Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

Monday 22nd December 1986

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM
6.30am News Headlines
followed by
The Flintstones
6.55am Weather
7.00am Breakfast Time
8.40am Watchdog
8.55am Regional News andWeather
9.00am News and Weather
9.05am Yogi Bear
9.10am Play Chess
9.20am Wacky Races
9.30am Alice in Wonderland
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
Weather
1.25pm Neighbours
1.50pm Bertha
2.05pm Film : One Million Years BC (19)
3.40pm Cartoon
3.50pm Henry's Cat
4.10pm SuperTed
4.15pm Odysseus the Greatest Hero of Them All : The Showdown
4.30pm Blue Peter
5.00pm The Box of Delights
6.00pm Six O'Clock News
Weather
6.35pm London Plus
7.00pm Wogan
7.35pm The Golden Oldie Christmas Show
8.00pm Comedy Classic : Porridge
8.30pm Three Up, Two Down
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News
Weather
9.30pm Film : North Sea Hijack (19)
11.05pm Bette Midler - Art or Bust!
12.05am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 21st December 1986

BBC1

8.55am Play School
9.15am Morning Worship
10.00am Asian Magazine
10.30am Ideas Unlimited
11.05am Buongiomo Italia!
11.30am Parent Programme
11.45am See Hear! Christmas Special
12.35pm Farming
12.58pm Weather for farmers
1.00pm News Headlines
1.05pm The Dukes of Hazzard
1.50pm Cartoon
2.00pm EastEnders
3.00pm Film : Rooster Cogburn (19)
4.45pm Domesday
5.25pm David Copperfield
5.55pm Lifeline
6.05pm News, Weather
6.15pm Songs of Praise
7.15pm All Creatures Great and Small
8.50pm News, Weather
9.05pm The Singing Detective
10.25pm Shout!
11.15pm O'Donnell Investigates ... Booze
11.45pm The Sky at Night
12.05am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 20th December 1986

BBC1

8.30am The Family-Ness
8.35am The Muppet Babies
9.00am Saturday Superstore
12.15pm Grandstand
5.05pm News, Weather
5.15pm Sport/Regional News
5.20pm Bob's Full House
5.55pm Film : Oliver! (1961)
8.15pm The Paul Daniels Magic Show
9.00pm Casualty
9.50pm News and Sport, Weather
10.05pm Sir Harry - A Celebration
11.15pm Film : Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)
1.05am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1985

11.00am Christ Stopped at Eboli
Four part Italian/French TV version of Rosi's acclaimed film

12.00 The Heart Has Its Reasons
a profile of Jean Vanier founder of L'Arche a community for the mentally handicapped which he began in France in 1964 (Repeat)

12.55pm Channel Four Racing
from Kempton Park 1.10, 1.40, 2.10, & 2.45 races

3.00pm Launder and Gilliat : Film : The Rake's Progress (1945)
starring Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle(B&W)

5.20pm Christmas Cracker
multi award winning seasonal animaton

5.30pm Incantation : Music of the Andes

6.30pm News Summary and Weather followed by
A Frame With Davis
with Steve Davis, Max Boyce & Emlyn Hughes

7.00pm Treasure Hunt Special
with Kenneth Kendall, Anneka Rice, Wincey Willis from Florida USA

8.00pm Viv
a portrait of cricketer Viv Richards

9.00pm Golden Hours and Sad Partings
Villers-Sur-Mer

10.00pm Film : A Delicate Balance (1973)
starring Katherine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick

12.30am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1985

11.00am Film : Mister Skeeter (1985)
starring Peter Bayliss (TV Movie)

12.30pm Wil 6
adapted by Meredith Edwards from a story by Huw K. Evans

1.20pm Film : Happy Anniversary (1962)
starring Pierre Etaix

1.35pm A Closer Encounter
an Assignment Adventure film

2.35pm Film : The Marx Brothers at the Circus (1939) (B&W)

4.15pm Film : Nothing But Pleasure (1940)
starring Buster Keaton (B&W)

4.35pm The Queen

4.45pm Film : The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
starring Douglas Fairbanks (B&W)

