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Metalheads
The Green Knight sets a perilous challenge.

7.15 Super Duper Sumos
Shemo, the fourth Sumoteer arrives in Generic City.

7.35 Arthur
Prunella frets about offending a friend.

8.05 The Fairly Odd Parents
Timmy's pranks get out of hand.

8.30 The Saturday Show
Home and Away's Sebastian Elmaloglou (aka Max) guests and Busted karaoke is launched. Plus games and cartoon fun. With Angellica Bell, Simon Grant and Jake Humphrey.

10.00 The Mysti Show
Jamelia and My Parents Are Aliens star Danielle McCormack guest, while Rick and Jez Rose trick Around the World in 80 Days stars Steve Coogan and Jackie Chan.
(Also on CBBC channel)

11.00 Top of the Pops Saturday
Anastacia, Rachel Stevens, Shaznay Lewis and McFly perform. Plus, Chris Eubank reviews the latest singles. Presented by Fearne Cotton.
Director Simon Hepworth: Producer Christina Brown
(Repeated at 6pm on CBBC channel)

Contributors

Presenter (The Saturday Show):
Angellica Bell
Presenter (The Saturday Show):
Simon Grant
Presenter (The Saturday Show):
Jake Humphrey
Presenter (The Saturday Show):
Sebastian Elmaloglou
Director (The Saturday Show):
Grigor Stirling
Executive Producer (The Saturday Show):
Colin Nobbs
Guest (The Mysti Show):
Danielle McCormack
Guest (The Mysti Show):
Steve Coogan
Guest (The Mysti Show):
Jackie Chan
Director (The Mysti Show):
Alii Jeronimus
Producer (The Mysti Show):
Michael Connock
Presenter (Top of the Pops Saturday):
Fearne Cotton
Guest (Top of the Pops Saturday):
Rachel Stevens
Guest (Top of the Pops Saturday):
Shaznay Lewis
Guest (Top of the Pops Saturday):
Chris Eubank

A visit to the National Deaf
Children's Society exhibition at Sandown Park Racecourse and a look back at the BBC's first ever television programme for deaf people. With sign language, voiceover and in-vision subtitles. Repeated Tuesday at 1.15am on BBC1 www.bbc.co.uk/seehear

Stirring period adventure, based on the classic novel by H Rider Haggard. The first of a Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger double bill. Elizabeth Curtis enlists the help of Allan Quartermain , a famous guide, on a desperate search to find her husband, who disappeared while seeking King Solomon's diamond mines. Review page 42.
Directors Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton (1950. PG)

Contributors

Unknown:
Deborah Kerr
Unknown:
Stewart Granger
Unknown:
Elizabeth Curtis
Unknown:
Allan Quartermain
Directors:
Compton Bennett
Directors:
Andrew Marton

**** Swashbuckling adventure starring Stewart
- Granger and Deborah Kerr.
While holidaying in Ruritania, Rudolf Rassendyll is called upon to impersonate the country's monarch -an act that places him in mortal danger. Review page 42. Director Richard Thorpe (1952, U)
Deborah Kerr stars in Love on the Dole on Monday at 1.10pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Deborah Kerr.
Unknown:
Rudolf Rassendyll
Director:
Richard Thorpe
Unknown:
Deborah Kerr

Live coverage of the closing stages of the third round of the L2.2 million Scottish Open from Loch Lomond. With Steve Rider.
Coverage continues tomorrow at
1.40pm in Sunday Grandstand. www.bbc.co.uk/golf

Contributors

Unknown:
Loch Lomond.
Unknown:
Steve Rider.

St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry, welcomes experts Thomas Plant and Michael Bowles as more antiques are valued.
Executive producer Jane Lomas ; Series producer John Miller

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Plant
Unknown:
Michael Bowles
Producer:
Jane Lomas
Producer:
John Miller

A colonel is shot dead in the vicarage of St Mary Mead and there is no shortage of suspects. Enter the village's deceptively mild elderly sleuth to sift the evidence and track down the killer in a dramatisation of Agatha Christie 's first Miss Marple novel. Guest-starring Paul Eddington.

