Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1986

BBC2

12:20pm The Minnelli Musical
Film : The Pirate (1948)
starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly
With its 19th-century Caribbean island setting, sumptuous
costumes and Cole Porter songs, including 'Be a clown' and
'Love of my life', The Pirate has long been acclaimed as one of
Minnelli's most original works and as a great Hollywood musical

2:00pm The Christmas Day Concert
Live from Amsterdam
This year's traditional concert from the Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam consists of Symphony No 5 by Gustav Mahler
with Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra conductor Bernard Haitink

3:20pm Film : Hoppity Goes to Town (1941)
The classic animated feature film
Just 45 inches from Broadway, in a weedy patch of earth
surrounded by the cement-and-steel world created by the
menace they fear most - the human race - lives a community
of little people called insects. The construction of a huge skyscraper
threatens the bug community and Hoppity the grasshopper goes
out into the world to seek a Shangri-La

4:35pm Comic Roots
This film is being shown again as a tribute to
Billy Dainty who died last month aged 59

5.05pm The Queen
HM The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth. With open
subtitles and sign-language interpretation for people who
are deaf or hard-of-hearing

5:15pm Film : Billy Wilder Directs - The Fortune Cookie (1966)
starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
When TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming
a football match his wily brother-in-law sees a golden
opportunity to sue for a million dollars in damages

7:20pm Aaron Copland : A Self Portrait
A celebration of America's greatest living composer, made as
a tribute on his 85th birthday

8:20pm Film : Edith and Marcel (1983)
starring Evelyne Bouix, Marcel Cerdan Jr, Jean-Claude Brialy
Edith Piaf and world middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan
were the idols of France in the 1940s, and their passionate, destructive
obsession with each other was an open secret. Claude Lelouch 's musical
film version of two parallel love stories is highlighted by songs recorded
by Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour , who re-creates his role in Piafs life.
Boxer Marcel Cerdan Jr plays his own father.
(A French film with English subtitles)
Première

10:55pm Classic Ghost Stories
Five chilling tales for dark winter nights, told by Robert Powell
Tonight: The Mezzotint

11:10pm Film : Billy Wilder Directs - Fedora (1978)
starring William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, Jose Ferrer
Stephen Collins, Michael York, Henry Fonda
The fabulous, enigmatic film star Fedora has committed suicide.
At her lavish lying-in-state in Paris, Hollywood producer Barry
Detweiler recalls how, two weeks before, he had travelled to Corfu
in a desperate bid to lure the beautiful actress out of retirement

1:00am Weatherview

1:10am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Ceefax

12.50pm Silent Classics
Film : Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1920)
starring John Barrymore
This first great American horror film is presented
in a newly tinted version with an organ soundtrack (b&w)

1.50pm Names and Games
four teams of celebrities compete for the Butlins Trophy, presented by
Lennie Bennett and Kathy Taylor, from Somerwest World, Minehead

2.40pm Horowitz in Moscow
a documentary by John Tusa that includes a concert of
works by Scriabin, Rachmaniniv, Mozart, Scarlatti, Schubert,
Liszt and Chopin

4.35pm News , Regional News and Weather

4.45pm Film : The Seven Year Itch (1955)
starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell
Wilder's comic movie established Marilyn in her role as
'sex symbol' and as a major star

6.35pm International Snooker
David Vine presents highlights of the 1986 Embassy
World Professional Snooker Championship

8.00pm Kiri Te Kanawa at Christmas
Kiri Te Kanawa presents a special programme of seasonal
music, both classical and contemporary

9.00pm Season's Greetings
by Alan Ayckbourn with Anna Massey, Nicky Henson, Geoffrey Palmer,
Peter Vaughan and Barbara Flynn
The family have gathered for their traditional merry
Christmas. But like many family Christmasses,
it doesn't go quite as they would have wished ...

10.50pm Harty's Christmas Party
at GiggleswickIan Botham, Ken Livingstone, Sue Lawley,
Ned Sherrin and Fred Trueman

11.45pm The Minnelli Musical
Film : Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
starring Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien

1.35am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 23rd December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
12.25pm Gharbar
12.50pm Silent Classics
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
2.05pm The Adventuresof Afanti
3.20pm Twist the Cat's Whisker
3.50pm News and Weather
4.00pm Film : Anna Neagle in Yellow Canary (1943)
5.35pm Greg Norman's Golfing Year
6.25pm Film : That Touch of Mink (1962)
8.00pm Herrag - The Herring Gull
9.00pm Moonlighting
9.40pm All Passion Spent
10.35pm Pavarotti's Jubilee
12.30am Weatherview

