Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1990

5.35am Cartoon Time
animated double bill (Repeat)

5.55am ITN Morning News

6.00am TV-am

6.00am News Bulletin

6.05am Animated Classic
an episode from Black Beauty

7.00am News Bulletin

7.05am Timmy Mallet's World Travel Special
Timmy explores New York

7.30am Alvin and the Chipmunks
another cartoon caper

8.00am Top Banana
with Mike Brosnan

9.00am Denver the Last Dinosaur
animated adventures

9.25am Christmas Duckula
A Christmas Quacker
Duckula's "Tremendous Terence Bumper Book" leads him into a space adventure

9.50am T-Bag's Christmas Ding-Dong
T-Bag finds herself out in the cold when her cousin Vanity Bag decides she wants to be the star of a new opera

10.20am Daffy Duck
Stork Naked(Repeat)

10.30am Disney Christmas Première : Candleshoe (1977)
Small-time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler
Priory is the resting place for a hoard of treasure. Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. Bundage recruits urchin Casey Brown
to dupe Lady St. Edmund into thinking that she is her long-lost granddaughter, so she can search for clues to the location of the treasure.
Unbeknownst to Bundage and her ladyship, Lady St. Edmund is flat broke, and Priory and the children help her ladyship try to keep her home and pride.
Joined by Casey, they do all the chores and Priory acts as the butler, gardener, chauffeur and an old major all at the same time!
starring Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes Première

12.25pm ITN News, ITV National Weather

12.30pm The Disney Christmas Première : Return to Oz (1985)
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King
destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.
Starring Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean MarshPremière

2.30pm Beatrix Potter : The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
The magical Beatrix Potter tale about the adventures of a young pig. The idea for the tale, shot in Cornwall,
came to the author in 1894 when she saw a pig loaded on board a ship in Falmouth.
Starring Tim Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French,Thora Hird, Geoffrey Bayldon

3.30pm Film : Lorna Doone (1990)
John Ridd was just a boy when the villainous Carver Doone callously murdered his father. Now a young man, John has
two driving passions: his thirst for revenge against the outlaw Doones, and his love for the beautiful Lorna, daughter of his
sworn enemies starring Sean Bean, Polly Walker

5.15pm ITN News and Sport,
ITV National Weather with Sian Lloyd

5.30pm The Krypton Factor Special
stars of some of the best loved TV dramas take part in this special to try and win £5000 for their chosen charity.
Jon Isles (DC Dashwood in The Bill)
Glenda McKay (Rachel Hughes in Emmerdale)
Philip Middlemiss (Des Barnes in Coronation St)
Annie Miles (Sue Sullivan in Brookside)
Host is Gordon Burns with guest Gwyneth Strong

6.00pm Christmas Cluedo
Your chance to play armchair detective. Santa arrives at Arlington Grange with a sackful of surprises for the
assembled guests which reminds them all of dirty deeds that they would rather forget. One guest has murder in
mind. But who did it? What was the weapon? And in which room did it take place? Celebrities in the studio
cross examine the likely culprits to discover the truth

6.45pm This Is Your Life
Whose story is in the big red book tonight?
A specially extending Boxing Day edition with Michael Aspel

7.30pm Coronation Street
Vera takes a hand in patching up a broken relationship, while lodger Curly comes clean about his intentions

8.00pm Movie Première : Dirty Dancing (1987)
Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's
dance instructor Johnny Castle starring Patrick SwayzePremière

9.50pm The Bill
Safe as Houses
Sun Hill CID are babysitting supergrass Lennie Powell but Burnside's snout has news from all of them

10.20pm ITN News, ITV National Weather

10.30pm Boxing Night at the Movies
Police Academy 2 : Their First Assignment (1985)
When a new gang moves into town it's up to the screwball police team to stop them
Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf
followed by ITN News Headlines

12.10am Boxing Night at the Movies : Return of the Seven (1966)
Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped.
One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets
Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico
starring Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos

2.00am Boxing Night at the Movies : Robbery Under Arms (1985)
Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel "Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood.
Made by the South Australian Film Corporation during the mini-series boom of the 1980s and lensed in the Flinders Ranges, it stars Sam Neill
as the infamous Captain Starlight

4.00am America's Top 10
Top 10 Acts of the Sixties (until 4.30am)

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1990

ITV LONDON

4.40am Film : A Christmas Carol (1985)
An Australian cartoon adaption of Charles Dickens' Classic tale about miserly Ebenezer Scrooge

5.55am ITN Morning News

6.00am TV-am
News Bulletin

6.05am Cartoon Carnival
including
The Adventures Of Parsley
Little Misses
Grumblie Grimlies
Portland Bill
plus many more

7.00am News Bulletin

7.05am Top Banana Special
Mike Brosnan with more fun and games for children in a special Christmas edition

