Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1987
CHANNEL 4

9.25am Film : The Big Store (1941)
starring The Marx Brothers (B&W)

11.00am Kalhari - Wilderness Without Water(Repeat)

12.00 Dancin' Days
A Brazilian drama in an English Language version(Repeat)

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

2.45pm Animating Art
documentary (Repeat)

3.30pm Shorelines
lyrical documentary exploring the shorelines of Orkney

3.50pm The Old Man of Lochnagar
by David Wood based on the book by HRH the Prince of Wales

5.05pm Brookside(Repeat)

6.00pm A Ladies Knight!
with Sir Geraint Evans, an hour of musical favourites

7.00pm News Summary and Weather followed by
Andrès Segovia : The Song of the Guitar (Repeat)

8.00pm A Century of Stars
The story of the Grand Order of Water Rats (Repeat)

9.30pm A Fine Romance
with Judi Dench, Michael Williams

10.05pm Grand Illusions

11.15pm Lily Tomlin
documentary

12.55am The Decameron : Cross Purposes
animation

1.10am Film : The Tingler (1959)
starring Vincent Price

2.45am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

CHANNEL 4 Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1987

9.30am The Christmas Messenger
with Richard Chamberlain, a Canadian film combining animation and film sequences with Christmas Carols(Repeat)

10.00am The Story of Abba(Repeat)

10.50am Christmas Crackers
animation for children including the French film, The Little Snow Girl

11.00am Christmas Oratorio
by Johann Sebastian Bach(Repeat)

1.45pm Christmas Sermon : A Wink of Heaven
with Alan Dobie

2.10pm The Mysteries : The Nativity
adapted by Tony Harrison from the Medieval English Mystery Plays (Repeat)

4.30pm Countdown : The Final
with Richard Whiteley, Gyles Brandreth, Carol Thatcher

5.15pm The Queen

5.25pm Film : The Snowman (1982)
animation

6.00pm The Amadeus Quartet
featuring Norbert Brainin, Peter Schidlof, Siegmund Nissel, Martin Lovett

6.45pm News Summary and Weatherfollowed by
Film : Five Days One Summer (1982)
starring Sean Connery

8.50pm Everybody Say Yeah!
hosted by singer/songwriter Paul Simon, recorded at the First Presbyterian Church, Hollywood

10.00pm The Golden Girls
Dorothy's Prized Pupil

10.30pm The Last Resort ( The Least Embarassing Of!)
with Steve Nieve and the Playboys. Jonathan Ross's Christmas cracker

11.20pm Dire Straits Live in '85 at Wembley Arena(Repeat)

12.50am The Decameron
Theme and Variation

1.00am Film : Street of Crocodiles (1986)
puppet animation

1.25am Film : Wild Style (1983)
with Easy AD, AJ, Almighty KG, Patti Astor

3.00am Closedown

CHANNEL 4 Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1987

9.25am The Creation
Haydn's oratorio from the Old University in Vienna

11.50am Christmas Crackers
animation including the Canadian film Concerto Gross Modo

12.10pm Film : School for Vandals (1986)
with Jenni Barrand, Jeremy Coster, Samantha McMillan

1.50pm Just 4 Fun
Storybook Classics : The Emperor's Nightingale

2.35pm Christmas Star
animated Czech version of the Christmas Story

2.50pm Film : 42nd Street (1933)
starring Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels (B&W)

4.30pm Countdown

5.00pm Gymnastics
The Kraft International

6.00pm The Curious Case of Santa Claus
with James Coco, Jon Pertwee, Sabina Franklin(Repeat)

7.00pm News Summary and Weatherfollowed by
Twice Knightly : The Barron Knights (Repeat)

8.00pm Opera on Four : La Cenerentola
Rossini's opera

10.45pm The Comic Strip Presents . . . Consuela
with Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Peter Richardson

11.30pm Film : King of Jazz (1930)
starring Paul Whiteman, John Boles, Bing Crosby (shot in two-colour Technicolor)

1.20am The Decameron Beauty of Bologna
animated tale for adults

1.35am The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer
a homage to the surrealist world of the Czech animator

1.50am Tadada : Peter Brook's Parts Cabaret
a bubbly evening of festive cabaret songs(Repeat)

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1987

9.25am The Creation
Haydn's oratorio from the Old University in Vienna

11.50am Christmas Crackers
animation including the Canadian film Concerto Gross Modo

12.10pm Film : School for Vandals (1986)
with Jenni Barrand, Jeremy Coster, Samantha McMillan

1.50pm Just 4 Fun
Storybook Classics : The Emperor's Nightingale

2.35pm Christmas Star
animated Czech version of the Christmas Story

2.50pm Film : 42nd Street (1933)
starring Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels (B&W)

