Ends 9.00.

Playdays
Peggy shows her friends how to tell the time.
(R)

7.20 Taz-mania
Animation featuring the Tasmanian Devil.
(R)

7.45 Tom and Jerry Kids
High-speed cat-and-mouse chases.
(R)

8.05 The Really Wild Show
Encounters with a zoo-owning policeman, two children who keep badgers and a boy obsessed with birdsong.
(R) (S)

8.35 The Mask
Pretorius is out to get Stanley.
(R) (S)

In this edition we meet real animal lovers, including a policeman with a zoo in his garden, children with a badger under their sink, and a boy who recognises birds by their song.

Spurned lovers vent their spleen on the debate show. (R) (S)
Followed by News (S) and Weather

Russell Harris erects a dividing wall in a bathroom. Sean Rafferty has home-security advice.
(R) (S)

Prog 9 of 19:St JOHN'S WORT:A weed that was used in medieval times supposedly to increase the power of the sun - and now a cure for modern ills?

Two more teams of amateur collectors try to select and sell bargain antiques.
(R) (S) (W)

Followed by News (S) and Weather

Western starring Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes and Robert Preston.
A cowhand agrees to help out an old friend in a feud, realising too late he's become embroiled in a scheme to cheat a wealthy cattleman.
(1948) (BW) (S)
Films: pp 48-53 ***

Alex and Elaine try reconciling Tony and Bobby, whose friendship founders after they fall for the same woman.
(For cast see Wednesday)
(R) (S)

Tips on beauty and health with Lowri Turner.
(S)

A triple bill of ursine fun for very young children.
(R)

Animated canine antics.
(R)

A postcard from a holiday destination.

Comedy. From an ill-fated family of gamblers, Mary Audrey is still willing to chance marriage to dice-rolling Larry Scott - with the double proviso that he changes his ways, and that if he gambles again, she will divorce him.
(1946) (BW) (S)
Films: pp 48-53 **

(S)
(Digital only: UK Today); Weather

Esther Rantzen asks if the current trend for having children later in life is the new way ahead for parenthood.
(R) (S)

Ainsley Harriott hosts the beat-the-clock cookery challenge.
(S)

Elimination quiz show hosted by Anne Robinson.
(S) (W)

Kate Thornton and Matt Smith report from Providence, Rhode Island, as the world's top skateboarders compete for glory.
(Coverage concludes tomorrow at 6.45pm) (S)

Buffy overhears a potential killer plotting to murder Sunnydale High students.
(Repeated tomorrow at 12 midnight) (S)

Julian Tutt observes RAF fast-jet crews training with weapons, while Helen Young takes a ride on Snoopy, the Met Office's weather-investigation aircraft, and in south-west France, Alain de Cadenet takes to the skies in his vintage biplane.
(S) (W)

An episode from the Top Gear host's 1998 series, in which he has an unsettling ride in an F-15 fighter plane, goes drag-racing in Lapland and joins in a combine harvester race.
(R) (S)

Guests including Boris Johnson, Glenda Jackson and Gyles Brandreth join Angus Deayton, Ian Hislop and Paul Merton in this compilation of recent highlights from the news quiz.
(R) (S) (W)

Old-school comic Bernard Manning and Spice Girl Mel G help tackle the subject of rudeness in another of Mark Lamarr's broadsides on contemporary issues.
(S) (W)

The squad are asked to look after an important family. Former EastEnder Patsy Palmer guest-stars.
See Choice.
(S) (W)
BBC Video: Operation Good Guys: Series One. £15.99, from retailers

The day's news stories, presented by Jeremy Vine.
Including, at 11.00, News headlines.
(S)

Concluding the series about the colourful world of gambling.

In the eighties high-flyer Terry Ramsden was an extravagant racecourse punter. But in 1992 he was declared bankrupt and imprisoned. This film follows Ramsden, now released and still a keen gambler, as he tries making inroads into e-commerce.
(S) (W)

Deborah Bull introduces the first of three modern-dance showcases, which are linked by a North American theme.

The Royal Ballet perform William Forsythe's work to the strains of Bach's Chaconne in D minor for solo violin.
(Series continues on Saturday with Merce Cunningham: a Lifetime of Dance)
(S) (W)

Followed by: Forty Eight Preludes and Fugues
Angela Hewitt plays Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 No 22).
(S) (W)

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open Science
12.30 The Next Big Thing: Defying Death
1.00 Healing the Whole
(S)
1.30 Background Brief-Testing the Best
1.45 What Have the Seventies Ever Done for Us?
2.00 Lost Worlds
(S)
2.30 Stress
(S)
3.00 Missing the Meaning
(S)

Teenagers and Families
3.30 Being a Teenager: 5

Languages
4.00 Discovering Portuguese: Parts 5-6); French on a Plate: Provence

Work Essentials
5.00 Media and Press

Open University
6.00 Rapid Climate Change
(S)
6.30 Earth, Life and Humanity
(S)
Ends 7.00am.