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Re: Christmas TV

Monday 22nd December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
10.20am The Week in the Lords
11.00am Songs of Praise
12.00 Silent Classics
Film : The Mark of Zorro (1920)
1.25pm See Hear!Christmas Special
2.15pm Film : Peter No-Tail (1981)
3.40pm News and Weather
3.50pm Film : Anna Neagle in They Flew Alone (1942)
5.30pm Domesday Detectives
6.00pm No Limits
7.00pm Film : Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979) Première
9.00pm Cool It
9.30pm The Oldest Goose in the Business
10.30pm The American Film Institute Salute to Billy Wilder
11.40pm Weatherview

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Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 21st December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
10.00am Dastardly and Muttley
10.10am The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
10.30am Blue Peter
11.20am The Childrenof Green Knowe
11.50am Windmill
12.50pm No Limits
1.40pm Rugby Special
2.20pm The Week in the Lords
3.00pm Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
4.10pm BBC Design Awards
5.10pm Music in Camera
5.55pm Thinking Aloud
6.35pm Ski Sunday
7.15pm The Natural World
7.55pm Andre Previn and Gene Kelly
8.35pm The Minnelli Musical
8.50pm James Galway's Christmas Carol
9.45pm Did You See... ?
10.25pm The Great American Picture Show
Film : All That Jazz (1979) Première

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Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 20th December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
11.00am Carols for Christmas.
11.50am Film : 2001 : A Space Odyssey (1968)
2.05pm Harold Lloyd'sWorld of Comedy
3.40pm Film : Anna Neagle in Piccadilly Incident (1946)
5.20pm Sounds of Christmas
6.10pm International Bridge Club
6.40pm Cameo
6.50pm NewsView, Weather
7.30pm Oberon
9.50pm All Passion Spent
10.45pm The Film Club : The Wages of Fear (1953)

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Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Wednesday 31st December 1986

BBC1

6.30am Ceefax AM
7.00am News and Weather
7.15am The Flintstones
7.40am The Pink Panther Show
8.00am News and Weather
8.15am Misterjaw Supershark
8.20am The Monkees
8.45am Bottles
8.55am Regional News and Weather
9.00am News and Weather
9.05am Play Chess
9.15am Dungeons and Dragons
9.35am Why Don't You...?.
10.00am News and Weather
10.05am Neighbours
10.25am Children's BBC
10.30am Play School
10.50am Henry's Cat
10.55am Five to Eleven
11.00am News and Weather
11.05am Fame
11.55am Open Air
12.55pm Regional News andWeather
1.00pm One O'Clock News
1.25pm Neighbours
1.45pm Bertha
2.00pm Film : Young Winston (1972)
4.20pm Film : The Camel Boy (1984) Première
5.25pm World Superdance
6.00pm Six O'Clock News
Weather
6.15pm Regional News
6.25pm Every Second Counts
7.00pm The World's Strongest Man
8.00pm Dallas
8.50pm The Main News
Regional News, Weather
9.00pm Dave Allen
9.50pm Day After the Fair
11.25pm Wogan
12.05am Happy New Year
12.10am Film : Gigi (1958)
2.05am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 30th December 1986

BBC1

6.30am Ceefax AM
7.00am News and Weather Regional
7.15am The Flintstones
7.40am The Pink Panther Show
8.00am News and Weather Regional
8.15am Misterjaw Supershark
8.20am The Monkees
8.45am Poor Little Me
8.55am Regional News and Weather
9.00am News and Weather
9.05am Play Chess
9.15am Dungeons and Dragons
9.35am Why Don't You...?
10.00am News and Weather
10.05am Neighbours
10.25am Children's BBC
10.30am Play School
10.50am Willo the Wisp
10.55am Five to Eleven
11.00am News and Weather
11.05am The Dukes of Hazzard
11.55am Open Air
12.55pm Regional News and Weather
1.00pm One O'Clock News
1.25pm Neighbours
1.50pm Pigeon Street
2.05pm Film : The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
3.30pm Tom and Jerry
3.50pm Panto-time!
4.05pm The All New Popeye Show
4.25pm Jonny Briggs
4.40pm The Really Wild Show
5.10pm Grange Hill
5.35pm It's Not Just Zammo : A Newsround Drugwatch special
6.00pm Six O'Clock News
6.30pm Regional news magazines
7.00pm No Place Like Home
7.30pm EastEnders
8.00pm Ernie Wise introduces the Morecambe and Wise Classics
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News
9.30pm Slip-up*
11.05pm Films of the Year**
11.45pm Movie Classics
Film : Forbidden Planet (1956)***
1.25am Weather

