Ends 9.00 [sic - actually 9.10]

Playdays
Dave and his friends learn about nursery rhymes.
(R)

7.20 Top Cat
A master of disguise is stealing works of art.
(R)

7.45 Blue Peter
(Shown yesterday at 5.10pm on BBC1) (S) (W)

8.10 Funky Phantom
Animated adventures with Mudsey the ghost and his friends.
(R)

8.35 The Busy World of Richard Scarry
More animated adventures with the inhabitants of Busytown.
(R)

Penny becomes anxious when Sarah and James don't arrive for tea.
(R)

9.10 Gold Fever
Bilko has an unused military base in California reopened, hopeful of Striking gold. (BW) (R)

9.35 Bilko's Vampire
Bilko tries to cure the gullible Sergeant Ritzik of his love for horror movies. (BW) (R)

The Tubbies watch and copy children jumping.
(R) (S)

The friends have fun making models.
(Shown last Tuesday BBC1) (S) (W)

Lionel Blair recalls what led him to become a dancer.

Western, continuing the short season of Dick Powell movies.
Also starring Jane Greer.

Haven, an undercover investigator, tracks the killers of two soldiers to a gambling den operated by the beautiful, but tough, Charlie.
(1948) (BW) (S)
Films: pp 56-63 ***
(Split Second is tomorrow at 11.05am)

Developments in the business and consumer arenas.

Cartoon. Rupert has an adventure involving a crystal ball.
(R)

Bump has problems with his umbrella.
(R)

Romantic comedy starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery.

When a state boundary change annuls their marriage, a happy couple discover uncertainty in their relationship.
(1941, U) (BW) (S)
Films: pp 56-63 ***

Diana Madill presents a roundup of the latest political news.
(Contact details on Thursday) (S)

(S) Weather

Esther Rantzen and guests debate late parenthood.
(S)

Another against-the-clock cookery challenge. (R) (S)

Retail therapy.

Will finds himself inadvertently influencing one of Philip's superstitious clients.
(R) (S)

Fraser finds help from an unusual source when a young woman is kidnapped: a vagrant who seems to know more about the affair than he should.
(R) (S)

Jayne Middlemiss talks to Dru Hill frontman Sisqo about his shot at solo stardom and Dutch house DJ Funkstar De Luxe explains why Bob Marley is his greatest inspiration. Plus the best new releases. With Jamie Theakston.
(S) (W)

The return of the showcase for the best documentaries and current affairs programmes from the BBC regions and nations.

Doctors saved Helen Smith from meningitis, but she lost her hands and legs in the process. Tonight's programme follows the 24-year-old as she becomes the first person in the world to be fitted with four artificial limbs - all paid for by a benevolent stranger.
(First shown on BBC East) (S)

Tim Wonnacott meets Peter Hone, a man dedicated to the preservation and restoration of Victorian plaster ceilings and cornices. And Fiona Bruce reports on the desirability of portable icons from as far back as the fourth century which were used as prayer-aids for a largely illiterate population.
(S) (W)
Website: [web address removed]

Another chance to see one of the programmes from the series in which managers return to the shop floor.

Group Chief Executive of Sainsbury's Dino Adriano is horrified by the conditions he discovers when he goes to work in one of the stores. A week later, he returns to Head Office with plenty of ideas for change.
(R) (S)

With Jeremy Paxman.
At 11.00 News headlines.
(S)

By the Conservative Party. With sign language and in-vision subtitles.

Highlights of the day at Westminster. Presented by Andrew Neil.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Open Advice: A Different Way of Learning
1.00 Hidden Power
(S)
1.30 The Vernacular Tradition
(S)

Exam Revision
2.00 GCSE Bitesize: English 2 - Poetry

Languages
4.00 Get by in Italian

Working In Health Care
5.00 RCN Nursing Update: Hour 1

Open University
6.00 A Robot in the Parlour?
6.30 Out of the Blue?
(S)
Ends 7.00am.