8.30 My Husband and I MOLLIE SUGDEN WILLIAM MOORE
Central
THE POOR MAN AT HIS GATE
5.15pm Blockbusters
In the second episode of this situation comedy series, Nora Powers is bitterly ashamed of her husband's new position at Ashvale Advertising. Can she hide from the girls in the typing pool for ever?
BOB HOLNESS The game show in which 16- to 18-year-old contestants test their general knowledge.
News at 5.45 6.00 Central News A look ahead to the weekend with the Central news and sports teams.
6.45 Central Post Anna Soubry wants to hear your views on ITV and Channel Four programmes. Please write to: Central Post, Freepost, Central Television, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 ITV or Central Post, Freepost, Central Television, East Midlands Television Centre, Nottingham NG1
7.00 The Newlywed Game GLORIA HUNNIFORD Light-hearted series in which Gloria Hunniford quizzes three newlymarried couples to find out how well they know each other - and what they have yet to find out.
7.30 TJ Hooker HARDCORE CONNECTION
Hooker teams up with a prostitute to clear the name of a murdered police officer. Hooker William Shatner Romano Adrian Zmed Stacy Heather Locklear Corrigan James Darren Capt Sheridan Richard Herd
Oracle subtitles page 898 Mollie Sugden Nora Powers George Powers William Moore Bambi Bamber Deddie Davies Tracy Cosgrove Carol Hawkins Mr Mundy John Horsley Pearl Isabelle Lucas
9.00 Yesterday's Dreams PAUL FREEMAN JUDY LOE TREVOR BYFIELD Patrick Troughton Avis Bunnage RETRACING OLD FOOTSTEPS
10.35 Central Weekend Live! SUE JAY ANDY CRAIG REG HARCOURT It's serious, it's fun, it will make you feel angry and amused. It's Central
W eekend Live!,
delighting in controversy, relishing the unusual, and getting to the heart of issues in the news. Above all, it's the programme where the audience have their say, and if your organisation thinks there's an issue to be tackled then write in - and, maybe, you'll be on Central W eekend Live! Write to: The Editor, Central Weekend Live!, Central House, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2JP
12.00 Masters of Fury RICHARD BOONE FRANK CONVERSE LAURA GEMSER TOSHIRO MIFUNE
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Continuing the love story about two people trying to rediscover their past. Martin retraces old footsteps when he returns home to Heyford for the first time for five years. Family and old friends bring back memories of happier times. Diane renews an old acquaintance while Don receives some unwelcome visitors. Oracle subtitles page 888 Martin Paul Freeman Diane Judy Coe Don Trevor Byfield Jack Patrick Troughton A untie V i Avis Bunnage Matthew Damien Lyne Kate Frances Atkinson Gil Ed Devereaux Joyce Bingley Meg Davies Derek Malcolm Stony Madge Thelma Whiteley Kay Sarah Porter A lice Jean Heywood Frank Richard Butler Ed Gutman Cohn Stinton Mr Fisher Gavin Richards Lynsey Kate McKenzie Les Peter Wight W ayne Christopher Priest Valerie Holliman Sylvie
10.00 News at Ten followed by Central News
This week, Oracle subtitles are to be found on these ITV and C4 programmes
THE BUSHIDO BLADE
The first of a season of hard-hitting martial arts films. Japan, in 1854. A priceless gift - a great sword known as The Bushido Blade destined for the US president is stolen, and must be recovered before a peace treaty between the two nations can be signed. See page 33 Comm Matthew Peny Richard Boone Capt Lawrence Hawk Frank Converse Tomoe Laura Gernser Shogun Commander Toshiro Mifune Lord Y amato Tetsuro Tamba Prince !do Sony Chiba First Mate James Earl Jones Enjiro Mako Robin Bun Timothy Murphy Cave Johnson Michael Starr Yuld Mayumi Asano
1.40am Closedown followed by
Central Jobfinder '87 The Jobfmder service is now being shown early on Saturday morning at 5.55 and 6.25 as well as late at night.
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5.00pm Car 54, Where Are You? I'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE The comic exploits of two New York policemen, Toody and Muldoon. A gang of thieves watch a TV show called Crimebusters in order to get ideas on how to commit crimes. Made in black and white ?body Joe E Ross Muldoon Fred Gwynn Bugsy Jake LaMotta Danny Dort Clark Schnauser Al Lewis
5.30 The Tube JOOLS HOLLAND PAULA YATES THE MISSION TIMBUK 3 MICHELLE SHOCKED BOBBY WOMACK Paula has a brief encounter with Dr Roberts of the Blow Monkeys. Later, live in the studio are The Mission in their full gothic splendour and there is also electric country from Timbuk 3, an American husband and wife team whose third member is a ghetto blaster. Plus some camp fire music from Michelle Shocked.