7.57am Thought for Christmas

8.00am Cliff Richard Christmas Day Special
Cliff sings, tells the Christmas story, shows some clips from his latest tour and introduces the Choirboy of the Year

9.00am Alvin and the Chipmunks
Another amusing adventure

9.25am Cartoons at Christmas
Three Tweety-Pie cartoons (Repeat)

9.50am Telethon - Thanks to You
Find out how your donations to Telethon '90 have made it an extra special Christmas for people in need all over Britain

10.45am Find a Family Update
The children featured in ITV's campaign to find permanent homes for youngsters in care spend their first Christmas with their new families at
a party being held specially for them by Lord Montagu at his home in Beaulieu, in the New Forest

11.00am Christmas Family Communion
from All Saints Church, Fulham, West London

12.00 The Disney Club Christmas Special
Snow, log fires, presents, seasonal songs and cartoons - all the right ingredients for Christmas Day.
Gordon Inglis, John Eccleston, and Andrea Boardman are in the mountain resort of Aspen in Colorado together with Dannii Minogueand the British band
Breathe. Join them for the show which also includes two festive cartoons

1.00pm Ronn Lucas Special - Who's in Charge Here?
Ventriloquist Ronn Lucas live on stage, plus the adventures of puppet Buffalo Billy as he goes to Hollywood

2.00pm Torvill & Dean with the Russian Allstars
An ice spectacular from Nottingham ice rink

3.00pm The Queen

3.05pm The James Bond Film : Moonraker (1979)
Roger Moore as James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide

5.25pm ITN News and ITV National Weather

5.30pm Strike It Lucky Christmas Special
Specially for Christmas all the contestants in this game show are children. Hosted by Michael Barrymore

6.15pm Ken Dodd at the London Palladium
Ken Dodd is joined by his Diddymen and Roby Gasser with his performing seals Adolph and Dixie

7.30pm Coronation Street
While Alf reaches for his stomach pills, the Duckworths seek refuge, Curly finds a soulmate, Alec bites off more than he can
chew, and Gail has some news for the family

8.00pm Movie Première starring Eddie Murphy : Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogamil's near-fatal shooting and the series of
"alphabet crimes" associated with it Première

10.00pm French Fields
Noel Noel
When it comes to Christmas the French can take it or leave it. Hester is determined to make them take it.
However when her own family arrives in France they want to leave again by the earliest ferry

10.45pm ITN News and ITV National Weather

11.00pm Christmas Night at the Movies : What's Up Doc? (1972)
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid over-night bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn

12.50am Christmas Night at the Movies : Murder Me, Murder You (1983)
Mickey Spillane's private eye Mike Hammer (Stacy Keach) probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.
starring Stacy Keach, Tanya Roberts, Don Stroud

2.40am Christmas Night at the Movies : Feel the Motion (1986)
Tina Lehmann is an auto mechanic who dreams of becoming a pop star.
One day after work she sneaks onto the set of the TV music programme 'Formel Eins' with her demo tape, and lands a job as a go-fer. Her boyfriend
Stevie Dromberger, who has been drafted into the army, doesn't like the attention she's receiving from the celebrity guests, and goes AWOL when
he thinks she is dating the singer Limahl starring Sissy Kelling, Frank Meyer-Brockmann, Ingolf Lück

ITV Central.................Film : Scorpio (1973)

4.35am Sounds Like Christmas
a documentary about the business of selling records at Christmas. It focuses on tracks deliberately made for Christmas release

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1990

ITV LONDON

5.10am Christmas Comes to Pacland
Santa Claus develops sleigh trouble on Christmas Eve and crash-lands in Pacland, home of Pac-Man, the video game
character, and his family in this story (Repeat)

5.40am Cartoon Time
Animated fun from some favourite cartoon characters

5.55am ITN Morning News

6.00am TV-am
Good Morning Britain
presented by Martin Frizell for the first hour and by Lorraine Kelly and Mike Morris from 7.00am

8.50am Wacaday
presented by Timmy Mallett

9.25am Disney Cartoon Time
The Cookie Carnival
The Grasshopper and the Ant
The Ant and the Merbabies
(Repeat)

9.55am Thames News and Weather

10.00am The New Adventures of He-Man - the Movie (1990)
A feature-length edition of the series in which cartoon hero He-Man and his friends defend the Universe. Transported to
the Triax system, He-Man must battle against his old enemy, Skeletor (TV Movie)

11.45am Disney Cartoon
Donald Duck in The Art of Self Control

12.00 Christmas Eve with Dana
Dana is celebrating Christmas Eve or Heilige Nacht, Austria's Holy Night, with the Aschauer family in the mountain village of Hallstatt in Austria.
Join her as she shares the religious traditions that make Christmas Eve a reflective, holy and joyous celebration

12.25pm Home and Away
Adam conceives a dastardly plan to keep Grant out of the iron-man competition. Bobby and Matt discover the identity of Shane's murderer

