Christmas TV

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Saturday 31st December 1977

BBC2

1.20pm Gene Kelly Double Bill
Film : The Pirate (1948)
Film : Invitation to the Dance (1956)
4.30pm Play Away Away Day
5.00pm Horizon
5.50pm Dan, Badger and all the Coal
6.40pm News and Sport, Weather
6.50pm Die Fledermaus
10.00pm The Old Grey Whistle Test
11.25pm News on 2, Weather
11.30pm Watchnight Service
12.00 Big Ben
12.01am Midnight Movie
Film : Ten Little Indians (1965)

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1977

ITV LONDON

9.00am Our Bumper Christmas Show

11.00am Film : The Flying Deuces (1939)
with Laurel and Hardy (b&w)

12.25pm News

12.30pm World of Sport
introduced by Dickie Davies with special guest Eric Morecambe
(12.35 World Cup Skiing, 1.00,2.05 World Cup Darts, 1.30 Snooker, 2.30 Wrestling)

3.00pm Film : The Macahans: How the West Was Won (1977)
starring James Arness, Richard Kiley, Eve Marie Saint (TV Movie)

5.05pm News

5.15pm Celebrity Mr and Mrs
with Derek Batey, Susan Cuff

5.45pm New Faces
with Derek Hobson, Tony Hatch, Shaw Taylor and Terry Wogan

6.45pm The Man from Atlantis
The Naked Montague, starring Patrick Duffy and Belinda Montgomery

7.45pm The Rag Trade
Christmas Rush, starring Miriam Karlin, Christopher Beeny, Anna Karen, Diane Langton and Peter Jones

8.15pm McCloud
Twas the Flight Before Christmas starring Dennis Weaver, J.D.Cannon, Terry Carter and Diana Muldaur

9.40pm Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
with the Crosby family, Stanley Baxter,Twiggy, Ron Moody, Trinity Boys' Choir, David Bowie

10.40pm News

10.55pm Are You Stone Cold, Santa Claus ?

11.25pm Midnight Service Holy Communion
from St Martin-in-the-Fields

12.20am Close

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

9.00am Mumbly

9.15am Rolf Harris

9.45am The Six Million Dollar Man

10.40am Valley of the Dinosaurs

11.10am Calendar Kids

11.55am Happy Days
(until 12.25pm)

ATV

9.00am No Programme

9.10am Six Million Dollar Man
A Bionic Christmas Carol

10.00am Tiswas
including
Batman
Hizzoner the Penguin part 1

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1977

ITV LONDON

8.45am Christmas Carol Concert
from Wells Cathedral

9.45am The Story of Christmas
cartoon

9.50am Bugs Bunny

10.00am Morning Worship
Parish Mass from Our Lady and St Oswin's, Tynemouth

11.00am A Merry Morning
with Jimmy Tarbuck, Guy Kent, The Wurzels and Roger Stevenson

11.45am The Woody Woodpecker Show

12.00 Film : Robinson Crusoe and the Tiger (1970)
with Hugo Stiglitz

2.05pm Just William
William's Worst Christmas, starring Adrian Dannatt, Diana Fairfax, Hugh Cross, Simon Chandler and Stacy Dorning

3.00pm The Queen

3.10pm To See Such Fun
a look at four decades of film fun

4.40pm Emu's Christmas Adventure
with Rod Hull, Arthur Lowe, Jack Douglas

5.40pm ITN News

5.45pm The Muppet Show
with Julie Andrews

6.15pm Christmas Sale of the Century
presented by Nicholas Parsons with Sneh Gupta, Tina Robinson, John Benson

6.40pm Stars on Christmas Day
with Bing Crosby, Don Estelle, Gracie Fields,Sir John Mills, Valerie Monese, Mary O'Hara, Harry Secombe,
Opus VII with the Northern Singers, introduced by Moira Anderson

7.15pm Film : Young Winston (1972)
starring Simon Ward, Robert Shaw and Anne Bancroft

