Ends 9.00.

Polka Dot Shorts
Fun in the polka dot land of Roo.
(R)

7.10 Smurfs' Adventures
Cartoon fun with the little blue folk.
(R)

7.35 Rugrats
Animated ankle-biting antics.
(R) (S)

8.00 Blue Peter
Simon Thomas learns how to be a football commentator, and studio guests are BB Mak.
(Shown last Friday on BBC1)
(S) (W)

8.25 Albert the Fifth Musketeer
Animated adventures set in 17th-century France.
(R) (S)

8.50 Yoho Ahoy!
Animated double bill. Poop and Swab can't sleep because Cat keeps stealing their blankets.
(Repeated at 1pm)
(R) (S)
BBC CD-ROM: available for PC price £19.99, from retailers

(Repeats are not indicated)

9.00 Storytime: So Much/Shelly's Birthday (ages 4-5)
(S)

9.15 Words and Pictures Plus: Consonant Clusters: The Three Billy Goats Gruff (ages 5-7)
(S)

9.30 Magic Key: Floppy and the Puppies (ages 5-6)
(S)

9.45 Dynamo: Literacy - Letters M and N (early years)
(S)

Ends 10.50.

Teletubbies
The Tubbies watch a girl paint a picture of her father.
(R) (S)
Website: [web address removed]

10.30 Tweenies
The Tweenies give Max a pair of tiger slippers.
(R) (S) (W)
Website: [web address removed]

10.50 Come Outside: Sewage (ages 4-5)
(S)

11.05 Numbertime: Number Six (ages 4-6)
(S)

11.20 Revisewise: National Tests
(S)

11.30 Megamaths: Measure: Sports Day (ages 7-9)
(S)

11.50 Music Makers: Beat and Rhythm (ages 9-11)
(S)

12.10 Landmarks: Time Lines: Recording the Times (ages 9-11)
(S)

Learning about music. Tricky D broadcasts his trillennium party live to the universe. Alasdair Malloy introduces the concept of pulse and rhythm.

Consumer news, with Adrian Chiles and Adam Shaw.

Shown at 8.50am (S)

A view of another resort.

Historical epic. An impetuous young nobleman embarks on a diplomatic career, only to become entangled with a beautiful courtesan. Forsaking diplomacy, he turns to warfare, which is better suited to his dashing temperament.
(1968) (S)
Films: pp 60-63 **

3.20 News; Regional News (Digital: UK Today); Weather
(S) (W)

Topical daytime studio debate, hosted by Esther Rantzen.
(S) (W)

The weekday culinary challenge, with Ainsley Harriott.
(S)

First of the week's daily outings of the elimination quiz, hosted by Anne Robinson.
(The evening editions continue tonight at 8.30pm on BBC1)
(S) (W)

Homer's answer to seasonal cash-flow problems is to enrol at a school for Santas.
(A Simpsons double bill can be seen on Friday at 6pm)
(R) (S)

6.25 Sleepless in Bel Air
Will pays dearly for putting off his mid-term studying.
(S)

6.45 Who's the Boss?
Will refuses to work under Carlton as manager of the campus restaurant.
(S)

St John's College, Oxford, and Bristol University compete for a place in the semi-final. Presented by Jeremy Paxman.
(S) (W)

Another chance to see last year's series in which chef Jamie Oliver offers his modern outlook on culinary issues.

Jamie has been roped in to a night out with Jules and her pals - and conjuring up a post-club fry-up.
(R) (S) (W)
BBC Books: The Naked Chef, price £18.99, and The Return of the Naked Chef, £20, available from bookshops

Continuing the new comedy strand.
Ends 10.30.

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
The irreverent pop quiz returns for a new ten-part series with regulars Mark Lamarr, Phill Jupitus and Sean Hughes joined tonight by Placebo lead singer Brian Molko, Pete Deveraux of Artful Dodger and Live and Kicking's Sarah Cawood.
(Repeated next Sunday)
(S) (W)

9.30 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps: Fags, Shags and Kebabs
First in a new six-part comedy set in the northern town of Runcorn focusing on the lives and loves of five late-teens.
Janet wants to help Donna prove to her mum that she can find a man, but discovers that her matchmaking affects her own relationship.
(Repeated tomorrow at 9pm on BBC Choice)
(S) (W)
Deja view with Mark Lewisohn: p15; Ralf Little's kind of day: p 138

10.00 Room 101
Paul Merton invites comic duo Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins to consign their pet hates, including student theatre and PE teachers, to the fiery furnace of oblivion.
(Repeated next Sun)
(S) (W)

Donna needs a man so her mum won't think she's repellent to the opposite sex. Janet wants to help. Show more

The day's main news stories, presented by Kirsty Wark.
(S) (W)

A new five-part nightly series, in which journalist Sean Langan strays off the beaten track on a tour of the Middle East.

Langan begins in Afghanistan, where the drawing, filming or photographing of any living thing is illegal, and visits the Kabul football stadium, where the entertainment could just as easily be a public execution as a soccer match.
(S)
Meet the man who confronts the misery-makers: page 26

Political analysis, with Steve Richards.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Building the Perfect Beast: Frankenstein
(S)
1.30 Looking for Hinduism in Calcutta
(S)

Secondary Schools
2.00 Belief File: Issues

Languages
4.00 Deutsch Plus: Parts 5-8

Working In the Arts
5.00 Film

Open University
6.00 Humanity and the Scaffold
(S)
6.30 Copernicus and his World
(S)

Ends 7.00am.