12.55pm Thames News and Weather

1.00pm ITN News at One
presented by John Suchet
ITV National Weather
Trish Williamson

1.20pm Disney Cartoon
Old King Cole
Characters from Mother Goose attend King Cole's party(Repeat)

1.30pm Film : A Very Brady Christmas (TV Movie-1988)
starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson

3.15pm ITN News Headlines

3.20pm Thames News Headlines

3.25pm Families
Mrs Grandby's unfounded suspicions about Mike look as though they might possibly have some grounding in truth. Mike discovers that Andrew and Amanda are
romantically involved and in his ignorance is very pleased for her

3.55pm Rolf Meets Bugs & Friends in Hollywood
Rolf Harris goes to Hollywood to the home of many of the world's favourite cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, Wile E Coyote, Tweety Pie, Pepe Le Pew.
He meets the creators of many of the Warner Brothers cartoon greats - Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng.
A group of children join Rolf for some drawing and a sneak preview of the newest cartoon blockbuster -Steven Spielberg's "Tiny Toons"

5.10pm Blockbusters
with Bob Holness

5.40pm ITN News at 5.40
ITV National Weather

6.00pm Home and Away(Repeat)

6.30pm Thames News

7.00pm Wish You Were Here . . . ?
Judith Chalmers celebrates Christmas in a showpiece Cotswold village
John Carter reports on summer holidays in an all-too-often overlooked part of France and
Anneka Rice goes underwater to take a diving course off the island of Gozo

7.30pm Coronation Street
Jack has some last-minute preparations for Christmas and comes up with the ideal present for Vera

8.00pm Des O'Connor Tonight
with guests Bob Monkhouse, Sir Robin Day, Susan Hampshire,Bananarama, Jethro, and Bernie Clifton

9.00pm The Ruth Rendell Mystery
Put on by Cunning
World-renowned flautist Manuel Carmargue is about to marry his 30 year old fiancee when tragedy strikes.
He is found drowned in a lake in the grounds of his house. Although "death by misadventure" is recorded the intrepid
Inspector Wexford's suspicions are aroused when Carmargue's estranged daughter arrives to claim her inheritance; and
further when the fiancee tells him of the doubts her future husband expressed about the identity of his daughter

11.00pm ITN News, ITV National Weather

11.15pm After Henry
A Quiet Christmas, starring Prunella Scales (Repeat)

11.45pm Midnight Mass
from St Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, Daventry

12.40am Christmas Eve at the Movies : Grandview USA (1984)
starring Jamie Lee Curtis, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze

2.30am Christmas Eve at the Movies : The Electric Horseman (1979)
starring Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine
followed by ITN News Headlines

4.40am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1990

BBC2

8.00am English Towns
Lewes, East Sussex (Repeat)

8.40am Film : Tarzan Finds a Son (1939)
starring Johhny Weissmuller

10.00am Film : Summer Stock (1950)
starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly

11.55am How are the Kids ?
A series of six films about the exploitation of children

12.00 Greenclaws (Repeat)

12.15pm The Unanswered Question
Leonard Bernstein at Harvard

2.00pm The Transformers
1/3. The Butterflies of Zagorsk

3.00pm Beethoven Symphonies
Symphony No.4 in B Flat Op 60

3.35pm Laurel and Hardy
Bacon Grabbers

3.55pm Beethoven Symphonies
Symphony No.5 in C Major Op 67

4.30pm Cricket
Second Test Australia v England

5.00pm Le Nozze di Figaro
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

8.00pm Film : Manon des Source (1986)
starring Yves Montand, Daniel Auteil
French film with English subtitlesPremière

9.50pm A Life in Pieces
Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling (Peter Cook) chooses his 12 Christmas gifts

9.55pm The Ship
This epic story of a river and its people by Bill Bryden , winner of
the first annual Gulliver Award for his contribution to Scottish theatre, celebrates shipbuilding on the Clyde - the pride, hardship, personal tragedies, resilience, highly-coloured language and wit

11.35pm Classic Hitchcock : Film : Suspicion (1941)
starring Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine

1.10am Weatherview

1.20am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1990

BBC2

8:00am Film : Summer Holiday (1948)
starring Mickey Rooney, Gloria de Haven

9:30am Film : Watership Down (1978)
The animated screen version of Richard Adams 's bestselling novel

11:00am Gotta Dance, Gotta Sing
Great scenes from the history of the movie musical. A parade of stars ranging from Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer in 1927 to Barbra Streisand

11:45am The Famous Teddy Z
Season's Greetings from Al Floss. Teddy (Jon Cryer ) and Laurie (Jane Sibbett ) are ordered to stay in the office on Christmas Day

12:10pm Beethoven Symphonies
Symphony No 3 in E Flat, Op 55, the "Eroica"

1:00pm Drift, the Mute Swan
is life on the Somerset wetlands the tranquil existence that it
appears to be? Narrated by John King (Repeat)

2:00pm Christmas Day Concert
Chris de Souza introduces the traditional concert live from the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

3:10pm Animation Now
Try Again and Succeed. Orson Welles narrates the story of a
baby eagle leaving the nest

3:20pm Henry Moore and Landscape
study of the relationship between sculpture and nature.

