Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

CHANNEL 4

Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1988

9.30am Storybook Classics
Santabear's First Christmas(Repeat)

10.00am Moneyspinner(Repeat)

10.30am Film : Forever and a Day (1943)
starring Anna Neagle, Ray Milland (B&W)

12.30pm Empress Wu

1.00pm Christmas Star
Czech animation of the Christmas story(Repeat)

1.15pm A Child's Christmas in Wales
starring Denholm Elliott

2.15pm Gymnastics
The Kraft International from Alexandra Palace

3.30pm Film : The Little Match Girl (1987)
starring Keshia Knight Pulliam, William Daniels, Rue McClanahan

5.05pm Brookside (Repeat)

6.00pm Faerie Tale Theatre
The Three Little Pigs with Billy Crystal, Valerie Perrine, Jeff Goldblum

7.00pm News Summary and Weather

7.05pm Hollywood
13 : The End of an Era(Repeat)

8.05pm Game, Set & Match
starring Ian Holm

9.05pm Nine on 4

9.15pm Tchaikovsky's Women
film covering Tchakovsky's life up to the composition of Eugene Onegin, starring Vladimir Ashkenazy, Helen Field, Cythia Harvey, Clarry Bartha

10.35pm Creation
Part 2
old time religion comes to Canterbury, an original black gospel musical

11.05pm Film : Yanks (1979)
starring Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Gere, William Devane

1.45am Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey(Repeat)

2.30am Closedown

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Christmas Tuesday 27th December 1988

ITV HTV

6.00am TV-am
About Britain Running

7.00am GMB Sport

9.00am Wacaday

9.25am T-Bag's Christmas Cracker
with Elizabeth Estensen, John Hasler

9.50am Disney at Christmas : The Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)
starring Robert Taylor, Lilli Palmer

12.00 Mr & Mrs
with Derek Batey and Donna Mayers

12.40pm Film : Shane (1953)
starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur,Van Heflin

2.50pm The Match : Norwich City v West Ham United
live from Carrow Road

4.55pm ITN News and Sport

5.00pm Run the Gauntlet Christmas Challenge
The Mitsubishi Shogun Challenge

6.00pm With Hilarious Consequences
Denis Norden looks at over 21 years of situation-comedy from Thames TV

7.30pm Prove It
with Chris Tarrant

8.00pm The Bill
Digging Up the Past

8.30pm Executive Stress
starring Penelope Keith, Peter Bowles

9.00pm Boon
starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, Amanda Burton, Neil Morrissey, guests Judy Geeson, Kristoffer Tabori and special guest Joan Hickson

10.00pm ITN News

10.15pm Movie Première : The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)
starring Ian Richardson and Donald Churchill

12.10am Tina Turner - Break Every Rule followed by
ITN News Headlines

1.15am Film : Battleflag (1977)
starring Simon Ward, Peter Cushing

3.30am America's Top 10 The All-Time Christmas Top 10
with Casey Kasem

4.30am Out of the Christmas Box
out-takes

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Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1988

ITV LONDON

5.00am Scooby Goes Hollywood

5.55am ITN News Headlines

6.00am TV-am
Boxing Day Sport

7.30am Wideawake Special

9.25am The Sooty Christmas Show
with Matthew Corbett, Roger Walker & Suzy Aitchison

9.50am Disney at Christmas : Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)

10.20am Disney at Christmas : Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956)
starring Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen

12.00 What's My Line? Christmas Special
presented by Angela Rippon with Jilly Cooper, Gabrielle Drake, Nino Firetto, Adrian Mills

12.30pm ITN News with Fiona Armstrong

12.35pm Film : The Sea Wolves (1980)
starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard

2.40pm Wish You Were Here...?
with Judith Chalmers, Anneka Rice and John Carter

3.40pm The James Bond Film : Octopussy (1983)
starring Roger Moore, Maud Adams and Louis Jordan

5.00pm ITN News and Sports Results

5.15pm The James Bond Film : Octopussy
continued

6.15pm Strike It Lucky
presented by Michael Barrymore

7.00pm The Krypton Factor Grand Final
presented by Gordon Burns

7.30pm Coronation Street

8.00pm Minder
An Officer and a Car Salesman
starring George Cole, Dennis Waterman and Patrick Malahide

9.30pm After Henry
A Quiet Christmas
with Prunella Scales, Joan Sanderson, Janine Wood, Jonathan Newth

