Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1985

BBC2

9:00am Pages from Ceefax

11:30am Supercharged
The Grand Prix Car (1924-39) Using unique film and priceless
restored cars 'road-tested' by racing driver John Watson ,
Horizon re-creates the pre-war 'Golden Age' of the Grand Prix car.

12:20pm Film : The Man in the Santa Claus Suit (1978)
starring Fred Astaire
In this charming fantasy about the spirit of Christmas,
Fred Astaire plays the title role - and seven other parts.
Three men each rent a Santa Claus suit and find their
lives drastically altered by a mysterious figure who
appears in their lives

1:55pm Christmas Day Concert
Live from the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Mahler Symphony
No 7 with the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink
The Christmas Day concert in Amsterdam is a major event in the music
calendar. It is a particularly special occasion this year because Bernard
Haitink is celebrating his 25th anniversary as Artistic Director of the
Concertgebouw Orchestra

3:30pm Three in the Wild
The first in a trilogy of dramas depicting the lives of three of Britain's
wild creatures

4:30pm Film : Welles Directs - Citizen Kane (1941)
Some 45 years after Welles's feature debut, at the age of 25,
Citizen Kane is still regarded as a masterpiece and a landmark in
cinema history.
As director, Welles broke, and re-created, innumerable rules.
As an actor, he gave a mesmerising performance as the
newspaper magnate who became rich and powerful, only
to find his career threatened by scandal.
'Here is a man who could have been President, who was as loved
and hated and as talked about as any man in our time, but when
he comes to die, he's got something on his mind called Rosebud.
Now what does that mean?'

6:25pm A Prize Performance : Hinge and Bracket
When Dame Hilda Bracket is invited as guest speaker to
The Cheltenham Ladies' College Speech Day, Dr Hinge
assumes it is because she is a distinguished 'old girl'.
However, on closer inspection, the history of Hilda's schooldays

7:20pm The Queen
HM The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth.
With open subtitles and sign-language interpretation
for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

7:30pm Kiri Te Kanawa at Christmas
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa presents a special programme of seasonal
music both classical and contemporary from the Barbican Hall
in London. with the Philharmonia Orchestra

8:20pm Edge of the Wind
'In the winter if I build a fire and the wind blows off the sea
you could imagine you were back in the hills again.'

9:25pm Film Buff of the Year
All- Winners Show
Robin Ray brings together the winners of the previous series in a
special holiday edition to find the Champion of Champions.
Apart from general questions testing their knowledge, each
contestant will be more closely tested on a specific chosen area.
Dennis Howells (1982) answers questions on Hollywood musicals
of the 1940s; Peter Richards (1983) on Claude Chabrol ;
John Dawson (1984) on Ken Russell ; and Howard Spencer,
the current champion, on Claude Rains

10:00pm Film : Diva (1982)
starring Wilhelmenia Wiggins, Fernandez Frederic Andrei
American diva Cynthia Hawkins has never cut a disc, so the
cassette secretly recorded by a young fan, - Jules, is priceless.
So is the cassette a dying girl drops into Jules's saddle-bag.
Ruthless killers compete for possession of the tapes and Jules
finds himself the innocent quarry in Jean-Jacques Beineix 's
witty and stylish film debut
Première

11:55pm Choirs at Midnight
An international festival of boys' choirs held in honour of St Cecilia

12:55am Weatherview

1:05am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1985

BBC2

9.00am Ceefax

1.40am What's Up, Chuck ?
Today Chuck Jones traces the incwedible wise of Warner
Brothers's greatest star, Bugs Bunny , from supporting role
in Elmer's Candid Camera to superstardom as the saviour
of democracy and the universe in Super-Rabbit and
Haredevil Hare. Mel Blanc , 'the voice of the stars', talks
about Bugs's distinctive accent and his own allergy to carrots!

2.10pm Sport 85
From one of the vintage years of British sport,
Harry Carpenter selects another memorable occasion.
Rugby League
50th Rugby League Challenge Cup Final Hull v Wigan
Harry Gration recalls the magic moments of the 50th
Challenge Cup Final at Wembley, reputed to be the best
ever, with the help of Sid Abrahams and Graham West ,
two players who span the 50 years. Sid played in the
victorious Wigan side in 1929, the first final at Wembley
Stadium, while Graham lifted the trophy for Wigan last May
in the 50th contest. Together they relive the brilliance and
excitement of the 1985 Rugby League showpiece.