3:50pm Film : Powaqqatal (1988)
Philip Glass's score accompanies this film without
plot or dialogue Première

5:25pm Joyce Grenfell 1910-1979
Celia Johnson narrates a celebration of the talented
comedienne's happy life(Repeat)

6:25pm The Cunning Little Vixen
Simon Rattle conducts Leos Janacek's enchanting opera in praise of nature, in the recent production fromthe Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden

8:15pm The Queen
Her Majesty speaks to the Commonwealth

8:20pm Film : Jean de Florette (1986)
(In French with English subtitles) Première

10:20pm Amnesty International Benefit Concert
with Sting, Sinead O'Connor, Peter Gabriel, and New Kids on the Block

11:30pm Film : Notorius (1946)
starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains

1:10am Weatherview

1:20am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1990

BBC2

8.00am NewsFollowed by
English Towns
Saffron Walden, Essex

8.50am Film : Tarzan Escapes (1936)
starring Johnny Weissmuller

10.15am Laurel and Hardy
From Soup to Nuts

10.35am Songs of Praise Christmas Special
from Prague, Czechoslovakia

11.25am Golf 90
for European golf the new decade began where the 80's ended -
on a high note. Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam continued their winning
ways in superb style. Peter Alliss looks back on a great year

12.40pm Film : Nickelodeon (1976)
starring Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds

2.35pm Beethoven Symphonies
Symphony No 2 in D, Op 36

3.15pm Film : La traviata (1982)
starring Teresa Stratas and Placido Domingo
(An Italian film with English subtitles)

5.00pm Carols from King's
The world-famous choir of King's College, Cambridge sings
many of the carols that have made the 'sound of King's a memorable part of Christmas

6.00pm Film : A Passage to India (1984)
starring Judy Davis, Victor Banergee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox

8.40pm The Making of the Trials of Life
Once More into the Termite Mound

9.30pm Madonna in Concert
In August 1990, Madonna's "Blond Ambition" tour reached
Barcelona

10.50pm The Fabulous Singlettes
a musical comedy starring Naomi Eyres, Alison Jiear, Simone Dee

11.25pm Film : This is Spinal Tap (1984)
a rockumentary by Marti DiBergi

12.45pm Brendel Plays Schubert
The Middle Temple Hall in London is the splendid setting for a performance by Alfred Brendel of Schubert's Piano Sonata
in A major(Repeat)

1.30am Weatherview

1.35am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1990

BBC1

7.00am Children's BBC
Wizbit
with Paul Daniels(Repeat)

7.25am The Nightingale
Christopher Plummer narrates Hans Christian Andersen 's
well-loved story(Repeat)

7.50am Playdays
The Christmas Tree Stop(Repeat)

8.10am The Island of Nevawuz
animated story set on an uncharted island

9.00am The Man Called Flintstone
feature length Flintstones special

10.30am World Cup 90
It was the month the nation talked of little other than football.
Desmond Lynam reflects on the personalities and action of Italia 90, featuring England's spectacular progress to the semi-finals, Scotland's dramatic exit and Ireland's historic first tournament.

11.30am Film : Are You Being Served ? (1977)
starring Mollie Sugden, John Inman
The staff of Grace Brothers go on holiday in this cinema spin-off from the BBC comedy hit

1.00pm The Good Life
Silly But It's Fun (Repeat)

1.30pm Newswith Chris Lowe
Weather Bernard Davey

1.35pm Film : The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
starring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine

3.30pm Disney Time
with Phillip Schofield

4.10pm Jim'll Fix It for Christmas
Can I be St George ? Make our teacher fly? Work at Walt Disney World?
Can I meet the Turtles? Jim Savile makes these and other dreams come
true in this Christmas special

4.55pm Final Score
Results and football pools service with Ralph Dellor

5.10pm News with Chris Lowe
WeatherBernard Davey

5.25pm The Russ Abbot Christmas Show
with special guest Les Dennis

6.05pm Spielberg : Film : Back to the Future (1985)
starring Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd

8.00pm Bergerac Special
There for the Picking
starring John Nettles

9.40pm Smith and Jones
with Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones

10.10pm Newswith Chris LoweRegional News
WeatherBernard Davey

10.25pm Film : Poltergeist II (1986)
starring Jo Beth Williams, Craig T Nelson Première

11.55pm Toto - Live in Paris
The supergroup Toto in a rare live appearance

12.50am Weather

12.55am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1990

BBC1

7:00am Children's BBC
Wizbit
More magical adventures in Puzzleopolis, with Paul Daniels.
Christmas in August? Anything is possible in Puzzleopolis (Repeat)

7:30am Playdays
The Christmas Tree Stop(Repeat)

7:50am Jingle Bell Rap
Now here's the story of a father and son,
It's Christmas Day and there's a lot to be done,
The rock group's strumming, But the singer's not humming,
Here comes Santa to get things buzzing!

