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Playdays
The friends have time to kill while waiting for a train - but how will they fill it?
(R) (S)

7.20 Smurfs' Adventures
More fun and frolics with the diminutive blue folk.
(R) (S)

7.45 Trading Places
Three hopeful gymnasts travel to Moscow to see if they have what it takes to reach the top, while for the Russian trio in England it's back to basics. With in-vision sign language.
(Shown yesterday at 5pm on BBC1)
(S) (W)

8.10 Monster Rancher
When their plane breaks down, Genki and his friends are forced to land in an area controlled by Pixie.
(R) (S)

8.35 Animorphs
The gang are offered the chance to ensure their own safety - by abandoning Earth to the Yeerks.
(R) (S)

Historical epic. A Cossack leader clashes with his son as they struggle for control of 16th-century eastern Europe.
Widescreen.
Review page 55.
(1962, U) **
(S)

Contributors

Director:
J. Lee Thompson
Andrei Bulba:
Tony Curtis
Taras Bulba:
Yul Brynner
Natalia Dubrov:
Christine Kaufmann
Filipenko:
Sam Wanamaker
Shilo:
Brad Dexter

The third in a six-part documentary series charting the national hunt season through the eyes of characters in County Kildare. Stable hand Alex is rushed to hospital, and a promising young horse has a nasty fall.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Producer:
Karen Rodgers
Executive Producer:
John Cummins

Part three of the series in which Chris Beardshaw and Ali Ward guide neighbours from Leamington Spa through the challenge of creating new gardens for each other. This week tempers begin to fray as the work mounts.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris Beardshaw
Presenter:
Ali Ward
Director:
Attracta McLaughlin
Producer:
Karen Mackinder

Christopher Lloyd uses his Great Dixter garden as his palette in the first of four films exploring the use of colour in the garden, while Joe Swift travels to Atherton botanical gardens club to meet amateur growers at their pinks and carnation show. Producer Colette Foster ; Executive producer Tony Laryea (S) (W) BBC BOOK: Colour for Adventurous Gardeners by Christopher Lloyd , L20 Be bold with your colours: Gay Search, page 20

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Lloyd
Unknown:
Joe Swift
Producer:
Colette Foster
Producer:
Tony Laryea

A new five-part series on the the history of criminal detection.

DNA testing, invented by a British scientist 17 years ago, has revolutionised the work of the police. From its first successful application in a British case in 1987, to the hunt for an Italian serial killer, the programme charts the rise of this new technology.
(S) (W)
Website: [web address removed]
The machinery of justice: page 18

Contributors

Director:
Tilman Remme
Executive Producer:
Laurence Rees

Allison Pearson, John Carey and Ian Hislop join Kirsty Wark to discuss the highs and lows of the cultural week.
(Rptd next Monday on BBC Knowledge)
(S)

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Wark
Panellist:
Allison Pearson
Panellist:
John Carey
Panellist:
Ian Hislop
Producer:
Mark Bell

Action drama set in the world of stock-car racing.

Elroy Jackson Jr enters and wins a local derby, but he soon discovers that it's tough at the top.
Review page 57.
(1973) ****
(S)
Teach yourself... Jeff Bridges: page 57

(to 2.10)

Contributors

Director:
Lamoni Johnson
Junior Jackson:
Jeff Bridges
Marge:
Valerie Perrine
Mrs Jackson:
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Hackel:
Ned Beatty
Elroy Jackson Sr:
Art Lund
Wayne Jackson:
Gary Busey

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