Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Sunday 26th December 1976

BBC1

9.25am Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan
Carol singing for Christmas and a tribute to Quid-i-Azam
Mohammed Ali Jinah, the founder of Pakistan

9.55am Playboard
with the Playboard Puppet Theatre

10.10am The Selfish Giant

10.35am The Little Mermaid
Richard Chamberlain narrates this cartoon

11.00am Sunday Worship
from Notting Hill Methodist Church

11.45am Flash Gordon
Part eight : Tournament of Death
In which Flash Gordon is forced by Emperor Mink and King Vultan
to fight a duel with his friend Prince Barin, and is then faced by the
terrifying orangopoid monster

12.05pm Film : Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)
starring Johnny Weissmuller

1.15pm News Headlines
Weatherman

1.20pm The Waltons

2.10pm Top of the Pops
introduced by Tony Blackburn and Jimmy Savile

3.00pm Film : The Wizard of Oz (1939)
starring Judy Garland

4.35pm It's a Christmas Knockout
special festive competition between teams from Great Britain, Belgium,
Holland, Italy from The Olympic Ice Rink, Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy

5.35pm Little Lord Fauntleroy
6/6

6.05pm News
Weather Jack Scott

6.15pm Songs of Praise Special
Family Carols from the Royal Albert Hall

7.25pm Dad's Army
The Love of Three Oranges

7.55pm Film : Love Story (1970)
starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal

9.30pm The Val Doonican Show
featuring Nana Mouskouri, James Galway and Tony Blackburn,
Pete Murray, Terry Wogan with special guest appearances
from Arthur Askey, Janet Brown, Henry Cooper , Cliff Michelmore

10.20pm NewsPeter Woods
Weather

10.30pm Film : A Man for All Seasons (1966)
starring Paul Scofield

12.25am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1976

BBC1

9.00am The Happy Prince
cartoon featuring the voices of Oscar Wilde's classic bittersweet story
of a swallow winging its way south which stops to rest upon the
sorrowing statue of a once-happy prince and stays behind to help

9.25am Chigley

9.40am Bugs Bunny
in Fresh Hare

9.50am Flash Gordon
The classic serial in 13 episodes
9: Fighting the Fire Dragon
In which Flash Gordon, having won his fight with the monster,
is given a 'drug of forgetfulness' by Ming's daughter Aura, and taken
to the abode of the fire dragon.

10.10am Film : Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)
starring Johnny Weissmuller

11.15am Swap of the Pops
Noel Edmonds invites you to a Solid Silver Swap with Keith Chegwin and
Abba at a Multi-Coloured Boxing Day gig. starring Showaddywaddy
Mud, Smokie, John Christie, White Rhino, Pussycat Another Pussycat
The Wurzels, Dr Hook and Britain's Only Quaxologis

12.13pm Weather Barbara Edwards

12.15pm Holiday Grandstand
(Rugby League: Leeds v Wakefield T,
12.55 Football Focus, 1.10, 1.40,
2.10 Racing from Kempton Park, 1.25,
1.55 Racing from Wincanton)

2.40pm Film : Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland (1961)
with Ray Bolger, Tommy Sands, Ed Wynn

4.20pm Superstars
final from Rotterdam

5.30pm Evening News Richard Whitmore
Weatherman

5.40pm Sports Results

5.50pm Disney Time
introduced by The Goodies.
Films include :
Cinderella,
Ride a Wild Pony,
101 Dalmatians
Dumbo
Jungle Book,
The Shaggy DA,
Bambi
The Treasure of Matecumbe,
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

6.30pm Film : Carry On at Your Convenience (1971)Première

7.55pm Mike Yarwood Christmas Show
with guests The New Seekers

8.35pm Film : Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
with Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, EG Marshall

10.55pm Late Newswith Richard Whitmore
Weather

11.05pm Parkinson's Music
Michael Parkinson introduces a selection of musical moments from
past programmes, including Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby,
Sammy Davis Jr, Duke Ellington Elton John, Glynis Johns, Jack Jones,
Michel Legrand, Dudley Moore, Oscar Peterson, Buddy Rich,
Harry Stoneham, Andy Williams

12.05am Weatherman

12.07am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Bank Holiday Tuesday 28th December 1976

BBC1

9.55am Mary, Mungo and Midge
The Seaside

10.10am The Wombles

10.15am Scooby Doo

10.55am Children of Destiny(Repeat)
A series of six programmes with Magnus Magnusson

11:10am The Little Scottish Queen

11.20am Bugs Bunny
in Falling Hare

11.30am Flash Gordon
10: The Unseen Peril
Flash Gordon is rescued, and his memory is restored by Dr Zarkov.
But in the meantime, Emperor Ming has ordered his execution . . .

