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7.10 Oakie Doke
Animation.
(Repeat) (Stereo)
7.20 Secret Life of Toys
Playroom fun.
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7.35 Babar
Elephant adventures.
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8.00 News Subtitled; Regional News; Weather
8.10 The Wacky Races
Cartoon. (Stereo)
8.35 Young People's Specials: Umbrella Jack
(Stereo)
9.00 News Subtitled; Regional News; Weather
9.05 Activ8
Exciting sports.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)
9.30 Sweet Valley High
Teen drama.
(Repeat) (Stereo)
9.50 Funnybones
Cartoon.
(Repeat)
Disney family comedy, starring Hayley Mills, Burl Ives
Poverty forces a widow and her family to move to a ramshackle house in Maine, where they make new friends.
(1963, U)
See Films: pages 57-72 ***
The final episode from the recent series with Paul Gross as a Canadian mountie.
Fraser loses his manners as well as his memory after an accident with a getaway van.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
Daily magazine show, presented by Jane Asher, with ideas for the house, garden and your taste buds. Today: transforming a bachelor bed, creating an unusual floral arrangement, a quick recipe and a chocaholic's treat.
See Food: page 40
A look at the weather.
(Subtitled)
Regional News and Weather
Libbyhits rock bottom.
Repeated 5.35pm Stereo Subtitled ..
Classic film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical in which a novice nun (Julie Andrews) leaves her convent to accept a position as governess to a large family. Show more
Classic family musical, starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
Maria, a novice, leaves her convent in Salzburg to become governess to the seven children of Captain Von Trapp. She instils a love of music in the children and wins the captain's heart, but their happiness is soon threatened.
(1965, U) (Subtitled)
(Julie Andrews is in Tom Curtain at 11.25pm, BBC1)
See Films: pages 57-72 *****
What do you mean you've never seen...? page 54
Second of four new animated tales based on Jill Barklem's children's books.
The mice hold a surprise picnic birthday party for Wilfred Toadflax.
News, scores and results, including Irish Grand National action.
(Stereo)
(Shown at 1.15pm)
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
From the hidden depths of Television Centre Terry Wogan introduces more memorable moments that the BBC stars and presenters would do anything to forget. His selection includes mistakes and fluffed lines from Top Gear to Bottom, by way of Absolutely Fabulous, One Foot in the Grave and Pride and Prejudice.
(Stereo)
The first of this evening's two episodes. Sarah grapples with a crisis of faith, while Ted and Tony lock horns.
Next episode is at 8.30pm
Michael Flatley stars in this made-for-television version of his new show.
The ancient clans are troubled as a new dark power emerges to challenge the Lord of the Dance, but the Little Spirit helps the Lord protect his mythical people. In an incredible adventure they encounter love, desire and danger. See today's choices.
(Stereo)
See People: page 12
With Peter Sissons.
(Subtitled)
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Nigel plans an Easter surprise for Clare, and Sarah decides it's time to return home and face the music.
Angus Deayton provides a fascinating selection of cringe-making clips of famous celebrities, filmed long before they were famous. Deayton does not forget himself and includes his famous cereal advertisement, along with Dustin Hoffman praising a car and a 14-year-old Naomi Campbell prancing about on The Keith Harris Show.
See today's choices.
Before They Were Famous 9.00pm BBC1
Resplendent in orange velvet, Angus Deayton hosts a show whose title rather blows the mystery of its contents. Is there anything more gratifying than seeing the feted and the famous grovelling about like the rest of us while waiting in the wings of superstardom? Those familiar with the Deayton/Danny Baker sense of humour will know what to expect from their script.
The researchers have unearthed an astonishing array of stars in unlikely places: Arnold Schwarzenegger on Magpie, Jeremy Irons on Play Away, Anna Ford singing Dylan's Masters of War in her best Joan Baez-quaver, the list is endless and endlessly hilarious. It may be buttock-clenchingly embarrassing for the stars, but it's so funny it should carry a health warning.
See who you recognise in our early line-up on page 25.
Suspense thriller starring Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman
Young newlywed Andy Safian has it all - beautiful wife, great job and a rambling house which he is lovingly restoring. Then one of his students is brutally attacked, and old school friend and dynamic surgeon, Jed Hill, rents the top floor of his house. Suddenly Andy is catapulted into a dark world of deceit and double dealing.
(1993, 15)
See Films: pages 57-72
Espionage thriller and the second of today's films starring Julie Andrews
Also starring Paul Newman
American scientist Michael Armstrong suddenly leaves a nuclear conference he is attending in Copenhagen and flies to East Berlin. Refusing to believe that he has defected, his fiancee and colleague Sarah Sherman follows him across the Iron Curtain, not realising that her actions will put Armstrong in danger.
(1966, 15)
See Films: pages 57-72 ***