Due to the death of former Prime Minister Harold MacMillan programmes were changed to the following

*9.30pm Harold MacMillan 1894-1986
*10.20pm Mr & Mrs Edgehill
**11.40pm Films of the Year
12.20am The New Year's Honours

***Film : Forbidden Planet (1956) was moved to BBC Two at 11:50pm

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Monday 29th December 1986

BBC1

6.30am Ceefax AM
7.00am News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
7.15am The Flintstones
7.40am The Pink Panther Show
8.00am News and Weather
8.15am Misterjaw Supershark
8.20am The Monkees
8.45am Goldilocks and the Three Bears
8.55am Regional News and Weather
9.00am News and Weather
9.05am Play Chess
9.15am Dungeons and Dragons
9.35am Why Don't You...?
10.00am News and Weather
10.05am Neighbours
10.25am Children's BBC
10.30am Play School
10.50am Willo the Wisp
10.55am Five to Eleven
11.00am News and Weather
11.05am The Dukes of Hazzard
11.55am Open Air
12.55pm Regional News and Weather
1.00pm One O'Clock News
1.25pm Neighbours
1.50pm Bertha
2.05pm Film : Shipwreck! (1978)
3.50pm Henry's Cat
4.05pm Wizbit
4.15pm The Mysterious Cities of Gold
4.45pm Jonny Briggs
5.00pm Blue Peter Review of the Year
5.30pm Rolf Harris Cartoon Time
6.00pm Six O'Clock News
Weather
6.35pm Regional news magazines
7.00pm Wogan
7.35pm The Golden Oldie Picture Show
8.00pm Terry and June
8.30pm Three Up, Two Down
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News
Regional News, Weather
9.30pm Stanley Baxter's Picture Annual
10.25pm 1986: Review of the Year : A Newsnight special
11.45pm Movie Classics
Film : My Darling Clementine (1946)
1.25pm Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 28th December 1986

BBC1

8.55am Play School
9.15am Umbrella
9.30am This Is the Day
10.00am Asian Magazine
10.30am Carnival of the Animals
10.55am Film : Two-Way Stretch (1960)
12.25pm Film : Carry On Jack (1963)
1.55pm News Headlines
1.58pm Weather for farmers
2.00pm EastEnders Omnibus
3.30pm The Great Safari Bird Rally
4.00pm Aled Jones and Friends
4.40pm Film : The Railway Children (1970)
6.25pm News, Weather
6.35pm Songs of Praise
7.15pm Last of the Summer Wine : Merry Christmas Father Christmas
7.50pm Film : Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (1982) Première
9.45pm News, Weather
10.00pm New World
12.10am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 27th December 1986

BBC1

8.30am Family-Ness
8.35am The Muppet Babies
9.00am Saturday Superstore
10.45am Film : tom thumb (1958)
12.15pm Grandstand
5.05pm News, Weather
5.15pm Sport/Regional News
5.20pm Bob's Christmas Full House
5.55pm Film : Escape to Athena (1979)
7.50pm Hi-de-Hi!
8.35pm The Paul Daniels Magic Christmas Show
9.25pm Casualty
10.15pm News and Sport
Weather
10.30pm Film : The Italian Job (1969)
12.05am Movie Classics
Film : Dr Strangelove (1964)
1.40am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1986

BBC1

8.00am Ceefax

8.35am Play School

8.55am The Muppet Babies

9.20am It's Your Move

9.45am Take Two Christmas Special

10.30am Film : Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
starring Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes

12.45pm Junior Kick Start
the final

1.15pm News with Jan Leeming Weather

1.30pm Film : The Guns of Navarone (1961)
starring Gregory Peck

4.00pm Disney Time

4.45pm Final Score

5.05pm Blankety Blank
with Les Dawson and Lynda Baron, Frank Carson,
Samantha Fox, Little and Large and Wendy Richard

5.40pm Barnum
starring Michael Crawford
including 6.50-7.00pm News ; Weather

7.45pm 'Allo 'Allo

8.30pm Bergerac

10.00pm News with Jan Leeming Weather

10.15pm Film : The Verdict (1982)
starring Paul Newman

12.20am Film : The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan

2.00am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1986

BBC1

8:00am Play School
Presented by Stuart Bradley & Elizabeth Watts
Story: The Nativity

8:20am The Muppet Babies
The Great Cookie Robbery
Gonzo wrestles with his conscience when he eats a
whole box of biscuits that he was meant to share