7.40pm News Summary and Weather

7.45pm The Mind of David Berglas
Christmas Special

8.45pm Fonteyn and Nureyev : The Perfect Partnership

10.40pm Mel Brooks Hails Sid Caesar

11.40pm Weber's, Missa Sancta

12.25am Closedown

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Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1985
CHANNEL 4

2.35pm Launder and Gilliat : Film : Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)
starring Alastair Sim, Gordon Harker (B&W)

4.15pm Film : Pest from the West (1939)
starring Buster Keaton (B&W)

4.35pm Taize : That Little Springtime
documentary about the ecumenical religious community of Taize in France and its founder, Brother Roger

5.00pm Peace on Earth
narrated by Dame Flora Robson with readings by Laurence Olivier (Repeat)

6.00pm Altarpieces
Seeking the Blessed

6.30pm Film : The Snowman (1982)animation of Raymond Briggs's Book introduced by David Bowie

7.00pm News Summary and Weather
followed by
Gymnastics
the Kraft International from Wembley Arena

8.00pm Brookside

8.30pm Carols for Christmas
with David Willcocks, Aled Jones, Gerald Finley

9.35pm Launder and Gilliat : Film : The Lady Vanishes (1938)
starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave

11.25pm The Pointer Sisters in Paris

12.35am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1985

ITV LONDON

7.00am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
News Headlines : Gordon Honeycombe 7.00,8.00,9.23
Weather with Wincey Willis 7.03,8.03,9.26
Rainbow Brite Special 7.08
Flipper 7.30
Wide Awake Club/Are You Awake Yet ? Pantomime : Frying Pan Meets the Genie of the Kettle!

9.25am Fraggle Rock
The Minstrels (Repeat)

9.50am Sooty's Christmas Special
Matthew Corbett with guests Richard Cadell and Bernie Clifton

10.15am Santa Claus- The Movie : Behind the Scenes
Sue Robbie talks to Dudley Moore

10.40am Film : The Great Race (1965)
starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood

1.25pm ITN News
with Anne Leuchars

1.30pm First Annual Stuntman Awards
introduced by Lee Majors

2.40pm Film : Superman (1978)
starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder and Gene Hackman

5.15pm ITN News and Sport

5.30pm The Krypton Factor Celebrity Special
presented by Gordon Burns, with karate's Jeoff Thompson, oarswoman Beryl Crockford, Richard Ellison and Virginia Holgate

6.00pm Crossroads

6.30pm This Is Your Life
presented by Eamonn Andrews

7.15pm Give Us a Clue
presented by Michael Parkinson, with Una Stubbs, Lionel Blair, Judith Chalmers, Frazer Hines, Ian Ogilvy, Jack Watling, Lizzie Webb and June Whitfield

7.45pm Coronation Street- The First Twenty-Five Years

8.45pm ITN News
with Anne Leuchars

9.00pm Movie Première : Who Dares Wins (1982)
starring Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Edward Woodward & Richard Widmark

11.20pm Dizzy in Concert
Dizzy Gillespie with Marian Montgomery, Bud Shank and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, introduced by Benny Green

12.20am Christmas Night Thoughts

12.30am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

12.20am Closedown

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Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1985

ITV LONDON

6.15am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
with Anne Diamond and Nick Owen
Cartoon time (until 7.15)
News Headlines with Gordon Honeycombe at 7.00,8.00,9.00
Weather with Wincey Willis 6.58,7.58,8.58
TV-am's Christmas Party 7.15

9.25am Christmas Fraggle Rock

9.50am Dangermouse
Journey to the Earth's. . .Cor!

10.00am The Christmas Morning Service
from Kenton Methodist Church

11.00am Disney at Christmas

11.15am Film : The Black Hole (1979)
starring Maximillian Schell, Anthony Perkins

1.00pm Jim Davidson's Top Pop Videos of '85

2.00pm The Royal Year
highlights presented by Anthony Carthew

3.00pm The Queen

3.05pm The James Bond Film : Moonraker (1979)
starring Roger Moore

5.30pm ITN News
with Carol Barnes

5.40pm Name That Tune
with Lionel Blair, Maggie Moone, Alan Braden and his Orchestra

