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Sure I'm sentimental but I don't think there's anything wrong with dreaming

❑ ITV, Christmas Day: Save the Children with Michael Crawford

CHILDREN COURAGE L MIC CRA A Christmas sto Not content with spending his precious spare time helping and raising money for sick children, stage star Michael Cranford — heading a 'Save the Children' concert on Christmas Day — is proposing to travel to Uganda and Zanzibar to muck in with Save the Children Fund workers.

In an exclusive interview, he tells DONNA LEIGH-K ILE why.

11 the time that Michael Crawford was the toast of New York, during his triumphant nine-month Broadway run as the Phantom of the Opera, he kept in touch with one particular young fan back home.

He was the toughest little guy I've ever met in my life,' says Britain's beloved star recalling his friendship with Sean, an 11-year-old cancer patient whom he first met at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital. 'I went in and surprised him one day — I remember there wasn't a hair on his head. We stayed in touch and when I came out to New York I wrote to him. Then I heard he wasn't too well, so I telephoned him and heard this gruff "ello" at the other end. He said he had been told off by the neighbours for making too much noise in the garden and playing

The Phantom of the Opera

too loudly in the sitting room. Well, I laughed and laughed. There wasn't anything visibly angelic about young Sean but he was an example of courage to other children.'

Two weeks later Crawford received a telegram from the boy's parents say-

ing that Sean had died. 'My immediate thought was, "I bet the neighbours miss the noise now." ' Without making a song and dance about it, 45year-old Crawford has quietly, throughout his career, dedicated much of his very precious free time to befriending, helping and entertaining sick and handicapped children.

Often, he spends that time with individuals like Sean, or sometimes as a committed fund-raiser for children's charities such as The Sick Children's Trust, of which he has been president for two years.

The trust aims to temporarily house parents as close as possible to hospitals where their seriously ill children are being treated.

'We all know how important a family's love is to the recovery of a sick child.

And by making it possible for parents to be close to their children, the Trust has increased the likelihood of their agreeing to treatment available only at major hospitals specialising in cancer, leukaemia and heart disease,' he explains.

Now, however, thanks to his superstar status, Crawford is able for the first time to help youngsters on an international scale.

He is to host a one-hour Christmas Day musical

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spectacular which, due to his overwhelming popularity on both sides of the Atlantic, has been sold to the second-largest cable network in the US. It is to be broadcast to several million viewers in America, Britain, and Australia.

The show features a glittering array of talent: Sarah Brightman, Elaine Paige, David Essex, Bernadette Peters, Paul Nicholas and Julia McKenzie, along with five London orchestras and the London and Broadway cast of the 10 biggest musicals of the decade — Phantom of the Opera, naturally, Cats, Me

and My Girl, 42nd Street

and Les Miserables, to name but a few. Everyone taking part has volunteered their time and talents, and all proceeds are to go to the Save the Children Fund. Future sales of the programme over the next three years are expected to garner eight million dollars for the Fund.

As we have come to expect from this driven performer, Crawford has no intention of talking and walking his way through the show.

Not content with observing Helen Jenkinson and Damien W ard with Crawford at last year's Children in Need appeal

first hand some of the successful Save the Children projects in Africa, he intends to roll up his shirt sleeves and muck in with the Fund volunteers during his 10 days in Uganda and Zanzibar.

'I've asked them to let me get involved with anything I'm able or allowed to be involved in. Lord only knows what they have in mind for me but I can guarantee I won't come out of it a brain surgeon,' he says, with a grin.

Clearly, the Fund has taken him at his word, and you could see him blanch slightly when he heard his agenda might include assisting at the birth of a child.

He regained his composure when it was suggested he take part in the massive immunisation programme which was introduced into Uganda in the Sixties but withdrawn during Idi Amin's regime.

Since it was re-introduced eight years ago, the immunisation rate against diptheria, whooping cough and tetanus is up from five per cent of the population in 1984 to 62 per cent.

'It was my idea to go to these places and make a contribution to the programme. I thought we

‘I find it particularly harrowing to see children and old people suffering,

should go and find the good which has been accomplished by the Save the Children Fund rather than dwell on the absolutely appalling cases they have had to deal with and which one is sure to find.

I'm bracing myself for what I'm about to see. I find it particularly harrowing to see children and old people suffering because they are at the most helpless ends of the spectrum.'

Crawford will, of course, sing. Indeed, when we met at the RCA studios in midtown New York he was recording a song which will close the show, entitled Let's Pretend, written especially for him by the creators of the musical Les

Miserables.

'It's a beautiful song and the message is: let's pretend we're children and that what we do to each other as adults need not happen. Sure I'm sentimental, but there's nothing wrong with dreaming.

Children aren't cruel when they're really young.

They learn it from us.'

Casually dressed in a turquoise sweater, tobacco-brown trousers and brogues, Crawford appears slightly wan, having just overcome a vicious throat virus. It had threatened to deprive him of his last Broadway performance as the Phantom and delay recording of the Save the Children single.

The indefatigable trooper, however, kept his promise that he would sing for his last night audience and record his single the day after, as scheduled. He did not even keep the London orchestra waiting — they had been flown in to back him in the two-and-half-hour session.

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David Quinlan previews the films and Monty Smith the TV movies on ITV and C4 this festive season SATURDAY 17th Easy Money C4, 10.30am-I2.15pm

The British became very fond of multiple story films in the Forties, but the vogue was killed off rather quickly by the advent of half-hour stories on television.

This film is about the effect, on four people from varying walks of life, of a massive win on the football pools. 1947

Cottage to Let C4, 2.00pm-3.45pm

Anthony Asquith's vigorous comedy-thriller about Nazi agents on the loose in Scotland is a splendid piece of fiction of its time. George Cole makes his screen debut at the age of 16 as a cockney evacuee. 1941

The Big Noise C4, 3.45pm-5.05pm

One of Laurel and Hardy's last comedies, this one has some inventive ideas, but was rather hampered by studio insistence on using old Stan-and-011ie routines. Fans may spot a brief appearance by Edgar Dearing. 1944

The Thomas Crown Affair

ITV , 11.05pm-1.00am The plot is too slight to allow Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway to expand their roles enough for us to identify fully with them, although the bank raid scenes are tautly effective and there's a nice chess/ seduction scene reminiscent of the eating orgy in Toni Jones plus memorable music. 1968

Le Petomane C4, 1.05am-1.45am

More recently remade as a lavish film, this is an earlier,

`TV version' Feature films shown on television are not necessarily in the form originally seen in cinemas. Often several variations are made at the time of production for use according to the intended outlet. In some cases cinema versions may be used, with minor cuts for violence, explicit sex and bad language.

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shorter account of the bizarre true-life story of the 19th-century Parisian who entertained audiences by breaking wind to music. Leonard Rossiter plays him here. The real-life character lived to be 88. Perhaps there's a moral in there somewhere. 1979

SUNDAY 18th Flesh and the Devil C4, 2.00pm-4.05pm

A sensation on its release in 1927, this was Greta Garbo's third American film, and the first in which she played opposite her favourite co-star, the dashing John Gilbert. The love scenes — astonishing for their time — mirrored the famous offscreen romance, sometimes to the embarrassment of director Clarence Brown, who subsequently directed the Swedish superstar in six films. 1927

Pete's Dragon ITV , 2.30pm-5.00pm

This Disney musical fantasy combines live action and animation and very young children will love it. Purists will notice that foregrounds do occasionally wobble, and the songs are largely undistinguished. But the cast has its moments, especially in a vertigo-inducing trio sung

by Helen Reddy, Mickey Rooney and youngster Sean Marshall at the top of a lighthouse. And it really is them hauling themselves up and dancing round the top. At such times, Pete's Dragon almost spreads its wings and flies. 1977

A Star is Dead ITV , 7.15pm-8.40pm

comedy horror, which is pretty far-out even for the midSeventies. An all-American couple, unwise enough to stop at a castle to use the phone, are both seduced by its occupant, a transsexual transvestite Transylvanian intent on creating a superman for his own pleas ures. The best performance comes from Richard O'Brien (who also wrote it) as the obligatory hunchback. His first appearance is sensational. 1975

Touki Bouki C4, 12.55am-2.35am This film from Senegal, a partly autobiographical reflection on exile by its director, is constructed as a surrealistic poem.

Sharply-made, well-shot in colour and tersely edited, the film has a picaresque quality and gives a feeling of a general, rather than specific African experience, right up to the poignant ending. 1973

The Island

ITV , 2.00am-4.00am David Warner and his band of not-so-jolly cut-throats, including Dudley Sutton and Don Henderson, indulge in a feast of eyeball rolling that makes Long John Silver seem like a shrinking violet by comparison, as they capture writer Michael Caine and his son and subject both of them to a nightmare of terror and torture. 1980

MONDAY 19th My Favourite Blonde C4, 9.30am-10.55am

Flashbacks help to sort out the facts from fiction in this featurelength mystery featuring the man with no first name: Quincy (played with brisk good humour

by Jack Klugman). The busiest pathologist in the history of crime is here kept company by fellow TV actors Robert Foxworth (star of Falcon Crest) and urbane William Daniels (St

Elsewhere). TV M 1976

Nearly all of Bob Hope's films in the comedy-thriller vein were successful, and this was one of the best. It began the 'favourite' series which continued with My Favourite Brunette and My Favourite Spy and would have contained 'My Favourite Redhead' if Hope's script-writers could have dreamed up a plot in which Paramount's Rhonda Fleming could profitably have been used as leading lady. 1942

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

My Little Chickadee

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'Is this a game of chance?' asks

Crime leads to romance for Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown A ffair', ITV , Saturday

an innocent suckered by W C Fields into a card game. 'Not the way I play it, no,' replies Fields in this zany burlesque of westerns which united his immovable force with Mae West's irresistible object in a comedy battle that finally emerges as an entertaining draw. 1940

The King's Pirate

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Universal Studios are obviously happy on home ground with this agreeable pantomime, set in Madagascar, in 1700, with Doug McClure baring his chest obligingly in the sort of role once reserved for Tony Curtis.

Rewards on the way include a former Miss America, Mary Ann Mobley, as an Indian with a Scots accent! 1967

The Little Princess C4, 2.00pm-3.45pm Shirley Temple's biggest (it cost 1.5 million dollars) and possibly best film, this turn-of-the-century story, which was also her first in colour, has her as a girl haunting hospitals in search of her father, believed to be a victim of the Boer War. Shirley is as forthright and winning as ever while Mary Nash is splendidly vindictive as the headmistress who has it in for her. Skilfully made by Walter Lang, one of 20th Century Fox's top directors for more than 20 years. 1939

TUESDAY 20th The Golden Age of Buster Keaton C4, 9.30am-11.20am

Many of the best scenes from Keaton's silent comedies are to be seen in this compilation film.

They include such gems as the room stuffed with labour-saving devices from The Electric House; the hordes of policemen from Cops; and Buster playing all the roles in the introduction to The Playhouse. 1975

Oodles of oddballs have a ballroom bonanza in `The Rocky Horror Picture Show, C4, Sunday

Lord of the Rings C4, 2.00pni-4.30pm Director Ralph Bakshi's attempt to set down an animated version of J R R Tolkien's massive saga of Middle Earth (or at least the first half of it) must go down as a jolly good try at an almost impossible project. Certain sections — the mines of Moria; the Ringwraiths in the sky — are bitingly close to one's visualisation of the book. 1978

Metropolis

The Chaser C4, 11.20am-12.30pm Dennis O'Keefe got one of his first leading roles after years of bit-part work in this lively M-G-M romp that teamed him with pretty Ann Morriss in her film debut. A few years later she • dropped out of films and has remained untraced. Not so Lana Turner who can just be glimpsed in one of the tiny roles O'Keefe fought to escape. 1938

Never Never Land ITV , 1.30pm-3.00pm Engaging little film about two children, unhappy at home and obsessed with the story of Peter Pan, who run away into a land of their own fantasies. . . but in modern terms. Petula Clark, Evelyn Laye and Roland Culver provide formidable support. 1980

Dear Mr Prohack C4, 2.00pm-3.40pm An adaptation of a story by Arnold Bennett, this comedy features Cecil Parker in one of his best performances. The supporting cast is very strong, including such names as Denholm Elliott, Henry Edwards, Frederick Valk, James Hayter and Bryan Forbes. 1949

I Ought To Be in Pictures C4, I2.35am-2.35am Neil Simon's romantic comedy drama casts the inimitable Walter Matthau as a grouchy oncefamous scriptwriter confronted by a long-forgotten teenage daughter who now 'wants to be in pictures'. Ann-Margret is terrific as Matthau's longsuffering girlfriend. 1982

WEDNESDAY 21st Cheer Boys Cheer C4, 9.30am-I1.05am One of the earliest Ealing Stu-

dios films, a pleasant slice of life about a power battle between two breweries. There's some wonderful character work from Edmund Gwenn, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Ivor Barnard and Jimmy O'Dea and, as the young hero, Peter Coke, later to become radio's Paul Temple in the famous detective serials. 1939

C4, 9.30am-11.05am Abbott and Costello on one of their two visits to the MetroGoldwyn-Mayer studios, which means better production values and a livelier overall drive. Some nice scenes with wicked sultan Douglass Dumbrille. 1945

Gasbags

Jack of All Trades

C4, 11.05am-12.30pm The inimitable Crazy Gang — complete with Nervo and Knox and Naughton and Gold — go to war in a fish-and-chip stall.

Crazy is the word for this comedy with side-splitting moments, chiefly when members of the gang impersonate German officers. 1940

Happy Ever After C4, 2.00pm-3.40pm Another comedy feather in the cap of director Mario Zampi is this rollicking, riotous romp about the new squire of an Irish village, and the locals' attempts to bump him off. George Cole is especially funny as the village idiot and the film is glowingly shot in Technicolor. .1954

Starting Over ITV , 10.35pm-12.30am

A funny-sad comedy-romance that has Burt Reynolds trying to decide between the respective attractions of ex-wife Candice Bergen and new lady Jill Clayburgh. As Bergen is no match for Clayburgh in both acting and charm departments, you can guess the outcome, but, though there are a few dead patches on the way, the script offers some nice laughs and a sniffle or two as well. 1979

I Want to Live!

C4, 12.20am-2.35am Harrowing, very compelling dramatisation of the famous Barbara Graham case, with Susan Hayward giving an allstops-out performance as the woman sentenced to the electric chair. Her performance won her an Academy Award, an honour she had missed for her equally gripping portrayal of Lillian Roth three years earlier in I'll Cry Tomorrow.

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THURSDAY 22nd Lost in a Harem

C4, 11.05am-12.30pm The Jack Hulbert comedyadventure-musicals were enormously popular in the Thirties, but few of them have surfaced since. A warm welcome, then, to this Michael Balcon production, co-directed by Hulbert himself as a wily inventor and general all-round king of bluff. 1936

Gallipoli ITV , 11.35pm-I.40am Certainly the most internationally popular of recent Australian movies, this much acclaimed account of the doomed ANZAC World War One campaign turned out to be the passport to Hollywood for its director, Peter Weir. Powerful and moving. 1981

Pumping Iron C4, 12.25am-2.05am Beautifully-made documentary on the unique world of bodybuilders which presaged, in its way, the new interest in 'muscleman' films, once populated by Steve Reeves and Gordon Scott.

Here Arnold Schwarzenegger proves particularly personable in his articulate and humorous approach to his 'art' in this unexpectedly winning film. 1976

FRIDAY 23rd It's a Gift

C4, 9.30am-10.45am An almost undiluted flask of Fields — one of the great man's finest comedies, casting him as a small-town shopkeeper beset by wife, family and customers alike. A whole barrage of masterly scenes includes the 'sleeping porch' segment where Baby LeRoy obligingly drops grapes into Fields' mouth ('Shades of Bacchus!' Fields gasps). 1934

C4, 10.50pm-12.25am A Fritz Lang season is always welcome, but when is someone going to unearth a print of Scarlet Street? Never mind, this colourised, revamped and rescored (by Giorgio Moroder) version of Lang's old sciencefiction classic makes a fascinating opener. 1926

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ITV , 11.15pm-1.00am One of the more recent offerings from crash-'em-up race-andchase specialist director Hal Needham who made the Cannonball Run and Smokey and the Bandit films. Burt Reynolds is again on hand with his laid-back charm. 1983

The Woman in the Window C4, 12.25am-2.15am Tremendous thriller made by the German director Fritz Lang at the end of a very profitable decade in Hollywood. Edward G Robinson gives a fine study in increasingly anguished desperation as the mild professor who becomes enmeshed in violence, murder and blackmail after an innocent flirtation with a woman who resembles a portrait 1944 that has fascinated him.

CHRISTMAS„ vE Forever and a Day C4, 10.30am-12.30pm More than 100 stars of their day gave their services free for this film, the profit being shared between urgently needed cash for Britain's war effort and America's National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. No less than 21 famous scriptwriters worked on the film, a blockbuster epic of English family life through 140 years. 1943

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree ITV , 1.50pm-2.20pm Apart from the intrusion of a character called Gopher (who hastens to tell us that he isn't in the books), this is a delightful Disney featurette. 1965

The Ugly Dachshund ITV , 2.20pm-4.00pm Flimsy Disney whimsy about a filthy-rich young couple who adopt a Great Dane puppy as a brother for their four dachshund bitches. 'You've got a boy puppy,' he tells his wife. 'That's continued overpage

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and most influential of British animated films of recent times, made by the same company that produced that distinctive Beatles cartoon Y ellow Sub marine. Highlight is the flying sequence, to the accompaniment of young Peter Auty singing W alking in the Air. The film - based on Raymond Briggs's book - is sheer magic, from beginningto end. TV M 1982

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The Girl the Gold Watch and Dynamite ,

pays homage to Sergio Leone

ITV , LOOam-2.40am Lively sequel to the 1980 comic fantasy The Girl, the Gold W atch and Everything with Philip MacHale and Lee Purcell here inheriting the roles originally played by Robert Hays and Pam Dawber - and also inheriting the gold watch of the title, a magical timepiece that can freeze the moment for our heroes to sort out the bad guys.

Morgan Fairchild is a sultry villainess, backed up by devious Gene Barry and crooked sheriff Gary Lockwood. TV M I981

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ITV , 10.05pm-11.45pm A film version of the epicrunning British stage farce, with a cast of funsters more formidable than ever the theatre could muster. Ronnie Corbett - in fine dithering form - and Ian Ogilvy are the quiet bank clerks suddenly deluged with pornographic literature. Other roles are filled by such familiar faces as Arthur Lowe (skilfully underplaying the moralising bank manager), Robin Askwith, Michael Bates, Michael Robbins, Deryck Guyler, Michael Ripper, Beryl Reid, Brian Wilde, Frank

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Vanessa Redgrave and Rachel Roberts are less consistent, though they have their affecting moments. 1979

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Yuletide musical cartoon which sets its cosy Christmas message in the troll kingdom of snowbound Norway. Vincent Price provides the resonant voice for one of the troll king's two heads (the other belongs to comedian Jonathan Winters). TV M 1987

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Not only one of the last great silent comedies, but a unique picture of Hollywood at the end of an era, with guest appearances by many stars whose cinema careers would be truncated by the coming of sound.

Marion Davies, whose talent for comedy was much underrated, is delightful. 1928

The Empire Strikes Back ITV , 3.50pm-6.05pm

Long-awaited television premiere of the second in the Star W ars trilogy. A masterpiece of special effects, it punctuates a tortuous storyline with bursts of swift and violent action. Mark Hamill, looking as though he really believed in it all, is back as Luke Skywalker, and romance blossoms between Leia and Han Solo (Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford). Although the awesome ice-planet Hoth is put to insufficient use, the swamp planet, with its weird little maharishi-type inhabitants (courtesy of Muppet-maker Frank Oz) makes up for it with fronds, gloom, mists and hidden

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- the director who contributed most to Eastwood's early career as an actor. As in the Leone Dollars' trilogy, Eastwood is an unidentified stranger who rides menacingly into a frontier town and exerts a God-like power over it, having been hired by its citizens to protect them against vengeful outlaws. 1972 ITV , L15am-3.15am Meet the computer spy. Derek Flint may be superbly entertaining, but he's also the most inhuman hero the spy wave has thrown up since Batman. As played by James Coburn, Flint is certainly faster on those feet than any spy on celluloid, and a shade more invincible than Bond into the bargain. Visually, his adventures are lively, ingenious and amusing. And ridiculous, of

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In Like Flynn ITV , 3.15am-5.00am Shades of the huge box office success Romancing the Stone about this entertaining caper.

Jenny Seagrove, luminous star of A W oman of Substance and A ppointment with Death, takes the lead as an author-cum-

adventuress mixed up in dirty dealings in the Caribbean. It's packed with appealing characters - including William Cannon Conrad and Eddie Albert as despicable villains - and adopts a nice line in flip dialogue., TV M 1985 ys

James Bond up to more of what

his colleague 'Q' describes as

adolescent antics' - although

this Bond adventure has the edge on most other Roger Moore entries in the series and 007's battles with the baddies are meatier affairs than usual.

Perhaps mindful of the contemporary competition offered by

Sean Connery's Never Say Never A gain, Moore looks as if he means business 1983

Ginger and Fred C4, 9.00pm-IL25pm Amusing, laid-back and finally touching Fellini satire on television. Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni are wonderful together as two smalltime Rogers and Astaire imita1985 tors.

Blackout

ITV , 10.1 5pm -1 2midnighf retired policeman on the trail of an amnesiac who may be connected with long-past murders.

A taut plot. TV M 1985

The Return of Frank James C4, 12.25am-2.IOam

One of the rare occasions in the cinema when a sequel is as good as the original. The reason lies mostly in the direction - by master craftsman Fritz Lang. The action is fast and fierce and the colour photography first rate.

Henry Fonda provides a sympathetic portrayal of Frank James. 1940

ITV ,, I.00am-3.15am Julie Andrews in an 'X' certificate film? But then poor Julie is hardly ever in this wish fulfilment sex frolic which made hot box-office properties of her costars, Dudley Moore and Bo Derek. 1979

Whistling in Dixie ITV, 3.45am-5.00am

The second of three funny films (the first, W histling in the Dark,

has already been screened on

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates

C4) about a radio 'detective', The Fox, embodied by the rubber-faced Red Skelton. 1942

ITV , 10.20am-l2noon Second Disney Crockett film is, like the first, originally made for television. Vigorous, colourful fun, packed with action, including a tremendous free-for all on board a sinking keel boat. Fess Parker again dons the 'coonskin cap as a virile Crockett. 1956

The Sea Wolves ITV , 12.35pm-2.40pm

A spectacular war film about a crew of veteran saboteurs recruited to blow up a German ship. Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven and Trevor Howard all offer professionally competent performances, as does the director Andrew V McLaglen

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Robert Taylor keeps a stiff upper lip as the director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, trying to smuggle his priceless white horses out of Austria in 1938 under the Nazis' noses. It's a little long and slow, but there's some excitement and the colour is excellent. So, too, is the acting of Lilli Palmer. British .tle: Flight of the W hite Stal-

lions. 1962

Shane

ITV , 12.40pm-2.50pm The best in westerns, about the gunman from nowhere, looking for peace but finding only another fight. The gunplay is powerful and the camerawork superb. The only surprise was that Loyal Griggs' award for Technicolor photography was the film's only Oscar. Shane revived Alan Ladd's career, in a role similar to the one that shot him to stardom in This Gun for

Hire. 1953

moor that are not what they seem,' mutters Glynis Barber.

And how right she is, in this seventh film version (and about the only one not yet seen on TV) of the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes classic. Douglas Hickox films it as a proper Victorian melodrama, full of ominous close-ups of people looking suspicious. It was fear that killed him, Mr Holmes,' says another character. 'Fear.' That, and a look at the script! 1983

Fury

C4, 12.40am-2.25am

Fritz Lang's first American film is a savage and bitter indictment of mob violence, with a performance of fierce and sometimes brooding intensity by Spencer Tracy as the innocent man trapped in jail by a lynch mob baying for his blood. 1936

Battleflag

ITV , 1.15am-3.30am Anglo-German film, not shown in this country's cinemas, about an aristocratic young Austrian cadet-officer (Simon Ward) in the chaotic final days of World War One. 1977

ZONES One Magic Christmas ITV , 1.30pm-3.15pm The casting of sepulchral Harry Dean Stanton as an angel from heaven may seem eccentric. But, it comes off. 1985

Top Secret!

ITV , 10.20pm-12midnight Not so many outright guffaws this time round from •the A irplane! team, but it's fun identifying all the old movies parodied in this spoof on spy/ espionage films, set in the rock 'n' roll (well, surfin') era. 1984

Ministry of Fear C4, 11.55pm-I.30am

Fritz Lang was still at his Hollywood peak when he made this suspense classic, bulging with sinister atmosphere (especially in the splendid opening sequences) and full of marvellous little touches worthy of Alfred Hitchcock. Ray Milland and Marjorie Reynolds have the leading roles, but most of the attention is taken by the performances of Carl Esmond. 1943

Robbery

ITV , 1.00am-3,05am Thriller that follows up a successful raid on a night train from Glasgow, loaded with millions of banknotes. The film caused quite a stir on its initial release, particularly as its theme had an obvious parallel in real life. Directed by Peter Yates, who went on to make Bullitt. 1967

Time to Remember C4, 1.30am-2.40am

More Edgar Wallace thrills from the series of Sixties second features made at the now defunct Merton Park Studios. Here Harry H Corbett was cast against character as an estate agent whose curiosity leads him into big-time crime. 1961

THURSDAY Sherlock Junior C4, 1,00pm-1.50pm

One of the most enjoyable of Buster Keaton's silent feature films. He ends up outwitting the crooks in a marvellous sequence involving a falling sword, poison and an exploding pool ball. 1924

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The Hound of the Baskervilles ITV , 10.15pm-I2.10am

'There are many things on the

W illiam Daniels, Keshia Knight Pulliam and Rue McClanahan in 'The Little Match Girl, C4

Sinister Darth V ader (David Prowse) returns in 'The Empire Strikes Back', ITV , Christmas Day

Y ou too can have a tour of Santa Claus's North Pole workshop in 'One Magic Christmas, ITV , W ednesday

Suave, irresistible and deadly — that's James Bond.

Join Roger Moore as 007 in 'Octopussy, ITV , Boximpay

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Jason and the Argonauts ITV, 1.30pm-3.25pm DynaMation man, Ray Harryhausen, is associate producer on this mythological romp, and that means special effects run riot. During his quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason has to combat a giant iron man, whose only weakness is his heel; winged she-devils; and a sevenheaded hydra.

1963

Hoverbug ITV, 4.10pm-5.15pm A very agreeable children's comedy about a hovercraft stuck together with high-impact glue that has low resistance to time.

The final race makes a suspenseful climax and the role of the hoverbug's eccentric inventor is a gift for character actor Arthur Howard. 1970

Anna (Sarah Tamakuni), Casey (Jodie Foster) and Cluny (Veronica Quilligan) under the watchful eye of Priory the butler (David Niven) in the Disney comedy thriller 'Candleshoe', ITV, Friday

Billy (Zack Gallagher) administers first-aid to little Gismo, but his fellow `Gremlins' make life hell for all. See ITV, Thursday

Sisson and has some charming child performers.

1977

Gabrielle and the Doodleman

Gremlins ITV, 9.00pm-10.00pm 10.20pm-11.20pm Basically a children's film with horrific overtones, this is a vastly entertaining fantasy, directed by Joe (Innerspace) Dante, who doesn't miss a trick from the moody opening in Chinatown when Papa (Hoyt Axton, whose narration and performance are both spot-on) buys a Mugwai there. An endearing cross between a chihuahua and a bateared fox, the Mugwai must not, Axton is told, be exposed to bright light, have water dropped on it or be fed after midnight.

The highlight of the fun and games is undoubtedly the ingenious scene in which Axton's wife disposes of several death-bent gremlins with the aid of various kitchen utensils. 1984

M C4, 11.50pm-1.50am Long since firmly established as one of the great classics of prewar cinema (or of any other era, for that matter), the impact made by this film has hardly lessened at all over the years. Loosely based on the actual case of the Dusseldorf child murderer of the Twenties, it was Fritz Lang's first sound film, and later in life Lang himself regarded it as the most satisfying of all the films he made. The film is equally famous for marking the screen debut of Peter Lorre, in the central role of the murderer. 1931

National Lampoon's Class Reunion ITV, 12.20am-2.00am Sledgehammer American college comedy that comes out as a

ITV, 4.10pm-5.15pm A host of familiar faces crops up in this junior league version of Disney's Tron in which an 11year-old paraplegic faces a life and death battle through a video game. 1984

The Black Hole

sort of A nimal House meets Prom Night, as a farcical killer stalks the members of the 'Animal House' fraternity 10 years after. 1982

The Verdict C4, 1.50am-2.55am Nigel Davenport lent distinction to several of the Edgar Wallace thrillers before moving on to such big films as Play Dirty, Cromwell and Mary, Queen of Scots. Here he plays a man paid to 'arrange' a verdict of not guilty on behalf of a gangster.

But there's a gasp-provoking double twist. 1964

Murder by Decree ITV, 3.00am-5.00am Sherlock Holmes meets Jack the Ripper again. Despite a stellar cast, the real star of this gaslit chiller is production designer Harry Pottle, who creates narrow, grimy streets, vaguely welcoming taverns, gaunt wharves and battered Victorian slums with all the flair of the old Hollywood. The film itself does its job well as a baffling thriller until the superfluous last halfhour. Christopher Plummer plays the caped super-sleuth.

1978

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The Lady Eve C4, 1.00pm-2.45pm Writer-director Preston Sturges, Hollywood's wonder boy of the time, was at the top of his sparkling form with this romantic comedy in which 'clod' Henry Fonda ultimately turns the tables on Barbara Stanwyck and 1941 Charles Coburn.

Candleshoe ITV, 1.30pm-3.25pm Disney rarely missed with its British films and this is another winner. Jodie Foster is the tough American 14-year-old whom a crooked detective plans to foist off as the heiress to an English fortune. Naturally, once in England, Jodie's cynical exterior soon breaks down to reveal a heart of pure Disney especially when the marchioness (Helen Hayes) proves all but broke and the butler (David Niven) appears in a number of disguises. Things develop well from here, with some lovely photography of the English countryside not allowed to interfere with a rattling good pace. The film is spendidly edited, presentably written in faintly Just W illiam vein by David Swift and Rosemary Anne

ITV, 6.30pm-8.15pm Robust Disney space movie this, even if the story is compounded of familiar motifs from a variety of fantasy and sciencefiction favourites. It's something of a cousin to Star W ars though it lacks that film's sheer panache. 1979

You Only Live Once C4, 11.55pm-1.30am A superb early variation on a 'Bonnie and Clyde' theme. The feeling of the inevitability of doom was never more poignantly captured than in the story of Henry Fonda's ex-convict trying to go straight. 1937

Breakdance ITV, 12.35am-2.00am With the early Eighties' craze for breakdancing already a fading fad, this exploitation musical assumes the same sort of historical status as the rock roll musicals of the Fifties. The film captures much of the adrenalinracing, street-style excitement of a unique way of expressing frustrated talent and letting off steam. 1984

We Shall See C4, 1.30am-2.40am A well-acted Edgar Wallace thriller about a woman (played

by Faith Brook) who antagonises everyone she meets. She is also very scared of bees... 1964

❑ ITV and C4, Christmas Day: The Queen

The first thing to understand about the Queen's Christmas message is that it really is in her own words — the only time she can speak her mind freely, on virtually any topic she feels is of interest to her subjects and the wider world.

Since King George V, clearing his throat repeatedly, pioneered the first royal Christmas broadcast on radio in 1932, the tradition has evolved that the sovereign has a free hand. This freedom has not always pleased the politicians or palace courtiers, but the ability to speak directly to the people is one which all sovereigns, including the present Queen; continue to value highly.

Every year, a few days before Christmas, a technical crew from the BBC is invited to Buckingham Palace. If this year's broadcast is the same as others, the crew and producer Sir David Attenborough, the noted broadcaster and naturalist, will be shown to the Regency Room on the ground floor. It is there the Queen likes to be filmed, beside a window which overlooks the magnificent palace gardens.

After light and sound checks, the Queen will read two versions of the Christmas message. Five minutes for radio, and about 15 minutes for the televised broadcast.

Contrary to popular belief, the Christmas message is not a BBC production. The Corporation only produces it for the Palace — but does agree to pay all distribution costs.

The producer, crew, and everyone involved in editing and distribution, are sworn to secrecy so the contents are not revealed until Christmas Day. Last year this code of secrecy was breached for the first time since the Queen started her Christmas radio message in 1952.

Her outspoken condemnation of terrorism in Northern Ireland was leaked, and used in six national newspapers a week before the broadcast.

The Queen made her first Christmas broadcast on television in 1957, and

Almost live from HER JESTY The Queen's Christmas message on TV and radio is as much part of the festivities as the turkey and crackers. But how is it put together?

JA MES GILHEA NY reports

The Queen goes on air for the first time in 1952 with her Christmas radio broadcast (top, left). Five years later she appears live on TV (below) surrounded by family pictures. Now she gives her message to the nation from the Regency Room at Buckingham Palace

rushed to Heathrow Airport and flown all over the world.

Last year the Christmas message was televised in 21 countries, from Antigua to Australia, from Trinidad and Tobago to Uganda and Zimbabwe. Tiny Papua New Guinea showed the broadcast on its fledgling TV service for the first time. Interestingly, Japan also asked the BBC for a TV version.

Because of the miracle of modern communications, the majority of the Queen's audience is probably not Christian. But there's no doubt the Queen's message is one of the highlights of the festive season, uniting millions of people. 1VT

for the next three years rushed through her lunch so she could be seen live on the main TV channels at 3.00pm. Since 1960 the Christmas message has been pre-recorded and tapes despatched in advance to all Commonwealth countries.

It is impossible to put a precise figure on the total audience reached by the Christmas message, but around 25 to 30 million people will watch it on TV in Britain this year. Many millions more will see it on TV in their own countries, hear it on local radio, or pick it up in remote corners of the globe, thanks to the BBC World Service.

Two years ago, the BBC experimented with sending the Christmas message around the world by satellite, but, for technical reasons, some countries did not receive it, so the exercise has not been repeated.

Instead, the BBC mounts a huge logistical operation, editing and preparing the TV version, which is then offered to all Commonwealth countries with TV services. Once ready, TV and radio versions are

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E]ITV, Christmas Day: Coronation Street

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onation Street has always been a very special time.

But not in the way you might expect.

Coronation Street

Christmases do not depend on robins and snowflakes, Christmas carols and plum pud.

You don't get much snow at Christmas in Weatherfield and, if you did, it would probably be grey before it hit the ground. And in the industrial North of the early Sixties, when Coronation Street was born, robins did not so much sing as cough in tune.

The first Coronation Street Christmas, back in 1960, was remarkable because the show itself was not a month old.

Later, there were some action-packed Christmases when the locals ran their own pantomimes and Emily Nugent (now Bishop), looking remarkably good in tights, played Dandini in Cinderella to a wondering nation in 1964.

But, back in 1960, the Street was a bleak place and the best they got in the way of wassail and celebration was a few drinks and a knees-up in the Rovers Return.

They didn't have a lot to celebrate, anyway. The episodes that covered Christmas were only the sixth and seventh to be seen on screen, and faces that later became nationally famous were newcomers then.

One familiar face survives, though — and will go on surviving for another 28 Christmases to come.

Ken Barlow (William Roache), the university graduate, was already a prominent figure in Coronation Street way back in 1960. Leaning on the bar with him were such characters as Harry Hewitt (Ivan Beavis), Ena Sharples (Violet Carson), Minnie Caldwell (Margot Bryant) and Martha Longhurst (Lynne Carol).

But there was already plenty of drama on its way That Christmas, desperate to be with her widowed father, Harry, 12-year-old Lucille Hewitt (Jennifer Moss) ran away from the orphanage in which she

Leonard Swindley (above) asks Martha Longhurst to stand in as caretaker of the Glad Tidings Mission Hall, while Ena Sharples (left) is in hospital, recovering from a stroke

Christmas 1960: K en Barlow (above) is a student, with the world at his feet

The Street at Christmas

was being kept and made hex way home to the

Street.

There was heartbreak to come, too, for Christine Hardman (Christine Hargreaves), whose mother, May (Joan Heath), lived at No 13 Coronation Street.

May also died there lying on the floor after a massive heart attack while carol singers sang in the street outside.

Jack Walker (Arthur Leslie) was the licensee at the Rovers, although it was his wife Annie (Doris Speed), with her undentable dignity and terrifying smile, who actually ran the bars with a rod of tempered steel.

She ran jack, too, though she would have barred anybody who said so.

Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) was still married to her first husband, Arnold, but their marriage was already breaking up.

And there was trouble brewing for Elsie because her tearaway son, Dennis (Philip Lowrie), was in

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Christmas is a time for looking back — and forward to a new year.

'Coronation Street' is no exception.

CHRIS K ENW ORTHY recalls the first Christmas on the 'Street', 28 years ago — and looks forward 28 years

trouble with the police. He was being accused of breaking into a shop and stealing money. But Harry Hewitt cleared him after confirming his alibi.

THE FUTURE Bricks and mortar don't change much. But the people who live there will have by 2016.

Luckily, one big event will be bringing them back together at the same old bar in the Rovers Return: the return of Nicky Tilsley (Brian and Gail Tilsley's son) with his new bride, Cheryl, from Australia, where he has made a new life for himself.

It is a good thing they

have kept in touch.

Several of the old Street families have broken up or moved away as success struck them.

Ken and Deirdre Barlow long ago cashed in on the success of their newspaper and moved out of the Street to live in Wilmslow, Cheshire. Deirdre is still a good-looking woman, now 61, and Ken still doesn't trust fellow septuagenarian Mike Baldwin, whom he can still see hungrily eyeing up Deirdre across the bar.

Mike Baldwin has his own problems, though. He did marry again, late in life, and had a son who turned out to be a real chip off the old wheeler-dealer

block. But Mike's son, Michael, is much more successful than his father.

He keeps the old factory premises on but expands the business far afield.

Newcomers Nelson and Alicia Smith, who took over Ken and Deirdre's house, are the Street's first West Indian family. Nelson is a printer, trying to start his own printing business; Alicia is a teacher. They have four children.

Kevin Webster, now 51, and Sally, 49, are still deeply in love. They have several children, all grown up, and still live at No 13, the house they bought from Hilda Ogden.

Curly and Shirley Watts, on the other hand, have prospered and moved on. Against furious opposition from both families, they married, and Curly's business studies course paid off. He is now a senior executive, with a comfortable detached house in Cheshire and with two children who

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Alf and Audrey Roberts have survived both Alf's weak heart and Audrey's flibbertigibbert head, to the surprise of all around them, and have retired to St Anne's.

The corner shop is now owned by newcomers Vijay and Ranee Patel.

Vijay does not really enjoy pubs, and would be outraged if he ever caught one of his three children in one. But he feels he ought to show community spirit, so he has brought his wife Ranee to the Christmas party. They will be drinking orange squash and leaving early.

Jack and Vera Duckworth are still wrangling — and so is their son,

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Terry. Terry married because he wanted to leave home and get some peace.

He moved to Boothtown with wife Tracy and, of course, his marriage is exactly like his parents'.

Rita Fairclough is still around, sitting in the corner with a cynical but interested eye on the doings of Mavis and Derek Wilton, who now own and run The Kabin. Nothing about that couple has changed except their age — and Mavis is still being evasive about what hers actually is.

Jenny Bradley, 45, has been married for years and has a rambling, grown-up family, some of whom have come with her to the party. She really came only to see Rita, whom she regards as her mother, and the kids al-

‘The return of Nicky Tilsley and his bride reunites old faces, ways address her as 'Grannie'. Rita loves it and scolds them fondly.

And, of course, there's Bet Gilroy, who's 76 and still the queen of the Rovers. Like Annie Walker, Bet just became more autocratic over the years and, when she feels the need to dress up, her earrings are the size of dinner plates, just as they

were in the old days. Alec, 2016: Some of the with his whisky and wan- present 'Street' residents have survived dering lifestyle, didn't last, the years. But there is of course, and Bet still also a new generation misses him badly at times such as this, though she'd growing up in W eatherfield. Back row deny it noisily, while blowing her nose just a little too (left to right): Mike Baldwin and whiz-kid often to be convincing.

Betty Turpin, 96, re- son Michael, Nicky Tilsley and mother Gail, tired from her job as a barmaid years ago but, on jovial but lonely Rita high days and holidays Fairclough, and K en such as this, someone calls Barlow and round to pick her up in his stepdaughter Tracy. car and they find her a Front: Deirdre Barlow, seat at the back of the still with K en but living recently restored snug, in Cheshire.!T where she can join in and together; Bet Gilroy, enjoy a gin and orange.

The dear old Rovers battling on, itself will not have chan- running the ged much. Fashions in Rovers without pubs go in 10-year cycles, and in 28 years' time the husband fashion will be for a good, Alec; and the old-fashioned pub — just immortal Betty Turpin as it is now.

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Scenes from an episode of Boon are being filmed at historic Grafton Manor Country House, once the elegant 16th-century Worcestershire home of Sir William Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, now a luxury hotel with its own lake.

For veteran actress jean Alexander, in her first job since Hilda left Coronation S treet last Christmas, the plush location must seem a million miles from the fictional Manchester surburb of Weatherfield. But it gives her the chance to renew an old acquaintance. For Michael Elphick, who plays Ken Boon, has worked with Jean before.. .

'Jean was very helpful when I was a new boy in Coronation Street years ago,' he recalls. 'She warned me on no account to sit in Violet Carson's chair.

Violet [who played Ena Sharpies] always occupied the same one at rehearsals.

'When Jean arrived to read through this episode of Boon, the tables turned; she was the outsider. David Daker and I were the only familiar faces she found here. We tried to make her feel at home, and it didn't take much effort. She seemed to it in happily right away. Jean is a very impressive actress and a very pleasant lady.'

In Boon, she's a nosy journalist called Rose, who succeeds in exposing a fraudulent food writer.

Daker—Boon's sidekick, Harry Crawford - recalls the first time he came across Hilda Ogden, when he landed a role in a couple of episodes of Coronation

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'I hadn't met Jean Alexander, but Hilda was always one of my favourite Street characters. I went into the rehearsal room looking for the distinctive head of curlers, listening for Hilda's famous cackle, but I couldn't find her, I saw a well turned-out lady in a

It's a year since Jean Alexander took out her curlers, hung up her pinny and said goodbye to Hilda Ogden and `Coronation Street. This week, she's back on television, playing someone completely different. But what's happened in the past 12 months? TONY BARROW finds out.. .

Street.'

Nosy but poles apart: a year after leaving her role as muchloved Hilda Ogden in `Coronation Street, Jean Alexander is a reporter in 'Boon' tweed outfit, with her hair worn very smartly. I took her for one of the secretaries - until someone told me it was Jean! She's so unlike Hilda, it's incredible.

'The same thing happened here at Boon with people in the company and crew who hadn't worked with her before.'

Cast occasionally in Coronation Street as the brewery's fill-in pub manager Gordon Lewis, Daker has been in and out of the Rovers Return over the years. 'I'm sure Jean has a wide career waiting for her now,' says Daker. 'Boon is the beginning of her rehabilitation, exactly the right thing for her to do.

As Daker chats, Jean Alexander finishes her morning's work on a scene where she snoops around outside a window, and the cameras make her do the same, tiny bit repeatedly while they film from different angles.

It is soon lunchtime.

Collecting her salad from the buffet, Jean points me in the direction of the hotel's immaculately manicured front lawn. We wipe last night's rain water off the garden chairs and set them out in the sun. Then, we tuck into our canteen food.

Jean confesses: 'I was grateful to get into Coronation Street, but twenty-anda-half years was enough. I couldn't have gone on doing Hilda much longer.

'The schedule was getting tighter, there was more outdoor filming. It was a repetitive job, although my

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identify you with one character like that, that's fine, there's no harm done,' says Jean. 'But I didn't want roles as dowdy, depressed, down-trodden, little old North Country ladies. If I was going to play those for the rest of my life, I might as well have stayed in the

I can get along without jumping at every job offered, character had plenty of scope. It gave me security, but I was getting tired.'

Jean intends to remain in Southport, Lancashire, where she settled more than 30 years ago. 'I'm a Scouser, bred and buttered,' she says. 'I like living by the sea, I feel at home there and have lots of friends. People think fame and success happen in a flash, but it's taken me a lot of hard work since 1950 to reach the fortunate situation I'm in today. It's time I had a bit of a rest and took things at my own speed.

'My house is paid for, so there's no pressure to work because of a mortgage. My

father died in 1969, my mother lived with me until she died in 1980, so I've only myself to keep now.

Tm not constantly buying things, I've got most of what I need. I'm not overly rich, but I live modestly - I have enough. I can get along without jumping at every job that's offered.

'I hope I don't sound smug, but I don't feel the need of second opinions,' she says. 'I know my range after all this time. Some parts I couldn't hope to play, wouldn't dream of trying.

'I made all my mistakes in 11 years of weekly rep. I played all the parts, got the theatre out of my system. It was the only way to learn my job, but I don't want to do theatre again, tied up every night for months on end.

'If you'd spent as long as I have in mucky backstage dressing-rooms, you'd be just as adamant.'

Her worst fear this year has been that producers would continue to think of her as Hilda. `If the public

So Jean waited several months, then took a cameo feature film role as call-girl Christine Keeler's mother in Scandal. 'It was all over in two days and such a tiny part, but I'd never had a job in a film and I was interested to see how it worked,' she says.

'Then Boon came along something completely different, just what I'd been waiting for, great fun.

'I'm in and out a lot throughout the epiode. I keep appearing and disappearing, although I don't have a lot of dialogue.

'In the Street, I had to book my holiday breaks three months in advance, so it ruled out going to see friends on the spur of the moment. I never get bored being off work. I catch up on chores in the garden I'm very fond of that. `If it's a nasty day and I have enough food in the house, I stop in and have a read or do some sewing.

When the weather's nicer, I go walking with my brother and sister-in-law in the Lake District. We park the car somewhere beautiful and go off. I love the countryside—I can watch the grass grow.'

This Christmas, Jean won't be putting in her curlers or doing her Hilda Odgen cackle, even as a party trick for friends. She says, firmly and almost convincingly: 'Hilda was a job, a very long job, but not my life. That character has gone for me - it's finished.'

But wasn't the Coronation Street storyline left openended so that Hilda could pop back to pay the odd call on her old neighbours, have a bit of a gossip and get on her way again?

As she toys with the last leaves of salad on her lunch plate, there's a new twinkle in her eye. She smiles and admits, quietly: 'If they want me back, I suppose I mi ht do the odd week. .

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's mid-December and Harrison Ford is sitting in a Beverly Hills hotel, glumly watching bikinis parading round the pool and palm trees swaying in the warm breeze. He sips his iced drink with a sigh.

The rest of America is crisp and Christmassy and here he is, in a fairyland of fake snow and sweltering Santa Clauses, wishing he was back on his 800-acre ranch in Wyoming, skiing in the Rockies, taking the dog out in eight-degree cold or swigging hot toddies by a roaring fire.

He's in another sort of hot seat today, squirming uncomfortably as he faces what he's come here to do: talk about himself. It may be Christmas but he's not in a seasonal mood. 'I'm not about to open myself up completely,' he says frostily. 'rm not willing to gift-box myself up and say to you, "This is the puzzle, no pieces are missing."'

His bark, say his friends, is worse than his bite. 'He's always been cranky; it's just his way of being,' says producer Fred Roos.

It was Roos who saw through Ford's 'tight-lipped, stand-offish' attitude when Ford, at 30, had all but given up acting, turning to carpentry to support his first wife, Mary, and young sons, Willard and Benjamin.

Roos, then a casting director, persuaded director George Lucas to cast the 'cranky' Ford in what turned out to be a classic cameo in the 1973 film A merican Graffiti (he played a drag racer), and he pushed again in 1976 when Lucas was casting Star W ars.

Roos says: 'Harrison wasn't high on George's list.

He didn't know him like I did. But I thought he was going to be a star. . . He reminds me of Humphrey Bogart - tough, cynical, totally capable of taking care of himself. And maybe there's a little Clark Gable in there, too.'

Ford, now 46, is quite laconic about the success of that film. Td never had the chance to work as much as I wanted to until Star W ars.

Suddenly offers were coming in. I went to work with a vengeance. When the sequel idea came up I didn't resist it: three films in a row seemed a damned

ITV, Christmas Day: The Empire Strikes Back wonder just how much time Harrison Ford gets to spend down on the farm, his beloved isolated .P ranch. There he goes fishing for trout in his own streams, fixes fences, goes into town for supplies, brushes up his carpentry skills, drives a pick-up, digs out animals from under the snow and goes crosscountry ski-ing.

It is also where he and his second wife, E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison, and their son Malcolm, nearly three, live in privacy and peace.

'When I was growing up I had this picture in my head of an idyllic place: woods, open water and wildlife. Melissa and I kept looking for something that matched our fantasies and

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Harrison Ford enjoys the phenomenal rewards that his blockbuster films have brought. But not for him the high-profile life indulged in by some superstars.

Off set, the wary Mr Ford is something of a recluse good idea at that point.'

And he smiles. As well he can afford to. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983), are among the 10 biggest grossing films in showbusiness history, as are two more of his films, Steven Spielbergs Raiders of the Lost A rk (1981) and the sequel, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).

The films have made him both a multi-millionaire and a sex-symbol, but sex and money are not discussion points he warms to. And, anyway, he doesn't look much of an expert on either today. He's handsome enough in tweed jacket and corduroy trousers, but his hair is long, lank and swept back, his huge hands fidget with starched shirt-cliffs, his spectacles lie on the table and you can see he feels awkward wearing a tie.

He looks like a cowboy who's got himself all smartened up for a Saturday

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by Lesley Salisbury in Hollywood night barn dance. He does not look like a superstar.

'The greatest thing that "fame" has brought me is the degree of freedom I now have to choose the things I wish to do,' he says.

'The job I do is exactly the same, whether the film is a serious film or an action film. It was no revelation to me that I could do a more complicated part.'