10.05pm ITN News

10.20pm Stanley Baxter's Greatest Hits

11.30pm Celebration : The Joys of Christmas in Words and Music

12.30am A Christmas Message
from the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Donald Coggan

12.40am Closedown


ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London)

ATV (as ITV London)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1977

ITV LONDON

9.00am A Heavenly Place
with Adele Leigh telling the story of the carol "Silent Night"

9.40am Chorlton and the Wheelies
Chorlton in the Ice World

10.10am Rainbow
with Geoffrey Hayes, Stanley Bates, Jane Tucker, Rod Burton, Roger Walker and Roy Skelton

10.25am Clapperboard
with Chris Kelly

10.55am Film : Pufnstuf (1970)
with Jack Wild, Billy Hayes, Martha Raye, Mama Cass

12.30pm ITN News

12.35pm Star Spangled Soccer
with Ian Wooldridge(Repeat)

1.20pm This Is Your Life - Earl Mountbatten of Burma
with Eamonn Andrews(Repeat)

2.30pm Film : The Guns of Navarone (1961)
starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn

5.25pm News and Sports Results

5.45pm The Ghosts of Motley Hall
Phantomime

6.45pm Opportunity Knocks!
Songwriters' Show with Hughie Green

7.30pm Coronation Street

8.00pm George and Mildred
No Business like Show Business starring Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy

8.30pm The Best of Benny Hill
with Bob Todd

9.30pm Vera Lynn Sings

10.15pm ITN News

10.30pm Film : Gumshoe (1971)
starring Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule

12.05am Night Gallery

12.25am Epilogue

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

12.05am The Odd Couple

12.30am Closedown


ATV (as ITV London except)

12.00am Something Different
a religious series with Sue Jay

12.20am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Tuesday 27th December 1977

ITV LONDON

9.10am Film : Santa Claus and the Three Bears (1970)
cartoon

10.10am The Wotsit from Whizz-Bang
The Tartan Tea-Leaf

10.25am Rainbow
Push with guest Susan Stranks

10.40am Alaska Dog Sled Championships

11.05am Film : The Pied Piper (1972)
starring Donovan, Jack Wild, Cathryn Harrison, Donald Pleasence and John Hurt

12.40pm ITN News

12.45pm The Ryder Cup
with Arthur Montford

1.45pm Those Wonderful TV Times Christmas Show

2.30pm Film : The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972)
starring Laurence Naismith, Lynne Frederick, Garry Miller, Diana Dors

4.15pm Get It Together With the Bay City Rollers
with Roy North, Linda Fletcher

4.45pm The Queen's Racehorses
A Personal View

5.15pm ITN News

5.30pm Chipperfiield's Christmas Circus
introduced by "Diddy" David Hamilton

6.35pm Crossroads

7.00pm Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt
On the Feast of Selwyn, starring Bill Maynard

7.30pm Max's Holiday "Hour"
starring Max Bygraves with Lena Zavaroni, Jim Davidson, Sandra Dickinson, Charlie Cairoli

8.30pm Film : Fear is the Key (1972)
starring Barry Newman and Suzy Kendall

10.25pm ITN News

10.45pm Peggy
Peggy Lee with special guest Charles Aznavour

11.45pm A Touch of the Casanovas
with Frankie Howerd, Stuart Damon, Patsy Rowlands, Madeline Smith

12.25am Epilogue


ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

10.40am Puzzle Party Christmas Show
(until 11.05)

ATV (as ITV London except)

10.40am Ukaliq
animation (until 11.05)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Thursday 28th December 1978

BBC1

9.50am Paddington
9.55am Jackanory
10.10am Why Don't You....?
10.35am The Seppala Race
10.50am Pixie and Dixie
11.00am Buck Rogers
11.20am Film : The Fantastic Journey
12.10pm The Selfish Giant
12.35pm Midday News, Weather
12.50pm The Man Who Talks to Animals
1.35pm Bagpuss
1.50pm Film : Sinbad the Sailor (1947)
3.40pm Bugs Bunny
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Yogi Bear
4.25pm Jackanory
4.40pm The White Seal
5.05pm Blue Peter Review of the Year
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
5.50pm Little Orphan Airedale (cartoon) (London and South East only)
Regional News (All other English regions)
6.00pm Film : Call of the Wild(1972)
7.40pm Lennie and Jerry's Holiday Special
8.30pm News, Weather
8.45pm Film : Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973) Première
10.20pm Look Back at 78
11.20pm Most Wanted
12.10am Weatherman/Regional News