6.10pm Coronation Street

6.45pm Fresh Fields Christmas Special
A Dickens of a Christmas, starring Julia McKenzie and Anton Rogers

7.30pm Minder on the Orient Express
starring Dennis Waterman, George Cole

9.30pm Des O'Connor Tonight
with Joan Collins, Dudley Moore, Alan King & Willie Tyler and Lester

10.40pm ITN News, with Carol Barnes

10.50pm Film : Gregory's Girl (1981)
starring Gordon John Sinclair and Dee Hepburn

12.30am Christmas Night Thoughts
from St Mary's Church, Wimbledon, with Alec McCowen and Paul Miles-Kingston

12.40am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London)

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1985

ITV LONDON

6.15am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
with Anne Diamond and Nick Owen
Special Panto Guest : Nicholas Parsons
News with Gordon Honeycombe 6.15, 6.30, 7.00, 7.30, 8.00, 8.30, 9.00.
Weather with Wincey Willis 6.28, 6.58, 7.28, 7.58, 8.28, 8.58.
Sport: Richard Keys 6.35, 7.34.
Lizzie Webb: 6.20.
News Topics 6.45, 7.07, 7.45, 8.13, 8.45
Regional Report 7.15.
Pop Video with Julie Brown 7.55.
Tuesday Specials: Christmas Past with Irene Handl, who looks back to the best of her childhood memories 8.17
Gyles Brandreth on Christmas Traditions.
Pop Special. A profile of pop group AHA. 8.45.
Film Review with Paul Gambaccini 8.54.
Wacaday 9.04.

9.25am Thames News
followed by
Fraggle Rock
Marooned
Boober and Red have never been the closest of friends, until they are trapped in a cave-in. Discovering that they may perish together brings many changes.
Fulton Mackay is the Captain (Repeat)

9.50am Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
Thomas's Christmas Party
Thomas and his friends from the engine shed say thank you to an old lady and everyone has a happy Christmas. Ringo Starr tells the story(Repeat)

10.00am The Night Before Christmas
cartoon
'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Disney cartoon in which Santa goes to visit
some children all tucked up in bed. At the sound of Santa's trumpet all the toys come to life and have a big party

10.05am The Battle of the Monster Trucks
Spectacular action from America as huge, customised trucks race against each other. Watch Bigfoot, UFA-1, Psycho and others — the biggest, meanest
monster machines ever created...

10.55am Film : Never Never Land (1980)
starring Petula Clark and John Castle
When eight-year old Jennie is dumped on relations by her recently divorced father, she finds in the home of her Auntie Bee and Uncle Jim a
very sympathetic friend in her cousin Joe. There are three children in the family and their lives are disrupted by the addition of another child.
So the older two, Angela and Walter, make life exceedingly difficult for Jennie and Joe. But they have a way out. Joe, who is in love with the idea of
Peter Pan and his statue in London's Kensington Gardens, takes Jennie with him into the land of fantasy and Peter Pan and Wendy and the Lost Boys

12.30pm God Bless Us Every One!
with Frank Finlay, Jane Lapotaire, a celebration from All Saints' Church, Kingston-upon-Thames
People have worshipped in All Saints' Church at Kingston upon-Thames for more than 1000 years. From this historic church comes a
celebration in words and music, spanning 600 years of reflection on the Birth of Christ, from the beauty of the medieval carol to Sir John Betjeman's
contemporary view of Christmas. Frank Finlay and Jane Lapotaire are joined by children from Coombe Hill Junior School for a reading from Dickens'
timeless tale A Christmas Carol

1.00pm News at One

1.20pm Thames News

1.30pm Film : Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Special Edition) (1977)
starring Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Roy Neary, a film repair man for an electricity company, witnesses unidentified flying objects
near his home in Indiana. This encounter sets in motion a startling chain of dramatic events, and Neary tries desperately to understand what has happened.
He is baffled by the apparent governmental cover-up that blocks his efforts

3.55pm The Wind in the Willows
(New Series)
Winter Sports
animation with the voices of Michael Hordern, Richard Pearson, Peter Sallis, David Jason, Ian Carmichael
Animated adventure inspired by Kenneth Grahame's classic tale.
Music by Malcolm Rowe and Keith Hopwood, performed by Ralph McTell and arranged by Brian Ibbetson

4.20pm Splash into Christmas
with Michael Groth, Victoria Studd and Nino Firetto
Splash into Christmas. With only hours to go to Christmas Day, it's party time at Splash as Nino, Victoria and Michael open the doors to an invited
audience and some very special guests

4.50pm Knight Rider
Circus Knights
starring David Hasselhoff
Another adventure with the knight errant and his super-powered car, KITT.