He is referring, of course, to the time of the Stars W ars trilogy, when Hollywood opinion felt that he was a lightweight actor.

Fred Roos says: 'After Star W ars, Harrison was

dismissed. People started saying, "Oh, he isn't a star after all." Even his work as Indiana Jones didn't help.

Then he did W itness [1985] in which he plays a detective. Suddenly everyone was saying, "Gee, he's really good." Well, he's always been good.'

Ford followed W itness for which he was nominated for an Oscar, with a strange film he deeply believed in, The Mosquito Coast (1986).

'It was the best project rd seen since W itness,' he says. 'I was perfectly willing to sit around for a year and a half to wait for something as interesting as this to come along. It's a very unusual film. Controversial.'

Immediately afterwards he started work on Frantic, a 1987 thriller directed by Roman Polanski; a comedy, W orking Girl, with Melanie Griffith, on release in the US this Christmas; and an Indiana Jones sequel.

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I want my kids to know that the countryside means more to me than a big pile of money we found this place. It's helped me become more calm and peaceful. I wouldn't be able to act if I wasn't able to get back to the ranch when it was over.'

It is, simply, where he's happiest. 'I have more of a sense of stewardship about the land than ownership,' he says, casting one more bemused look at the December bikinis at the hotel where we are talking.

'I really want to preserve the countryside; it's for my kids - to let them know that it is the country that is dear to me; not a big pile of money in the middle of the floor. `If you can get through life with a degree of happiness, some work to do, and not hurt anybody else, I guess that would be ideal. It doesn't quite amount to a philosophy, but that's what I think.

'I wouldn't change a thing about my life right now, to tell you the truth.' And then, reali s ing he may be giving away too much, he adds flippantly: 'Except my nose, maybe. ..' 1VT

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The art of Crawford his theatrical craft is undeniable, some would say obsessive. Bewitched by Danny Kaye at the Lewisham Hippodrome when he was a boy, he is one of the rare, genuine song and dance entertainers in the business, with an ability to turn his hand to comedy and drama.

Since he made his professional debut at the age of 11 in Benjamin Britten's Let's Make an Opera, he has gone to extraordinary lengths to please his public. 'I'm a perfectionist,' he explains. 'Pll never reach perfection but the idea is to strive for it.'

Time and again he has defied doctors to save the show and has quite literally suffered for his art. Five years and 1200 performances as the circus boss Phineas T Barnum, which featured nightly wire walking, resulted in scarred and calloused feet. Developing an operatic tenor voice for the Phantom led to a hiatus hernia.

'My diaphragm is much larger than it was and is out of proportion with the rest of me. Consequently, I look like a chicken — skinny legs propping up my chest.'

Once quoted as saying, 'In the theatre, I give my life to people', one wonders whether he ever worries about giving too much, or that one day the audience will not be there?

'Oh no, I expect to be working right up until my time comes. I don't worry about age.'

He also insists: 'There are a lot of 'other things in my life besides my work.

I think I'm lucky enough to have found a few very good friends along the way. I'm never lonely.'

Certainly he places a great value on his family.

He make no secret of his closeness to his two daughters, Emma, 20, and Lucy, 21, and he remains friends with his ex-wife, Gabrielle.

'Nowadays, if you can manage such a friendship with your exspouse, it's the only sensible thing to do because of all those years together. With children to worry about, and love, it can be very good. The girls give me a lot of support and friendship and I'm there to guide them.'

His emphasis on family stability perhaps stems

from his own unsettled upbringing. His father, a Spitfire pilot, was killed in the Battle of Britain, and there was no love lost between him and his stepfather. His mother lived to see him in his first West End comedy just before her death when he was 21. He shared the next 10 years of his life with his beloved grandmother, Edith Pike, who died when she was 99.

'There was such love during her life — that love just doesn't stop. It goes on, in and around you. What you sow, so you reap, you pass it on to your children. They take you with them. She passed it on to me and to Emma and Lucy.'

Asked whether he harbours future plans of having more children of his own, he says with a grin: 'I think I'm very happy with my lot as it is, very happy.'

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a lot of other things in my life besides my work, concern himself with other people's children, like the 'dear young friend' he made in Bedford who suffered from leukaemia. 'He was in hospital at the same time as my gran. During her last weeks, I used to spend my nights and days with her and saw a lot of the boy and his parents, too. When he came out for a little while, I invited him up to my home in the country and spent the last four months of his life growing closer to him.

'What sparked my particular interest in children in hospital happened when I was a child. My mother mistook the time she was supposed to pick me up from hospital and for an hour and half I waited for her, feeling very sorry for myself. I've never forgotten that terrible feeling of not having a parent nearby. So I can identify with the feelings

a child experiences when alone in hospital.'

His roles, too, he believes, have helped endear him to children.

Playing Frank Spencer, the daftest, clumsiest character on TV, in Some Mothers do 'ave 'em, was not only one of Crawford's crucial breaks, he says: 'I met a lot of children through it. They loved the show. I suppose they could sympathise with that clumsy lad who was constantly getting into trouble.'

One such fan was Vanessa, a cancer sufferer he met in Manchester while performing in Barnum. 'I received a letter from her teacher telling me she was a great fan of Some Mothers and that she was in hospital having just had her leg amputated.'

After popping in to see her, he arranged for the hospital to transport her, bed and all, to the nearby opera house for a matinee performance of Barnum. 'I had three rows of seats removed from the circle so the bed could be fitted in.

She arrived attached to a drip and attended by three nurses. That day when we performed, we all turned slightly to the left so she could see everything.'

The company adopted' Vanessa, and Crawford visited her frequently. 'Then one day I had to tell the cast she had lost the battle. I was so sad: she had become so close to us all.'

During his tour de force as Barnum, the company regularly entertained children in hospital up and down the country. 'Afterwards, when we returned to the theatre, it would be very quiet because we would all be thinking about what we had seen.

'I'm always very strong when we go around the wards. I joke and laugh and tease them — generally give them a hard time,' he says with a smile. 'But when I leave, that's a different matter. I'm often very upset. But I think that's true of most people.'

Nonetheless, he says, no doubt remembering the Seans and Vanessas who have crossed his path: 'You always come away with the feeling that these children have given you something extra special, something invaluable.'

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â?‘ ITV, Christmas Eve: London's Burning DECEMBER 1988: Paddington fire station, and the calendar has been turned for the final time this year, revealing a green diagonal stripe sweeping straight through the 25th of the month.

This means its the turn of Green Watch to man the station on Christmas Day, a duty which will keep some from their wives and children, others from their mums and dads, on this, one of the most important family days of the year.

Luckily, firefighters are used to working on high days and holidays, so it doesn't come as a shock, but you still can't help feeling sorry for the nine from the 13 that make up the Green Watch, as they begin a nine-hour shift at 9.00am sharp on Christmas morning.

There's also something rather forlorn about the four upright fridges that greet

`i0/ course you think about alcohol but you just can't touch it, you on a visit to the station mess to meet the boys. The fridges flank the farthest wall, marked in turn Red, Green, Blue and White, one for each watch, each with its own padlock to make sure you hang on to your own mince pies.

All but the Red one will be used over the whole of Christmas. That watch is off for the full four days. The Blue boys come on at six on Christmas Day evening, the Whites on Boxing Day. 'The choosing of the individual men who will come in is also done on a fair basis,' says Green Watch Station Officer Chris Avery. Those who really want a day off - because they have small children or whatever - get it. The rest are chosen out of a hat.'

Next year, it will be Green Watch's turn for an all-clear over Christmas,

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K ATIE EK BERG visits one station in London and meets the dedicated men on duty this Christmas Day

hristmas day in the firehouse...

but Officers such as Avery, who has served 16 years with the brigade, reckon they have worked as much as three quarters of their Christmases in the fire service. 'Leap years mean we don't get one in four off,' he explains. 'But people really don't mind coming in.

We work bank holidays and weekends anyway, so it doesn't come as a great shock. And the rota is worked out a year in advance, so we have plenty of notice.'

Avery is himself the son of a fireman, so, as a boy, he too was used to not seeing his dad on Christmas Day. Avery and his wife have found their own way of making Christmas as normal as possible. 'My sons open their presents earlier or later, depending on what shift I'm on. It's not too bad now, though, because they're older. The eldest is 12 and he wants to be a fireman, too.'

Eric Hall may be the Station Commander, but that doesn't stop him being on duty at Christmas, too.

His two daughters are teenagers now, but when they were small, it was no easy task to close the front door behind him as Christmas Day dawned and 'Nobby' Hall set off for work 'It was hard,' he admits. 'My wife and I always enjoyed doing things together - like giving the kids presents on Christmas Day. And you only had to miss a few Christmases when they were small and you missed them enjoying Christmas altogether.'

When senior officers such as Eric Hall and Chris Avery get into the station on Christmas Day, they find they're in for a bit

W hile most of us eat, chink and make merry this Christmas Day, Britain's firefighters will be on duty. But Paddington's Green W atch - above, from left to right, Paul Richardson, Gary Mulrooney, Chris Avery, Peter K erslake, Brian Still and David Rickman will also be tucking in to a turkey dinner, minus the alcohol

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of mickey-taking. It's a tradition at fire stations that a touch of role reversal takes place over the seasonal period.

'They wait on us hand and foot,' as one fireman so nicely puts it. So Chris Avery will be serving the sprouts and Nobby Hall dishing up the potatoes and they're thankful it's only once a year. We take a lot of stick, but it's just for Christmas,' laughs Nobby.

Of course, it's not easy for anyone to leave their family. Peter Kerslake, a sub officer, has two children, of 13 and 11. 'When they were little, they used to keep a couple of presents back to open when I got home, but it's frustrating for them, all the same.

'I don't relish the thought of coming to work on Christmas Day but, if it's part of my duty as a firefighter, then it's something I must do.'

Officers Hall, Avery and Kerslake have notched up a mammoth 52 years in the brigade between them, so they certainly know what to expect of a Christmas on duty. But rookie Paul Richardson is about to serve his first Christmas with the brigade; his first year in service, too. So what's in store for him?

Well, he can certainly wave goodbye to any alcohol. That's absolutely out of the question when, any second, the watch could be called out to a road accident, a house fire, a flooding, even someone stuck in a lift or locked out of their home.

'You just have to make up for it when you get home,' laughs Gary MuLrooney. 'Of course, you think about alcohol but you just can't touch it.

'The time it's most difficult to say no, though, is when you do get called out. You get to someone's house and they've usually had a drink and lost all their inhibitions, so you have to be quite insistent.'

People will offer the boys food, too, but it's likely they'll refuse that as well they're either about to eat a big lunch or have just had one. For Christmas lunch at the station has all the trimmings. In fact, some of the men admit to being pretty fed up with the big bird by then.

'The problem is you may have a station lunch a few

‘My boys open their presents earlier or later, depending on my shift, duty last year, was called out almost as soon as he came on duty. 'It was a road traffic accident,' he remembers.

Should the lads ever feel sorry for themselves stuck in the station on Christmas Day, other people's Christmases can always put things into perspective.

Brian Still sums it up: We work in an area of great contrast in this part of London. There's a house round the corner for sale for a million and a half, and then, round the next corner, a load of squats.

'I can remember being called out one Christmas on a flood calL We got to this place to find an old lady, bed-ridden, with water pouring through her roof.

All she had was one card from her family. That was it.'

In a strange way, the flood had been a blessing in disguise - at least it brought human life into one poor soul's otherwise lonely Christmas Day. And without the fire fighters on duty at such a crucial time, who knows what would have become of her or others who need help over the holidays?

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A s far as calls are concerned, Christmas is regarded as a quiet period - for one thing, there's little traffic on the roads. But David Rickman, who spent his first year with the brigade on

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Sooty sweeps into the record books Sooty has been keeping a closely guarded secret. He knows, or thinks he does, where Father Christmas lives.

You can find out, too, when Sooty takes Matthew Corbett exploring in The Sooty Christmas Show (ITV, Boxing Day).

Sooty has been celebrating Christmas for 40 years. His launch to stardom began when he was bought on Blackpool Pier one rainy day by Harry Corbett, to entertain his two small sons. 'The rest, as they say, is history,' says one of those sons, Matthew Corbett, who took over the act from his father. 'We're in The Guinness Book of Records for the longest-running television programme — The Sooty Show has now been on screen for 36 years. And we're making the record books again this Christmas, when we chalk up 23 years of consecutive appearances in a Christmas show by the same character in the same theatre.' Fame and glory, it seems, fit like a glove.

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Present memories of Christmas past For the young-at-heart TV-am presenters a festive shopping trip brought back memories of unwrapping presents on long-ago Christmas mornings. 'The teddy bear I got when I was four is still my most precious possession,' admits Lizzie Webb. But Mike Morris and the tin soldiers he found under the tree are no longer together. 'Someone decided I'd outgrown them and threw them away,' he says. 'But I'm still waiting for a fresh delivery from Santa.'

Weather forecaster Carol Dooley recalls unwrapping a blue satin doll's crib: 'I fell in love with Santa that year,' she says. Timmy

Snow fun for a muddled 'tec 'It's lovely to be back playing Wexford again,' says George Baker. But it was a bit confusing, he admits, to have filmed Christmas scenes in October.

'The set designers had turned the real-life Romsey in Hampshire into the fictional Kingsnaarkham at Christmas time.' Kingsmarkham is the setting for the Ruth Rendell mysteries with Detective Chief Inspector Wexford.

And No Crying He Makes (ITV, Friday 23 December) marks George Baker's fourth time as Wexford.

'There were decorations everywhere,' he says, 'and the locals were panicking about Christmas shopping.'

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Mallett remembers a noisy present. 'When I was five, Santa Claus gave me a very large, bright red drum. I couldn't understand why my father got so upset when I started banging it at five o'clock on Christmas morning.

Tommy Boyd is looking forward to son Jack's second Christmas: 'He'll get really excited when he sees all his presents.'

The shoppers: top row from left, Carol Dooley, Timmy Mallett; second row, Lizzie Webb, Kathryn Holloway, Kathy Rochford; seated, Michaela Strachan, Tommy Boyd, Mike Morris; and lying down, Richard Keys.

The holy truth 'Bethlehem was a hard place to live 2000 years ago, and it's still very tough today,' says Rowanne Pasco, TV-am's religious editor (right). Her reports from the Holy Land (TVam, throughout Christmas week) don't pull any punches about the hardship behind the Christmas story. 'Although the story of the Nativity is probably the most famous in the world, it's very sentimentalised,' she says. 'Mary and Joseph were actually refugees, living in poverty. And in many ways, the problems for the people in Bethlehem are still very great.'

Far from the playing fields of Eton, in a Bent barn early last century, young Christina Willes bowled to her cricketmad brother. Being hampered by her hooped petticoats and crinolines, she improvised.

And that's how a woman invented over-arm bowling.

But it took well over 100 years before women's cricket was first televised, in 1987. Carole Hodges, who will open the batting for England if the team qualifies for the Women's World Cup Final (C4, Boxing Day), hopes the sport will become more celebrated. 'In India, crowds of 40,000 turn out to see us — in England, it's around 200,' she says.

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Darting about While viewers are watching Christmas Day's Bullseye Special (ITV), guest stars Les Dennis and Roy Walker (pictured, right, with show host Jim Bowen) will be taking a wellearned rest, away from the pressures of pantomime engagements. Les Dennis, appearing as Simple Simon in Babes In The W ood in Newcastle, is determined to make Christmas a family occasion. 'I spend so much time working away from home that it's very important to have Christmas Day with my wife, Linda, and nine-year-old son, Philip,' says Les. And there'll be a real gathering of the Walker clan, too.

Roy's three grown-up children will be making their way home to Blackpool from their own showbusiness engagements around the country. Roy himself will be dashing home from Southampton, where he's in Cinderella. 'Clear the motorways on Christmas Day, folks,' warns Roy, the kids and I wouldn't miss my wife's Christmas pud for anything..

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A Dickens of a good yarn If you love eerie excitement and scintillating suspense, you might just be brave enough to switch on to Ghost Stories from The Pickwick Papers (ITV, Thursday 29 December). It's a trio of chilling tales brought to life by animation (there's a scary scene from one, left), and based on stories from Charles Dickens's classic book.

Each story is introduced by members of the 'Pickwick Club', whose interest in the mysterious sets the tone for the three haunting tales: The Ghost in the W ardrobe, The Mail Coach Ghosts and The Goblin and the Gravedigger.

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Christmas holiday, according to Emma Wray (above), who plays Brenda in the series. 'We all get on really well,' she says. 'So we'll go clubbing, or for a drink—and then I'll have a nut roast with my flatmates in London.' But Emma will be spending the day itself back home in Liverpool, with sisters Angela and Shelley, brother Michael and Mum and Dad. She won't be sharing their traditional lunch, though. 'I'm a vegetarian, so when everyone else gets stuck into turkey, I make do with spuds and sprouts.'

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hild star Keshia Knight Pulliam's acting abilities are tested to full stretch when she plays the penniless Molly, a streetwise 10-year-old with a heart of gold, in the Hans Christian Anderseninspired parable, The Little Match Girl (C4, Christmas Eve).

Keshia (above) is best known to sitcom fans as Rudy Huxtable in C4's The Cosby Show.

Bizarre biker A death-defying human circus — with no animals except a lone chicken — forms The Greatest Show on Earth (C4, Wednesday 21 December).

There's also bizarre motorbike trapezing and the chain-sawing antics of the French troupe Archaos. Producer Anne McGeoch describes them as 'Mad Max meets the Big Top'. When their huge road fleet crossed the Channel for the first time, customs officials had never seen anything like it. 'They were flabbergasted,' she says.

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Show stopper — in black and white!

A black actor playing Othello, with a white actress as Desdemona, doesn't cause shock waves in Britain these days — but in South Africa? When Johannesburg's highly-respected Market Theatre staged Shakespeare's tragedy in front of multi-racial audiences, the show (starring Tony-award-winner John Kani, above) caused quite a stir, says Janet Suzman. The South African-born actress made her directing debut with this production of Othello (C4, Tuesday 27 December). 'Audience reaction was sensational; it was a bit like a Michael Jackson concert,' says Ms Suzman, a long-time opponent of apartheid.

With a voice that's deep and sonorous enough to rival Paul Robeson's, it's not surprising that Londoner Patrick Bernard (above) was voted 'most promising newcomer' by the Black Gospel Association this year. You can hear him — as God — in Creation, a twopart gospel musical (C4, Saturday 17 December and Christmas Eve).

Creation also stars Brian Powell, voted 'best male gospel singer', as Satan, togged up in scarlet suit and tie. But can promising newcomer Bernard triumph in such a mammoth role as God? 'Every part has its problems,' he says. But I'm not sure the three-piece suit I wear for the part goes with my square haircut.'

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Humdinger for Gloria `I'd hate to be anywhere but home over Christmas; it's a family time for me,' says Gloria Hunniford, who presents Dial-A-Carol (ITV, Sunday 18 December).

It's always a last-minute dash. I cook the turkey, though, which means it's served with a government health warning.' Gloria (above) Iboks forward to the presents she gets from her children: Michael, who turns 18 on the day Dial-A-Carol is screened, Paul, 23, and Blue Peter presenter Caron Keating, 25. `Because of Caron's job, I always expect something concocted of egg boxes from her... Michael once made me a pottery tea-set, which I love,' she laughs. `But you can only get a thimbleful of water in the pot, as the clay is so thick!' As a girl, Gloria thought the chorus of Ding Dong Merrily On High was sung for her alone. `Glo-o-o-o-o-o-o-aria,' she trembles. 'I do hope a viewer phones in to choose that one!'

Many years ago, a little Czech girl called Hermina Tyrlova listened to her father tell stories about toys he carved from wood. When she grew up, Hermina wanted to make stories for children, too — but she wanted them to have soft, moving pictures. Christmas Star (C4, Christmas Eve) tells the Christmas story through an animated collage. For Hermina Tyrlova, now in her 80s, the film is 'the fulfilment of a wish'.

Traditionally a time of thanks and speechmaking, the annual Oscars ceremony is also an occasion when nerves can take over — even for the normally confident David Puttnam (below).

On the way up to collect an Oscar for Chariots of Fire, voted Best Picture of 1981, he suddenly found his legs wouldn't do what they ought to. 'His knees went to water — and he fell down,' says Allan Segal, producer-director of The British and The Oscars (ITV, Thursday 29 December). The programme is narrated by twice-honoured actor „Peter Ustinov.

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Sad Silent Night Caught by the camera On Blind Date (ITV, Christmas Eve), Cilia Black (below) won't need to ask: 'But what did you really think of each other?' when the wooers return to the studio and recall their rendezvous. For the first time, the series is replacing the still snapshots usually taken during dates, with fly-on-the-wall film footage. It promises to provide an even more revealing insight into how the partners got on than their comments after the event, says Cilia. 'Whether they mean it or not, people can say what they like — but the film camera never lies. ..' We shall see.

THE WISE MAN WELLS John Wells was a son of the vicarage (his father was Rural Dean of Bognor Regis), and he's mixed reverence with irreverence ever since. 'I cut my teeth as a jokesmith by mocking my father's sermons,' he says, quickly adding that 'there's nothing so repellent as holy comics.' In John Wells and the Three Wise Men (C4, Christmas Day), he chats with members of other faiths about the ideas behind the festive season. An 'irregular churchgoer', Wells, above, is sympathetic to Christian ideals. 'The official state religion today is Thatcherite materialism,' he says. prefer the Christian view that human beings are all-important.'

Actress Lynn Redgrave (inset, above) and a real-live mouse, join forces to tell the story of how the carol Silent Night was composed.

Silent Mouse (C4, Christmas Day) was filmed in Austria, where Silent Night was written in 1818, and in Czechoslovakia, where oldfashioned villages can still be found. 'We were in a beautiful Czech village called Manetin,' says Lynn. 'People were very co-operative.'

But, she adds, children there are unlikely to sing carols or anything else in church. 'People are allowed to worship, but children who go to church aren't allowed to be educated past primary school, and can't hope for decent jobs,' Lynn claims. 'It's a sad thought at this time of year.'

Hostess Angela Ekaette (above, left) and host Nicky Campbell (centre) had to cope with famous faces' firstnight nerves when a trio of stars came to record the W heel of Fortune Christmas Special (ITV, Thursday 22 December). Brian Regan (Brookside's Terry Sullivan, next to Angela), Jon Iles (The Bill's Det-Con Dashwood) and Sue Jenkins (Coronation Street's Gloria Todd) were making their gameshow debut, raising money for charity, and found themselves scared at the prospect. 'I must have walked four miles in my dressing room before going into the studio,' says Brian. 'It was fun, but I was very nervous to begin with. At least in Brookside I know what rm doing — I think!' Jon agrees: 'I felt vulnerable playing myself,' he says.

'You can't blame scriptwriters if things go wrong.'

Stanley's double Santa Mr Majeika, the failed wizard who's been banished to Earth, is back on our screens for a Christmas special (ITV, Christmas Day).

Stanley Baxter, left, who plays Mr M, admits that the character's distinctive appearance is his own idea. 'I wanted him to have white hair, very round glasses and a tuft that waggled when he did magic,' says / the creator of hundreds of comic characters. For the Christmas special, Stanley Baxter makes an additional contribution: he wrote a song called The Sleigh Song. 'They even used my own tune,' he says, sounding surprised by his wizardry. And, as an extra TV treat (inset), he's conjured up two Santas. A hair-raising trick, no doubt.

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Sign-along There's an all-singing, alldancing episode of Hand in Hand this Christmas (C4, Wednesday 21 December). Nothing unusual about that, perhaps, except that everyone on the programme is deaf. Joining in the fun will be 40 profoundly deaf schoolchildren from London's Oak Lodge School (left), and some of the 11- to 16year-olds will be signing and singing Shakin' Stevens' Merry Christmas Everyone. Presenters Sarah Scott, Petra Drummond, Sherrie Eugene and Ray Harrison Graham will also take part in the show. There will be a signed story, games and a mystery guest, who will appear disguised as Santa Claus.

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Saint & Greaysie Ian and Jimmy present their forthright opinions and in-depth reporting on the past week's league football action, plus a preview of what's in store for enthusiasts in the coming week.

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1.35pm Wrestling 1955-1988: THE FINAL BELL Goodbye to all that!

After 33 years, ITV's exclusive association with wrestling comes to an end. Kent Walton, who commented from day one, looks back at some of the great names and contests in those 33 years. There is the skill and power of such men as Mike Manno, Bert Royal and Tibor Szakacs, the outrageous razzmatazz of Adrian Street and Bobby Barnes and the irresistible humour of Les Kellett. Men, too, with their own personal trademark - Billy Two Rivers, Johnny Kwango, ballet-dancing sensation Ricky Starr and the formidale tag partnership of Mick McManus and Steve Logan. More than 20 matches and a host of memories make this a must for all grappling fans.

COMMENTATOR KENT WALTON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MICHAEL ARCHER ITV Production

2.15 to 3.00pm International Athletics THE MILLER LITE CROSS COUNTRY from Cardiff John Ngugi, the World Cross Country Champion and Olympic 5000m gold medallist, heads a powerful Kenyan team in the picturesque surroundings of Cardiff Castle. It's the first major cross country of the winter season, and the line-up includes many of the world's leading runners. Ngugi is part of a powerful Kenyan team, with the main British challenge likely to come from Tim Hutchings, Eamonn Martin, Dave Clarke and Dave Lewis - all national cross country winners. There's a top quality women's race, too, with athletes in both events having to tackle a punishing hill on every lap. Jim Rosenthal introduces the action, with commentary by Alan Parry and Peter Matthews.

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The Emperor dies and there is struggle for power in the court between the young Prince and the Empress. General Ming holds a referendum which shows that it is the people's will that Empress Wu should crown herself. English language version.

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2.00 to 3.45pm Cottage To Let LESLIE BANKS JOHN MILLS ALASTAIR SIM GEORGE COLE A small Scottish village in 1940. Barrington, an 'nventor, has just perfected his new bombsight, with the help of his assistant Trently, and sent it to the Air Ministry for testing. Unknown to the inventor, his house, and the cottage in its grounds, are a hive of espionage activity.

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Anglia 3.00pm Gymnastics THE KRAFT INTERNATIONAL Live from Alexandra Palace, London Introduced by Tony Francis and Suzanne Dando. This last major competition of 1988 is a fitting climax to the celebrations for the British Amateur Gymnastics Association's centenary year. The countries taking part are USSR, USA, China, East Germany, Japan, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Canada, Italy, Romania and Great Britain. Commentary is

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SIAN PHILLIPS SHARON MORGAN ROBERT BLYTHE OSIAN ROBERTS Episode Four In the final part of this fantasy adventure, Gwyn finds out the terrible secret of the broken horse. A search party goes looking for Alun, who is missing in the storm. Gwyn and Eirlys make one final journey to the mountain.

Music by Danny Chang.

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ROGER DALTREY FREDDIE JONES with special guests SLIM GAILLARD GARY GLITTER JULIE GOODYEAR THE VORTEX The final episode.

Somewhere, deep in the bowels of the National Cool Board, sinister developments are afoot... Dr Benjamin Barnard Walters continues his dangerous experiments... experiments that threaten the existence of COOL itself! It's a fight to the finish, and it's 'live' on Metro TV... Can the FOS survive? Or is it the end for Cashman and the National Cool Board?

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6.35pm Blind Date CILLA BLACK What will happen when boy meets girl and girl meets boy? Will it be romance or rejection?

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7.50pm Murder, She Wrote A FASHIONABLE WAY TO DIE Jessica visits an old friend in Paris and becomes involved in the investigation of the death of an underworld figure dealing in high fashion.

Jessica Angela Lansbury Eva Taylor Barbara Rush Inspector Panassie Fritz Weaver Maxim Lee Bergere

8.45pm Edens Lost

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BEA Part two of a three-part mini-series. Edens Lost traces one family's turbulent life through World War Two. Bea, youngest daughter of Eve and Heath St James, is busy carving out a successful career as a romantic writer, but while her work blossoms her love life is still in disarray...

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Produced in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Oracle subtitles page 888 Tonight's cast: Eve Julia Blake Stevie Linda Cropper Bea Victoria Longley Heath Arthur Dignam A ngus Bruce Hughes Cissie Jennifer Claire Corey Patrick Quinn Gabriel Edward Wiley Liesl Fiona Press Lesley A nn Melanie Saloman Bill Seward Andrew Tighe Maisie Helen Mutkins Muffet Pat Bishop Marcus Philip Sayer Tip Yves Stenning EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS TED CHILDS, SANDRA LEVY PRODUCER MARGARET FINK DIRECTOR NEIL ARMFIELD A Margaret Fink Film Production for Central Independent Television

Russell Lee, Robert McK ewley, Julie Goodyear and Tristan Maguire show you How to be Cool'. Don't miss it at 5.35pm

VIMXIWZgaa, 9.45pm ITN News and Weather Forecast Summary

10.05pm Edens Lost EVE Final part of this miniseries set in Australia bringing the upheavals of the St James family to their emotional conclusion.

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11.05pm Starring Steve McQueen...

THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR To relieve his boredom, eccentric young Boston millionaire Thomas Crown plans and executes complex bank robberies. He gathers together a gang of seven men — all strangers to each other — and carries out the successful theft of two and a half million dollars. The bank is reimbursed by the insurance company, which assigns investigator Vicky Anderson and detective Eddy Malone to the

case. Intuitively, Vicky instantly picks out Thomas Crown from photographs of possible suspects and engineers a meeting with him.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Thomas Crown Steve McQueen V icky A nderson Faye Dunaway Eddy Malone Paul Burke Erwin W eaver Jack Weston Carl Yaphet Kotto Benjy Todd Martin Dave Sam Melville A be Addison Powell A rnie Sidney Armus Curley Jon Shank Don Allen Emerson Ernie Harry Cooper John Silver Bert Sandy Biff McGuire Miss Sullivan Carol Corbett John John Orchard Jamie MacDonald Gordon Pinsent Danny Patrick Horgan Honey W eaver Peggy Shirley Jimmy W eaver Leonard Caron Gw en Astrid Heeren Bank guard Richard Bull Bank cashier Judy Pace SCREENPLAY ALAN R TRUSTMAN DIRECTOR NORMAN JEWISON

1.00am The Hit Man and Her Pete Waterman is the Hit Man playing the hottest dance music around and predicting next month's hits. And Her? Michaela Strachan

is Her, and she'll be 'showing out' with the best club dancers and giving you the chance to meet a disco date.

There's also a phone-in video competition and the chance to send a loving message. If you would like to enter 'showing out', or send a message, write to: The Hit Man and Her, Music Box, 19-21 Rathbone Place, London Wl. DIRECTOR LUDO GRAHAM PRODUCER NICK WILSON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID LIDDIMENT A Music Box Production for Granada Television

followed by ITN News Headlines

2.00 to 4.00am Night Network PAUL THOMPSON ROWLAND RIVRON LEEE JOHN DEREK JAMESON Join Paul Thompson for V ideo V iew. Rowland Rivron hosts another edition of The Bunker Show with Derek Jameson listing what he couldn't live without in his nuclear

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3.45pm The Big Noise LAUREL AND HARDY Stan and 011ie are detectives hired to guard a sensational new explosive at the home of its inventor, Alva Hartley. They are somewhat taken aback by the complexities of the inventor's ultramodern house...

Meanwhile, enemy agents are after the explosive and Alva's widowed sister-in-law is after 011ie...

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white

See film guide, beginning page 6 Stan

Bea is a successful romantic writer, but her own love life leaves much to be desired. See 'Edens Lost', 8.45pm

Stan Laurel

011ie Oliver Hardy Evelyn Doris Merrick Hartley Arthur Space German officer Louis Arco Japanese officer Mayne Egbert Charlton

Beal Wong Veda Ann Borg Bobby Blake Frank Fenton

SCREENPLAY W SCOTT DARLING DIRECTOR MALCOLM ST CLAIR

fallout shelter.

Competition entries to: LWT, PO Box 90, London SE1 9PR. DESIGNER JAMES DILLON ASSOCIATE PRODUCER NINA DONALDSON DIRECTOR DAVID G HILLIER PRODUCERS VIJAY AMARNANI, JILL SINCLAIR Night Network Production

followed by ITN News Headlines

4.00 to 5.00am The Hit Man and Her With Pete Waterman and Michaela Strachan.

ITV variations V iewers in the A nglia region who can receive alternative programmes from adjoining ITV areas will find that transmissions alter as follows: LWT 11.30am Knight Rider; 12.30 to 1.00pm Physical Pursuit; 5.05 to 5.35pm Blockbusters CENTRAL 11.30am The Bionic Woman; 12.25pm La Linea; 12.30 to 1.00 Star Fleet; 5.05 to 5.35 Blockbusters; 1.00am Prisoner: Cell Block H; 1.55 Film - The Plague of the Zombies. Horror in an isolated Cornish village, stars Andre More11, John Carson; 3.35 Matlock; 4.30 to 5.00arn America's Top 10.

TVS 11.30am The Fall Guy; 12.30pm to 1.00 Ace of Aces; 5.05 to 5.35 Blockbusters; 1.00 to 2.00 Garrison's Gorillas; 4.00 Company; 4.05 Film - Snow Children. Short film about a penguin breeding ground in Antarctica. Narrator is Bernard Cribbins; 4.35 to 5.00am America's Top 10.

YORKSHIRE 12.00noon to 1.00 U.F.O.; 5.05 to 5.35pm Blockbusters.

5.05pm Brookside There are expectations and revelations on the Close. Gordon finds himself facing a challenge.

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6.00pm Right to Reply LINDA AGRAN If you have a point to make about TV write to Right to Reply at Channel 4 TV, 60 Charlotte Street, London W1P 2AX (01-631 4444) or use the Video Box in London; or at STV in Glasgow; Tyne Tees TV, Piccadilly, York; Central TV, Birmingham or Albion Place, Oxford; HTV Bath Road, Bristol; or at the National Museum of Photography, Film and TV, Bradford.

DIRECTOR KIM McCRODDAN PRODUCER ANDREA COLLETT EDITOR BOB TOWLER Channel 4 Production

6.30pm First in the Frame Bradford's National Museum of Photography, Film and Television is one of the

great modern success stories of the north.

Within five years of opening, it's attracting 750,000 visitors a year and has now won the title Museum of the Year. This programme celebrates many of the best-loved features of the museum and explores what goes on in the back rooms that the public never sees.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER GRANT McKEE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR MICHAEL COCKER Y orkshire Television Production

7.00pm News Summary and Weather 7.05pm Hollywood 12: STAR TREATMENT Another close-up view of the early days of the motion picture industry.

Two great stars of the era, Clara Bow and John Gilbert, lived at the same reckless pace and attracted the same kind of notoriety. Their careers were wrecked soon after sound came in: Clara retired and Gilbert found a friend to help him when he most needed it - Greta Garbo. (Flesh A nd The Devil co-starring Gilbert and Garbo is tomorrow's Thames Silent at 2.00pm.) The narrator is James Mason. Music is composed and arranged by Carl Davis.

Oracle subtitles page 888 WRITERS/DIRECTORS/ PRODUCERS KEVIN BROWNLOW, DAVID GILL Thames Television Production

8.05pm Game, Set & Match

BY LEN DEIGHTON ADAPTED BY JOHN HOWLETT

IAN HOLM Erich Stinnes has disclosed a KGB spy cell operating in Oxford.

Shown last Monday on ITV

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Bernard Samson Ian Holm A cademic Robert Daws Stinnes Gottfried John A lbert Anthony Schaeffer Gloria Kent Amanda Donohoe

Bret Rensselaer

Anthony Bate

Ted Riley Mark Mulholland Craig Norman Mills V icar Stephen Tomlin Dicky Cruyer

Christopher Nupen is about the work and ideas of Finland's greatest composer.

Jean Sibelius's music and career were deeply bound up with Finnish independence and the developing sense of Finnish nationality. This film was shot in Finland in 1983 and 1984 and uses Finnish landscape with Sibelius's music and words to give an intimate account of his struggles.

LIGHTING CAMERMAN DAVID FINDLAY FILM EDITOR PETER HEELAS DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER NUPEN A llegro Films Production

Michael Culver

11.05pm Creation

Linden Travers

Part 1 Written and produced by musicians and singers from the awardwinning black gospel show People Get Ready, Creation gives the Biblical account of how the world began and in true gospel style invites the audience to go back in time and experience these exciting events for themselves. Part 2 is on Christmas Eve.

Daphne Doran Godwin Morgan Struan Rodger Mrs Samson Billy Jamie Valder Sally Kirsten Valder Fiona Samson Mel Martin Tessa Kosinski Gail Harrison

George Kosinski

Gary Whelan Harty Hinks Neville Aurelius Mrs Hogarth Diana Payan Pete Barrett Neil McCaul

Frank Harrington

Frederick Treves ASSOCIATE PRODUCER MILLY PREECE DIRECTOR PATRICK LAU PRODUCER BRIAN ARMSTRONG Granada Television Production

9.05put.

Allegro jean Sibelius VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY ELISABETH SODERSTROM BORIS BELKIN THE SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The eleventh film by

Narrator God Christ Satan

Jon Francis Patrick Bernard Geoffrey Gale Brian Powell With The Inspirational Choir and London Community Gospel Choir EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS PETER WILLIAMS, ANDREW BARR PRODUCER FRANCES TULLOCH DIRECTOR DAVE HEATHER TV S/Legend Communications Production

11.35pm Tennis: The Davis Cup Final

commentators are Simon Reed and David Lloyd.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DEREK BRANDON Cheerleader Production

12.35am The Street UN GA TAAKEN Continuing the drama series about the lives of four Newark, New Jersey, patrol officers.

Breaking up a bar room fight which started because the two men were 'un ga taaken' ends up in a discussion about whether or not Scolari (Stanley Tucci) and Peluso (Bruce MacVitti) are 'un ga taaken' with each other as well. Since, according to Scolari, it means that two men have both had a relationship with the same woman, the very thought causes a problem for Peluso...

1.05am Le Petomane LEONARD ROSSITER Paris at the turn of the century: Joseph Pujol discovers his unique talent while on military service and rises to fame as an entertainer, becoming one of the highest paid artistes at the Moulin Rouge by breaking wind to music...

Made in black and white

See film guide, beginning page 43 Joseph Pujol (Le Pรกtomane) Leonard Rossiter with Madeleine Bellamy, Michael Cronin and Graham Stark.

SCREENPLAY RAY GALTON AND ALAN SIMPSON DIRECTOR IAN MACNAUGHTON

SWEDEN v W GERMANY In Gothenberg yesterday's two singles matches are followed by today's doubles in the world championship of men's team tennis. The

1.45 to 2.45am Barney Miller Two more episodes with the American cop Barney Miller. Starting with: INAUGURATION The mayoral inauguration is hectic for the 12th Precinct officers.

THE SEARCH Barney and his men confront another busy day which includes a man missing for 28 years...

Hal Linden Barney W ojo Max Gail Harris Ron Glass Jack Soo Y emana Dietrich Steve Landesberg Schnabel Jenny O'Hara

'Allegro, 9.05pm, gives an intimate account of the work and ideas of Finland's greatest composer Jean Sibelius

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Anglia 5.00am ITN Morning News

10.30am Follyfoot

BY FRANCIS STEVENS BASED ON AN IDEA BY MONICA DICKENS

6.00 TV-am Introduced by George Spanswick.

Dora Prudence

6.00 Natural History Film 7.00 The Pondles

Children's cartoon.

7.23 Rowanne Pasco's Sunday Club for Children

Religion for children, with games.

7.30 The Zoo Family 8.00 DAVID FROST ON SUNDAY

Britain's best interviewer David Frost introduces the top news stories from around the world and more exclusive interviews with prestigious people, while Paul Reizin uncovers more of Britain's amazing people and places. This week's guest reviewers glance at the Sunday newspapers and Lisa Aziz reads the headlines at 8.30 and 9.00.

9.25 to 11.00am Motormouth on Sunday CAROLINE HANSON JULIAN BALLANTYNE

Fraggle Hock WEMBLEY & THE MEAN GENIE PK and Sprocket rehearse their magicians' act for the village Christmas show.

In the Fraggle World, Wembley lets a magic genie out of the bottle.

PK is played by John Gordon Sinclair.

PRODUCERS VICTOR PEMBERTON, LAWRENCE S MIRKIN DIRECTORS ALISTAIR CLARK, DOUGLAS WILLIAMS EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS J NIGEL PICKARD, JIM HENSON TV S Production

9.55am Motormouth Toast with current issues and topics investigated by our top team. Plus tea, cartoons, music and probably more toast.

You can write to Motormouth on Sunday at PO Box 1, Maidstone,

W hirling through the air and racing across the ground, Anneka Rice tries to crack cryptic clues in 'Treasure Hunt' at 12.00noon

1.10pm Anglia News and Weather Forecast Summary

ATV

FLY AWAY HOME

The Colonel is seriously ill, and Dora's parents return from abroad to take her away to their London home. It seems as though her idyll at Follyfoot is coming to an end. Follyfoot returns on 8 January.

DAVID CASS

1.00pm ITN News

Gillian Blake

Dorothy Reynolds A rthur Basil Henson Steve Steve Hodson Slugger Arthur English Stryker Christian Rodska V an driver Peter Schofield Shopkeeper Jean Lockhart Mrs Porter Gretchen Franklin The Colonel Desmond Llewelyn Bricklebank Anthony Woodruff DIRECTOR DESMOND DAVIS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TONY ESSEX Y orkshire Television Production

11.00am Morning Worship FROM ST JOHN'S METHODIST CHURCH, SUDBURY, SUFFOLK Sudbury in Suffolk has been celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of its most famous sons, the painter Thomas Gainsborough. The Rev Fred Ireland and the people of St John's Methodist Church, Sudbury, prepare once again to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

Organist Robin Harris, Choirmaster John Castle and commentary

by Canon Ivan Bailey.

DIRECTOR PAUL FREEMAN A nglia Television Production

12.00noon The Walden Interview BRIAN WALDEN In an hour-long, one-toone interview, Brian Walden uses his renowned skills at questioning to interrogate not just politicians, but a wide range of the powerful, influential and famous.

He reveals what motivates them and what they think but don't normally say.

RESEARCH SIMON GORNICK, LAIN PICTON DIRECTOR DAVID W ROLFE PRODUCERS KARAN THAPAR, CATHI WHEATLEY SERIES PRODUCER JOHN WAKEFIELD LW T Production

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5.00am ITN Morning News 6.00 TV-am 9.25 Fraggle Rock 9.55 Motormouth 10.30 Follyfoot 11.00 Morning Worship 12noon Walden Interview 1.00pm ITN News 1.10 Anglia News 1.15 Link 1.30 Farming Diary 2.00 The Human Factor 2.30 Film: Pete's Dragon 5.00 Blockbusters 5.30 Christmas Peciple 6.00 Bullseye 6.30 ITN News 6.35 Anglia News 6.40 Dial-a-Carol 7.15 Film: A Star Is Dead 8.45 ITN Neivs 9.05 - The Beiderbecke Connection 10.05 South Bank Show 11.00 Prisoner: Cell Block H â&#x20AC;˘ 11.55. Worlds Beyond 12.25am 1st Exposure 1.25 The Other Side of Midnight 2.00 Film: The Island 4.00 American College Football

1.15pm Link Today's programme investigates disabled access to pop concert venues. Can the disabled get in them and when they do get in do they have to sit away from the crowd in segregated areas?

PRODUCER KEVIN MULHERN A Coffers Bare Production for Central Television

1.30pm Weather Trends followed by

Farming Diary DAVID RICHARDSON OLIVER WALSTON BARRY WILSON The weekly programme with film reports on the farming scene from Teesside to the Thames.

Regular coverage from Europe's big agricultural shows.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER RICHARD FOXTON PRODUCER WILLIAM SMITH A nglia Television Production

2.00 to 2.30pm The Human Factor MIKE FIELD MONI CAMERON PETER WILLIAMS TED HARRISON STAGE-STRUCK Jolyon Jackley has sold his house and moved his wife and two small children into a rented flat, to pursue a dream and an ambition. He is now the proud owner of the Theatre Royal, Margate, an 18th century gilt and plush traditional playhouse, now badly run-down and dilapidated. While the builders tackle the renovations, the actors prepare the Christmas 1988 pantomime. It is a race against time. The cast will be ready, but will the theatre? The Jackley dynasty stretches far back into theatrical history, so Jolyon has the right pedigree for the task.

He will need it. His faith in live theatre is about to be tested. Mike Field is watching from the wings.

FILM EDITOR PAUL NEALE RESEARCH DENISE ERIKSEN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PETER WILLIAMS EDITOR ANDREW BARR TV S Production

9.25am Orientations In the last of the current affairs series focusing on Europe's Oriental communities, a look at traditional Chinese medicine.

Could Chinese herbs help AIDS sufferers?

Also, 'Feng Shui', the ancient Chinese philosophy of 'wind and water', and, with the coming of the Year of the Snake, Chinese astrology. In English and Chinese with subtitles.

SERIES PRODUCER ANTHONY SHANG DIRECTOR ANDY KEMP Orientations Production

10.00am The World This Week GILL PYRAH MICHAEL NICHOLSON Gill Pyrah and Michael Nicholson present television's only 'weekly' devoted to international affairs.

There is news, discussion and analysis of the major events and developments in the world outside Britain.

PRODUCER MARTIN HOWE TV F/ITN Production

11.00am The Waltons THE SERMON Walton Mountain's only school teacher and its minister decide suddenly to get married and their only chance for a honeymoon is dependent on Olivia taking over the classroom and John-Boy the pulpit.

John-Boy Richard Thomas John Ralph Waite Olivia Michael Learned Grandpa Will Geer Grandma Ellen Corby Mary Ellen Judy Norton Jason Jon Walmsley Erin Mary Elizabeth McDonough B en Eric Scott Jim-Bob David W Harper Elizabeth Kami Cotler Ike Godsey Joe Conley Corabeth Godsey Ronnie Claire Edwards Miss Emily Mary Jackson Professor Ranney Basil Hoffman Miss Hunter Mariclare Costello Rev Fordwick John Ritter The Narrator Earl Hamner

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12.00noon Treasure Hunt KENNETH KENDALL ANNEICA RICE Wincey Willis Policewomen Val Gant and Betty Day guide Anneka to the hidden treasure in the Stirling countryside. Host Kenneth Kendall assists and Wincey Willis adjudicates. The programme's creative associate is Anne Evans.

DIRECTOR CHRIS GAGE PRODUCERS MALCOLM HEYWORTH, PETER HOLMANS Chatsworth Television Production

1.00 to 2.00pm Lost in Space WEST OF MARS An alien space ship lands and the Enforcer broadcasts a warning to Zeno, but Smith is mistaken for the infamous intergalactic superswift killer.

Prof John Robinson Guy Williams Maureen Robinson June Lockhart Judy Robinson Marta Kristen W ill Robinson Billy Mumy Penny Robinson Angela Cartwright Don W est Mark Goddard Dr Zachary Smith Jonathan Harris Bob May Robot Enforcer Allan Melvin Photo DBL Charles Arthur

W etland wildlife under threat. See C4 at 7.00pm

C4 9.25am Orientations 10.00 The World This Week 11.00 The Waltons 12noon Treasure Hunt LOOpm Lost in Space 2.00 Film: Flesh and the Devil 4.05 World Within a Ring 4.40 News, Weather Sea Farmers 4.45 5.45 American Football 7.00 Taming the Flood 8.00'.? Testament 9.00 The Media Show 10.00 Film: The Rocky Horror Picture Show 11.55 Tennis: The Davis Cup. Final 12.55am Film: ToukiBouki 2.35 Close -

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SUNDAY 6.00pm Bullseye

Anglia 2.30pm Disney Premiere: Pete's Dragon Maine at the turn of the century: Pete, a nine-year-old orphan who has been farmed out to the grasping Gogan family, escapes from their home in the company of Elliott, a friendly dragon who has 'adopted' him.

JIM BOWEN TONY GREEN Chris Johns Jim Bowen hosts the ever-popular quiz played on a dartboard.

Chris Johns steps up to take on the charity challenge. Script associate is Howard Imber. Produced in association with Chatsworth Television.

DESIGNER JOHN LAGEU PRODUCER/DIRECTOR RICHARD BRADLEY Central Production

6.30pm ITN News 6.35pm Anglia News

See film guide, beginning page 6

and Weather

Helen Reddy Nora Jim Dale Doc Terminus Mickey Rooney Lampie Lena Gogan Shelley Winters Red Buttons Hoagy Sean Marshall Pete V oice of Elliott Charlie Callas Merle Gogan Charles Tyner W illie Gogan Jeff Conaway Miss Lorintha Taylor Jane Kean Grover Gogan Gary Morgan Jim Backus Mayor Cal Bartlett Paul Walter Barnes Captain Storekeeper Robert Easton V isor man Roger Price Old sea captain Robert Foulk Ben Wrigley Egg man Cement man Joe Ross Al Checco Henry Slate Fishermen Jack Collins

6.40pm Dial-a-Carol

SCREENPLAY MALCOLM MARMORSTEIN DIRECTOR DON CHAFFEY

5.00pm Blockbusters BOB HOLNESS Brains, courage and a good sense of humour are all you need.

5.30pm The Christmas People The people who visited the stable when Jesus was born have their counterparts today.

Patrick Anthony talks to Innkeeper Chris Higgins; Shepherd David Moore; Frances Moore, working with refugee children in the Middle East; and Professor Anthony Hewish, professor of radio astronomy at Cambridge University.

Carols are sung by the choir of Norwich Cathedral.

MASTER OF MUSIC MICHAEL NICHOLAS WRITER CANON IVAN BAILEY PRODUCER/DIRECTOR FELICITY MATON

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GLORIA HUNNIFORD The nationwide link-up in which you, at home, call the tune, returns for a special Christmas edition. Phone 01-222 8000 any time after 4.00pm to make your request. Waiting for your calls tonight in their beautiful old village parish church are the choir and congregation of Holy Cross in Bearsted, Kent.

Can they sing a carol for you? Gloria will be joined by Bearsted's vicar, The Rev Geoffrey Sideway, and the church organist, Trevor Webb, to talk to you, live. The accent will be on singing your Christmas favourites.