4.30pm Countdown

5.00pm Gymnastics
The Kraft International

6.00pm The Curious Case of Santa Claus
with James Coco, Jon Pertwee, Sabina Franklin(Repeat)

7.00pm News Summary and Weatherfollowed by
Twice Knightly : The Barron Knights (Repeat)

8.00pm Opera on Four : La Cenerentola
Rossini's opera

10.45pm The Comic Strip Presents . . . Consuela
with Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Peter Richardson

11.30pm Film : King of Jazz (1930)
starring Paul Whiteman, John Boles, Bing Crosby (shot in two-colour Technicolor)

1.20am The Decameron Beauty of Bologna
animated tale for adults

1.35am The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer
a homage to the surrealist world of the Czech animator

1.50am Tadada : Peter Brook's Parts Cabaret
a bubbly evening of festive cabaret songs(Repeat)

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Re: Christmas TV

CHANNEL 4 Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1986
9.30am Film : A Swarm in May (1983)
starring Oliver Hicks, Jack May

11.00am Theresa at the Palace

12.35pm Santa's Pocket Watch
a Christmas cartoon

1.00pm Channel 4 Racing
from Kempton Park 1.10, 1.40, 2.15 & 2.45 races

3.00pm Tennis
The Davis Cup Final : Australia v Sweden

5.00pm The Queen and Her Ceremonial Horses
The Story of the Royal Mews

6.00pm The Pleasure Gardens - Vauxhall Revsited
with Reri Grist, Donald Grobe

7.05pm News Summary and Weather followed by
Stairs
a programme taking a light-hearted look at the role of stairs in the movies, in life and also in our dreams

7.35pm The Works
starring Glenn Sherwood

9.00pm L'Heure Espagnole
opera

10.00pm Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey
with Matt Frewer, Dave Edmunds, Bob Geldof, Tina Turner

10.45pm The Weavers : Wasn't That a Time ?

12.05am Film : It Came From Outer Space (1953)
starring Kathleen Hughes, Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush

1.35am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

CHANNEL 4

Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1986

10.00am The Gingerbread Man
Children's Christmas Playhouse

11.45am Film : The Nightingale
Hans Christian Andersen fairytale

12.25pm A Lakeland Overture
Christmas Concert from St Andrew's Church, Penrith introduced by Melvynn Bragg

1.25pm Film : Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Olsen and Johnson

3.00pm Glorianna
opera with Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson

5.40pm The Queen

5.50pm Film : The Snowman (1982)
animation

6.20pm Hallaig
the Poetry and Landscape of Sorley MacLean

7.20pm News Summary and Weather followed by
Vladimir Horowitz - the Last Romantic

9.00pm The Importance of Being Earnest
starring Wendy Hiller

11.10pm Eric Clapton and Friends
at the Birmingham NEC

12.10am Rejoice

12.40am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1986
CHANNEL 4

11.00am Film : Cammina, Cammina (1983)
(Keep Walking)

1.40pm Cartoon Carnival
Ray Alan and Lord Charles introduce some Christmas cartoons

2.00pm Pob's Christmas Special
Su Pollard

2.30pm Stacking in the Sky
Leo Dickinson's Adventures With a Camera

3.30pm Film : The Strong Man (1926)
starring Harry Langdon
A restored version of the silent film tinted by David Gill & Kevin Brownlow with a new musical score by Carl Davis.

5.00pm Gymnastics
The Kraft International from Wembley Arena

6.00pm Carols for Christmas
a traditional carol concert featuring Aled Jones

7.00pm News Summary and Weather followed by
Film : Holiday Inn (1942)
starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds

9.00pm Dame Peggy
A Portrait of Peggy Ashcroft

10.45pm St Nicolas Cantata Op 42
by Benjamin Britten

11.45pm Blue Suede Shoes
with Carl Perkins, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds, Geraint Watkins, The Stray Cats(Repeat)

12.45am Film : Mad Love (1935)
starring Peter Lorre, Frances Drake (B&W)

2.00am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1986

ITV LONDON

7.00am WACADAY Special
presented by Timmy Mallett and Michaela Strachan

9.25am Rainbow Christmas Special

9.50am Emu at Christmas
with Rod Hull

10.30am Disney at Christmas : Film : Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
starring Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasance

12.15pm Athletics '86
highlights show

1.20pm ITN News

1.25pm The Royal Day
Alastair Burnet presents highlights of this year's Royal Wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson

2.10pm Disney at Christmas : Film : 20000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)
starring Kirk Douglas and James Mason

4.30pm Name That Tune Special
presented by Lionel Blair, with Maggie Moone, Angela Rippon and Mike Read

5.00pm ITN News and Sport

5.15pm The James Bond Film : The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
starring Roger Moore