Paul Eddington can be seen in Yes Minister on Tuesday at 10pm

Contributors

Writer:
Agatha Christie
Screenplay by:
T R Bowen
Producer:
George Gallaccio
Director:
Julian Amyes
Miss Marple:
Joan Hickson
Rev Leonard Clement:
Paul Eddington
Griselda Clement:
Cheryl Campbell
Col Lucius Protheroe:
Robert Lang
Ann Protheroe:
Polly Adams
Lettice Protheroe:
Tara MacGowran
Lawrence Redding:
James Hazeldine
Christopher Hawes:
Christopher Good

The well-preserved remains of an 80ft medieval merchant
I ship came to light in 2002 on the banks of the River Usk in Newport, Gwent. Two of the archaeologists involved - Kate Hunter and Nigel Nayling- delve into its history uncovering secrets dating back to the Wars of the Roses. Producer Graham Johnston : Editor John Farren (AD)

Contributors

Unknown:
River Usk
Unknown:
Kate Hunter
Producer:
Graham Johnston
Editor:
John Farren

The fundraising extravaganza moves from BBC1 to BBC2. Top Gear's Stars in Fast Cars In a quest to find out who is Britain's best celebrity driver, Jeremy Clarkson, Jodie Kidd, Darren Jordon, Patrick Kielty, Alan Davies and Jimmy Carr burn rubber for a charitable cause. Richard Hammond and James May present the action.
For donation details see BBC1 at 7pm. The fun continues on BBC1 from 9.30pm. BBCi: press the red button for interactive elements throughout the five-hour live show. For further information see [web address removed]
Laughing fit: page 10

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Clarkson
Unknown:
Jodie Kidd
Unknown:
Darren Jordon
Unknown:
Patrick Kielty
Unknown:
Alan Davies
Unknown:
Jimmy Carr
Unknown:
Richard Hammond
Unknown:
James May

Drama starring Robin Williams. In 1959,
Professor John Keating arrives to teach English at the sedate New
England school where he was formerly a pupil. His extraordinary teaching methods inspire several pupils to reform a forbidden club where students secretly discuss their dreams and aspirations. But Keating's unorthodox style leads to controversy and tragedy. Review page 42.
Director Peter Weir (1989, PG)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Williams.
Unknown:
Professor John Keating
Director:
Peter Weir
John Keating:
Robin Williams
Neil Perry Robert:
Sean Leonard
Todd Anderson:
Ethan Hawke
Knox Overstreet:
Josh Charles
Charlie Dalton:
Gale Hansen
Richard Cameron:
Dylan Kussman
Steven Meeks:
Allelon Ruggiero
Gerard Pitts:
James Waterston

Nicolas Roeg 's supernatural thriller, adapted from Daphne du Maurier's short story. Following the tragic drowning of their young daughter, John and Laura Baxter go to Venice
- he to work, she to recuperate. There they meet two sisters, one of whom claims to be able to communicate with the dead child. Film of the Week: page 37
(1973,15) Nicolas Roeg 's Cold Heaven is on Wednesday at 11.50pm Film Trivia: page 41

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicolas Roeg
Unknown:
Laura Baxter
Unknown:
Nicolas Roeg
John Baxter:
Donald Sutherland
Laura Baxter:
Julie Christie
Heather:
Hilary Mason
Wendy:
Clelia Matania
Bishop Barbarrigo:
Massimo Serato
Inspector:
Longhi Renatoscarpa
Anthony Babbage:
David Tree
Mandy Babbage:
Ann Rye

www.bbc.co.uk/iearningzone
Open University/General Interest Repeats not indicated.
2.00 Deadly Quarrels How two very different individuals turned to mathematics to analyse conflict and its causes during the First World War. 92546 2.30 The Birth of Liquid Crystals
3.00 Catching the Good Health Train 91275 3.30 Hospitals - Who Needs Them? 95633 4.00 Test Tube Miracle? The infertility treatment ICSI seems to break evolutionary rules. So what could be the cost of making babies? 83898 4.30 The
Front Desk 92904 5.00 An English Education 57343 5.30 Mexico City - Whose City? Struggling for power.

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