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Animated musical adventure.
In 1492, a woodworm named Pico joins Christopher Columbus on his voyage to the New World to save Marilyn, a moth princess held prisoner by the evil Swarm Lord.
With the voices of: [see below]
(1992) (Stereo)
See Films: pages 44-49 **

Contributors

Director:
Michael Schoemann
Columbus:
Dom Deluise
Pica:
Corey Feldman
Marilyn:
Irene Cara
Queen Isabella:
Samantha Eggar
King Ferdinand:
Dan Haggerty
Narrator:
Mickey Rooney

Musical, ending the Busby Berkeley season, starring Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly

Two vaudevillians team up to form a song-and-dance act, but, when they finally achieve their big break, the First World War intervenes. Songs include For Me and My Gal, Pack Up Your Troubles, When Johnny Comes Marching Home and Oh You Beautiful Doll. This was Gene Kelly's film debut.
(1942) (Black and white) (Subtitled)
See Films: pages 44-49

Contributors

Director:
Busby Berkeley
Jo Hayden:
Judy Garland
Jimmy K Metcalf:
George Murphy
Harry Palmer:
Gene Kelly
Eve Minard:
Marta Eggerth
Sid Simms:
Ben Blue
Bert Waring:
Horace McNally
Eddie Milton:
Keenan Wynn
Danny Hayden:
Richard Quine
Lily Duncan:
Lucille Norman

More advice on do-it-yourself tasks, including the installation of a pedestal basin, replacing a slipped roof slate, and getting a colour made to order. With David Booth and Helen Madden.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Booth
Presenter:
Helen Madden

Another raid on the BBC archives uncovers more items on travel, history, culture, food and wine. Including A Cook's Tour of France, with Mireille Johnston visiting Brittany.

Contributors

Presenter/Cook (A Cook's Tour of France):
Mireille Johnston

Action from last-night's concluding quartet of second-round matches from the Lakeside Country Club. Introduced by Dougie Donnelly, with commentary by Tony Green.
(Stereo)

Including at 2.40 and 3.25 News Regional News and Weather

Contributors

Presenter:
Dougie Donnelly
Commentary:
Tony Green

Sisko, Odo and O'Brien have donned an appropriate disguise and, with Worf, are on a suicide mission to expose Gowron, the Klingon leader, as a Changeling.
(Star Trek is tomorrow at 6.25pm)

Contributors

Captain Benjamin Sisko:
Avery Brooks
Odo:
Rene Auberjonois
Dr Julian Bashir:
Alexander Siddig
Lt Cmdr Jadzia Dax:
Terry Farrell
Lt Cmdr Worf:
Michael Dorn
Jake Sisko:
Cirroc Lofton
Chief Operations Officer Miles O'Brien:
Colm Meaney
Quark:
Armin Shimerman
Major Kira Nerys:
Nana Visitor
Gowron:
Robert Oreilly
Martok:
JG Hertzler
Gul Dukat:
Marc Alaimo
Dumar:
Casey Biggs

The first episode in the comedy series about four aliens who have assumed human identities.

The Solomon family attempt to acclimatise to life in an Ohio town.
(Repeat) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Dick Solomon:
John Lithgow
Sally Solomon:
Kristen Johnston
Harry Solomon:
French Stewart
Tommy Solomon:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Dr Mary Albright:
Jane Curtin
Nina:
Simbi Khali

Jeremy Clarkson tries some of the world's most powerful modes of transport in a six-part series. Clarkson takes a 500mph ride in an aeroplane at Nevada's Reno Air Races, boards the private jet belonging to Irish supergroup U2, and samples the thrill of riding in a Formula One in-shore powerboat.

Jeremy Clarkson Questionnaire: Pg 16; Factual new season: pg 23

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeremy Clarkson
Producer:
Richard Pearson
Producer:
Andy Wilman

Five-part series in which archaeology sheds light on history by unearthing secrets of the past.

Last winter, potholers stumbled upon the 3,500-year-old remains of human burials as well as the first prehistoric footprint found in a British cave. Julian Richards joins experts excavating these discoveries.
See today's choices.

Support Material: for Video Pack (£29), or Booklet (£4.95), send a cheque payable to BBC Education, to [address removed]
See This Week: page 6

Contributors

Presenter:
Julian Richards
Series Producer:
Ian Potts
Executive Producer:
Caroline van Den Brul

Next month marks the 100th anniversary of the first fatality on the roads, since when 20 million other such deaths have been recorded. Technological advances have significantly reduced the possibility of collisions, but the price of increased safety has often been paid in gruesome research.
Archive footage, often graphic in nature, illustrates how far experiments went in an attempt to lessen the potential for injury. A new series begins in February.
See Polly Toynbee: page

Then Video Nation Shorts

Contributors

Producer:
Sam Roberts
Series Editor:
John Lynch

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