When you call, please mention the reason for your choice and any seasonal dedication for friends or relatives.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PETER WILLIAMS ASSOCIATE PRODUCER FRANCES TULLOCH PRODUCER ANDREW BARR DIRECTOR PERSIS ASTRIDGE TV S Production

7.1.5pm A Star is Dead JACK KLUGMAN The death of film star -• - Roberta • Rhodes appears to be suicide. But an unexplained contusion near her eye, together with certain other physical evidence, means that her death is a questionable one in the opinion of police forensic expert Quincy.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Quincy Jack Klugman Charles Sinclair Robert Foxworth Roberta Rhodes Donna Mills

Paul Reardon William Daniels Clara Rhodes June Lockhart L ee Lynette Mettey Garry Walberg Lt Monahan Val Bisoglio Danny John S Ragin Dr A stin Sam Fujiyama Robert Ito Joseph Roman Sgt Brill Phillip R Allen Floyd Kario Salem V oss Frank Marth Keefer TELEPLAY LOU SHAW, MICHAEL KOZOLL DIRECTOR NOEL BLACK

8.45pm ITN News and Weather Forecast Summary

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9.05pm The Beiderbecke Connection

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BY ALAN PLATER

JAMES BOLAM BARBARA FLYNN with Dudley Sutton Keith Smith Dominic Jephcott and Terence Rigby WHAT DO WE HAVE ON HOCKEY STICKS? Episode Four Will Detective Inspector Hobson's hockey stick be found?

Will a day out at the seaside help to rid Trevor and Jill of Ivan and Peter? The answers are in this concluding episode of Alan Plater's comedy thriller.

Original music by Frank Ricotti, soloist Kenny Baker.

Oracle subtitles page 888 Trevor Chaplin James Bolam Jill Swinburne Barbara Flynn B ig A I Terence Rigby Little Norm Danny Schiller Det Insp Hobson Dominic Jephcott Mr Carter Dudley Sutton Mr W heeler Keith Smith George Costigan Ben Sean Scanlan Joe Ivan Patrick Drury Eamon Boland Peter Peter Martin Charlie Chief Supt Blake Deborah Grant Y v onne Judy Brooke Man opposite Dave Leslie Gaynor Kitchen Sharon Darren Bennet Gary Baby Thomas McGlinchey DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY PETER JACKSON DESIGNER MIKE LONG DIRECTOR ALAN BELL PRODUCER MICHAEL GLYNN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER KEITH RICHARDSON Y orkshire Television Production

10.05pm The South Bank Show MELVYN BRAGG For someone who's spent most of his life behind the camera David Bailey has kept up a remarkably high profile himself. He made his name as a fashion photographer in the early Sixties. But his work has never been

The South Bank Show' focuses on cameraman David Bailey at 10.05pm

confined to fashion.

Alongside the fashion plates stand his portraits — ranging from those of the Kray twins to Mick Jagger, from Andy Warhol to Terence Stamp. And his personal work has always had a serious, even campaigning, side — from his Salvation Army posters of the Sixties to his recent work for Band Aid in Ethiopia. Now, at the age of 50, Bailey is working with moving images, directing commercials and planning a feature film.

Tonight's programme looks at the full range of his work, talking to him at home, watching him behind the camera and interviewing some of the people he's put in front of it.

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR KIM EVANS RESEARCH FRANCES DICKENSON CAMERA PAUL BOND FILM EDITOR TIM PEARCE EDITOR MELVYN BRAGG LW T Production

11.00pm Prisoner: Cell Block H Bea is accepted back as leader of the women.

Chrissie Amanda Muggleton Margot Knight Sharon Val Lehman Bea Smith V era Bennett Fiona Spence Monica Maughan Pat

11.55pm Worlds Beyond OLIVER'S GHOST Sir Oliver Beresford, a somewhat bumbling character, has • problems with a friendly child-ghost manifesting itself in the rooms of his historic guest house.

Sir Oliver Beresford Denholm Elliott Lady Lucinda Beresford Janey Key A lice Seagrove Deborah Norton Joe Seagrove Ed Devereaux

12.25am 1st Exposure ARTHUR SMITH THE COMO STRING QUARTET STEVE COUGAN JULIE BALLOO MARTIN SOAN GEORGE BROWNING MIKE HAYLEY CLAIRE DOWIE JIM TAVAREBANDERAS THE GUTTER BROTHERS ROBERT SPRACKLING MICHELE REID The last in the series.

DESIGNER JAMES DILLON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MARCUS PLANTIN DIRECTOR JOHN BIRKIN PRODUCTION JULIET BLAKE, TREVOR HOPKINS LW T Production

1.25am The Other Side of Midnight ANTHONY WILSON Anthony Wilson analyses the trends,

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SUNDAY meets the stars and reviews the releases.

RESEARCH STEVEN LOCK, BRIAN MACHIN PRODUCER/DIRECTOR JULIAN JARROLD EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID LIDDIMENT Granada Television Production

followed by ITN News Headlines

2.00am The Island MICHAEL CAINE Journalist Blair • • Maynard, accompanied by his son Justin, travels to Florida to investigate a spate of strange Caribbean disappearances. A plane crash maroons them on the island of Navidad where they are captured by pirates.

See film guide, beginning page 6 .

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Blair Maynard Michael Caine Jean-David Nau David Warner Beth Angela Punch McGregor Dr W indsor Frank Middlemass Rollo Don Henderson Dr Brazil Dudley Sutton Hizzoner Colin Jeavons Justin Maynard Jeffrey Frank W escott Zakes Mokae Stark Brad Sullivan

2.00pm Flesh and the Devil GRETA GARBO JOHN GILBERT The Thames • i•

O Silents • season

continues with one of Greta Garbo's most famous romantic films - and the on-screen starting point of one of Hollywood's most famous off-screen romances. Prussia, in the early 1900s. Two young hussars, Leo and Ulrich, are lifelong friends. Ulrich's young sister Hertha has a crush on the handsome Leo but, travelling home on leave one day, Leo suddenly sees a young woman stepping from a train and is hypnotised... With music composed and conducted by Carl Davis.

SCREENPLAY PETER BENCHLEY FROM HIS OWN NOVEL DIRECTOR MICHAEL RITCHIE

Made in black and white

followed by

Leo von Harden John Gilbert Felicitas von Rhaden Greta Garbo Ulrich von Eltz Lars Hanson Hertha von Eltz Barbara Kent Leo's mother Eugenie Besserer Pastor V oss George Fawcett

ITN News Headlines

4.00 to 5.00am American College Football SOUTH CAROLINA V MIAMI ITV variations Programmes in adjoining areas are as A nglia except for: LWT 9.25am Football; 10.25 to

11.00 Motormouth; 1.15pm Police 5; 1.30 LWT Action; 1.40 to 2.00 Link; 5.00 Bullseye; 5.30 to 6.30 Sunday Sunday; 11.00 Film -

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Marc Macdermott Uncle Kutowski William Orlamond Minna Marcella Corday SCREENPLAY BENJAMIN GLAZER, FROM A NOVEL BY HERMANN SUDERMANN DIRECTOR CLARENCE BROWN

John and Yoko: A Love Story.

Mark McGann and Kim Miyori star in reconstruction of the life shared by John Lennon and Yoko Ono; I.45am Orchestral Tribute To Beatles; 3.00 to 4.00am P.O.V. CENTRAL 1.30 to 2.00pm Here and Now; 5.00 to 6.00 Highway to Heaven; 12.00mn't Film Massacre in Rome. Reprisal for the killing of SS troops, starring Richard Burton; 1.55am The Hit Man and Her; 2.55 Derrick; 4.00 The Other Side Of Midnight; 4.30 to 5.00am Central Jobfinder '88.

TVS 1.30 to 1.55pm Action; 5.00 Bullseye; 5.30 to 6.30 Sunday Sunday; 11.00 Agenda; 11.30 Film - John and Yoko: A Love Story. Reconstruction of the life

of the famous pair, stars Mark McGann, Kim Miyori; 2.15am Orchestral Tribute to The Beatles; 3.15 The Other Side of Midnight; 3.45 Fun in the Sun; 4.00 Company; 4.05 Coast to Coast People; 4.35 to 5.00am Island Life.

YORKSHIRE 5.00 to 6.00pm The Fall Guy; 11.00 Film - John and Yoko: A Love Story. Reconstruction of the life shared by John Lennon and Yoko Ono; 1.45arn Tribute To Beatles; 3.00 Other Side Of Midnight; 3.30 Music Box; 4.30 to 5.00am Jobfinder.

4.05pm World Within a Ring

species are in danger of extinction. Will there be enough fish left in the Nineties? This programme looks at the revolutionary new techniques of cordoning off parts of the sea to farm fish. It shows the new kinds of fish that will be seen in the shops and shows how to make friends with a halibut - and how to convince a cod it's lunchtime.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TED BROCKLEBANK WRITER/PRODUCER MICHAEL STEELE Grampian Television Production

5.45pm American Football With one week remaining until all the play-off positions are filled, Mick Luckhurst, John Smith and Walter Payton bring you all the news from week 15 in the NFL. There is also further news of the competition where the winners will go to Miami for Super Bowl XXIII on January 22, 1989.

wildfowl and flowery meadows is almost won but is the pressure on the wetlands really over? Written and presented by Jeremy Purseglove. Music by Simon Webb.

Oracle subtitles page 888 FILM EDITOR KEITH WILKINSON PRODUCER/DIRECTOR BRIAN SKILTON Insight Production

8.00pm Testament JOHN ROMER 7: PARADISE LOST What has happened to the Bible in the last 600 years as it has moved from the medieval to the modern world? In this final programme of the series, John Romer traces the way in which he believes the Bible has lost its sacredness.

He climbs a mountain in the south of France in the footsteps of the poet Petrarch; he goes to the Vatican Library and to Martin Luther's home town in Germany, and he visits a great Victorian museum in Oxford, to try and

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9.00pm The Media Show MURIEL GRAY Postponed from last week, the battle for the Christmas TV audience.

How are the TV bosses planning their schedules to capture the nation's viewers this year? Plus, a look at the new breed of female leather-clad 'Avenging Angels' now taking over the Indian film industry. And the latest in video technology how small can a small screen get?

SERIES DIRECTOR CLAIRE LASKO PRODUCERS JANE ROOT, PAUL KERR DEPUTY EDITOR ANDY LIPMAN EDITOR ALEX GRAHAM A W all to W all Television Production

3: THE THREATENED WETLANDS Final programme in the series looking at Britain's rivers and wetlands. The people of the Cambridgeshire Fens now live below the level of the North Sea - a perilous situation resulting from huge-scale drainage.

The Somerset Levels and the Halvergate Marshes in Norfolk have both been threatened in recent years. Now the battle to save the teeming

4.40pm News Summary and Weather Hot-shot Mats W ilander could find himself facing Boris Becker in 'Tennis: The Davis Cup Final' at 11.55pm

10.00pm The Rocky Horror Picture Show Childhood sweethearts Brad Majors and Janet Weiss get engaged and set out to visit his former college tutor Dr Everett Scott.

When their car breaks down during a storm, the couple seek help at a nearby mansion...

See film guide, beginning page 6 Frank N Furter Tim Curry

Janet Susan Sarandon Brad Barry Bostwick Riff Raff Richard O'Brien Dr Everett Scott Jonathan Adams Columbia Nell Campbell Rocky Peter Hinwood Eddie Meatloaf Magenta Patricia Quinn Narrator Charles Gray Ralph Hapschatt Jeremy Newson Koo Stark Bridesmaids Petra Leah Gina Barrie SCREENPLAY JIM SHARMAN, RICHARD O'BRIEN, BASED ON THE STAGE MUSICAL BY RICHARD O'BRIEN DIRECTOR JIM SHARMAN

11.55pm Tennis: The Davis Cup Final Sweden v W Germany The concluding singles matches from Gothenberg. The tie could all hinge on a confrontation between Boris Becker and Mats Wilander or Stefan Edberg to decide the winners of the Davis Cup. Commentators are Simon Reed and David Lloyd.

7.00pm Taming the Flood

DIRECTOR STANLEY C MARKS EMI Production

Throughout the world, fishermen are catching all the wild fish they can find in the seas so much so that many

WRITER JOHN ROMER FILM EDITOR OLIVER HUDDLESTON PRODUCER/DIRECTOR MISCHA SCORER

PRODUCER MIKE WILMOT A Cheerleader Production supported by The Daily Telegraph

A short film made in 1976 and narrated by Joss Ackland featuring Gerry Cottle's circus. t

4.45pm Sea Farmers

explain how it came about that the Bible died. Music by Nigel Hess.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DEREK BRANDON Cheerleader Production

Tim Curry (centre), Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell and Richard O'Brien demonstrate that anything goes on 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'

12.55 to 2.35am Cinema from Three Continents: Touki-Bouki This is the story of a dream - a dream which would take Mory and Anta from Senegal to the promised land of Paris.

Mory, a shepherd whose herd has been slaughtered, wanders aimlessly on his motorbike. Anta, a girl who dresses as a boy, also lives on the fringes of society. They are both determined to reach Paris by any means. A film from Senegal in French with English subtitles.

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O Treat your car to the quiet roads of the Isles of Lewis and Harris. Big-value summer prices include dinner, B&B for up to 7 nights, from £95 pp for 2 nights. Special spring and autumn offers from £69pp for 2 nights. Fly-drive package also available.

To book or for free brochure write to Tom Witch, Caberfeidh Hotel, Manor Park, Stomoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, PA87 2EU. Tel: 0851 2604.

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• FA ENJOY SCOTLAND PACK Scottish Tourist Board's Touring Map showing historic sites, gardens, museums. beaches etc plus more • than '1001 Things to See' with opening times and admission prices.

Plan your own car touring holiday using our selected group of Hotels throughout Scotland.

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Freewheelin' with Mount Charlotte in Scotland Mount Charlotte Hotels in Glasgow, Irvine, Aberdeen, Wick, Braemar, Inverness, Fort William, Elton, Aviemore, Ullapool, Portpatrick and Moffat offer guaranteed prices for dinner,

bed and fun Scottish breakfast until the end of April 1989 on the Value Break, Scottish Weekaway and Freewheelin' schemes. See beautiful Scotland and enjoy true Scottish hospitality in splendid comfort. Mount Charlotte have 68 hotels throughout the country.

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MONDAY 10.40am This Morning

Anglia 5.00am ITN Morning News DAVID CASS

6.00 TV-am The Morning Programme Presented by Mike Morris.

News, views and interviews with bulletins read by Geoff Meade and weather reports with Carol Dooley. Plus, sports news, Money Matters with Peter Coe and exercise with Lizzie.

7.00 Good Morning Britain Mike Morris and Kathy Rochford introduce topical features and reports with regular news and weather updates from Geoff Meade and Carol Dooley. Also, Jimmy Greaves's TV highlights and Huckleberry Hound, everyday at 7.20.

9.00 After Nine Magazine programme for women hosted by Jayne Irving and another chance to exercise with Lizzie.

9.25am Lucky Ladders LENNIE BENNETT The game show where one word leads to another and each stage up the lucky ladder takes our couples nearer to a jackpot holiday. Series devised

by Bob Stewart.

Produced in association with Action Time and Basada Inc. VT EDITOR STEVE ALDOUS DESIGNER PAUL COLLIER PRODUCER HUGH DAVIES A nglia Television Production

9.55am Anglia News and Weather

10.00am The Time....

The Place...

MIKE SCOTT Mike Scott starts your week with the lively discussion programme.

He'll be out travelling the country to find out what you think about the issues in the news live every weekday morning.

PRODUCER JULIE CLIVE

JUDY FINNIGAN RICHARD MADELEY Join husband and wife team Richard and Judy for a live and lively look at the home and family. There's everything from food and drink to homes and shopping. Richard and Judy would like to hear from you on the daily phone-in, so ring 051555-1000. Special feature this morning include: 11.45 - 11.55 Town Gardens The A-Z of how to cope with the smallest of gardens - from patios to window boxes.

Included in today's programme: Anglia News at 11.55 followed

by National Weather with Fred Talbot. Judy and Richard are back live from Liverpool tomorrow morning. The address to write to for further information is: This Morning, PO Box 400, Liverpool L69 3NP. DIRECTORS WENDY J DYER, ROBERT KHODADAD PRODUCER CLARISSA HYMAN DEPUTY EDITOR MAX GRAESSER EDITOR DIANNE NELMES Granada Television Production

1.30 to 3.25pm Monday Matinee

2.00pm The Little Princess

THE KING'S PIRATE The 18th Century.

With his eye on rewards offered by the East ndia companies for the checking of piracy, Lt Brian Fleming, an American in the service of the British Navy volunteers to infiltrate a big pirate stronghold at Diego Suarez in Madagascar. Fleming poses as a deserter and he gains the pirates' confidence. But the fiery Jessica Stephens proves an altogether tougher proposition...

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SHIRLEY TEMPLE Young Sara Crewe prepares both to see her father off to the Boer War and to go to a new school.

The cruel Miss Minchin, head of the school, is nice - superficially to Sara, because of her father's money and position. Then comes news that Captain Crewe has died at Mafeking.

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Lt Fleming Doug McClure Jessica Jill St John John A very Guy Stockwell Z ucco Kurt Kazner Capt Cullen Torin Thatcher Patma Mary Ann Mobley Capt McTigue Ted De Corisa Swaine Richard Deacon Sparks Sean McClory Miss MacGregor Diana Chesney Capt Mission Emile Genest Capt Hornsby Bill Glover Lord Cloudsly Ivor Barry Gow Woodrow Parfrey Caracciali Alex Montoya Strongman Robert Terhume

12.10pm Playbox

SCREENPLAY PAUL WAYNE DIRECTOR DON WEIS

PAT COOMBS KEITH CHEGWIN There are lots of wheels in the playbox today: Cat's first surprise has three wheels, Polly, Monkey and Toucan ride a cycle with two wheels and Tamara and Joel visit the garage in a car that has four wheels. Counting fun for the under-fives.

Voices of Dog and Cat

by Keith Chegwin and Pat Coombs. Drawings

by Rod Campbell.

Puppeteer is Marcus Clarke.

ITV variations

DESIGNER BOB BERK PRODUCER ANNE WOOD DIRECTOR LESLIE PITT A Ragdoll Production (UK) for Central Television

12.30pm The Sullivans Jim and Alice invite Robbie and Kitty for a night on the tiles.

ITN News at One Up-to-the-minute news from home and abroad, with expert analysis, City reports and the lunchtime weather.

PROGRAMME EDITOR ANDREW TILLEY ITN Production

1.20pm Anglia News and Weather

TVTIMES 17 December-1 January

Programmes in adjoining areas are as A nglia except for: THAMES 12.30 to 1.00pm A Country Practice; 1.30 to 3.25 Film - The Bishops Wife. Cary Grant as an angel who descends to earth to answer the prayers of a young bishop; 10.35 to 1.00arn Film - Being There. An illiterate gardener becomes a philosopher, and a national hero. Stars Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine; 2.00 Film - Heaven Can Wait. A football star finds himself in heaven after a car crash, with Warren Beatty; Julie Christie and James Mason; 4.00 to 5.00am 60 Minutes.

CENTRAL 12.30pm Home Cookery Club; 12.35 to 1.00 The Young Doctors; 1.30 to 3.25 Film - The Strongest Man in the World. Kurt Russell as man who acquires superhuman strength; 3.30 to 4.00 Who's The Boss?; 10.35 Prisoner: Cell Block H; 11.35pm Film - Outland. Sean Connery in sci-fi thriller; 1.40am Sportsweek; 2.40 60 Minutes; 3.35 ECO; 4.05 to 6.00am Central Jobfinder '88.

TVS 12.30 to 1.00pm Country Practice; 1.30 to 3.25 Film Inspector Clouseau. The famous detective of the Paris Surete is called in to help Scotland Yard, stars Alan Arkin, Delia Boccardo; 6.00 Coast to Coast; 6.30 to 7.00 Country Ways; 10.35 Head to Head; 11.20 Film - Out of the Darkness. New York in 1976 and the infamous `Son of Sam' murders case is terrorising the city, stars Martin Sheen, Hector Elizondo; 1.05am Late Night Sport: Barbados or Bust; 2.05 I Spy; 3.05 Company; 3.10 to 3.40am D C Follies.

YORKSHIRE 12.30 to 1.00pm Young Doctors; 1.35 to 3.25 Film - Iron Maiden. Fun and games when a traction engine crashes into a Cadillac; 320 to 4.00 Sons and Daughters; 6.00 Calendar; 6.30 to 7.00 Toy Appeal; 10.35 to 11.05 Calendar Commentary; 12.00mn't Film - Trauma. Starring Birgit Doll, Lou Castel in West German film with English dialogue; 1.45am Love, American Style; 2.00am Trans World Sport; 3.00 Music Box; 4.00 About Britain; 4.30 to 5.00am Jobfinder.

9.30am Movie Maniacs: My Favourite Blonde BOB HOPE Larry Haines, a vaudeville entertainer, becomes involved with Karen Bentley, a glamorous Allied spy...

Made in black and white

See film guide, beginning page 6 Larry Haines Bob Hope Karen Madeleine Carroll Madame Stephanie Runik Gale Sondergaard Dr Hugo Streger George Zucco Karl Lionel Royce SCREENPLAY DON HARTMAN, FRANK BUTLER, MELVIN FRANK, NORMAN PANAMA DIRECTOR SIDNEY LANFIELD

10.55am Movie Maniacs: My Little Chickadee MAE WEST W C FIELDS It is the late 1880s. Flower Belle Lee is travelling to the frontier town of Little Bend to visit relatives when her stagecoach is held up by a masked bandit...

Made in black and white

See film guide, beginning page 6 Flower Belle Lee Mae West Cuthbert J Twillie W C Fields Jeff Badger Joseph Calleia W ay ne Dick Foran SCREENPLAY MAE WEST, W C FIELDS DIRECTOR EDWARD CLINE

12.30pm Business Daily SUSANNAH SIMONS With Damian Green, Iain Carson, Jane Alexander and Judith Dawson.

STUDIO DIRECTORS LOUISE CAPELL, PATRICK HARPUR ASSISTANT EDITORS ROD BEARDS, STEPHANIE HARRIS DEPUTY EDITOR DAMIAN GREEN EDITOR ANDREW CLAYTON Business Television Production

1.00pm Sesame Street With guest Judy Collins.

The letters are I and K and the number is 11.

Sara Crewe Shirley Temple Geoffrey Hamilton Richard Greene Ram Dass Cesar Romero R ose Anita Louise A manda Minchin Mary Nash Capt Crewe Ian Hunter Lord W ickham Miles Mander Berne Minchin Arthur Treacher Queen V ictoria Beryl Mercer SCREENPLAY ETHEL HILL, WALTER FERRIS, FROM THE NOVEL BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT DIRECTOR WALTER LANG

3.45pm Years Ahead Robert Dougall, Brian Johnston, Zena Skinner and Jack Scott present a Christmas special with lots of seasonal items. Plus, by popular demand, the big band sound of Joe Loss, who is 80 next year. Joe talks to Jack Scott about his life in showbusiness over half a century.

DIRECTOR COLIN FINNIE PRODUCER JOHN KELLEHER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER STEVE CLARK-HALL Skyline Film and Television Production

4.30pm Fifteen-to-One WILLIAM G STEWART Of the final 60 contestants in this series, four will be hoping for winning scores high enough to get them on to the Finals Board and last until Friday. Based on a format by John M Lewis.

MUSIC DIRECTOR PAUL MAGUIRE PRODUCTION DESIGNER COLIN PIGOTT DIRECTORS ROYSTON MAYOH, SIMON PEARCE PRODUCER WILLIAM G STEWART Regent Production

5.00 to 6.00pm The Late Late Show This unique mixture of the reverent and the irrelevant, of music and chat is hosted by Gay Byrne.

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5.00am ITN Morning News 6.00 TV-am 9.25 Lucky Ladders 9.55 Anglia News and We,ather 10.00 The Time...

The'Place...

10.40 This. Morning 12.lOpm Playbox 12.30 The Sullivans 1.00 ITN News 420 Anglia News and Weather 1.30 Film: The King's Pirate 3.25 Anglia News 3.30 The Young Doctors 4.00 Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends 4.10 The Rallies 4.20 The Real Ghostbusters 4.45 Knightmare 5.15 Blockbusters 5.45 ITN News 6.00 About Anglia 6.30 Survival 7.00 The Krypton 7.30 Coronation Street 8.00 Wish You Were Here... ?

8.30 World in Action 9.00 Game, Set & Match 10.00 News at Ten 10.30 Anglia Late News and Weather 10.35 Anglia Reports 11.05 Prisoner: Cell Block H 12.00m1 Donahue 1.00am Sportsworld Extra f/b News Headlines 2.00 The Fugitive 3.00 Pop Profile f/b News 120 The Twilight Zone 3.40 60 Minutes 4.30 Night Beat

C4 9.30arn Film: My Favourite Blonde 10.55 Film: My Little Chickadee 12.30pm Business Daily 1.00 Sesame. Street 2.00 Film: The Little Princess 3.45 Years Ahead '4.30 Fifteen-to-One 5.00 The Late Late Show 6.00 The Munsters 6.30 Hillwomen 7.00 C4 News 7.50 Comment f/b Weather 8.00 Brookside 8.30 All I Want For Christmas 9.00 In the Club?

Birth Control this Century 9.45 Masterworks 10.00 Hill Street Blues 11.00 The Eleventh Hour 12.30am Tears, Laughter, Fears & Rage 1.00 Close -

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Anglia 3.25pm Anglia News 3.30pm The Young Doctors Dennis suffers a putdown.

Sister Eve Steele Anne Lucas Darren Graham Jamie Debbie Baile V iki Chris King Dennis Nurse Kate Rhodes Ros Wood Sir Thomas Kendall James Gordon

4.00 to 5.15pm Children's ITV presented by MARK GRANGER

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends BASED ON THE RAILWAY SERIES BY THE REV W AWDRY

TROUBLESOME TRUCKS/JAMES AND THE EXPRESS In Troublesome Trucks, told by Ringo Starr, James has to pull trucks that cause him a lot of trouble, while in James and the Express, when Gordon is switched off the main line, James pulls the express instead. Ringo tells two more stories on Thursday at the same time.

DIRECTOR DAVID MITTON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BRITT ALLCROFT Central Production

4.10pm The Ratties BABY SITTING TIME When the Ratties are asked to look after Baby Bummer for two hours, it becomes the longest two hours of their lives. Narrated by Spike Milligan. Writers are Laura Milligan, Mike Wallis and John Antrobus.

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR MIKE WALLIS

4.20pm The Real Ghostbusters ROLLERGHOSTER A phoney ghostbuster's rollercoaster ride at a small carnival becomes haunted, until the real Ghostbusters arrive to straighten out the mess.

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HUGO MYATT The final programme before the Electronic Catacombs dissolve to form fresh challenges and prepare for a new phase of adventuring.

In its final session the award-winning adventure game is challenged by four young lassies from Scotland, who face one of the most radical tasks ever encountered in the Dungeon of Despair. This time even Treguard the Dungeon Master (Hugo Myatt) may not be wholly trusted! Survival is the aim, but Time has become the Enemy, in this last programme of the current series.

Hugo Myatt Treguard Merlin/Mogdred

John Woodnutt

Lillith/Mildread Mary Miller Folly the Jester Alec Westwood Cedric/Caspar Lawrence Werber Guy Standeven Troll Tom Karol Dwarf/Olaf Gretel the Maiden Audrey Jenldnson Sir Gumboil Edmund Dehn DIRECTOR SALLY FREEMAN PRODUCER TIM CHILD A Broadsword Production for A nglia Television

5.15pm Blockbusters BOB HOLNESS Bob Holness quizzes more eager contestants.

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the world's harshest environments, surrounded by enemies.

To survive the sub-zero nights, it builds itself a cave in the snow. When danger threatens it can slow its heart from 500 to 20 beats a minute to escape the notice of predators. Narrated by John Hedges.

CAMERA/WRITER CHRISTOPHER MYLNE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER COLIN WILLOCK A nglia Television Production

7.00pm The Krypton Factor GORDON BURNS The last group final.

There are contestants from Derby, Wakefield, Shepherd's Bush and TaM in Ross-shire — but only one woman left in the competition as she tries to emulate Marian Chanter who was the first female Krypton Factor Super Person.

Oracle subtitles page 888 DIRECTOR RICHARD SIGNY PRODUCER PATRICIA PEARSON Granada Television Production

7.30pm Coronation Street Christmas is a-coming and Alec hopes to get fat on his bar takings, but he's worried that the rats may be deserting a sinking ship. And Ken is worried that Deirdre's work seems to be following her home, but she is finding it difficult to shelve her responsibilities.

6.30pm Survival

Oracle subtitles page 888 This week's cast: Ken Barlow William Roache Deirdre Barlow Anne Kirkbride Tracy Barlow Dawn Acton A lec Gilroy Roy Barraclough Bet Gilroy Julie Goodyear Betty Turpin Betty Driver Sandra Stubbs Sally Watts Rita Fairclough Barbara Knox A lan Bradley Mark Eden Mavis W ilton Thelma Barlow Derek W ilton Peter Baldwin Emily Bishop Eileen Derbyshire Percy Sugden Bill Waddington Jack Duckworth William Tarmey V era Duckworth Elizabeth Dawn Martin Platt Sean Wilson Mike Baldwin Johnny Briggs Don Brennan Geoff Hinsliff Ivy Brennan Lynne Perrie A udrey Roberts Sue Nicholls A lf Roberts Bryan Mosley Sally W ebster Sally Whittaker Kevin W ebster Michael le Vell Gail Tilsley Helen Worth Jenny Sally Ann Matthews Brian Roscoe Rob Dixson Curly W atts Kevin Kennedy Shirley A rmitage Lisa Lewis

THE AMAZING WILLOW GROUSE The title is well deserved. The bird of the Arctic lives in one of

WRITER BRIAN FINCH STORIES TOM ELLIOTT, DIANE CULVERHOUSE DIRECTOR IAN WHITE DESIGNER STEPHEN GRAHAM PRODUCER BILL PODMORE Granada Television Production

PROGRAMME EDITOR DEREK DOWSETT ITN Production

6.00pm About Anglia HELEN McDERMOTT CHRISTINE WEBBER ALASTAIR YATES Bringing you today's news, talking points and personalities from the Anglia region.

Location reports by Charlie Lee-Potter and Rebecca Atherstone (Norwich); Greg Barnes (Cambridgeshire News Centre); Peter Lugg (Bedfordshire); Owen Spencer-Thomas (Northamptonshire); Surrey Beddows (Essex) and Lindsay Brooke (Suffolk).

EDITOR JIM WILSON DIRECTORS ALAN BURRELL, PETER TOWNLEY A nglia Television Production

8.00pm Wish You Were Here...?

JUDITH CHALMERS JOHN CARTER ANNEKA RICE Judith nips across the Atlantic to New York • for a little last minute Christmas shopping.

Weekend breaks in the 'Big Apple', either to shop or for the theatre have been running for a couple of years. And with the pound buying lots of dollars, they have proved very popular. John is in France in La Rochelle just south of Brittany, to try out a new holiday which combines air travel across the channel and rail travel to the holiday resort.

Anneka heads for Wales to join a painting course to brush up a hobby she has recently taken up. The travel consultant is Robin Dewhurst. Writers are Peter Hughes, John Carter.

•Plan your holiday with W ish Y ou W ere Here Destinations '89, the expert guide to places to go at home and abroad. On sale now, price £1.95.

Oracle subtitles page 888 DIRECTORS JIM POPLE, STEVE MINCHIN EDITOR PETER HUGHES PRODUCER CHRISTOPHER PALMER Thames Television Production

8.30pm World in Action An in-depth report from the award-winning team.

PRODUCERS STEPHEN CLARKE, IAN McBRIDE, DAVID MILLS, LAURIE FLYNN, DEBBIE CHRISTIE, CHARLES TREMAYNE, VYVIAN SIMSON, BRIAN BLAKE, STEPHEN BOULTON, DON JORDAN EDITOR STUART PREBBLE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: RAY FITZWALTER Granada Television Production

9.00pm Game, Set & Match

BY LEN DEIGHTON ADAPTED BY JOHN HOWLETT

IAN HOLM ANTHONY BATE MICHAEL CULVER MICHAEL DEGEN FREDERICK TREVES GOTTFRIED JOHN MEL MARTIN AMANDA DONOHOE ALAN MacNAUGHTAN BRIGITTE KARNER MI6 — and Bret Rensselaer — want to test the sincerity of the brooding Soviet defector, Stinnes. So Samson has to oversee a last operation to trap the KGB. But who will spring the trap — and who will be caught? The finale of this epic spy story

stretches from a seedy backstreet in London to a blood-stained climax at the Berlin Wall. Music

by Richard Harvey. Stunt arranger Gareth Milne.

Oracle subtitles page 888 Bernard Samson Ian Holm Bret Rensselaer Anthony Bate Erich Stinnes Gottfried John Norman Mills Craig { Paul Walker Gunmen Steve Dixon Morgan Struan Rodger Director-General Alan MacNaught an Pete Barrett Neil McCaul Dicky Cruyer Michael Culver Gloria Kent Amanda Donohoe W erner V olkrnann Michael Degen Department driver Anthony Elliott Frau Lisl Hennig Eva Ebner Frank Harrington Frederick Treves Pavel Moskvin Alexei Jawdokimov Zena V olkmann Brigitte Karner Harry Hinks Neville Aurelius Fiona Samson Mel Martin Tarrant Shaun Lawton ASSOCIATE PRODUCER MILLY PREECE DESIGNERS CHRIS TRUELOVE, JAMES WEATHERUP DIRECTOR KEN GRIEVE PRODUCER BRIAN ARMSTRONG Granada Television Production

10.00pm News at Ten 10.30pm Anglia Late News and Weather 10.35pm Anglia Reports An up-to-the-minute film report on a key issue in the Eastern Counties that affects us all. Each week A nglia Reports examines the background to an important news story.

FILM EDITOR JOHN SHIPPEY RESEARCH RICHARD BONSER, MICHAEL TALBOT, SARAH TOBIN, PIPPA ROBINSON REPORTERS BOB LEDWIDGE, JUDITH BURNS DIRECTORS GIL EDGELEY, PETER TOWNLEY EDITOR MALCOLM ALLSOP A nglia Television Production

11.05pm Prisoner: Cell Block H Vera and Jim find the drugs in Sharon's cell, and take her to solitary.

For cast, see Sunday

12.00midnight Donahue ADULT ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN OF CELEBRITIES Desiree Presley is a young woman who claims to be the

daughter of Elvis Presley, and Steven Mark Brown is the selfproclaimed illegitimate son of Lyndon B Johnson. Tonight's Donahue discusses their feelings and reactions upon learning the identities of their fathers.

1.00am Sportsworld Extra No turkeys on this show! Just top-class boxing from around the world, a top football round-up from the Continent and the First Division of the Barclay League. followed by ITN News Headlines

2.00am The Fugitive COME WATCH ME DIE Kimble is called upon to transport a man charged with a crime to the county seat.

Richard Kimble David Janssen Robert Doyle Bellows John Anderson Clement Benjy Randy Boone

3.00am Pop Profile HALL AND OATES COME FULL CIRCLE With everything achieved, what else is there left for the blueeyed soulsters to do? followed by ITN News Headlines

3.20am The Twilight Zone A MATTER OF MINUTES A couple awaken one morning to find themselves trapped in a vacant, oddly familiar world, four hours into the future.

3.40am 60 Minutes From America, correspondents Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner, Ed Bradley and Diane Sawyer bring you interviews, incisive investigations and illuminating features.

4.30 to 5.00am Night Beat THE UK TOP 10 A lively programme giving a rundown of what's happening in the UK charts.

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MONDAY • Chalmers takes a preJudith Christmas bite from the Big Apple.

Join her in New Y ork for 'W ish Y ou W ere Here... ?' at 8.00pm

Julia Jimmy Gerrard Barry Sue Martin Kathy Brian Nikki Sinbad

6.00pm The Munsters EDDIE'S BROTHER Eddie (Butch Patrick) asks his father for a baby brother... With Fred Gwynne.

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6.30pm Hillwomen Eurliw, Non and Bini are three Welsh women who run their own farm in Snowdonia.

Traditionally maledominated, sheep farming in the mountains is a tough life which the women tackle in their different way throughout one cold, difficult year.

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR SERENIA RULE

7.00pm Channel 4 News Presented by Peter Sissons.

Oracle subtitles page 888 Oracle News Summary page 401, Oracle City Headlines page 600, both throughout the week DIRECTORS MALCOLM JOHNSON, TIM SUMNER EDITOR RICHARD TAIT ITN Production

7.50pm Comment A guest speaker gives a personal view on a current issue. Anyone with something topical to say will be considered for Comment. For details, write to Comment, Channel 4, 60 Charlotte Street, London W IP 2AX. followed by

Weather 8.00pm Brookside Reluctance in some quarters as Christmas festivities begin.

Devious Zena (Brigitte K arner) makes an unreliable partner in `Game, Set & Match' at 9.00pm

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Oracle subtitles page 888 This week's cast: A nnabelle Doreen Sloane Paul Jim Wiggins John McArdle Billy Justine Kerrigan Tracy Bill Dean Harold Ray Dunbobbin Ralph Sheila Sue Johnston Eithne Browne Chrissy Peter Christian Frank Kevin Carson `Growler' Debbie Reynolds Katie Brian Regan Terry

Gladys Ambrose Dean Sullivan Tom Sharkey Paul Usher Annie Miles Andrew Hall Noreen Kershaw Vincent Maguire Michelle Byatt Michael Starke

Capt Frank Furillo (Daniel J Travanti) and Joyce Da venpoz (Veronica Hamel) in `Hill Street Blues'

WRITER BARRY WOODWARD DESIGNER CAROL SHEERAN DIRECTOR ROMEY ALLISON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PHIL REDMOND Mersey Television Production

8.30pm All I Want for Christmas A half-hour preview of all the best that Channel 4 has to offer over the festive season.

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PRODUCER TIM MACKAY-ROBINSON Channel 4 Production

9.00pm In the Club? — Birth Control this Century 3: IT CHANGED OUR LIVES In this final programme about the influence of birth control on all our lives, we hear about the campaigning side of the birth control movement, from the founding of the first clinics to the latest abortion campaigns.

For booklet send £1.50 to C4 address 1, page 67.

PRODUCER SHARON GOULDS DIRECTOR MARILYN WHEATCROFT Television History W orkshop

9.45pm Masterworks This week's featured painting from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is The Large Forest by Jacob van Ruisdael.

Narrator James Greene.

WRITERS JOHN ROBERTS, KARL HEINZ NOWALD PRODUCER/DIRECTOR REINER E MORITZ RM A rts Production

10.00pm Hill Street Blues FALLING FROM GRACE Buntz waits to bust a loan shark and a city councillor turns up the heat in his war with Furillo. Young Flaherty is horrified when Sister Chastity surrenders to the passion of the flesh.

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The Black Tower The narrator in John Smith's film is haunted by a mysterious black tower which seems to appear everywhere.

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11.25pm London Story The Cabinet Office, Whitehall is the seat of parliamentary intrigue.

While the government is beating about the bush over its alliances, a woman interviews two men in hand-held garish video: one is employed to open doors in the Cabinet and the other is an excivil servant with a penchant for briefcases.

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11.45pm Thriller Mystery based on Puccini's La Boheme.

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12.30 to 1.00am Tears, Laughter, Fears & Rage 4: RAGE With Irene Handl, Peter Bowe and Juliet Mitchell.

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Anglia 5.00am ITN Morning News DAVID CASS

6.00 TV-am The Morning Programme

Mike Morris updates you on the latest news stones with full bulletins from Geoff Meade, on the half hour. And, regular features, Money Matters and Lizzie Webb's workout.

7.00 Good Morning Britain

Mike Morris and Kathy Rochford bring you the features of the day and talk to celebrity guests as well as full news and weather forecasts, and 'postbag' with Gyles Brandreth.

9.00 After Nine

Presented by Jayne Irving, including fashion news with Merrill Thomas and keep-fit with Lizzie.

Also included in today's programme: Anglia News at 11.55 followed

by National Weather with Fred Talbot.

9.55am Anglia News and Weather

12.10pm Rainbow ICE AND SNOW EXPLORERS Appearing are Geoffrey Hayes, Stanley Bates, Jane Tucker, Rod Burton, Freddy Marks and Roy Skelton. It's snowing and Geoffrey, Bungle, Zippy and George go on a pretend expedition.

They wrap up warmly, put on snow shoes or skis and, with Zippy and George riding on a sledge, set off into the ice and snow. What adventures will they have? Puppeteers are Ronnie Le Drew and Malcolm Lord.

Animation by Telemagination.

WRITER LEE PRESSMAN RESEARCH PETER BAILEY DIRECTOR LEON THAU PRODUCER LESLEY BURGESS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CHARLES WARREN Thames Television Production

Tom and Norm appear to find sanctuary in a German barn. Harry and Kate are further alienated.

ITN News at One 1.20pm Anglia News and Weather

10.00am The Time...

The Place...

MIKE SCOTT The lively daily programme which gives you the chance to air your views.

1.30pm Tuesday Matinee NEVER NEVER LAND Eight-yearold Jennie 1.1111° Harris is dumped on relations by her recently divorced father. But in the home of Auntie Bee, Jennie finds a sympathetic friend in her cousin Joe. Life is made difficult for Jennie and Joe by the other children in the house. So Joe, who is in love with the idea of Peter Pan, takes Jennie with him into the land of fantasy...

See film guide, beginning page 6 .

PRODUCER CHRIS RILEY

10.40am This Morning JUDY FINNIGAN RICHARD MADELEY The magazine show that takes a lively look at the home and the family. Phone Judy and Richard on air on 051555-1000. Special features this morning include: 11.00-11.10 The Woolstrand Tips, patterns and discussions on all aspects of knitting.

the movie featured on the film pages.)

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SCREENPLAY CLARENCE HENNECKE, ROBERT EDDY, HARRY McCOY DIRECTOR HARRY LANGDON

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3.00pm What's My Line?

ANGELA RIPPON Jilly Cooper Simon Williams Roy Hudd Jilly Johnson The classic game show with an all-star panel and mystery celebrity.

What's your line?

Whatever it is, there'll be something of interest for you.

RESEARCH JOANNA STEWART, SHEILA DUANE ASSOCIATE PRODUCER JOHN GRAHAM DIRECTOR BRIAN KLEIN PRODUCER MAURICE LEONARD Thames Television Production

3.25pm Anglia News 3.30 to 4.00pm The Young Doctors Kate tries to patch a marriage and Sir Thomas is backed into a corner.

For cast, see Monday

ITV variations Programmes in adjoining areas are as A nglia except for: THAMES 12.30 to 1.00pm A Country Practice; 1.30 to 3.00 Film - All Fox Mary. Farce in which two men groan like children in front of an old lady; 12.30am Love Me Love Me Not; 1.00 Donahue; 2.00 Film Dragon Rapide. Reconstruction of events which led to the Spanish Civil Wax in 1936; 4.00 to 5.00am Superstars of Wrestling.

CENTRAL 12.30pm Home Cookery Club; 12.35 to 1.00 The Young Doctors; 1.30 to 3.25 Film - Island In The Snow. Russian adventure tale with English dialogue; 3.30 to 4.00 Starbreaker; 11.35 Film - Eyes of Laura Mars, Faye Dunaway as clairvoyant fashion photographer; 1.30am America's Top Ten; 2.00 Film - Moon of the Wolf.

David Janssen tracks down modern-day werewolf; 3.30 Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War; 4.00 to 5.00am Central Jobfinder '88.

TVS 1.30 to 3.00pm Film - Case of the Lucky Legs. Competition prize money is stolen - with the prizewinner in pursuit; 3.30 to 4.00pm Sons and Daughters; 6.00 Coast To Coast; 6.20 to 6.30 Police 5; 11.35 Prisoner: Cell Block H; 12.30am Donahue; 1.25 Film - Tennessee's Partner.

Set in a Californian Gold Rush town in the 1860s, Tennessee is a gambler who likes to take chances, stars John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Ronald Reagan; 3.00 Company; 3.05 Night Beat: Off the Wall; 4.05 About Britain; 4.35 to 5.00am Cover Story.

YORKSHIRE 12.30pm to 1.00 Young Doctors; 1.30 LS3; 2.00 to 3.00 Highway To Heaven; 3.30 to 4.00 Sons and Daughters; 6.00 to 6.30 Calendar; 11.35 Matlock; 12.30am Film - The Glory Guys. US Cavalry Captain is disillusioned by ambitious General; 2.00 Night Gallery; 3.00 Three's Company; 3.30 Music Box; 4.30 to 5.00am Jobfinder.

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Husband Harry Langdon Gladys McConnell W ife Her mother Helen Hayward His buddy William Jaimison The judge Charles Thurston

PRODUCER PETER CONNORS

9.25am 12.30pm Lucky Ladders The Sullivans LENNIE BENNETT The game show in which one word leads to another and each stage up the lucky ladder takes the couples nearer to a jackpot holiday.

W alter Melvin Toby Rushton Joe Melvin Christian Henson Edith Forbes Cathleen Nesbitt Zena Dunn Anne Seymour Millie Morris Evelyn Laye Mr Salford Roland Culver

9.30am Movie Maniacs: The Golden Age of Buster Keaton A tribute to one of Hollywood's great silent clowns, Buster Keaton. This compilation surveys his expertise and timing through extracts from eight of his short films and nine of his features.

Made in black and white

See film guide, beginning page 6 DIRECTOR JAY WARD

11.20am Movie Maniacs: The Chaser HARRY LANGDON GLADYS McCONNELL WILLIAM JAIMISON Silent clown Harry Langdon plays a young, henpecked husband whose mother-in-law is in Les Dawson's mould. Harry is dubbed 'The Chaser' because he doesn't get home until at least 8.30 in the evening (who can blame him!). There are some very funny moments in this 1928 film, which is based on a story by Arthur Ripley and directed by Langdon himself. The real star is William Jaimison as Harry's buddy. (This replaces

12.30pm Business Daily With commentary from industrial editor lain Carson, City editor Damian Green and reporters Jane Alexander and Judith Dawson.

1.00pm Sesame Street A visit from an old school teacher. With guest star Wynton Marsalis. The letter is N and the number is 9.

2.00 to 3.40pm Dear Mr Prohack When it comes to keeping firm control over public money, Treasury official Arnold Prohack is an expert. But he by no means shows the same adroitness in coping with a personal situation which develops when he unexpectedly inherits a large private fortune...

Made in black and white

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The Place...

10.40 This Morning 12.10pm Rainbow 12.30 The Sullivans 1.00 ITN News 1.20 Anglia News and Weather 1.30 Film: Never Never

Land 3.00 What's My Line?

3.25 Anglia News 3.30 The Young Doctors 4.00 Tickle on the Tum 4.10 The Rattles 4.20 The Sooty Show 4.45 Count Duckula 5.15 Blockbusters 5.45 ITN News 6.00 About Anglia 6.30 Prove It 7.00 Strike It Lucky 7.30 On the Big Hill 8.00 The Bill 8.30 Executive Stress 9.00 Boon 10.00 News at Ten 10.30 Anglia Late News and Weather 10.35 Viewpoint '88: Mountains of Gold 11.35 Seconds Out 12.30am Police Precinct 1.20 At the Maintenance Shop 2.00 " America's Top 10 2.30 Throb f/b News 3.00 Quiz Night 3.30 Hunter 4.30 Farming Diary

Mr Prohack Cecil Parker Glynis Johns Mimi Hermione Baddeley Eve Dirk Bogarde Charles Sheila Sim Mary Lady Maslam Heather Thatcher Denholm Elliott Ozzie Bryan Forbes Tony Jon Pertwee Plover SCREENPLAY IAN DALRYMPLE, DONALD BULL DIRECTOR THORNTON FREELAND

Hoots and W ynton Marsalis waiting to welcome you in `Sesame Street' at 1.00pm

C4 9.30am Film: The Golden Age of Buster Keaton 11.20 Film: The Chaser 12.30pm Business Daily 1.00 Sesame. Street 2.00 Film: Dear Mr Prohack 3.40 The Oprah Winfrey Show 4.30 Fifteen-to-One 5.00 American Football 6.00 The Cosby Show 6.30 The Secret Life of the Television Set 7.00 C4 News 7.50 Comment f/b Weather 8.00 The Divided Kingdom 8.30 Moneyspinner 9.00 Bandung File 10.00 Almost Christmas 11.05 Scoff 11.35 American Football 12.35am Film: I Ought to be in Pictures 2.35 Close

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TUESDAY 4.45pm Count Duckula HUNCHBUDGIE OF NOTRE DAME

BY PETER RICHARD REEVES

Anglia 4.00 to 5.15pm Children's ITV presented by MARK GRANGER

Tickle on the Tum THE TICKLE TOBOGGAN RACE

BY DORIS M DAY

You'd better hide behind the sofa because Barney Bodger is back and determined to win the Tickle Toboggan Trophy. He has even designed his own sledge — the Bodger Barrelboggan.

Everything starts off very nicely at the top of Tickle Hall, but then it's downhill all the way!

Script by Charlie Moritz, drawings by Valerie Pye. Dexter's assistant is John Eccleston.

DESIGNER NICK ICING EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID LIDDIMENT PRODUCER MARTYN DAY DIRECTOR RICHARD SIGNY Granada Television Production

4.10pm The Ratties HAWAII TIME Forsaking their usual annual holiday in Barnsley, the Ratties head for Hawaii. But the beautiful beaches, warm seas and sunshine are too much for them.

4.20pm The Sooty Show MATTHEW CORBETT guest Alden J Harvey DOWN UNDER Did you know that The Sooty Show is seen in Australia? Matt tells you all about it and many other things. He is not known to be modest.

Alden J Harvey drops in to amuse Sooty, Sweep and Soo and impresses them with his Australian accent. They are also caring for a new friend from Australia — he is grey and furry and has a big, black nose.

Puppeteers are Alex Cox and Brian Sandford. Soo's voice is

by Brenda Longman. t WRITER MATTHEW CORBETT PRODUCER/DIRECTOR STAN WOODWARD EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CHARLES WARREN Thames Television Production

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Studying art in Paris, Duckula doesn't quite paint the town red, but Nanny paints the Eiffel Tower pink. Animation director is Dan Whitworth.