11.45am Film : Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)
Lex Barker as Tarzan, Brenda Joyce as Jane

12.58pm Weather Barbara Edwards

1.00pm Racing Grandstand
introduced by Tony Gubba from Kempton Park

2.35pm The Nutcracker
Eva Evdokimova, Peter Breuer in The London Festival
Ballet's new production of Tchaikovsky's ever-popular Christmas classic
introduced by Lesley Judd

4.20pm James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl

5.15pm Evening Newswith Richard Baker
Weatherman

5.25pm The Tom and Jerry Show(London and South East only)
or Regional News

5.30pm Gemini Man
film series starring Ben Murphy

6.20pm It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Twenty-One Today

6.50pm Film : The Three Musketeers (1948)
Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury

8.50pm Supermind
with Magnus Magnusson
Mastermind special, representatives of other intellectual competitions
together with the Mastermind Champion 1976 are in contention for the
title Supermind

9.35pm Late Newswith Richard Baker Weather

9.45pm Private Lives
by Noel Coward

11.20pm The Good Old Days
Christmas edition of Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the
Famous City Varieties Theatre, Leeds

12.10am Weatherman

12.12am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Wednesday 29th December 1976

BBC1

9.55am The Wombles
10.00am ScoobyDoo
10.45am Children of Destiny
11.10am Bugs Bunny
11.15am Flash Gordon
11.30am Film : Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950)
12.45pm Midday News, Weather
1.00pm 75 Below
1.45pm Fingerbobs
2.00pm Film : Three Bites of the Apple (1967)
3.35pm Happy Faces
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Wacky Races
4.30pm Jackanory
4.45pm Goober and the Ghost Chasers
5.10pm The Phoenix and the Carpet
5.35pm Paddington
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
5.50pm The Tom and Jerry Show (London and South East only)
Regional News (All other English Regions)
5.55pm Laurel and Hardy in Me and My Pal
6.15pm Tomorrow's World New Year Special
6.45pm Film : Solomon and Sheba (1959)
9.00pm Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Liberal Party
9.10pm Main News, Weather
9.35pm Big Bren and Brasher
10.25pm Pleasure at Her Majesty's
12.05am Weatherman/Regional News

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Re: Christmas TV

Thursday 30th December 1976

BBC1

9.35am The Wombles
9.40am ScoobyDoo
10.20am Children of Destiny
10.45am Bugs Bunny
10.50am Flash Gordon
11.15am Film : Tarzan's Peril (1951)
12.30pm Midday News, Weather
12.45pm Year of the Horse
1.45pm Barnaby
1.55pm Film : Come September (1961)
3.45pm Unnatural History
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Astronut
4.25pm Jackanory
4.40pm Blue Peter
5.15pm Screen Test
5.35pm Noah and Nelly
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
5.55pm Nationwide
6.40pm The Osmonds
7.10pm Are You Being Served?
7.40pm Sykes
8.10pm Kojak


9.00pm Nine O'Clock News, Weather
9.25pm Film : Five Easy Pieces (1970)
11.00pm Read All About It
11.40pm Weatherman/Regional News

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Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Friday 31st December 1976

BBC1

9.50am The Wombles
9.55am Scooby Doo
10.35am Children of Destiny
11.00am Bugs Bunny
11.05am Flash Gordon
11.25am Film : Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
12.45pm Midday News
12.55pm Weather Review 76
1.00pm A Decade of Skating
1.45pm Teddy Edward
1.50pm Ring-a-Ding
2.00pm Film : Master of the World (1961)
3.35pm The Mole and the Motorcar
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm It's the Wolf
4.25pm Jackanory
4.40pm Georgie to the Rescue
4.55pm The Goodies and the Beanstalk
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
5.55pm Nationwide
7.00pm Bruce's Choice
7.55pm The Freddie Starr Show
8.40pm Film : Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