8:45am Roland Rat - The Series Christmas Special
Yes ratfans, it's time to put on your party hat and boogie
on down to the Ratcave where Kevin the gerbil, Errol the
hamster, Fergie the ferret and all the gang celebrate in style

9:10am Papa Panov's Special Day
Alan Rothwell tells the story of shoemaker Papa Panov

9:25am This is the Day
Unto Us a Child is Born - linking together the viewing
community Linda Mary Evans joins patients and staff
on Ward 76 at Bristol Maternity Hospital

9:55am Weather
John Kettley

10:00am Film : The Pure Hell of St Trinians (1960)
starring Cecil Parker, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell
Their latest trick is their best ever - the girls of St Trinian's
have burned down their school and are on trial at the Old Bailey.
With the girls under lock and key, the authorities can relax -
but for how long?

11:30am Christmas Morning with Noel
From the top of the British Telecom tower high above London.
Noel Edmonds presents a live outside broadcast uniting
families and friends throughout the United Kingdom

1:25pm Every Second Counts
presented by Paul Daniels

2:00pm The Top of the Pops Christmas Party
In this special Christmas Day edition Simon Bates,
Gary Davies, Janice Long and Peter Powell present
the most popular hits of 1986.
Also appearing The Pet Shop Boys, Billy Ocean,
Doctor and the Medics, Chris de Burgh and Boris Gardiner.
and featuring the year's No 1's on video

3:00pm The Queen
HM The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth

3:10pm Film : Annie, the Musical (1981)
starring Albert Finney Carol Burnett and Aileen Quinn as
Annie Little orphan Annie is a survivor at 10 years old;
she needs to be, when all there is to look forward to is
'Maybe' and 'Tomorrow'. But luck comes Annie's way and
she is adopted - albeit temporarily - into the safe-keeping
of millionaire Daddy Warbucks
Première

5:15pm News with Jan Leeming and Weather, John Kettley

5:25pm Russ Abbot Christmas Show
starring Russ Abbott. Special guest star Les Dennis
featuring Bella Emberg, Maggie Moone, Tom Bright
Suzy Aitchison, Gordon Kennedy

6:00pm Just Good Friends
starring Paul Nicholas and Jan Francis

6:35pm EastEnders (Part 1)
"Nothing can go wrong, Den. I want this to be the best
Christmas we've ever had at the Vic..."

7:05pm Only Fools and Horses
starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Buster Merryfield
In this special edition for Christmas, Del's plan is upset by
the upper set

8:25pm Miss Marple : The Murder at the Vicarage
starring Paul Eddington, Cheryl Campbell, Robert Lang, Polly Adams.

10:00pm EastEnders (Part 2)
'They should bring back hanging for people like Den Watts. ...'

10:30pm News with Jan Leeming and Weather

10:40pm Film : Educating Rita (1983)
starring Michael Caine Julie Walters
Rita White is 26 years old, married and a hairdresser.
Her husband's main preoccupations are drinking in smoky
pubs and trying to get Rita pregnant. She, however, has other ideas
Première

12:30am Weather

12:35am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1986

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM

6.30am News
followed by
The Flintstones
Nothing But the Tooth

6.55am Weather

7.00am Breakfast Time
with Frank Bough and Jeremy Paxman

8.55am Regional News and Weather

9.00am News and Weather

9.05am Paddington
Christmas, narrated by Michael Hordern

9.10am Play Chess
the bishop with Bill Hartston

9.20am Babar and Father Christmas
It is Christmas time in the land of the elephants.
Babar wants to persuade Father Christmas to
visit his kingdom, and sets off to find him.
However, Rataxes the rhinoceros is determined
to reach Father Christmas and thwart Babar's plans

9.45am Jackanory : London Snow
part 2 of Paul Theroux's tale, with Elizabeth Spriggs

10.00am News and Weather

10.05am Neighbours

10.25am Children's CBBC
Phillip Schofield with birthdays and programme news

10.30am Play School
with Stuart Bradley and Elizabeth Watts

10.50am Henry's Cat
The Christmas Dinner

10.55am Five to Eleven
with Joanna Lumley

11.00am News and Weather

11.05am Keith and Orville's Christmas Circus
starring Keith Harris with Orville, Cuddles and Dippy
and special guest star Dana also featuring
Eli Woods , Ronnie Brody, Los Martinos,
Robbie Barnett and the Circus Dancers