Count Duckula David Jason Jack May Igor Brian Trueman Nanny Dr V on Goosewing Jimmy Hibbert Additional voices by Ruby Wax DIRECTOR CHRIS RANDALL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JOHN HAMBLEY PRODUCERS MARK HALL, BRIAN COSGROVE Thames Television Production

5.15pm Blockbusters BOB HOLNESS More teenagers line up hoping to win exciting prizes.

7.30pm On the Big Hill Last of six films. The Expedition's third and final attempt to reach the top is under way.

Dougie Keelan, in radio contact, waits at Camp Two as step by agonising step the summiteers battle closer to the top. And then Mery Middleton is avalanched.

FILM CAMERAMAN NICK PLOWRIGHT CLIMBING CAMERAMAN ALAN EVANS SOUND IAN HILLS FILM EDITOR VICTORIA PRICE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ROD CAIRO PRODUCER/DIRECTOR MARK ANDERSON Granada Television Production

8.00pm The Bill THE ASSASSINS

BY DOUGLAS WATKINSON

ITN News at 5.45

A bunch of upper-class hooligans wreck a restaurant, while Mr Cooper is worrying about another kind of damage.

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6.00pm About Anglia HELEN McDERMOTT CHRISTINE WEBBER ALASTAIR YATES News, views and features on the serious and lighter sides of life in the East of England.

The newscaster is Helen McDermott. Also, a look at tomorrow's weather.

6.30pm Prove It CHRIS TARRANT Ordinary people with extraordinary talents.

This week it's the turn of an Inter-City waiter, a solo dance troupe and an old dog — while the entire audience is whipped up into a frenzy.

DIRECTORS MARTIN SCOTT, JOHN GORMAN PRODUCERS DANNY GREENSTONE, RICHARD HEARSEY TV S Production

7.00pm Strike It Lucky MICHAEL BARRYMORE The top-rating quiz game which combines modern technology with a lot of oldfashioned fun.

Produced in association with Talbot Television.

RESEARCH JOANNA STEWART, SHEILA DUANE ASSOCIATE PRODUCER JOHN GRAHAM PRODUCER MAURICE LEONARD DIRECTOR BRIAN PENDERS Thames Television Production

DI Burnside Christopher Ellison Dc L ines Kevin Lloyd Balderstone Nick Dunning S k inner John Judd Pc Smith Robert Hudson Pc Haynes Eamonn Walker Hopkins Martyn Whitby Sue Hopkins Lynne Verrall Kuzalo Hakeem Kao-Kazim Strathvane Daniel Flynn Caroline Day

Mary Cornford

Charlesworth Andrew Alston Mr Cooper Frank Mills Mrs Cooper Jeanne Watts Sgt Penny Roger Leach Eric Richard Sgt Cryer Mrs Lines Lesley Duff W pc Martella Nula Conwell Pc Stamp Graham Cole Mark Powley Pc Melvin Magistrate Seymour Green Owen Brenman Solicitor Kuzalo Senior Errol Shaker Breakdown man Richard Ratcliffe SERIES DEVISER GEOFF McQUEEN DESIGNERS STUART McCARTHY, JILL REEDMAN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PETER CREGEEN PRODUCER MICHAEL FERGUSON DIRECTOR TERRY DAW Thames Television Production

IBA Family Viewing Policy To help parents decide what children should see, information is provided in TV Times and in on-screen announcements.

Up to 9.00pm, ITV and Channel Four seek to provide programmes suitable for viewing by all the family.

After 9.00pm, a wider range of material is shown and parents are expected to assume responsibility for what their children see.

Donald (Peter Bowles) knows where he stands with Caroline (Penelope K eith), but not with his job. 8.30pm

8.30pm Executive Stress

BY GEORGE LAYTON

PENELOPE KEITH PETER BOWLES Edgar, Chairman of Oasis, is on a visit from New York and arranges for his younger brother Richard to join him.

Although he is only over to gain some business experience, Donald is convinced that Richard is after his job.

Caroline Fairchild Penelope Keith Donald Fairchild Peter Bowles Edgar Frankland Harry Richard Frankland Ditson Tim Jackson Vincent Brimble Irm a Erin Donovan John Barwell John Arthur Trevor Leo Dolan Nicky Hilary Gish Gerald John Melainey Andrew Alston Paul Mo Clements Sarah Wynter Mark Caven A nthony DESIGNER ANNE DIAMOND DIRECTOR DAVID ASKEY PRODUCER JAMES GILBERT Thames Television Production

9.00pm Boon CREATED BY JIM HILL AND BILL STAIR

MICHAEL ELPHICK DAVID DAKER AMANDA BURTON and NEIL MORRISSEY with PAUL FREEMAN JILL BAKER JOHN BENFIELD and special guest JEAN ALEXANDER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW

BY MATTHEW BARDSLEY

A routine case for Ken and Margaret develops into something more serious when the police take an interest. Harry

spends a weekend at an unusual hotel where, with some unexpected allies, he helps out an old friend. This episode features Jean Alexander in her first TV role since leaving

Coronation Street.

See page 21 Ken Boon Michael Elphick Margaret Daly Amanda Burton Ronnie Heins Paul Freeman Mrs Hains Jill Baker Roger Evans Albert Welling Christina Helen Adie Harry Crawford David Daker Hains' girlfriend Mandy Perryment Rocky Cassidy Neil Morrissey A rchie Pelham Jamie Roberts R ose jean Alexander Gerald Neale John Savident f oy m an John Benfield Security guard Paul Farla Jack Peter McKriel EXECUTIVE PRODUCER WILLIAM SMETHURST ASSOCIATE PRODUCER MICHAEL MURRAY PRODUCER ESTA CHARKHAM DIRECTOR BREN SIMSON Central Production

10.00pm News at Ten 10.30pm Anglia Late News and Weather 10.35pm Viewpoint '88: Mountains of Gold A dangerous game of hide and seek in the heart of the Amazon forest, as freelance gold prospectors raid the richest mountains on earth. Pursued by helicopters and security patrols, they try to extract a fortune in gold before they are arrested. Though some prospectors make millions, most ultimately lose out to the large multi-national companies, who mine

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`There's gold in them thar hills', or so one prospector hopes in 'V iewpoint '88'

3.40pm The Oprah Winfrey Show Oprah Winfrey, a panel of guests and a lively studio audience candidly discuss anything from husband bashing to the girl next door.

4.30pm Fifteen-to-One iron ore and produce pig iron at the expense of the forest environment.

CAMERA VICENTE RIOS FILM EDITOR TERRY TWIGG EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ROGER JAMES DIRECTOR ADRIAN COWELL Central Production

11.35pm Seconds Out from the Leisure Centre, Swansea Heading the proceedings tonight is local hero Floyd Havard.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TREVOR EAST PRODUCER/DIRECTOR JOHN ROBERTS EDITOR BUCK WAUMSLEY Thames Television Production

12.30am Police Precinct THE POST OFFICE MUGGINGS Robert decides to unravel a serious wave of old people muggings.

Muriel Pajols Corinne Touzet Robert V ersini Yves Pignot Lucien Branech Olivier Granier Inspector Poivert Pierrik Mescam

1.20am At The Maintenance Shop LONG JOHN BALDRY: 1 A concert recorded in Iowa, featuring another part of Britain's rhythm 'n' blues history — t Long John Baldry.

2.00am America's Top 10 CASEY KASEM Casey Kasem introduces America's popular music charts.

2.30am Throb MOONLIGHTING Phil dreams of glory when he starts managing his girlfriend's career.

Sandy Beatty Diana Canova Zach A rmstrong Jonathan Prince Meredith Maryedith Burrell B lue Jane Leeves

followed by ITN News Headlines

3.00am Quiz Night ROSS KING Ross King introduces the general knowledge quiz game in which two more of the UK's top quiz league teams compete for the title Quiz Night Champions 1989. Tonight, the People's Flag from Chester play The Muskham Ferry from Newark.

PROGRAMME CONSULTANTS DAVID ELIAS, SARA LOW RESEARCH LINDA CLIFFORD, SUE HALL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER STEPHEN LEAHY PRODUCER/DIRECTOR CRISPIN EVANS Granada Television Production

3.30am Hunter FRED DRYER STEPHANIE KRAMER THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DEAD: 2 Continuing on the trail of the killer. Hunter discovers that the man who was killed had been having an affair.

Will this shed any light on the murder?

Fred Dryer Rick Hunter Dee Dee McCall Stepfanie Kramer Capt W yler Bruce Davison Sgt Billings Andrew Masset

4.30 to 5.00am Farming Diary A repeat of Sunday's programme.

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WILLIAM G STEWART Fifteen new contestants — and the Grand Final gets closer.

5.00pm American Football The regular season is over and all the teams are now known for the knock-out competition that will lead to Super Bowl XXIII. So join Mick Luckhurst to find out which teams will keep playing in the New Year. Further news, too, of the competition, with the opportunity to win a trip to Super Bowl XXIII in Miami, Florida.

Repeated tonight at 11.35pm.

6.00pm The Cosby Show BILL COSBY LENA HORNE CLIFF'S BIRTHDAY While Cliff tries to find out his birthday surprise, Clair arranges for the Huxtable family to see legendary performer Lena Horne.

Bill Cosby Cliff Clair Phylicia Ayers-Allen Sondra Sabrina LeBeauf Lisa Bonet Denise Theodore

Malcolm-Jamal Warner V anessa Tempestt Bledsoe Lena Horne Lena Horne Clarence Banks Clarence Williams III

jam-making factory in Trinidad? What has a wind-powered clock got to do with television? Why does a modern television set have half as many bits inside as a 15-year-old one? What happens when 19 television sets catch fire? The answers to these and many other mysteries about the television set in tonight's programme.

For series leaflet send large sae to C4 address 1, page 67.

Oracle subtitles page 888 FILM EDITOR PETER COX PRODUCER ELIZABETH QUEENAN DIRECTOR ANDREW SNELL A rtifax Production

7.00pm Channel 4 News Oracle subtitles page 888

7.50pm Comment Another personal view. followed by

Weather 8.00pm The Divided Kingdom 10: EUROPE — A NEW IDENTITY Is the break-up of Britain into its constituent nations and regions, each seeking a more autonomous status within the European Community, becoming more likely as the 21st century approaches? In this final programme, the five presenters — Kim Howells from Wales, Julian Critchley from Southern England, Beatrix Campbell from Northern England, Margo MacDonald from Scotland, and Dr A T Q Stewart from Northern Ireland — join together for a land journey to Strasbourg, home of the European Parliament.

Along the way they visit Ypres, site of the biggest British sacrifice made in World War I at the Battle of the Somme.

And in Brussels they ask, is this the future capital of a united states of Europe?

most of your money — whether you are a saver, an investor, claiming benefits, or a borrower. With Christopher Gilchrist and Ann Baldwin. For factsheet (4) send sae to C4 address 1, page 67.

DIRECTOR LAURENCE VULLIAMY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IVAN RENDALL PRODUCER BELINDA GILES John Gau Production

9.00pm Bandung File International current affairs magazine with interviews and special reports from South Asia, the Caribbean, Africa and the black communities in Britain.

The programme has a special focus on political, cultural and sporting issues which affect Britain's Asian and Afro-Caribbean population.

EDITORS DARCUS HOWE, TARIQ ALI Bandung Productions Limited

10.00pm Almost Christmas

BY WERNER ZEINDLER TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL HOFMANN

JACK KLAFF A seven-year-old girl, Edith, is incurably ill and has only a couple of months to live.

Edith's greatest wish is that Christmas would come soon, but Christmas is not until December 25th and by then it would be too late. Why not bring Christmas forward?

Narrated by Jack Klaff.

English version by Naomi Gryn. with Anne-Marie Demon, Manfred Heinrich, Edith Stegemann, Ren6 Peter, Rolf Geissberger, Heinz Stalder DIRECTOR WERNER ZEINDLER W erner Zeindler/Schweizer Fernsehen DRS/Bayerischer Rundfunk Production

11.05pm Scoff DAWN FRENCH Every series needs an overseas location, and this week Dawn somehow manages to get her crew to New York. Having failed to turn up in time for some American fish, Dawn does manage to catch the bill for some soul food at the Pink Teacup. Quentin Crisp gives advice on eating — which Dawn puts to the test in the Carnegie Deli. Plus a visit to the galley of the USS Iowa.

WRITERS DAWN FRENCH, DEREK BURBIDGE ASSOCIATE PRODUCER DAWN FRENCH PRODUCER KATE BURBIDGE DIRECTOR DEREK BURBIDGE Zoetrope Production

11.35pm American Football Another chance to see the programme shown earlier this evening.

12.35 to 2.35am I Ought to be in Pictures WALTER MATTHAU ANN MARGRET Herbert Tucker is a "MIMI one-time successful scriptwriter whose work is now turned down with annoying regularity by the TV networks.

Romantically involved with Steffy, a film makeup artist, he is unable to make a commitment to their relationship.

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Edith (Edith Stegemann) waits expectantly because it's 'A lmost Christmas, as you can see at 1O.00pm

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6.30pm The Secret Life of the Television Set TIM HUNKIN Rex Garrod The last of the series delving into The Secret Life of machines that we take for granted.

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by National Weather with Fred Talbot. Join Judy and Richard tomorrow morning.

PRODUCER DEBORAH GAUNT

Anglia 5.00am ITN Morning News ZEINAB BADAWI

6.00 TV-am The Morning Programme Mike Morris presents reports and features, with news from Geoff Meade, sports news. Money Matters and fitness with Lizzie.

7.00 Good Morning Britain Presented by Mike Morris and Kathy Rochford with the day's topics for discussion, including full news bulletins with Geoff Meade, Gyles Brandreth's `postbag' for children and Paul Gambaccini's film reviews.

9.00 After Nine Jayne Irving presents the lively women's programme, plus, shape up with Lizzie.

12.10pm Allsorts GREED Bonzo's got the biscuits, but what's this - he's eating them all by himself! What about the others? Dandy's being greedy with games.

Who's been greedy with the Lego? The children show the gang how to share.

Bonzo Andrew Wightman Jan Alphonse Dandy Wayne Jackman Jiffy Spike Virginia Radcliffe RESEARCH KATY JONES EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID LIDDIMENT PRODUCER/DIRECTOR IAN WHITE Granada Television Production

12.30pm The Sullivans Tom and Norm turn the tables on their German captor.

ITN News at One

1.20pm 9.25am Lucky Ladders Anglia News LENNIE BENNETT The game show where one word leads to another and each stage up the lucky ladder takes our couples nearer to a jackpot holiday.

9.55am Anglia News and Weather

10.00am The Time...

The Place...

and Weather

1.30pm Farmhouse Kitchen CHRISTMAS TREATS At Christmas it's the little extras that count, even at the last minute, so Grace and Dilwen have several ideas for treats that may even surprise you. A quick liver pate using the turkey liver, turkey kebabs in true oriental

style, hot potatoes with onion and garlic for those meals when cold meats or poultry are being served. The Christmas pudding is flamed with 'a wee dram of the malt' won

by Grace when the programme was recently awarded the prestigious Glenfiddich Trophy. She uses it again for a very festive syllabub. And last, but not least, Grace and Dilwen make mulled wine ready for Christmas and New Year's Eve. DESIGNER MIKE LONG PRODUCERS GRAHAM AND MARY WATTS

A Gaudy House Production for Y orkshire Television

2.00 to 2.55pm Richmond Hill Australian drama series centred on the lives of two families, whose male heads are based at the same police station. Warren has a very trying day, when an escape artist and his wife's new escort make him feel inadequate.

Roger kills two birds with one stone: he solves his own problems and ensures that Frank need not get mixed up in a messy divorce.

This week's cast: Frank Hackett Robert Alexander Janet Bryant Paula Duncan W arren Bryant Tim Elston A ndrew Ryan Marc Gray Dan Costello Ross Higgins Ivy Hackett Maggie Kirkpatrick Connie Ryan Amanda Muggleton Jill W arner Dina Panozzo Mum Foote Gwen Plumb Marty Bryant Ashley Paske Tim Shannon Robert Sampson Susan Miller Felicity Soper A nne Costello Emily Symons Neil Travers Serge Lazareff Rick Reid Martin' Maddell Mark Johnson Warren Blondell Roger Lawson Peter Kowitz

MIKE SCOTT Presenter Mike Scott travels the country to discuss the issues in the news.

10.40am This Morning

How to get the best from your shopping choices.

Susannah Simons keeps a watching brief on the City to report 'Business Daily' at 12.30pm

9.30am Cheer Boys Cheer NOVA PILBEAM EDMUND GWENN JIMMY O'DEA MOORE MARRIOTT GRAHAM MOFFATT John Ironside, the son of a brewery owner, gets a job with his father's rival Tom Greenleaf in order to ruin his business, but he falls in love with Margaret, his new boss's daughter...

Then a further crisis develops involving shares owned by Matt Boyle, who is always `temperance' when drunk...

Made in black and white

See film guide, beginning page 6 Margaret Greenleaf Nova Pilbeam Edward Ironside Edmund Gwenn Matt Boyle Jimmy O'Dea Moore Marriott Geordie Graham Moffatt A lbert Tom Greenleaf C V France John Ironside Peter Coke Saunders Alexander Knox N aseby Ivor Barnard Belle Jean Webster Brough SCREENPLAY ROGER MACDOUGALL, ALLAN MACKINNON BASED ON A STORY BY IAN DALRYMPLE AND DONALD BULL DIRECTOR WALTER FORDE

11.05am Movie Maniacs: Gasbags

PRODUCER JOHN WILFORD

JUDY FINNIGAN RICHARD MADELEY The magazine programme that takes a lively look at the home and the family. Richard and Judy want to hear from you, so phone them on air on 051-5551000. Today's special feature includes: 11.45 - 11.55 Value for Money

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Bonzo (Andrew W ightman) and Spike the Dog (Virginia Radcliffe) get up to Allsorts' of mischief at 12.10pm

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BUD FLANAGAN CHESNEY ALLEN JIMMY NERVO TEDDY KNOX CHARLIE NAUGHTON JIMMY GOLD A vintage comedy. A demonstration of London's wartime 'balloon barrage' is ruined by one balloon that refuses to move. It turns out to be the one entrusted to The Crazy Gang, who have secured it to the top of their fish and chip stall,

and are doing a roaring trade in their spare time. A gale springs up and carries off the balloon, the stall and the gang. They land on the Western Front, and are thrown into a prison camp where they meet Jerry, an ancient prisoner who has the plans of a secret weapon drawn on his back by the inventor. The gang decides to get the weapon and end the war.

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See film guide, beginning page 6 Bud Flanagan Chesney Allen Jimmy Nervo Teddy Knox Charlie Naughton Jimmy Gold Jerry Jenkins Moore Marriott Sturm fĂ&#x153;hrer Frederick Valk Scharflihrer Eric Clavering SS officer Torin Thatcher Colonel Manning Whiley Gestapo officer Anthony Eustrel OP sentry Gerik Schlederup A merican girl Mavis Villiers The Gang

5.00am ITN Morning News 6.00 TV-am 9.25 Lucky Ladders 9.55 Anglia News and Weather 10.00 The Time...

The Place...

10.40 This Morning 12.10pm Allsorts 12.30 The Sullivans 1.00 ITN News 1.20 Anglia News and Weather 1.30 Farmhouse Kitchen 2.00 Richmond Hill 2.55 The Vet 3.00 What's My Line?

3.25 Anglia News 3.30 Sons and Daughters 4.00 The Raggy Dolls 4.10 The Rattles 4.20 Dogtanian 4.50 Palace Hill 5.15 Blockbusters 5.45 ITN News 6.00 About Anglia 6.30 Emmerdale Farm 7.00 This Is Your Life 7.30 Coronation Street 8.00 Des O'Connor Tonight 9.00 Rumpole of The Bailey 10.00 News at Ten 10.30 Anglia Late News . and Weather 10.35 Film: Starting Over 12.30am Matlock 1.30 Soap f/b News 2.00 U.F.O. 3.00 The Party f/b News 4.00 Anglia Reports 4.30 Jack Thompson Down Under -

SCREENPLAY VAL VALENTINE, MARRIOTT EDGAR, VAL GUEST DIRECTOR MARCEL VARNEL

12.30pm Business Daily SUSANNAH SIMONS Britain's daily business and financial TV news service with computer links to City securities houses and a network of studios around the Square Mile. There is news and analysis of the main business and industrial stories of the day. With lain Carson, Damian Green and reporters Jane Alexander and Tom Maddocks.

1.00 to 2.00pm Sesame Street BILLY CRYSTAL The adventures of Captain Swashbuckle.

With guest star Billy Crystal. Today's letters are U and P and the number is 7.

C4 9.30am Film: Cheer Boys Cheer 11.05 Film: Gasbags 12.30pm Business Daily 1.00 Sesame Street 2.00 Happy Ever After 3.40 The Oprah Winfrey Show 4.30 Fifteen-to-One 5.00 Hand In Hand 5.30 Film: The Three Stooges 5.50. Infantile Disorders 7.00 C4 News 7.50 Comment f/b Weather 8.00 Brookside 8.30 Dispatches 9.15 Signals 10.15 The Greatest Show on Earth 11.20 Lou Grant 12.20am The Late Shift 2.35 Close

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W EDNESDAY 2 I Demi her ungrateful hedgehog from Farmer Brown's bonfire. Animation by Mark Mason, voices and music by Neil Innes.

Anglia 2.55pm The Vet TORTOISE Vet John Baxter gives us tips and friendly advice about the care of animals. A tortoise makes a good pet but it needs special care — particularly during cold spells.

3.00pm What's My Line?

ANGELA RIPPON JILLY COOPER Lionel Blair Gabrielle Drake Nino Firetto The classic game show with an all-star panel and a mystery celebrity.

3.25pm Anglia News 3.30pm Sons and Daughters Craig faces the biggest personal dilemma of his life.

This week's cast: Gordon Hamilton Brian Blain Charlie Sarah Kemp David Palmer Tom Richards Caroline Morrell Abigail A lison Carr Belinda Giblin Beryl Palmer Leila Hayes Robert Palmer Jared Malcolm Janice Reid Rima Te Wiata May W alters Georgie Sterling Craig Jared Robinson Debbie Halliday Shannon Kenny Doug Fletcher Normie Rowe Fiona Thompson Pat McDonald Bjorn Marian Dworakowski Cheryl Natalie McCurry

4.00 to 5.15pm Children's ITV presented by MARK GRANGER

The Raggy Dolls CREATED BY MELVYN JACOBSON

THE UNLIKELY HEDGEHOG Adventures with the dolls who live in the reject bin of Mr Grimes's toy factory.

While finding materials to camouflage their tree-house The Raggy Dolls rescue a very

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4.10pm The Ratties PIRATE TIME Baby Batty plays a sea shanty and the Fatty Brothers dance the hornpipe, then call in a 24-hour plumber to unblock it.

4.20pm Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds THE QUEEN'S DIAMONDS OR TEARS How Dogtanian is robbed of his new dagger and goes to London with his companions to retrieve both it and the Queen's necklace.

4.50pm Palace Hill YOUR MOTHER WOULDN'T LIKE IT Where Carol Singers Dare Last in the comedy series from the comprehensive by Royal Appointment.

Christmas comes with a bang, a flash, and a throbbing of fairylights, as the intrepid pupils of Palace Hill prepare for the school carol-concert. Santa's grotto holds some spooky surprises for Auntie Fergie and the parents. Can William lead his troops to victory through the Christmas jungle? And who is on top of the Christmas tree? The show is brought to you

by Central Junior Television Workshop.

This final episode is written by Bob Hescott with music by Tim Whitnall. Script associate is Peter Corey, music director is Cohn Campbell, choreography by David Morgan-Young.

With Julian Aubrey, Keeley Coxon, Richard de Sousa, Mark Dexter, Alison Dury, Ladene Hall, Alison Hammond, Oliver Hawker, James Hooton, Amanda Loy-Ellis, Katie McReynolds, Johann Myers, Steven Ryde, Julie Schatzberger, Tracie Stanley, Paul Stark and Philip Wombwell DESIGNER IAN DOUBLEDAY DIRECTOR GLYN EDWARDS PRODUCER SUE NOTT EXECUTIVE PRODUCER LEWIS RUDD Central Production

5.15pm Blockbusters BOB HOLNESS Eager teenage contestants have their fingers poised on the buzzer when Bob Holness poses the questions that could lead to the Gold Run trail and exciting prizes.

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Palace Hill' Christmas concert preparations get off to a flying start at 4.50pm

6.00pm About Anglia HELEN McDERMOTT CHRISTINE WEBBER ALASTAIR YATES News, views and features on life in the East of England. The newscaster is John Bacon. Also, a look at tomorrow's regional weather.

6.30pm Emmerdale Farm As Eric Pollard and Phil Pearce try to entice Nick Bates to break the law, Joe tries to entice Kate to Emmerdale for Christmas.

This week's cast: A nnie Sugden Sheila Mercier Matt Frederick Pyne A mos Ronald Magill Henry Arthur Pentelow Joe Sugden Frazer Hines Dolly Skilbeck Jean Rogers Jackie Merrick Ian Sharrock Kathy Merrick Malandra Burrows Sandie Merrick Jane Hutcheson A lan Turner Richard Thorp Mrs B ates Diana Davies Rev Donald Hinton . Hugh Manning Seth Stan Richards Phil Pearce Peter Alexander Eric Pollard Christopher Chittell Nick Bates Cy Chadwick A rchie Tony Pitts Kate Hughes Sally Knyvette Mark Hughes Craig McKay Rachel Glenda McKay Jock Drew Dawson Bill Johnny Caesar Sgt MacA rthur Martin Dale Organist Robert Hartley Sam Benjamin Whitehead WRITER HARRY DUFFIN DESIGNER ROY COLDRICK DIRECTOR HENRY FOSTER PRODUCER STUART DOUGHTY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER KEITH RICHARDSON Y orkshire Television Production

7.00pm This Is Your Life MICHAEL ASPEL Michael Aspel plays hide-and-seek again this evening as he prepares to book somebody very special as the subject for This is Y our Life. Be in front of your television screen at 7.00pm if you

want to be in on the big secret. Programme consultant is Roy Bottomley.

DIRECTORS DAVID CLARK, BRIAN KLEIN PRODUCER MALCOLM MORRIS Thames Television Production

7.30pm Coronation Street Alec is hoist by his own petard when Bet reminds him that she's only got one pair of hands.

Oracle subtitles page 888 For cast, see Monday WRITER TONY PERRIN

8.00pm Des O'Connor Tonight with guests ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK HARRY SECOMBE ELAINE PAIGE CHRIS DE BURGH GORDEN KAYE RONN LUCAS Start the festivities early with Des and a galaxy of international star guests. Music director is Colin Keyes. Script associate is Eric Davidson, special material by Eddie Braben.

See page 117 ASSOCIATE PRODUCER JOHN GRAHAM PROGRAMME ASSOCIATE NEIL SHAND DESIGNER HARRY CLARK PRODUCER/DIRECTOR BRIAN PENDERS Thames Television Production

9.00pm Rumpole of the Bailey

BY JOHN MORTIMER

LEO McKERN with PATRICIA HODGE PETER BLYTHE JONATHAN COY JULIAN CURRY MARION MATHIE ABIGAIL McKERN RICHARD MURDOCH RUMPOLE AND PORTIA Phyllida Erskine-Brown wonders whether she

really wants the responsibility of her new position — sitting in judgment over Rumpole — or whether she simply wants to run away from it all. Hilda also has reason to assess her life with Rumpole, when an old flame reminds her of what might have been.

Rumpole questions the behaviour of two fathers, which will affect the lives of their young sons for ever. He uses all his persuasive powers to try to influence the decisions reached on their behalf, while trying not to pine for the different direction his own life might have taken.

Oracle subtitles page 888 Matthew Ian Chuck Berry Stanley Culp Jim Dunk MacRobert Nick Hobbs Supt Rodney Martyn Read DI Blake Andy Bradford Phyllida Erskine-Brown, QC Patricia Hodge Claude Julian Curry Tristan Henry Power Isolde Katharyn Ballantine Miss Stun Valerie Hill Liz Probert Abigail McKern Cy Stratton Bob Sessions Horace Rumpole Leo McKern Mr B ernard Denis Lill Hilda Rumpole Marion Mathie Bossy' Home Leslie Phillips Uncle Tom Richard Murdoch Henry Jonathan Coy Dianne Maureen Darbyshire Samuel Ballard, QC Peter Blythe Hoskins Denys Graham Old Bailey clerk Roger Ostime Old Bailey usher Kenton Moore DESIGNER BILL PALMER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER LLOYD SHIRLEY PRODUCER JACQUELINE DAVIS DIRECTOR ROGER BAMFORD Thames Television Production

10.00pm News at Ten 10.30pm Anglia Late News and Weather

10.35pm Starring Burt Reynolds...

STARTING OVER After walking out on his • wife who wants a divorce, Phil Potter moves to Boston to try and make a new life for himself. His brother Michael puts him in touch with a divorced men's workshop where he can talk out his problems.

One night, on the way to Michael's house for dinner, a young woman accuses Phil of following her. He is surprised to see her later at his brother's home. She is Marilyn, and Phil soon falls in love with her. But she refuses to see him because he is so recently separated...

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Phil Potter Burt Reynolds Marilyn Jill Clayburgh Jessica Candice Bergen Michael Charles Durning Marva Frances Sternhagen Paul Austin Pendleton Marie Mary Kay Place Dan Ryan Maclntyre Dixon Salesman Charles Kimbrough L arry Jay Sanders W orkshop member Wallace Shawn S tudent Daniel Stern John Morganson Sturgis Warner Everett Richard Whiting SCREENPLAY JAMES L BROOKS DIRECTOR ALAN J PAKULA

12-30am Matlock SANTA CLAUS Matlock defends Tom McCabe, a streetcorner Santa accused of murdering his landlord.

Ben Matlock Andy Griffith Charlene Linda Purl Tyler Kene Holliday Tom McCabe Pat Hingle

1.30am Soap Burt has suspicions about Mary and her

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2.00pm Happy Ever After Jasper O'Leary succeeds the benevolent 82-year-old General O'Leary as squire of the peaceful village of Rathbarney.

But Jasper stuns the population with his insistence that debts must be paid and poaching has to stop.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Jasper O'Leary

Dilemmas for barrister Phyilida (Patricia Hodge, seated), wife of Claude (fulian Curry), and mother of Tristan and Isolde (Henry Power, K atharyn Ballantine), at 900pm professor. Mary has suspicions about Burt and his secretary. Tim has a tough first day at work. Chester has a new identity.

4.00am Anglia Reports

Corinne Tate Diana Canova Jodie Campbell Billy Crystal Jessica Tate Katherine Helmond Chester Tate Robert Mandan Burt Campbell Richard Mulligan

4.30 to 5.00am Jack Thompson Down Under

followed by ITN News Headlines

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Explore the characters and lifestyles Down Under with the international actor Jack Thompson.

2.00am U.F.O.

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A QUESTION OF PRIORITIES

Programmes in adjoining areas are as A nglia except for:

Ed Straker faces a searing problem when he has to choose between his duty to protect Earth and risking his son's life.

Cmdr Straker Ed Bishop Col Freeman George Sewell Capt Carlin Peter Gordeno Lt Ellis Gabrielle Drake

3.00am The Party Chapter Two Continuing the highlights from a special charity concert at Wembley Arena in 1987. Tonight's featured acts include Bobby Womack, Kim Wilde, Aswad, Sandie Shaw, The Communards, Holly Johnson, George Michael and Boy George.

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER MIKE MANSFIELD

followed by ITN News Headlines

THAMES 12.30 to 1.00pm A Country Practice; 2.55 to 3.00 Gardening Time; 10.35 Film Magnum Force. Clint Eastwood as cop Dirty Harry investigating murder; 12.50am Twilight Zone; 1.30 America's Top 10; 2.00 Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense; 3.30 Quiz Night; 4.00 Threes Company; 4.30 to 5.00am Fifty Years On. CENTRAL 12.30pm Home Cookery Club; 12.35 to 1.00 The Young Doctors; 2.55 to 3.00 Gardening Time; 3.30 to 4.00 Argonauts; 10.35 Film - Magnum Force. Clint Eastwood in another of the Dirty Harry films, investigating a wave of killings; 12.55am Donahue; 1.50 Superstars of Wrestling; 2.45 The Twilight Zone; 3.40 Battle of the Monster Trucks; 4.10 to 5.00am Central JobEnder '88.

TVS 1.30pm to 2.00 Coast to Coast People; 2.55 to 3.00 Gardening Time; 3.30 to 4.00 The Young Doctors; 6.00 to 6.30 Coast to Coast; 10.35 Film Magnum Force, (see Central); 12.50am Monsters, Madmen and Machines; 1.45 Iggy Pop; 2.00 The Fugitive; 2.55 Company; 3.00 The Hit Man and Her; 4.00 to 5.00am Night Beat.

YORKSHIRE 12.30pm to 1.00 Young Doctors; 6.00 to 6.30 Calendar; 10.35 Film -Magnum Force, (see Central); 12.50am Film - Attack on the Iron Coast. Lloyd Bridges in WW2 action drama; 2.30 Quiz Night; 3.00 Comedy Tonight; 3.30 Music Box; 4.30 to 5.00am Jobfinder.

TVTIMES 17 December-1 January

David Niven Serena McGlusky Yvonne De Carlo Thady O'Heggarty Barry Fitzgerald Terence George Cole Gen O'Leary A E Matthews Kathy McGlusky Noelle Middleton Dr Michael Flynn Robert Urquhart SCREENPLAY JACK DAVIES, MICHAEL PERTWEE DIRECTOR MARIO ZAMPI

3.40pm The Oprah Winfrey Show With Oprah Winfrey, a panel of guests and a lively studio audience.

4.30pm Fifteen-to-One More contestants join the semi-circle.

5.30pm The Three Stooges TASSELS IN THE AIR Moe, Larry and Curly cause utter chaos and destruction when they are hired by Mrs Smith to redecorate her home.

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with Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bess Flowers, Vernon Dent and Bud Jamison DIRECTOR CHARLEY CHASE

5.50pm Infantile Disorders

BY WILLIAM GAMINARA

Fourteen-year-olds Angel and Rosie operate rival carol singing groups. Rosie runs hers on an equalshares-for-all basis: Angel believes there is only room for one group on the patch and sets out to eliminate the competition. Dirty tricks having failed, they resort to a singing contest ...

Gavin May A ngel Denis Mark Heatley James Holland Godfrey Paul Katz Harvey Nobby David Crane Neil Walker Norman Daniel Watts Sniffer Rosie Alison McLaughlin Prudence Oliver A lice Jennifer Barraud Sarah Tiny Elaine Tan Shane Boyland Trevor with singers from Westminster Under School

PRODUCER ANDY HUDSON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/ DIRECTOR ANDREW HOLMES SERIES EDITOR ROGER GRAEF Holmes A ssociates Production

10.15pm The Greatest Show on Earth JUDY PASCOE presents ARCHAOS LUMIERE & SON THEATRE CO SHENYANG ACROBATIC TROUPE CIRCUS SENSO JEAN PALACY FLYING TRAPEZE THE PIONEERS A compilation of international circus performances presented by Judy Pascoe. New Circus focuses on physical skills in a theatrical setting - a modern circus without performing animals.

Archaos use chainsaws and motorbikes to create a thrilling event.

Circus Lumiere brings

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MARK LUCAS PRODUCER ANNE McGEOCH DIRECTOR/EDITOR JANE THORBURN A fter Image Production

11.20pm Lou Grant NIGHTSIDE Lou (Edward Asner) has to work a double shift and gets an eyeopening encounter with a side of the Trib that's new to him - the eccentric nightside crew.

12.20am to 2.35am The Late Shift: I Want to Live!

On release from prison, Barbara Graham goes to work for an unsavoury pair of gamblers.

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SHERRIE EUGENE The programme for all children both deaf and hearing. In this week's special Christmas programme, Adrian has another mime and Sherrie signs a story narrated by Carol Royle. Ray Harrison Graham and Sarah Scott sign W hen A Child Is Born by Johnny Mathis, and the Oak Lodge children have a Shakin' Stevens song to show us. There is a visit from a Father Christmas and you can see how to ask for Christmas puddings and mince pies in sign language. Story written

by Sue Crockford.

A guest speaking gives a personal view on a current issue. followed by

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Tonight, the ways in which African musical rhythms and gospel music are influencing the sound of popular music. With Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the London Community Gospel Choir, Mica Paris and Aswad.

the man who eats his brain and the Chinese acrobats who perform routines of strength and discipline.

7.00pm Channel 4 News 7.50pm Comment

DIRECTOR GEORGE EGAN DEVISER/PRODUCER CECIL KOREA

9.15pm Signals

DIRECTOR COLIN FINBOW

5.00pm Hand in Hand

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Weather 8.00pm Brookside It's Christmas Eve and, while there are shocks for some and discoveries for others, elsewhere someone's wish comes true.

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8.30pm Dispatches The weekly series of topical documentaries, Domestic and international, often investigative, sometimes opinionated, always original.

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THURSDAY the factory he helped to build keeps him on as nightwatchman.

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Anglia 5.00am ITN Morning News

9.30am Movie Maniacs: Lost in a Harem

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BUD ABBOTT LOU COSTELLO MARILYN MAXWELL Stranded in the Sahara Desert when their touring show goes broke; two prop men and the leading lady undertake to help restore a desert sheik deposed by his wicked uncle. But the secret of the uncle's power is a mysterious ring.

6.00 TV-am The Morning Programme Presented by Mike Morris.

The latest news from Geoff Meade, sports results, Money Matters and Gyles Brandreth's postbag.

7.00 Good Morning Britain Mike Morris and Kathy Rochford with studio discussion and filmed reports, news from Geoff Meade on the half hour and weather from Carol Dooley.

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9.00 After Nine More special items for women presented by Jayne Irving, with Clair Rayner's advice and Lizzie's exercises.

Richard Madeley and wife Judy Finnigan are in festive mood `This Morning' at 10.40am

10.40am 9.25am This Morning Lucky Ladders - it's LENNIE BENNETT Christmas The game show in which one word leads to another and each stage up the lucky ladder takes the couples nearer to a jackpot holiday.

9.55am Anglia News and Weather

10.00am He-Man and the Masters of the Universe THE ICE NAN COMETH Icer, a minion of Skeletor's, takes control of the Eternian Weather Station and threatens to bring a huge glacier down on the Royal Palace.

10.25am Disney Cartoon THE FLYING MOUSE In this touching 1934 cartoon, a mouse who wants to fly is granted wings but finds they bring him disappointment. t indicates Repeat

JUDY FINNIGAN RICHARD MADELEY Join Judy Finnigan and Richard Madeley with the rest of the team for the This Morning Christmas Party - lots of fun for all the family.

On the phone-in from Lapland is Father Christmas - you can ring him on 051-5551000.

Also included in today's programme: Anglia News at11.55followed by International Weather with Fred Talbot.

PRODUCER LIAM HAMILTON

12.10pm Puddle Lane

BY RICK VANES

It's Christmas Eve at Puddle Lane and everyone is getting ready for the festivities.

Snodgrass is a bit worried - he's got no stocking to hang up but Aunty Flo saves the day. The Magician is played by Neil Innes, with Kate Lee as Aunty Flo. Puppets are by Richard Robinson, stories by Sheila McCullagh.

RESEARCH SALLY WELLS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CHRIS JELLEY DIRECTOR JOHN ALLEN PRODUCER MIKE HARRIS Y orkshire Television Production

MIMES 17 December- I January

12.30 to 1.00pm Santa Barbara Kelly (Robin Wright) and Joe (Mark Arnold) talk over their wedding.

Joe hears that the Carnation Killer has struck again.

ITV variations Programmes in adjoining areas are as A nglia except for: THAMES 2.55 to 3.00pm Home Cookery Club; 8.30 to 9.00 This Week; 10.35 City Programme; 11.05 01 For London; 11.35 Prisoner Cell Block H; 12.30am Worlds Beyond; 1.00 What The Papers Say; 1.15 Music Specials; 2.15 Film - Caprice. Girl investigating boss's death discovers a cosmetics empire is the front for international drug smuggling, with Doris Day; 4.00 Too Close For Comfort; 4.30 to 5.00am America's To 10.

CENTRAL 12.30pm Home Cookery Club; 12.35 to 1.00 The Young Doctors; 3.30 to 4.00 Dusty's Tale; 10.35 'Thanks a Million'; 11.05 Magnum; 11.55 to 1.45am Film - Off Duty. Two cops decide to keep a drugs haul. French film with English dialogue; 3.30 Anthrax Live; 4.30 to 5.00am Central Jobfinder '88.

TVS 12.30 to 1.00pm The Sullivans; 2.55 to 3.00 Emergency 999; 6.00 to 6.30 Coast to Coast; 10.35 Film - Monsignor. Christopher Reeve as Father John Flaherty who tries to help the Vatican with its financial problems in World War Two; 12.45am Chorus Line from Stage to Screen; 1.25 Tennis; 2.55 to 3.00 Company; 3.45 Quiz Night; 4.15 to 4.45am America's Top 10.

YORKSHIRE 12.30 to 1.00pm Young Doctors; 2.55 to 3.00 Home Cookery Club; 6.00 to 6.30 Calendar; 10.35 Children Of Eskdale; 11.35 Film - Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Ingrid Bergman in the true story of Gladys Aylward, a servant girl who became a missionary in China; 2.25am Night Gallery; 3.00 Sledgehammer; 3.30 Music Box; 4.30 to 5.00am Jobfinder.

Peter Johnson Bud Abbott Harvey Garvey Lou Costello Hazel Moon

Marilyn Maxwell

Prince Ramo John Conte Nunanv Douglass Dumbrille Teema Lottie Harrison Bobo J Lockard Martin The derelict Murray Leonard Chieff Gamu Adia Kuznetzoff Crystal gazer Milton Parsons Mr Ormolu Ralph Sanford and Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra SCREENPLAY HARRY RUSKIN, JOHN GRANT, HARRY CRANE DIRECTOR CHARLES REISNER

11.05am Movie Maniacs: Jack of All Trades JACK HULBERT GINA MALO Unemployed Jack Warrender bluffs his way up the business world and sees the setting-up of a company that will promote his prize invention. Jack is eventually exposed, but

Jack W arrender Jack Hulbert Frances W ilson Gina Malo Lionel Fitch J Robertson Hare Benton Felix Aylmer Hackle Athole Stewart Holman H F Maltby Barrington Cecil Parker Henry Kilner C M Ballard SCREENPLAY AUSTIN MELFORD, JACK HULBERT, J 0 C ORTON' DIRECTORS JACK HULBERT, ROBERT STEVENSON

12.30pm Business Daily SUSANNAH SIMONS With lain Carson, Damian Green, Jane Alexander and Judith Dawson

1.00pm Sesame Street How to play 'rhymeout'. The guest star is Madeleine Kahn. The letter is M.

2.00 to 3.00pm Horses IAN OGILVY LUCINDA GREEN 6: THE UNDEFEATED The last of the series tracing the history of man's epic partnership with the horse. Ninety per cent of the world is made up of two kinds of people, says actor Dale Robertson, those who own horses and those who would like to own them.

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ITV 5.00am ITN Morning News 6.00 TV-am 9.25 Lucky Ladders 9.55 Anglia News and Weather 10.00 The Time...

The Place...

10.40 This Morning it's Christmas 12.10pm Puddle Lane 12.30 Santa Barbara 1.00 ITN News 1.20 Anglia News and Weather 1.30 Eye on the White House 2.00 Richmond Hill 2.55 Gardening Time 3.00 What's My Line?

3.25 Anglia News 3.30 Sons and Daughters 4.00 Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends 4.10 The Rattles 4.20 Dangermouse 4.45 Gilbert's Fridge 5.15 Blockbusters 5.45 ITN News 6.00 About Anglia 6.30 Emmerdale Farm 7.00 The Bottom Line 7.30 Chain Letters 8.00 The Bill 8.30 Wheel Of Fortune Christmas Special 9.00 The Equalizer 10.00 News at Ten 10.30 Anglia Late News and Weather 10.35 Divided We Stand 11.05 WideAngle 11.35 Film: Gallipoli 1.40am Night Gallery f/b News 2.00 Sportsworld f/b News 3.00 The Time...

The Place... f/b News 3.40 Kojak 4.35 Fifty Years On .

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C4 9.30am Film: Lost in a Harem 11.05 Film: Jack of All Trades 12.30pm Business Daily 1.00 Sesame Street 2.00 Horses 3.00 Equinox: Malltinte 4.00 - Not on Sunday 4.30 Fifteen-to-One 5.00 Scarecrow and Mrs King 6.00 A Different World 6.30 Pandas 7.00 C4 News 7.50 Comment f/b Weather 8.00 Sumo 8.30 Troubles .12.25am Film: Pumping Iron 2.05 Close

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THURSDAY 4.00 to 5.15pm Children's ITV presented by MARK GRANGER

Anglia ITN News at One 1.20pm Anglia News and Weather

1.30pm Eye on the White House JOHN MILLER THE END OF THE ROAD The inside story of ABC's television coverage of the 1988 campaign concludes with the climax — why did Bush win, and what does it mean for America, and the rest of the world? For an accompanying booklet, send £1.50 to Eye on the W hite House, PO Box 123, Southampton S09 7HH. RESEARCH DARINA HEALY DIRECTOR JOHN BARLOW PRODUCER JOHN MILLER TV S Production

2.00pm Richmond Hill The discovery of an earring causes Marty great concern.

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2.55pm Gardening Time 3.00pm What's My Line?

ANGELA RIPPON Jilly Cooper Simon Williams Ted Rogers Ruth Madoc An all-star panel tries to guess the guests' occupations.

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends BASED ON THE RAILWAY SERIES BY THE REV W AWDRY

THOMAS AND THE GUARD/THOMAS GOES FISHING In Thomas and the Guard, Thomas starts off so quickly that he leaves his guard behind. Annie and Clarabel think this is very silly — and so does the guard! The second story, Thomas Goes Fishing, sees the little engine getting a chance to go fishing.

But things don't turn out as expected. Narrator is Ringo Starr.

4.10pm The Ratties RAVING TIME Continuing saga of family life behind the skirting board. The Ratty family hypnotise themselves to sleep but forget to make plans for waking up.

4.20pm Dangermouse

BY BRIAN TRUEMAN

THE HICKORY DICKORY DOCK DILEMMA/PENFOLD B.F.!

An animated double bill. In The Hickory

Dickory Dock Dilemma, funny noises in the Tower of London lead our heroes into a very strange journey. And in

Penfold B.F.!,

Dangermouse finds himself upstaged as a rather unexpected superhero gives him the bird. With the voices of David Jason, Terry Scott, Edward Kelsey and Brian Trueman.

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3.25pm Anglia News

4.45pm Gilbert's Fridge

3.30pm Sons and Daughters

PHIL CORNWELL JOHN ECCLESTON Climie Fisher seek Gilbert's expert advice with their new video.

There's a gripping climax to events at Gustaven III. Gilbert's romance comes to a bitter-sweet conclusion in Benidorm. And there's an astonishing upset in the grand final

Janice pushes Fiona to take desperate action against her. Debbie convinces Caroline to make a supreme sacrifice. David demands an explanation from Beryl.

For cast, see W ednesday

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WRITER PHIL CORNWELL RESEARCH NICOLA LONG, AMANDA STEVENS DIRECTOR MALCOLM DICKINSON PRODUCER MICHAEL FORTE Tyne Tees Television Production

5.15pm Blockbusters BOB HOLNESS Another swarm of contestants face the honeycomb Blockbusters board.

ITN News at 5.45

Andrew O'Connor, Susie Blake, Chris Tarrant and Lynda Baron link up their quick wit and talents for a locker-full of laughs in 'Chain Letters' at 7.30pm

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6.00pm About Anglia HELEN McDERMOTT CHRISTINE WEBBER ALASTAIR YATES News, views and features on the serious and lighter sides of life in the East of England.

The newscaster is Helen McDermott.

6.30pm Emmerdale Farm Christmas Eve in Beckindale; the villagers sing carols, there's a break-in at Home Farm and Joe gets the best Christmas present possible.

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7.00pm The Bottom Line EMMA FREUD MICHAEL WILSON JANICE LONG DANNY BAKER Emma, Michael, Janice and Danny present ITV's fast-moving consumer show. With an audience full of BottomLiners, they test those products and services which are not as good as they are cracked up to be. Last in the present series.

and more! Produced in association with Barry & Enright Productions and Action Time.

RESEARCH SIMON ROSS, AMANDA STEVENS DESIGNER PETER BINGEMANN DIRECTOR MICHAEL METCALF PRODUCER CHRISTINE WILLIAMS Tyne Tees Television Production

8.00pm The Bill OUTMODED

BY BARRY APPLETON

Sun Hill is being subjected to a series of bogus calls; Ackland has to deal with a woman who won't venture out of her flat and a car is hauled out of the river.

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big-wheel game. Soap stars Jon Iles from The Bill, Sue Jenkins from Coronation Street and Brian Regan from Brookside spin for a fortune in aid of the charity of their choice.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SANDY ROSS DIRECTOR ANNE MASON PRODUCER STEPHEN LEAHY Scottish Television Production

9.00pm The Equalizer EDWARD WOODWARD CHRISTMAS PRESENTS Robert McCall is determined to have a Merry Christmas — but then he receives a frantic plea from Mickey Burton, a precocious youngster who says he has a big problem.

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10.00pm News at Ten

DESIGNERS ROBIN PARKER, PETER JOYCE PRODUCER RICHARD BRAMALL DIRECTOR TERRY GREEN Thames Television Production

10.30pm Anglia Late News and Weather

7.30pm Chain Letters

8.30pm Wheel of Fortune Christmas Special

10.35pm Divided We Stand

ANDREW O'CONNOR Without doubt the only Christmas Special with a zarf, a dink and a gump. Andrew O'Connor helps Susie Blake, Chris Tarrant and Lynda Baron change these words

NICKY CAMPBELL ANGELA EKAETTE with guests JON ILES SUE JENKINS BRIAN REGAN Nicky Campbell presents a special festive edition of the

PRODUCERS ROWENA GOLDMAN, DEE MACLURE, DAVID PERRIN DIRECTOR/PRODUCER ANNE CLEMENTS DIRECTOR KEITH BECKETT DEPUTY EDITOR MALCOLM DOUGLAS SERIES EDITOR MARY McANALLY Thames Television Production

WORSHIP From the pomp and splendour of Ely Cathedral worship on Easter Day to the free expression of a Norfolk House Church may seem a giant step. In reality, it points to the vast range of worship now on offer from the

Church. Presented by Jill Cochrane.

