TV Guide Drama Friday

Howard discovers he has mistakenly agreed to take Pearl and Marina out to dinner at the same time. Long-running comedy from the pen of Roy Clarke, starring Robert Fyfe, Peter Sallis and Frank Thornton

Truly, Clegg and Alvin try to convince science-fiction fanatic Kevin that aliens have landed nearby. Starring Peter Sallis, Frank Thornton and Mark Curry

Howard finds it difficult to hide his new bike from Pearl, and Clegg manages to make things worse. Long-running comedy, starring Peter Sallis, Frank Thornton and Robert Fyfe

A missing woman staggers into the police station, claiming a creature is 'trying to get out'. That night her father panics as he sees an alien shape through the window. The next day his body is found in a locked room and Father Brown suspects he has been poisoned. Such events prompt local speculation to mount that Kembleford is under threat of an alien invasion. Mark Williams stars

Nevison confides in Kevin about the kidnappers' ransom demands, making the accountant realise the enormity of the situation he has created. His boss now faces two problems - raising the money and telling his ill wife their daughter has been abducted. Catherine's search for Tommy gains momentum when she receives a tip-off regarding his whereabouts, much to the concern of Claire, who thought her sister had put all that in the past, and things are strained when Catherine's grandson Ryan makes an unwelcome appearance at a family dinner. Sarah Lancashire stars, with Steve Pemberton, George Costigan, James Norton, Karl Davies, Siobhan Finneran and Joe Armstrong

A car in which a teacher was murdered five years earlier is returned to its owner - the victim's husband. Pullman reopens the unsolved case, hoping to track down the dead woman's secret lover, who is known to have had a small tattoo - a clue that eventually leads to a male prostitute. Detective drama, starring Amanda Redman, James Bolam, Dennis Waterman and Alun Armstrong