10.00pm ITN Newswith Fiona Armstrong

10.15pm Movie Première : Blackout (1985)
starring Richard Widmark and Keith Carradine (TV Movie)

12.00 Barcelona
a Musical Extravaganza, rock meets opera with Motserrat Caballe, Jose Carreras, Eddy Grant, Barbara Hendricks, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Freddie Mercury, Rudolf Nureyev with Charles Jude, Joan Manel Serrat, Spandau Ballet, Suzanne Vega, Dionne Warwick

1.00am Starring Dudley Moore : 10 (1979)
with Julie Andrews and Bo Derek followed by
ITN News Headlines

3.15am WKRP in Cincinnati

3.45am Film : Whistling in Dixie (1942)
starring Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford and George Bancroft (b&w)

5.00am ITN Morning News

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

3.15am Three's Company
(until 3.45)

ITV HTV (as ITV London except)

3.15am Ben Sidran : On the Live Side(Repeat)
(until 3.45)

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Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1988

ITV HTV

5.00am ITN News Headlines followed by
Christmas Cartoons
The Great Santa Claus Caper
The Big Bad Wolf tries to take over Santa's business

5.30am Christmas Comes to Pacland
Santa Claus crash lands in Pacland

5.55am ITN News Headlines

6.00am TV-am
Christmas Robbins

7.00am Puff the Magic Dragon

7.30am Christmas with TV-am

8.30am Black Beauty

9.25am Motormouth on Christmas Day
with Andrea Arnold, Julian Ballantyne, Neil Buchannan, Tony Gregory, Caroline Hanson including Disney cartoons

10.05am Film : The Little Troll Prince (1987)

11.00am Christmas Morning Worship
from St John's Church, Lemsford, Hertfordshire

12.00 Disney at Christmas : Moving Day

12.15pm The Great British Pop Machine
with French and Saunders celebrating the booming success of British pop music

1.15pm Mr Majeika
Have Yourself a Wizard Little Christmas, starring Stanley Baxter

2.15pm Bullseye Christmas Special
hosted by Jim Bowen with Bob Anderson, Eric Bristow, Marti Caine, Les Dennis, Tony Green, Denny Hodge, Bob Holness, Roy Walker, Jocky Wilson,
the Birmingham Cathedral Choir

3.00pm The Queen

3.05pm Christmas Blind Date
presented by Cilla Black

3.55pm Movie Première : The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
starring Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill

6.05pm Save The Children
with Michael Crawford some of the best loved Christmas music, artists include Michael Ball, David Essex, Anita Harris, Bonnie Langford, Julia McKenzie,
Claire Moore, Paul Nicholas, Elaine Paige, Francis Rufelle, Lon Satton, Colm Wilkinson

7.15pm Coronation Street

7.45pm 10 Years of Alright on the Night
with Denis Nordern

8.45pm London's Burning
Ding Dong Merrily

10.15pm ITN News

10.25pm One More Audience With Dame Edna

11:30pm Christmas Night at the Movies : The Squeeze (1977)
starring Stacy Keach

1.20am Film : Our Man Flint (1966)
starring James Coburn

3.15am Film : In Like Flynn (1985)
starring Jenny Seagrove

GRANADA, TSW, CENTRAL (as London except)

11.15pm - 1.15am Film : The Liquidator (1965)

TVS (as London except)

11.15pm - 1.15am Film : The Liquidator (1965)

3.15am TV Film : Robbers of the Sacred Mountain (1980)

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Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1988

ITV LONDON

5.00am ITN Morning News

6.00am TV-am
Saturday Sport

7.30am Wideawake

9.25am Motormouth on Christmas Eve
with Andres Arnold, Julian Ballantyne, Neil Buchanan, Tony Gregory, Caroline Hanson
MM1......loads of famous faces popping in to put a touch of tinsel on the tree
MM2......The Reluctant Dragon animation
MM3......Spin Off.....Christmas Eve at the complex
MM4......What do you want for Christmas?, we may just have it!
MM5......Mickey Mouse at 60

12.00 Physical Pursuits
three teams take part in quizzes and games, presented by Eamonn Holmes, Emlyn Hughes and Jane Bennett

1.00pm ITN News with Sue Carpenter followed by
LWT News and Weather

1.05pm Saint and Greavsie
specially extended Christmas edition

1.50pm Disney at Christmas : Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)

2.20pm Film : The Ugly Dachsund (1966)
starring Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette & Kelly Thordsen