RESEARCH PETER CHAPMAN EDITORS GRAHAM TAYLOR, RICHARD OWEN PRODUCER BARRIE ALLCOTT A CTV C Production for A nglia Television

11.05pm WideAngle JOHN HOLDSWORTH TRACEY NORRIS W ideA ngle takes a fastmoving and off-beat look at the arts and entertainment scene in the East of England.

Featuring what's hot and what's not in theatre, film, art, dance and music, plus star reviews and interviews.

PRODUCTION ANDY GILLMAN, TOM GUTTERIDGE, ALEXANDRA JACKSON, HENRY MURRAY Mentom Films Production for A nglia Television

11.35pm The New Idols MEL GIBSON in GALLIPOLI World War One: In Australia, crack sprinter Archy Hamilton resolves to join the Anzac troops in the Dardanelles despite being too young for service. Rejected on this account, he is persuaded by fellowathlete Frank Dunne to try again, and the two young men find themselves trekking across the desert in their bid to enlist...

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Denise Huxtable Lisa Bonet Maggie Lauten Marisa Tomei Jaleesa V inson Dawnn Lewis W hitley Gilbert Jasmine Guy Dwayne W ayne Kadeem Hardison

3.00pm Equinox: Malltime Twenty-five years ago they did not exist. Now they are everywhere. .. the Malls. There are more enclosed shopping centres in the US than there are schools, cities, hospitals, hotels or courthouses. In this programme the people who design, develop, work and shop in malls talk about them.

PRODUCER MIKE WALLINGTON DIRECTOR GEORGE HAGGERTY KA I Production

4.00pm Not on Sunday The weekly series in which religion makes news. Every week Brian Redhead takes a penetrating look at the belief and bigotry behind the headlines.

Sue Jay reports from around the country wherever faith drives people into action.

Dc Carver (Mark W ingeft) quickly learns that if pays to stay in touch. 'The Bill, 8.00pm Brian Anderson A ngus Harold Baigent Stumpy Mary Robin Galwey Don Quin Lionel Laura Phyllis Burford Gran Marjorie Irving Dan Dunne John Murphy Peter Ford Lt Gray Geoff Parry Sgt Sayers John Morris Col Robinson Col W hite Max Wearing SCREENPLAY DAVID WILLIAMSON DIRECTOR PETER WEIR

1.40am Night Gallery

3.00am The Time...

The Place...

Another chance to see one of this week's lively discussion programmes. followed by ITN News Headlines

3.40am Kojak

PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS IAN WYATT, STEPHEN ENGELHARD EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS PHILIP CLARKE, RAY MARSHALL SERIES EDITOR FRANCES GUMLEY Diverse/W orld W ide International Production

4.30pm Fifteen-to-One WILLIAM G STEWART The penultimate round in the tough general knowledge quiz. The Final is tomorrow.

5.00pm Scarecrow and Mrs King J EDGAR'S GHOST A former agent (Bo Hopkins) preys on a lonely woman to get access to classified documents. Lee (Bruce Boxleitner) and Amanda (Kate Jackson) are assigned to plug the leaks.

A FEAST OF BLOOD Another fantastic story from Rod Serling. followed by ITN News Headlines

CLOSE COVER BEFORE KILLING Kojak is stumped trying to solve the riddle of why his prime suspect would kill his partner and order the burning of his building.

2.00am Sportsworld

Theo Kojak Telly Savalas Dan Frazer McNeil Stavros Demosthenes Kevin Dobson Crocker

6.00pm A Different World

Coverage of the US Skins Golf Tournament from California. followed by ITN News Headlines

4.35 to 5.00am Fifty Years On

ADVISE AND DESCENT Denise is delighted to learn that by volunteering as a

Vintage newsreel clips.

MIMES 17 December-1 January

6.30pm Pandas An exclusive, behindthe-scenes look at one of the world's rarest animals: the giant panda. The film follows the arrivals of Fei Fei and Xiao Xiao at Melbourne Zoo and gives a unique insight into their habits, lifestyle and funny characteristics.

Narrated by Lorraine Bayly.

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unaccountably distant, the decaying splendour of the hotel holds a curious fascination for him. Soon, however, he can no longer ignore the increasing mood of violence in the country.

Music by Stephen Oliver.

Brendan A rcher Ian Charleson Edward Spencer Ian Richardson Sarah Devlin Emer Gillespie Capt Bolton Sean Bean Mrs Rappaport Fabia Drake M urphy James Ellis Boy O'Neill Denys Hawthorne A ngela Spencer Susannah Harker Faith Spencer Sarah Quarmby Charity Spencer Jane Quarmby Ripon Spencer Breffni McKenna Miss Rice Cathleen Delany Mrs O'Neill Stella McCusker V iola O'Neill Dervla Kirwan Dr R y an Eamon Kelly Miss Johnston Phillada Sewell Mrs Porteous Susan Field Miss Bagley Lollie May Miss Staveley Matyelok Gibbs Mr Norton Eric Francis Evans Garrett Keogh Mr Devlin Martin Dempsey Padraig Ryan Justin McCarron Pike James Gaddas

Berry Jonathan Scott-Taylor Foster-Smith Duncan Bell Matthews Jerome Flynn Mortimer Mark Conrad PRODUCER BARRY BLACKMORE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS JAMES MITCHELL, MICHAEL COLGAN, NICK ELLIOTT DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER MORAHAN Little Bird Production for LW T

12.25 to 2.05am Pumping Iron ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER LOU FERRIGNO Documentary film about the kings of he body-building world, concentrating on Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno, both of whom were to become stars of the entertainment world.

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with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Mike Katz, Ken Waller, Matty Ferrigno, Victoria Ferrigno, Franco Columbu.

SCREENPLAY GEORGE BUTLER DIRECTORS GEORGE BUTLER, ROBERT FIORE

Brendan Archer (Ian Charleson) encounters unexpected 'Troubles' in Ireland: 8.30pm

8.00pm Sumo Chiyonofuji, 'The Wolf', is leading the pack on day six of the Grand Autumn Tournament from Tokyo. Chiyo is now 33 and has won 24 previous Basho titles.

Can anyone stop 'The Wolf's' winning streak which now stretches to 29 unbeaten bouts?

Plus, how do Sumo wrestlers enjoy themselves after a hard day in the Dohyo? All is revealed. Commentator Lyall Watson.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DEREK BRANDON PRODUCER MIKE MILNE Cheerleader Production

8.30pm Troubles

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IAN CHARLESON IAN RICHARDSON EMER GILLESPIE Another chance to see the drama first shown on ITV earlier this year, in two parts. After World War One, Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland to seek his fiancĂŠe Angela Spencer, who lives with her eccentric family in a large rambling hotel on the Wicklow coast.

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JUDY FINNIGAN RICHARD MADELEY Judy Finnigan and Richard Madeley continue their This Morning Christmas Party. Join them for Christmas stories, simple things to make, the latest on the pop and video scenes and Oswald the Robot.

Father Christmas will be dropping in and there'll be all sorts of teenage tips for the festive season.

Also included in today's programme: ITN News Headlines at 10.55 and Anglia News at 11.55 followed by National Weather with Fred Talbot.

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12.10pm Rainbow VISIT TO THE THEATRE It's a very special occasion today.

Geoffrey is taking Zippy and George to the theatre to see Peter Pan. Bungle has a cold, so he has to stay at home and Jane comes to look after him. She tells him the story of Peter Pan and all about the time when she first went to the theatre.

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10.00am He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

Joe (Dane Witherspoon) confronts Peter (Stephen Meadows) and says he doesn't believe him; sooner or later the police will catch up with him. Peter seizes his chance to be alone with Kelly.

A TRIP TO MORAINIA Adam is sent on a mission to the Kingdom of Morainia to pick up some energy crystals they have developed.

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2.00pm A Country Practice Matron Sloan is suspicious when she hears her arch rival from Burrigan Hospital is coming to visit.

Dr Terence Elliott Shane Porteous

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Grant Dodwell Lorrae Desmond Penny Cook

2.55pm Home Cookery Club PARTY PIECES Getting ready for a party is always good fun - today the Home Cookery Club prepares some delicious party pieces. For full details of these recipes, send a large sae to the Home Cookery Club, PO Box 690, London SW1P 4AZ.

3.00pm What's My Line?

ANGELA RIPPON Jilly Cooper Angela Rippon hosts this celebrity guessing game with a mystery special guest.

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CENTRAL 12.30pm Home Cookery Club; 12.35 to 1.00 The Young Doctors; 1.30 to 2.00 Gardening Time; 2.55 to 3.00 The Vet; 3.30 to 4.00 Ethel is an Elephant; 2.00 to 4.00am Film New Face in Hell. George Peppard as private eye hired as a bodyguard in murder mystery.

TVS 12.30 to 1.00pm A Country Practice; 1.30 Farmhouse Kitchen; 2.00 to 3.00 Rags to Riches; 3.30 to 4.00 The Young Doctors; 6.00 to 7.00pm Coast To Coast Christmas Special.

YORKSHIRE 12.30pm to 1.00 Young Doctors; 1.30 to 3.00 Film - Bless This House. Sidney James in the film version of the hit comedy series of the Seventies; 6.00 to 7.00pm Calendar.

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5.15pm Blockbusters

2.00pm Lord of the Rings

3.30pm Sons and Daughters

ITN News at 5.45

A featurelength • '1111110 animated film based on the famous trilogy by J R R Tolkien, and set in a mythological world. In a corner of MiddleEarth known as the Shire, Bilbo Baggins, one of the small, peaceloving race of Hobbits, is persuaded by the wizard Gandalf to entrust a mysterious ring he found some time ago to his young cousin, Frodo.

See film guide, beginning page 6

Doug realises the reason for Caroline's behaviour.

For cast, see W ednesday

4.00 to 5.15pm Children's ITV presented by MARK GRANGER

Crush a Grape STU FRANCIS Charlie Cairoli Linda Nolan Nikki Ellen with special guests JIM BOWEN DEBBIE GREENWOOD SEAN KERLY THE KRANKIES RUSTI LEE SIMON LOVELL KATE ROBBINS PAUL SHANE Good news and bad the bad news is that today's show is the last in the present series.

The good news is that it's all about pantomime. Stu and the regulars, Nikki, Linda and Charlie, have invited lots of star friends to join them and raise money and prizes for charity. On this special show all the celebrities play Grab a Grape and Bumper Bunch.

DESIGNER IAN REED ASSOCIATE PRODUCER TONY NICHOLSON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PAUL CORLEY PRODUCER/DIRECTOR HARRY KING Border Television Production

4.30pm Scooby Doo SCOOBY GHOSTS WEST Scooby and his two friends explore an old ghost town.

4.45pm Freetime ANDI PETERS Join Andi for Christmas celebrations in England and France. The Radford family from Birmingham take a day trip to Boulogne and join in the festivities as St Nicholas arrives in the town. At home, Andi meets some children taking part in a special Christmas panto.

RESEARCH JAYANA AUSTIN DIRECTOR MARTIN HEAD PRODUCER/DIRECTOR BRIAN SIMMONS ASSOCIATE PRODUCER KATE CARGIN SERIES PRODUCER KATE MARLOW Thames Television Production

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6.00pm Christmas About Anglia CHRISTINE WEBBER HELEN McDERMOTT CAROLINE OLDREY PATRICK ANTHONY Christine Webber, Helen McDermott, Caroline Oldrey and Patrick Anthony, with the rest of the A bout A nglia team, invite you to Christmas around the region as our News Centres sample seasonal greetings.

News, weather, the holiday sport, plus a good measure of festive high spirits.

9.30am Movie Maniacs: It's a Gift W C FIELDS Harold Bissonette is the struggling proprietor of a small-town general store. Feeling hounded by customers, creditors and relations, Bissonette buys an orange farm through the mail and, piling his family into the car with him, heads for California.

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BY PAUL MAKIN

RICHARD GRIFFITHS FRANCES DE LA TOUR TIM HEALY Who is Terry Hitchcock and what does he mean to Trevor and Brian?

More importantly, what does he mean to Carol?

Last in the present series.

Beasley Richard Griffiths Carol Frances de la Tour Brian Tim Healey Dixon C j Allen Og Christopher Rothwell PROGRAMME ASSOCIATE CHRISTOPHER WALKER DESIGNERS DAVID CHANDLER, DAVE ALLEN DIRECTOR PAUL HARRISON PRODUCER GLEN CARDNO Central Production

7.30 to 8.30pm The Two of Us Christmas Special

BY ALEX SHEARER

NICHOLAS LYNDHURST JANET DIBLEY and TENNIEL EVANS WEDDED MISS A double-length special for Christmas. After three years of persuasion, Elaine finally agrees to marry Ashley.

Oracle subtitles page 888 A shley Nicholas Lyndhurst Elaine Janet Dibley Perce Tenniel Evans Karen Francesca Hall Mrs Phillips Jennifer Piercey Mr Phillips Paul McDowell Gordon Mark Jax Joyce Elizabeth Morgan A nton Richard Denning DESIGNER GORDON MELHUISH EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MARCUS PLANTIN PRODUCER/DIRECTOR ROBIN CARR LWT Production

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See film guide, beginning page 6 Harold W C Fields Mildred jean Rouverol John Durston Julian Madison A melia Kathleen Howard N orm an Tommy Bupp Everett Ricks Tammany Young SCREENPLAY JACK CUNNINGHAM DIRECTOR NORMAN Z McLEOD

10.45am The Gingerbread Man CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS PLAYHOUSE

BY DAVID WOOD

Will Herr Von Cuckoo get his voice back? Will the newly baked Gingerbread Man escape the clutches of the Old Teabag and the teeth of Sleek the Mouse? This musical is performed by the Whirligig Theatre.

Herr V on Cuckoo David Bale Salt Mike Elles Pepper Pepsi Maycock The Gingerbread Man Colin Hurley The Old Bag Susannah Bray Sleek the Mouse Philip Eason PRODUCER MAUREEN HARTER DIRECTOR DAVE HEATHER V erronmead Production

12.30pm Business Daily DAMIAN GREEN Business and financial TV news service.

1.00pm Sesame Street Cooling off with a Grouch fan and the letters are H and N. The guest is Harry Belafonte.

W ith the voices of: Frodo Christopher Guard Gandalf William Squire Bilbo Norman Bird Boromir Michael Graham-Cox Gim li David Buck Smeagol Peter Woodthorpe Saruman Fraser Kerr Theoden Philip Stone W ormtongue Michael Deacon

time as it waits for the prince to wake the Sleeping Beauty. There will be another classic tale tomorrow and every day over the Christmas week.

The Prince Christopher Reeve Sleeping Beauty Bernadette Peters Henbane Beverly D'Angelo WRITER JEFFREY FISKIN DIRECTOR JEREMY PAUL KAGAN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SHELLEY DUVALL Platypus/Gaylord/Lion's Gate Production

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Weather 7.55pm Graceland: African Concert

WILLIAM G STEWART The 15 highest scorers of 80 winners meet in today's Grand final.

PAUL SIMON HUGH MASEKELA MIRIAM MAKEBA RAY PHIRI LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO Filmed entirely on location in Zimbabwe, this TV special records the highlight of Paul Simon's Graceland tour, a two-day concert at Rufaro Stadium in Harare.

5.00pm Mork & Mindy

PRODUCER IAN HOBLYN DIRECTOR MICHAEL LINDSAY HOGG Zenith Production in association with Peregrine Inc

SCREENPLAY CHRIS CONKLING, PETER S BEAGLE DIRECTOR RALPH BAKSHI

4.30pm Fifteen-to-One

MORK'S BABY BLUES An attractive young gold digger mistakenly believes that Mork (Robin Williams) is a wealthy eccentric.

5.30pm Redbrick 9: A LIFE OF SACRIFICE The repeated series focusing on one year at Newcastle University.

March 1986 - Denis MacEoin, a lecturer whose job is in grave danger, takes a group of Religious Studies students to visit members of the mysterious Moonie cult.

Oracle subtitles page 888 DIRECTOR DAVID THOMASSON PRODUCER STEPHEN GARRETT Tyne Tees Television Production

6.00pm Faerie Tale Theatre CHRISTOPHER REEVE SLEEPING BEAUTY Grimm's classic tale offers fairies in every colour and size, firebreathing giants and a palace court frozen in

9.00pm The Golden Girls ROSE'S BIG ADVENTURE Dorothy, Blanche and Sophia are having trouble getting a contractor to do the work on the garage conversion.

Oracle subtitles page 888 Dorothy Bea Arthur Sophia Estelle Getty Blanche Rue McClanahan Rose Betty White

9.30 to 10.00pm A Houseful of Plants FLOELLA BENJAMIN MICHAEL JORDAN The last programme in the series takes a festive look at plants and presents. Plant Doctor Chris Fairweather makes a 'house call'. For series booklet send £1.50 and large sae to C4 address 1, page 67.

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JONATHAN ROSS with STEVE NIEVE AND THE PLAYBOYS Jonathan Ross presents the last in the present series of The Last

ADAPTED BY PAULA MILNE FROM A SHORT STORY 'GINGER AND THE KINGSMARKHAM CHALK CIRCLE' BY RUTH RENDELL

GEORGE BAKER CHRISTOPHER RAVENSCROFT Jane Horrocks Clive Wood Christine Kavanagh Louie Ramsay NO CRYING HE MAKES A one-off mystery for Christmas. Just before Christmas, a young mother discovers that her four-month-old baby has been mysteriously exchanged for another, almost identical, child.

Wexford is uneasy about the reason for the swap, which is, in turn, compounded by his concern for the safety of the missing baby.

Oracle subtitles page 888 Det Chief Insp W exford George Baker Det Insp Burden Christopher Ravenscroft Pippa Bond Jane Horrocks Tony Jasper Clive Wood Leila Christine Kavanagh Dora W exford Louie Ramsay Jean Burden Ann Penfold Charon Bourke Sylvia Emma Smith Pat Burden John Burden Noah Huntley Trevor Bond Jonathan Lacey Susan Raines Alison Rose Mrs Carter Dorothy Vernon Julie Natasha Williams Pete Jasper Ashley Barker Det Sgt Martin Ken Kitson W pc Carla Sasha Mitchell Sgt W illoughby Cohn Campbell M atron Meera Syal Mr Henderson Kenneth Midwood Mrs Henderson Julia Lang Mr Hunter Richard Haddon-Haines Mrs Hunter Karen Archer Mandy Shirley-Anne Selby Katherine Freeman Barbara Marten Mr Franklin Ian Bleasdale Mrs Franklin Karen Gledhill Senior Nursing Officer Rosalind Thomas Santa Claus Fred Bryant Man in police station Tom Knight W oman in newsagent's Peggy Ann Wood LIGHTING BRIAN TURNER DESIGNER CHRISTINE RUSCOE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER GRAHAM BENSON PRODUCTION NEIL ZEIGER DIRECTOR MARY McMURRAY TV S Production

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11 Fifties Grand Prix maestro Stirling Moss (right) tries to steer our hero to victory. Cheer on 'Clive James — Racing Driver' at 1035pm

10.00pm News at Ten 10.10pm Anglia Late News and Weather 10.15pm Clive James — Racing Driver Clive James never learned to drive. His mind was on higher things. Then, curiosity for the passion which drives men to risk their necks skidding round a race track drew him into the learner driver's seat, where he could sense that passion at first hand. From shaky hill-starts in a motoring school's Metro, follow Clive's progress as pupil of former racing driver, Stirling Moss, to taking part in a mile-aminute contest round the Adelaide International Raceway in Australia.

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11.15pm Starring Burt Reynolds...

STROKER ACE Stock car racing star Stroker Ace and his mechanic Lugs arrive for the opening of the Daytona 500.

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See film guide, beginning page 6 Stroker A ce Burt Reynolds Clyde Torkle Ned Beatty Jim Nabors Lugs A ubrey James Park6r Stevenson Pembrook Feeney Loni Anderson Doc Seegle John Byner Frank 0 Hill Dad Seegle SCREENPLAY HUGH WILSON, HAL NEEDHAM BASED ON A NOVEL BY WILLIAM NEELY AND ROBERT K OTTUM DIRECTOR HAL NEEDHAM

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2.00 to 4.00am Night Network MICK BROWN TIM WESTWOOD BATMAN MBTV• A Panto Special with Mick Brown and guests looking at the Christmas charts, Christmas TV, Christmas sport and whatever else takes their festive fancy. Join Tim Westwood on board N Sign Radio for a look back at the year's best rap videos.

Plus competitions and live music. And there's another episode of Batman called 'The Penguin's Nest'. The address for your competition entries is: LWT, PO Box 90, London SE1 9PR. DESIGNER JAMES DILLON ASSOCIATE PRODUCER NINA DONALDSON DIRECTOR DAVID G HILLIER PRODUCERS VIJAY AMARNANI, JILL SINCLAIR A Night Network Production

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4.00 to 5.00am Dave Dee and Friends Christmas Beat Club Dave Dee introduces the first of two programmes in which he takes a nostalgic look at his days in the pop industry of the Sixties.

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10.50pm Fritz Lang: Metropolis BRIGITTE HELM GUSTAV FROHLICH Launching a season of Fritz Lang films, this is a new tinted version of Lang's silent masterpiece, reconstructed and adapted by Giorgio Moroder and featuring modern music. 2020 AD: Metropolis, a technocratic society, is dominated by a giant administration and leisure complex... One day, Freder — the son of Joh Fredersen, the Master of Metropolis — falls in love at the sight

of a girl from the lower classes...

See film guide, beginning page 6 Maria/Robot Maria Brigitte Helm Freder Fredersen Gustav Frohlich Joh Fredersen Alfred Abel Rotwang Rudolf Klein-Rogge Theodor Loos Joseph Slim Fritz Rasp Georgy Erwin Biswanger Grot, the Foreman Heinrich George SCREENPLAY THEA VON HARBOU, FRITZ LANG DIRECTOR FRITZ LANG

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Professor Richard Wanley pops into his club for a drink. On his way, he is drawn to a striking picture of a woman displayed in a window...

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9.25 to 12.00noon Motormouth on Christmas Eve INCLUDING: DISNEY'S THE RELUCTANT DRAGON with ANDREA ARNOLD JULIAN BALLANTYNE NEIL BUCHANAN TONY GREGORY CAROLINE HANSON MM1 Loads of famous faces, pop stars and celebrities will be popping in to put a touch of tinsel on the tree.

MM2 The enchanting animated tale of The Reluctant Dragon.

MM3 This week at Spin Off ..

Christmas Eve at the complex and a new face arrives to join the team!

Hilary Rolls Roger Sloman Francesco Fortune Richard Waites Lucinda Cartier Pippa Michaels Jimmy Lane Joe Greco Mazzie Justine Glenton Charlie Wendy Van Der Plank

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MM4 Well, what do you want for Christmas? We may just have it!

MM5 11.00 to 12.00noon Mickey at 60 The magic of Disney combines with the casts of several hit television series in this special celebration of Mickey Mouse's 60th birthday.

When Mickey disappears before his birthday celebration, a nationwide hunt begins.

Wandering forlorn and unrecognised, Mickey encounters the casts of Cheers and Family Ties in sequences combining live action and animation. Hunter offers advice on the case, and when Donald Duck is arrested, he turns to the L.A . Law team for legal advice.

There's also a special appearance by Disney's newest star, Roger Rabbit, and clips from Mickey's illustrious cartoon career.

Motormouth comes live from the Spin Off Complex. You can write to Motormouth at: PO Box 1, Maidstone, Kent ME14 5LL. DESIGNER NEIL POLLARD EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JANIE GRACE DIRECTOR RICK GARDNER PRODUCER TIM EDMUNDS SERIES PRODUCER ADRIAN EDWARDS TV S Production

12.00noon Legend on Ice - A True Gift of Christmas A Canadian fantasydrama featuring a young boy and an old woman in search of the true gift of Christmas.

They encounter Robin Cousins, Toller Cranston and other iceskating superstars who interpret the Christmas traditions of Britain, Germany, Holland and the Soviet Union.

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1.05pm Anglia News and Weather followed by

Saint & Greaysie Ian and jimmy present a specially-extended Christmas edition on the past week's league football action, plus a preview of what's in store for the coming week.

PRODUCTION TEAM JIM RAMSEY, JAMIE OAKFORD, CHRIS RHYS ASSOCIATE PRODUCER NIALL SLOANE DIRECTOR JOHN SCRIMINGER PRODUCER RICHARD WORTH Independent Television Sport Production

1.50 to 2.20pm Disney at Christmas: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree Animated version of the classit children's story. In the Hundred Acre Wood, Winnie the Pooh, hungry as always for honey, climbs a tree to reach a honey cache but the bough breaks.

Undaunted he goes in search of Christopher Robin.

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10.30am Forever and a Day ANNA NEAGLE RAY MILLAND This massive all-star Hollywood film looks at the lives and fortunes of an English family through 140 years. It is 1804. Old Admiral Trimble, on his retirement, builds a house, five miles from the City of London, and contemplates the marriages and children of his descendants that will steep it in history.

Made in black and white

See film guide, beginning page 6 Miriam Trimble Anna Neagle Bill Trimble Ray Milland A mbrose Pomfret Claude Rains Jennie Trimble Ida Lupino Jim Trimble Brian Aherne Mildred Trimble Jessie Matthews Dexter Pomfret Ian Hunter Bellamy Charles Laughton Marjorie Trimble Merle Oberon Ned Trimble Robert Cummings

Gates Pomfret Kent Smith A dm Trimble C Aubrey-Smith Sir A nthony Trimble-Pomfret Edward Everett Horton Lesley Ruth Warwick Spavin Victor McLaglan The Curate Herbert Marshall S tubbs Edmund Gwenn Julia June Duprez Barringer Roland Young Mrs Trimble May Whitty Cobblewick Gene Lockhart Simpson Reginald Owen Dabb Cedric Hardwicke Bride Anna Lee Son Patric Knowles with Eric Blore, Montagu Love, Buster Keaton, Lumsden Hare DIRECTORS RENE CLAIR, VICTOR SAVILLE, FRANK LLOYD, CEDRIC HARDWICKE, HERBERT WILCOX, EDMUND GOULDING, ROBERT STEVENSON

12.30pm Empress Wu

BY SOI SUT FONG

The Empress refuses to crown herself. English language version.

1.00pm Christmas Star Beautifully animated version of the Christmas story from Czechoslovakia.

WRITER/DIRECTOR HERMINA TYRLOVA Ragdoll Production

1.15 to 2.15pm A Child's Christmas in Wales

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BASED ON THE STORY BY DYLAN THOMAS, SCREENPLAY

BY PETER KREUTZER

DENHOLM ELLIOTT It is Christmas Eve in Wales. A young boy called Thomas can hardly contain his excitement about tomorrow. `Grandad did it snow at Christmas when you were a boy?' asks Thomas and off we go into a fun-filled, recollection of his grandad's childhood.

Host Ted Rogers introduces Dusty Bin at 4.05pm

Previously shown on ITV

Grandad Denholm Elliott Thomas Mathonwy Reeves Y oung Geraint Jesse M Breearty Calum McGeachie Jim PRODUCERS GILLIAN RICHARDSON, SEATON McLEAN DIRECTOR DON McBREARTY HTV Production

With the voices of Sterling Holloway, Junius Matthews, Howard Morris, Bruce Reitherman, Ralph Wright, Hal Smith, Barbara Luddy.

Clint Howard. The Narrator is Sebastian Cabot.

SCREENPLAY RALPH WRIGHT, LARRY CLEMMONS, XAVIER ATENCIO, KEN ANDERSON, VANCE GERRY, DICK LUCAS BASED ON STORIES BY A A MILNE DIRECTOR WOLFGANG REITHERMAN

5.00am ITN Morning News 6.00 TV-am 9.25 Motormouth on Christmas Eve 12noon Legend on Ice 1.00pm ITN News 1.05 Anglia News and Weather f/b Saint & Greaysie 1.50 Film: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree 2.20 Film: The Ugly Dachshund 4.05 3-2-1 Christmas Special 5.05 ITN News 5.10 Anglia News and Sport 5.15 The Cannon & Ball Show 6.15 Bobby in Wonderland 7.05 Watching Special 8.05 Film: The Sign of Four 9.50 ITN News f/b Weather 10.05 No Sex Please We're British 11.45 Midnight Mass f/b News 1.00am Film: The Girl, the Gold Watch and Dynamite 2.40 Night Network f/b News

The magic of a first Christmas in 'Storybook Classics' at 9.30am

9.30am Storybook Classics 10.00 Moneyspinner 10.30 Film: Forever and a Day 12.30pm Empress Wu 1.00 Christmas Star 1.15 A Child's Christmas in Wales 2.15 Gymnastics 3.20 Film: The Little Match Girl 5.05 Brookside 6.00 Faerie Tale Theatre 7.00 News, Weather 7.05 Hollywood 8.05 Game, Set & Match 9.05 Nine on 4 9.15 Tchaikovsky's Women 10.35 Creation 11.05 Film: Yanks 1.45am Film: Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey 2.30 Close

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2.20pm Disney at Christmas: The Ugly Dachshund DEAN JONES SUZANNE PLESHETTE While in the care of veterinarian Doctor Pruitt, the dachshund belonging to Mark and Fran Garrison gives birth to three puppies. When Mark goes to collect them, he is persuaded to take as well an abandoned Great Dane puppy. Named Brutus

by Mark, the Dane is destructively playful — and Fran's temper soon becomes frayed. Fran has long been planning to enter one of her dachshunds in a forthcoming dog show.

Her derogatory remarks convince Mark to train Brutus and enter him in the show, undaunted by the fact that the seemingly hopeless task has to be accomplished in a matter of days.

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See film guide, beginning page 6 Mark Garrison Dean Jones Fran Garrison Suzanne Pleshette Dr Pruitt Charlie Ruggles Carmody Kelly Thordsen Mel Chadwick Parley Baer Mr Toyama Robert Kino Kenji Mako Charles Lane Judge SCREENPLAY ALBERT ALEY BASED ON THE BOOK BY G B STERN DIRECTOR NORMAN TOKAR

4.05pm 3-2-1 Christmas Special TED ROGERS CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS FELIX BOWNESS GEOFF CAPES BERNIE CLIFTON AIDEN J HARVEY SUZANNE MIZZI LINDA NOLAN HILARY O'NEIL ALLAN STEWART MARIA WHITTAKER with LYNDA LEE LEWIS PANTOMANIA

Ted Rogers hosts this Christmas special featuring 60 minutes of yule log lunacy. Where else would you see Robin Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Babes in the Wood and a host of celebrities?

Ted stopped doing his famous 3-2-1 sign long

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enough to dial 999 for the contestants, who represent the fire, police and ambulance services, all playing to win cash and prizes for their special charities — The Wishing Well Appeal; The British Heart Foundation and The British Bone Marrow Appeal. Now the hectic Christmas shopping is over, settle down and enjoy this ever-popular family show. Writer Eric Davidson, additional material by Garry Chambers. Questions set by Deborah Sutherland. Staging by Brian Rogers. Music director is Robert Hartley.

DESIGNER ANDREW SANDERSON PRODUCER/DIRECTOR TERRY HENEBERY Y orkshire Television Production

5.05pm ITN News 5.10pm Anglia News, Sport and Weather

adventures in Wonderland were bizarre they're nothing compared to what happens when Bobby drops in to meet strange and wonderfully funny creatures that you've never met before. Or have you? Curiouser and curiouser! Devised and staged by Simon Kristopher. Music director Andy Street.

Caterpillar Cheshire I Cat Mad Hatter Dormouse Mock Turtle Gryphon S Bobby Davro W alrus Carpenter Tweedledum Tweedledee Queen of Hearts Bernie Winters Duchess Mock Turtle Dave Lee Cook Simon Kristopher WRITERS PAUL MINETT, BRIAN LEVESON DESIGNER MARK WARD EXECUTIVE PRODUCER GILL STRIBLING-WRIGHT PRODUCER/DIRECTOR NIGEL LYTHGOE TV S Production

7.05pm Watching Special

BY JIM HITCHMOUGH

5.15pm The Cannon & Ball Show TOMMY CANNON BOBBY BALL DENNIS WATERMAN KIM WILDE CHRIS DE BURGH BROTHER BEYOND LINDA LUSARDI NOSHER POWELL BRIAN ROGERS DANCERS Fire the cannon — you shall go to the ball as Tommy and Bobby welcome you to their extra-special extravaganza. Sketches, songs and lots of leadfree jokes, with special guest Dennis Waterman and guest stars Chris De Burgh, Kim Wilde and Brother Beyond.

Plus this week's special two-in-one offer — Linda Lusardi and Nosher Powell. All this, and the Brian Rogers Dancers, too. Writers are Barry Cryer, Eddie Braben, Paul Vincent, Brian Leveson, Paul Minett and Brian Blackburn.

MUSIC DIRECTOR ROBERT HARTLEY SCRIPT EDITOR BARRY CRYER DESIGNER ALAN DAVIS PRODUCER/DIRECTOR GRAHAM WETHERELL Y orkshire Television Production

6.15pm Bobby in Wonderland BOBBY DAVRO DAVE LEE BERNIE WINTERS If you thought Alice's

EMMA WRAY PAUL BOWN When Brenda comes home for a long weekend, Pamela wants her to help decorate the flat. Mrs Stoneway wants Malcolm to get on with building the gazebo. Malcolm and Brenda just want to be on their own. What better than to escape to the countryside and the tranquillity of a bird sanctuary — until the Twitchers arrive.. .

Brenda W ilson Emma Wray Pamela W ilson Liza Tarbuck Malcolm Stoneway Paul Bown Mrs Stoneway Patsy Byrne David Lynch John Bowler Eric W ard Ken Morley Charles Nick Maloney A listair Richard Ridings Henry Simon Wallis Lorry driver Tommy Boyle DESIGNER TIM FARMER PRODUCER/DIRECTOR LES CHATFIELD EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID LIDDIMENT Granada Television Production

8.05pm Movie Premiere: Sherlock Holmes — The Sign of Four

fascinating revenge and murder case for the great sleuth Sherlock Holmes.

• Due to a late change the film being shown tonight is the 1983 TV movie and not the 1987 version billed in the film guide.

Oracle subtitles page 888 Sherlock Holmes Ian Richardson Dr W atson David Healy Mary Morstan Cherie Lunghi Maj John Sholto Thorley Walters Jonathan Small Joe Melia Insp Layton Terence Rigby Mordecai Smith Michael O'Hagen T onga John Pedrick Thaddeus Richard Heffer Bartholomew Clive Merrison

David Hunter Ian Ogilvy Penny Hunter Susan Penhaligon Insp Paul David Swift Daphne Cheryl Hall Needham Michael Bates Susan Valerie Leon Barbara Margaret Nolan Rev Mower Gerald Sim Baker's van driver Robin Askwith Pete John Bindon Niko Stephen Greif Traffic warden Michael Ripper Second driver Michael Robbins Park keeper Deryck Guyler A merican man LLoyd Lamble Policeman Brian Wilde Manager of glass shop Frank Thornton

TELEPLAY CHARLES POUGE DIRECTOR DESMOND DAVIS

SCREENPLAY BRIAN COOKE, ANTHONY MARRIOTT JOHNNIE MORTIMER FROM THE PLAY BY ANTHONY MARRIOTT AND ALISTAIR FOOT DIRECTOR CLIFF OWEN

9.50pm ITN News

11.45pm Midnight Mass

and Weather Forecast Summary

Tonight's midnight mass celebrates the birthday of Christ. The mass comes from St John's RC Church, Banbury. The main concelebrant will be

10.05pm The Great British Farce: No Sex Please — We're British

the Rt Rev Crispian Hollis, auxiliary bishop of Birmingham, assisted by the Rt Rev Mgr Patrick Corrigan, the parish priest and Father Patrick Walsh.

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR HECTOR STEWART Central Production

followed by ITN News Headlines

1.00am The Girl, the Gold Watch and Dynamite Kirby Winter is a young man with time on his side — in he shape of a magical gold watch that can stop time. Kirby and Bonnie Lee Beaumont postpone their marriage plans to help Bonnie's parents who are threatened with the loss of their farm land.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Kirby W inter Philip MacHale Bonnie Lee Beaumont Lee Purcell

RONNIE CORBETT BERYL REID When wrongly addressed parcels of dirty postcards, blue films and pornographic books start arriving at their bank, clerks Brian Runnicles and David Hunter embark on a frenzied attempt to keep them from the eyes of the bank's puritanical manager, Mr Bromley, the bank inspector and David's new mother-in-law.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Brian Runnicles Ronnie Corbett B ertha Beryl Reid Mr Bromley Arthur Lowe

The enjoyment's genuine even if jim Bowen, Dame Edna and Les Patterson aren't. Join 'Bobby in W onderland' at 6.15pm

IAN RICHARDSON DAVID HEALY A damsel in distress, a fabulous treasure, a terrifying Indian pigmy and a series of inexplicable deaths — these are the ingredients of a

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Oracle subtitles page 888 Peter Stephen Furst Fred Willard Paul Billy Crystal Larry Mother Doris Roberts Tina Valerie Perrine Buck W olf Jeff Goldblum WRITERS MARK CURTISS, ROD ASH DIRECTOR HOWARD STORM

TELEPLAY GEORGE ZATESLO DIRECTOR HY AVERBACK

2.15pm Gymnastics

followed by ITN News Headlines

THE KRAFT INTERNATIONAL

2.40 to 5.00am Night Network • PAUL THOMPSON ROWLAND RIVRON LEEE JOHN RICHARD COLES SPIKE MILLIGAN THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY Join Paul Thompson and guests for the best videos of 1988 in V ideo V iew. Rowland Rivron hosts a special Christmas edition of The Bunker Show. Leee John brings guests and live music from his own piano bar. Plus Richard Coles and The Partridge Family. Plus competitions.

A Night Network Production

followed by ITN News Headlines Due to late changes, some film times may vary from those in the film guide.

ITV variations Programmes in adjoining area as A ngie except: LWT 12.00noon to 1.00pm Physical Pursuits; 1.00am Film Otley. Tom Courtenay as a drunk who gets involved in international espionage.

CENTRAL 12.00noon Highway to Heaven; 12.55 to 1.00pm A Christmas Message; 1.00am Film - Otley; 2.40 Superstars of Wrestling; 3.35 to 5.00am Concert: The Beach Boys.

TVS 12.00noon America's Top 10; 12.30 to 1.00pm Ace Of Aces; 1.00 and 2.40 to 5.00am as LWT. YORKSHIRE 12.00noon to 1.00pm U.F.O; and 2.40 to 8.00am as LWT.

Introduced from Alexandra Palace by Tony Francis and former British Champion Suzanne Dando. The commentators are John Taylor and Monica Phelps.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BOB BURROWS EDITOR BRYAN TREMBLE PRODUCER MIKE WARD ITV Sport Production

3.30pm The Little Match Girl KESHIA KNIGHT PULLIAM WILLIAM DANIELS RUE McCLANAHAN A story based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale, with three stars from C4's Cosby Show, St Elsewhere and The Golden Girls. Christmas Eve in the 1920s: Homeless orphan Molly is peddling her matches in the freezing cold when fun-loving Neville Dutton invites her to his wealthy family's New England mansion...

See film guide, beginning page 6 Molly Keshia Knight Pulliam Haywood William Daniels Frances Rue McClanahan Police Chief Murphy John Rhys-Davies Joe Dutton Jim Metzler Mary Margaret Hallie Foote Neville Dutton William Youmans Lindsay Robyn Stevan Maryedith Burrell Rita TELEPLAY MARYEDITH BURRELL DIRECTOR MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG

5.05pm Brookside It's Christmas Eve and someone's wish comes true!

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6.00pm Faerie Tale Theatre BILLY CRYSTAL VALERIE PERRINE JEFF GOLDBLUM THE THREE LITTLE PIGS

The tale of three pigs who join together to

7.00pm News Summary and Weather

Did Tchaikovsky fall in love with his creations such as Tatyana (Helen Field)? See 9.I5pm

7.05pm Hollywood 13: THE END OF AN ERA

The final programme in this repeated series tracing the early history of film. The 'talkies' finally arrived - and silents went out in a blaze of glory. The narrator is James Mason. Music is composed and arranged by Carl Davis.

One of the last great 'silents' Show People can be seen tomorrow on C4.

Oracle subtitles page 888 WRITERS/DIRECTORS/ PRODUCERS KEVIN BROWNLOW, DAVID GILL Thames Television Production

8.05pm Game, Set & Match

BY LEN DEIGHTON ADAPTED BY JOHN HOWLETT

IAN HOLM MI6 want to test the sincerity of Stinnes.

Last in the series.

Shown on ITV last Monday

Oracle subtitles page 888 For cast, see ITV Monday

9.05pm Nine on 4 Looking for a seasonal alternative? Why not switch to Channel 4's special collection of arts and performance?

Starting tomorrow and for the whole of next week Channel 4 at 9 is the place to be.

9.15pm Tchaikovsky's Women

BY CHRISTOPHER NUPEN

VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY HELEN FIELD CYNTHIA HARVEY CLARRY BARTHA Continuing the season of music films by Christopher Nupen, this new film covers Tchaikovsky's life up to the composition of Eugene Onegin and the disastrous failure of his marriage to Antonina Milyukova. The title

refers to Tchaikovsky's deep identification with the vulnerable young heroines who so fired his musical imagination in the early years, from Katerina Kabanova in the Storm to his dearly loved Tatyana in Eugene Onegin. With The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.

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Tatyana Helen Field Katerina J uliet Cynthia J Harvey Odette Donna A nna Clarry Bartha Prince Siegfried Mark Silver CAMERA DAVID FINDLAY FILM EDITOR PETER HEELAS PRODUCER/DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER NUPEN A llegro Films Production

Matt Dyson (Richard Gere), one of those 'Y anks' over here in wartime: 11.05pm

10.35pm Creation Part 2

Tonight, old time religion comes to Canterbury. This is the final part of Creation, an original black gospel musical, written and performed by musicians and singers from the award-winning black gospel show People Get Ready.

Narrator Jon Francis Patrick Bernard God Christ Geoffrey Gale Satan Brian Powell With the Inspirational Choir and London Community Gospel Choir

11.05pm Yanks VANESSA REDGRAVE RICHARD GERE WILLIAM DEVANE The American 1st Army is based near a Lancashire town during World War Two and John, a US captain, pursues a light-hearted friendship which edges towards intimacy with

••111••••••••••••••• Helen, the wife of the local squire. Sgt Matt Dyson and his friend Sgt Danny Ruffelo find romance with a couple of local girls; but there are times when the relationships between the American soldiers and the townspeople become dangerously strained.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Helen Vanessa Redgrave Matt Dyson Richard Gere John William Devane Jean Moreton Lisa Eichhorn Danny Ruffelo Chick Vennera Clarrie Moreton Rachel Roberts Jim Moreton Tony Melody Mollie Wendy Morgan Geof Moreton Martin Smith Billy Rathbone Philip Whileman Mrs Moody Joan Hickson Ted, the barman Paul Luty Ken Derek Thompson Simon Harrison Tim SCREENPLAY COLIN WELLAND, WALTER BERNSTEIN DIRECTOR JOHN SCHLESINGER

1.45 to 2.30am Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey

BY DAVID HANSEN, PAUL OWEN

MATT FREWER DAVE EDMUNDS • BOB GELDOF TINA TURNER Live from Max's own fireside. Yes, if it's got anything to do with Christmas then Max will be reaching in and pulling it out of the parson's nose of his turkey. With guests Dave Edmunds, Bob Geldof and Tina Turner.

Plus Max's Christmas song.

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which eventually led to its discovery, and the part played by A Nonny Mouse. Music by John Moore.

Anglia 5.00am Christmas Cartoons: The Great Santa Claus Caper

9.30am Christopher's Christmas Mission BERNARD CRIBBINS An animated film from Sweden. Christopher Johnson spends his Christmas holidays working in a post office. His idol is Robin Hood and Christopher decides to adopt his mission of taking from the rich and giving to the poor. Narrated by Bernard Cribbins.

A cartoon special for early risers... the Big Bad Wolf tries to take over Santa's business.

5.30am Christmas Comes to Pacland Animated adventure.

Santa Claus crash-lands in Pacland. followed by ITN News Headlines

6.00 TV-am Introduced by Tommy Boyd and Michaela Strachan.

Christmas Robins Seasonal RSPB wildlife film featuring our favourite Christmas feathered friends, narrated by Bernard Cribbins.

7.00 Puff the Magic Dragon The children's favourite in a special musical Christmas version with narration by Burgess Meredith.

7.30 Christmas with TV-am Carols from TV-am's regional centres across the country, together with the Christmas winners.

A R/Right A ngle Production

10.05 to 11.00am The Little Troll Prince An animated musical set in Norway.

Bu, Prince of the Trolls, is a disappointment to his parents because he is not nasty or ugly.

See film guide, beginning page 6

Sirena Cloris Leachman TELEPLAY SHIRLEY HARTMAN, CLIFFORD CAMPION DIRECTOR RAY PATTERSON

1.15 to 2.15pm Mr Majeika

Vincent Price

Ulvik head No2 Jonathan Winters

Prof Nidaros Don Knotts B u Danny Cooksey

11.00am Christmas Morning Worship

9.25 to 11.00am Motormouth on Christmas Day from Disneyworld

from St John's Church, Lemsford, Hertfordshire A Christmas service from the village church.

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR ALAN ROBINSON TV S Production

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Jennifer Saunders celebrate British pop, with exclusive performances from star acts, including: Rick Astley, Bananarama, Bros, Def Leppard, Erasure, Eurythmics, Wet Wet Wet and Kim Wilde. Produced in association with Picture Music International.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ANDREA WONFOR PRODUCER BRIONY CRANSTOUN DIRECTOR GORDON ELSBURY A Zenith North Production for Granada Television

Featuring the voices of: Ulvik head No I

8.30 Black Beauty The famous children's classic by Anna Sewell in a superb animated version.

ANDREA ARNOLD JULIAN BALLANTYNE NEIL BUCHANAN TONY GREGORY CAROLINE HANSON It's here - and we're there. Where? At the Disney Christmas Parade - live from Disneyland, with us ... and them ... and you? Also in Motormouth this morning: The Little Troll Prince and Disney cartoons... And what is Mickey Mouse saying to Andrea?

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12.00noon Disney at Christmas MOVING DAY With Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy.

BY JENNY McDADE, BASED ON THE BOOKS BY HUMPHREY CARPENTER

STANLEY BAXTER HAVE YOURSELF A WIZARD LITTLE CHRISTMAS Mr Majeika faces a Christmas crisis when vertigo-ridden Santa Claus drops in unexpectedly. (A new series begins on Saturday 7 January.)

Mr Majeika Stanley Baxter S anta Ken Jones Pam Bigmore Eve Ferret W orshipful W izard Richard Murdoch Thomas Andrew Read Melanie Claire Sawyer Hamish Simeon Pearl Mr Potter Roland MacLeod Bunty Brace-Girdle Fidelis Morgan Mrs Fudd Hilda Fenemore

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Robin Driscoll

12.15pm The Great British Pop Machine FRENCH AND SAUNDERS Dawn French and

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LYNN REDGRAVE GREGOR FISHER A Christmas classic for all the family based on a true story. On Christmas Eve, 1818, in Austria, the Oberndorf organ broke down.

Some days earlier the assistant priest had written a seasonal poem and rather than have no music at all, the organist scored it for guitar accompaniment. That evening they sang it as a duet backed by the children of the choir, and the famous carol Silent Night was born.

But it was not an instant success. For many years the authorship remained anonymous.

This programme reveals the curious chain of coincidence

Narrator Lynn Redgrave Franz Gruber Gregor Fisher Joseph Mohr Jack McKenzie Karl Maraycher Bill McCue Patter Nostler Phil McCall Father A mbrosius John Cairney Felix Gruber Richard Blane Felix Gruber's voice

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Mrs Gruber Zdenka Sajfertova King's choirmaster John Moore WRITER JOCELYN STEVENSON PRODUCER/DIRECTOR ROBIN CRICHTON Edinburgh Film Production

11.00am The Waltons THE GENIUS John-Boy (Richard Thomas) brings home a teenage college student who possesses a monstrous intellect.

12.00noon Treasure Hunt KENNETH KENDALL ANNEKA RICE Wincey Willis A special Christmas edition from Florida, USA. The Russell family guide skyrunner Anneka Rice around the course.

Creative associate is Anne Evans.

DIRECTOR CHRIS GAGE PRODUCERS MALCOLM HEYWORTH, PETER HOLMANS Chatsworth Television Production

ITV 5.00am The Great Santa Claus Caper 5.30 Christmas Comes to Pacland 6.00 TV-am 9.25 Motormouth on Christmas Day 10.05 Film: The Little Troll Prince 11.00 Christmas Morning Worship 12noon Disney at Christmas 12.15pm The Great British Pop Machine 1.15 Mr Majeika 2.15 Bullseye Christmas Special 3.00 The Queen 3.05 Christmas Blind Date 3.55 Film: The Empire Strikes Back 6.05 Save The Children with Michael Crawford 7.15 Coronation Street 7.45 10 Years of Alright on the Night 8.45 London's Burning 10.15 ITN News and Weather 10.25 One More Audience With Dame Edna 11.30 Film: High Plains Drifter 1.20am Film: Our Man Flint 3.15 Film: In Like Flynn

1.00 to 2.00pm Lost in Space A VISIT TO HADES Smith's (Jonathan Harris) greed leads him to a strange place.