7.30pm Fire and Ice
a Torvill and Dean spectacular, with music by Carl Davis

8.30pm A Christmas Night of One Hundred Stars
from the London Palladium, in aid of Help the Aged
(9.45pm-10.00pm News)

11.15pm Movie Première : Airplane II- The Sequel (1982)
starring Robert Hays

12.50am Christmas Night Thoughts

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

12.50am Music Box- Simon Potter's Show

1.00am Power Hour

2.00am Boogie Box

3.00am Off the Wall

4.00am Private Eyes

5.00am The Shadow

6.00am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1986

ITV HTV

6.15am TV-am
featuring
Mask
6.35am Flipper
6.55am Transformers.
7.00am Good Morning Britain
with Anne Diamond, Mike Morris, Richard Keys, Gordon Honeycombe,Jimmy Greaves, Wincey Willis, Lizzie Webb, Russel Grant

9.25am Disney at Christmas : Father Noah's Ark
followed by
Film : Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968)
animation

10.00am The Christmas Morning Service
family Mass from Church of St Francis of Assisi, Pottery Lane, London

11.00am He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special (Repeat)

11:40am Disney at Christmas, Film : Swiss Family Robinson (1959)
starring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire

2.00pm Ark Royal - The Rock Show
with Paul Young, Alison Moyet, Bob Geldof, Cyndi Lauper, The Pretenders, Go West

3.00pm The Queen

3.10pm Disney at Christmas, Film : Dumbo (1941)Première

4.20pm Strike It Lucky
with Michael Barrymore

4.55pm ITN News

5.00pm Cinderella
pantomime, starring Danny La Rue, Roy Kinnear, Cheryl Baker, Jimmy Cricket, Michael Howe, Brian Murphy, Roy Hudd

6.30pm The James Bond Première : Film : Never Say Never Again (1983)
starring Sean Connery

9.00pm A Duty Free Christmas
starring Keith Barron, Gwen Taylor

10.00pm ITN News

10.10pm MoviePremière : Agatha Christie's Dead Man's Folly (1986)
starring Peter Ustinov, Jean Stapleton, Constance Cummings

12.00 Silent Night
with José Carreras
(ITV TSW : Road to Trenarren)

12.35am Weather and Close

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1986

ITV LONDON

6.15am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
presented by Anne Diamond and Mike Morris,
includes news read by Gordon Honeycombe ,weather forecasts with Wincey Willis, sport with Richard Keys. Money Matters with Brian Milton,
Lizzie Webb, exercise and a Popeye cartoon. Gyles Brandreth with Video Report

9.00am Wacaday
with Timmy Mallett

9.25am Thames Newsfollowed by
Tickle on the Tum- Christmas Special
with Ralph McTell, Jacqueline Reddin

9.50am Chorlton and the Ice World(Repeat)

10.25am Film : Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
starring Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse & Christopher Lloyd

12.05pm The Bestest Present
animation

12.30pm A Child This Day
how 3 Catholic diocese are supporting family life

1.00pm News at One

1.20pm Thames News

1.30pm Disney at Christmas : Film : Rob Roy- the Highland Rogue (1953)
starring Richard Todd, Glynis Johns & James Robertson Justice

3.00pm Disney: The Night Before Christmas
cartoon (Repeat)

3.10pm Pass the Buck Celebrity Special
with Simon Williams, Lucy Fleming, Dennis Waterman and Rula Lenska, presented by George Layton

3.40pm Thames News

3.45pm Jambo- the Gentle Giant
how a gorilla protected a child that fell into a compound at Jersey Zoo

4.15pm Supergran
with Gudrun Ure, Iain Cuthbertson, Paul Shane and Anna Dawson

5.15pm Blockbusters

5.45pm News at 5.45

6.00pm Thames News

6.25pm Help!
Viv Taylor Gee with news of a 24 hour advice line

6.35pm Crossroads

7.00pm This Is Your Life
presented by Eamonn Andrews

7.30pm Coronation Street

8.00pm Jim Davidson in Germany- Special
with Diane Solomon and Richard Digance

9.00pm Movie Première : Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry (1955)
starring Shirley MacLaine and John Forsythe

10.45pm News

11.00pm Fresh Fields Special
A Dickens of a Christmas with Julia McKenzie, Anton Rodgers(Repeat)

11.45pm Christmas Eve Service of Communion
from St Cuthbert's Church of Scotland, Princes Street, Edinburgh

12.30am Film : The Big Sleep (1978)
starring Robert Mitchum and Sarah Miles

2.15am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

1.20pm Calendar News(until 1.30)

6.00pm Calendar (until 6.35)

