Ends 12.00.

Rotten Ralph
The cat blows a week's grocery money.

6.10 Albert the Fifth Musketeer
The Duke of Buckingham presents the Queen with chocolates.

6.35 Chucklewood Critters
Animated adventures.

7.00 Arthur
The kids capture a snake, and Muffy wants a new best friend.

7.25 Taz-Mania
A double bill of fun with the Tasmanian devil.

7.45 Tom and Jerry Kids
Triple bill of cat-and-mouse fun.

8.05 Looney Tunes
Quadruple bill of vintage cartoons with Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and Sylvester.

8.35 The Wild Thornberrys
Eliza's grandparents visit.

9.00 The Saturday Show
This week's musical guests are Blazin' Squad, Big Brovaz, David Sneddon and Emma Bunton. There are also regular features Top of the Pops Saturday, Celebrity Fastermind, Saturday Morning Fever, Whose Knees Are These? and Burp Auction.
Plus games, competitions, cartoon fun with The Fairly Odd Parents and The Woody Woodpecker Show, and more laughs with Lizzie McGuire.
With Fearne Cotton and Simon Grant.
The Saturday Show Extra follows at 12 noon on CBBC channel

BBC Popgirl magazine: £1.50

Tomorrow's FA Cup semi-finals have thrown up an intriguing pair of Premiership/Division One clashes, with double-hungry trail-blazers Arsenal taking on promotion hopefuls Sheffield United, and Watford - losing finalists in 1984 - playing host to Southampton. Ray Stubbs and Mark Lawrenson assess the teams' chances. Coverage of Sheffield Utd v Arsenal starts tomorrow at 1,15pm.

Introduced by Clare Balding from Huddersfield's McAlpine Stadium. 1-10 Paula Radcliffe A preview of tomorrow's London Marathon in which the BBC Sports
Personality of the Year seeks to retain the title she won last year. Coverage starts 8.45am.
1.25 Rugby Union Highlights from last night's European Cup quarter-final at Stradey Park, where Uanelli took on Perpignan.
2.00 Rugby League
Leeds vSt Helens Live coverage of the first of this weekend's
Challenge Cup semi-finals (kickoff 2.30) as these two sides meet at this stage for the third successive year,
Saints having been victorious on both previous occasions. Can the Rhinos make it third time lucky in their native West Yorkshire? Bradford vWigan is tomorrow at 2pm on BBC2.
TV presentation (rugby league) Malcolm Kemp ; Editor Carl Hicks

Results roundup.

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Basil gets into an embarrassing situation when an American guest makes an unusual culinary request.

Heart-melting fantasy comedy. Babe, an orphaned pig, is raised on a farm by the sheepdog Fly. Although he is destined for the dinner table, Babe astonishes Farmer
Hoggett and his fellow farmyard animals when he shows talent as a "sheep-pig". Widescreen. Review page 47.
Director Chris Noonan (1995, U)

Ian Wright's musical guests are Robbie Williams, performing his new single Come Undone, and Macy Gray. Includes the Lotto, Lotto Extra and Thunderball.
The National Lottery - Midweek Draws is on Wednesday at 7 .55pm

The Point of No Return. Les Dennis guest-stars as a boss whose bullying forces an employee to attempt suicide. Ryan's persistence leads Duffy to make a life-changing decision.
Written by David Joss Buckley ; Producer Pippa Brill ; Director Declan O'Dwyer www.bbc.co.uk/casualty

With Darren Jordon.
Weather with Peter Gibbs. How well has the war been reported?: page 23 Followed by National Lottery Update

The eight remaining amateur sleuths continue to probe the "killing" of the fictional character Catherine Prior in the third of the eight-part murder-mystery game show, meeting their suspects and searching for vital clues. The Murder Game: Inside HQ follows immediately on BBC3.
Series editors Nichola Hegarty and David Tibballs BBCi: special features available to digital viewers www.bbc.co.uk/murdergame The sad story of the US Game: page 11

Michael Parkinson chats to Have I Got News for You 's
Paul Merton , actor Jerome Flynn - currently playing comedy legend Tommy Cooper in the West End - and Ian McKellen , recently a fixture in the Lord of the Rings movie saga. Disco diva Gloria Gaynor provides the music.
Director Stuart McDonald ; Executive producer Beatrice Ballard

Adventure. A woman searching for her former fiance joins a primatologist's dangerous expedition that ventures deep into the Congo jungle.
Widescreen. Review page 47.
Director Frank Marshall (1995, 12) *

Followed by Weatherview

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