C4 9.30am Christopher's Christmas Mission 10.00 Silent Mouse 11.00 The Waltons 12noon Treasure Hunt 1.00pm Lost in Space 2.00 Film: Show People 3.30 Mozart Mass in C Minor 4.40 John Wells and the Three Wise Men 5.20 The Queen 5.30 Film: The Snowman 6.00 Faerie Tale Theatre 7.00 News, Weather f/b Time is a Country 8.20 Challenge by Fire -Restoring the Glory of York Minster 9.00 Creole Giselle 10.40 jean-Michel jarre: Destination Docklands 11.45 Human Rights Now! 2.40am Close

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Anglia 2.15pm Bullseye Christmas Special JIM BOWEN BOB ANDERSON ERIC BRISTOW MARTI CAINE LES DENNIS TONY GREEN DENNY HODGE BOB HOLNESS ROY WALKER JOCKY WILSON The Birmingham Cathedral Choir Jim Bowen and Marti Caine are the hosts, with Les Dennis, Roy Walker, Bob Holness and World Darts Champions Jocky Wilson, Bob Anderson and Eric Bristow. Script associate Howard Imber. Produced in association with Chatsworth Television.

DESIGNER NORMAN SMITH PRODUCER/DIRECTOR RICHARD BRADLEY Central Production

3.00pm The Queen The Queen's Christmas message to the Commonwealth.

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3.05pm Christmas Blind Date CILLA BLACK All dressed up and taking a chance.

Christmas contestants seek romance.

Who will they pick...

One, two or three?

Watch Cilia's Blind Date And you will see!

Produced in association with Talbot Television.

Oracle subtitles page 888 DESIGNER ALISON HUMPHRIES ASSOCIATE PRODUCER HELEN WRIGHT DIRECTOR NOEL D GREENE PRODUCER KEVIN ROAST LW T Production

ITV variations Programmes in adjoining areas are as A nglia except for: LWT 11.15pm to 1.15am Film The Liquidator. Rod Taylor as ex-sergeant assigned to liquidate security risks; 3.15 to 5.00am Film — Robbers of the Sacred Mountain. Reporter is caught in dangerous mission, stars Simon MacCorkindale.

CENTRAL 11.15pm to 1.15am as LWT. TVS 11.25pm to 1.15am as LWT. YORKSHIRE 11.15pm to 1.15am as LWT.

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HARRISON FORD The second segment in • - the Star W ars rilogy. In flight from the forces of the galactic Empire led by Darth Vader, the Rebel Alliance has taken shelter on a frozen planet. There, Luke Skywalker is attacked and injured by a snow beast. in

See page 23 and film guide, beginning page 6 Han Solo Harrison Ford Mark Hamill Luke Princess Leia Carrie Fisher Lando Calrissian Billy Dee Williams C-3PO Anthony Daniels Darth V ader David Prowse Chewbacca Peter Mayhew R2-D2 Kenny Baker Yoda Frank Oz Obi-W an Kenobi Alec Guinness Baba Fett Jeremy Bulloch Lando's aide John Hollis Chief Ugnaught Jack Purvis A dm Piett Kenneth Colley Gen V eers Julian Glover A dm Ozzel Michael Sheard Capt Needa Michael Culver Gen Rieekan Bruce Boa Zev Christopher Malcolm W edge Dennis Lawson Hobbie Richard Oldfield John Morton Dak Ian Liston Janson SCREENPLAY LEIGH BRACKETT, LAWRENCE KASDAN STORY BY GEORGE LUCAS DIRECTOR IRVIN KERSHNER

6.05pm Save The Children with Michael Crawford presenting: MICHAEL BALL DAVID ESSEX ANITA HARRIS BONNIE LANGFORD JULIA McKENZIE CLAIRE MOORE PAUL NICHOLAS ELAINE PAIGE FRANCES RUFFELLE LON SATTON COLM WILKINSON The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra The London Philharmonic Orchestra The London Symphony Orchestra The Wren Orchestra Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra A celebration of some of the best-loved Christmas music, performed by the stars and companies of London's musical theatre, recorded in the spectacular settings of six top West End musicals: Cats; Chess; Les Miserables; Me and My Girl; Phantom of the Opera and Starlight Express. The Princess Royal, President of The Save the Children Fund,

introduces this unique television special, part of a multi-media event in aid of the Fund, and Michael Crawford takes us on a journey to Africa to see at first hand the work of The Save the Children Fund.

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Once again 'The Queen' sends her traditional Christmas message to the Commonwealth: 3.00pm

See page 4 EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ROBERT MACKINTOSH ASSOCIATE PRODUCER JACKIE TYLER PRODUCER/DIRECTOR JOHN KAYE COOPER John Kaye Cooper Productions

7.15pm Coronation Street Percy counts his blessings as he takes charge of Christmas at Emily's. But the Christmas spirit turns sour on Deirdre when she finds goodwill has landed her in a dire and dangerous predicament.

See page 15 Oracle subtitles page 888 For cast, see Monday WRITER JOHN STEVENSON DIRECTOR IAN WHITE

7.45pm 10 Years of Alright on the Night DENIS NORDEN More than 100 all-time classic out-takes feature in this special Christmas programme.

And as an extra bonus, Denis unveils his latest batch of brand new broadcasting blunders.

WRITER DENIS NORDEN RESEARCH JENNY MORGAN, JAMES A SMITH DESIGNER BILL McPHERSON DIRECTOR CHRIS FOX PRODUCER PAUL LEWIS LW T Production

8.45pm London's Burning

BY TONY HOARE

DING DONG MERRILY

The Blue Watch crew of Blackwall Fire station are back in action with a 90-minute Christmas special. As the holiday approaches, the Watch prepares for the extra work the festivities inevitably bring.

However the season of goodwill only extends so far. But Station Officer Tate and his wife get a taste of the true spirit of Christmas when they foster a young boy to share their celebrations.

See page 30 Oracle subtitles page 888 Malcolm Rupert Baker Kevin Ross Boatman Bayleaf James Hazeldine Katharine Rogers Josie Glen Murphy George Charisma Gerard Horan

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Take a seat for 'One More Audience W ith Dame Edna' and laughter at 10.25pm Policewoman

Caroline Webster Passenger in limo Charles Collingwood W oman in restaurant

Brenda Peters Fireman Carrie J Lammin W hite W atch fireman Alan Cowan W oman in supermarket Yvonne Riley Drunk Trevor Cooper Couple S Mark Barratt in limo Sarah Sherbourne Couple S Denise Ryan in flat Fred Haggerty Paul Carter Paul PRODUCER PAUL KNIGHT DIRECTOR LES BLAIR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER LINDA AGRAN LW T Production

10.25pm One More Audience With Dame Edna Mega-star, therapist, counsellor and swami Dame Edna Everage opens her 'massage parlour for the human spirit', as celebrities in the studio almost clamber over each other to allow the great dame to offer relief from the drudgery of their ordinary little lives.

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10.15pm ITN News and Weather Forecast Summary

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER NICHOLAS BARRETT ASSOCIATE PRODUCER LORNA DICKINSON PRODUCER/DIRECTOR DAVID BELL LW T Production

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11.30pm Christmas Night at the Movies: High Plains Drifter CLINT EASTWOOD The residents • No of Lago hire • a tall laconic stranger to protect them from three vengeful outlaws.

See film guide, beginning page 6 The Stranger Clint Eastwood Sarah Belding Verna Bloom Mordecai Billy Curtis Carlie Travers Marianna Hill Dave Drake Mitchell Ryan Morgan A llen Jack Ging May or Stefan Gierasch Lewis Belding Ted Hartley S tacy Geoffrey Lewis SCREENPLAY ERNEST TIDYMAN DIRECTOR CLINT EASTWOOD

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2.00pm Show People MARION DAVIES Marion Davies proved herself one of the greatest comediennes of all time as Peggy Pepper, arriving in Hollywood seeking fame and fortune. This wickedly satirical view of Hollywood was inspired by the life of Gloria Swanson. The film has been restored

by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, with a new score by Carl Davis.

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See film guide, beginning page 6 Derek Flint James Coburn Cramden Lee J Cobb Gila Golan Gila Rodney Edward Mulhare Dr Schneider Benson Fong Gina Gianna Serra A nna Sigrid Valdis SCREENPLAY HAL FIMBERG, BEN STARR DIRECTOR DANIEL MANN

followed by ITN News Headlines

3.15 to 5.00am Christmas Night at the Movies: In Like Flynn New York publishing house researcher Terri McLane gets involved in a real mystery.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Jenny Seagrove Tern Beatty W oodstock William Espy Sgt Dominic William Conrad Col Harper Robert Webber Bill W hite Eddie Albert Stephanie Laura Press Thurman Denis Strong TELEPLAY GLEN A LARSON DIRECTOR RICHARD LANG

followed by ITN News Headlines Due to late changes, some film times may vary from those in the film guide.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Peggy Pepper Marion Davies Billy Boone William Haines Col Pepper Dell Henderson A ndre Telfair Paul Ralli Comedy director Harry Gribbon Polly Moran Maid Albert Conti Producer A ssistant director Red Golden With Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, William S Hart, John Gilbert, Norma Talmadge SCREENPLAY WANDA TUCHOCK DIRECTOR KING VIDOR

3.30pm Mozart 'Mass in C Minor .

This recording of Mozart's great C Minor Mass, K427, comes from Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinsaal and is conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. The Vienna State Opera Choir performs this work with soloists Krisztina Laki, Zsuzsanna Denes, Kurt Equiluz and Robert Holl, accompanied by the Vienna Concentus Musicus. Mozart wrote this much-loved sacred work as a thanksoffering for his marriage to Constanze Weber. Mozart left the work unfinished and this version was completed by Franz Bayer.

DIRECTOR FRANZ KABELKA ORF/ZDF Production

4.40pm John Wells and the Three Wise Men JOHN WELLS

According to the Gospels, Wise Men

congregated to celebrate the arrival of Jesus. Despite differing beliefs and homelands, they were wise enough to recognise an important event. Today John Wells brings together three sages, also of different backgrounds and faiths for a fresh witty and wise look at the birth of Christ.

PRODUCERS JUSTIN SCROGGIE, KATHY CEATON DIRECTOR SIMON HOLDER Open Media Production

5.20pm The Queen Her Majesty The Queen gives her traditional address to the nation and the Commonwealth.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

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5.30pm The Snowman

BY RAYMOND BRIGGS

The awardwinning animated ilm. It's Christmas Eve and the snow is falling.

A time for magic. A little boy races outside to build a snowman.

Later when everyone's asleep, the snowman comes alive. The special flying sequence was animated by Stephen Weston and Robin White. Music by Howard Blake.

See film guide, beginning page 6 ANIMATION HILARY AUDUS, JOANNE FRYER DIRECTOR DIANE JACKSON PRODUCER JOHN COATES

role in the evolution of 20th-century culture in Britain. Shot partly in Orkney, where she has given a unique collection of 20thcentury art to the people, the programme looks at her close friendships with such people as Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo, the poets Louis McNeice and W H Auden, the scientists Desmond Bernal and Solly Zuckermann, and her involvement with the CND and antifascism. Commentary

by Eleanor Bron and Sean Barrett.

PRODUCER ANITA OXBURGH DIRECTOR TIMOTHY NEAT Barony Film and Television

8.20pm Challenge by Fire — Restoring the Glory of York Minster On 9 July, 1984, York Minster was on fire, the whole building was threatened. Thankfully, firemen saved Yorkshire's greatest treasure, but the South Transept roof and vault were totally destroyed and the famous Rose Window shattered. Four years later at a cost of £2.2million the medieval glory has been restored, thanks to the talent of the Minster's own stonemasons, carvers and glaziers and the many oak trees donated by the public.

Narrator is Magnus Magnusson.

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6.00pm Faerie Tale Theatre PAUL REUBENS PINOCCHIO A humorous version of the adventures of Pinocchio.

Oracle subtitles page 888 Pinocchio Paul Reubens Geppetto Carl Reiner The Gypsy James Coburn Jim Belushi The Michael Bad Boys Richards Lainie Kazan Sophie WRITERS MARK CURTISS, ROD ASH DIRECTOR PETER MEDAK

7.00pm News Summary and Weather followed by

Time is a Country MARGARET GARDINER For over six decades Margaret Gardiner has played a quietly pivotal

DIRECTOR DEREK GOODALL PRODUCERS RICHARD GREGORY, ANDREW DARLING EXECUTIVE PRODUCER GRAHAM IRONSIDE Y orkshire Television Production

9.00pm Creole Giselle THE DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM This version of Adolphe Adam's classic ballet is set in 19th-century Louisiana. Giselle Lanaux is in love with the Count Albert who she believes to be a humble villager like herself. Hilarion, her rejected lover, unmasks Albert as an imposter who is betrothed to Bathilde. The shock destroys Giselle and she is taken into the ranks of the Wilis, ghosts of brokenhearted young women.

Choreography by Frederic Franklin.

Giselle Virginia Johnson A lbert Eddie J Shellman Queen Myrta Lorraine Graves Hilarion Lowell Smith Mother Cassandra Phifer B athilde Theara Ward PRODUCER YANNA KROYT BRANDT DIRECTOR THOMAS GRIMM

10.40pm jean-Michel Jarre: Destination Docklands After battles with bureaucracy and months of on-site preparation, lasers, anti-aircraft lights and over 250 tons of fireworks were flown in from Paris in October for one of the rock concerts of the decade.

This programme captures the atmosphere of the super-show which brought the Victoria Docks to vivid life.

Hundreds of thousands of people witnessed Jean-Michel Jarre directing music, lights, projections and fireworks from a 300ton floating stage,

turning the whole area into a pyrotechnic feast of explosive colour.

Viewers in the London area can receive stereo sound to accompany this programme on Capital Radio.

DIRECTOR MIKE MANSFIELD Mike Mansfield Television

11.45 to 2.40pm Human Rights Now! BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN STING PETER GABRIEL TRACY CHAPMAN YOUSSOU N' DOUR E STREET BAND Another chance to see this concert, filmed live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and first broadcast to mark Human Rights Day which this year celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The concert tour spanned five continents and 20 cities. The acts are intercut with interviews and also animated sequences illustrating some of the Declaration's 30 Articles.

DIRECTOR LARRY JORDAN Calhoun/A mnesty International Production

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Anglia 5.00am Christmas Cartoons SCOOBY DOO GOES TO HOLLYWOOD That lovably clumsy canine, Scooby-Doo, features in his first Hollywood musical with his mystery-solving friends, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma. followed by ITN News Headlines

6.00 TV-am Boxing Day Sport Geoff Clark presents a Boxing Day special of Christmas sporting action, including Jim McGrath's Christmas racing tips and an interview with Tottenham Football Club chairman Irving Scholar.

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7.30 Wideawake Special Presented by the WAC team.

Highlights of all the best bits from W ideawake in 1988. Featuring the funniest, strangest and most amazing antics from the year, including clips of various pop guests, Timmy's Travels, discovering science with Carol Vorderman, Timmy on the Telly and the curtain raiser to one of your favourite cartoons Galaxy High School, with the first-ever episode shown once more. Plus, a festive version of Bopping in the Bathroom.

9.25am The Sooty Christmas Show MATTHEW CORBETT guests ROGER WALKER SUZY AITCHISON Sooty, Sweep and Soo have a splendid time at Christmas - they have a party with some of their friends and have lots of presents. But they also like to play With makeshift things.

Have you ever seen Father Christmas in the middle of the woods at the height of Summer?

Matt thought so, but Sooty was not sure.

Puppeteers are Alex Cox and Brian Sandford. Soo's voice

by Brenda Longman.

WRITER MATTHEW CORBETT PRODUCER/DIRECTOR STAN WOODWARD EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CHARLES WARREN Thames Television Production

A charming 1983 cartoon version of the classic Charles Dickens ghost story.

V oices: Scrooge McDuck Alan Young with Wayne Allwine, Hal Smith, Will Ryan, Eddy Carroll, Clarence Nash, Patricia Parris, Dick Billingsley DIRECTOR BURNY MATTINSON

10.20am Disney at Christmas Davy Crockett and the River Pirates Davy Crockett, challenges he king of the river, mighty Mike Fink, to a boat race down the Mississippi.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Davy Crockett Fess Parker George Russel Buddy Ebsen Jeff York Mike Fink Kenneth Tobey Jocko Cap'n Cobb Clem Bevans Irvin Ashkenazy Moose Sam Mason Mort Mills Paul Newlan Big Harpe Little Harpe Frank Richards SCREENPLAY NORMAN FOSTER, TOM BLACKBURN DIRECTOR NORMAN FOSTER

12.00noon What's My Line?

Christmas Special ANGELA RIPPON with JILLY COOPER GABRIELLE DRAKE NINO FIRETTO ADRIAN MILLS A bubbly champagne Christmas edition of the

young climbers Johnny Dawes, and has just won a prize at the International Mountain Film Festival, Graz, Austria. The film also documents some of Johnny's unrepeated routes in Derbyshire.

classic game show hosted by Angela Rippon with an all-star panel, including resident panellist Jilly Cooper, and a mystery celebrity.

RESEARCH JOANNA STEWART, SHEILA DUANE ASSOCIATE PRODUCER JOHN GRAHAM DIRECTOR BRIAN KLEIN PRODUCER MAURICE LEONARD Thames Television Production

12.30pm ITN News 12.35 to 2.40pm The Sea Wolves GREGORY PECK ROGER MOORE DAVID NIVEN TREVOR HOWARD 1943: Allied 16.0 •- Special • Operations Director Lewis Pugh reunites a group of 'occasional' veterans known as the Calcutta Light Horse for an 'unofficial' mission to destroy a suspected German spy ship in the neutral Indian Ocean port of Goa. See film guide, beginning page 6

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PRODUCER ALUN HUGHES DIRECTOR HUGH WILLIAMS Hughes Film Production

9.30am Sesame Street VICTOR BORGE A search for the missing teddy bear.

The guest star is Victor Borge and the letters are H and N and the number 6.

10.30am Race Against the Wind The first of a series of repeated A ssignment

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DIRECTOR NICK KENNERLEY PRODUCER ALAN SCALES (magicians Production

Sooty throws a party and everyone is invited. 'The Sooty Christmas Show' at 9.25am. See you there

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12.00noon Stone Monkey PORTRAIT OF A ROCK CLIMBER This documentary is an exciting portrayal of one of Britain's best

12.30pm Channel 4 Racing from Kempton Park Introduced by Brough Scott. Desert Orchid, the best-loved racehorse of recent years, returns to one of his favourite courses in a bid to repeat his 1986 triumph in the King George VI Rank Chase.

It promises to be a thrilling afternoon as Channel 4 covers five races live.

12.45 Haven Novices' Hurdle (2m) 1.15 Butlin's Feltham Novices' Chase (3m) 1.45 Royal Garden Hotel H'cap Hurdle (2m) 2.20 King George VI Rank Chase (3m) 2.50 Novair Wayward Lad Novices' Chase (2m 4t) Race commentator Graham Goode; paddock commentators John Oaksey, John Francome; interviewer Derek Thompson; betting and results, John Tyrrel and John McCririck.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER MARK JACKSON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ANDREW FRANKLIN DIRECTOR BOB GARDAM LW T Production

5.00am Christmas Cartoons 6.00 TV-am 9.25 The Sooty Christmas Show 9.50 Film: Mickey's Christmas Carol 10.20 Film: Davy Crockett and the River Pirates 12noon What's My Line?

Christmas Special 12.30pm ITN News 12.35 Film: The Sea Wolves 2.40 Wish You Were Here...?

3.40 Film: Octopussy 5.00 ITN News, Sport and Weather 5.15 Film: Octopussy (cont.)

6.15 Strike It Lucky 7.00 The Krypton Factor 7.30 Coronation Street 8.00 Minder 9.30 After Henry 10.00 ITN News and Weather 10.15 Blackout A 12m'nt Barcelona Musical Extravaganza f/b ITN News 1.00am Film: '10' f/b ITN News 3.15 Quiz Night 3.45 Film: Whistling in Dixie -

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MEGAN FOLLOWS Another chance to see this adaptation of L M Montgomery's classic novel set in Canada at the turn of the century.

Matthew Cuthbert and his spinster sister Manilla decide to adopt an orphan boy to help on the farm, Green Gables. The orphanage sends a girl by mistake - a mischievous romantic redhead, Anne Shirley, who has a talent for cultivating disaster wherever she goes. The second part can be seen tomorrow.

A nne Shirley Megan Follows Matthew Cuthbert Richard Farnsworth Manila Cuthbert Colleen Dewhurst Gilbert Blythe Jonathan Crombie PRODUCER/DIRECTOR KEVIN SULLIVAN Sullivan Films Production se"

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In this special edition Judith Chalmers and her fellow-travellers introduce some highlights of their globe-trotting year. For Judith herself that means a trip through Alberta in the dramatic west of Canada. She also goes on a birdwatching safari in Africa and explores much closer to home to find some holiday surprises in the middle of Yorkshire. John Carter, too, has a traveller's tale of a strange little country 'somewhere in Europe' and visits the bestknown street in England — Coronation Street. He also reports from a paddle steamer on a cruise up the Mississippi from New Orleans. Meanwhile, Anneka Rice is in action in the kitchen.

She joins a gourmet cookery course for healthy eating — just the thing for Boxing Day. The travel consultant is Robin Dewhurst. Writers are Robin Dewhurst and John Carter.

Oracle subtitles page 888 DIRECTORS ROY LOMAS, JIM POPLE, PAUL ANDERSEN, CHRISTOPHER PALMER, STEVE MINCHIN EDITOR PETER HUGHES PRODUCER CHRISTOPHER PALMER Thames Television Production

3.40pm The James Bond Film: Octopussy ROGER MOORE MAUD ADAMS British agent . . 009 is • - murdered in East Germany and clutched in his hand is what appears to be a priceless Faberge egg.

James Bond is called back to London to take over and is told by 'M' that the egg is actually a near-perfect forgery.

The real one is being auctioned at Sotheby's that afternoon. At the auction, Bond forces the price of the egg,

Michael Barrymore invites contestants to 'Strike It Lucky' for charity at 6.I5pm

7.30 to 8.00pm Coronation Street Audrey's got her work cut out keeping the lid on Alf's embarrassing little secret, but, unfortunately, walls — and children — have ears! And Don presents arch-enemy Mike with a challenge. One thing leads to another, with some surprising results.

Oracle subtitles page 888 This week's cast: Ken Barlow William Roache

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Anne Kirkbride A lex Gilroy Roy Barraclough Bet Gilroy Julie Goodyear Jack Duckworth William Tarmey V era Duckworth Elizabeth Dawn

Rita Fairclough

A ndrew O'Connor and Jessica Martin try to confound competitors in 'The Krypton Factor Grand Final, 7.00pm bought by Kamal, up to £550,000 — and switches eggs, leaving Kamal with the forgery.

When Kamal returns to India, Bond is ordered to follow him.

Octopussy continues after the ITN News and Sport.

See film guide beginning page 6

Oracle subtitles page 888 James Bond Roger Moore Octopussy Maud Adams Kamal Louis Jourdan Magda Kristina Wayborn Kabir Bedi Gobinda Orlov Steven Berkoff David Meyer Twin One Twin Two Tony Meyer V ijay Vijay Amritraj `Q' Desmond Llewellyn `11,F Robert Brown

Miss Moneypenny

Lois Maxwell Minister of Defence Geoffrey Keen 009 Andy Bradford SCREENPLAY GEORGE MacDONALD FRASER, RICHARD MAIBAUM, MICHAEL G WILSON DIRECTOR JOHN GLEN

5.00pm ITN News and Sports Results and Weather Forecast Summary

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5.15pm The James Bond Film: Octopussy Continued Oracle subtitles page 888

6.15pm Strike It Lucky MICHAEL BARRYMORE A special 'all favourites' Christmas edition, where previous contestants come back and try their hand at playing for charity.

Produced in association with Talbot Television.

RESEARCH JOANNA STEWART, SHEILA DUANE ASSOCIATE PRODUCER JOHN GRAHAM PRODUCER MAURICE LEONARD DIRECTOR BRIAN FENDERS Thames Television Production

7.00pm The Krypton Factor Grand Final GORDON BURNS At last — the Grand Final! Over the last 13 weeks the four

Barbara Knox A lan Bradley Mark Eden Mike Baldwin Johnny Briggs Mavis W ilton Thelma Barlow Derek W ilton Peter Baldwin Emily Bishop Eileen Derbyshire Percy Sugden Bill Waddington Phyllis Pearce Jill Summers Brian Roscoe Rob Dixson Tracy Barlow Dawn Acton Desk Sergeant Alan Meadows W Pc Maria Gough Constable Mark Jordan Punk teenage girl Angela Marie Freear Meths drinker George Malpass Ivy Brennan Lynne Perrie Don Brennan Geoff Hinsliff Sandra Stubbs Sally Watts Curly W atts Kevin Kennedy A lf Roberts Bryan Mosley

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5.05pm Cricket — The Women's World Cup Final The England women's cricket team has been in Australia battling in the world cup. If everything has gone to form, the final should be between England and Australia over 60 overs. The Channel 4 reporter in Melbourne is Anna Gregory.

PRODUCER DEREK BRANDON Cheerleader Production

6.00pm Faerie Tale Theatre SHELLEY DUVALL JEFF BRIDGES GENA ROWLANDS RODDY McDOWELL RAPUNZEL

The tale of Rapunzel, enhanced with special effects, exquisite sets and costumes, will melt any true romantic's heart.

Oracle subtitles page 888

Rapunzel/Mother Shelley Duvall The Prince Jeff Bridges The W itch Gena Rowlands Narrator Roddy McDowell WRITER J DAVID WYLES DIRECTOR GILBERT CATES

7.00pm News Summary and Weather

KENNETH BRANAGH DAVID PARFITT DEREK JACOBI JUDI DENCH GERALDINE McEWAN Last year actors Kenneth Branagh and David Parfitt formed the Renaissance Theatre Company. Following a successful production of'!• Twelfth Night, directed Li

by Kenneth Branagh, at S the Riverside, the company embarked on a nine-month tour with a Shakespeare season of three plays, Much A do A bout Nothing, A s You Like It and Hamlet. This programme looks at the company in rehearsal and on tour, it also features the directing debuts of Judi Dench, Geraldine McEwan and Derek Jacobi and explores the strengths and difficulties of actors as directors. The company's production of Twelfth Night can be seen on C4 on Friday at 9.00pm.

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER MARY GWATKIN Reconnaissance Films/MV Films Production

8.00 to 8.30pm Cheers CHRISTMAS CHEERS

Starting tonight, top American comedy shows at 8.00pm each evening this week. Sam is overjoyed when his last-minute Christmas gift for Rebecca inspires her to invite him to her apartment after work.

Oracle subtitles page 888 Sam Ted Danson Rebecca Kirstie Alley Rhea Perlman Carla Norm George Wendt Cliff John Ratzenberger W oody Woody Harrelson Frasier Kelsey Grammar Lilith Bebe Neuwirth Tracy Jayne Modean

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Warren Jackson WRITER ADELE ROSE STORIES TOM ELLIOTT, DIANE CULVERHOUSE DESIGNER STEPHEN GRAHAM DIRECTOR SPENCER CAMPBELL PRODUCER BILL PODMORE Granada Television Production

Shelley Duvall lets down her hair for an enchanting performance in Rapunzel' at 6.00pm

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8.00pm Minder

8.30pm Brookside

DENNIS WATERMAN GEORGE COLE Glynn Edwards

An unwelcome gift for the Collins... Brookside will be shown every evening this week.

AN OFFICER AND A CAR SALESMAN

Col Caplan (Richard Briers, second left) is outflanked by the mercenary manoeuvres of A rthur Daley (George Cole, centre). 'Minder'

BY TONY HOARE

A special 90-minute adventure. Arthur Daley has hit the big time — his own warehouse and an import/export business in counterfeit goods. He gets an order from Colonel Caplan, a war games enthusiast. Meanwhile, Terry gets a new job.

And Chisholm, in a new job as a security officer, is escorting a consignment of gold.

See page 111 Oracle subtitles page 888 Terry Dennis Waterman A rthur Daley George Cole Gatekeeper Jim Dunk Dixon Mark McManus Roger Simon Williams W illiams John Judd Caplan Richard Briers A ngie Diana Quick A lfie George Sweeney Chisholm Patrick Malahide Bindle Al Ashton Burns Clive Swift Glynn Edwards Dave Mason Garfield Morgan Rycott Peter Childs Jones Michael Povey Cooper Gary Raynsford Mitchell Nigel Miles-Thomas Casey Bill Leadbitter Gold refinery manager Gordon Salkilld Security f Martin Fisk guards 1 Sean Blowers A sst Commissioner Timothy Carlton Police officer lain Rattray EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JOHN HAMBLEY PRODUCER GEORGE TAYLOR DIRECTOR ROY WARD BAKER Thames Television Production

9.30pm After Henry

BY SIMON BRETT

PRUNELLA SCALES JOAN SANDERSON JANINE WOOD JONATHAN NEWTH A QUIET CHRISTMAS Sarah wants to enjoy a traditional Christmas, Russell wants to ignore Christmas completely, while Eleanor, wants to keep up with Vera.

Sarah Prunella Scales Eleanor Joan Sanderson Clare Janine Wood Russell Jonathan Newth V era Peggy Ann Wood Reveller Albert Welch Radio voices Mike O'Malley DESIGNER PHILIP BLOWERS PRODUCER/DIRECTOR PETER FRAZER-JONES Thames Television Production

10.00pm ITN News and Weather Forecast Summary

10.15pm Movie Premiere: Blackout RICHARD WIDMARK KEITH CARRADINE Former police • • detective Joe Steiner, now working as a private eye, is obsessed with finding the killer responsible for a long-unsolved murder case. When Chris Graham is pursued by a masked madman, Steiner is convinced that it's 'his' killer.

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12.00midnight Barcelona — a Musical Extravaganza MONTSERRAT CABALLE JOSE CARRERAS EDDY GRANT BARBARA HENDRICKS JERRY LEE LEWIS FREDDIE MERCURY RUDOLF NUREYEV with CHARLES JUDE JOAN MANEL SERRAT SPANDAU BALLET SUZANNE VEGA DIONNE WARWICK Rock meets opera in a

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magnificent outdoor setting as the city of Barcelona starts the celebrations which will lead up to the 1992 Olympic Games. From Verdi to Vega and Grant to Gershwin; from the rock 'n' roll of Spandau Ballet to the grace of classical ballet with Rudolf Nureyev; from a whole lotta shakin' with Jerry Lee Lewis to a whole lot of surprises including Spain's acclaimed operatic superstar Jose Carreras duetting with America's first lady of pop Dionne Warwick.

Plus the reunion of Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe who set the night sky ablaze with an emotional rendering of the city's adopted anthem Barcelona. And all in the presence of the King and Queen of Spain.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS JIM BEACH, HARVEY GOLDSMITH, JAVIER ITURRIOZ PRODUCER KEN SCORFIELD DIRECTOR GAVIN TAYLOR Hadrian Television/Dentso Production

followed by ITN News Headlines

Sam Julie Andrews Jenny Bo Derek Hugh Robert Webber Mary Dee Wallace David Sam Jones Bartender Brian Dennehy Reverend Max Showalter Josh Rad Daly Mrs Kissel Nedra Volz Fred James Noble Ethel Virginia Kiser SCREENPLAY/DIRECTOR BLAKE EDWARDS

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3.15am Quiz Night ROSS KING Tonight, The Chapel House from Timperley near Manchester play the Halfway House from Sevenoaks, Kent. Quiz Night returns in two weeks' time.

PROGRAMME CONSULTANTS DAVID ELIAS, SARA LOW RESEARCH LINDA CLIFFORD, SUE HALL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER STEPHEN LEAHY PRODUCER/DIRECTOR CRISPIN EVANS Granada Television Production

3.45 to 5.00am Whistling in Dixie

1.00am Starring Dudley Moore...

'10' JULIE ANDREWS BO DEREK The famous romantic sex • •%WO • - comedy.

Song writer George is depressed by the onslaught of middle age. He becomes fascinated by an attractive young bride named Jenny. In fact, he becomes so obsessed by the girl that he follows the newly-wed couple on their honeymoon.

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When Wally Benton wants a two-week break for his honeymoon and his sponsor says 'No', he develops a peculiar illness — every time he hears the word `murder' he gets the shakes. But he shortly gets the shakes for real in an adventure involving a chest full of Civil War bullion. .•

Oracle subtitles page 888 This week's cast: A nnabelle Doreen Sloane Paul Jim Wiggins Billy John McArdle Rod Jason Hope Tracy Justine Kerrigan Sheila Sue Johnston Chrissy Eithne Browne Frank Peter Christian 'Growler' Kevin Carson Katie Debbie Reynolds Sammy Rachel Lindsay Jonathan Steven Pinner Jennifer Calvert Cheryl Terry Brian Regan Julia Gladys Ambrose Kirsty Joanne Black Gordon Mark Burgess Jimmy Dean Sullivan Mr Fallon Brian Matheson Barry Paul Usher Sue Annie Miles Mona Margaret Clifton Noreen Kershaw Kathy Brian Vincent Maguire Ted Gerry Fogharty Sinbad Michael Starke Michael Michael Gunn Priest Ray Callaghan Linda Carol Holmes Marsland Kenneth Hadley M ick y David Edge Y oung Micky Andrew Hilton Danny Lorne Walker WRITER KATHLEEN POTTER DESIGNER CAROL SHEERAN DIRECTOR KEN HORN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PHIL REDMOND Mersey Television Production

9.00pm Ginger and Fred MARCELLO MASTROIANNI Amelia and Pippo used to perform in cabaret as 'Ginger and Fred', imitating the most popular Astaire-Rogers

A melia Bonetti, `Ginger' Giulietta Masina Pippo Botticella, 'Fred' Marcello Mastroianni Show host Franco Fabrizi A dmiral Frederick von Ledenburg

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11.25pm Le Tango Stupdfiant HELENE DELAVAULT Filmed at the Almeida Theatre, London, accompanied by pianist Claude Lavoix, French opera star Helene Delavault evokes the cabarets of the turn of the century.

PRODUCERS GLENN WILHIDE, SOPHIE BALHETCHET DIRECTOR ANN FOREMAN ZED Production

12.25pm to 2.10am Fritz Lang: The Return of Frank fames HENRY FONDA Jesse James is dead. But his brother Frank is living quietly as a farmer after years of outlawry. He is content until he hears that the governor has pardoned the killer — Bob Ford.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Frank James Henry Fonda Eleanor Gene Tierney Clem Jackie Cooper Bob Ford John Carradine Maj Rufus Todd Henry Hull Runyan j Edward Bromberg McCoy Donald Meek SCREENPLAY SAM HELLMAN DIRECTOR FRITZ LANG

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Anglia 5.00am ITN Morning News ZEINAB BADAWI

6.00 TV-am About Britain Running A jogger's-eye view of Britain.

7.00 GMB Sport Presented by Geoff Clark with further coverage of all the most important Christmas sports action. A very special Christmas guest list includes footballing expert Lawrie McMenemy, heptathlete Judy Simpson, snooker ace Steve Davis, rugby star Will Carling and best British woman javelin thrower, Fatima Whitbread.

Plus, reports, results and viewer's letters in Sportsbag.

9.00 Wacaday Presented by Timmy Mallett. More fun and games out and about.

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ELIZABETH ESTENSEN JOHN HASLER T-Bag hates Christmas and when she discovers that Santa Claus is about to start his travels to the many chimney pots all over the world, she sets out to stop him.

T-Bag Elizabeth Estensen T -S hirt John Hasler Edward James Hillier-Brook Mrs Jolly Veronica Clifford S anta John Blythe DESIGNER JOHN PLANT EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CHARLES WARREN PRODUCER/DIRECTOR LEON THAU Thames Television Production

General Stryker, a member of Hitler's headquarter staff, to evacuate the riding school of which he is a director. As the first bombs fall on Vienna, the fate of the prized Lipizzaner horses becomes a desperate matter...

See film guide, beginning page 6 Col Podhajsky Robert Taylor V erena Podhajsky Lilli Palmer Gen Tellheim Curt Jurgens Eddie Albert Rider Otto Maj Hoffman James Franciscus Gen Patton John Larch Countess A rco-V alley Brigitte Homey Col Reed Philip Abbott US General Douglas Fowley Gen Stryker Charles Regnier SCREENPLAY A J CAROTHERS, BASED ON THE BOOK THE DA NCING W HITE HORSES OF V IENNA BY COLONEL ALOIS PODHAJSKY DIRECTOR ARTHUR HILLER

9.50am Disney at Christmas: The Miracle of 12.00noon the White NEW Stallions Mr & Mrs During the final months of World War Two, Colonel Podhajsky has been denied permission by

T-Shirt and Edward see `T-Bag's Christmas Cracker' explode at 9.25am

DEREK BATEY DONNA MAYERS This happy, friendly quiz show once again invites three married couples to prove how much - or how little they know about each other. Derek Batey asks the questions and Donna Mayers makes the introductions and hands over the prizes.

There are jackpots that can run into thousands of pounds and bonus prizes along the way.

DESIGNER IAN REED DIRECTOR NORMAN FRASER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DEREK BATEY Border Television Production

12.30 to 12.40pm ITN News

Teenagers on the same wavelength in 'Transatlantic Diary' at l0.30am

9.30am Sesame Street Slimy helps with the gardening. The guest star is Jose Carreras, the letters are I and K and the number is 2.

10.30am Transatlantic Diary Continuing the repeat series of A ssignment A dventure, this programme follows the hazardous exploits and unexpected achievements of 20 teenage sailors who took part in the ill-fated 1984 Transatlantic Tall Ships Race. The narrator is Terence Stamp.

WRITER/DIRECTOR CHRIS HAWS PRODUCERS PETER BICKNELL, ANDRE SINGER Oxford Ethnographic Film Production

11.30am Street Hockey The challengers from the north of England, The Wigan Wildcats, meet the Maulers from Kent in a quarter final in the Tennent's Super National Street Hockey Championships from Leicester.

12.00noon Rowing

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Riding high: Col Podhajsky (Robert Taylor) in 'The Miracle of the W hite Stallions' at 9.50am

WESTMINSTER SERPENTINE REGATTA Introduced by Richard Keys. Hyde Park, London, is host to a real festival of rowing.

Olympic medallists from around the world compete on a 500 metre sprint course on the Serpentine. Included in the British team are

Andy Holmes and Steve Redgrave who won both gold and bronze medals in Seoul. There are also races for Dragon Boats, Cornish gigs, kayaks, youth fours and punts. With commentators John Helm and Roger Thomas. Organised in association with the London Electricity Board and Air France.

DIRECTOR STEVE DOCHERTY PRODUCER BRIAN VENNER TSL Production

5.00am ITN Morning. News 6.00 TV-am 9.25 T-Bag's Christmas Cracker 9.50 Film: The Miracle of the White Stallions 12noon Mr & Mrs 12.30pm ITN News 12.40 Film: Shane 2.50 The Match 4.55 ITN News and Weather 5.00 Run the Gauntlet Christmas Special 6.00 With Hilarious Consequences 7.30 Prove It 8.00 The Bill 8.30 Executive Stress 9.00 Boon 10.00 ITN News and Weather 10.15 Film: Hound of the Baskervilles 12.10am Tina Turner Break Every Rule f/b News 1.15 Film: Battleflag f/b ITN News 3.30 America's Top 10 4.35 Fifty Years On -

12.30pm Channel 4 Racing from Kempton Park Introduced by Brough Scott The second afternoon of the Bank Holiday Festival draws to a close Channel 4's racing coverage for 1988. It ends in style with the big race of the day at 1.45.

12.45 Rank Motorway Services Novices' Chase (2m) 1.15 Odeon Cinemas H'cap Chase (3m) 1.45 Top Rank Christmas Hurdle (2m) 2.20 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' H'cap Chase (2m 4f) Race commentator Graham Goode; paddock commentators John Oaksey, John Francome; interviewer Derek Thompson; betting and results John Tyrrel and John McCririck.

2.45 to 3.10pm On the Twelfth Day A George K Arthur film interpreting the song about the twelve days of Christmas.

C4 9.30am Sesame Street 10.30 Transatlantic Diary 11.30 Street Hockey 12noon Rowing 12.30pm Channel 4 Racing 2.45 On the Twelfth Day 3.10 Anne of Green Gables 5.00 American Football 6.00 Faerie Tale Theatre 7.00 News, Weather f/b Remembering Marilyn 8.00 The Cosby Show 8.30 Brookside 9.00 Othello 12.40am Film: Fury 2.25 Close

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Anglia 12.40pm Shane ALAN LADD JEAN ARTHUR VAN HEFLIN Wyoming, 1890: A group of weary homesteaders are losing their battle against merciless Rufe Ryker and his band of cut-throat hirelings.

Then Shane, buckskinclad and mysterious, stops at the ranch where Joe Starrett, his wife Marian and their son Joey are struggling to make a home. A gunman who has decided to give up gunfighting, Shane comes in on the side of the homesteaders.

Desperate, Ryker brings in Wilson, a smiling professional gunslinger.

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THE MITSUBISHI SHOGUN CHALLENGE A host of showbiz and sporting personalities join the specialists prepared to tackle another daunting series of adventure games.

Martin Shaw has gathered together a team which includes star presenters Emma Freud, Peter Duncan and Mike Read alongside Olympic gold medallists Wilf O'Reilly and Duncan Goodhew.

They face a team marshalled by the mighty Geoff Capes.

His line-up includes Linda Lusardi, champion water-skier Liz Hobbs, actor Rodney Bewes and rugby's Andy Ripley.

Commentator Martin Tyler takes you through the highlights of the action.

EVENT PRODUCER ALAN MORTON ASSOCIATE PRODUCER KIT WILLIAMS DIRECTOR JIM BROWN SERIES PRODUCER JULIAN GRANT EXECUTIVE PRODUCER KEITH MOSEDALE A Creative A ction Production for Thames Television

SCREENPLAY A B GUTHRIE JR DIRECTOR GEORGE STEVENS

6.00pm With Hilarious Consequences

NORWICH CITY v WEST HAM UNITED live from Carrow Road The early season pacesetters Norwich City make their 'live' television debut for the season in what promises to be a flowing encounter against West Ham at • Carrow Road. The Canaries have surprised many who tipped them for relegation by starting the season in such cracking form, while West Ham have been having real problems — particularly in defence. Martin Tyler is your commentator, with presentation by Elton Welsby and expert analysis from Ian St John.

PRODUCTION TEAM JIM RAMSEY, CHRIS RHYS, CAROLE CHESSUN DIRECTORS STUART WILSON, LEN CAYNES EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JEFF FOULSER Independent Television Sport Production

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5.00pm Run the Gauntlet Christmas Special

Shane Alan Ladd Marian Starrett Jean Arthur Joe Starrett Van Heflin W ilson Jack Palance Joey Starrett Brandon De Wilde Chris Calloway Ben Johnson Rufe Ryker Emile Meyer Torrey Elisha Cook Jr Morgan Ryker John Dierkes

2.50pm The Match

BY GEORGE LAYTON

DENIS NORDEN Writer and presenter Denis Norden looks back over 21 years of situation-comedy from Thames Television.

Every story has its own 'hilarious consequences' — and many television stars of yesterday and today are involved.

Among those appearing are: Lynda Baron, Hywel Bennett, Richard Briers, Peter Butterworth, Simon Callow, Patrick Cargill, Harry H Corbett, Diana Coupland, Wendy Craig, Jim Davidson, Windsor Davies, Paul Eddington, Bruce Forsyth, Irene Handl, Bernard Hepton, Sidney James, Jimmy Jewel, Yootha Joyce, Roy Kinnear, Rosemary Leach, Henry McGee, Brian Murphy, Richard O'Sullivan, Beryl Reid, Anton Rodgers, Leonard Rossiter, Prunella Scales, Donald Sinden, Paula Wilcox and Tessa Wyatt.

PROGRAMME ASSOCIATE NEIL SHAND ASSOCIATE PRODUCER COLIN WILLIAMS PRODUCER MALCOM MORRIS DIRECTOR DAVID CLARK Thames Television Production

Driver Martin Shaw, Koo Stark, Rodney Bewes and Linda Lusardi Run the Gauntlet'

DESIGNER ANNE DIAMOND DIRECTOR DAVID ASKEY PRODUCER JAMES GILBERT Thames Television Production

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7.30pm Prove It CHRIS TARRANT Chris Tarrant presents this special festive edition of the show.

Tonight there's a special welcome for a Chinese-Cockney Flamenco dancer, a man who says he'll sing the phone book, a motor-car that has an unusual reverse, and .

John Ward who finally invents what the world has been waiting for.

DIRECTORS MARTIN SCOTT, JOHN GORMAN PRODUCERS DANNY GREENSTONE, RICHARD HEARSEY TV S Production

8.00pm The Bill DIGGING UP THE PAST

W pc A ckland Trudie Goodwin Ch Insp Conway Ben Roberts Pc Frank Ashley Gunstock W pc Martella Nula Conwell Insp Frazer Barbara Thorn Pc Ramsey Nick Redino Pc Edwards Colin Blumenau Roger Leach Sgt Penny A lbert Mike Savage Shirley Cryer Jackie Abbey Taylor Patrick Cryer Jeremy Hodge SOCO Tessa Peake-Jones DI Burnside Christopher Ellison Dc Carver Mark Wingett Ch Insp W altham Glynn Sweet Peter Schwartz Ron Berglas SERIES DEVISER GEOFF McQUEEN DESIGNERS STUART McCARTHY, JILL REEDMAN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PETER CREGEEN PRODUCER MICHAEL FERGUSON DIRECTOR BARRY DAVIS Thames Television Production

BY BARRY APPLETON

Building workers unearth a skeleton. Pcs Ramsey and Edwards investigate a ticket forger. Sgt Cryer tries to come to terms with the fact that his son has been charged with a serious offence.

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Caroline Fairchild Penelope Keith Donald Fairchild Peter Bowles A nthea Duxbury Elizabeth Counsel] Edgar Frankland Harry Ditson Tim Jackson Vincent Brimble Peter Davenport Geoffrey Whitehead Jill McKinna Jill Benedict Mrs Jessop Su Douglas Pauline Sophie Thursfield Tracey Annabel Burton Jan Ruppe Nanny Mark Caven A nthony Telephonist Hilary Townley

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9.00pm Boon CREATED BY JIM HILL AND BILL STAIR

MICHAEL ELPHICK DAVID DAKER AMANDA BURTON NEIL MORRISSEY guests JUDY GEESON KRISTOFFER TABORI and special guest JOAN HICKSON ONE REBORN EVERY MINUTE

BY KIERAN PRENDIVILLE

Jed Marshall, an American evangelist touring Britain, calls in Ken and Margaret to investigate apparent acts of sabotage while he is at the Plaza Suite.

Harry becomes concerned that his elderly friend Delia is pinning too much faith on Marshall's claims to effect miraculous cures.

Special songs and incidental music by Dean Friedman. This episode features Joan Hickson, better known as TV's Miss Marple, in one of her rare appearances outside that role.

Luke Hennessey Rolf Saxon L ee Ian Tyler

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Judy Geeson Ken Boon Michael Elphick Harry Crawford David Daker Margaret Daly Amanda Burton Kelly Hunter Helen Delia Joan Hickson Rocky Cassidy Neil Morrissey Derek W allace Seymour Matthews Paul Fabricius Louis Mahoney Pub landlord Ralph Lawton Mr A l'sop Edmund Pegge Heather Dawn Gosling Linda Teddie Thompson Gareth Pritchard Martin Gower Owen Pritchard Si6n Tudor Owen Cledwyn Pritchard Richard Davies Doctor Rashid Karapiet Man with bad leg Laurence Rew DESIGNER KEN RYAN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER WILLIAM SMETHURST ASSOCIATE PRODUCER MICHAEL MURRAY PRODUCER ESTA CHARKHAM DIRECTOR LAURENCE MOODY Central Production

10.00pm ITN News and Weather Forecast Summary

10.15pm Movie Premiere: The Hound of the Baskervilles IAN RICHARDSON DONALD CHURCHILL DENHOLM ELLIOTT MARTIN SHAW GLYNIS BARBER Baskerville Hall, Devon: a hound howls, Sir Charles Baskerville's dead body is found by his butler, Barrymore. Near to the body are paw prints of a giant hound. Cause of death? Fright. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are called in to investigate...

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Sherlock Holmes Ian Richardson Dr W atson Donald Churchill Dr Mortimer Denholm Elliott Jack Stapleton Nicholas Clay Sir Henry Baskerville Martin Shaw Beryl Stapleton Glynis Barber Mr Barrymore Edward Judd Mrs Barrymore Eleanor Judd Geoffrey Lyons Brian Blessed Laura Lyons Connie Booth Insp Lestrade Ronald Lacey Sir Charles Baskerville David Langton

Programmes in adjoining areas are as A nglia except for: CENTRAL 3.30 America's AllTime Christmas Top 10; 4.30 to 5.00am Grace Jones.

SCREENPLAY CHARLES POUGE, BASED ON THE STORY BY SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE DIRECTOR DOUGLAS H1CKOX

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12.10am Tina Turner — Break Every Rule 'There are many types of performers — crooners, comics and jokers. I'm no crooner and I'm no joker... I consider myself a croaker!' The singer who's been described as the raunchiest lady on stage performs many of her best-known numbers including River Deep Mountain High, Don't Leave Me This Way and Help Me Make It Through the Night. followed by ITN News Headlines

1.15am Battleflag

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dying comrade, aristocratic Austrian cadet-officer Fahnrich Menis receives the tattered regimental battleflag — and valiantly tries to hold on to it during the chaotic final days of the First World War. This symbol of the disintegrating Hapsburg Empire stays with him as he falls in

love for the first time. A

footage. Highlights include early home movies of Marilyn's childhood and teenage years and her first television appearance on the Jack Benny Show. Narrated by Lee Remick.

German film with English dialogue.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Fahnrich Menis Simon Ward The colonel Wolfgang Preiss Baron Hackenberg Peter Cushing Charbinsky Jon Finch Bottenla uben Siegfried Rauch Viktor Staal A nton Veronica Forque Rasa A nschutz Gerd Bockmann K lein Robert Hoffmann English officer David Robb Lil Dagover Duchess Maria Perschy Mordax The general Friedrich V Ledebur SCREENPLAY HERBERT ASMODI DIRECTOR OTTO KARL RUNZE

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3.10pm Anne of Green Gables

8.00pm The Cosby Show

Concluding this repeated two-part adaptation of the classic novel. The twopart sequel starts tomorrow.

