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Drama about a boy who runs a TV studio with monsters. Some unusual ingredients spice up the menu on a cookery programme.
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Contributors

Writer:
Jim Eldridge
Billy:
Sam Green
Karen:
Natalie Dew
Terry:
Kevin Hemlall
Mum:
Jenny Funnell
Dad:
Luke Sorba
Vera Venom:
Anna Nicholas
Herbert:
John Asquith
Rocky:
James O'Donnell

Continuing the show in which holidaymakers' plans are swapped with those of strangers. This week two men who had planned a week of action and adventure on safari in Kenya have to swap with a couple who had arranged a tranquil tour around the mountains and fjords of Norway.

Carol Smillie exchanges the travel documents.
See Choice.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Carol Smillie
Series Producer:
Richard Pearson
Executive Producer:
Mark Hill

Jayne Middlemiss introduces this week's edition of the music show featuring live performances, the latest videos, the top 20 and the current bestselling single.
(Repeated tomorrow) (S)
Website: [web address removed]
Top of the Pops - the Magazine: available from newsagents

Contributors

Presenter:
Jayne Middlemiss
Director/Producer:
Chris Cowey

New six-part romantic fantasy comedy starring Ardal O'Hanlon as a health food shop owner who can transform himself into superhero Thermoman and whose mission is to save the world from destruction.
See Choice.
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Superhero in suburbia: page 16

Contributors

Writer:
Paul Mendelson
Writer:
Paul Mayhew-Archer
Director/Producer:
John Stroud
Producer:
Marcus Mortimer
George Sunday:
Ardal O'Hanlon
Janet Dawkins:
Emily Joyce
Mrs Raven:
Geraldine McNulty
Piers:
Hugh Dennis
Arnie:
Lou Hirsch
Ella Dawkins:
Lill Roughley
Tyler:
Philip Whitchurch
Mrs Possit:
Joan Linder
Landlady:
Mary Farragher
Newsreader:
Charlotte Hudson
Irish news anchor:
Jacqui O'Hanlon
Italian waiter:
Marcello Walton

Tonight Michael Parkinson's diverse guests include the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, David Blunkett, and alternative comedian Alexei Sayle.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Parkinson
Guest:
David Blunkett
Guest:
Alexei Sayle
Producer:
Beatrice Ballard

Action comedy starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr.

Laos, 1969: transport pilot Gene Ryack is employed by Air America, a CIA-backed airline that smuggles opium into Vietnam to finance the anti-Communist activities of a local drug lord. Ryack is also hoarding weapons, but his plans for the future are suddenly threatened.
Widescreen.
(1990, 15) (S) (W) ***
Films: pp 54-61

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Director:
Roger Spottiswoode
Gene Ryack:
Mel Gibson
Billy Covington:
Robert Downey Jr
Corinne Landreaux:
Nancy Travis
Major Lemond:
Ken Jenkins
Rob Diehl:
David Marshall Grant
Senator Davenport:
Lane Smith
Jack Neely:
Art Lafleur
Pirelli:
Ned Eisenberg
OV:
Marshall Bell
Saunders:
David Bowe

Action adventure starring Telly Savalas.

Second World War mercenaries are sent on a special assignment to wipe out a group of leading Nazis.
(1988, PG) (S) **
Films: pp 54-61

Contributors

Director:
Lee H. Katzin
Major Wright:
Telly Savalas
General Worden:
Ernest Borgnine
Joe Stem:
Hunt Block
General Richter:
Matthew Burton
Sergeant Holt:
Jeff Conaway
Dravko Demchuk:
Alex Cord

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