10.20pm Main News, Weather
10.30pm A Jubilee of Music
11.45pm Welcome 1977
1.00am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 18th December 1976

BBC2

1.40pm Comedy Duo
Film : The Gold Rush (1925)
2.50pm Film : Road to Morocco (1942)
4.10pm Play Away
4.40pm The Money Programme
5.30pm Open Door
6.00pm Horizon
6.55pm Network
7.25pm M*A*S*H
7.50pm Mr Magoo
8.00pm News and Sport, Weather
8.15pm Film International : The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970)
9.50pm The Lively Arts - In Performance
10.50pm News on 2, Weather
10.55pm Christmas with Cagney
Film : Blonde Crazy (1931)

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Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 19th December 1976

BBC2

4.00pm Westminster
4.30pm Rugby Special
5.20pm Is There a God?
6.50pm News Review
7.25pm The World About Us
8.15pm Face the Music
8.45pm News on 2, Weather
8.50pm The Lively Arts
9.50pm Look, Stranger
10.15pm Centre Play for Christmas
10.45pm A Christmas Childhood
10.50pm Christmas with Cagney
Film : The Public Enemy (1931)

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Re: Christmas TV

Monday 20th December 1976

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
7.00pm News on 2 Headlines
Weather on 2
7.05pm Animation Pie
7.30pm News on 2, Weather
7.40pm Horizon
8.30pm Dave Allen at Large
9.15pm The Lady of the Camellias


10.10pm The Country Game
10.50pm Poems and Pints
11.20pm Late News on 2, Weather
11.30pm Closedown
Paul Scofield reads The Warm and The Cold by Ted Hughes

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Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 21st December 1976

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
7.00pm News on 2 Headlines
7.05pm Zarabanda
7.30pm News on 2, Weather
7.35pm In Deepest Britain
8.15pm The Old Grey Whistle Test
9.15pm TV Film : Frankenstein : The True Story (1973)
12.05am News Headlines
Weather
12.10am Closedown
Paul Scofield reads The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell

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Re: Christmas TV

Wednesday 22nd December 1976

BBC2

10.35am Nai Zindagi NayaJeevan
11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
7.00pm News on 2 Headlines
Weather on 2
7.05pm A Christmas Carol
7.30pm News on 2, Weather
7.35pm A Christmas Taste of Britain
8.00pm The Enthusiast
8.55pm Phantasmagoria
9.25pm The Glittering Prizes
10.40pm Sounds of Christmas
11.10pm Late News on 2, Weather
11.20pm The Lady of the Camellias
12.10am Closedown
Paul Scofield reads The Keeper of the
Midnight Gate by George Mackay Brown

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Re: Christmas TV

Thursday 23rd December 1976

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
3.55pm Film : The Nutty Professor (1963)
5.40pm When Santa Rode the Prairie
6.30pm See it My Way
7.00pm News on 2 Headlines
Weather on 2
7.05pm Top Crown
7.30pm News on 2, Weather
7.35pm Operation John Biscoe
8.30pm The Book Programme
9.00pm The Hollywood Musical
Film : Kismet (1955)
10.50pm Leaving Lily
11.25pm Late News on 2, Weather
11.35pm Closedown
Paul Scofield reads Christmas and Common Birth by Anne Ridle

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1976

BBC2

11.00am Play School
Story: A Winter Story

11.25am Closedown

4.00pm Mr Shepard and Mr Milne
To mark the 50th anniversary of Winnie the Pooh,
The Book Programme presented this film about Pooh's creators

4.40pm Film : A Night at the Opera (1935)
with the Marx Brothers

6.10pm Oh, to be in...England and Wales
Johnny Morris joins six different groups of foreign visitors and
shares their view of Britain.
5: Oxford to the Lake District
A German coach party visits Oxford, Tintern Abbey,
Aberystwyth, Devil's Bridge and Chester on its way to the Lake District.

