Peter Simon introduces a bumper package of Saturday morning entertainment. Starting with Bananaman
Battle of the Century
Eric is just another schoolboy - but when danger calls, a few mouthfuls of his special bananas and Eric is Bananaman.
With the voices of Tim Brooke-Taylor
Bill Oddie , Graeme Garden Jill Shilling
Written by BERNIE KAY Music by DAVE COOKE
Produced and directed by TERRY WARD (R)
8.25am Corners
Presented by Stephen Johnson Sophie Aldred with Jo Korna
How do synthesisers work? Why do golf balls have dimples? How can you hear the sea in a seashell? Designer PAUL SUDLOW
Production ALISON STEWART (R) Questions to Comers, BBCW, London W128QT
8.40am
Eggs 'n' Baker with Cheryl Baker
It's bonfire night and Cheryl makes the right kind of food for the festivities. Firewater, gunpowder grog and the safest fireworks of all - made out of marzipan - are on offer. Setting the programme alight musically is Yazz, singing her latest hit. Director JOHN NORTHOVER
Producer MADELINE WILTSHIRE BBC North West
9.00am Going Live! with Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene
Featuring double cartoon action with The Raccoons and Thundercats, women's squash champion Lisa Opie, a Newsround report from the Orkney Islands, behind the scenes with Bananarama and 25 Years of Doctor Who.
Sylvester McCoy asks What's Your Story?, there's swimmer Adrian Moorhouse , Live Line, All About Me at the circus, Double Dare with Siobhan Maher and Stephen Johnson, Video Vote, Deacon Blue live and Trevor and Simon in search of Robin Hood. Join the 'Going Live!' gang for a morning of great entertainment - on your telly.
Editor CHRIS BELLINGER

JOHN KETTLEY

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12.50pm News Summary

with Moira Stuart Weather

starring
Like a Death in the Family Nancy learns the results of some medical tests and finds them difficult to come to terms with. Written by ROGER DUNN
Directed by DAN BURSTALL
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starring Noel Edmonds special guests
Peter Blake , Shane Richie
Nicholas Parsons also featuring
Clarence and Joy Pickles
It's a dark and stormy night. You're lost. Your car breaks down. You see a strange castle on a hill. Tired and soaked to the skin, you knock at the huge double doors for help and they mysteriously swing open unaided.
Foolishly you walk in and get attacked by a werewolf ... ever had one of those days? Script associate MARTIN BOOTH Sound DAVID THOMPSON Lighting ERIC WALLIS
Design MARTIN METHVEN Produced and directed by MICHAEL LEGGO

starring Bob Monkhouse More exciting prizes to be won on television's bingo quiz show as four hopeful contestants compete for the chance of a dream holiday. Game devised by TERRY MARDELL and DAVID MOORE Programme associates
COLIN EDMONDS and JOHN JUNHN Lighting FRED WRIGHT Sound JOHN DELANY Designer DACRE PUNT Director BILL MORTON
Produced by GEOFF MILES
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Devised and presented by Esther Rantzen
Reporter Michael Groth
This series celebrates people who have performed unsung acts of outstanding kindness or courage.
If you would like to nominate somebody to win the Hearts of Gold award, please write to:
Hearts of Gold, BBCtv, London W12 7RJ
Director ROBIN BEXTOR
Series producer BRYHER SCUDAMORE

based on the books by JAMES HERRIOT
Female of the Species by BRIAN FINCH starring
Siegfried is persuaded by an i old colleague to show his offspring the sharp end of the business - and Calum, resentful of another callow youth around the surgery, becomes more enthusiastic when he first beholds the veterinary student....
Music composed by JOHNNY PEARSON Designer CHRIS RUGG
Producer BILL SELLARS Director TONY VIRGO
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with Martyn Lewis ; Weather

starring Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Weller
'Attention: Criminals! You have wronged people. It is to people you must apologise to, not to God. Get your misdeeds off your chest! Call 555-4738 now.'
An interesting advertisement; a challenging concept for its creator, artist Lily McGuire, and the raw material for her latest piece of work. But when a man calls confessing to a series of grisly murders, it is only a matter of time before she is the one in danger.
Screenplay by MARK MEDOFF Produced by RICHARD PARKS Directed by ROBERT BIERMAN
(First showing on British television)
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Jack Klugman as Oscar Tony Randall as Felix Felix Gets Sick
The situation is perfect: it's the weekend, Felix is going away and Oscar has a hot date. But then the world's greatest hypochondriac comes down with 'one of those 48-hour things' and Oscar's intention of playing doctors and nurses turns out to be not quite what he had in mind ...
Written by ALBERT E. LEWIN Directed by HAL COOPER

starring
Tim McIntire with Chuck Berry Jerry Lee Lewis
'This is Alan Freed ... and this is rock 'n' roll.' With these words the young hearts of New York race as the most celebrated of radio disc jockeys unleashes the popular sounds of the 50s. Besieged by adoring fans, young hopefuls and desperate record producers, disapproved of by worrying parents, stern policemen and ruthless federal agents, Freed prepares for the great event of 1959, the first anniversary rock 'n' roll show live at the Brooklyn Paramount theatre ...
The hit songs of the period as well as performances by Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis are featured in this exuberant look at the early days of rock 'n' roll. with CHUCK BERRY. JERRY LEE
LEWIS. SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS Screenplay by JOHN KAYE
Based on a story by JOHN KAYE and ART LINSON
Produced by ART LINSON
Directed by FLOYD MUTRUX
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