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A roundup from News 24 with Jane Hill and Peter Dobbie, plus weather at 8.25.
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Ends 12.00. Animated carpet-crawling capers. (R) (S)

For the last in the current series of the Saturday-morning show, Keith Duffy, Kate Heavenor and Vernon Kay are joined by musical guests Stephen Gately and Martine McCutcheon , and the multi-talented Rolf Harris. There's also an interview with Texas lead singer Sharleen Spiteri.
Plus games, chat, comedy and animated action with the viewers' choice of the X Men or Ace Ventura.
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This week's magazine show for deaf people sees another round of the quiz competition. Hosted by Lara Crooks. With sign language and in-vision subtitles.
Followed by When I Grow Up Children share their hopes for the future. (S)

Craig Charles and Julia Reed present the series in which teams from around the country send their remote-controlled fighting machines into battle.
Shown last Friday (S)

Monsters. Isabel tries to prevent Maria telling Sheriff Valenti that she, Max and Michael are aliens. Shown last Thursday (S)

Tent.
Eric Feeble falls for the mother of his daughter's best friend Julie. Will Cupid's arrow strike when Eric is called upon to nurse Julie through the night?
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Eric falls for the mother of his daughter's best friend Julie. When the allergy-prone pals camp in the back garden, Eric is called upon to nurse Julie through the night.

Asses to Ashes. Philip is asked to give the eulogy when his election rival dies unexpectedly. Postponed from 18 September
(R) (S) Another episode on Monday at 6.20pm

Historical adventure, today's Saturday Matinee film presentation. Rhodes,
BC: an Athenian soldier, forbidden from leaving the island, unwittingly joins a rebel plot against the tyrannical King Xerxes. Widescreen.
Director Sergio Leone (1961)
(S)(W) Films: pp 62-67 ***

Eric falls for the mother of his daughter's best friend Julie. When the allergy-prone pals camp in the back garden, Eric is called upon to nurse Julie through the night.

Queen, Michael Jackson , Abba, Rod Stewart , Blondie, the Osmonds, T Rex, Boney M , the Sex Pistols, Bay City Rollers, the Three Degrees and Village
People are among the stars of a seventies special.
Shown last Wednesday (S)

Continuing the series exploring the history of Ireland and the migrations of its people.
A World Apart. Tonight's programme focuses on the women who left Ireland and reveals many of their untold stories. In contrast with migrancy statistics of other European countries, female migrants outnumbered males, with many ending up in domestic service in the USA, shipped to Sydney or working as nurses in Britain. See Choice.
Director Dearbhla Walsh ; Series producer Ritchie Cogan (S) (W)

No Experience Necessary. An estimated half-a-million women are being transported from eastern Europe to the West by sex traffickers every year as part of a multi-million pound business that is largely risk-free for those responsible. But, for the women, the consequences are often brutal and dangerous. Sue Lloyd-Roberts uncovers a trail of modern-day slavery that leads from Latvia to Denmark, Ireland and the UK. See Choice.
Series producer Farah Durrani ; Editor Fiona Murch (S)

Western starring John Payne. Two brothers, Sam and Bill Mayhew , find themselves on opposite sides in a feud over the establishment of a stagecoach line. One becomes a partner of the owner and the other a hired gunman.
Director Joseph Kane (1955. U) (S) Films: pp 62-67 *

Concluding the Saturday-night strand celebrating a decade of popular culture.
Ends 10.30pm.

I Love 1979
Bo Derek, the sex symbol who shot to fame in the final year of the decade in the film 10, presents this look back at the fads and fashions of 1979. Quadrophenia became the must-see movie of the year, The Dukes of Hazzard were leaving their tyre tracks all over the nation's TV screens, and Gary Numan topped the charts with Are Friends Electric? Meanwhile, kids and adults alike were trying to solve the fiendish Rubik's Cube.
John Huston's 1979 film Wise Blood is at 12.45am.
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Last in the series, presented by Dennis Waterman , that captures some of the classic
British football moments from the seventies, this week focusing on the 1979/80 season.
Director Danny Felton ; Producer Tony Moss (R) (S)

Hazel Irvine, Roger Black and Sharron Davies introduce coverage of athletics from Sydney, including the opening stages of the women's marathon at 11.00, and the first round of the men's 110m hurdles at 12.00, featuring Britain's gold-medal hope Colin Jackson. Marathon commentary is by David Coleman and Brendan Foster.
Coverage of the race continues on BBC1.

John Huston 's gothic drama, rounding off tonight's / Love the Seventies. Starring Brad Dourif , Harry Dean Stanton and Ned Beatty. Hazel Motes , the grandson of a hellfire revivalist preacher, returns from army service to the bible-belt of southern America to set up the "The Church of Truth without Jesus Christ". Ends 2.30am.
Director John Huston (1979, 15) (S) Films: pp 62-67 ***

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