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Dennis the Menace Gnasher and the bully boy are keen to help out some alien visitors.
4.10 Astro Boy Skunk uses Jumbo the giant robot to stage a daring prison breakout.
4.35 Scooby and Scrappy Show The gang's favourite comic-book hero. the Scarab, comes to life - but as a dastardly villain.
5.00 Short Change The last in the current run of consumer shows, with Angellica Bell , Ortis and Rhodri Owen. The series returns next year.
Rptd tomorrow 7.30am BBC2 CONTACT: [number removed] (calls lOp per min max); email short.change@bbc.co.uk
5.25 Newsround

Contributors

Unknown:
Angellica Bell
Unknown:
Rhodri Owen.

Newseries 1/6. It's the first day of term at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London, and 11-year-old Perry can't concentrate on school work - tonight he's performing in the musical Les Misérables. Denise Van Outen narrates the first in a documentary series following students over a year. Series producer Mandi Startup: Executive producer Tessa Finch

Contributors

Unknown:
Denise van Outen
Producer:
Tessa Finch

New series 1/6. Ian Francis may be a decorating tutor, but he's still managed to wreck his new home in Stockport, Greater Manchester. His family are fed up with his "improvements" - can Nick Knowles's team of tradesmen repair the damage? Also in this first in series ten, Brigid Calderhead introduces three new families in need of help. Series producer Moniza Uddin : Executive producer Jane Lomas
CONTACT DETAILS: need the team's help? Write to: DIY SOS, [address removed] or visit the website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Francis
Unknown:
Nick Knowles
Introduces:
Brigid Calderhead
Series Producer:
Moniza Uddin
Executive Producer:
Jane Lomas

An epic run of nature documentaries charting the behaviour of large groups of animals and their predators.

1/6. Millions of tiny sardines migrating along the coast of Africa are on a collision course with hungry dolphins, sharks, seals and gannets - is there any way of escaping the feeding frenzy? Narrated by Sean Pertwee.
Sardine city: page 31

A sardine shoal heads up the African coast, a tasty proposition for dolphins, sharks and seals, as revealed in Massive Nature

NATURE
Massive Nature
8.30pm BBC1
Some nature programmes have an effect similar to science fiction. They show a reality that is recognisable and yet disturbingly alien to us, with creatures working by motives we can barely fathom. This is one of them, a look at one of nature's hidden spectacles: the huge shoal of sardines that migrates up the African coast - and the predators who hunt them.
Even with sublime photography, it's hard to convey the scale of the thing: 100 million fish moving in a group as one vast organism. Pods of dolphins seek them out, then use teamwork and tricks to confuse the fish and isolate a "baitball" of a mere 20,000, which then becomes a moving feast. Sharks, seals and gannets, normally deadly enemies, join in the killing spree.
It's an amazing sight, with sharks and dolphins plunging through curtains of tiny fish as gannets spear the water from above. It's hard to know what to make of it, other than to thank God you weren't born a sardine. David Butcher Sardine city: page 3

Contributors

Narrator:
Sean Pertwee
Producer:
Richard Chambers
Series Producer:
Lizzie Green

An undercover investigative documentary from the makers of The Secret Policeman, last year's damning exposure of racism in the Greater Manchester Police. Details were tightly under wraps at the time of going to press, but if this past investigation is anything to go by, this should be a headline-grabbing expose of shocking criminal behaviour. Producer Karen Wightman : Executive producer Simon Ford

Contributors

Producer:
Karen Wightman
Producer:
Simon Ford

The past week's political events reviewed by Andrew Neil , plus comment from Michael Portillo and Diane Abbott.
Producer Natasha Shallice ; Editor Jamie Donald
Followed by Holiday Weather

Contributors

Reviewed By:
Andrew Neil
Unknown:
Michael Portillo
Unknown:
Diane Abbott.
Producer:
Natasha Shallice
Editor:
Jamie Donald

BBC1 joins forces with BBC News 24 for live coverage of, and reaction to, the outcome of two by-elections which took place today in the Midlands - Birmingham Hodgehill and Leicester South. In these two constituencies, which are tipped as winnable territory for the Liberal Democrats, Labour will hope for a night free of embarrassment after the paltry vote count they registered at June's local elections and the controversy surrounding allegations of postal vote fraud. Presented by Carole Walker. More at 4.30am.

Contributors

Unknown:
Birmingham Hodgehill
Unknown:
Leicester South.
Presented By:
Carole Walker.

Signed programmes. Ends 4.30.
Panorama Can Condoms Kill? Investigatingthe Vatican's claim that condoms fail to protect users against HIV.
3.50 A Masterpiece of My Own Can two art lovers trade up from Lto a magnum opus in one month? First shown on B8C2

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