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For cast, see Monday

followed by ITN News Headlines

3.30am America's Top 10 The Top 10 best-selling Christmas records of all time, presented by Casey Kasem, featuring Bing Crosby, Johnny Mathis, Paul McCartney and Band Aid. Perennial favourites such as W hite Christmas.

4.35 to 5.00am Fifty Years On More vintage newsreel clips.

Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) finds a young boy beaten up in a playground.

5.00pm American Football The Super Bowl XXIII play-offs start with two wild card games. With Mick Luckhurst and John Smith.

PRODUCER MIKE WILMOT Cheerleader Production supported by the Daily Telegraph

6.00pm Faerie Tale Theatre ERIC IDLE THE PIED PIPER

A country gentleman in Victorian England tells Robert Browning's famous tale.

Oracle subtitles page 888 Robert/The Pied Piper Eric Idle W illie Keram Malecki Sanchez Mayor Tony Van Bridge

8.30pm Brookside Problems abound for Sinbad and Barry.

Oracle subtitles page 888 For cast, see Monday WRITER PETER COX

9.00pm Othello JOHN KANI JOANNA WEINBERG This production of Shakespeare's tragedy marked the directorial debut of Janet Suzman and was staged in her native South Africa by the Market Theatre of Johannesburg. Casting black actor John Kani in the title role, the production caused a sensation there because of its strong story, sensuality and political relevance.

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Emilia Roderigo

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12.40 to 2.25am Fritz Lang: Fury SPENCER TRACY Joe Wilson is on his way to meet the girl he plans to marry.

Passing through a small town where there has been a kidnapping, Joe is picked up and thrown in jail.

Made in black and white

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Joe W ilson Spencer Tracy Katharine Grant Sylvia Sidney Kirby Dawson Bruce Cabot Walter Abel DA Bugs Meyers Walter Brennan Sheriff Edward Ellis Charlie Frank Albertson Tom George Walcott Jackson George Chandler Garrett Morgan Wallace Defence attorney Jonathan Hale V ickery Edwin Maxwell Durkin Arthur Stone

A tribute to Marilyn Monroe including never before released newsreel and film

SCREENPLAY BARTLETT CORMACK, FRITZ LANG DIRECTOR FRITZ LANG

WRITER/DIRECTOR NICHOLAS MEYER

7.00pm News Summary and Weather followed by

The magic of Monroe, from childhood to superstar, is captured in 'Remembering Marilyn' at 7.00pm

Denis Norden selects highlights from British situation comedies — 'W ith Hilarious Consequences'. Laughs comm e at 6.00pm

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Anglia 5.00am ITN Morning News DAVID CASS

6.00 TV-am The Morning Programme

Richard Keyes returns after the Christmas break with topical features and news reports. News bulletins are read by Geoff Meade with weather from Carol Dooley.

7.00 Good Morning Britain

Presented by Mike Morris and Kathryn Holloway along with today's celebrity guest and news read by Geoff Meade.

Gyles Brandreth's Christmas 'postbag' for younger viewers and Christmas film reviews from Paul Gambaccini.

9.00 Wacaday

Timmy Mallett enlivens the Christmas holidays with games, competitions and seasonal features.

9.25am Rikki Tikki Tavi Highly-praised cartoon based on the famous Jungle Book story by Rudyard Kipling about a mongoose who wages a great war against a family of cobras.

9.55am Anglia News and Weather

10.00am The Phantom of the Opera Animated version of the classic spine-tingler about a disfigured madman who haunts the shadows of the Paris Opera House.

Rarely seen, the blackclad figure, eyes burning bright through his mask, is the embodiment of terror.

No one knows when he will appear next, but when he does, he will leave death in his wake.

Featuring the voices of Aiden Grennell, Daniel Reardon, Collette Proctor, Jim Reid and Joseph Taylor.

10.55am ITN News Headlines

MARTIN SHAW GB v USA v HOLLAND v AUSTRALASIA â&#x20AC;˘ A superfit team of action sports specialists from the United Kingdom takes on the United States, Holland and a combined Australia/New Zealand team in the ultimate adventure sport contest. Champions from the worlds of land, air and water sports compete in a series of action games and races, combining skill and endurance. Over the next three days you can share the excitement with presenter Martin Shaw and commentator Martin Tyler.

EVENT PRODUCER ALAN MORTON ASSOCIATE PRODUCER KIT WILLIAMS DIRECTOR JIM BROWN SERIES PRODUCER JULIAN GRANT EXECUTIVE PRODUCER KEITH MOSEDALE A Creative A ction Production for Thames Television

11.55am Anglia News

evicted from their small suburban home. There is insufficient money to buy Christmas presents and Ginny mopes around in bitter despair, snapping at the children when they dare voice their belief in Santa Claus. Hope is around the corner, in the shape of an enigmatic stranger called Gideon.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Ginny Grainger Mary Steenburgen Gideon Harry Dean Stanton Caleb Grainger Arthur Hill Jack Grainger Gary Basaraba A bbie Elizabeth Harnois Robbie Magwood Cal Betty Michelle Meyrink Eddie Elias Koteas Harry Dickens Wayne Robson Santa Claus Jan Rubes SCREENPLAY THOMAS MEEHAN DIRECTOR PHILLIP BORSOS

3.15pm Disney's Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom The classic Disney cartoon in which an owl instructs a class of birds in the history of music.

12.00noon Mr & Mrs

DIRECTORS WARD KIMBALL, C AUGUST NICHOLS

DEREK BATEY DONNA MAYERS How much do you know about your other half? Have a go at the questions Derek Batey asks today's contestants and see if you could have won some of the prizes Donna Mayers hands out.

3.25pm Anglia News

12.30pm The Sullivans Kitty announces that she is pregnant.

ITN News at One 1.20pm Anglia News and Weather

1.30pm Disney's One Magic Christmas MARY STEENBURGEN The Grainger family is facing a sad Christmas: Jack has lost his job, Ginny is hardly managing to pay the bills on her supermarket check-out salary and they and their children, Abbie and Cal, are being

TVTIMES 17 December-1 January

3.30 to 4.00pm Sons and Daughters Alison blows her top over breakfast and ends up with jam on her face.

This week's cast: Gordon Hamilton Brian Blain W ayne Ian Rawlings Charlie Sarah Kemp David Palmer Tom Richards Caroline Morrell Abigail A lison Carr Belinda Giblin Beryl Palmer Leila Hayes A ndy Green Danny Roberts R obert Jared Malcolm Janice Reid Rima Te Wiata M ay Georgie Sterling Glen Y oung Mark Conroy Jared Robinson Craig Debbie Shannon Kenny Susan Oriana Panozzo Doug Normie Rowe Pat McDonald Fiona Jayson Duncan Ian Cox Bjorn Marian Dworakowski

ITV variations Programmes in adjoining areas are as A nglia except for THAMES 12.30 to 1.00pm Country Practice; 6.00 to 6.30pm Thames News.

CENTRAL 12.30 to 1.00pm Star Collectors: Something to Treasure Special; 3.30 to 4.00 The Young Doctors; 6.00 to 6.30pm Central News.

TVS 3.30 to 4.00pm The Young Doctors; 6.00 to 6.30pm Coast to Coast.

YORKSHIRE 12.30 to 1.00pm Young Doctors; 6.00 to 6.30pm Calendar.

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ITV Desmond Douglas in `The Leeds Test Series'. See 'Table Tennis' at 12.00noon

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9.30am Sesame Street

1.00pm Olympics '88

Discussing discussions.

The letters are B and D. The number is 5. Guest star Suzanne Farrell.

BARRY NORMAN A Personal Review of the Olympics and Paralympics in Seoul The most successful Olympics of modern times involved 9,600 competitors from 160 nations. The people of South Korea won the hearts of the world with their warm welcome, splendid facilities and slick organisation.

Barry Norman, who hosted C4's nightly programme, takes a personal look back at the pageantry and the moments that meant most to him - the five Gold Medal successes for Britain, Flo-Jo's glory, and many more.

Also, a look back at the second Olympics staged in Seoul - the 1988 Paralympics.

10.30am The Hidden Kingdom - A Himalayan Adventure The ancient kingdom of Bhutan lies at the eastern end of the Himalayan chain that divides India from China. It is a kingdom almost untouched by the influence of the world outside and has been inaccessible by road or air for all but the last two decades.

For Western mountaineers, Bhutan's greatest mountain, Gangkar Punsum, which rises to over 24,500 feet, is the highest peak in the world to remain unclimbed. The film follows the adventures of a major British expedition which last year set out to conquer its summit.

John Gau Production

11.30am Street Hockey Another visit to Leicester for the first semi-final between two London teams in the Tennent's Super National Street Hockey Championships.

12.00noon Table Tennis THE LEEDS TEST SERIES The first in a series of three test matches played between the fast improving England team and the world champions China. The England squad includes Desmond Douglas, Alan Cooke and Carl Prean.

The second test can be seen tomorrow at noon, the third on Friday.

PRODUCER DEREK BRANDON Cheerleader Production

5.00am ITN Morning News 6.00 TV-am 9.25 Rikki Tikki Tani 9.55 Anglia News and Weather 10.00 The Phantom of the Opera 10.55 ITN News Headlines 11.00 Run the Gauntlet 11.55 Anglia News 12noon Mr & Mrs 12.30pm The Sullivans 1.00 ITN News At One 1.20 Anglia News and Weather 1.30 Film: One Magic Christmas 3.15 Film: Disney's Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom 3.25 Anglia News 3.30 Sons and Daughters 4.00 Cartoon Time 4.15 The Thief 5.15 Blockbusters 5.45 ITN News 6.00 About Anglia 6.30 Emmerdale Farm 7.00 This Is Your Life 7.30 Coronation Street 8.00 Des O'Connor Tonight 9.00 Rumpole of the Bailey 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 Anglia Late News & Weather 10.20 Film: Top Secret 12m't Joan Armatrading in Concert f/b News 1.00 Film: Robbery f/b ITN News 3.05 1988 Country & Western Awards Show f/b News 4.00 Ice Skating

PRODUCERS JOHN KILLEEN, JOHN D TAYLOR ITV Sport Production

2.25 to 4.45pm Anne of Green Gables - The Sequel

BY L M MONTGOMERY ADAPTED BY KEVIN SULLIVAN

MEGAN FOLLOWS Channel 4 continues with the two-part sequel based on the later A nne books. Now grown up, Anne has become a teacher, but of course continues her writing. However, when she fails to get her articles published, she decides to spread her wings and take a teaching post away from Prince Edward Island, leaving behind her family, friends and beau, Gilbert Blythe.

Part two is tomorrow.

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Marilla Colleen Dewhurst Gilbert Blythe Jonathan Crombie Mrs Harris Wendy Hiller Morgan Harris Frank Converse PRODUCER/DIRECTOR KEVIN SULLIVAN Sullivan Films Production

C4 9.30am Sesame Street 10.30 The Hidden Kingdom A Himalayan Adventure 11.30 Street Hockey 12noon Table Tennis 1.00pm Olympic Highlights 2.25 Anne of Green Gables The Sequel 4.45 Hand in Hand 5.15 First Love 6.00 Faerie Tale Theatre 7.00 C4 News 7.50 Comment f/b Weather 8.00 Kate & Allie 8.30 Brookside 9.00 Eugene Onegin 11.10 Kazuko's Karaoke Klub 11.55 Film: Ministry of Fear 1.30am Film: Time to Remember 2.40 Close -

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Anglia 4.00pm Cartoon Time An animated double bill: Speedy and Daffy in Swing Ding A migos, and Yosemite Sam in Pancho's Hideaway.

4.15pm The Thief

BY JAN NEEDLE

A one-off children's drama. Kevin is a prime suspect when money is stolen from a teacher's purse at school. No one believes he has turned over a new leaf. Worse still, his dreams of finding treasure in local caves takes a dramatic turn when he and his friends are confronted by villains and a vicious dog.

Kevin Martino Lazzeri Nicholas Delve Buzz Vanessa Halsey Jenny Kerryann White Tracey Kevin's mum Janette Legge Miss Smith Holly De Jong Rudolph Walker Paddy Dean Winters Jack A lan Ozzie Stevens Martin Phillips Bob Michael Burns Tim Detective Carl Proctor Kairen Kemp Librarian

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associate is Eric Davidson, special material by Eddie Braben.

Boxing Day festivities at the farm mean Give Us a Clue time for Annie and the family. Wilks plugs into his Christmas present and Turner falls asleep where he shouldn't.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER JOHN GRAHAM PROGRAMME ASSOCIATE NEIL SHAND DESIGNER HARRY CLARK PRODUCER/DIRECTOR BRIAN PENDERS Thames Television Production

This week's cast: A nnie Sugden Sheila Mercier Matt Skilbeck Frederick Pyne A mos Brearly Ronald Magill Henry W ilks Arthur Pentelow Joe Sugden Frazer Hines Dolly Skilbeck Jean Rogers Jackie Merrick Ian Sharrock Kathy Merrick Malandra Burrows Sandie Merrick Jane Hutcheson A lan Turner Richard Thorp Diana Davies Mrs Bates Tony Pitts A rchie Nick Bates Cy Chadwick Kate Hughes Sally Knyvette Phil Pearce Peter Alexander Eric Pollard Christopher Chittell Sgt MacA rthur Martin Dale Sam Skilbeck Benjamin Whitehead WRITER PETER J HAMMOND DESIGNER ROY COLDRICK DIRECTOR HENRY FOSTER PRODUCER STUART DOUGHTY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER KEITH RICHARDSON Y orkshire Television Production

7.00pm This Is Your Life

A famous artist dies in mysterious circumstances and his young wife is accused of his murder. Rumpole, on a strict diet to lose weight, suspects the artist may have committed suicide.

Head of Chambers, Samuel Ballard, preoccupied with a keep-fit campaign, is leading Rumpole in the trial. Then a selfimposed injury sends Ballard away from Court, leaving Rumpole free to step in.

DESIGNERS ANNE DIAMOND, BILL PALMER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER LLOYD SHIRLEY PRODUCER JACQUELINE DAVIS DIRECTOR ROGER BAMFORD Thames Television Production

DIRECTORS DAVID CLARK, BRIAN KLEIN PRODUCER MALCOLM MORRIS

BOB HOLNESS Eager teenage contestants have their fingers poised on the buzzer when Bob Holness poses the questions that could lead to the Gold Run trail and exciting prizes, including travel to faraway places.

Thames Television Production

7.30pm Coronation Street Deirdre looks for a pat on the back but gets something more akin to a slap in the face. And a return gesture from Mike leads to an evening fraught with devastating repercussions.

ALASTAIR STEWART

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with guests join Des and an all-star line-up of guests for the last show in the current series. Music director is Colin Keyes. Script

5.15pm Blockbusters

HELEN McDERMOTT CHRISTINE WEBBER ALASTAIR YATES News, views and features on life in the East of England. The newscaster is John Bacon. Also, a look at tomorrow's weather.

LEO McKERN with ROBIN BAILEY PETER BLYTHE JONATHAN COY JULIAN CURRY MARION MATHIE ABIGAIL McKERN RICHARD MURDOCH

8.00pm Des O'Connor Tonight

DESIGNER DAVID MARSHALL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ALAN HORROX PRODUCER SHEILA KINANY DIRECTOR NEVILLE GREEN Thames Television Production

6.00pm About Anglia

BY JOHN MORTIMER

Oracle subtitles page 888 Perdita Derwent Helen Fitzgerald Sir Daniel Derwent William Squire Helen Derwent Caroline Goodall Barbara Derwent Constance Chapman Horace Rumpole Leo McKern Dr McA ndrew Robert James Samuel Ballard, QC Peter Blythe Liz Probert Abigail McKern Claude Erskine-Brown Julian Curry Henry Jonathan Coy Dianne Maureen Darbyshire Uncle Tom Richard Murdoch Mr B ernard Denis Lill Hilda Rumpole Marion Mathie Lady cashier Jeillo Edwards David Inchcape Michael Grandage Matron Rowena Cooper Judge Gerald Graves Robin Bailey Marcus Griffin, QC Richard Cordery Usher William Lawford Clerk of the court Arthur Blake Nurse Gregson Avril Clark HoskinS Denys Graham Phyllida Erskine-Brown, QC Patricia Hodge Lady Marigold Featherstone Joanna Van Gyseghem Justice Gwent-Evans Maurice Denham Judge George Frobisher Moray Watson Peter Cartwright Keith

MICHAEL ASPEL Who is going to get the surprise of a lifetime tonight when Michael Aspel pops up with the famous Red Book?

That's a secret revealed at 7.00pm. Programme consultant is Roy Bottomley.

ITN News at 5.45

9.00pm Rumpole of the Bailey

Old hack and junior barrister (Leo and A bigail McKern) join forces in Rumpole of the Bailey': 9.00pm

10.00pm News at Ten 10.15pm Anglia Late News and Weather 10.20pm Movie Premiere: Top Secret!

VAL KILMER LUCY GUTTERIDGE A zany spoof on wartime spy films from the makers of A irplane . American rock star Nick Rivers arrives in East Germany to perform at a prestigious cultural festival. But the event is actually part of a plan to divert attention from General Streck's scheme to reunite East and West Germany under one rule.

Tomorrow the world?

See film guide, beginning page 6 Val Kilmer Nick Rivers Hillary Flammond Lucy Gutteridge

Gen Streck Jeremy Kemp

Nigel Christopher Villiers

Col von Horst Warren Clarke Cedric Smythe Omar Sharif Dr Flammond Michael Gough Bookstore proprietor Peter Cushing Harry Ditson Du Quois Jim Carter Deja V u Chocolate Mousse Eddie Tagoe L atrine Dimitri Andreas Maj Crumpler Tristram Jellinek Martin Billy J Mitchell Biletnikov Richard Mayes Madam Bergerone Vyvyan Lorrayne Ian McNeice Blind man Maitre d' John Sharp Klaus John Carney SCREENPLAY JIM ABRAHAMS, DAVID ZUCKER, JERRY ZUCKER, MARTYN BURKE DIRECTORS JIM ABRAHAMS, DAVID ZUCKER, JERRY ZUCKER

12.00midnight Joan Armatrading: the Concert Joan Armatrading and her band recorded at London's Hammersmith Odeon at the end of a recent world tour. The set includes songs from Joan's latest album The Shouting Stage as well as her best-known hits.

1.00am Robbery STANLEY BAKER A clever gang led by criminal mastermind Paul Clifton carries out an audacious diamond raid. The large haul, snatched at breakneck speed, provides the finance for the next and bigger job, involving the recruitment of train drivers, electricians and other specialists.

At Scotland Yard, Inspector Langdon is suspicious because there has been no spending in the underworld after the diamond raid.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Paul Clifton Stanley Baker Joanna Pettet Kate James Booth Langdon Robinson Frank Finlay Barry Foster Frank William Marlowe Dave Jack Clinton Greyn George Sewell Ben Michael McStay Don Freddy Patrick Jordan Squad chief Glynn Edwards Det Inspector Anthony Sweeny

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6.00pm Faerie Tale Theatre Join Des O'Connor Tonight' for guaranteed good entertainment.

He's expecting you at 8.00pm

3.05am 1988 Country & Western Awards Show Dolly Parton hosts the 22nd annual CMA Awards Show at Nashville. Dolly has won seven CMA awards herself during her career. followed by ITN News Headlines

4.00 to 5.00am Ice Skating THE WORLD PROFESSIONAL SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS Many of the biggest names are competing in the 1988 championships at Washington DC. Further coverage in the early hours of next Tuesday morning.

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MICK JAGGER BARBARA HERSHEY THE NIGHTINGALE In Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale, a rich and glorious Emperor finds that his true treasure lies in the wisdom of a plain little bird and in the friendship of a lowly kitchen maid.

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Maid Barbara Hershey Royal Prime Minister Bird

James Edward Olmos Shelley Duvall

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Madame Larina

See film guide, beginning page 6

Antonie Hegerlikova

Prince Gremin

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NEW YEAR'S EVE A seasonal repeat of an episode of the American comedy series. The household awakens at 1.00am to find Kate rummaging for cigarettes. To help Kate break the habit, the kids convince her to join a stop-smoking clinic.

Hillary Brooke

Advice for Sheila, and hope for Barry.

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Susan Saint James Jane Curtin Ari Meyers Frederick Koehler Allison Smith

8.30pm Brookside

9.00pm Eugene Onegin SIR GEORG SOLTI Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden A unique film of Tchaikovsky's opera, based on an audio recording made by Sir Georg Solti at Covent Garden in the Seventies. Last year, with actors performing to the recorded soloists, the film was shot in the original locations from Pushkin's love poem, including Leningrad and the Larina Estate in Czechoslovakia where the story begins.

Lensky, Olga's beloved, arrives with his friend Onegin who immediately arouses the passionate interest of Olga's sister. Onegin, however, rejects Tatyana and flirts instead with Olga.

Lensky angrily challenges him to a duel which tragically results in his own death. Years later, Onegin is still haunted by the death of his friend and returns to Larina, only to fall passionately in love with Tatyana.

Sung by: Eugene Onegin Tatyana Lensky

Bernd Weikl Teresa Kubiak Stuart Burrows

Marjorie Reynolds

W illi Hilfe Carl Esmond Cost/Travers Dan Duryea Mrs Bellaire (2) Mrs Bellaire (1)

11.10pm Kazuko's Karaoke Klub Karaoke? At the end of a frantic day in the office, Japanese businessmen care for nothing better than visiting the Karaoke Bar, singing their troubles away to backing tapes. Now this latest import from Japan hits British screens as Kazuko Hohki (half of the cabaret duo The Frank Chickens) hosts this new light-hearted chat show.

Kate A llie Emma Chip Jennie

Stephen Neale Ray Milland Carla Hilfe

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER RAINER MOCKERT PRODUCER MANFRED GRATER DIRECTOR PETR WEIGL Mediascope/CST Production

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killing that he didn't commit. He drifts into a bazaar, unwittingly speaks a secret code word and is handed a cake. The cake contains a micro film bearing the Allied plans for the invasion of Europe...

11.55pm Fritz Lang: Ministry of Fear RAY MILLAND London, during World • - War Two: Stephen Neale leaves prison of er serving a sentence for a mercy

Aminta Dyne

Dr Forrester Alan Napier Prentice Percy Waram Mr Rennit Erskine Sanford Mr Newby Byron Foulger Mr Newland Thomas Louden

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1.30 to 2.40am The Mysteries of Edgar Wallace TIME TO REMEMBER Jack Burgess, a small-time estate agent, gets persistent calls from a mysterious Mrs Jackson.

Made in black and white

See film guide, beginning page 6 Burgess Harry H Corbett Suzanne Yvonne Monlaur Cracknell Ernest Clark

Sammy Johnson

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Ray Barrett David Lodge

Genine Graham SCREENPLAY ARTHUR LA BERN DIRECTOR CHARLES JARROTT

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Anglia 5.00am ITN Morning News DAVID CASS

6.00 TV-am The Morning Programme

Richard Keyes with headline reports and interviews, while Geoff Meade reads the news.

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Mike Morris and Kathryn Holloway with studio discussion and filmed reports, news from Geoff Meade on the half hour and weather from Carol Dooley.

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All programmes are in colour unless otherwise stated

10.00am Ghost Stories from the Pickwick Papers A trio of suspense-filled animated tales adapted from the Charles Dickens' classic.

THE GHOST IN THE WARDROBE A young law student moves into an old rooming house haunted by a resident ghost.

THE MAIL COACH GHOSTS A young man falls in love with the beautiful captive of a ruthless nobleman and his evil henchmen, and devises a daring plan to free her.

THE GOBLIN AND THE GRAVEDIGGER Eerie special effects set the tone for this unearthly tale of a gravedigger put on trial for his life by the King of the Goblins.

Featuring the voices of Aiden Grennell, Daniel Reardon, Collette Proctor, Jim Reid and Joseph Taylor.

10.55am ITN News Headlines 11.00am Run the Gauntlet MARTIN SHAW GB v USA v HOLLAND v AUSTRALASIA The going gets tougher and the competition gets fiercer as the four

international teams go into the second round of events specially designed to test their skill, daring and stamina. Which team of action sports champions will take a lead into tomorrow's final? Presenter Martin Shaw and commentator Martin Tyler can hardly believe their eyes. And nor will you!

11.55am Anglia News 12.00noon Mr & Mrs DEREK BATEY DONNA MAYERS No matter how long you've been married, there must be some things you didn't know about your partner. Or are there? Derek Batey aims to find out from today's contestants, with Donna Mayers help.

Made in black and white

See film guide, beginning page 6 Sherlock Jr Buster Keaton

9.30am Sesame Street SID CAESAR With guest Sid Caesar, the letters are T and Z, the number, 10.

10.30am Flight of the Wind Horse Continuing the repeated series of A ssignment A dventure

The news of Kitty's pregnancy is cause for great happiness but Kitty and Robbie argue over Kitty's working future.

documentaries. Two high-altitude balloons make a series of flights over Kathmandu and the foothills of the Himalayas, culminating in a dramatic flight towards the summit of Everest. In this film stunning images of the Himalayas from more than 20,000ft are contrasted with the story of how this, the highest-ever alpine balloon flight, was conceived, prepared for and put into practice. f

ITN News at One

EDITOR/DIRECTOR MICHAEL BALSON WRITER/PRODUCER RICHARD DENNISON Goldcrest/John Gau Production

1.20pm Anglia News

11.30am Street Hockey

and Weather

Two teams from the north of England compete in the second semi-final in the Tennent's Super National Street Hockey Championships in Leicester.

12.30pm The Sullivans

1.30 to 3.25pm Jason and The Argonauts To gain a kingdom which is rightfully his, the young and amb tious Jason agrees to go in search of the priceless Golden Fleece. He cheerfully undertakes the expedition, embarking with all the princely heroes of Greece in the ship A rgo. It is the start of a fantastic adventure.

See film guide, beginning page 6

Fiendishly designed to give you the creeps - three spooky encounters at 10.00am

himself as the hero of the film he is showing, and the characters transformed into people in his own life.

Jason Todd Armstrong Medea Nancy Kovack A castus Gary Raymond A rgus Laurence Naismith Z eus Niall MacGinnis Hermes Michael Gwynn Douglas Wilmer Pelias A eetes Jack Gwillim Hera Honor Blackman Hylas John Cairney Phineas Patrick Troughton Phalerus Andrew Faulds Hercules Nigel Green Polydeuces John Crawford Euphemus Douglas Robinson SCREENPLAY JAN READ, BEVERLEY CROSS DIRECTOR DON CHAFFEY

12.00noon Table Tennis THE LEEDS TEST SERIES It is expected that the Chinese team will face close competition from England. The commentators in Aylesbury are Simon Reed and Donald Parker. The third Test can be seen tomorrow at 12.00noon.

1.00pm Movie Maniacs: Sherlock Junior BUSTER KEATON A young • cinema projectionist dreams of being a great de ective. He sees

Fiancée Kathryn McGuire Her father Joe Keaton The rival Ward Crane

Handyman Erwin Connelly SCREENPLAY CLYDE BRUCKMAN, JEAN C HAVES, JOSEPH A MITCHELL DIRECTORS ROSCOE ARBUCKLE, BUSTER KEATON

1.50pm Not on Sunday BRIAN REDHEAD An earlier time than usual for this edition of the weekly series in which religion makes news. Every week Brian Redhead takes a penetrating look at the belief and bigotry behind the headlines.

Sue jay reports from around the country.

PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS IAN WYAT- T STEPHEN ENGELHARD SERIES EDITOR FRANCES GUMLEY Diverse/W orld W ide International Production

2.20pm As Long as He Can Count the Cows This film - a double winner of the 1986 Prix Jeunesse in Munich is about Ugey, a small boy living in Bhutan in the Himalayas. He has problems at school because of his poor eyesight - his teachers say he needs glasses.

His family think that expensive glasses are unnecessary. Ugey can manage perfectly well without them. As long as he can count the cows that's all that matters. Narrator, Veronika Hyks.

WRITERS/DIRECTORS RUMLE HAMMERICH, TIM CENIUS W orldwide Filer Production

2.55 to 5.15pm Anne of Green Gables - The Sequel

BY L M MONTGOMERY ADAPTED BY KEVIN SULLIVAN

MEGAN FOLLOWS WENDY HILLER Concluding the sequel based on the later Anne books. Despite opposition at her new school, Anne eventually wins everyone over with her charm and light-heartedness.

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Can Jenny (Jill Riddick) and Dick (John Trayhorn) win the race in Hoverbug'? See at 4.10pm

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7,50pm Comment

Anglia 3.25pm Anglia News

5.15pm One Love 2: BLUES FOR RASTAFARI The series about Rastafarianism.

Rastafarians have always had to endure a certain level of persecution for their beliefs. This programme examines the history of Rastafari - a religion and a way of life that arose in Jamaica in the Thirties after the coronation of Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. With Cosmo Ben Imhotep, Ras Anum, Jah Bones and members of Rastafari Universal Zion.

3.30pm Sons and Daughters Fiona resorts to unladylike measures to rid the mansion of an unwanted visitor. May finds her salvation coming from an unexpected source.

For cast see W ednesday

4.00pm Cartoon Time SILLY SYMPHONY: THE COOKIE CARNIVAL Where else could you find an orchestra made of edible goodies?

5.15pm Blockbusters BOB HOLNESS Contestants try to find the words to match the letters.

4.10pm Hoverbug

ITN News at 5.45

Jenny Brewster and her brother Dick (whose inventions are frequently getting him into trouble with his parents) are trying to build a 'Hoverbug' to enter in the first amateur hovercraft race. Their arch rivals bend the rules by enlisting professional help - and the Brewster children face further difficulties when their Hoverbug reveals an alarming tendency to fall apart.

See film guide, beginning page 6

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Jenny Brewster Jill Riddick Dick Brewster John Trayhorn Charlie Francis Attard Sydney Gary Cann Mr W atts Arthur Howard Charlie and Sydney's dad Michael Balfour Mrs Brewster Jan Butlin Mr Brewster Peter Myers with Cardew Robinson, Marianne Stone, Michael Segal, Harold Goodwin, Janet Waldron SCREENPLAY MICHAEL BARNES DIRECTOR JAN DARNLEY-SMITH

ITV variations Programmes in adjoining areas are as A nglia except for: THAMES 12.30 to 1.00pm Country Practice; 6.00 to 6.30pm Thames News.

CENTRAL 12.30 to 1.00pm Star Collectors: Something to Treasure Special; 3.30 to 4.00pm The Young Doctors; 6.00 to 6.30 Central News.

TVS 6.00 to 6.30pm Coast to Coast.

YORKSHIRE 12.30 to 1.00pm Young Doctors; 6.00 to 6.30pm Calendar.

6.00pm Faerie Tale Theatre ROBIN WILLIAMS THE FROG PRINCE This is a humorous version of the Brothers Grimm tale of a unique friendship between a Prince and Princess.

6.00pm About Anglia HELEN McDERMOTT CHRISTINE WEBBER ALASTAIR YATES News, views and features on the serious and lighter sides of life in the East of England.

Also, a look at tomorrow's regional weather.

6.30pm Emmerdale Farm While Kate is becoming one of the family, it's moving day for Jackie and Kathy - and maybe for Matt and Dolly, too.

For cast, see W ednesday

7.00pm The British and The Oscars To mark the 60th anniversary this year of the American film Oscars. Peter Ustinov narrates this celebration of the British film talents who have been awarded one of the coveted statuettes. There is also a glimpse of a glittering celebratory dinner held last month at Hampton Court Palace which was attended by the

TIPTIMES 17 December-1 January

Oracle subtitles page 888 Frog-Prince Robin Williams Princess Teri Garr King Rene Auberjonois Narrator Eric Idle

Princess Royal, President of BAFTA. And look out, too, for many of your favourite film clips.

CAMERA MICHAEL B POPLEY RESEARCH ALISON RAY PRODUCER/DIRECTOR ALLAN SEGAL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ROD CAIRD Granada Television Production

8.00pm The Bill TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION

BY LAWRENCE GRAY

Does Mike Dashwood know that the last man who dealt with Kevin is in a psychiatric ward?

Oracle subtitles page 888 W pc A ckland Trudie Goodwin Kevin Boswell Matthew Sim Sgt Peters Larry Dann Sgt Penny Roger Leach Pc Stamp Graham Cole Pc Melvin Mark Powley Dc Carver Mark Wingett Dc Dashwood Jon Iles DI Burnside Christopher Ellison W pc Martella Nula Conwell Landlord Andre Thornton-Grimes

Ben Kingsley (right), an unforgettable screen Gandhi, talks in `The British and The Oscars' at 100pm Daphne Johnson Yvonne Marshall Pc Hollis Jeff Stewart

WRITER/DIRECTOR ERIC IDLE

Another personal view. followed by

Weather 8.00 to 8.30pm A Different World LISA BONET THE GIFT OF THE MA GI More top American comedy for the holiday period. Whitley's holiday spirit is dampened when her father surprises her --with his new airlfriend.

Denise Huxtable Lisa Bonet Maggie Lauren Marisa Tomei Jaleesa V inson Dawnn Lewis W hitley Gilbert Jasmine Guy Dwayne W ayne Kadeem Hardison A llison Kim Wayans Gloria Bee-be Smith Millie Marie-Alise Recanser Mercer Gilbert J A Preston Monica W alters Troy Beyer

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Anglia 9.00pm Movie Premiere: Gremlins ZACH GALLIGAN PHOEBE CATES During the Christmas holidays in the small town of Kingston Falls, inventor Rand Peltzer returns from Chinatown with an unusual present for his bank clerk son Billy. It's a mogwai, a strange little creature Rand picked up in a curio shop. But there are explicit rules for the care and feeding of the mogwai, now called Gizmo: keep it out of sunlight and away from water and, most importantly, no matter how much it begs, never, ever feed it after midnight. Though the instructions are simple and clear, Billy inadvertently breaks this last rule — with alarming consequences for the entire community. Continues after the ITN News.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Billy Peltzer Zach Galligan K ate Phoebe Cates Rand Peltzer Hoyt Axton Lynn Peltzer Frances Lee McCain Mrs Deagle Polly Holiday Mr Futterman Dick Miller Grandfather Keye Luke Sheriff Frank Scott Brady Mr A nderson Harry Carey Jr Mr Corben Edward Andrews Pete Corey Feldman Pete's father Arnie Moore Gerald Judge Reinhold Deputy Brent Jonathan Banks Roy Hanson Glynn Turman Chinese boy John Louie Mr Jones Chuck Jones Mrs Harris Belinda Belaski Rockin' Ricky Rialto Don Steele Little girl Susan Burgess Dr Molinaro John C Becher Mrs Molinaro Gwen Willson lorry Kenny Davis Mrs Futterman Jackie Joseph S anta Joe Brooks Lew Landers Jim McKrell SCREENPLAY CHRIS COLUMBUS DIRECTOR JOE DANTE

8.30pm Brookside A dilemma for Frank, and worries for Billy.

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Billy (Zach Galligan) and K ate (Phoebe Cates) used not to believe in 'Gremlins. .. 9.00pm

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11.20pm Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toontown A unique look at the technology that seamlessly integrates real-life actors with Toontown residents — the animated characters of movie history, from Mickey Mouse to Roger Rabbit.

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GERRIT GRAHAM The class of '72 assembles in the Goth c premises of Lizzie Borden High for its 10th annual reunion. .

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They are an odd lot: dope fiends, nymphomaniacs, vampires, Satanists and one or two almost normal people. After Hare Krishna Milt Friedman is murdered, the weirdo Dr Young 'materialises' and reveals that his insane charge, Walter, has returned to exact revenge on the class which, 10 years ago, unhinged his mind by tricking him into making love to his twin sister.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Bob Spinnaker Gerrit Graham Dr Robert Y oung Michael Lerner Cindy Shears Misty Rowe W alter Baylor Mackie Dammett Gary Nash Fred McCarren Bunny Packard Miriam Flynn Hubert Downs Stephen Furst Iris A ugen Marya Small Meredith Modess Shelley Smith Delores Salk Zane Buzby Jane W ashburn

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3.00 to 5.00am Murder by Decree CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER JAMES MASON GENEVIEVE BUJOLD DONALD SUTHERLAND Following a lead, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson visit Robert Lees, a medium who has 'seen' — but is afraid to talk about — the murder of four Whitechapel prostitutes. Although sternly cautioned by police commissioner Sir Charles Warren, Holmes traces the elusive Mary Kelly, who appears to hold the key to the gruesome mystery.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Sherlock Holmes Christopher Plummer Dr W atson James Mason A nnie Crook Genevieve Bujold Robert Lees Donald Sutherland Insp Foxborough David Hemmings Mary Kelly Susan Clark Insp Lastrade Frank Finlay Sir Charles W arren Anthony Quayle Prime Minister John Gielgud Dr Harding Chris Wiggins Mrs Lees Teddi Moore W illiam Slade Peter Jonfield Sir Thomas Spivey Roy Lansford A nnie Chapman June Brown M ak ins Ron Pember Carrie Catherine Kessler Elizabeth Stride Iris Fry Catherine Eddowes Hilary Sista Mrs Hudson Betty Woolfe SCREENPLAY JOHN HOPKINS DIRECTOR BOB CLARK

9.00pm A Very British Coup

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RAY McANALLY ALAN MacNAUGHTAN KEITH ALLEN Tongue-in-cheek Prime Minister Harry Perkins is set to turn the tables on the fat cats of the establishment, in a repeat showing of this highly acclaimed drama (originally shown in three parts) which has just won the International Emmy Award. 'Full of vigour, exhilaration and jokes' (Guardian), 'Loved the bold ideas, the fast pace, the music and the grittiness' (Daily Mirror). 'This was TV drama in one of its finest hours' (Daily Express). With music

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Harry Perkins Ray McAnally Sir Percy Browne Alan MacNaughtan Fred Thompson Keith Allen W ainwright Geoffrey Beevers Newsome Jim Carter Fison Philip Madoc Fiennes Tim Mclnnerny Joan Cook Marjorie Yates Tweed Oliver Ford Davies Robertson David McKail Chambers Erin Donovan Morgan Shane Rimmer Helen Kika Markham Kowalsky Oscar Quitak

11.50pm Fritz Lang: M PETER LORRE Berlin in the early Thirties: it is a city on edge because of the activities of an unknown murderer of little girls. The police are powerless, but they begin raiding criminal hideouts. With English subtitles.

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See film guide, beginning page 6 Hans Beckert Peter Lone Mrs Beckmann Ellen Widmann Elsie Beckmann Inge Landgut Schranker Gustav Griindgens B urglar Fritz Gnass Safecracker Fritz Odemar Pickpocket Paul Kemp Con-man Theo Lingen SCREENPLAY THEA VON HARBOU DIRECTOR FRITZ LANG

1.50 to 2.55am The Mysteries of Edgar Wallace THE VERDICT A gangster, deported from America, is arrested in Britain for a murder he committed 20 years before.

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10.55am ITN News Headlines 11.00am Run the Gauntlet MARTIN SHAW GB v USA v HOLLAND v AUSTRALASIA It's the climax of a packed Run the Gauntlet week on ITV.

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11.55am Anglia News 12.00noon Mr & Mrs DEREK BATEY DONNA MAYERS Today's contestants could win bonus prizes, and maybe even the jackpot, if they can prove to Derek Batey that they know all about each other.

12.30pm The Sullivans Happy-go-lucky Snowy's visit to Jim prompts Alice to assume a new identity - Mrs Jessup's involvement complicates the situation.

ITN News at One 1.20pm Anglia News and Weather

1.30pm Disney's Candleshoe Casey Brown is a tough, parentless 14-year-old tomboy living with guardians in a Los Angeles tenement. One night she is taken by a local detective to meet Harry Bundage who has evidence suggesting that Casey might be Lady Margaret Courtney, heir to a country estate near London.

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Lady Gwendolyn St Edmund Helen Hayes Casey Jodie Foster Harry Bundage Leo McKern Clara Grimsworthy Vivian Pickles Cluny Veronica Quilligan Peter Ian Sharrock A nna Sarah Tamakuni Bobby David Samuels Jenkins John Alderson Mrs McCress Mildred Shay Mr McCress Michael Balfour SCREENPLAY DAVID SWIFT, ROSEMARY ANNE SISSON DIRECTOR NORMAN TOICAR

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4.00pm Cartoon Time TWEETY-PIE: SANDY CLAWS At the beach, Granny leaves her Tweety Bird on a rock at the water's edge while she changes into her bathing suit.

4.10pm Gabrielle and the Doodleman Operatives in Control Gardens, situated over the rainbow, are out of date and short of work.

Operator SevenDouble-0 (nicknamed Doodleman) is chosen to help Gabrielle, an 11 year-old paraplegic on the verge of despair.

See film guide, beginning page 6 Doodleman Matthew Kelly Genie Eric Sykes Ringmaster Windsor Davies W icked W itch Anna Dawson Gabrielle Prudence Oliver Miss Moneypocket Lynsey De Paul M ik e Gareth Hunt Mrs Briggs Josephine Tewson Merlin Bob Todd SCREENPLAY/DIRECTOR FRANCIS ESSEX

9.30am Sesame Street DIZZY GILLESPIE Slimey's new movie and all about tortoises. The letters are B and T and the number is 7. With guest Dizzy Gillespie.

10.30am A Closer Encounter The last in the repeated A ssignment A dventure series. Dr Horace Dobbs, director of International Dolphin Watch, has devoted his life to friendships with the wild dolphins who choose to make friends with man. Dolphins are unique in having a brain that is as developed and complex as man's, and Dr Dobbs believes that the only way that we can begin to understand 'our cousins in the sea' is by meeting them in their own mysterious underwater world. In the summer of 1983, he set sail to make contact with 'Jean Louis', a bottlenose dolphin said to be living among the rocks of the Atlantic coast of Brittany and first sighted by a Breton fisherman who thought it was a shark. 'JeanLouis' turned out to be a female dolphin.

This is the story of a remarkable and enlightening encounter

The exciting final of this year's Tennent's Super National Street Hockey Championships in Leicester.

12.00noon Table Tennis THE LEEDS TEST SERIES The third and final test.

Can England's young players snatch an unprecedented victory from the Chinese champions?

12.55 to 2.40pm The Lady Eve HENRY FONDA BARBARA STANWYCK Rich young Charles Pike encounters professional cardsharp Jean who is working her pasteboard trickery on an ocean liner and beats her at her own game. Smarting at her defeat, jean sets out to get revenge...

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See film guide, beginning page 6 Charles Pike Henry Fonda Jean Barbara Stanwyck 'Colonel' Harrington Charles Coburn Mr Pike Eugene Pallette Mugsy William Demarest Sir A lfred McGlennan Keith Eric Blore Gerald Melville Cooper Janet Beecher Mrs Pike

ITV 5.00am ITN Morning News 6.00 TV-am 9.25 Chuck Jones' Mowgli's Brothers 9.55 Anglia News and Weather 10.00 He-Man and SheRa a Christmas Special 10.55 ITN News Headlines 11.00 Run the Gauntlet 11.55 Anglia News 12noon Mr & Mrs 12.30pm The Sullivans 1.00 ITN News At One 1.20 Anglia News and Weather L30 Film: Candleshoe 3.25 Anglia News 3.30 Sons And Daughters 4.00 Cartoon Time 4.10 Film: Gabrielle and the Doodleman 5.15 Blockbusters 5.45 ITN News 6.00 About Anglia 6.30 Film: The Black Hole 8.15 Taggart 9.45 Hooperman 10.15 ITN News 10.30 Anglia Late News and Weather 10.35 Arts Review of '88 f/b News 12.35am Film: Breakdance 2.00 Night Network f/b News 4.00 Dave Dee and Friends' Christmas Beat Club .

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MAXIMILIAN SCHELL ANTHONY PERKINS YVETTE MIMIEUX The USS Palomino is nearing the end of a fruitless 18month search for life in an uncharted region of space. But then the crew and scientists, detect, perched on the brink of a black hole, a derelict spacecraft missing for 20 years: the USS Cygnus. To escape the tremendous pulling power of the black hole, the Palomino is forced to dock onto the Cygnus, which is now a world where scientific genius and human madness are intertwined.

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8.30pm Brookside New Year's Eve — a missed opportunity, sadness and hope.

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9.00pm Twelfth Night RICHARD BRIERS FRANCES BARBER CAROLINE LANGRISHE ANTON LESSER The Renaissance Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's wellloved comedy. A brother and sister are separated in a

shipwreck, but struggle ashore on the coast of Illyria. The sister, Viola, disguises herself as a man, and takes service with the Duke Orsino, who has fallen in love with the Lady Olivia.

Entrusted with pleading Orsino's cause to Olivia, Viola is stunned to discover that Olivia has fallen in love with her.

Thus begins the first confusion of this comedy, which has its darker side in the heartless deception of Olivia's steward Malvolio. This production was first staged at the Riverside Theatre and was directed by Kenneth Branagh, produced by David Parfitt, designed

by Bunny Christie with music by Paul McCartney and Pat Doyle.

See page 131 V iola Frances Barber Sea Captain Tim Barker Orsino Christopher Ravenscroft Curio Christopher Hollis V alentine Julian Gartside Sir Toby Belch James Saxon Maria Abigail McKern A ndrew A guecheek James Simmons Feste Anton Lesser Olivia Caroline Langrishe Malvolio Richard Briers A ntonio Tim Barker Sebastian Christopher Hollis Fabian Shaun Prendergast EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IAN MARTIN PRODUCER/DIRECTOR PAUL KAFNO Thames Television Production

11.55pm Fritz Lang: You Only Live Once HENRY FONDA Released from jail and resolved to go straight, Eddie

Taylor marries his sweetheart Jo. But they are evicted from their honeymoon cottage when the owner learns that Eddie is an exconvict. When he loses his job, Eddie becomes an embittered man...

The Fritz Lang season continues tomorrow.

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See film guide, beginning page 6 Eddie Taylor Henry Fonda Joan 'Jo' Graham Sylvia Sidney Stephen W hitney Barton MacLane Bonnie Graham Jean Dixon Father Dolan William Gargan Mugsy Warren Hymer Ethan Charles 'Chic' Sale Hester Margaret Hamilton Rogers Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams The warden John Wray Dr Hill Jerome Cowan Guard Ward Bond SCREENPLAY GENE TOWNE, GRAHAM BAKER DIRECTOR FRITZ LANG

1.30 to 2.40am The Mysteries of Edgar Wallace MAURICE KAUFMANN FAITH BROOK WE SHALL SEE Alva, the wife of Evan, an airline captain, 's a hopeless psychopath — a fact known only to her brother Greg. .

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3.40pm Octopussy 6.00pm Faerie Tale Theatre' 7.00pm Krypton Factor Grand Final 7.30pm Coronation St 8.00pm Cheers' 8.00pm Minder 8.30pm Brookside'

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TUESDAY 27 DECEMBER 6.00pm Faerie Tale Theatre' 8.00pm The Bill 8.30pm Brookside' 10.15pm The Hound of the Baskervilles

4.20pm Dangermouse 8.00pm The Bill 9.00pm The Equalizer

SATURDAY 17 DECEMBER 5.05pm Brookside' 7.05pm Hollywood* 8.05pm Game, Set & Match' 8.45pm Edens Lost SUNDAY 18 DECEMBER 7.00pm Taming the Flood' 9.05pm The Beiderbecke Connection MONDAY 19 DECEMBER 5.45pm News (Mon-Fri) 7.00pm Channel 4 News' (Mon-Fri) 7.00pm Krypton Factor 7.30pm Coronation St 8.00pm Brookside' 8.00pm Wish You Were Here...?

9.00pm Game, Set & Match 10.00pm Hill St Blues' TUESDAY 20 DECEMBER 6.30pm Secret Life of the Television Set' 8.00pm The Divided Kingdom' 8.00pm The Bill WEDNESDAY 21 DECEMBER 5.00pm Hand in Hand' 7.30pm Coronation St 8.00pm Brookside' 9.00pm Rumpole of the Bailey

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SUNDAY 25 DECEMBER 3.05pm Blind Date 3.55pm The Empire Strikes Back 6.00pm Faerie Tale Theatre' 7.15pm Coronation St 8.20pm Challenge by Fire - Restoring the Glory of York Minster' 8.45pm London's Burning

MONDAY 26 DECEMBER 2.40pm Wish You Were Here... ?

THURSDAY 22 DECEMBER 2.00pm Horses'

1.40pm 5.05pm Assault Course Anglia News, Britain's Territorial Sport Army competes in physical tests against troops from other NATO countries.

Anglia 5.00am ITN News 6.00 TV-am 9.25am Cartoons 9.45am Laputa - The Flying Island

FRIDAY 30 DECEMBER 6.30pm The Black Hole 6.00pm Faerie Tale Theatre' 7.05pm Book Choice' 8.00pm Golden Girls' 8.15pm Taggart 8.30pm Brookside' 9.45pm Hooperman

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Comedy adventure starring Dean Jones at the wheel of Herbie, the magical car.

W heely (Don K notts) and Jim (Dean Jones) in `Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo'

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9.25am The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe An animated version of the famous tale of magic and adventure

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11.00am Morning Worship 12.00noon The Human Factor

6.00pm Bullseye Hosted by Jim Bowen.

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7.30pm Home to Roost A special extended seasonal edition.

8.30pm Murder, She Wrote DEATH TAKES A DIVE Thriller writer-cumsleuth Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) samples the shady side of the boxing world.

9.30pm ITN News 9.40pm Every Penny Counted Telethon '88 Michael Aspel celebrates the fun, laughter, tears and joy of the 27-hour nationwide epic in May.

11.00pm Cilia's Goodbye '88 Cilia Black and star guests say goodbye to the old year and see in

6.40pm Highway 7.15pm Catchphrase Celebrity Special 7.45pm Raise the Titanic A dramatic attempt is made to resurface SS Titanic.

10.00pm The Trouble with Michael Caine 11.00pm ITN News Weather Forecast Summary

11.15pm The Movie Life of George A superstar-studded celebration of ex-Beatle

the new with a lighthearted review of the past twelve months.

