DOCUMENTARY

C5, 9pm CHRIS Tarrant seems to have carved out a niche as a train travel presenter, such is his love for the railways. And indeed he attacks this fourth series with enthusiasm as he takes some pretty epic journeys across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

He’s not afraid to get stuck in, resulting in various mishaps including TWO DOORS DOWN

GOLD, 9pm A SITCOM with a gloriously dark sense of humour arrives on GOLD after running on BBC2 last year.

Arabella Weir stars in the show about three sets of neighbours who live on one Scottish street and struggle to tolerate each other’s ways.

Tonight starts with a double bill to lure you in. When Eric (Alex Norton) accidentally defrosts everything in the freezer, Beth (Weir) decides to cook it all at once and have a dinner party that she’ll no doubt regret. MAKING TRACKS Chris Tarrant being stranded in a desert, locked up in jail and getting a little too close to a Cold War nuclear reactor. On his first trip, he travels from Morocco across the Sahara to Timbuktu.

Transport includes a narrow-gauge railway (hastily built before World War I), an air-conditioned electric train and the glorious Train du Desert straight into the Sahara.

But the question is, will the train ever make it out again? NEW TRICKS DRAMA, 10pm THE “old dogs” of the team always manage to figure it all out, but it’s never a smooth road.

Alun Armstrong, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman and James Bolam are the veteran cops in this classic episode as they open up the cold case of a celebrated graffiti artist. But one of them almost jeopardises the investigation when he gets a bit distracted.

Watch out for Haydn Gwynne who pops up in this episode.