6.35pm News on 2, Weather

6.45pm Princely Toys
One Man's Private Kingdom Narrated by Gerald Harper
Jack Donovan has a houseful and a life-full of Princely Toys.
They are not strictly toys but a collection of magnificent automata

7.30pm Don Quixote
Australian ballet production, with Rudolph Nureyev, Robert Helpmann

9.20pm A Visit form St Nicholas
a poem for Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore

9.25pm Rutland Weekend Television
Highlights of 40 years of television from Britain's tiniest network
include drama, documentary, comedy and song, starring Eric Idle

9.55pm News on 2, Weather

10.00pm The Old Grey Whistle Test
presents Rod's Christmas
Concert featuring The Rod Stewart Group
Live from the stage at Olympia, London

11.00pm Christmas with Cagney : Film : Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
with James Cagney

1.00am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1976

BBC2

12.10pm Reflections
as Christmas Day fragments into being, a fragmented thought or two
spoken by Ian Mackenzie

12.15pm Horizon
The Mystery of King Arthur and his Round Table

1.05pm Christmas Day Play Away
An entertainment for children starring Brian Cant with Toni Arthur,
Chloe Ashcroft, Derek Griffiths , Lionel Morton Spike Heatley,
Alan Rushton, Jeff Crampton, Stephen Henderson

1.40pm Carols from King's
Ceremony of Nine Lessons and Carols from the Chapel of
King's College, Cambridge

3.00pm The Queen
speaks to the Commonwealth

3.15pm The Snow Queen
a fairy tale for television

4.20pm Alice Through the Looking-Glass,
with Brenda Bruce, Freddie Jones, Geoffrey Bayldon, Judy Parfitt,
Richard Pearson and Sarah Sutton

5.30pm Audition
it was Matthew's chance to sing in the choir of St Mary's Church.
The real conversation between him and the choirmaster became
the sound-track for this animated film

5.35pm News on 2, Weather

5.45pm Aika, the Polar Bear
Aika was born in a Berlin zoo. When she was a few months old she
left the zoo to be brought up as a pet by a Russian family in Siberia.
Then it was decided to take her back to her natural environment
in the Arctic to see if she could adapt to life there

6.35pm Forty Years
a raid on the archives of BBC Television

9.20pm Late News on 2, Weather

9.25pm Survival in Limbo
a true experience relived by, Duncan Carse

10.15pm Sing All Ye Faithful
a presentation of popular carols sung in Devonshire settings
In true folk-song fashion, the news of Bethlehem is spread by
The Faraway Folk at Cockington Court

11.00pm Christmas with Cagney : Film : Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
starring James Cagney

1.00am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Sunday 26th December 1976

BBC2

1.35pm Animation 76
The prizewinners of this year's international film animation contest for
young people

2.25pm Of Chips...and Putts...and Things
Harry Carpenter and Peter Alliss are guests of Henry Longhurst
at his home on the beautiful Sussex Downs.
They invite you to join them as they discuss the past golfing year
and relive some of the great moments and personalities captured
on the screen

3.25pm The Epic That Ever Was
The First I, Claudius
starring Charles Laughton, Merle Oberon,
Flora Robson

4.35pm Film : Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971)
with members of The Royal Ballet

6.05pm News Review
At the end of the year we move through the silent world of the Deaf
to report developments. 'Quietly in Britain' Presenter Bill Northwood

6.45pm Spirit of Christmas
medley of seasonal words and music performed in
St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London

7.25pm Face the Music
seasonal edition of the musical quiz invites you to match your
musical wits against Patricia Owen, David Attenborough and
John Julius Norwich

7.55pm Barry Humphries Show
special guest star Dame Edna Everage

8.40pm The World About Us
Pandas in Britain and Pandas of Szechuan

9.30pm Summoned by Bells
with Sir John Betjeman

10.30pm Brazil Tropical
Brazil comes to London with spectacle, rhythm, girls

11.15pm News on 2, Weather

11.20pm Music from Montreux
annual International Festival

12.05am Closedown