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The JoumakSeturday, June 12, 1993 ith Dudley his old lamham, Essex, happy typist about his College. oda of more than 130 mph to set a new rid landspeed record. (In, 7p s). PAROIIII OUT OPAL: Sidney Pottier and rt Lancaster star in this two-part Emmy ard-winning drama about a hard-fought I rights struggle which started to change face of America. In Part One the black iple of Clarendon County decide to do riething about racial discrimination in it school and take the School Board to wt.

Their representative, llurgood Mar-11 (Pokier) battles hatred and bigotry inst a brilliant attorney who arrives to it the case on behalf of the State. (118C2, la When 11 youngsters lost their lives on notorbikes in the space of a year, Cheshire )olice decided enough was enough. Now heir unmarked BMW motorbike is helping educe the needless death toll. The twisting vanse of road cutting through the picuresque Peak District from Macclesfield to lurton is the death track where bikers weak the law pushing their bikes to the MX 7 -311110. NUE STONES ktnerica sent three million men to Vietnam 58,000 were killed or listed "Missing In And of this latter group.

1,172 solkers have still not been accounted for True stories joins Deborah Robertson Bardsley her world-wide quest to find out the fate of her father, a colonel shot down in a dogn966. ltk a journey that ends in tears. 4, 9.3111/me). MUD EYE NOUDAY NEW Every year, mdreds of British holiday-makers are jured in accidents abroad. Even in some countries, standards of health care are ockingly low.

Reporter Jenny Cuffe ealcs to Michael, from Brighton, who oke his neck after falling downstairs in ainland Greece. Through negligent treatent he got gangrene in one leg and had to tve it amputated below the knee. He tells Mlle Eye that the mistake has ruined his e. MOM Opus). lelle Charity fund-raising events occupy girls' energies in the final episode of this Dyable drama.

Patrice is roped into pro- nig limousines for a charity ball, then falls a professional fund-raiser and finds finally having fun. Starring Jill Baker, role Hayman, Damien Thomas and Lucy x.d. (OM, 11.30pos). trip lo lad out if it is true. kW Macey Wits joist a group of youngera wbo go pond-dipping at a lyoeside iture reserve.

As usual, the programme will be featuring latest news and taking a look forward to hat the week ahead holds hi store. June 12, 1993 winummmusinismainumink TELEVISION, RADIO AND SAME TODAY MR MUM Comedy starring James Belushi as Larry Burrows, an ordinary small-town guy with an ordinary small-town life who is Convinced that life would have been different for him if only he hadn't been responsible for losing his high school's championship baseball When he meets Mr Destiny (Michael Caine), Larry gets the opportunity to live that "other life" that of a successful businessman married.to the prom queen; the biggest house and bank account in town only to find out that this alternative destiny is not all that he had imagined it would be. (Iky Movies Phis DOC 11011,1001 Comedy starring Michael J. Fox as Benjamin Stone, a brash young doctor from the gritty environment of Washington D.C. who takes off for Beverly Hills to be a plastic surgeon to the stars.

Along the way, however, Stone crashes his Porsche in Grady, South Carolina, a rural bywater desperately in need of a town doctor. Sentenced by the local judge to serve a 32-hour term of duty at the local hospital, Stone finds himself manipulated into staying on longer than he expected, frustrating situation which is heightened by the charm of the eccentric locals. (The oWe Clumsl Opm). SOS AND CAROL AND TED AND ALMS A relationship comedy about a pair of married couples attending a group therapy session, an event which prompts them to reveal their extra-marital affairs and attempt a more spontaneous, free-wheeling lifestyle. (1114 hisivies Gehl Puppet masters THURSDAY lunchtime and Bill Dare is taking time out from an even more frantic schedule than usual for a quick chat, although he seems a little vague.

Bill Dare. for the show as we speak," he apologised. But it's easy to forgive him as the team tackle the mammoth task of coming up with stories and sketches which will then be passed on to the "puppet masters" and' Spitting Image facts Spiedsm image has clocked' his she gowned a up 14 series as well as Number Owe pop hh with The Christmas and Chicken Sons. Just MI puppets took has outlasted part ha the int series, Ronald BeliPa, Margaret but saw there are more Thatcher and Mikhail then BM Latex Gorbachev. penowalities.

played out in front of millions. And Bill Dare is proud of the show that has been on ow screens for nine years after developing from a "notorious lunch" between creators Fluck and Law and ITV executives. Many would be surprised at how long the show has lasted with the most popular question being "How on earth do they get away with it?" Bill is the reason why they get away with it. He is the man responsible "Sorry, I'm a bit distracted. People around me are coming up with ideas Puppet satire Spitting Image celebrates its 100th show tomorrow (ITV, 10.45 pm).