12.30am Music Box

1.00am Amanda Reddington Show

2.00am Nino Show

3.00am Martin Buchanan Show

4.00am Simon Potter Show

5.00am The Shadow

6.00am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Wednesday 31st December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
10.40am Harold Lloyd
11.05am Running Wild
11.55am Film : The Minnelli Musical - An American in Paris (1951)
1.45pm The Story of Afanti
2.15pm The Bolshoi in the Park
4.35pm News and Weather
4.45pm The David Lean Film : Hobson's Choice (1954)
6.30pm Ludwig van Beethoven
7.00pm 86 Whistle Test 87
7.05pm The Police Synchronicity Concert
7.50pm Africa Tomorrow
8.35pm Double Bill
Rendez-Vous Houston - Jean-Michel Jarre
9.30pm Whistle Test : Pick of the Year (Part One)
9.50pm Double Bill
The Prince's Trust Birthday Party Concert
11.35pm 86 Into 87 With Kim Wilde
12.10am Whistle Test : Pick of the Year (Part Two)
12.30am Ziggy Stardust andThe Spiders from Mars

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Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 30th December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
10.40am Harold Lloyd
11.05am Blazing Paddles
11.55am Film : The Minnelli Musical - Brigadoon (1954)
1.40pm Little Nehza Fights Great Dragon Kings
2.40pm The West That Never Was
3.40pm News and Weather
3.50pm The David Lean Film : Brief Encounter (1945)
5.15pm Whose House Is itAnyway?
6.00pm Star Trek
6.50pm The Romance of Betty Boop
7.15pm Ski-Jumping
7.45pm Cricket: Fourth Test
8.10pm Son of a Gun
9.00pm Film : Blazing Saddles (1974)
10.30pm McCartney
11.30pm Classic Ghost Stories
11.45pm Weatherview


*** Moved from BBC One
11.50pm Movie Classics
Film : Forbidden Planet (1956)

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Re: Christmas TV

Monday 29th December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
10.00am Songs of Praise
10.40am Harold Lloyd
11.05am Jaws - The True Story
11.55am Film : The Minnelli Musical - Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
1.40pm Fifty Not Out - BBC Television Sport 1936-1986
3.40pm News and Weather
3.50pm The David Lean Film : Bridge on theRiver Kwai (1957)
6.25pm The Big Snit
6.35pm Cricket : Fourth Test
Australia v England
7.00pm Film : Bugsy Malone (1976)
8.30pm Just Another Day
9.00pm Film : Billy Wilder Directs - Buddy Buddy (1981) Première
10.35pm Judy Garland: The Concert Years
11.50pm Classic Ghost Stories
Oh, Whistle, and I Come to you, my Lad
12.05am Weatherview

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Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 28th December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
10.00am Film : The Water Babies (1978)
11.30am The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
11.55am Windmill
12.55pm No Limits
1.55pm Oh Yes I Am....Oh No You're Not
2.50pm Music in Camera
3.20pm Thinking Aloud
4.00pm TV Film : The Pyrates (1986)
5.25pm Testament to the Bushmen
6.15pm Tomorrow's World 21st Birthday Special
7.15pm Madama Butterfly
9.45pm Film : Sophie's Choice (1982) Première
12.10am Cricket: Fourth Test
Australia v England
12.35am Classic Ghost Stories : The Wailing Well

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 27th December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
11.45am Popeye Meets Ali Baba and His 40 Thieves
12.00 The David Lean Film : Great Expectations (1946)
1.55pm The Sky at Night
2.15pm The David Lean Film : This Happy Breed (1944)
4.05pm The David Lean Film : In Which We Serve (1942)
5.55pm Testament to the Bushmen
6.45pm Travellers in Time
7.25pm News and Sport
Weather
7.45pm A Walk Through the Thirties
8.10pm Cricket: Fourth Test
Australia v England
8.35pm Swallows
9.55pm Ludwig van Beethoven
10.15pm All Passion Spent
11.10pm Comic Relief

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Ceefax

12.25am Popeye the Sailor cartoon

12.45am Film : Gulliver's Travels (1977)
animation

2.00pm Tchaikovsky Competition 1986
from Moscow

3.20pm Surfers Do It Standing Up
Newquay at the time of the World Championships

4.00pm Film : The Band Wagon (1953)
starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse

5.50pm The Most Swirling, Swinging, Sliding, Spinning, Up-and-Down
Ride of Your Life
the thrills of the rollercoaster

6.20pm Choir of the Year 1986
second semi-final from Buxton Opera House

7.00pm Cricket: Fourth Test
day 1 from Melbourne

7.25pm Laurens van der Post at 80

8.30pm Onegin
a ballet by John Cranko to Tchaikovsky's music danced by the
National Ballet of Canada

10.05pm Film : Some Like It Hot (1959)
starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon

12.00 Classic Ghost Stories : The Ash Tree
told by Robert Powell

12.15am Weather