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Friday 29th December 1978

BBC1

9.55am Paddington
10.00am Jackanory
10.15am Why Don't You....?
10.40am A Dog in Paris
10.55am Pixie and Dixie
11.00am Buck Rogers
11.20am The Fantastic Journey
12.10pm The Little Mermaid
12.35pm Midday News, Weather
12.50pm Spitfire!
1.45pm Heads and Tails
2.00pm Film : Bearheart of the Great Northwest (1978)
3.15pm Tom and Jerry
3.20pm Glas y Dorian
(English transmitters only. First shown on BBC Cymru/Wales)
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Jackanory
4.35pm TV Film : The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera (1977)
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
5.50pm Tom and Jerry (London and South East only)
Regional News (All other English regions)
6.00pm Star Trek
6.50pm David Soul
7.30pm Citizen Smith
8.00pm The Liver Birds
8.30pm News, Weekend Weather
8.45pm Film : Ooh, You Are Awful! (1972) Première
10.20pm Year of the Horse 78
11.05pm Film : Theatre of Blood (1973) Première

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 30th December 1978

BBC1

9.30am Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
12.13pm Weather
12.15pm Grandstand
5.10pm The Basil Brush Show
5.40pm News, Weatherman
5.50pm Sport/Regional News
5.55pm Jim'll Fix It
6.30pm Doctor Who : The Power of Kroll : Part 2
6.55pm Film : Oliver! (1968)
9.15pm Starsky and Hutch
10.05pm News, Weather
10.15pm Match of the Day
11.15pm Parkinson
12.15am Weatherman

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Sunday 31st December 1978

BBC1

8.55am Mister Men
9.10am Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan
9.40am Buck Rogers
10.00am The Edinburgh Military Tattoo of 1978
11.00am TV Film : Well of Love (1970)
12.15pm Sunday Worship
1.00pm News Headlines, Weather
1.05pm That Was the Weather That Was....
1.20pm Bonanza
2.10pm Film : Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
3.05pm Soviet Supreme
3.55pm Film : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972) Première
5.30pm The Mill on the Floss
6.00pm News, Weather
6.10pm Holiday
6.40pm Songs of Praise
7.15pm Film : My Fair Lady (1964)
10.00pm News, Weatherman
10.10pm Larry Grayson's Generation Game
11.05pm The Good Old Days
12.00 Big Ben
12.01am Celebration

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 23rd December 1978

BBC2

11.50am Leonard Bernstein at Harvard
1.30pm Christmas Matinee
Film : Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
4.10pm The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
4.30pm Play Away
5.00pm Hansel and Gretel (opera)
6.45pm Christmas Past
7.15pm News and Sport, Weather
7.30pm Country Holiday
8.15pm Doug Henning's World of Magic
9.05pm News on 2, Weather
9.10pm Christmas with Mike Harding and the Fivepenny Piece
9.50pm The Magic Flute of James Galway
10.40pm Film : Fred and Ginger in Shall We Dance (1937)
12.25am Late Night Story

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1978

BBC2

12.15pm Leonard Bernstein at Harvard
The Unanswered Question
Continuing this series of six lectures given by Leonard Bernstein.
3: Musical Semantics

2.40pm Simple Faith ?

2.55pm Christmas Matinée : Custer of the West (1967)
starring Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Jeffrey Hunter, Ty Hardin

5.10pm Rugby Special
The South v Edinburgh

6.05pm The Light Princess
a fairy tale by George MacDonald

7.15pm The World About Us
The Spell of the Orchid

8.05pm Christmas Carols from Cambridge
sung by The Choir of King's College readings by Sir John Gielgud

9.00pm News on Two, Weather

9.05pm Petticoat Lane
a new musical for Christmas by Cicely Herbert and Jim Parker,
with Sheila Hancock, Freddie Jones and Alfred Marks

10.05pm The Old Grey Whistle Test
10cc in a special Christmas concert recorded earlier this week at the
Wembley Conference Centre.

