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Nostalgic sci-fi adventure starring Peter Cushing and Roy Castle. The Doctor teams up with the Thais, a kindly people whose future is threatened by the Daleks. Review page 67. Director Gordon Flemyng (1965, U)
Totally Doctor Who is on BBC1 at 5pm; repeats of the last series of Doctor Who conclude on BBC3 at 7pm; and the new series begins next Saturday on BBC1 It's nearly Time...: page 12

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Cushing
Unknown:
Roy Castle
Director:
Gordon Flemyng

r Comedy drama set during the Second World War, starring
Oliver Reed. An Allied PoW who works in a zoo hatches a bold plan to escape across the Alps - on an elephant. Review page 67. Director Michael Winner (1968, U)

Contributors

Unknown:
Oliver Reed.
Director:
Michael Winner

At a tearoom and farm in Devon, chefs John Burton Race and Michael Caines learn how to clot cream and churn butter as their contest to create a menu for the Queen's 80th reaches the dessert course.
See Monday's choice.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Burton
Unknown:
Michael Caines

New series 1/3. The stories behind three paintings that encompass traditional Easter themes.
The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci. Dan Brown 's blockbuster The Da Vinci Code may have brought the fresco to a new audience, but historian David Rosand argues that the book suffers from a basic misreading of the painting; here, he guides us through the work's life story. Narrated by Samuel West. Dalf's Christ of St John of the Cross is assessed tomorrow at 7pm. Producer Ian Michael Jones ; Series editor Jeremy Bugler Passion in art: page 33

Contributors

Unknown:
Leonardo Da Vinci.
Unknown:
Dan Brown
Unknown:
Da Vinci Code
Unknown:
David Rosand
Unknown:
Samuel West.
Producer:
Ian Michael Jones

The black chair awaits another quartet of contestants. Specialist subjects are Verdi's operas, Inspector Morse, Anne Boleyn and the locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley. John Humphrys is quizmaster.
Contestants: to apply, go to [Web address removed] or write to: [Address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
John Humphrys
Director:
Derek Hallworth
Series Producer:
Karina Brennan

New series 1/6. For Brazil's poor, one of the few ways out of the slums is through football. Now, in a shocking new crime, kidnappers are targeting their heroes' mothers for cash; Real Madrid's Robinho paid US $75,000 for his mother's release. This intense film follows the intertwining lives of three people who all came from the favelas - football superstar Robinho; Brazil's most notorious kidnapper; and the bossa nova-loving head of Sao Paulo's anti-kidnapping squad. Director Benito Montorio ; Exec producer Karen O'Connor

Contributors

Director:
Benito Montorio
Producer:
Karen O'Connor

New series 1/6; series two. Pitch-black sitcom written by and starring Julia Davis as a monstrous beautician. Jill agrees to marry daft-as-a-brush Glen.
Director Dewi Humphreys ; Producer Alison MacPhail
First shown on BBC3 www.bbc.co.uk/comedy

Contributors

Unknown:
Julia Davis
Director:
Dewi Humphreys
Producer:
Alison MacPhail
Jill Tyrell:
Julia Davis
Don Cole:
Angus Deayton
Cath Cole:
Rebecca Front
Glen Bulb:
Mark Gatiss
Linda:
Ruth Jones
Sue 2:
Felicity Montagu
Dennis:
Mark Wootton
Gordon:
Michael Fenton Stevens

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