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With Zoe Ball and Chris Jarvis.
Johnson and Friends
Animation. When Michael falls asleep his toys come to life.
Cartoon. Peep, newly arrived in the world, tries to figure out some of its most basic properties.
Animation.
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Animation. Set in a mystical forest, the home of pixies.
Cartoon.
Animated action.
(Rpt)
Finding out what is small, furry and wins prizes in Dunstable.
Cartoon.
A Felgate production for BBCtv
Comedy series. Nancy is challenged to do a better job with Ernie's losing baseball team.
Meditations for Good Friday, from the Parish Church of St Matthew, Westminster. With the Rt Rev and Rt Hon
David Hope , Bishop of London, and the New English Orchestra and Singers conducted by Nigel Swinford.
Producer Jonathan Fulford
With Judi Spiers.
(Details at 5.35pm) (Stereo)
Stone-Age cartoon fun.
Exploring the extravagance of nature's colours.
With David Attenborough, David Bellamy and Andrew Sachs.
Stephen and Phoebe are again thwarted by Russell. Annalise has a crisis at work.
With Chris Lowe.
Weather Rob McElwee
From The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends.
In letters to her nieces, Beatrix Potter recounts the tales of amiable Mrs Tiggy-Winkle , the hedgehog laundress, and of her client Mr Jeremy Fisher , whose fishing expedition doesn't go quite as planned.
With Niamh Cusack as Beatrix Potter , and the voices of Prunella Scales as Mrs Tiggy-Winkle and Derek Jacobi as Mr Jeremy Fisher. Director GeoffDunbar
An adventure from
Steven Spielberg , the director of Jurassic Park, starring Henry Thomas Dee Wallace
Peter Coyote
Drew Barrymore Ten-year -old Elliott finds a new friend: he's short, dark and from another planet. The young boy wants to help his new buddy - "ET" - who is being hunted by government scientists. The creature realises that he cannot survive for long in the earth's atmosphere and must "phone home" to his own kind so they can rescue him.
One of the biggest box-office successes of all time, the movie won three oscars. It mixes laughter and tears, thrills and special effects to create perfect family entertainment.
With David O'Dell , Richard Singler , Frank Toth , Robert Barton , Michael Darrell , Milt Kogan , Erika Eleniak , David Berkson , David Carlberg ,
Alexander Lampone ,
Rhoda Makoff , Robert Murphy , Richard Pesavento , Susan Cameron , Will Fowler Jr and Tom Sherry.
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With John Humphrys.
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Patrick Malahide
I returns as Ngalo Marsh 's aristocratic sleuth In a new feature-length episode entitled Dead Water.
Margaret Tyzack and Jane Lapotaire co-star as two women at war over the future of a small
Scottish island. Miss Pride is the rightful landlord of Portacarrick, but Miss Cost is determined to turn It into a tourist attraction after the alleged cure of a young boy's warts by a "fairy" spring. A local squabble turns sinister after an attempt on Miss Pride's life; old friend Alleyn returns from his holiday to investigate.
A web of adultery and sexual jealousy soon weaves Itself around picturesque Pixie Falls.
The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries first came to the screen last year; Dead Water and other new episodes are showing as occasional "one-offs" rather than as a single series.
Screenplay by T R Bowen Producer George Gallaccio Director John Woods
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The Centurion Tale. How did a potential philosopher find himself joining the legion?
That's what happened to Tony Slattery , the centurion; now he's faced with carrying out the verdict of the court. His colleagues are out for blood, but he's a bit squeamish.
Standing on the sidelines, this press-ganged centurion draws his own conclusion about life, the universe, and Jesus.
(The final story, the Gardener's Tale, can be seen tomorrow)
Comedy drama, starring Rob Lowe
Jacqueline Bisset
Skip and Jonathan are thrown together as room-mates at an exclusive prep school. Matters become complicated when
Jonathan embarks on an affair with his room-mate's mother.
Director Lewis John Carlino (1983)
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Comedy horror based on the poem by Edgar Allen Poe starring
Vincent Price , Peter Lorre Boris Karloff
A trio of sorcerers pit their awesome powers against each other in a mystifying montage of monstrous magic. Withjack Nicholson and Hazel Court.
Director Roger Corman (1963)
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