7.15 Teletubbies: Numbers-5
Noo Noo tidies up all the Teletubbies' blankets.
(Shown last Friday) (Stereo)

7.40 Orville and Cuddles
Cuddles is marooned on a beach.
(Repeat)

7.45 Juniper Jungle
Sunday Reindeer is kidnapped.
(Repeat) (Stereo)

7.55 Yakky Duck
Cartoon triple-bill.
(Repeat)

8.15 Blue Peter
Children's magazine.
(Shown last Friday BBC1) (Stereo)

8.40 Harry and the Hendersons: The Father-Son Game
Baseball fails to excite Ernie.
(Repeat) (Stereo)

9.05 The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
Animation. Jonny enters a virtual world to save Hadji's mind.
(Repeat)

9.30 Sweet Valley High
Teen drama set in a California town.
(Repeat)

9.55 Pingu
Young fun.
(Repeat)

10.00 Teletubbies: Christmas Tree
Some children decorate a Christmas tree.
(Repeated tomorrow at 7.15am)

Children's adventure starring
James Mason , Billie Whitelaw
An orphan chimney sweep discovers an animated underwater world.
Director Lionel Jeffries (1978, U) Subtitted.20629 * See Films: pages 43-76 *

Adventure. Heidi is given three significant wooden figures as a birthday present by a woodcarver.
(1958)
See Films: pages 43-76

Animated antics of five dinosaurs.
(Repeat)

Animated adventures.
(Repeat)

Series in which Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch go fly-fishing around the world. In this final programme, the pair visit the Italian Alps.

How the ibex has fought back from the brink of extinction.
(Repeat) (Stereo)

Regional News and Weather

Word panel game with Alan Coren and Sandi Toksvig.
(Repeat) (Stereo)

More celebrities recall favourite moments from James Stewart films.

Regional News and Weather

Epic western continuing the James Stewart season of films.
Also starring John Wayne, Gregory Peck

Heading west in the 1830s, New England farmer Zebulon Prescott and his family embark on a great adventure.
(1962, PG)
(The James Stewart season continues tonight with a double bill of Hitchcock films beginning at 11.25pm)
See Films: pages 43-76

The family are left in the lurch when Marge finally snaps. How will Homer cope?
(Repeated on Sunday 28 December at 11.50am)
(The next episode is Christmas Day 2.45pm)
(Stereo)

To escape his pursuers, an ageing conman convinces Starbuck that he is his estranged father.
(Repeat)

Writer Armistead Maupin and film and television director David Lynch reflect on James Stewart's collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock on the movies Vertigo, which can be seen tonight at 11.25pm, and Rear Window.
(Stereo)

Actor Simon Callow re-enacts another Charles Dickens story.

Dickens's tale of Mrs Gamp, the disdainful nurse with her unique mannerisms, both shocked and delighted Victorian audiences.
(The series continues tomorrow at 8pm)

As the Blackpool-based sports-car manufacturer TVR celebrates its 50th anniversary, Top Gear reflects on the company's development from humble beginnings into the third-biggest British-owned carmaker. The programme's regular team also looks at some of the impressive cars produced by TVR over the years and test-drives some of the early models. Presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Tiff Needell and Vicki Butler-Henderson.

In a special festive programme, Justin Pressland recalls toys from Christmasses past, Tim Wonnacott meets the collectors with an obsession for Christmas cards, and there's a look at antiques which make ideal presents. Presented by Francine Stock.
See today's choices.
(The Antiques Roadshow: the Next Generation is on Sunday 28 December at 5.10pm)
Factual: page 10

News analysis, presented by Jeremy Paxman.
(Subtitled)

The first of ten short satirical dramas starring John Sessions and Phil Cornwell as myriad celebrities who have retired to a quiet street in Surbiton, Surrey.
(More tomorrow at 11.15pm) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

Classic psychological thriller, the first in a double bill of films directed by Alfred Hitchcock showing as part of the season starring James Stewart
Also starring Kim Novak

An ex-San Francisco detective with an intense fear of heights accepts a commission to trail a friend's suicidal wife.
(1958, PG)
See Films: pp 43-76 *****

Thriller, concluding tonight's double bill of Alfred Hitchcock films starring James Stewart

After committing a murder and hiding the corpse, two young killers host a party for the dead man's family and friends.
(1948, PG)
(The Philadelphia Story is tomorrow 4.30pm)
See Films: pages 43-76 ***

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