8:10am Film : The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981)
followed byWeather

9:30am Shout for Joy!
from St Francis Church, Birmingham
Local children join the congregation in Handsworth to celebrate
Christmas Day Mass

10:30am Noel's Christmas Presents
Noel Edmonds has travelled all over the world to give 12 very unusual presents to some very special people. With special guests Arthur Bostrom Frank Bruno and David Essex

11:30am Christmas Comedy Cracker
'Allo 'Allo!
Rene, a cafe proprietor in occupied France, suddenly finds himself
at the centre of an underground organisation (Repeat)

12:05pm The Two Ronnies
Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett offer a crackerful of jokes.
With all the news that's fit to laugh at and Little Big Shot, a searing tale set in Chicago in the 20s, when men were men and Ronald Reagan was just an OAP. With their special guest Phil Collins
(Repeat)

12:55pm Dad's Army
The Love of Three Oranges
Walmington-on-Sea's Home Guard decide to help at the vicar's bazaar to raise money for comforts for the troops (Repeat)

1.30pm Top of the Pops Christmas Special
with Mark Goodier and Anthea Turner

2.30pm EastEnders
A special Christmas delivery holds a surprise for Diane.
Ian is determined to drive Wicksy away - dead or alive

3:00pm The Queen
Her Majesty speaks to the Commonwealth

3:05pm Film : ET - The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote Première

5:00pm Newswith Jill Dando and
WeatherSuzanne Charlton

5:10pm Only Fools and Horses
Rodney Come Home

6:25pm Bruce Forsyth's Christmas Generation Game
A fun-packed bumper edition with four couples competing for prizes.
With Rosemarie Ford and celebrity guests

7:30pm Bread
A comic slice of Merseyside life by Carla Lane

8:20pm Birds of a Feather
Falling in Love Again starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson

9.35pm News with Jill Dando
WeatherSuzanne Charlton

9:45pm Film : Baby Boom (1987)
starring Diane Keaton, Harold Ramis Première

11:30pm Yes Minister
Party Games
Rumours of a Cabinet re-shuffle dampen the seasonal festivities

12:30am Christmas Presence
It's over for another year. Writer, Poet and broadcaster
Adrian Plass asks, "Why do we do it?"

12:35am Film : The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
starring George Segal, Alec Guiness

2:20pm Weather

2:25pm Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1990

BBC1

7:00am News, Regional News and Weather

7.15am Children's BBC
Touché Turtle(Repeat)

7.20am Wizbit
The magical adventures of Wizbit and the residents of Puzzleopolis.
with Paul Daniels. (Repeat)

7.45am New Adventures of Mighty Mouse
The evil Cardigan captures Pearl Pureheart (Repeat)

8.00am News, Regional News and Weather

8.15am Fireman Sam
Animation. Christmas preparations stop when the crew are
called out to save Sarah and James.
Narrated by John Alderton (Repeat)

8.35am St Nicholas and the Children
An adventure fairy tale.
On Christmas Eve, young Pierre and Estelle are forced to cross through the haunted forest in search of food for their sick grandmother(Repeat)

9.00am News, Regional News and Weather

9.05am The Chipmunks
Cartoon. Alvin dreams of the spirits of Christmas past, present and future

9.35am Charlie's Christmas Project
Children's drama. Charlie wasn't asking for an expensive present -
all he wanted was to look after a dog called Arfie (Repeat)

9.55am Quick Draw McGraw
cartoon

10.05am Playdays
The Christmas Tree Stop(Repeat)

10.25am Barney
Cartoon. Barney surprises Mr Prophet with a very special
Christmas present.(Repeat)

10.35am Film : The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
musical, starring Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven

12.55pm Regional News and Weather

1.00pm News with Andrew Harvey
Weather Michael Fish

1.15pm Neighbours

1.40pm Film : The Italian Job (1969)
starring Michael Caine

3.15pm Children's BBC
Buried Treasure
cartoon

3.25pm Blue Peter
presented by Yvette Fielding, John Leslie and Diane-Louise Jordan

3.50pm Film : Masters of the Universe (1987)
starring Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella

5.35pm Neighbours

6.00pm Newswith Andrew Harvey
Weather Ian McCaskill

6.15pm Regional News magazines

6.30pm Wogan in Hollywood
The legendary George Burns is probably the most revered comic in
the world. Despite open heart surgery, at 94 years of age he has
lost none of his magic sparkle as Terry Wogan discovers

