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Microscopic Milton
Animated antics. Repeated at 1.05pm (R)

7.05 Playdays
Poppy is busy when she discovers Rog is missing. (R)

7.25 Snorks
Animation. (R)

7.45 50/50
Game show. With Sally Gray.
Shown Monday on BBC1 at 4.35pm (S) WEBSITE: [website removed]

8.10 Biskitts
Cartoon fun. (R)

8.35 The Busy World of Richard Scarry
Animated stories. (R)

Contributors

Presenter ("50/50"):
Sally Gray

Fantasy drama, concluding the short season of films starring Robert Ryan. Also starring Dean Stockwell. A war orphan whose hair turns bright green dreams of using it to help preach against the evils of war.
Director Joseph Losey (1948) (S)Films: pp 60-64 ★★★

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Ryan.
Unknown:
Dean Stockwell.
Director:
Joseph Losey

Live coverage from Newbury of three races, including, at 3.40, the Ashbury Fillies' Trial Stakes, a useful form guide forthe Oaks. Other races are at 2.40 and 3.10. Introduced by Clare Balding and Willie Carson. Commentary comes from Jim McGrath , Jimmy Lindley and Graham Rock.
Producer Chris Lewis
Including at 3.20 News
Regional News (S) Weather

Contributors

Introduced By:
Clare Balding
Unknown:
Willie Carson.
Unknown:
Jim McGrath
Unknown:
Jimmy Lindley
Unknown:
Graham Rock.
Producer:
Chris Lewis

Behind Every Bestseller. Esther Rantzen talks to bestselling authors including Celia Brayfield and the male romantic novelist known as Emma Blair. (S)

Contributors

Talks:
Esther Rantzen
Unknown:
Celia Brayfield
Unknown:
Emma Blair.

Memories of Cab 804 (part 2) Latka tries to save a cab that holds some special memories. Tom Selleck and Mandy Patinkin feature in early television roles. Regular cast on Monday (R) (S)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Selleck
Unknown:
Mandy Patinkin

Homer v Patty and Selma.
Homer loses the family savings and has to borrow money from Marge's sisters. With the voices of Mel Brooks and Susan Sarandon. (R) (S)
6.20 A Star Is Burns.
Marge suggests a film festival to improve the town's unpopular image. (R) (S)

Contributors

Guest voice:
Mel Brooks
Guest voice:
Susan Sarandon.

No Salmon, No Surrender. Year after year, Kerry O'Neill 's salmon catch off the Antrim coast shrinks. He and his fellow fishermen in Northern Ireland use methods which, when O'Neill was a child, netted 1,000 fish per day. In the face of increasing pollution, can the traditions survive?
Narrated by Caroline Quentin. Last in series. See Choice. Rimed and directed by John Trefor (S) (W)

Contributors

Unknown:
Kerry O'Neill
Unknown:
Caroline Quentin.
Directed By:
John Trefor

First in a new series in which Alan Titchmarsh digs back into 40 years of BBC gardening archives.
The Rose. He focuses on the beauty and wonder of the rose in all its forms and reveals a flower that, in the words of Shakespeare, by any other name could smell as sweet. Producer Attracta McLaughlin (S)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh
Producer:
Attracta McLaughlin

Given the weather, will Alan Titchmarsh be able to plant his ornamental grasses? Gay Search visits the south London garden belonging to nuclear-physicist-turned-garden designer Paul Kelly. Pippa Greenwood looks at ways of banishing carrot fly from her organic kitchen garden. See Choice.
Series producer Colette Foster ; Executive producer Tony Laryea (S) (W)Alan Titchmarsh on alliums: page 39

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh
Unknown:
Paul Kelly.
Unknown:
Pippa Greenwood
Producer:
Colette Foster
Producer:
Tony Laryea
Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh

Big Breakfast presenter Liza Tarbuck joins team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton for another edition of the irreverent topical news quiz presented by Angus Deayton. Director Paul Wheeler ; Producer Giles Pilbrow Repeated on Sunday (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Liza Tarbuck
Unknown:
Ian Hislop
Unknown:
Paul Merton
Presented By:
Angus Deayton.
Director:
Paul Wheeler
Producer:
Giles Pilbrow

Forensics. The team try to show an aptitude for forensic work before embarking on a murder-mystery weekend.
Written, produced and directed by Dominic Anciano. Hugo Blick and RayBurdis (R) (S) (W)

Contributors

Directed By:
Dominic Anciano.
Directed By:
Hugo Blick
Bones:
Perry Benson
Strings:
John Beckett
DSAsh:
Ray Burdis
Di Beach:
David Gillespie
SgtdeSade:
Dominic Anciano
Instructor:
Tony O'Leary
Gladys:
Brenda Rayson
Mark Kemp:
Mark Burdis
Bill Zeebub:
William Scully
Corpse:
Mark Wingett

US police drama set in New York.
Clown without Pity. While a freak show develops in the cells,
Lowery tries to adjust to life without Yvonne. (S)
12.50 A Reverend Runs through It. A community leader whips up a storm when he decides to become involved in the search for the killers of a black family. (S)

Cult horror. Underthe influence of hypnotist Carlo Lombardi , a woman's link with an monster from the past emerges, leading to murder. Ends 2.50am. Director Edward LCahn (1956) (BW) (S) Films: pp 60-64 **

Contributors

Unknown:
Carlo Lombardi
Director:
Edward Lcahn

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