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7.10 Playdays
Someone is in disguise.

7.30 The Puppy's New Adventures
Animated escapades.
(Repeat)

7.50 To Me... to You
Game show with the Chuckle Brothers.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

8.15 Zorro
Animated adventures. The Enforcer kidnaps the governor of California.
(Stereo)

8.45 Get Your Own Back
Game show allowing youngsters to get even with grown-ups.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

9.10 Goosebumps: Go Eat Worms
Worms seem to be following a boy around.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

9.35 Dink, the Little Dinosaur
Animated prehistoric tales
(Repeat)

9.55 The Busy World of Richard Scarry
Animated stories.
(Repeat)

10.20 Teletubbies: Ladybird (Beetles)
Andy Brown and Amber look for ladybirds.
(Subtitled)

Puppet comedy and songs, with guest star Pierce Brosnan.
(Repeat)

Drama starring Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy

David Lightman is a bright teenager and computer hacker extraordinaire. He breaks into a system and is challenged to play Global Thermonuclear Warfare. David thinks he's found a new game.
(1983, PG)
See Films: pp 48-55 ****

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(Subtitled)

Libby and Drew are photographed in a compromising situation.
(Repeated at 5.45pm) (Subtitled)

More adventures for the Man of Steel, starring Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor

Superman battles a megalomaniac tycoon who, with the help of a bumbling computer genius, has his sights set on world domination.
(1983, PG)
(Digital widescreen)
See Films: pp 48-55 **

Comedy starring John Ritter
Seven-year-old Junior. a fiendish inmate of Brutus OrDhanaee. is adopted by an unsuspecting couple. Director Dennis Dugan (1990. PG)
Subtitled........................................... * See Films: pp 48-55 *

Gaby Roslin, Nick Knowles, Simon London and Edwina Silver look forward to the new series from Southampton general, which starts next Monday.
(Subtitled)

Oscar-winning animation by Nick Park. Gromit is framed for stealing sheep.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

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Noel Edmonds takes a look back at ten years of the show where specially nominated people receive surprise Christmas presents from Noel himself. Highlights include gifts for a group of children from Liverpool who raised money for the children of Chernobyl.
(Digital widescreen)

Nominate Someone: for this year's show, you can either e-mail: [address removed] or write to: [address removed]

John Inverdale presents the first of four heats from this year's competition at Alton Towers. Six men battle it out, lifting cars, flipping giant tyres and performing extraordinary feats of strength. Only two of today's contestants can make it through to Saturday's final.

A fly-on-the-wall documentary following four top British athletes - 1500m medallist John Maycock, modern pentathlete Stephanie Cook, rower James Cracknell and sprinter Joyce Maduaka as they start gruelling training sessions for the next Olympic games.
Presented by Commonwealth gold medallist Iwan Thomas.

Will Grant and Phil succeed in sabotaging Beppe's opening night? Carol worries that Bianca is leaving for the wrong reasons.
(For cast see Tuesday) (Subtitled)
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Carol Smillie and Kerry Smith introduce the best moments from DIY makeovers around the world. From Sydney to Stuttgart, neighbours swap house keys and get stuck into some serious decorating.
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An adult drama starring Warren Clarke, Nick Berry, Neil Pearson, Robert Daws

When four friends decide to take out a life insurance policy together, the plan is simple - whoever lives the longest, will die the richest. But fate lends a hand. Contains adult sex scenes.
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(Digital widescreen)

With Peter Sissons.
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Highlights from a star-studded evening of comedy held at Brixton Academy in June this year as part of Comic Relief's Debt Wish Campaign. Featuring performances from Steve Coogan, Lenny Henry, David Baddiel, the Goodness Gracious Me team, and the League of Gentlemen.
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More stand-up comedy from Ben Elton, plus special guest Ronnie Corbett.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

Comedy starring Rodney Dangerfield

In the hope of getting a promotion, middle-aged executive Chester Lee agrees to manage a company-backed soccer team of 13-year-old girls, the Ladybugs. But Chester knows little about soccer so, in desperation, he enlists the help of his fiancee's son to play for the team disguised as a girl.
(1992, PG)
See Films: pp 48-55 **

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