Spectacles of fun
- Publication: Daily Mirror
- Date: 1993-11-26
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- Language: English
Children In Need
(BBC1, 7pm)
KIDS who used to dive for cover behind the sofa when the Daleks appeared will have no hiding place when Dr Who returns tonight to give Pudsey Bear a hand.
All sorts of monsters will jump out of the TV screen in 3-D.
Fans who buy special 99p glasses in support of the Children In Need appeal will see all five surviving Doctors - Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Colin Baker, Peter Davison and Sylvester McCoy - take part in a specially filmed two-part mini-series called Dimensions In Time.
Other 3-D treats will include The Pet Shop Boys performing live and David Bellamy in search of creepie crawlies on a nature trail.
As usual the BBC studio at Television Centre will be packed with celebrity guests and full of surprises when Terry Wogan kicks off the annual fund raising extravagana which raised nearly £17m million last year.
He also goes out and about to meet the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit West End musical Sunshine Boulevard and climbs the Telecom Tower to unmask the famous voice which has allowed mascot Pudsey to speak for the first time.
Highlights of the seven-hour marathon will include Birds Of A Feather stars Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson taking the mickey out of Abba and Mike Smith hosting an unusual edition of That's Showbusiness with Danny Baker and Loyd Grossman taking on Big Breakfast stars Chris Evans and Gaby Roslin.
BBC newsman John Humphrys is in for a nerve wracking time when he comes face to face with Transport Minister John MacGregor.
MPs from all parties have agreed to cough up cash for McGregor - a member of the Magic Circle - to saw him in half.
And the tables are set to be turned on TV joker Jeremy Beadle. "We are planning something really nasty for him", confided a BBC insider.
Caption: BEAR FACTS: Sylvester McCoy, Peter Davidson and Jon Pertwee
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