13 November 1999
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BBC2
Source - TV Times, 13-19 November 1999
- 06.35 What A Whopper!
- Comedy starring Adam Faith and Sid James. A young author decides to boost his sales by producing the subject of his new book - the Loch Ness monster. (1961 b/w)
- 08.00 Weekend 24
- News round-up.
- 09.00-10.50 Asia 2
- 09.00 Manjdhar
- Pakistani family drama series
- 09.30 Cafe 21
- A cross section of multi-cultural youth shares it's attitudes towards sex, the liberal nature of society and the issue of sex education.
- 10.00 Network East
- Includes a live performance from the girl band Trickbaby
- 10.50 See Hear! On Saturday
- This programme visits the Orkney Isles, and goes behind bars to find out about a new scheme to find deaf advocates to visit deaf prisoners.
- 11.35 The Sky At Night
- As last Sunday
- 11.55 The Letter
- Somerset Maugham drama, the first of two films starring Bette Davis. A woman kills a man on her husband's rubber plantation, claiming self-defence. But the dead man's widow holds an incriminating letter. (1940, b/w)
- 13.25 The Great Lie
- Weepie starring Bette Davis and Mary Astor. When a playboy aviator's plane goes missing in the jungle, his pregnant ex-wife and his former childhood sweetheart strike a strange bargain. (1941, b/w)
- 15.10 The Virginian
- Strangers at Sundown
- 16.20 TOTP2
- Featuring Chas and Dave, The Damned, Prefab Sprout, Abba, XTC and The Mavericks.
- 17.05 Correspondant
- Following last month's coup in Pakisatan, Pakistani journalist Najem Sethi, who was arrested by his country's previous administration after he accused the prime minister of corruption, attempts to find out why democracy keeps failing in this part of Asia.
- 17.50 What The Papers Say
- A review of the week's newspapers by Deborah Orr of The Independant.
- 18.00 The River
- From Henley to Eel Pie Island: 3 of 4, Series exploring the history of the River Thames. Patrick Wright traces the class wars and scandalous happenings that have characterised this stretch of the river. With a guest appearance by Christine Keeler.
- 18.50 Match of the Day - Live
- Ireland v Turkey: The first leg of the Euro 2000 play-off match between Republic of Ireland and Turkey, from Lansdowne Road (kick-off 7.00). Introduced by Gary Lineker and Alan Hansen. Commentators are Jon Champion and Mark Lawrensen.
- 20.55-00.50 Doctor Who Night
- Tom Baker introduces an evening of programmes celebrating the time-travelling hero.
- 21.00 Doctor Who-Adventures in Space and Time
- Documentary tracing the history of Doctor Who
- 21.40 The Pitch of Fear
- Comedy starring Mark Gatiss from The League of Gentlemen
- 21.45 How To Live Forever
- Short film looking at Doctor Who's ability to metamorphose into another being by the process of regeneration.
- 21.50 Carnival of Monsters
- Documentary looking at the aliens featured in Doctor Who, beginning with the Daleks, the first evil extraterrestrials encountered by the Doctor.
- 22.20 The Web of Caves
- Short comedy about the villains featured in Doctor Who. With Mark Gatiss, David Walliams and Paul Putner.
- 22.25 How to Build a Tardis
- Short film about Doctor Who's Tardis - a small Fifties police telephone box.
- 22.30 Doctor Who
- The Daleks. Vintage final episode from the first series starring William Hartnell (b/w), followed by the Kidnappers Short comedy.
- 11.30 Doctor Who
- Feature-length version of the TV series, made in 1996, starring Paul McGann as the time-lord. It is the turn of the millenium and the eighth Doctor is about to take on The Master in order to save the Earth. With Eric Roberts, Daphne Ashbrook and Sylvester McCoy.