1.00pm I Was a Male War Bride

12.05am Starring Clint Eastwood: The Gauntlet

Hilarious battle-of-the sexes between Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan.

(1949)

Actionpacked thriller with disreputable cop (Clint Eastwood) facing deadly opposition as he attempts to escort a witness (Sondra Locke) across country. followed by ITN News Headlines

2.00am The Hit Man and Her New Year's Party followed by ITN News Headlines

4.00 to 5.55am The Gumball Rally A madcap race in powerful cars across America.

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10.00am Northwest Passage Spencer Tracy leads a group of Rangers across the spectacular American wilderness. (1940)

12.20pm Terror Faces Magoo An animated adventure.

12.30pm Empress Wu The young Prince rebels against the Empress.

Tough, action drama with Richard Gere â&#x20AC;˘ aiming to bust a drugs case. followed by ITN News Headlines

3.45 to 5.35am Dr Strange Ancient and modern sorceries intermix. With Peter Hooten and John Mills. followed by ITN News Headlines

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5.00pm Baka People of the Rain Forest

4.50pm A Family of Flowers

A visit to La Mortola garden in Italy.

A look at orchids.

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Relive one of the Rolling Stones' great performances from the Sixties in Top of the Pops'. The Cotton Collection'.7.00pm

BILLY COTTON BAND SHOW FROST OVER ENGLAND

10.00am A Count of Flowers

1.00pm Lost in Space

Fritz Lang's classic German silent film about a master criminal. (1922)

The Cotton Collection

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Luciano Pavarotti performs well-known Neapolitan songs.

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12.00noon Treasure Hunt

10.30pm Pavarotti Returns to Naples

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11.30pm Aly Meets the Cajuns

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11.00am The Waltons

9.00pm The Steamie

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2.00pm Ben-Hur

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A group of rugged truckers decides to head for Mexico in convoy. Kris Kristofferson and Ali MacGraw star. followed by ITN News Headlines

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5.50pm American Football

8.00pm Michael Tippett: Remaking the Dream Michael Tippett celebrates his 84th birthday at the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham's School and also conducts the Halle Orchestra and Faye Robison in the finale of his Third Symphony.

9.00pm The Dog It Was That Died Tom Stoppard comedy starring Alan Bates, Alan Howard and Simon Cadell.

10.20pm Country Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard star as farmers struggling to save their crops and their marriage in modern day America. (1984)

12.20 to 2.50am Fritz Lang: Hangmen Also Die Fritz Lang's fiercely antiNazi suspense thriller starring Brian Donlevy, Anna Lee and Walter Brennan. (1943) Made in black and white

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Terry and Arthur are back.

Fans of the dodgy duo from `Minder' can deck the halls and feel very jolly at the prospect of a brand-new Christmas Special and a new series of adventures in cockney comedy-land in January. To celebrate, we asked TONY HOARE, who has written more episodes of 'Minder' than any other, to compose a special short story for TVTimes readers. ..

aid Arthur Daley: The thing about Christmas, its a time for giving.'

Or in your case, receiving,' Terry said, dismally watching the windscreen wipers push the lightly falling snow aside as they headed for Arthur's lock-up.

Arthur changed gear, deliberately ignoring this, wanting to keep Terry sweet, trying to ease into the proposition without making it sound like a nice little earner. 'A time for goodwill to all men. . . especially kids,' he offered, glancing at Terry, searching for agreement. A way in. Terry cast him a suspicious look, sensing a move. Arthur smiled with a face that he hoped radiated sincerity and continued: 'Nothing quite like watching their beamin' faces as they open up all the pressies Santa's brought them, right?'

Terry responded with a wary: 'I guess so.'

'You don't sound too sure,' said Arthur. 'What are you tellin' me, you don't like kids? You've got something about not making children happy?'

Terry sighed. All the signs were there. Arthur slipping whatever it was in sideways. Never direct.

Which didn't stop him answering: 'I like kids to be happy, okay?'

Fatal. He knew by sit there daydreamthe way Arthur ing, Jones, do somesmiled. It was confirthing.' Dc Jones Forget it, realised in that momed when Arthur said: 'I knew you that his father no way am I ment were the right man had given him bad adclimbing for the job.' vice when he told him The car skidded not to follow his footinside a slightly to a halt in the down the mines. chimney! Are steps settling snow outside 'I am doing somethe lock-up. Terry you crazy?, thing, guy,' he said. didn't want to ask 'Really? I'm what job? In fact, he amazed. I'm agog,' in was thoroughly disa voice that exuded pirited by the thought sarcasm. 'Blinking he had 'allowed Arthur to corner vacantly into space constitutes him yet again. serious activity, does it?'

Dc Jones glanced at the pathetic )4t Christmas trimmings some desperDectective-Constable Jones, sit- ate optimist had seen fit to drape ting at a desk in the squad room, around the room, and thought also felt dispirited. Here it was, maybe it was time to consider a Christmas Eve and here he was on change of career - funeral director, duty. A mood guaranteed not to be something like that. enhanced by the fact that his superior officer, Sgt Rycott, was also on duty at the sparselyTerry didn't like the idea but manned station. He tried to cheer Arthur kept laying the guilt trip himself up by thinking of the three on him about how he would be valleys and the Welsh Orpheus letting the kids down. Toddlers is Choir singing W e'll Keep a W el- what Terry was calling them by come in the Hillside. He gave up. It now. He also felt a right wally made him homesick. But homesick- standing there in the lock-up ness degenerated into a moment of dressed in the Father Christmas despair when Rycott, pretending to costume. It didn't help that be busy at his desk, said: Don't just the beard had a grey tinge and

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smelt dis inctly unsavoury.

'I'm supposed to be meeting Arnie and a few of the chaps down the Winchester for a drink-up,' he tried again as Arthur thrust what appeared to be a school bell in his hand - his voice overlapping: 'Cop this.. give it some stick and a few "Ho, ho, ho's, Merry Christmas, children" ' Terry rang the bell, heard himself saying: 'Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas, children,' and experiencing a sense of unreality.

'Forget the bell,' he said, handing it back to Arthur, whose face dropped while his brain told him not to push it when Terry had that look in his eyes.

'You're right,' Arthur said, setting the bell aside, 'you're going to need both hands anyway.'

Then he quickly realised now was not the time to go into that particular detail and added, for the sack of pressies.' Like it was all one sentence.

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visibility was poor as they headed in the car towards Mr Jackson's house. Mr Jackson was the man with the kids. A dear friend of mine, Arthur had said. 'If he's such a "dear friend" how come I've never heard of him?' Terry asked. Arthur muttered something about keeping his social life separated from his business life. Terry didn't believe a word of it. 'So how much is my wack for doin' this job?' he enquired.

'Payment? Please, Terry, do not insult me an' demean yourself. This is an act of goodwill, suffer little children to come unto me, and all that. D'you think the geezers who shlepped across the desert humping gold, frankincense an' myrrh to Bethlehem were lookin' to be on an earner?' And before Terry could protest, Arthur slammed on the brakes, skidding and smashing into the curb. Whiplash caused the Santa hat to drop over Terry's eyes.

Arthtir, `oh my gawding' it, stumbled from the car to examine the damage.

What the hell happened?' asked Terry. A cat had run out into the road. 'Was it a black one?' asked Terry, trying to remember if it meant good or back luck. 'Can't be good,' groaned Arthur, pointing at the nearside front wheel sticking out from the wing at an unnatural angle.

'So what do we do now?' Terry asked.

'We'll have to walk it... it's only round the corner. Get the sack of pressies from the boot.'

Around the corner turned out to be about half a mile away.

And so there they were, eventually, outside Mr Jackson's huge Gothic house, snow-capped and looking like Christopher Lee's castle in Transylvania against the black sky. Terry's feet were wet and icy cold in the synthetic boots with the white nylon fur trim. So what was he supposed to do, just knock on the door, or what, he asked Arthur - snuggled up in his Crombie overcoat and hand-made brogues.

'Nothing so mundane, my son,' Said Arthur, heading up the driveway. 'D'you think Prancer, Dancer, Vixen an' Rudolf tug Santa from the North Pole across the rooftops of the world just to knock on doors?

No, it has to be done proper, in keeping with tradition. You nip down the chimney.'

W hat?'

'Don't worry. Mr Jackson's had it

swept 'specially.' As if that made a difference! 'The kids'll be gathered waiting at the bottom. Think how surprised an' delighted they'll be when you drop, uh, show up in the inglenooky.'

'Forget it, no way am I climbing inside a chimney! Are you crazy?'

'If being sentimental and filled with the yuletide spirit is crazy, then I cop a plea, Terence,' Arthur said in tones that suggested great sacrifice and even greater humility.

'Arthur, I'm twelve stone!' Terry protested. 'I couldn't get down the chimney even if I wanted, which I most definitely don't!'

'Not a problem, my son,' smiled Arthur with breathtaking confidence, giving Terry a reassuring pat and guiding him towards the back of the house. 'This gaff was built in the days when they shovelled kids up the flue to give 'em a dusting.'

'Right, not grown men in Santa suits humpin' sacks of toys!'

'Sack, Terence. Singular.'

What difference, I ain't doing it!'

So Arthur explained how he and Mr Jackson had discussed the practicalities, how Mr Jackson even had a builder check out the measurements and remove the chimney pots to make room for access. Of course it might be a little confined, but nothing someone with Terry's suppleness and physical prowess couldn't overcome.

The two of them were at the rear of the house now, with Arthur pointing at the ladder reaching up to the roof, saying 'See, you don't even have to climb a drainpipe.

Anticipation an' preparation is the hallmark of my continuing success, as you should well know, Terence.'

'Oh really. I thought it was telling porkies and conning people,' was the best defence Terry could muster against Arthur's onslaught of perverse logic.

'Uncalled for, Terry, not to add un-Christian,' said Arthur, pointing a digit heavenward. 'Shall we try and have some respect for His birthday?' Then glancing at his watch he indicated the ladder again and handed Terry a torch. 'Up you go then... we're running late as it is.'

Dc Jones still felt confused about his future. He thought about therapy as a solution to his disenchantment with the job - then decided against it on the grounds it would

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Sir Secombe,' said a ferocious Texan woman to Sir Harry Secombe one day, when Britain's theatrical knight was so new to the title that he could still feel the tap of the accolade on his broad shoulder.

'Sir Secombe, where is your ancestral home?'

'Madam,' said Sir Harry Secombe, CBE, 'I was born in a council house in Swansea.'

'Really?' said the lady, Sir Harry Secombe has a reputation which is the envy of all. round-eyed. 'You still give counsel there?'

In thefirst of a two-part series, CHRIS K ENW ORTHY finds out how The story still makes Harry Secombe, the only Sir Harry became the funniest and most modest knight in Britain man in England who doesn't take his title seriously, rock with laughter. He believes the Queen made a blunder and one day soon someone will take it all back.

But then, Harry Secombe was destined to be a clown from birth. When he was born, in 1921, in Swansea, he was named after his Uncle Harry, the comedian of the family.

Uncle Harry was a man with a rough and strong Harry goes on air in sense of humour. 'He had `The Goon Show', with lost an eye in World War Peter Sellers (left) One,' recalls Harry. 'He had and Spike Milligan a glass one instead. When he undressed for a swim, he'd put his glass eye on top of his clothes, and say, "Keep an eye on that, will you?" Nobody ever touched them. And if you weren't careful, he'd drop the eye in your custard!'

At school, young Harry was the classroom clown.

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W hat the Dickens of light, from a His talents and charm have earned is going on? Sir stained glass winhim a permanent place in the Harry with Jessie dow, which he felt hearts of audiences the world over Evans in the stage picked out his best musical Pickwick features, rather like a Papers'. After a spotlight.

W est End run, the Strangely, though, show hit America it took World War Two and a career in the Royal Artillery to bring out his talent to amuse. For that was when he met up with a man who was to be associated with him for ever Cutting a dash as more.

Harry was in Tunisia, D'Artagnan in the facing the enemy, when 1967 stage show, Lance Bombardier Milligan `The Four fired a 7.2 Howitzer, Musketeers, at insecurely based on the the Theatre rocks above. When the dust Royal, Drury continued overpage ^ Lane

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cleared, Milligan and his crew discovered their Howitzer was missing. The recoil had thrown it over the cliff. It missed Harry and company by feet, and they prepared to surrender.

'If they were throwing things that big at us, there was no alternative,' he wrote later. But before he could get the words out a voice, later to become famous throughout the world, asked: 'Anybody seen a gun?'

It was the first meeting between Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe, and neither of them has been quite the same since.

Discharged from the Army in 1946, Harry couldn't face life in his pre-war job as a steel works pay clerk.

Having worked in the Army's entertainment organisation, he decided to opt for a job as a stand-up comic, and successfully auditioned for the Windmill Variety Theatre, off Piccadilly Circus, London.

It was famous for two things: young, eager comics and topless girls, the latter at that time unique in London. He did his nowfamous 'shaving' sketch several times a day, and finished up with a chin not only bare of whiskers but almost devoid of skin.

Harry didn't mind - he was raising laughs. And raising laughs from an audience which really wanted girls was no small feat.

But greater things were in store. With his old Army chum, Spike, and a couple of promising young comics, he was about to start a radio show which would bring him royal recognition. The team was Secombe, Milligan, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers.

In 1951 they launched The Goon Show. After that, comedy was never quite the same. The Goon Show was christened by Spike Milligan who got the name from a race of simpletons in the Popeye cartoons. They looked dopey, spoke in scribbles and Spike fell for them straight away.

The Goons soon had a cult following, which included Prince Charles, who has now been enrolled as an honorary Goon.

It also brought Harry his first big earner. He and his Welsh-born wife, Myra, and their two children, Jenny and Andrew, bought their first home, a sprawling Victorian house in Cheam,

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Surrey, where the theatre still bears his name. Later the family grew when Katy and David were born.

We needed some security for the children in this very insecure business,' says Harry. The house became known locally as Harry's Corner, and conductors on the 213 bus route used it as a landmark.

But there was another talent inside Harry which demanded attention and respect. For years, he had finished off his act by singing the Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald song Sweethearts - taking both parts himself.

It was uproarious - but it also revealed he had a fine voice. He went to teacher Manlio di Veroli to be trained, and finished up

Harry, as television's most famous Highwayman (above), and in uniform (below). Later he was to make Prince Charles an 'honorary Goon' with one of the most famous tenor voices in the world. It is a talent which has filled the Sydney Opera House many times, and sold millions of records. It also launched Harry Secombe on a new, musical career.

In 1963, there was Pickwick. First on the West End stage and then on Broadway, Harry sang his way through the role of Mr Pickwick in a show based on Dickens's Pickwick Papers. Before long he had won a place in the hearts of an international audience.

In New York, Harry was nominated for a Tony Award - the American stage equivalent of an Oscar - but it is the Detroit run he remembers best. By then he had worn out his original 'bald' Pickwick wig

and ordered a new one. But when it arrived, it was much too big.

'I could turn my head and the wig used to stay still,' he recalls with a giggle. 'Then one night I forgot all about it and did a cartwheel across the stage. Of course, the wig fell off. I caught it in my hand, ran down to the footlights and shouted, "INJUNS!" 'Not a soul laughed.

Turned out half of them were Indians!'

In 1963 he was made a CBE for his Services to the Army Benevolent Fund.

And nearly 20 years later, the Army, in the shape of his old regiment, had more honours for him. When he went to the Falklands to entertain the troops after the hostilities, they made

him up from lance bombardier - his former rank - to sergeant.

And there were more musical roles. He was D'Artagnan in the stage show

The Four Musketeers,

Bumble in the 1968 film Oliver! and Bjornson in

Song Of Norway

Over the years, there has also been. his writing, Surprisingly, for a man whose performing has made him known and loved worldwide, it is his books that give him most pride. His first novel, Twice Brightly, published in 1974, was a best-seller and was followed by two collections of short stories, Goon For Lunch and Goon A broad.

He also wrote a children's story, Katy And The Nurgla, in 1978. His private life prompted other works.

In the early Eighties, he was taken seriously ill, nearly dying, on the way from Australia to meet his family in Barbados for Christmas. Typically, he makes jokes about it now, but the memory is one of the few things which stops him giggling. From it came a weight loss of five stones and The Harry Secornbe Diet Book It works, but he maintains the only real way to lose weight is: 'To eat anything you like - but don't swallow it. I should know. I used to have more chins than the Hong Kong telephone directory.'

His books stand proudly on the shelves of his bookcases in Surrey. 'Ours is a transitory profession,' he explains. 'You can't put a standing ovation on the mantelpiece. A craftsman leaves something behind.

We don't. But when you have had something published, you can pass it on to your grandchildren, so they can judge you.'

There was a venture into straight theatre in 1975 in The Plumber's Progress. It was not the happiest of experiments. The cast and critics could accept him as a serious actor, but the audiences could not. They wanted him to sing and make them laugh. The sharp-edged satire of the show left them confused.

After six months, the play closed. Harry, who had invested in it, lost money.

He said later that he would gladly do another play, but for a limited run only.

In 1981 came the pinnacle of his career. He was made a Knight Bachelor in

the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to entertainment and charity. Harry tries to treat the honour without pomposity, but he is honestly and rightly proud of it: His family and fans were delirious.

And then, of course, there was television. A TV version of Pickwick, the role of diarist Samuel Pepys in the Yorkshire Television production, Pepys, and naturally, Highway.

Highway has taken up the last five years of Harry's life, interrupting even his work on his autobiography, and, incidentally, changing the face of Sunday evening programmes.

Harry is pleased, and proud, of the audiences he has managed to gather in.

'We are topping eight

The only way to lose weight is eat anything, but don't swallow it. I know â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I had more chins than the Hong K ong telephone directory million now, which is a very respectable audience for an early evening programme on Sunday,' he says. 'I think it's important because where else would these inspiring people be seen? And, plainly, people want to see them or they wouldn't watch.'

The viewers, of course, also want to see and hear Harry. It is not something he will comment on, but it is, nevertheless, true.

The funniest knight in Britain is apt to be selfdeprecating. When the Variety Club of Great Britain was celebrating his fortieth year in showbusiness in 1986, he summed it up by saying: 'Anyone who, for 40 years, has built a career on such tenuous foundations as a highpitched giggle, a raspberry and a sprinkling of top Cs, needs all the friends he can get. Looking around me today, I seemto have collected an awful lot of them!'

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This has been the year of Bros.

In just 12 months, three lads have risen from obscurity to become pop's hottest property.

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side the plush Carlton Tower Hotel in Kensington, but it will be no ordinary ride through London. The passengers, struggling through a scrum of activity, are pushed, pulled and prodded as they battle towards the cab. When they finally make it, the driver glances nervously in his rear-view mirror, then watches - open-mouthed as his car is smothered by dozens of young girls.

They bang on the roof

Band on the run: W herever they go, Bros boys Matt, Luke and Craig are pursued by hordes of faithful Brosettes, Says Luke: 'It's not a problem, it's a privilege'

and desperately thump the windows, faces pressed tight to the glass to get one last glimpse of their heroes.

And as the taxi draws slowly away, the faithful are still clinging to its sides.

Inside, moved by the show of affection but somehow calm despite the hysteria, Matt Goss waves to them, whispers 'I love you', then sinks back into his seat.

Opposite him, Craig Logan grins, and wonders about the menu at the exclusive Chinese restaurant he is being driven to - hotly pursued by a frenzied convoy of fans in cars. After all, he's seen the madness of the last few moments more times than he's had hot dinners recently.

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Less than a year ago, the group was unknown and not long out of school.

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Young they may be, but not since the days of Culture Club, Duran Duran or Wham!, has the pop world seen anything quite like them. And those who remember it, say the furore surrounding Bros has brought back memories of Beatlemania.

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What would happen if they weren't there? There would be no success. So we don't consider their attentions to be a problem or a pressure.

It's a privilege.'

Far less welcome has been the prying eye of the press which Matt, in particular, has found hard to accept or understand.

'There's so much love involved in Bros and the people who follow us, but the press always seems to be saying, "OK, lets destroy this - let's destroy Bros": he says, shaking his head.

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After a performance at a working men's club, Nicky Graham - now the Bros producer - recommended them to an old friend. He was Tom Watkins, also manager of the Pet Shop Boys, and he agreed to look after the lads. Within months, they had been christened Bros and signed with CBS Records. It was not, however, a case of overnight success.

When the group released its debut single, I Owe Y ou Nothing, in September last year, it made little impression on the charts. Looking back, nobody is sorry about that but, of course, the record did reach number one on its re-release last summer.

'We realise how destructive it could have been for the song to do well the first time,' explains Craig. 'It would have spoiled us, messed us up. We might easily have become brats.'

Instead, the band has gone from strength to

stv,ength. With ea five singles - including I Quit, Drop The Boy and the Christmas smash, Cat A mong the Pigeons - they have rarely been out of the charts all year.

Bros come across as friendly and approachable boys-next-door. 'It's the fans,' says Matt, who help them keep their feet on the ground. 'We've got so many of them behind us,' he says, 'and, as long as they are, I'll be able to cope.'

But when will the bubble burst? 'Nobody knows,' shrugs Luke, 'but we're just enjoying it while it's here.

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A promotion board, if they found out, would view it as some sort of mental instability - a condition of the mind that immediately brought Sgt Rycott to the forefront of his thoughts.

Now there was a real nutter. Why else would the scourge of his professional life decide it would be a good idea for them to leave the relative warmth and comfort of the squad room and 'patrol the manor' in search of criminal activity. Real villains took a break at Christmas to be with their families and spend their ill-gotten gains.

Suddenly Rycott was shouting: 'Pull over, pull over!' Jones did as bid as Rycott twisted in his seat to peer and point dramatically through the rear window. 'D'you see it?'

All Dc Jones could see was a badly parked Jaguar. 'See what, guy?'

'Arthur bloody Daley,' is what Rycott said.

Fortunately, the immediate area around the base of the chimney stack was flat and Terry was able to stand with relative safety, carefully wedging the sack of presents between his numbed feet, while he flashed the pencil torch down into the blackness of the flue. It appeared clear of soot. There was even a series of small iron lugs sticking out at regular intervals where he could get a toehold. That at least was reassuring. The actual width of the flue wasn't. Maybe he could just about squeeze down it.

He could hold the torch in his mouth and sort of balance the sack on his head. 'It gets wider as you descend,' Arthur had assured him.

But then he would.

'It's Daley's car, all right,' Rycott said. 'And those are his footprints.

I'd recognise them anywhere!' The sergeant's obsessive preoccupation with the activities of Arthur were legendary on the manor, but to claim he could recognise the man's footprints . . in the snow?

Jones was incredulous. They were stood by Arthur's damaged car observing the two sets of footprints leading off into the distance.

'Remarkable observation, guy,' Dc Jones said dryly. 'And it's my guess there's someone with him.'

'McCann!' Rycott exclaimed then realising. 'Is that supposed to be some form of Celtic wit, Jones?'

It took them about five minutes in the police car to follow the footprints to the entrance of Mr

Jackson's residence. And a feeling of euphoria swept over Rycott as he peered around the corner of the house and saw Arthur standing near the foot of a ladder . . staring up at the roof! Got the slippery sod at last. Bang to rights! Capturing Arthur Daley for burglary and in all likelihood his colleague in crime, Terry McCann, was the best Christmas present he could ever wish for! And he leaped from the shadows, calling: 'Get the cliffs on him, Jones!' Startled out of his wits, Arthur tripped and fell over.

Ul Mr Jackson was somewhat bemused. He had opened the door to reveal Arthur handcuffed to one police officer while the other one said: 'Do you know this man, sir?'

Having first got his wife to usher the children upstairs so they wouldn't be upset, Mr Jackson led the trio into the living room, where he proceeded to confirm he knew Arthur and had hired his services to supply one Santa Claus.

Rycott's disappointment and frustration was immeasurable. Dc Jones could've sworn he saw tears forming in his superiors eyes as he released Arthur from the handcuffs, and squirming as Arthur demanded an apology for the unwarranted assault on his person.

It was during this exchange that a brick fell into the inglenook fireplace, and the muffled, distressed voice of Terry was heard calling for help.

It took the firemen three hours to release him.

Long before this, Arthur had felt it prudent to use Mr Jackson's phone to call for a taxi. Terry could be very unreasonable about this sort of thing. Sitting at home now, snuggled into his favourite armchair, sipping a glass of port, puffing on a cigar and warming his feet at the open fireplace while 'erin-doors prepared his dinner, he mused about the evening's events.

Mr Jackson had been very understanding, apologetic . even.

He insisted on paying Arthur the hundred sovs fee that had been agreed upon a week earlier.

Naturally Arthur had accepted it, feeling it was only fair considering the ordeal he'd been through. And, as an afterthought, Terry, too.

Perhaps he should bung the boy, say, 20 quid. Tell him it was out of his own pocket.

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And who could blame them? He has become all 'tea and toast' after years of TV roles such as the Rev Philip Lambe in All in Good Faith, fusspot Martin Bryce in Ever Decreasing Circles and the eccentric man-nextdoor in The Good Life.

So it may come as a surprise this Christmas when as well as a part in a bumper episode of Minder, as war games enthusiast Colonel Caplan, the patron saint of the cul-de-sac takes to the screen as the easily fooled and love-sick Malvolio in Twelfth Night - the type of classic role that the versatile Mr Briers has actually been playing for many a Christmas past.

'I have always loved Shakespeare,' he says.

'Even at school I loved his words. Words always turned me on more than music, and to hear John Gielgud speaking Shakespeare always gave me a great buzz.'

Little Richard was born in Wimbledon, South London, where he lived in a flat with his parents, Joseph and Morna, and his younger sister, Jane.

He was five when war broke out, and well remembers the hard times at home. 'My father had 110 different jobs and was not a planner - he lived for the day. That meant we were always hard-up.'

Like many contemporaries, a young Briers escaped the darkness of the war days by spending hours at the cinema - at the expense, he admits, of his schooling. 'The Rialto, Raynes Park,' he laughs, 'Bogart and Cagney, Laurel and Hardy. A seat in the

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ninepennies and then you watched the film come round again.'

His first job was also homely - a teaboy and filing clerk for a firm of cablemakers but, ironically, it was an unhappy stint doing National Service which brought him closer to his great love: the stage.

He met actor Brian Murphy (later to star in Man about the House and George and Mildred), also serving, who encouraged him to join a drama group at the Elephant and Castle. 'I could never wait to get home, get out of my uniform and on the train to the drama club,' he says.

His parents were bemused. 'They were used to seeing splendid men such as Jack Buchanan in musicals and couldn't see where a little squirt like me would fit in at all.'

But as we know today, Richard Briers proved to be a very great actor, and a scholarship to RADA silenced anyone in doubt.

Today, both his daughters are following him into the business, hardly surprising, considering wife Ann Davies is an actress, too. They met more than 30 years ago while both were at the Liverpool Playhouse.

'I was very lucky to find Ann,' he smiles gratefully.

'Moving that far away from London in those days was like emigrating to Australia.'

Funnily, when he first started out it was playing what he describes as 'silly ass' roles. 'I was very thin and middle-class, a very useful actor who could do funny walks and all sorts.

When TV people were looking for a silly ass barrister for Brothers In Law they chose me. And so I got my first series at 26.'

The rest is TV history, although in between there have been some truly unlikely Briers' roles - like the time he joined Morecambe and Wise for a remake of Captain Blood, the time he appeared on the Tommy Cooper show and, most improbably of all, the time he got dressed up as DameNanny-Good-Life for a Christmas panto.

'Panto isn't my thing,' he says, shaking his head. Tm really not cut out to be a dame at all.' A wardrobefull of candies is definitely preferable to a cupboard full of frocks!

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ust a few years ago, any actor worth his salt would think long and hard about accepting a TV role. There was a feeling - widespread in the acting profession - that television was inferior to treading the boards of a stage. Fortunately for all of us, that parochial view has changed, so much so that theatrical knights of distinction now pop up regularly on the small screen.

There are many fine contenders for the Best Actor and Actress on TV category in the TVTimes Top .10 A wards, but you'll have to be quick to cast your votes on the nomination coupon, left. The closing date is 6 January 1989, and you should send the completed coupon to TVTirnes Top 10 Awards, PO Box 502, Market Harborough, Leicestershire LE99 OAD. The first five entries examined after the closing date will win each entrant and his or her partner a fabulous all-expenses-paid weekend in London, staying at the Marlborough Crest Hotel for two nights and meeting the celebrities at the TVTimes Top 10 Awards ceremony.

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Drama spanned many aspects of life in Britain: the gentle to the violent. Jeremy Brett made a welcome reappearance as the master sleuth in The Return of Sherlock Holmes (ITV). International film star Michael Caine took his first TV role in 20 years as Inspector Abberline in Jack the Ripper. Mark McManus brought his gravelly Scottish accent to a nationwide audience again as Glasgow detective Taggart.

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Hardest of all is being able to retain one's mystique when the public claims its right to an insight into one's most intimate feelings and affairs. Only in deference to her adoring fans did she agree to grant One More A udience with Dame Edna on Christmas Day evening on ITV. And, as her personal Christmas gift, she agreed to answer frank and totally unrehearsed questions from those few she believes can almost match her own magnitude of stardom. The questions \\ include such sensitive issues as her own, tragic widowhood, her son Kenny's );\ sometimes questionable sexuality, the preservation of her ever-perfect complexion, and ( her fabulous wardrobe.

But, even for the chosen few, '74 including Jeffrey Archer, Dr l Anthony Clare, Dame Judi Dench, Derek Hatton, Hayley Mills and the Emanuels, being a victim of Dame Edna's ever-honest tongue and witty retorts can be a daunting experience.

Jeffrey Archer was far from insulted by the doubtful accolade of a public Dame Edna announcement that he was on the bottom of her Christmas card list.

'If you are in public life, you have to laugh at yourself. If you are not willing to do that, you will face a lot of embarrassment. I really don't feel that being teased

by Dame Edna tarnished my image, in fact, I think she enhanced it. And I agree with her own self-image. She is almost a legend. What people don't realise is that Dame Edna is actually very fair and doesn't suffer fools gladly, as will be clearly seen on this show.'

Elizabeth and David Emanuel have frequently been graced by orders from Dame Edna â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and, although only David was present on this occasion, Elizabeth considers herself honoured to have been included in the Dame's comments.

'It is nice to be so well known that you are caricatured by such a big star,'

. . . and certainly none quite like Dame Edna Everage. So when the megastar offers 'One More Audience' with her 'almost equals', the result is superb. ANDREA K ON found out what it's like to be on the receiving end of the superstar.. .

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Elizabeth says with obvious humility. 'Our greatest worry is that other clients might try to place an order for a copy of one of her gowns. We would like it to be known that couturiers like us only do "one-offs",' she says firmly.

'That Dame Edna chooses to wear our gowns in the company of so many famous people is enough. And we are delighted that, even though she chose another designer for this particular occasion, she remembered us in her words of wisdom.

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Ex-deputy leader of Liverpool city council, Derek Hatton, is rarely daunted, or lost for words. Faced with the prospect of confrontation with Dame Edna herself, though, he was aware of the vital importance of being fully prepared.

'I thought I had better make sure I had something to say, after watching the faces of those she caught off-guard,' he admits. 'She wields a great deal of media power and I am sure there is no other TV star who could entice such a celebritystudded audience.'

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What, too, about the considerable number of people who still do not have video recorders? Or the fact that many viewers are

the elderly, who rely more than most on television for their entertainment?

N Kent Brighton East Sussex ITV now provides a 24-hour-a-day service.

Inevitably, some films will be shown during the night — and they have proved to be the most popular part of the service. Normally, classic films are not given their first TV screenings in the small hours. The IBA says: 'Elderly viewers might particularly enjoy the kind of film classics that C4 regularly shows in the afternoons.' C4 adds that it does not usually show classic films in the early hours of the morning.

Too many repeats Since C4's inception in 1982, its consistent screening of vintage films from Hollywood's golden age has given great enjoyment to many.

Crime thrillers, the Britain at W ar series and the Goldwyn selection are unlikely to be matched.

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Ryde, Isle of Wight

Rest assured, vintage films are still very much a part of C4's schedules.

Gary Brown Seaham, County Durham

This is one of many letters we received after publishing LW T's reasons for cutting `Three Days of the Condor'. Some films have already been edited when bought by ITV or C4. Others are cut by the TV companies themselves, following the Broadcasting A ct's requirement for the IBA `to ensure that nothing is included in

cuts to 'The Postman A lways Rings Twice', the IBA and ITV companies have agreed to make less savage cuts to future screenings. This will include reinstating of most of the famous kitchen-table scene.

The editing of 'Body Heat' is also being reviewed. The IBA says: 'W e agree that the extent of the cuts made to these films did damage their narrative flow.' .

M Cairnie North London

'Just because films are shown late at night, it does not mean that anything goes,' says the IBA . 'The provisions of the Broadcasting A ct remain.' But, following many complaints about

More passion from jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange

Which version is which?

Insult to injury?

I found the reply to a recent letter about ITV's transmission of Three Days of the Condor even more insulting than the butchering of the film itself. That the film was shown at 8.00pm, in view of its content, was ridiculous. The 'trims' LWT referred to made nonsense of the dramatic structure. As for the 'gratuitous, savage murders' and 'unacceptable language' LWT says it cut, let us decide what constitutes unacceptable material.

If material is potentially offensive, clear warnings should be given.

Why are there cuts to films shown after 11.00pm? I am feeling nannied, patronised and angry. Recently, in The Postman A lways Rings Twice, a crucial scene, in which Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange became sexually involved, was cut. The following drama then made no sense. It was a late-night film and I think, as an adult, I can cope with a scene of lust and passion between two adults. No one was exploited, degraded, humiliated or hurt. Similarly, with Body Heat, the first sexual encounter between Kathleen Turner and William Hurt was cut. It reflected the build-up of heat in the city, and the tension which led to later events.

2ei Cutting remarks By far the worst aspect of ITV's films policy is the editing of some features to fit into specific time-slots. If a film is too long for a certain slot, it should be saved for another one — not hacked about to suit the programme-planners.

Redford's 'Condor': controversial cut programmes which offends good taste or decency'. It is the IBA 's job to decide what is acceptable, not the viewers'. Despite protests, LW T stands by its decision to make cuts in 'Condor' to render it suitable for transmission before 9.00pm. LW T adds: `Many more people were able to view a taut thriller without being sickened by blood-letting. W e have never set ourselves up as art-house film buffs, screening material for connoisseurs.'

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Ealing, West London Thames TV and LWT, two of the four companies responsible for screening most ITV networked films, point out that most are shown uncut. 'We try not to edit only to fit a time-slot,' says LWT. 'Most editing is done to remove gratuitous sex and/or violence.' The IBA says it 'discourages' ITV companies from making cuts for reasons of length, but that this is sometimes unavoidable.

The Authority, which currently regulates programmes on ITV and C4, advises viewers to let it know if they feel films have been 'hacked about'.

All the time Why does TV Times, on its film review page, not give the actual running times of films, instead of the TV time-slot — which includes commercials?

James R Gibson, Waltham Abbey, Essex ITV , C4 and TV Times believe that most viewers are interested in the total length, including advertisements, so they can plan their viewing.

Why is the fact that a film is being shown in a censored 'TV version' not included in all publicity trailers relating to a film — and announced immediately before the screening? TV critics such as myself feel they have a duty to warn their readers when a film has been censored.

Nigel Floyd, North London TV Times always labels a film a 'TV version' if it is aware that any changes have been made from the original shown in the cinema. Occasionally, ITV and C4 are not aware that cuts have already been made to films that they have bought. 'A TV version can be just as entertaining as the original,' says LW T. ITV Film Purchase Group adds: 'It is not our policy to discourage and confuse the audience with labels that mean little to non-cinema goers plastered over publicity and promotional material. Cinema films exist in many different versions.'

X should mark the spot When shown in cinemas, all films are given certificates, which determine who can see them. Why cannot the same system be used in television — and printed in TV Times?

Winston Bryce Royston, South Yorkshire

ITV and C4 already have their own method of certifying films, which determines at which times of day they can be shown.

This system is not currently used on screen, but the IBA and TV companies are discussing ways of giving audiences more

information about the content and suitability of films. Using the original British Board of Film Classification certificates would not give an accurate guide, because their meanings have changed down the years.

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(9,3). 7 Lynne Perrie's link with The Holly.

8 Regina, will Broadcast about three, like Liz Taylor.

9 Assistance given by Band to help the needy.

11 At the end of Cinderella comes the start for a great singer.

12 The star followers' who appeared in magical fashion with gifts for the child.

13 Part one of an equal two-parter gives 45 minutes at soccer.

14 How the brilliant Mr Coward got into the Christmas spirit?

15 Love expressed to me in post-Christmas song day by day has to be accurate. 16 Stirring tale is part of the picture called The Saga. 20 The age of Mr Majeika, the Stanley Baxter adventures.

21 The whole of Hannibal Smith's team in the water, just like Seven Swans! (1-8).

22 Time for Dad to have an afternoon snooze — and get his cards!

23 Marvellous, like the two who gave frankincense and myrrh (2,4,2,4).

DOWN 1 Star going down with the man from Down Under, one of the James boys. 2 Family for whom the Windsor gathering is traditional.

3 After a start from Santa went to the front with a snow toy.

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17 Mime show needed at the finale for Aladdin (abbr). 18 Lover boy at the Circus always takes a bow in Piccadilly.

19 Girlfriend whose goose may be cooked this time of the year.

20 They are likely to end up in hot water once the poachers get them.

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13 Assassin (3,3).

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16 Ryan. Pictured Michael Barrymore (Strike It Lucky).

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your TV screens Versatile actor David Jason, with screen wife Gwen Taylor (far left) and Nicola Pagett; stars in the new ITV comedy series 'A Bit of Do' â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a comic look at the British class system. Jason plays a foundry owner whose son marries a dentist's daughter (her mother is Nicola Pagett).

But the liaison turns out to be much more than the joining together of the Simcock and Rodenhurst families ..

A W est Indian bather's shop in London is the focus for a new comedy series, Desmond's, C4. Guyanan-born barber Desmond (Norman Beaton) and wife Shirley (Carmen Munroe) play the generation game with family Sean Austin Picket; left), Gloria (K im W alker) and Michael (Geff Francis) Right: actor David Suchet leads the way in ITV's 'Hercule Poirot's Casebook, playing Agatha Christie's fictional detective Propping up the bar and staying very cool, Edwardian adventurer Richard Hannay (Robert Powell, right) watches as another awkward situation develops in a new series of 'Hannay' on ITV

The evergreen screen siren Claudette Colbert (below, left), Stephen Collins and Ann-Margret star in the new ITV miniseries The Two Mrs Grenvil les, a mix of greed, passion and murder among the rich

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Jools Holland (above) teams up with 'Night Network's' Rowland Rivron in 'The Groovy Fellers, six half-hour C4 documentaries taking an off-beat look at aspects of modern society, such as leisure, cash and transport C4 describes the series as a cross between 'The Comic Strip' and Alan W hicker

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Top model turned actress, Twiggy (above), takes on the tragic role of mother of a comic genius in ITV's 'Charlie Chaplin'. The drama reveals the harrowing childhood of the world's best-loved clown

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hey're back, incorrigible as ever, and their millions of fans will love them all the more. Take a bow, Dennis Waterman and George Cole, arguably TV's most famous twosome, as Terry and Arthur, in a new series of Minder. Arthur's going up in the world, with a cheeky cockney chauffeur, played by Mark Farmer.

Minder is just one of the top attractions on ITV over the next few weeks. Chat show host Michael Aspel returns with more big-name guests in a new A spel & Company, while self-interested MP Alan B'Stard (Rik Mayall) pops up on the political scene again in The New Statesman. Jane Asher is back for a second series of the hit wartime drama W ish Me Luck, which features two new Resistance characters (played by Lynn Farleigh and Jane Snowden).

Three generations under one roof spells more trouble in a new series of A fter Henry, while Joss Ackland, Lou Grant star Mason Adams, and Hot Metal actor Richard Wilson have more serious things on their minds in the exciting ITV espionage thriller The Intercom Conspiracy, a mini-series based on the Eric Ambler novel.

Leslie Grantham, Dirty Den in EastEnders, pops up on ITV in a totally different role as London boxing promoter Eddie Burt, in the three-part drama W inners and Losers. He's in Glasgow to sign up a promising young boxer — and local fight promoters are not amused.

Dad's A rmy and Hi-De-Hi! creator Jimmy Perry has come u with High Street Blues (ITV), a comedy series featuring a tussle between a huge conglomerate and a row of little shops, whose

Bill Roache at home Ken Barlow on life, his family and that job...

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owners don't want them turned into a hypermarket. Game show with a difference, Trick or Treat, will be hosted by Mike Smith on ITV, with co-presenter Julian Cleary. Brazilian soap opera Dance W ith Me, the story of identical twins unaware of each other's existence, comes to C4.

ITV is offering Tanamera, a powerful love story involving a member of a wealthy British family in Thirties Singapore and a beautiful, aristocratic Chinese girl. Still on a Far East theme, C4 starts the New Year with films from China, the six-week season spanning the past 50 years of Chinese movie-making. C4 also hosts Big W orld Cafe, a 10-part ethnic music extravaganza from around the world.

Other highspots include the return of Cilla Black in Surprise Surprise, the comedy series The Two of Us, Jeremy Beadle in Beadle's Box of Tricks, and some great films, including the James Bond movies Thunderball, Live and Let Die and Y ou

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You can do yourself no end of good over the festive season in terms of public image and career prospects. Razor sharp intuition on the 20th should help you to see, and seize, opportunities for self-promotion.

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'It's going to be different this year!' I hear the cry, and a flash of inspiration on the 20th could indeed make the season brighter. But do think your plans through carefully, otherwise you could end up too tired and emotional to enjoy your alternative Christmas—a counter-productive way to start the New Year.

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You'll be doing a great deal of thinking during this busy fortnight. Improving the quality of your life, placing less emphasis on material things — even considering emigration — are just some of the subjects which will occupy your mind. So, by the New Year, your list of resolutions will be a long one!

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Intellectually, you're firing on all cylinders, and over the next fortnight you'll spend a lot of time changing your attitudes.

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Your financial judgment is particularly shrewd on the 20th and investments made then should prove beneficial. You could receive a cash Christmas present on the 22nd which takes you by surprise. Romantically, partners, or potential partners, will look on you kindly.

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Venus enters your sign on the 18th, so you really will be the life and soul of the party this social season. Endowed with extra charm, you'll attract people like a magnet, and you'd be wise to buy extra food for unexpected visitors who'll flock to your door!

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Capricorn 22 Dec-20 Jan This will be a Christmas to remember. Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are all in your sign, and such a powerful five-planet combination will not go unnoticed. You face 1989 equipped with acute intuition, innovative thinking and more optimism and determination than ever before.

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You're in a particularly loving and generous mood, bending over backwards to make the Yuletide happy — especially where children are concerned.

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September If finding the right gift for someone is proving a problem, go shopping on Tuesday. It may be getting dangerously close to the zero hour, but you'll be inspired to find exactly what you're looking for. There won't be a dull moment on Thursday, so it's just as well life slows down a little after Christmas.

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Off with the old, on with the new — that's your philosophy in the run-up to 1989. You'll be looking towards the New Year with a quiver of excitement because you know intuitively that there's reason to be optimistic. Its time to make a fresh start, identify where you're wasting potential, and start living life to the full.

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Miriam Stoppard, 247 Tottenham Court Road, London W IP OAU A good cause As I like to make an occasional contribution to a charity, could you tell me where I may obtain information listing the percentage of cash that goes on administrative costs, and the amount that goes to the fund? I have been told that in this respect some charities are luckier than others.

Mrs L Witt Chatham, Kent

A ny member of the public can write to their favourite charity and ask them for details of their administrative costs. A lternatively, the Central Register of Charities, St A lbans House, 57-60 Haymarket, London SW 1Y 4QX , keeps copies of every charity's accounts and is open on weekdays between 10.00am and 4.00pm. A nyone interested can call and see what each one does with its money.

Pet subject I am 13 and I think it is very sad that at Christmas and birthdays parents buy a little cat, dog or rabbit for their child. Then, after a few weeks, the child gets tired of it and it gets thrown out and sometimes dies. I think it's stupid of people to say they love an animal.

It is not enough. They must care for it as well.

I am an animal carer, and before buying a pet, parents should talk over the idea of the whole family taking responsiblity for the pet. They should also discuss whether they can provide the animal with what it needs: like exercise and food.

Antony Nash Tain, Highland

I heartily agree, and wish there were more people who felt as you do. I believe the most important thing about possessing a dog is that the owner is old enough and responsible enough to be aware what it needs, and be able to take care of it him or herself.

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You may chuckle at what I am going to tell you. I have recently had a mastectomy, and so many people have been of COMfort, tell* rte7hO* well and fit they have been after having had the same operation. But my daughter made me laugh most. She is flat-chested and wears a size 32A bra.

'Look at it this way, Mum,' she said. 'At least you know what it's like to have had a bust. I've never had that pleasure.' Talk about: If!,s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all! As a postscript, the surgeon did a marvellous job with an implant and, after three weeks, I look and feel great.

Pat Dyer Stratford-on-Avort Warwickshire

W hat a terrific attitude for my Christmas Topic of the W eek. I hope you are in touch with the Breast Care and Mastectomy Association, 26a Harrison Street, London W all! 81G. Members like you are worth their weight in gold. As this is our annual bumper issue, I send you, and all readers of my page greetings -- and you all 9004 ifalth in 1989. special circumstances, as basically they have neither the time nor understanding. A s you say, A ntony, it is the caring that matters. It shouldn't just be left to Mum, as she usually has other things to do. I may sound unsympathetic, but for a dog's sake, if it doesn't work out within two weeks, I think it should be found a more caring home.

Mind your eyes My young grandson missed most of the fun of Christmas last year.

On the 24th, he got his eye scratched by the branch of the Christmas tree and had to be taken to the casualty department of our local hospital. It was a most unhappy experience for the family, and I would like to warn others.

Mrs E Shepherd Manchester

'Real' trees look great, but this kind of poke in the eye can cause most painful scratches. A recent report from a specialist listed 15 such accidents at his clinic alone. A nother accident peculiar to this season is one caused by a

Q Can you suggest the best cure for a hangover, please?

A Lots and lots of water. If you can equal the amount of water to alcohol when drinking, so much the better. A pint of water before bed, and another pint if you wake in the night.

The next best thing is a glass of water in which cabbage has been cooked. The Romans drank this after their drunken revelries! A couple of non-aspirin pain-killers, such as paracetamol, might help. Lastly, dare I suggest it, is the hair of the dog — a nip of what caused the hangover but just a nip!

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So here's a good tip.

Don't open the bubbly the usual way - hold on to the cork and twist the bottle instead.

Pudding perils Could you please print a warning in your column about the dangers that can lurk in a Christmas pudding? I popped in half a dozen mint 20p coins last year, and was distressed when my elderly mother-in-law cracked her dentures.

Mrs Rachel Robinson Leeds

How unlucky! The most amazing case of which I've heard is, I admit, almost unbelievable. It concerned a girl who had mysteriously been unable to speak for 12 years. One morning she coughed up a silver 3d bit which had been lodged in her vocal chords during a Christmas dinner all those years ago. If you have a dental disaster, contact the casualty department of your largest local hospital.

They should have an oral surgeon on call.

As a doctor, have you any advice to give road users over the festive season? My daughter has just passed her driving test.

Mrs Grace Browning South-west London

I can only suggest you tell your daughter to adopt what I call 'defensive travelling', ie not to drive when the pubs are closing. I am sure she will be sober, but someone else may not be. A nd while I'm on the subject of alcohol, I advise people who have been on a bender the night before not to drive the following morning. The chances are that they will still be pie-eyed, even if they don't realise it. Finally, remember that too much alcohol lies behind most of the

domestic violence that blights the season of goodwill. So drink sensibly, folks, and stick to your usual tipple.

Cold comfort When attending a Christmas party at a friend's house last year, I was really upset to see a little baby, in a carry-cot, left on the bed in the spare room.

It was perishing cold, and there was no central heating. All evening, I kept worrying about the little mite while others were enjoying themselves around a log fire.

Perhaps I am too fussy.

Beryl Jenkins Dyfed

I don't think you are.

Cold can be a killer for the very young and the old. It brings on chest problems and even hypothermia. W hether we have a cold spell over Christmas or not, do please beware of letting the elderly sit in a freezing church or sleep in a spare room that has been unlived in and unheated for the rest of the year. See they avoid waiting too long at bus stops or on railway platforms during reduced holiday services. To keep warm, remember that several layers of thin clothing are better than one thick garment. If you are worried that someone you know may have hypothermia, these are the signs: they may be drowsy and seem confused, and their skin will feel cold to the touch. Feel a place that is usually warm, like the armpit. If the skin there is cold, call a doctor at once.

Tip of the Week Mrs Nevey, of Kirkcaldy, Fife, wins our fiver for this seasonal tip: Now that so many people use plastic bin liners as refuse sacks, the safest way to dispose of broken glasses is to put them into empty milk or juice cartons before throwing them away.

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Right to Reply You recently printed a letter regarding an elderly mother in a residential home who does not bath. This caused embarrassment to her family. As someone who once ran a home, I can only say that however happy and comfortable the woman's mother may seem, if she rarely bathes and her room smells, the place must be well below the required standard. I have a disabled relative, now in a private nursing home, but who came from a home run by the local council. In both these, it was common practice for all residents to bath at least once a week, under supervision. I worry that her letter and your reply gives a very bad impression of homes in general, which is unfair. There are so many, both in the private and public sector, which give a wonderful service.

Mrs A Northrop Keighley, West Yorkshire

Stop Press I have always believed that babies in the womb, before birth, can be influenced by what their mothers do. For instance, if a mum is excited, so is her babe; if depressed, likewise.

Recent correspondence in a medical magazine seems to bear this out.

It seems that mothers who were TV soap opera addicts while pregnant found their newborn infants were soothed watching and hearing the same soaps.

The conclusions drawn were that the mixture of music and voices brought back pleasant memories of the womb.

I am sure the Editor of TV Times will be pleased to hear this!

There's always £10 for the Topic of the Week, and £5 for a Tip of the Week. Miriam regrets that she is unable to enter into individual correspondence.

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