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Playdays
Peggy and her friends find chickens on the farm.
(R)

7.20 Taz-mania
Animation. Jane studies the refined Tazmanian devil family.
(R)

7.45 Tom and Jerry Kids
The cat and mouse in more high-speed frolics.
(R)

8.10 The Really Wild Show
The wildlife show visits a US couple with a house and pool full of big cats.
(R) (S)

8.35 Bruno the Kid
Animated capers with the computer prodigy.
(R)

The short season of Second
World War films concludes with a drama starring
Dana Andrews and Claude Rains.
1942: on a routine trip, a fishing boat encounters a stranded schooner. The skipper agrees to tow the ship to a village but grows suspicious of its captain. Director Alfred L Werker (1951)
(BW)(S) Films: pp 56-63 **

Contributors

Unknown:
Dana Andrews
Unknown:
Claude Rains.

An episode of the vintage rag-and-bone-man comedy, first shown in 1962, starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson (BW) (R) (S)

Contributors

Writer:
Ray Galton
Writer:
Alan Simpson
Producer:
Duncan Wood
Albert:
Wilfrid Brambell
Harold:
Harry H Corbett

Alain de Cadenet reports from the international Air Tattoo at RAF Cottesmore, one of the bases for the new Joint Force Harrier, while Julian Tutt joins low-fiying front-line pilots in the RAF reconnaissance GR4a Tornados.
See Choice.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Alain de Cadenet
Presenter:
Julian Tutt
Executive Producer:
Peter Hylton Cleaver

During his career in the movies Peter Hutchinson, a special-effects expert, has blown up everything from buildings to people. The Royal Navy enlisted him to help make an action film designed to promote their work, and this documentary sees Hutchinson making the best of a tight budget to create spectacular explosions in the Bahamas. (S) (W)

Contributors

Subject:
Peter Hutchinson
Director:
Mike Rossiter
Series Producer:
Bill Grist

Mark Lamarr presents the first of seven programmes taking a controversial view of topical issues, in which he is joined by guest celebrities every week to discuss a topic of the day. Tonight Germaine Greer and John Humphrys add their views as he launches a broadside on morality.
See Choice.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lamarr
Guest:
Germaine Greer
Guest:
John Humphrys
Series Producer:
Richard Wilson
Director:
John L Spencer

The comic series about an undercover crack police squad returns for a six-part series of spoof documentaries.

The Good Guys busy themselves making a Christmas film special for the BBC. Featuring guest appearances from Denise Van Outen, Michael Fish, and BBC luminaries Will Wyatt and Paul Jackson.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Writer/Producer/Director:
Dominic Anciano
Writer/Producer:
Hugo Blick
Writer/Producer/Director:
Ray Burdis
Det Insp Beach:
David Gillespie
Det Supt Ash:
Ray Burdis
'Bones':
Perry Benson
Mark Kemp:
Mark Burdis
'Strings':
John Beckett
Sgt Dominic de Sade:
Dominic Anciano
Bill Zeebub:
William Scully
Herself:
Denise van Outen
Himself:
Michael Fish
Himself:
Will Wyatt
Himself:
Paul Jackson

This Life

Series 2

Episode 18: Diet Hard

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Two England

Drama series about a group of young house-sharing lawyers. Egg's expectations for the opening night at the cafe prove to be slightly overambitious. Show more

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open Science
12.30 The Next Big Thing: Endless Energy
1.00 Mapping the Milky Way
1.30 Background Brief - First Came Dolly
1.45 What Have the Sixties Ever Done for Us?
2.00 Cosmic Recycling
(S)
2.30 Hubbard Brook: the Chemistry of a Forest
(S)
3.00 Norfolk Broads: Conservation v Commercialism
(S)

Teenagers and Families
3.30 Being a Teenager: 5

Languages
4.00 Discovering Portuguese: Parts 5-6

Working in Sport and Leisure
5.00 Communication and Study Skills

Open University
6.00 Daisyworld
(S)
6.30 The Cretaceous Greenhouse: a Surfeit of Carbon
(S)

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