ANDREW SIAM' spoke to producer for saying what is suitable for inclusion and what is too sick or tasteless and just wouldn't be funny. "We know how far we can go as long as we are only upsetting some of the people some of the time." But surely displaying politician Kenneth Baker as a slug and Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan having an affair is a bit close to the bone? Apparently not. "We are always drawing the line. For example, this week we are not doing anything on Woody Allen case because it is a very difficult, very sensitive subject." People do write in and complain about the show all the time and, surprisingly, Bill says he is the first person to listen. "We upset a lot of people with the Jesus puppet which appeared in one sketch in the last series, so we never used it again we do take notice of public opinion." Bill says the most popular sketches on the show involve the Royal Of the shows success, he comments: "It is topical, people like the puppets and anyone can watch it as it appeals to all classes, tastes and ages." PEVIIt Crime thriller starring Armand Assante as Ray, an ex-con who vows to go straight and win back the woman he loves, Lacy, from her new boyfriend Elliott (Sam Neill).

However, his romantic plans go awry when prison life catches up with him on the outside. when Lacy is kidnapped by a gang of thugs acting the orders of the Junkman, one Pick of the Day ow. Or44 111 ofltayls former fellow priamiers who is still behind bars and bears a grudge against him. Ray and Elliott are forced to put their differences aside and team up to resale her. (Sky Iliniss Plus UR MOANS IPAMIN: Black Comedy starring Raul Julia as Gomez Addams and Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams, who preside over the at the gothic mansion, encouraging their young children Wednesday and Pugs ley in their miic hic vous, malicious However, when somebody claiming to be Uncle Fester turns up on their doorstep, the disharmony of everyday life is temporarily disrupted while Gomez attempts to uncover the imposter's true identity.

(Ms llloft Climensl ipso). 999 features the strange fascination of disaster WHAT is it about disaster that makes the curious gather round? Oh, look, he fallen off a motmtain and his kg's on back to front. Stop the car, never mind the no waiting notices, a plane full of 300 people just crashed over there, let's have a look. Or there's the famous occasion when all the taxis were out, in 12 inches of mow, With rubbernedters touring the drifts up the west road and blocking the single carriageway dug out by council teams. The secret of IPSO (1111C1) may be just that.

This morbid fascination with death emphasise first aid should be left to experts. Many a dead person could be commiserating with themselves about the well-meaning idiot who moved them either on to their back or side, to help, not knowing their spine was snapped. Well-meaning idiots can be equated with well-intentioned others, who, not having read the book, rushed to put on Lady Cludtastay only to be. met with a lot of chat. The full-frontal stuff and talking dirty comes later.

Ken Russell's version contains quite a bit of Russellmania and while Joely Richardson looks the part in the title role, Sean Bean has only had a quick change of costume and a wobbly accent, without time for a shave from IllistM gone but foigotten already. ehats has anoiher three to run, so there's time for the jolly bits. Maybe. Lyrida La Plante is back form after the subdued Sodom with highclass piece of drama running on Channel 4 about a sharp-toungued median who is too deft for his own life. Witnessing a murder, he funds that stay-, ing alive is not as dangerous as staying alive in front of an audience and not dying the worst of all deaths.

lim Guinee as the fast-tongued lead could take on the mantle of Lenny Bruce for the Nineties without much bother. And Guinee is an actor who toot lessons in the fine dirt of walking the tightrope of taste without a A good matching set with the recently reshovin CrumiMews with an absolutely brilliant Jonathon Pryce and Bill Fraser. NOONAN DAMSON REVIEW and destruction or terminal trouble or everyday heroes doing their job gets an outing which appeals to the armchair yid- In actual fact, some of die heroics are simply experts expertly copyists out a task The only good thing in the programme, apart from questioning the mentality of some people who take boys caving, is that it popularises first aid. But it should EXOSICIST Sequel to the 1973 William Friedkin dusk but it's now four years since Regan (Linda Blair) was exorcised and just when everyone thought the ordeal was over, scientific tests reveal that the girl is still possesed by an evil spirit which must be driven out. Richard Burton Gust the priest for the job.

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