7.00 Channel 4 News followed by
Weather Chegues/POs should be made payable to Channel Four 'TV Ltd All requests for leaflets should state programme and episode of interest 1 PO Box 4000. London W3 6XJ or PO Box 4000, Glasgow G12 9JQ or PO Box 4000, Belfast BT2 7FE 2 Pob's Paper, PO Box 507, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 3AL 3 The Marketing Mix Institute of Marketing (MIA). Cookham, Berkshire SL6 9QH 4 A Question of Economics NEC. 18 Brooklands Avenue. Cambridge DB2 2HN
FRIDAY 16 JANUARY
SUNDAY
4.30 A Little Princess 7.15 Catchphrase 7.15 The World at War* 9.15 A Fortunate Life*
SATURDAY MONDAY
4.45 Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest 6.00 Citizen 2000* 7.00 Wish You Were Here...?
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7.50 Book Choice
10.00 The Golden Girls
Julian Symons talks about a new biography of Victor Gollancz, by Ruth Dudley Edwards.
BIG DADDY Comedy with four single women who share a house in Miami, Florida. Blanche (Rue McClanahan) can't wait... her father is coming to visit.
8.00 What the Papers Say Freelance journalist David Chipp looks at the weeks papers.
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10.30 Mine Own 8.15 A Week in Executioner Politics NICK ROSS Television's authoritative political 'weekly'. Presented by Nick Ross. Reporters are Sue Cameron, John Underwood, Marian Bowman, with Peter Kellner.
9.00 E.R. MY WAY A childhood hero of Dr Sheinfeld puts medical ethics to the test when he asks to be released from the pain of a terminal disease. Dr Sheinfeld Dr Sheridan Joan Thor Julie W illiams Maria A marda Fred Burdock
Elliott Gould Mary McDonnell Conchata Ferrell Lynne Moody Shuko Alcune Bruce Young
9.30 Newhart R.I.P. OFF Comedy with American inn owner Dick Loudon. Tonight, Dick gets a job that turns out to be a scam for selling swampland burial plots. Dick Joanna George Stephanie
Bob Newhart Mary Frann Tom Poston Julia Duffy
A famous psychiatric thriller. Adam Lucian, an ex-fighter pilot who suffered brutal treatment at the hands of the Japanese, attempts to strangle his wife Molly. The strangling is averted in the nick of time, and Molly asks Felix Milne, a lay psychiatrist, to take Adam in hand. Felix exhausts himself so completely on his patients he has no time for his own problems.
Made in black and white
See page 33 Felix Mi/ne Burgess Meredith Patricia Milne Dulcie Gray A dam Lucian Kieron Moore Peter Edge Michael Shepley Molly Lamar: Barbara White
12.25 to 1.10am approx The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross Nick Plytas & Ecstasy A new show and a new host rolled into one to bring you chat, music, variety and comedy.
C4 addresses
8.30 My Husband and I 9.00 Yesterday's Dreams 10.00 The Golden Girls*
5.05 Brookside* 7.15 Me & My Girl 9.00 The Power Game* 9.00 Dempsey and Makepeace 10.00 Hill Street Blues*
FRIDAY
Join 'The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross': 12.25.
7.30 Coronation Street 8.00 The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole 9.00 Rumpole of the Bailey TUESDAY
1.30 Bulman 5.30 As Good As New* 7.30 Busman's Holiday WEDNESDAY
6.00 The Marketing Mix* 6.30 Dust and Dreams* 7.30 Coronation Street 8.00 Tom Keating on Paintings* 8.30 High & Dry
9.00 The Equalizer THURSDAY
4.50 The Book Tower 7.30 Duty Free 8.00 Never the Twain 8.30 Minder 9.30 Squaring the Circle* FRIDAY 23 JANUARY
8.30 My Husband and I 9.00 Yesterday's Dreams 10.00 The Golden Girls* * denotes C4
This is a 60-minute programme of job vacancies and information for unemployed people in the Central region. It is screened every night after normal programmes and each morning before the start of TV-am.
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