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14:30 Saturday Drama
Murder mystery by Wilkie Collins, set in London and Venice.
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Steptoe and Son
Harold's not happy to meet Albert's new girlfriend. With Wilfrid Brambell.
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14:30 Dad's Army
Mainwaring returns to platoon insubordination - and an escaped convict. From April 1976.
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    1/4. Billy Kay celebrates the Scots drouth for ale, whisky and the great wines of Europe.

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    30/30. Recalling the impact of adults on childhood down the centuries up to the present day.

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    5/5. The author's search for Britain's wilderness ends up a beech tree in Cambridge.

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    144/216. Franco-American forces triumph and Britain loses its American colonies.

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    29/30. How children have fallen between the family and the state - sometimes with tragic results.

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