Parliamentary update.
Grocer Norman Puckle joins the Navy, and is recruited to become an astronaut. With
Norman Wisdom and Ian Hunter.
Director Robert Asher
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A colourful remake of the jungle hero's first screen adventure. With Denny Miller , Joanna Barnes and Cesare Danova.
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Featuring heart surgeon Duncan Walker.
Harvest time. (Revised rpt)
Five hundred years of undersea exploration.
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Cartoon.
Fun for toddlers.
Playing the percentages.
Followed by One of Our Bombers is
No Longer Missing
The last wa rtime Wellington is rescued from Loch Ness.
Followed by Westminster Live
Popular word game.
Two centuries of a north
London family's life.
A Try Again production for BBCtv
With Jeffrey Archer and Tony Banks , MP.
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Starring
Robert Vaughn
David McCallum
In another Man from UNCLE adventure, a fanatical sect are intent on world domination.
Director Boris Sagal
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Harry Dodson gathers dried flowers to bring colour to winter vases and buries bulbs under a blanket of ash. Peter
Thoday tracks down Queen
Victoria's favourite, the violet. Producer Keith Sheather
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Reports on Vauxhall's new off-road car, the Frontera; the truth behind the car industry's recycling claims; and vehicles that could go twice round the world on a tankful of petrol. Producer Ken Pollock
Executive producer Dennis Adams
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During the property boom, big profits could be made buying and selling London hotels used by councils to house the homeless. Now property prices have dropped and councils are cutting back on bed and breakfast bills. 40 Minutes takes a closer look at this notoriously secretive world.
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The cigarette.
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By the Conservative Party.
With Peter Snow.
Fifth of Krzysztof Kieslowski 's Dekalog of films inspired by biblical laws. A young man murders a taxi driver and is condemned to hang. In Polish with English subtitles.
(Shownat5.OOpm)