5.45pm News at 5.45

6.00pm Thames News

6.25pm Help!


6.35pm Crossroads

7.00pm Carry On Laughing
Further film extracts featuring the Carry On team in saucy holiday mood —under canvas, in caravans and in a half-completed foreign hotel.
Disaster and laughter are guaranteed with: Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Kenneth Connor, Jim Dale, Sally Leeson, Carol Hawkins,
Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Sidney James, Dilys Laye, Jimmy Logan, Betty Marsden, Terry Scott, Joan Sims, Hike Sommer, June Whitfield,
Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor

7.30pm Whose Baby ?


8.00pm The Best of Morecambe and Wise
with Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Peter Barkworth, Suzanne Danielle, Hannah Gordon, Ann Hamilton, Glenda Jackson, Donald Sinden
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without Eric and Ernie, so join Ernie as he introduces some of the highlights from their past shows

9.00pm Film : Arthur (1981)
starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli and John Gielgud
Arthur Bach, heir to a vast fortune, is an habitual drunk, scandalises high society in New Yorks smartest restaurants and picks up prostitutes
in his chauffeur driven limousine. His family threatens to disinherit him unless he marries wealthy Susan Johnson and gives up his playboy lifestyle.
But then Arthur meets Linda Marolle, who is shoplifting at the time, and falls in love with her.. .

10.45pm ITN News

11.00pm Carols from Christ Church


11.30pm Midnight Mass
Join the nurses, doctors and patients from the Mater Infirmorum Hospital, Crumlin Road, Belfast, for Midnight Mass.
The Most Rev Cahal Daly, Bishop of Down and Conor, is the concelebrant, assisted by Fr Eamonn O'Brien and Fr Anthony McLaverty.
The organist is Robert Leonard

12.30am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

1.20am Calendar News


6.00pm Calendar

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Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Tuesday 31st December 1985

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
11.45am Film : Maverick Queen (1956)
1.10pm Everest, the Final Challenge
2.00pm What's Up, Chuck?
2.30pm Motor 100
3.45pm Around the World in Seven Minutes and Four Times on Saturday
4.35pm Film : Welles Directs - The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
6.00pm Call My Bluff
6.30pm Film : Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
8.05pm 85 Whistle Test 86

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Re: Christmas TV

Monday 30th December 1985

BBC2

11.10am Film : Forty Guns to Apache Pass (19)
12.45pm Racing from Newbury
2.45pm What's Up, Chuck?
3.15pm Sanders Rides the World
3.45pm Film : Welles Directs - Chimes at Midnight (19)
5.35pm Ski Jumping
6.10pm One of Our Bombers is No Longer Missing
7.00pm The Compleat Beatles
9.00pm Whistle Test - The View Ahead
9.10pm Film : Ragtime (19)
11.40pm Weatherview

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Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 29th December 1985

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
11.40am Champion, the Wonder Horse
12.05pm Windmill
1.05pm States of Mind
1.55pm Film : Welles Directs - The Lady from Shanghai
3.20pm Aladdin and the 40 Thieves
4.20pm Under Sail
4.40pm Film : Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
7.15pm The Royal Ballet in The Nutcracker
8.55pm The Natural World
9.40pm Comrades
10.20pm Submarines at War
10.30pm Film : Serpico (1973)

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Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 28th December 1985

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
1.00pm Choir of the Year 1984
1.45pm What's Up, Chuck?
2.10pm Film : Hitchcock - Under Capricorn (1949)
4.05pm Film : Welles Directs - Macbeth
5.50pm Great Western Journey
7.00pm News and Sport, Weather
7.20pm Yeomen of the Guard
8.45pm Penyberth
10.25pm Film : The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974)

