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Playdays
Peggy and her friends discover that caterpillars turn into beautiful butterflies.
(R)

7.20 Inch-High Private Eye
Animated adventures with the miniature detective.
(R)

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

8.10 The Really Wild Show
Exploring the wildlife around Florida's space shuttle launch pad.
(R) (S)

8.35 The Mask
Milo is kidnapped by Pretorious.
(R) (S)

Western. Jet Cosgrave and a gang of hired gunmen try to reclaim Jet's inheritance, the Circle C Ranch. But the owner, his uncle, refuses to give it up without a fight.
(1954) (S)
Films: pp 52-60 **

Contributors

Director:
William Witney
Jet Cosgrave:
John Derek
Judy Polsen:
Joan Evans
Major Cosgrave:
Jim Davis
Alice Austin:
Catherine McLeod
The Kid:
Ben Cooper
Andrew Devlin:
Taylor Holmes

Drama, based on the novel by Erskine Caldwell, starring Robert Ryan.

An impoverished Georgia cotton farmer neglects his work to search for gold he believes is buried on his land.
(1958) (BW) (S)
Films: pp 52-60 ***

Contributors

Based on the novel by:
Erskine Caldwell
Director:
Anthony Mann
Ty Ty Walden:
Robert Ryan
Will Thompson:
Aldo Ray
Griselda:
Tina Louise
Pluto:
Buddy Hackett
Buck Walden:
Jack Lord
Darlin' Jill:
Fay Spain
Shaw Walden:
Vic Morrow

Alain de Cadenet and Julian Tutttake part in Eagle Strike, an RAF exercise in Scotland, while Robert Elms joins Jacqueline Gold, who runs an executive jet company, on her private plane. Plus a report on the world's longest mail run in Australia, which includes 28 towns and stations.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Alain de Cadenet
Presenter:
Julian Tutttake
Reporter:
Robert Elms
Subject:
Jacqueline Gold
Executive Producer:
Peter Hylton Cleaver

Another episode from the Top Gear host's 1998 series. Tonight, Jeremy tries out the Riva speed boats on the Italian Riviera and Apache helicopter gunships in Georgia, USA. Plus, 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle, he discovers the strange machines used to get around on snow and ice.
(R) (S)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeremy Clarkson
Producer:
Richard Pearson
Producer:
Andy Wilman

In the election special from May 1997, guests actor Richard Wilson and Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross join Angus Deayton, Ian Hislop and Paul Merton.
(R) (S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Angus Deayton
Team captain:
Ian Hislop
Team captain:
Paul Merton
Panellist:
Richard Wilson
Panellist:
Nick Ross
Director:
Paul Wheeler
Producer:
Colin Swash

Mark Lamarr and guests comedian Mark Steel and gay rights activist Peter Tatchell discuss political correctness compromising our freedom. The last programme in the series can be seen on Monday.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lamarr
Guest:
Mark Steel
Guest:
Peter Tatchell
Director:
John L Spencer
Series Producer:
Richard Wilson

A race relations officer gives the squad some tips on how to conduct themselves in public.
(S) (W)
BBC Video: Operation Good Guys: Series One, £15.99, from retailers

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
PC Mark Kemp:
Mark Burdis
Strings:
John Beckett
Sgt de Sade:
Dominic Anciano
Bill Zeebub:
William Scully
Narrator:
Hugo Blick

Last in the three-part series posing ethical dilemmas.

Tonight, a panel of 16 scientists discuss reproductive technology. For example, should parents choose the sex of their child, or reject imperfect embryos, and is it ethical to clone spare organs?
(S) (W)

Followed by Forty Eight Preludes and Fugues
Andrei Gavrilov plays Bach's Prelude and Fugue in D (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 No 5) and Joanna MacGregor plays Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor (Book 1 No 18).
(5) (W)

Contributors

Director:
Rod Natkiel
Producer:
Sally Weale
Pianist (Forty Eight Preludes and Fugues):
Andrei Gavrilov
Pianist (Forty Eight Preludes and Fugues):
Joanna MacGregor

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Open Science
12.30 Final Frontier
(W)
12.45 Personal Passions - Rick Stein
1.00 A Future with Aids
1.30 Background Brief- Chances Are
1.45 What Have the Eighties Ever Done for Us?
2.00 Shaping Up
(S)
2.30 Projecting Visions
(S)
3.00 What You Never Knew about Sex
(S)

Teenagers and Families
3.30 Today's Family: 5

Languages
4.00 Italianissimo: Parts 17-20

Work Essentials
5.00 The Real World of Work

Open University
6.00 More Than Meets the Eye
(S)
6.30 Food: Whose Choice Is It Anyway
(S)
Ends 7.00am.

Contributors

Presenter (Personal Passions):
Rick Stein

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