7.10pm The Paul Daniels Magic Show
Paul Daniels hosts this special Christmas edition.
Presenting their unique style of magic will be his guests -
the Great Bosconi, Peter Hartly, Chester Baker and Sakura

8.00pm All Creatures Great and Small
Brotherly Love,
starring Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison

9.30pm Newswith John Humphrys
Regional News, Weather Ian McCaskill

9.50pm Film : Blind Date (1987)
starring Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger Première

11.25pm Christmas with the Gulf
As midnight approaches, families throughout the country have gathered together to rejoice at the coming of Christmas but this year many families are apart. Tonight, live by satellite, friends and relatives in Aldershot, Hampshire, and Fallingbostel in Germany join servicemen and women in the Gulf for a joint celebration of the birth of the infant Jesus

12.25am Midnight Caller
Do You Believe in Miracles?
starring Gary Cole, Wendy Kilbourne(Repeat)

1.10am Weather

1.15am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1989

CHANNEL 4

6.00am The Channel Four Daily : Early Morning
Hallelujah!
The Bob Jones Show - the best of American gospel(Repeat)

6.30am Christmas Box(Repeat)

7.00am Dennis
cartoon

7.26am The Gnomes' Great Adventure
feature length adventure

8.51am Countdown Masters

9.00am Channel 4 Racing : The Morning Line
preview of the Boxing Day horse racing

9.25am Sesame Street
with special guests Billy Joel & Marlee Maitlin

10.25am The Adventures of Tintin
Shooting Star

10.35am The Batman
Chapter 4 (b&w)

10.55am Film : Road to Singapore (1940)
starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour (b&w)

12.30pm Channel 4 Racing
from Kempton Park 12.45, 1.15, 1.45, 2.20 & 2.50 races

3.15pm Film : The Red Shoes (1948)
starring Moira Shearer, Marius Goring

5.40pm News Summary and Weather

5.45pm Swan Lake Royal Festival Ballet

8.00pm Matters of Taste
documentary about Elizabeth David

9.00pm The Fabulous Singlettes
an outrageous Australian group recreate the songs of the Supremes and others

10.00pm Short and Curlies : Unusual Ground Floor Conversion
short British film

10.15pm Rotten Apples
comedy set in a police station in a border town in N.Ireland

11.15pm Olivier Tribute : Film : The Prince and The Showgirl (1957)
starring Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Sybil Thorndike

1.25am Film : At the Circus (1939)
starring the Marx Brothers(b&w)

3.00am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1989

CHANNEL 4
6.00am The Channel Four Daily
The Creation
a recording of Joseph Haydn's Creation

7.00am Dennis
cartoon

7.25am Aladdin
an animated feature

8.45am Countdown Masters

8.55am Dai Mouse
read by David Jason

9.10am Poetry Book
poems read by Paul Scofield, Alan Bennett, Derek jacobi and others

9.25am Sesame Street
Big Bird attempts to uncover a secret in this special edition shown annually in the US

10.30am The Adventures of Tintin
Shooting Star

10.35am The Batman
Chapter 3 (b&w)

11.00am Silent Mouse
the true story of the Christmas carol Silent Night(Repeat)

12.00 The Greatest (little) Show on Earth
documentary about Australia's Flying Fruit Fly Circus, a troupe of 40 performing children

1.00pm George and Rosemary
cartoon

1.10pm Olivier Tribute, Film : Pride and Prejudice (1940)
starring Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson, Edmund Gwenn

3.25pm Birthday
Dame Judi Dench with the poetry of The Rev Alan Ecclestone

3.40pm An Evening For Armenia
opera and ballet stars in a gala in aid of the British Red Cross Armenian Eathquake appeal at the Royal Opera House(Repeat)

5.10pm The Queen

5.25pm News Summary and Weather

5.30pm Film : The Snowman (1982)

6.00pm The Little Sweep
a short opera

7.00pm Circus of the Sun

8.00pm Brookside

8.30pm Cheers Home is the Sailor(Repeat)

9.00pm Olivier Tribute , Film : Richard III (1954)
starring Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Claire Bloom, John Gielgud

11.55pm La Nativité du Seigneur
Messiaen's organ masterpiece celebrates the glory of Christmas

1.00am The Prince's Trust 88 Rock Gala(Repeat)

2.35am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1989

CHANNEL 4

6.00am Early Morning
Hallelujah!
the best of American gospel(Repeat)

6.30am Flight Over Spain Murcia(Repeat)

7.00am Australian Beautiful Gardens(Repeat)

7.30am Box Office Weekly
with Garry Rice & David Roper

8.00am David the Gnome

8.30am Christmas Box
presented by Garry Rice & David Roper

9.00am Dennis
cartoon

9.25am Follow That Star
a profile of Indian superstar Amitabh Bachchan

10.25am Starlight Serenaders
children's cartoon

10.35am The Batman
Chapter 2(b&w)