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Re: Christmas TV

Friday 27th December 1985

BBC2

9.00:am Pages from Ceefax
11.25am Film : Bundle of Joy (19)
1.00pm The Crazy Gang: A Celebration
2.00pm What's Up, Chuck?
2.30pm Three in the Wild
3.30pm Sweet FA
4.10pm Film : Welles Directs - Journey into Fear (1942)
5.20pm The Freddie Mills Story
6.20pm Film : Rex Harrison Stars in My Fair Lady (1964)
9.05pm Entertainment USA
9.35pm Film : Patricia Highsmith's Deep Water (1981) Première
11.35pm Film : Gene Kelly in Invitation to the Dance (1956)
1.05am Weatherview

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1985


BBC2

9.00am Ceefax

10.35am The Journey
A series of programmes featuring playwright Peter Terson and
reporter Dennis Skillicorn as they travel by gypsy wagon along
the old pilgrims' route from Winchester to Canterbury. In the
ninth programme of the series they visit Aylesford Priory and
join in the fun of the annual Maidstone Carnival. Rejoining the
Pilgrims' Way at Thurnham they pass through Hollingbourne and
find a camp site where they meet up with a genuine gypsy family,
who tell the travellers what it is really like to spend a life on the road!

11.05am Film : John Ford's The Horse Soldiers (1959)
starring john Wayne and William Holden

1.00pm Magnusson's Iceland
'Iceland is full of lovely places, lyrical places, dramatic places,
places to discover, places to cherish, places to tell about'
Magnus Magnusson was born in Iceland but left as a child to
live in Scotland.
This is the story of his personal pilgrimage back to the land
of his birth to meet old friends and visit remembered places

1.50pm What's Up, Chuck ?
Chuck Jones illustrates Daffy Duck's greed and cunning in three of
his classic cartoons.
My Favourite Duck
Tom Turk and
Daffy and The Scarlet Pumpemickle

2.20pm Three in the Wild
The second in the trilogy depicting the lives of three of
Britain's wild creatures.

3.20pm Film : The Adventures of Afanti (1980)
starring Tuyikun
China's folk hero, Afanti, is the hero of this exotic comedy set
in the western China republic of Xinjiang.
The roguish Afanti has his own way of dealing with problems.
Where conventional protests fail, Afanti's outrageous cheek
will always carry the day Première

4.30pm Film : Welles Directs - A Touch of Evil (1958)
continues the season of films by Orson Welles who died in October.
Today starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
Orson Welles presents a powerful tour de force as director-star in
this rarely seen longer version of the film. Honeymooning in the
frontier town of Los Robles, Mike Vargas , special narcotics
investigator for the Mexican Ministry of Justice, finds himself
mixed up in a case involving murder, underworld racketeers -
and police corruption in the massive shape of Hank Quinlan ,
an unscrupulous detective captain.

6.15pm Sport 85
Harry Carpenter introduces one of the most amazing sports stories
in his long television experience.
Boris Becker - Wimbledon Champion

7.15pm The American Film Institute Salute to Gene Kelly
The 13th annual AFI Life Achievement Award, presented in a
tribute from Hollywood to the great dancer, singer, actor,
choreographer and director. Introduced by Shirley MacLaine

8.30pm Film : Franco Zeffirelli 's La Traviata (1982)
starring Teresa Stratas
Placido Domingo Verdi's romantic tragedy about the love of a
young nobleman for a courtesan gave Italian director Franco Zeffirelli
the ideal opportunity to unite the two loves of his life - opera and film.
Determined to break through the restraints of staged opera, Zeffirelli
used the freedom of cinematic techniques to create a film of ravishing
beauty and intimacy Première

10.15pm Black Silk
The fate of a child of mixed parentage becomes the
focus of a crisis in Larry's own life, last in the series

11.05pm Film : Gene Kelly in The Pirate (1948)
Also starring Judy Garland
With its 19th century Caribbean island setting, magnificent
costumes and Cole Porter songs 'Be a clown' and 'Love of my life',
The Pirate has long been acclaimed as one of the great Hollywood
musicals. Judy Garland gives one of her greatest performances as
the lovelorn Manuela and Gene Kelly confirmed his star status in
the role of the dashing 'pirate' Serafin

12.45am Weather