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7.00 Teletubbies: Putting Angus to Bed
Dipsy is asleep but the other Teletubbies are finding it difficult to be quiet.
(Shown last Friday)

7.25 Goober and the Ghost Chasers
Animated apparitions.
(Repeat)

7.50 Get Your Own Back
Generation-gap game show.
(Repeat)

8.15 Willy Fog
Cartoon voyages with the intrepid explorer.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

8.35 Teddy Trucks
Animation about teddy bear truck drivers.
(Repeat)

Swashbuckling action and romance, the first of atwo-part pilot episode for a series, set in 1755, about life on the American frontier, a place inhabited by legendary woodsman Hawkeye. Starring Lee Horsley and Lynda Carter. Into a harsh environment come ageing prospective trader William Shields and his wife Elizabeth, eagerto start a new life. Continues tomorrow at 9.10am.
Repeat...........................................

Contributors

Unknown:
Lee Horsley
Unknown:
Lynda Carter.
Unknown:
William Shields

Comedy. When US Mint employee Harry Lucas inadvertently destroys $50,000 in bank notes, he devises a plan to break into the mint and print replacement money. However, with the motley crew he assembles to help him, his plan inevitably goes wrong.
(1967)
See Films: pages 48-53 ***

Contributors

Director:
Howard Morris
Harry Lucas:
Jim Hutton
Vema Baxter:
Dorothy Provine
Luther Burton:
Milton Berle
Pop Gillis:
Walter Brennan
Ralph Randazzo:
Joey Bishop
Willie Owens:
Bob Denver
Captain:
Victor Buono

Action from the Scottish Rally, a two-day battle in which Alister McRae, on home ground, hoped to improve on his fifth position in the British Rally championship, while England's Martin Rowe held a single point lead over Welshman Gwyndaf Evans. Tony Mason and Mark James provide commentary on the event from the forests around Dumfries.
Plus Tiff Needell reports from Snetterton, Norfolk, on the first rounds of a new racing series, Formula Palmer Audi, devised by former Grand Prix commentator Jonathan Palmer.

Contributors

Rally driver:
Alister McRae
Rally driver:
Martin Rowe
Rally driver:
Gwyndaf Evans
Commentary:
Tony Mason
Commentary:
Mark James
Reporter (Formula Palmer Audi):
Tiff Needell

Gerry Anderson's live action science-fiction series.

Commander Koenig finds himself in another world and another time. Guest starring Peter Cushing.
(First shown on ITV) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Writer:
Edward Di Lorenzo
Executive Producer:
Gerry Anderson
Director:
Ray Austin
John Koenig:
Martin Landau
Dr Helena Russell:
Barbara Bain
Professor Bergman:
Barry Morse
Raan:
Peter Cushing
Vana:
Joanna Dunham

First of a new, eight-part series featuring highlights from the popular motoring programme. This week, Tiff Needell looks at how BMW suped up their Z3 from the six-cylinder model to the powerful M series Z3.

Contributors

Presenter:
Tiff Needell
Producer:
Chris Richards
Editor:
Jon Bentley

A four-part, jargon-free finance series in which Alvin Hall visits four British clubs to help them to choose which company to invest in and, therefore, to make the most of their savings.

Hall comes to the aid of a group of mothers from Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, who have been playing the stock market since 1994.

Contributors

Presenter:
Alvin Hall
Series Producer:
Sally Dixon
Executive Producer:
Robert Thirkell

Professor Richard Holmes traces the history of British and Irish warfare through the centuries in this six-part series.

William the Conqueror's defeat of King Harold opened the way for centuries of Norman domination and marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. Holmes visits the site of the battlefield and looks at weapons of the period.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Presenter:
Professor Richard Holmes
Director:
Steven Clarke
Series Producer:
Mark Fielder

The summer series of the holiday show is introduced by Juliet Morris, who this week visits Crete, the largest of the Greek islands. Meanwhile in Hong Kong, Fi Glover samples the old colonial traditions and Simon Calder seeks out the Chinese way of life.

Contributors

Presenter:
Juliet Morris
Reporter:
Fi Glover
Reporter:
Simon Calder
Series Producer:
Liz Molyneux

Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's foreign minister, was a former champagne salesman who became infatuated with the British. He thought that his connections with the British aristocracy and the royal family would bring an alliance with the Nazis. But when he failed, his love for Britain turned to hatred and he did all he could to bring about war. Reputations tells the story of the Nazi diplomat who became Hitler's devoted standard-bearer.

Contributors

Producer:
Denys Blakeway
Series Editor:
Janice Hadlow

First of a thrice-weekly series of the dinner-party talk show with the irrepressible Ruby Wax.
Tonight's guests include actresses Jeanne Moreau and Joanna Lumley, and singer/songwriter Boy George.
See today's choices.
(Next edition tomorrow at 11.15pm)

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Presenter:
Ruby Wax
Guest:
Jeanne Moreau
Guest:
Joanna Lumley
Guest:
Boy George
Series Producer:
Claire Powell

Repeats are not indicated.

Open University
12.30 Ensembles in Performance
(Subtitled)
1.00 The Newtonians
(Subtitled)
1.30 Ottoman Supremacy

Windrush
2.00 Heritage and Experience
a history of Caribbean people.

World Cup French
4.00 The French Experience 1 (5-8)
French for beginners
(with English subtitles).

Business and Training
5.00 Computers Don't Bite

Open University
5.45 The University of Salamanca
6.10 In the Marketplace
6.35-7.00am Picasso's Guernica

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