-part fantasy-drama from Australia, written by Paul Jennings.
Dreams cause problems for Peter when he gets to meet
Santa Claws No 115, 302. • TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

For just two hours each week on earth Saturdays, the alien Prince Mercator, earth-girl Cal, and the other exiles, Steyl, Skyn and Thynkso, can communicate. This is the only time that Mercator is allowed to experience life and he wants to pack in as much as he can.
Top of his list is meeting earth children. This week Gregory Woodward and Michelle Moore have been invited to join him.
With Roddy Maude-Roxby, Helen Atkins, Jenny Bolt, Dominic McHale and Kevin Williams.
Executive producer Jill Roach Series producer Glyn Edwards
A Roach production for BBCtv *STEREO
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In this 1941 animation from the USA, a grasshopper leaves the safety of the countryside for a life of adventure in the big city. Director Dave Fleischer • FILMS: pages 43-48

Animated fun.

Introduced by Bob Wilson.

Provisional Timetable:
12.35 Football
1.00 News
1.05 Golf
1.55 Racing
2.05 Showjumping
2.25 Racing
2.35 Show jumping
2.55 Racing
3.05 Show jumping
4.40 Golf

Dunhill British Masters from Woburn
The third round of the tournament won last year by Spain's Severiano Ballesteros. With Steve Rider.

Show Jumping
British Nations Cup from Hickstead. After beating Ireland in a jump-off two years ago, Great Britain lost to France in similar fashion last year. Commentary by Raymond Brooks-Ward and Stephen Hadley.

Football
Today's European Championship team preview focuses on world champions Germany. The Germans have twice won this competition, but how will they cope without their inspirational World Cup captain Lothar Matthaus?

Racing
From Lingfield.
2.00 Daily Mail HH and S Stakes (Handicap. 1m 3f 106yds)
2.30 Daily Mail Dream Cottage Game Stakes (Handicap. 7f)
3.00 Daily Mail Leisure Stakes (6f).
Commentary by Jimmy Lindley , Peter O'Sullevan and Julian Wilson.

Classic comedy series, starring Michael Crawford
Michele Dotrice Australia House. The Spencers want to to emigrate, but Frank's job prospects are limited - until he sees an advertisement in a pie shop.
Episode written by Ray Allen
Producer Sydney Lotterby

The son of a Scottish father and a Chinese mother is taken to
Edinburgh to trace his family tree and be fitted with a kilt in his clan tartan, while a musical mother and daughter are whisked away to Grenada in the West Indies to learn how to play the steel drum. Jimmy Savile also makes a dream come true for a 6-year-old who, despite his physical handicaps, sails on board a tall ship. Director Helen Gartell Producer Roger Ordish • STEREO
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• WRITE TO: Jim'll Fix It, BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane, London W 12 8QT

The entertainment quiz, presented by Mike Smith.
Tonight's celebrity contestants are comedian Bobby Davro , journalist Val Singleton ,
Spitting Image impressionist Kate Robbins and all-round entertainer Lionel Blair.
Producer Nick Vaughan-Barratt Executive producer Judith Holder
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Another chance to see Roy Clarke 's comedy about an irrepressible snob, starring Patricia Routledge
Hyacinth is appalled when she sees a strange man at Elizabeth's who has spent the night there.
Director/Producer Harold Snoad • TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

Family drama series, written by Steve Wetton , about fostering children. Starring
Ray Brooks , Sharon Duce Let's Face the Music. Tom and Pat are both worried that their in-depth interview will reveal secrets from their past.
Producer Richard Bramall
Director Paul Harrison
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Medical drama series.

A drug-pushing pensioner divides a family and wreaks havoc with a young boy's life.

Episode written by Ginnie Hole
(Stereo) (Teletext subtitles: p 888)

With Michael Buerk.
Weather Michael Fish
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Esther Rantzen and her team present more hard-hitting investigations and real-life humour.
Senior producer Richard Woolfe Editor BryherScudamore
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Murder mystery with a screenplay by Dennis Potter from the bestselling book by Martin Cruz Smith. Starring William Hurt Lee Marvin
The grisly discovery of three faceless bodies, buried in the snow of Moscow's Gorky Park, brings Investigator Renko in search of the killers.
Director Michael Apted
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Psychological thriller starring
Susan Strasberg Christopher Lee
A crippled woman arrives at her family villa in France to be told that her father has suddenly gone away. But why is her stepmother so secretive?
Director Seth Holt • FILMS: pages 43-48