With Simon Parkin, Philippa Forrester and Esther McVey.

The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son
An entertaining cartoon about an Eskimo lady who adopts a baby polar bear, and the love that develops between them.

7.25am Playdays
The Patch Stop. [STEREO]

7.45am Dot and the Koala
Intrepid adventurer Dot returns to the Australian outback and teams up with a koala bear with an eye for fun. Network TV premiere.
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8.55am A Muppet Family Christmas
A musical Muppet spectacular, including Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock regulars. Fozzie invites all his friends to spend Christmas at his mother's.

9.45am Alien's First Christmas
It is the year 2027 and the "Peoples" are living in outer space. But Christmas is Christmas wherever you are.

10.10am The Flintstones
Fred, Wilma and the Rubbles win a game-show prize - an all-expenses paid trip to Rocksylvania.

The hit musical starring John Travolta
Olivia Newton-John
After a summer romance, teenagers Danny and Sandy meet again under very different circumstances.
An affectionate view of the 50s, featuring a soundtrack of great old and new songs.
Director Randal Kleiser
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The festive season arrives for the cartoon space-age family.

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The first showing on network television for this animated family film, produced by Steven Spielberg. It's 1885, and the Mousekewitz family of mice leave their native Russia and set sail for America - where, they believe, there are no cats and the streets are paved with cheese. A sequel, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is now on release.
With the voices of Phillip Glasser, Dom DeLuise, Nehemiah Persoff, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Plummer, Cathianne Blore.
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First showing on network television for this family comedy.
Starring John Lithgow
While on a camping holiday a family discover a giant creature - the legendary Bigfoot - and, thinking it's dead, take it home. This film was the basis for the television series Harry and the Hendersons and won an Oscar for outstanding make-up.
Director William Dear
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Full classified football results.

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A BBC team takes on an ITV quartet in a special edition of the television knowledge quiz. Les Dawson captains the BBC team, with Carmen Silvera (Edith in 'Allo Allot), Mike Reid (Frank Butcher in EastEnders) and weather forecaster Suzanne Charlton.
You Bet's Matthew Kelly is the ITV captain, with Sarah Kennedy (from Busman Holiday), Bob Holness (of Blockbusters) and Best of Magic's Geoffrey Durham. Hosted by Noel Edmonds. Director Nick Hurran
Producer Richard L Lewis
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Melissa gets a note from the phantom kisser" - will he be unmasked at last?
(For cast see Monday 23 December. Shown at 1.30pm) STEREO
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The first Antiques Roadshow for youngsters, with Roadshow's Hugh Scully and Going Live!' Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene - plus
Gordon the Gopher. Teddy bears, train sets, Sindy dolls,
Dinky toys, Thunderbirds, pop memorabilia, genuine antiques and collectable toys of every kind are featured in this special edition from Bristol, which attracted more than 3,000 children to Temple Meads station. Going Live! producer Cathy Gilbey says: "We had so many phone calls after Hugh Scully and expert Hilary Kay appeared on our show earlier this year we realised our viewers would love an Antiques Roadshow devoted entirely to them." Phillip Schofield says: "When I was younger I had an enormous number of Dinky toys - but my brother buried them in the garden." Producer Michele Burgess
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Grant's Boxing Day surprise for Sharon doesn't have quite the effect he'd planned.
(For cast see Thursday 2 January)
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A special feature-length episode of the detective drama starring John Nettles
All for Love. Broken-hearted by a letter from his French girlfriend, Jim is back on the bottle. So Charlie decides he should be kept busy and persuades Jim to accompany him to Bath as minder of a priceless painting. There he falls victim to the wiles of a woman with specific plans for his future - including murder. Bill Nighy , recently in the BBC series The Men's Room, and Catherine Rabett , who plays Cissy in You Rang, M'Lord?, both appear tonight.
This could be the very last chance of following the adventures of the Jersey detective as there are no plans for a further series.
John Nettles , however, is writing a book, Jersey: a Personal History of Its People and Places, to be published in May by BBC Books.
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Weather Bernard Davey
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First showing on network television of this wild comedy of lust, greed and seafood, starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin
When straight-laced, married, barrister Archie Leach falls for sexy, American criminal Wanda Gerschwitz, things don't look good. Wanda and her psychopathic boyfriend are after a fortune in stolen gems. Cleese wrote the screenplay and won Bafta's best actor award. Kevin Kline won an Oscar for best supporting actor, and Bafta's best supporting actor award went to Michael Palin. Director Charles Crichton is also famous for directing the Ealing comedies The Lavender Hill Mob and The Titfield Thunderbolt.
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Starring the Carry On gang, who run the Wedded Bliss Marriage Agency.

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