Ends 9.00.

Microscopic Milton
Animated fun. Repeated at 1.25pm (R)

7.05 Playdays
The friends have fun piling boxes. (R)

7.25 Snorks
Cartoon. (R)

7.50 Kenan and Kel
US comedy. A movie mogul plans to make a film in the shop where Kenan works. (R) (S)

8.15 Goober and the Ghost Chasers
More ghostly goings-on. (R)

8.35 The Busy World of Richard Scarry
Zany animation. (R)

(Repeats are not indicated)

9.00 Come Outside: A Rainy Day (ages 4-5)

9.15 Storytime: Jasper's Beanstalk (ages 4-5)

9.30 Words and Pictures: Phonics Special: Ay (ages 5-7)
(S)

9.45 Watch: Our Environment: City (ages 5-7)
(S)

A phonics special where Sophie Aldred looks at words with long vowel sounds. Sophie attends a surprise birthday party and discovers three words with they 'ay' sound.

The aerial-appended quartet watch children blowing bubbles.
(R) (S)

Fizz, Jake and Max go searching for canal boats.

(Shown last Friday BBC1)
(S) (W)

10.50 Zig Zag (ages 7-9) Art: Light, Dark and Tone
(S)

11.10 Folk Dance (ages 9-12) Country Dance: Part 1
(S)

11.30 Ghostwriter (ages 10-12) A Crime of Two Cities: Part 1
(S)

12.00 Ghostwriter (ages 10-12) A Crime of Two Cities: Part 2
(S)

The latest consumer news.

Triple bill of animated fun with the tiny cub.
(R)

(Shown at 7am)

A quick recipe for preparing chicken provencal.

Thriller. Released from prison and seeking anonymity, Tom Yately takes a job with a firm of corrupt haulage contractors.
(1957) ****
(BW) (S)
Films: pp 56-66

(S) Weather

Black Britain. Esther Rantzen debates the status of the black community in Britain with a studio audience and guests including John Fashanu and Mobo Awards creator Kanya King. (S)

Cookery challenge. (R) (S)

Recommendations and recipes in another culinary selection.
(Revised R) (S)
Further details: Ceefax page 580; Website: [web address removed]

Bobby vows to give up acting if he fails to get a role before midnight.
(R) (S)

Homer the Great
Homer is elected leader of a secret organisation.
With the voice of Patrick Stewart.
(R) (S)

6.20 And Maggie Makes Three
Homer recalls how Maggie's accidental birth changed his life for ever.
(R) (S)

Starting a repeat run for the time-travelling sci-fi series.

While searching for a doctor to treat the injured Quinn, the Sliders hear of an all-powerful sorcerer who may be able to help them return home.
(R) (S)

Series about people devoted to countryside traditions.

Abbie Patterson swapped a stressful job on an ambulance crew for the role of species recovery officer with the National Trust for Scotland. Now based on the Hebridean islands of Canna, Iona and Staffa, he is observed as he cares for charges that include puffins, shearwaters, sea eagles and the few remaining corncrakes.
(S) (W)

Series examining how the First World War was fought.

Richard Holmes tells the story of the 1917 Nivelle Offensive. Intended to win the war with one swift stroke, it cost the French hundreds of thousands of lives and inspired mutinous feeling in the ranks. Meanwhile, the British were coming under pressure at Passchendaele.
(R) (S) (W)

Gay Search transforms the small front yard of a typical London terrace into a stylish, minimalist garden; Pippa Greenwood returns to her organic kitchen garden with the start of her potato and tomato trials; Ivan Hicks creates a spiral topiary; and Alan Titchmarsh establishes grasses to complement his garden's tropical border.
See Choice.
(S) (W)

(Alan Titchmarsh : page 36)

Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle and ex-newsreader Angela Rippon join captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton on the irreverent topical news quiz hosted by Angus Deayton.
See Choice.
(Repeated on Sunday)

Another quartet of celebrity guests join presenter Mark Lamarr and regular team captains Sean Hughes and Phill Jupitus on the comedy pop quiz show.
(R) (S) (W)

Six-part repeat run of the police documentary spoof.
The team are demoted to uniform, and subsequently sent back to police retraining school.
Written, produced and directed by Dominic Anciano, Hugo Blick and Ray Burdis (R) (S) (W)

With Kirsty Wark.
At 11.00 News headlines.
(S)

Shown yesterday at 6.45pm (S)

Feature-length opening to a new US police drama by Steven Bochco, who also devised Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue.

The police response to a shooting spree in which officers and members of the public are killed prompts an Internal Affairs investigation.
(S)

Romantic comedy. An aspiring actress with a great affinity for horses meets a musical entrepreneur.
Ends 2.50am.
(1991, 15) **
Films: pp 56-66

Repeats are not indicated.
GCSE Bitesize Revision Design and Technology (part 1) - including an examination of food technology. Ends 5am. (S)