With Sara Coburn and Adam Shaw.
Editor Paul Gibbs Timetable on Monday
With Andrew Harvey and Sara Cobum. Editor Tim Orchard
Timetable on Monday
With Liz MacKean.
For details see Monday Subtitled ...........
Cookery game show, with Fern Britton.
Last in the series. (Rpt)
Kites - Kings of Hong Kong. Soaring across one of the world's most dramatic city skylines, the black kite sees some big changes. Hong Kong will be linked to mainland China next year and already the kites' nesting colony on Stonecutters Island has been affected. Last in the series. Rpt Stereo
Drama starring Bernadette Peters, Mary Tyler Moore
A high-flying careerwoman discovers that she is terminally ill and withdraws into herself. But referral to a psychologist helps her to face her last year of life positively.
(1990)
(Subtitled)
See Films: pages 42-48
Including at 11.00 News, Regional News and Weather
Game show with Ronnie Corbett.
Detailsat5.35pm Stereo Subtitled ...
Weather Subtitled ....
A special extended episode.
When David Benson is framed for murder, his 13-year-old daughter Melanie is the only one who can prove his innocence.
You Can Call Me Nick. Nick investigates
Anne's possible involvement in blackmail.
Continued coverage of the second round of the 125th Open Championship, from the Royal Lytham and St Anne's Golf Club. Coverage continues on BBC2.
Television opportunity knocks for Mark. Brett makes a big decision about his life. Have Jen and Phil reached the end of the line?
Shown at 12.35pm For cast see Wednesday
With Martyn Lewis and Jill Dando.
Weather Bill Giles
For details see Monday
The latest hits in the UK charts, plus exclusive live performances, some pre-chart sounds and a look at all the new videos.
Top of the Pops - the Magazine: price £1.25, on sale now from newsagents
A series of documentaries examining the links between science fiction and science fact.
A look at the fantastic future in store for the human body, as scientists at an American university are currently working on what may be the first step towards "bionic" humans. When Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, the doctor's dream was to build a superhuman, not a monster. In future, his counterparts may well succeed in building a superior human being with extraordinary surgical and genetic procedures.
Presented by Gillian Anderson.
See today's choices.
(Stereo)
Further details: Ceefax page 623, or the Internet on [web address removed]
Andrew Duncan interviews Gillian Anderson: page 12
The last in the series of quiz games in which team captains Daley Thompson and Steve Cram are joined by two fellow Olympic medal winners to look at clips and answer sporting questions put to them by Steve Rider , who guides the contestants through a series of images from the glorious Olympic scrapbook. Tonight's guests are
Steven Redgrave , goingfora fourth consecutive rowing gold in Atlanta, and boxer Lennox Lewis , 1988 Olympic super-heavyweight champion, now intent on recapturingthe world heavyweight title.
Producer Mike Ward ; EditorRick Waumsley
The last of the present series of the snooker game show with the mystery star prize features Dennis Taylor, Joe Swail and Anthony Hamilton. Hosted by Jim Davidson with referee John Virgo. Director Babara Jones ; Producer John Burrowes
CONTESTANTS: if you would like to take part in the next series, write, enclosing a large sae, to [address removed]
With Peter Sissons. Subtitled
Regional News
Weekend Weather Bill Giles
Written by David Renwick
Victor and Margaret are perturbed to discover a rather unpleasant smell in their living room. It seems to be worse under the sideboard.Postponed from 26 June
Victor's outing to photograph badgers ends up with him being mugged. Mrs Birkett comes to regret calling at the Meldrews' to collect items for a jumble sale.
Powerful US hospital drama starring Mandy Patinkin, Hector Elizondo, Adam Arkin
While the media focus on the fate of a 12-year-old boy who has fallen into icy water, behind the scenes an Aids patient is refused help. Meanwhile, Geri Infante decides to make her move on Jeffrey Geiger.
On the eve of the 26th Olympiad, Desmond Lynam looks forward to 16 days of top sporting action from Atlanta. Over the next two-and-a-half weeks, the city will play host to almost 11,000 athletes from a record 197 nations and almost one million spectators, making these Olympics the biggest sporting show on earth and marking the centenary of the modern Olympics, which began in Athens in 1896. Many of the world's top stars and all of Britain's leading medal hopes will be in action, including sprinter Linford Christie, triple jumper Jonathan Edwards and cyclist Chris Boardman.
Western spoof starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder
Sheriff Bart fights prejudice and corruption to save the little town of Rock Ridge from a wicked speculator, helped by the once legendary Waco Kid in Mel Brooks's irreverent and tasteless take on the western genre.
(1974,15) (Subtitled)
See Films: pages 42-48 ****
Live coverage of the opening ceremony of the 26th Olympiad from the Olympic Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. The
Games - the fourth Olympics to be staged in the USA - begin with a spectacular ceremony which should evoke memories of the dazzling openingto the Los Angeles Games 12 years ago. David Coleman describes the events in Atlanta, including the raising of the Olympic flag, the lighting of the Olympic flame and the parade of Competing nations.