11.45am Cartoon
The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

11.55am Junior Kick Start
The final heat of BBCtv's junior motorcycling competition
when six more riders aged up to 14 compete for the
Norwich Union trophy. The competitors, who have all
qualified via regional events, attempt to master a challenging
course at Easton Neston in Northamptonshire

12.20pm A Song for Christmas
Last of three programmes.
Elaine Page is the star guest in the climax of this year's
Children's Christmas Carol competition presented by
Phillip Schofield

12.55pm Regional News and Weather

1.00pm One O'Clock News
with Martyn Lewis
Weather : John Kettley

1.25pm Neighbours
Jim is furious with Nick.
Des gets a disappointment at work

1.50pm Little Misses
Little Miss Tiny
Narrated by Pauline Collins and John Alderton

2.00pm Rolf Harris Cartoon Time
A special seasonal edition featuring three classic
Christmas cartoons: Bedtime for Sniffles
Mister and Mistletoe and The Night Before Christmas

2.25pm Film : The Wizard of Oz (1939)
starring Judy Garland with Frank Morgan Ray Bolger
Bert Lahr , Jack Haley Follow the yellow brick road to
the wonderful world of Oz. There you'll join the Tin Man,
the vulnerable Scarecrow and the cowardly Lion. Plus,
of course, the enchanting Dorothy, as the foursome battle
with the Wicked Witch of the West

4.05pm Daffy Duck
Daffy Duck Hunt
The Iceman Ducketh

4.20pm The Box of Delights
Last of three episodes
Fire and Flood
The power and magic of the box allows Kay to travel back
in time. But he who dares to go must face terrible dangers

5.20pm Jim'll Fix It
Dear Jim,
Please can I ...
Collect the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree?
Run a baby clinic?
Find Aladdin's lamp?
Be a Christmas parcel?
Jimmy Savile makes these and other dreams come
true in this special Christmas edition

6.00pm News with Andrew Harvey
Weather, Bill Giles

6.15pm Regional News

6.20pm Film : Mr Mum (1983)
starring
Michael Keaton, Teri Garr
Jack Butler is the traditional sort of husband and father -
and happy with his lot as breadwinner to his wife, Caroline,
and three young kids. But when he gets fired and she takes
a job, Jack finds his life is turned upside down

7.50pm Childwatch Update
Esther Rantzen presents an update on Childwatch,
the programme which examined cruelty to children and
launched ChildLine last October

8.00pm The Two Ronnies
starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett in a special
Christmas programme of sketches, jokes and songs
Special guest Elaine Paige and Patrick Troughton

9.00pm Nine O'Clock Newswith Andrew Harvey
Weather

9.20pm Dallas
Proof Positive
Not even the Oil Baron's Ball can bring peace and goodwill
to Dallas, as Parmalee makes his move, and the foundations
of Ewing Oil begin to shake

10.10pm Wogan
with Larry Hagman and Linda Gray

10.45pm Christmas Eve with Val Doonican
Val, at home and in the studio, prepares for a traditional
Christmas with music and fun to start the holiday in a
relaxing mood with his guests, including snooker star
Dennis Taylor and Scots percussion virtuoso Evelyn Glennie

11.30pm The First Mass of Christmas
from Clifton Cathedral, Bristol

12.35am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 23rd December 1986

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM
6.30am The Flintstones
News Headlines
6.55am Weather
7.00am Breakfast Time
8.40am Watchdog
8.55am Regional News and Weather
9.00am News and Weather
9.05am Paddington
9.10am Play Chess
9.20am A Charlie Brown Christmas
9.45am London Snow
10.00am News and Weather
10.05am Neighbours
10.25am Children's BBC
10.30am Play School
10.50am Willo the Wisp
10.55am Five to Eleven
11.00am News and Weather
11.05am The Dukes of Hazzard
11.55am Junior Kick Start
12.20pm A Song for Christmas
12.55pm Regional News andWeather
1.00pm One O'Clock News
1.25pm Neighbours
1.50pm Pigeon Street
2.05pm Film : The Jungle Book (1942)
3.50pm Jimbo and the Jet Set
4.00pm Panto-time! Aladdin
4.10pm Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper
4.35pm Grange Hill
5.00pm The Box of Delights
6.00pm Six O'clock News, Weather
6.35pm Regional news magazines
7.00pm Telly Addicts
7.30pm EastEnders
8.00pm A Question of Sport
8.30pm Kenny's Christmas Cracker
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News
Regional News, Weather
9.30pm In Sickness and in Health
10.00pm Movie Classics
Film : North by Northwest (1959)
12.15am Weather