4.05pm 3-2-1 Christmas Special
with Ted Rogers and Christopher Biggins, Geoff Capes, Suzanne Mizzi, Linda Nolan and Maria Whittaker

5.05pm ITN Newswith Sue Carpenter

5.10pm LWT News and Weather

5.15pm The Cannon and Ball Show
with Dennis Waterman, Kim Wilde, Chris de Burgh, Brother Beyond and Linda Lusardi

6.15pm Bobby in Wonderland
Bobby Davro with Dave Lee and Bernie Winters

7.05pm Watching Special
starring Emma Wray . Paul Brown, Liza Tarbuck

8.05pm Movie Première : Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of Four (1983)
starring Ian Richardson and David Healy (TV Movie)
(NB This was shown in place of the originally planned 1987 version following a late change to the schedules)

9.50pm ITN News

10.00pm LWT Weather

10.05pm The Great British Farce : No Sex Please- We're British (1973)
starring Ronnie Corbett and Beryl Reid

11.45pm Midnight Mass
from St John's Roman Catholic Church, Banbury, Oxon

1.00am ITN News Headlines
followed by
Film : Otley (1968)
starring Tom Courtenay

2.40am ITN News Headlinesfollowed by
Night Network
with the best of 1988's videos, Spike Milligan in the bunker and Communard Richard Coles reviewing the big screen new releases (ends at 5.00)

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

12.00 UFO
Destruction (until 1.00pm)

5.00am Christmas Cartoons

5.30am Christmas Comes to Pacland

ITV HTV (as ITV London except)

12.00 Chatterbox Christmas Party
with Aled Jones, Michael Quill, Josie White (until 1.00pm)

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Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Saturday 31st December 1988

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
12.15pm Film : Peter No-Tail (1981)
1.30pm Tom and Jerry Festival
2.10pm Saturday Cinema: The Day They Gave Babies Away (1957)
3.50pm Little Nezha Fights Great Dragon Kings
4.50pm New Year's Eve Concert
5.50pm Film : Great Day in the Morning (1956)
7.20pm NewsView
8.00pm Island of Birds
8.30pm What's Cuba Playing At?
9.45pm American Wave 2 : Albert Brooks's Lost in America
11.15pm Eurythmics Live
12.50am David Bowie: Glass Spider

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Re: Christmas TV

Friday 30th December 1988

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
11.45am British Comedies
Film : To Paris with Love (1955)
1.00pm Des's Diary
3.00pm News, Weather
followed by
Showreel 88
3.40pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
3.50pm Women of Our Century
4.30pm The 1988 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
The Home of the Future
5.30pm Jack High
6.00pm Film : Bogart - Casablanca (1942)
7.40pm Baryshnikov's Gaieté Parisienne
8.00pm Carna - the Otter
9.00pm Wild Things
10.20pm Film : Stop Making Sense (1984)
11.40pm Weather
11.45pm Film : Pauline at the Beach (Pauline a la plage) (1983)

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Re: Christmas TV

Thursday 29th December 1988

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
11.55am British Comedies
Film : The Man in the White Suit (1951)
1.20pm Edinburgh Military Tattoo 1988
2.30pm The Kiwis Are Coming
3.00pm News, Weather
followed by
Showreel 88
3.40pm News, Weather Regional News and Weather
3.50pm Women of Our Century
4.30pm The 1988 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
The Home of the Future
5.30pm Jack High
6.00pm Film : Bogart - To Have and Have Not (1944)
7.35pm Lady Be Good
8.30pm The Travel Show Guides
9.00pm Street Stories
9.50pm Prisoners of Conscience
10.00pm Film : One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Première
12.05am Weather
12.10am INXS: In Search of Excellence

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Re: Christmas TV

Wednesday 28th December 1988

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
12.00 British Comedies
Film : Whisky Galore! (1949)
1.20pm A Dream of Poppies
2.10pm Jobson's Choice
3.00pm News, Weather
followed by
Showreel 88
3.40pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
3.50pm Women of Our Century
4.30pm The 1988 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
The Home of the Future
5.30pm Jack High
6.00pm Film : Bogart - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
8.05pm Baryshnikov Dances Balanchine
9.00pm The French and Saunders Christmas Special
9.40pm Film : Francis Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984) Première
11.40pm Weather
11.45pm Schalcken the Painter

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Re: Christmas TV

Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1988

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax

10.00am Film : Words and Music (1948)
starring Mickey Rooney

12.00 British Comedies : Passport to Pimlico (1949)
starring Margaret Rutherford

1.20pm Cartoon

1.35pm The Mind Machine

3.05pm Showreel 88

3.45pm Women of Our Century
Dame Flora Robson

4.25pm The Phil at the Albert
The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