11.00pm Fred and Ginger in : Follow the Fleet (1936)
starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

12.45am-
12.55am Closedown
Peter Wilson talks about Piero Della Francesco's The Nativity

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1978

BBC2

11.05am Play School
Story: The Fox and the Tomten

11.30am Closedown

2.30pm Sounds of Christmas
The Goldsmiths Choral Union at the Royal Albert Hall
in the presence of HRH The Princess Anne

3.20pm The Snow Queen
a fairytale for television

4.20pm Christmas Matinée : Dersu Uzala (1975)
Russian film with English subtitles Première

6.35pm Magoo on 2
Perils of Magoo

6.40pm Baker on Board
Richard Baker joins a Royal Navy Taskforce in the Pacific

7.15pm The Queen
speaks to the Commonwealth

7.35pm Anne Hughes
Her Boke, in wiche I Write what I Doe, When I Have thee Tyme
The Diary of an 18th Century Farmer's Wife, starring Elin Jenkins,
Barry Jackson and Joanne Pearce

8.35pm News on 2, Weather

8.45pm The Count of Luxembourg
by Lehár, an Austrian production, with Eberhard Wachter

10.20pm The King's Singers
traditional carols and music

10.50pm Fred and Ginger in : Swing Time (1936)
starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

12.30am Late Night Story
third of five horror stories on the theme of childhood.
Read by Tom Baker, tonight The Emissary by Ray Bradbury

12.50am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1978

BBC2

11.00am Play School
Story: The Pantomime

11.25am Closedown

1.45pm Christmas Matinée : Hatari! (1962)
starring John Wayne

4.20pm My Kind of Movie
Clive James chooses High Noon

4.25pm Home from the Sea
the Ark Royal's final return to Plymouth

4.55pm And Now the Good News...
Richard Stilgoe invites you to see again some of the highlights
from his recent series, in which he has been taking an optimistic
look at the news and events of the last two months of the year

5.20pm It's Today
musical entertainment from Derek Griffiths

6.00pm The Schools Prom
from the Royal Albert Hall

6.50pm News on 2 , Weather

7.00pm Verse, Worse and Baby Grand
music and humour

7.30pm TV Film : The Gathering (1977)
starring Edward Asner, Maureen Stapleton

9.00pm Hinge and Bracket
A Gala Evening from the Royal Hall at Harrogate
with Dr Evadne Hinge & Dame Hilda Bracket

9.45pm Don McLean and Friends in Concert
with The Jordanaires and Elkie Brooks

10.35pm Late News, Weather

10.40pm Fred and Ginger in : Carefree (1938)
starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

12.00 Late Night Story
The fourth of five horror stories on the theme of childhood.
Read by Tom Baker : Tonight, Nursery Tea by Mary Danby

12.20am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Wednesday 27th December 1978

BBC2

10.35am Gharbar
11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
3.55pm An Evening of Sport
7.35pm News on 2, Weather on 2
7.40pm Film : Ring of Passion (1973)
9.15pm An Evening of Sport
9.20pm Motor Racing: Grand Prix 78
10.10pm Snooker : The World Professional Snooker Championship
11.15pm Late News, Weather
11.25pm Film : Fred and Ginger in Top Hat (1935)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Thursday 28th December 1978

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
3.15pm The Tongues of Men
4.25pm The Craftsman
4.40pm The Tongues of Men (Part 2)
5.40pm The Three Kisses
6.45pm News on 2, Weather on 2
6.50pm When the Boat Comes In
7.40pm Midweek Cinema
Film : High Noon (1952)
9.00pm Plain Murder
10.40pm Late News, Weather
10.50pm TV Film : The Last Survivors (1975)
12.00 Late Night Story