10.55am Christmas Fairytale
cat and mouse story from Norway

11.05am Film : Road to Utopia (1946)
starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope (b&w)

12.45pm Air Pirates of the Outback
puppet animation from Australia followed by
The Wall
award winning animation

1.00pm Fish People
documentary about people in Britain who keep fish

2.00pm Anne of Green Gables
starring Megan Follows(Repeat)

3.50pm Star of Bethlehem
Lotte Reigniger's silhouette film in colour

4.10pm Cinderella Ballet
Dancers from the Lyon Opera Ballet

5.55pm News Summary and Weather

6.00pm American Football
introduced by Mick Luckhurst

7.00pm Desert Orchid : Living with the Legend
documentary about the famous racehorse

8.00pm To Hell with the Devil
documenatary about the American rock band Stryper

9.00pm One Hour with Jonathan Ross

10.00pm American Football

11.30pm Film : Julia (1977)
starring Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell

1.40am Film : Monkey Business (1931)
starring the Marx Brothers (b&w)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1989

ITV CENTRAL

6.00am TV-am
David Yates introduces more animal magic
Animals in Action Animal Crowds with Keith Shackleton

6.30am RSPB
Speckle and Hide, narrated by Derek Jones

7.00am Galaxy High School
It Came from Earth

7.30am Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince
Don't Fence Me In

8.00am The Black Arrow
from the story by R L Stevenson

8.50am Wacaday
a special Christmas show presented by Timmy Mallett

9.25am T-Bag's Christmas Carol
with Elizabeth Estensen, John Hasler, Kellie Bright

9.50am Disney's Robin Hood (1973)
the Disney animated feature

11.20am Film : Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
starring Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Margaret Whiting, Jane Seymour

1.20pm ITN News
with John Suchet followed by Alex Hill with the ITV National Weather

1.30pm Run the Gauntlet Christmas Special
The Mitsubishi Shogun Challenge, celebrity edition
with Alison Holloway, Ross Davidson, Eddie Kidd, Sybil Roscoe, Jilly Johnson, Gail McKenna, David Wilkie, Curt Smith, Nigel Pivaro and Sally Jones

2.30pm Movie Première : The Return of the Jedi (1983)
starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guiness

4.55pm ITN News and Sport

5.10pm Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World (1989)
starring Jeremy Irons, Samuel Irons, Robbie Coltrane, Cyril Cusack (TV Movie)

7.00pm After Henry
with Prunella Scales

7.30pm Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
presented by Nicky Campbell and Carol Smillie

8.00pm The BillPowers of Exclusion

8.30pm ShelleyCold Turkey, starring Hywel Bennett

9.00pm Movie Première : Ruthless People (1986)
starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater

10.45pm ITN News followed byITV National Weatherwith Alex Hill

11.00pm Boxing Night at the Movies
Film : The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
starring Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke
(ITN News Headlines broadcast throughout the night)

1.30am Film : Escape from New York (1981)
starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Kleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasance

3.20am Film : Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984)
with Paul McCartney, Bryan Brown, Ringo Starr, Barbara Bach, Linda McCartney, Tracey Ullman, Ralph Ricahrdson

5.20am Cartoon Time
Daffy's Inn Trouble, Doggone People, All Fowled Up, Past Performance

5.50am ITN Morning News

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV Central except)

7.00pm Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

7.30pm George and Mildred

ITV GRANADA (as ITV Central)

ITV LONDON (as ITV Central except)

7.00pm Emmerdale

7.30pm Jimmy's at Christmas

ITV TVS (as ITV London)

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1989

ITV CENTRAL

5.10am ITN Morning News

5.15am Scooby Goes Hollywood
animation, Scooby Doo features in his first Hoolywood musical

6.00am TV-am
Cartoon Capers
Punky Brewster in Punkywise, Christmas in July and Mister Men : Mr Snow introduced by Timmy Mallett

7.30am Benji, Zax an the Alien Prince Double Trouble

8.00am Good Morning Britain
TV-am Christmas Party guests include Bros, Jason Donovan, Russ Conway, Timmy Mallett, Lizzie Webb, Gyles Brandreth, Russell Grant,
Kathy Tayler, Jimmy Greaves, Ulrika Jonsson includes news bulletins with Beatrice Hollyer

9.25am Bugs Bunny & Friends at Christmas
cartoon fun with Bugs Bunny, Roadrunner, Tweety Pie, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Foghorn Leghorn

10.15am The Other Side of Christmas
Anneka Rice with Michael Aspel, Nick Owen, David Bellamy, Thelma Barlow, Helen Worth, Bill Waddington live from the Arena in London's Docklands ,
includes at
11.10am a live service from St Michael and All Angels church, Lodon Fields, Hackney and at
12.00 David Bellamy takes 23 children, who were in care last Christmas - but who now have new families - to Lapland to meet the real Santa Claus

