Ends 9.00.

Yoho Ahoy!
Grog helps Cutlass to catch a fish.
(R)

7.05 Polka Dot Shorts
Adventures in the land of Roo.
(R)

7.15 Playdays
Peggy and friends visit Father Christmas's grotto.
(R)

7.35 Anthony Ant
Bigfoot's negligence could cause a flood.
(R) (S)

7.45 X-Men
Superhero adventures with Wolverine and pals.
(S)

8.10 Blue Peter
Simon Thomas goes behind the scenes of EastEnders.
(Shown yesterday at 5.10pm on BBC1)
(S) (W)

8.35 Rugrats
Animation with the loveable youngsters.
(R) (S)

A look at the not hugely intellectual world of the ostrich, and the life of the domestic cat. (S)

Continuing the documentary series about the 33rd US president.

Vice-president Truman, ostracised from Roosevelt's inner circle, soon has to make an enormously important wartime decision.
(Concludes tomorrow at 9am)
(S)

Burt Lancaster, Adolf Hitler and Laurel and Hardy are among the subjects of this documentary, which examines how the nature of what was perceived as male sexiness developed over the last century.
(S)

Kansas and Missouri erupt into violence as pro- and anti-slavery factions struggle for dominance. After the Civil War, Union heroes are posted to subdue the Indians.
(Continues tomorrow at 10.50am)
(R) (S)
(The western Dakota Incident is at 12.25pm)

Western starring
Dale Robertson and Linda Darnell. Aftertheir stagecoach comes to grief in hostile desert terrain, a group of passengers find themselves facing attack by a band of marauding Indians. Director Lewis R Foster (1956, U)
(S) Films: pp 77-84 *

Comedy, continuing a season of newly restored Norman Wisdom films.

Norman Pitkin, Scotland Yard's shortest car park attendant, dreams of becoming a policeman. The force has other ideas, but Norman is determined to prove his worth.
Widescreen.
(1962, U) (BW) (S)
(A Stitch in Time continues the season tomorrow at 1.55pm)
Films: pp 77-84 **

Ainsley Harriott's against-the-clock cookery show.
(S)
Recipes: see Ceefax page

Anne Robinson hosts the general knowledge quiz.
(S) (W)

Michael's home situation reaches a crisis point, and he begins to feel even more isolated.
(S)

A group of "fairy-tale" monsters, the Gentlemen, steal the voices from the inhabitants of Sunnydale.
(Repeated tomorrow at 10.40pm)
(S) (W)
Website: [web address removed]

The King Brothers and Kathy Kirby are the comic duo's musical guests in this show from the sixties, in which Eric and Ernie recall the previous night's cocktail party, sing the blues and perform their version of a scene from Beau Geste, featuring Ernie dressed as an old lady.
(BW) (R) (S)
(More Morecambe and Wise tomorrow at 12.15pm)

Young people share their vision for the future. (S)

A mini-evening of horticultural programmes for the pre-Christmas season.
Ends 10.00.
See Choice.
Gardening: page 46

BBC Gardener of the Year Final
Diarmuid Gavin presents the climax of this year's competition to find the best horticulturalist from the six featured during the autumn Gardeners' World series. The finalists have to build a small garden from scratch at Harrogate's Harlow Carr Botanical Gardens with a budget of just £700, as well as undergoing a test of their gardening expertise. Rachel de Thame visits the finalists' own gardens.
(S) (W)

An intimate portrait of a favourite British pursuit follows a year in the life of five gardens, and the people who look after them. Subjects include an organic allotment owner from Leeds, the patrician owner of a North Yorkshire stately home, a Devon potter and the woman who tends the garden that belonged to Tristram Shandy author Laurence Sterne.
(S) (W)

Jeremy Clarkson's talk-show series comes to an end as he presides over one last potpourri of provocative chat, exploding food, vitriol and irreverent jokes.
(S) (W)

In the last programme of the series, David Pountney, best known for his striking productions at the English National Opera, works with a group of talented young singers on operatic scenes by Verdi, Puccini and Shostakovich. Introduced by James Naughtie.
(S) (W)

Today's events in Westminster.

With just 100 days to go before opening night, the man in charge, Lord Falconer, runs through detailed plans. Last in the series.
(Death of the Dome, tomorrow at 9pm, updates the story)
(R) (S) (W)

Romantic drama.
In her first teaching job, 22-year-old Christina volunteers to coach the boys' soccer team and falls for troubled 17-year-old Nick Polides. Despite recently becoming engaged, Christina's attraction to Nick soon blossoms into a passionate affair.
Ends 2.55am.
(1993) (S)
Films: pp 77-84 ***