Smurfs' Adventures
Three smurfs get involved in an all-for-one-and-one-for-all adventure.
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7.20 Alvin and the Chipmunks
The Chipmunks star in their own version of This Is Spinal Tap.
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7.45 Rugrats
Chuckie becomes Angelica's slave. Susie and Angelica play "top this".
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8.10 Blue Peter
Konnie Huq hunts for panto props. With sign language.
(Shown yesterday at 5pm on BBC1)
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8.35 The Wild Thornberrys
Tyler looks forward to spending his 13th birthday with Eliza.
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9.05 Smart Guy
TJ is offered a slot as a talk-show guest.
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9.25 Bailey Kipper's POV
The video diarist chronicles more of the Kipper family's activities.
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9.50 Arthur
Friends join Arthur in entering a writing competition. DW discovers science.
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10.15 Doctor Otter
Melvyn needs first aid when a fish stew prepared by Flybred doesn't agree with him.
(Repeated at 1pm)
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10.30 Tweenies Christmas Countdown
Day 20 of the rundown.
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Then Tweenies
Max finds the other Tweenies useful when they become cranes.
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BBC CD: Tweenies Christmas Album is available from retailers

10.50 Teletubbies
Little Bo Peep looks for her errant flock of sheep in Teletubbyland.
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BBC Video: Teletubbies 2 video box set, containing Musical Playtime and Nursery Rhymes, price £12.99

David Attenborough follows the development of this insect from egg to flying adult.
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The team join forces with special services to storm a gangster's house.
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Financial news.

Ends 1.15.

Doctor Otter
Animated fun.
(Shown at 10.15am)
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1.10 Little Polar Bear
Chilly capers with the curious bear.
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Classic love story. In 1918, a soldier with amnesia flees an asylum and finds his way into town. By chance he meets Paula - who christens him "Smithy" - and falls in love.
Their life together is blissfully happy until the day Smithy goes to Liverpool.
Review page 60.
(1942, U) ****
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Another session of studio-based debate. (S) (W)

More contestants are challenged to create 20-minute meals by Ainsley Harriott.
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The American version of the unforgiving quiz.
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(Repeated at 12 midnight on BBC Choice)

Lois and Clark have to overcome the potent effects of a vindictive toymaker's dolls.
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A glut of vampires in Sunnydale leads Spike to offer Buffy his assistance, but he invites her scorn when he makes an unwelcome confession.
(Repeated tomorrow 1.35am)
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Website: [web address removed]

Interior designer Linda Barker and chef Patrick Williams conclude their seasonal collaboration with advice on creating an opulent home environment over yuletide. Barker's decor combines deep colours with lavish fabrics to achieve a neo-Victorian effect, while Williams rustles up a sumptuous lamb dish, port-and-stilton rarebit, and foie gras.
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Website: [web address removed]

Over the course of one summer in Leeds, cameras record the lives and insights of a group of people who are all facing their own death, showing how they communicate their hopes and fears in the absence of any religious faith. Among the subjects are a mother of three, a single woman and a man desperately in need of a transplant.
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When Captain Mainwaring finds himself in hospital, Sergeant Wilson allows the vicar to join the platoon.
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(Another episode is tomorrow at 10pm)

Presented by Jeremy Paxman.
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The last in this series on the north's riot-stricken mill towns visits Bradford to see how police are trying to deal with the problems of crime - in particular drugs - without alienating the community.
See Monday's choice.
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Drug addiction takes many forms and is shrouded in misinformation. This documentary explodes many of the myths, and reveals radical new measures to prevent smoking and cocaine addiction.
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Drama.

In the Deep South, songwriter Freda and her husband get involved with Harold and his eccentric mother Camilla, a once-successful violinist. Freda forms a friendship with her, and they head north to the scene of one of Camilla's biggest triumphs.
Review page 60.
(1993, 12) ***
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