12.25pm The James Bond Film : On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
starring George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas

3.00pm The Queen

3.15pm Film : The B.F.G. (1989)
animation

5.00pm Home and Away

5.30pm ITN News followed by
ITV National Weatherwith Martyn Davies

5.40pm Strike It Lucky Christmas Special
with Michael Barrymore & Frank Bruno

6.30pm Christmas Comedy Box
Jim Davidson presents clips of his favourite shows and performers

8.00pm Coronation Street

8.30pm After Henry
A Week of Sundays
starring Prunella Scales, Joan Sanderson, Janine Wood, Jonathan Newth

9.00pm Movie Premiere : Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
starring Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss, Little Richard

10.55pm ITN Newsfollowed by
ITV National Weatherwith Martyn Davies

11.10pm Film : Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
with Harrison Ford, Karen Allen
ITN News Headlines broadcast throughout the night

1.20am Film : All Night Long (1981)
starring Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman

3.00am Film : Hard Country (1980)
with Jan-Michael Vincent, Kim Basinger, Michael Parks

4.50am Rich Little's Robin Hood
Rich Little plays 16 parts in this comedy including Robin Hood and Maid Marian

5.50am ITN Morning News

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1989

ITV LONDON

6.00am TV-am
Animals in Action : Baby Birds with Keith Shackleton

6.30am RSPB Bernard Cribbins reads Round Robin

7.00am It's Stardust
Alvin Stardust with seasonal songs plus cartoons including
The Little Misses & The Adventures of Parsley

8.00am David Frost on Sunday
(News & Weather with Beatrice Hollyer at 8.00am & 9.00am)

9.25am Children's ITV : The Disney Club
with Gordon Inglis, John Eccleston and Andrea Boardman, and guest Jason Donovan

11.00am Meditation : Christ Comes This Christmas
from the Parish Church of St Maty's, Nether Alderley, Cheshire

12.00 Encounter
Babies in Crisis,
Father John Fagan who finds suitable foster parents for Aids infected babies

12.30pm Time for Christmas
helping others

1.00pm ITN Newswith Fiona Armstrong
ITV National Weatherwith Alex Hill

1.05pm LWT News and Weather

1.15pm Kylie- on the Go
behind the scenes on tour in Japan and England

2.10pm Movie Première : A Christmas Carol (1984)
starring George C Scott, Frank Finlay, Edward Woodward, David Warner, Susannah York, Joanne Whalley

4.05pm Christmas Sunday Special
Gloria Hunniford with Cliff Richard, Jason Donovan and Joanna Lumley

5.00pm Bullseye Christmas Special
with Jim Bowen, Tony Green

5.45pm Time for Christmas
the launch of the Christmas Line

6.00pm ITN Newswith Fiona Armstrong
ITV National Weatherwith Alex Hill

6.10pm LWT News; Weather

6.15pm Highway
at Durham Cathedral, with Sir Harry Secombe, Jessye Norman, Robert Hardy and Patricia Brake

7.15pm Film : Pied Piper (1989)
starring Peter O`Toole and Mare Winningham (TV Movie)

9.15pm ITN News with Sue Carpenter
ITV National Weatherwith Alex Hill

9.25pm LWT Weather

9.30pm Film : The Woman in Black (1989)
by Nigel Kneale from the book by Susan Hill, starring Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton (TV Film)

11.30pm A Service for Christmas Eve
from the Dryfesdale Parish Church, Lockerbie

12.30am Rich Little's Christmas Carol
Rich Little plays 14 major roles in his own unique adaptation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol

1.30pm The Comedy Store
with Hattie Hayridge, Simon Fanshawe and Steve Coogan

1.40pm Film : Why Me ? (1984)
starring Glynnis O'Connor, Armand Assante and Annie Potts (TV Movie)

3.20pm Film : Burning Rage (1984)
starring Barbara Mandrell, Eddie Albert (TV Movie)

5.10pm ITN Morning News

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

12.30pm Persistence of Angels

12.45pm Cartoon
(until 1.00)

1.15pm Mickey Mouse

1.30pm Kylie- on the Go

2.25pm Film : A Christmas Carol (1984)

4.15pm Highway to Heaven

5.15pm Bullseye
(until 6.00)

1.30am Film : Flood (1976)
starring Robert Culp (until 3.20)

ITV CENTRAL (as ITV London except)

12.30pm A Christmas Message

12.35pm Silent Night
with Jose Carreras

1.15pm Disney's Christmas Cartoon Time Mickey's Fire Brigade, Pluto's Dream House

2.25pm Movie Première : A Christmas Carol (1984)

4.15pm Highway to Heaven
Goodbye, Mr Zelinka starring Michael Landon

5.15pm Bullseye Christmas Special
with Jim Bowen, Tony Green

1.30am Film : Flood ! (1976)
starring Robert Culp (TV Movie)