5.30pm Jack High
Woolwich Masters Bowls Tornament

6.00pm The Children's Hospital

6.50pm Bogart : The African Queen (1951)

8.30pm Mikhail Baryshnikov
An evening at the American Ballet Theatre

9.25pm Nursery Crimes Tom Thumb
animation

9.35pm Jack Lemmon in Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)

12.25am Weather

12.30am Fleetwood Mac at 21

1.25am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1988

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax

11.00am Film : Fort Apache (1948)
starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda

1.05pm British Comedies : The Ladykillers (1955)
starring Alec Guinness

2.35pm A Christmas Celebration
with Cliff Richard, Sally Magnusson

3.20pm Showreel 88

4.00pm The Shape of the Nation
a flight around the entire coast of England, Scotland and Wales

6.00pm Bogart : The Maltese Falcon (1941)

7.40pm Paradise
award winning animation

7.55pm Film : Otello (1986)Première
starring Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli opera in Italian
with English subtitles Première

9.55pm News from Pleasantville : the Story of Reader's Digest

10.45pm Film : Local Hero (1983)
starring Burt Lancaster, Peter Reigert

12.35am Film : Bob Dylan in Don't Look Back (1967)
(b/w)

2.10am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1988

BBC2

10:00am Film : Storm Boy (1976)
starring Greg Rowe, Peter Cummins

11:25am Film : The Bible...In the Beginning (1966)
starring Richard Harris

2:10pm Islands of the Fire Goddess

3:00pm Nelson Mandela's 70th Birthday Concert

8:20pm HM The Queen

8:30pm Once in a Lifetime

10:15pm Film : The Family (1987)
(Italian film with English subtitles) Première

12:20am Film : Some Like It Hot (1959)
starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis

2:20am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1988

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax

11.15am Carols for Christmas
from St David 's Hall, Cardiff. The people of the capital city of Wales
join with the BBC Welsh Chorus and the Fanfare Trumpeters of the
Welsh Guards to sing their favourite Christmas carols

12.15pm Snooker Review 88
This year one match - the match of the year: Jimmy White against
Stephen Hendry , in the second round of the World Snooker
Championships.
David Vine , along with John Spencer , Eddie Charlton and
John Virgo look back on that match and the new names in snooker.

2.05pm Saturday Cinema : Solomon and Sheba (1959)
starring Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida

4.20pm Exiles

5.20pm Messiah
Handel's opera

6.20pm Golf 88

7.50pm The Ragged Child
performed by the National Youth Music Theatre

9.55pm The American Film Institute Salute to Jack Lemmon

10.55pm Jack Lemmon in The Front Page (1974)

12.40am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Friday 23rd December 1988

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
12.00 Comedy Matinee
Film : Brewster's Millions (1945)
1.20pm Cartoon
1.25pm Pie in the Sky
1.40pm Under Sail
2.00pm News, Weather
followed by
Sport on Friday
3.00pm News and Weather
3.50pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
4.00pm Laurel and Hardy double bill
Come Clean
4.20pm Bohemian Girl
5.30pm Food and Drink Christmas Quiz
6.00pm The 'Olympic' Challenge
VIII Paralympic Games
7.00pm Bacall on Bogart
8.30pm Entertainment USA
9.00pm Arena : The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
10.30pm The Late Show with Clive James
11.20pm Weather
11.25pm Film : Minnelli Directs: An American in Paris (1951)

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Re: Christmas TV

Thursday 22nd December 1988

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
12.00 Comedy Matinee
Film : Getting Gertie's Garter (1945)
1.15pm Tom and Jerry Festival
1.25pm Little Misses and the Mister Men
1.40pm Under Sail
2.00pm News, Weather
followed by
One Man and His Dog
2.45pm Holiday Outings
3.00pm News, Weather
followed by
Chronicle
3.50pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
4.00pm Away in a Manger
4.30pm Ski Sunday Special
5.05pm Grow Biz Quiz
5.35pm Country File
6.00pm Film : Viva Max! (1969)
7.30pm Call My Bluff
8.00pm Open Space
8.30pm The Travel Show Guides
9.00pm Food and Drink Christmas Quiz
9.30pm Season's Greetings
11.20pm Weather
11.25pm Film : Minnelli Directs The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)