Presented by Simon Parkin and Andi Peters.
Touche Turtle
Cartoon about the unlikely musketeer Touche Turtle. (R)
The Playbus is at the Dot Stop. Today's story is The Wizard of the West by Michael Cole. With Liz Kitchen and Saskia Wright. A Felgate production for BBCtv (R)
A series about legends.
Tym Sion Cati from Wales. With Alwyne Taylor and Dave Benson Phillips. Producer Peter Charlton (R)
* COMPETITION: entries to Is That a Fact?[address removed]
Cartoon adventures of the famous boy puppet.
A children's multi-faith series written by Nick Mclvor.
Out for the Night. At last the team gets the chance of a night off when invited to a barmitzvah party.
Director Jeremy Woolf Producer Judy Merry
The cartoon story of pixies in an enchanted forest.
How does frost make patterns on windows? Presented by Simon Davies and Sophie Aldred with Jo Korna. (R)
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Cartoon adventures with Rick Gordon and the Defenders.
With Yvette Fielding John Leslie and Diane-Louise Jordan.
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Cartoon.
A ghost story for children in three parts by Robert Westall. 2: More mystery for Anne.
Music, popular programmes and your vox pops. H20 - dance in it with Madness, bathe in it with Michael Palin , swim in it with Victoria Wood.
You may be surprised at some of the clips, you'll love the music. Director Nadia Miller Producer Roy Milani
Music, news, competitions, plus the stars' tips for the top pop hits.
Cartoon based on Peanuts. (R)
Australia v England
Richie Benaud introduces highlights of the third day's play in Sydney.
TV presentation Channel 9 Australia
Embassy World Professional Darts Championship. Live action from the stage of the Lakeside Country Club,
Frimley Green, where No 2 seed Peter Evison (England) meets twice former world champion John Lowe
(England) in the outstanding match of the first round. Jocky Wilson (Scotland) is also due to be on stage this afternoon. Commentary by Sid Waddell and Tony Green.
Introduced by Tony Gubba.
The first of six programmes of music by Elgar , played by the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis. Michael Berkeley , in conversation with a British composer, introduces each performance. Today,
Nigel Osborne probes the Enigma behind Elgar's famous set of Variations.
Director Andrew Quick
Series producer Paul Islwyn Thomas 0 PICTURE STORY: page 41
Starring
Bruce Dern
Cliff Potts
A space station in the year
2001: four men are searching for forests, animals and fruit to refurbish a devastated earth. But after eight years they are recalled.
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The World of Dogs
This year's preview to Cruft's goes to Birmingham and to a tavern called the Dog! Pubs in the 19th century regularly held dog shows and in this
Cruft's centenary year, Angela Rippon and Mike Stockman visit the Quarantine Centre at London's Heathrow Airport, look at dogs which work for their living and the Parson Jack Russell Terrier , making its debut at Cruft's this year. Producer Joy Corbett
( Cruft's: Working Dogs, Terriers and Hounds, on Friday at 6.00pm) 0 NATURE: page 12
0 PICTURE STORY: page 41
The national squads take a break, though Scotland holds its final trial this weekend at
Murrayfield. With Chris Rea. Executive producer Johnnie Watherston
The downhillers are at the 1936 Olympic venue of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Not raced for four years on the World Cup circuit, the redesigned course promises to be steeper, faster and more spectacular.
Introduced by David Vine. Producer Mark Wilkin
Executive producer Jim Reside
In Japan's fiercely competitive car market Nissan has set the pace in production line technology and marketing but has failed to unseat Toyota from the number one position. Gordon Brewer reports from inside Nissan, with unprecedented filming access from the boardroom to the factory floor, on how it revolutionised the way car manufacturers approach their market.
(Postponed from 25 November 1990)
Running for Their
Lives. Award-winning wildlife film-maker Hugh Miles provides a fresh view of the social lives of African wild dogs and their struggle for survival. Producers Hugh Miles and Kerth Scholey Senes editor Mike Salisbury • NATURE: page 12
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In his first major television interview shown in Britain, Australian batsman
Don Bradman looks back with Jack Egan on his cricketing career. Introduced by Tony Lewis. Director/Producer Jack Egan * NATURE: page 12
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Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling (Peter Cook ) chooses his 12 gifts. With Ludovic Kennedy. 12: Lords a-Leaping
The second part of the Jeanette Winterson story.
Starring Geraldine McEwan, Kenneth Cranham, Charlotte Coleman
Jess, now 16, meets Melanie and falls in love. "This can't be unnatural passion", they think. The pastor, the congregation and Jess's mother think something quite different. (R) (For cast see Saturday at 9.05pm. Part 3 tomorrow at 9. OOpm)
First showing on network television of the film based on Helene Hanff's celebrated bestseller.
Starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins
January 1969: American writer Helene Hanff at last makes her first trip to England, the culmination of an intense relationship with literary London and, in particular, with the employees of a West End antiquarian bookshop.
Director David Jones
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This evening's highlights of the World Professional Darts
Championship, with Tony Gubba.
