With signing.

Lassie saves the life of a friend and repays a debt.

Cartoon about a young warrior. (Rpt)

Shown last Friday (Stereo)

(Shown yesterday at 6.25pm on BBC1)

Note: repeats are not indicated.

9.00 The IT Collection
(ages 16+)

9.25 Jeunes Francophones
(ages 14-16) (Stereo)

9.45 Square One TV
(ages 9-11)

A visit to the Why Bird Stop. (Rpt) (Stereo)

10.25 You and Me: Dumpers and Diggers
(ages 3-5) (Stereo)

10.45 Look and Read: Earth Warp
(ages 7-9)

11.05 Zig Zag: The Vikings
(ages 8-10) (Stereo)

11.25 Go for It!
(ages 9+) (Stereo)

11.40 English Time: Get the Meaning
(ages 11-14) (Stereo)

12.00 GNVQ: Construction and the Built Environment
(ages 16+)

Paul Coia visits a Viking settlement named Jorvik - now called York. He visits the Coppergate excavations & the Jorvick Centre. David March narrates 'Thor's visit to the Giants'. Show more

Daily look at business news.
(Stereo)

1.00 History File: Medieval Realms
(ages 11-16) (Stereo)

1.20 Landmarks: Writing and Printing
(ages 9-12) (Subtitled)

1.40 Spanish Globo: La Fiesta
(ages 11-12)

1.45 Storytime: The Fish Who Could Wish
(ages 4-5)

Car adventures.

Cartoon fun.
(Rpt) (Subtitled)

Drama starring Mac Davis, Robert Culp

A former all-American football player, and the star of the high school team he coaches, are lured to a university team. There they discover that college football is a ruthless, corporate business.
(1988)
See Films: pages 69-76 **

Including at 3.00 News; Regional News; Weather

Nostalgia quiz.
(Stereo)

Cookery game show.
(Stereo)

Today, Esther Rantzen talks to twins.
(Stereo)

Thrice-weekly antiques auction game in which amateur collectors are the contestants who have to tell the genuine from the fake. Presented by Andy Craig, with regular panellists Jilly Goolden and Eric Knowles.
(Stereo)

Haldane would rather be watching a baseball match and Castle has 'flu, but they have to escort a criminal to an asteroid prison - unaware that it has been taken over by armed gangsters.
See This Week: page 14
Competitions and Offers: page
Ted Shackelford's My Kind of Day: page

This week's edition of the pop magazine travels to America to meet up with chart-topping British band Supergrass in Phoenix, Arizona. With Jamie Theakston and Jayne Middlemiss.
(Repeated next Sunday)

The story of the hungry thirties told by people from America, Britain and South America who suffered after the Wall Street Crash.
(Shown last Wednesday on BBC1)

Favourite movie moments. Director John Badham talks about the famous opening scene of his film Saturday Night Fever.
(The next Close Up is on Thursday at 6.50pm)
(Stereo)

Tonight's programme investigates controversial contraceptive research carried out on women in Third World countries. It features testimony from women in the slums and villages of Bangladesh and Haiti, examines the belief of some Filipino women that they have been used as guinea pigs, and asks whether Third World testing of contraceptives can be unscientific and unethical. This pre-watershed programme deals with the emotive issue of family planning and its effect on women.

See This Week: page 10

Second in this week's five-part series about the lottery.

Tonight's film meets Gary Ward in his shop, where Saturday business is up 500 per cent since he started selling lottery tickets.

A nurse at an old people's home is raped by an invisible entity.

Footballers threatened to go on strike in 1960 in their fight against the maximum wage. They won, and wealthy footballers soon became part of the showbiz scene.
See today's choices.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Followed by: Working Principles
First in a series on engineering principles, anticipating BBC2's forthcoming Grand Designs season. Tonight, the wing.
(Stereo)

With Peter Snow.

Jeremy Isaacs talks to feminist writer Germaine Greer. Last in the series.
See today's choices.

11.55 Weatherview

Tonight's political chat show host is Sir Bernard Ingham.

Open University
12.30 Everyman Just an Illness
1.00 More Than Meets the Eye
1.30 The Passionate Statistician Florence Nightingale

Nightschool TV
2.00 Modern Languages: Quinze Minutes

BBC Focus
4.00 Developing Family Literacy
4.30 Understanding Meningitis (Rpt)
4.45 DOH Special
5.00 Pathways to Care
5.30 RCN Nursing Update: Unit 60: Elder Abuse

Technology Season
6.00 Perpetual Motion: The Blackpool Tram (Rpt)
6.30 The Net