3.00pm Film : Peter No-Tail (1981)
An animated feature film
In a barn, deep in the countryside, five kittens are born.
Four of them find homes, but the fifth seems fated to be
drowned. After all, who would want a cat with no tail?
A passing motorist becomes the unsuspecting new owner,
and Peter No-Tail finds himself a new family, and a new
city world. Première

4.20pm Film : Dr Dolittle (1967)
In the second of three films featuring Rex Harrison , he plays
the celebrated inhabitant of Puddleby.
Dr Dolittle has abandoned his human practice to treat only
animals, learning 500 animal dialects from a parrot and
becoming the proud possessor of a pushmi-pullyu! But his
greatest ambition is to find the elusive great pink sea snail.

6.40pm It's Your 20th Anniversary, Charlie Brown
Good grief Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang have been
appearing on the box for 20 years. Charles M. Schultz comperes
this salute to his creations with highlights from many of the best
Charlie Brown television shows, together with a sneak preview
of Snoopy's Getting Married

7.30pm The New-Born King
a Christmas celebration from Westminster Cathedral, with Aled Jones,
Eirlan James, Benjamin Luxon and the Westminster Cathedral Choir

8.30pm Call My Bluff
A duel of words and wit between Frank Muir Jan Francis
Patrick Lichfield and Arthur Marshall Sue Arnold Ian Ogilvy
Referee Robert Robinson

9.00pm Rush- The Fallow Deer
Another animal drama from the team who made Three in the Wild.
Rush is conceived in the early autumn as morning mists begin to
cloak the New Forest.
The film follows him from his magical first few hours on earth,
until his challenging and bitter fight for leadership of the herd
as a grand buck of the forest.

10.00pm Charles and Diana- A Working Year
In 1985 The Prince and Princess of Wales undertook more
public engagements and foreign tours than ever before -
all in the customary blaze of world wide publicity. But as
well as a busy working year, it's also been one of subtle
change in the role the royal couple have been playing in
public. Media stars they may be, with all the ballyhoo and
razzmatazz which that entails, but this year there has been
an added dimension.
Prince Charles and his wife have become experts in public
relations for 'Great Britain Ltd' - ambassadors abroad for our
industries, fashions and tourism.
Sue Lawley looks back at the royal working year, and what the
Prince and Princess are trying to achieve on the 'royal road show

10.30pm Film : The Innocents (1961)
starring Deborah Kerr A chilling ghost story for Christmas Eve;
a classic adaptation of Henry James 's The Turn of the Screw.
A governess believes the children in her charge are possessed
by the spirits of two dead lovers. But is the mysterious country
mansion they inhabit truly haunted? Or is the children's strange
behaviour a fantasy of her neurotic imagination?

12.05am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Monday 23rd December 1985

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
2.00pm What's Up, Chuck?
2.35pm Film : Rex Harrison Stars in Cleopatra (1963)
6.35pm Gotta Dance, Gotta Sing
7.25pm The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
8.00pm Film : Tess (1979) Première
10.45pm Sport 85
12.10am Weatherview

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 22nd December 1985

BBC2

11.45am Champion, the Wonder Horse
12.10pm Windmill
1.10pm States of Mind
2.00pm Rugby Special
2.30pm The Orson Welles Story
5.20pm News Review
5.50pm Thinking Aloud
6.30pm Ski Sunday
7.15pm The Natural World
8.05pm Comrades
8.45pm Under Sail
9.05pm Film : The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) Première
11.05pm The Other Side of Alf

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 21st December 1985

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
1.50pm The Sky at Night
2.10pm Saturday Cinema Double Bill
Film : Cheaters (1945)
3.35pm TV Film : The Nativity (1978)
5.05pm Richard Dimbleby: A Broadcasting Life
6.00pm Deutsch direkt!
6.25pm James Cagney - That Yankee Doodle Dandy
7.15pm News and Sport, Weather
7.30pm The Doggy Men
10.05pm Saturday Review 1985
11.20pm Film : Francesco Rosi Season : Three Brothers (1981)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Tuesday 31st December 1985

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM
6.50am Breakfast Time
9.20am The Littlest Hobo
9.45am Why Don't You... ?
10.10am The Hunter
10.15am Play Chess
10.25am Ivor the Engine
10.30am Play School
10.50am The New Adventures of Wonder Woman
11.40am The Montreux Rock Festival
12.30pm News, Weather
12.45pm Sport 85
1.45pm Ice Skating Special
2.40pm Film : Gone With the Wind (1939)
6.15pm News, Weather
6.30pm EastEnders
7.00pm Film : The Magnificent Seven (1960)
9.05pm Nine O'Clock News, Weather
9.20pm The Browning Version
10.35pm Comedy Classic : Steptoe and Son
11.15pm Wogan
12.15am Film : Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
1.55am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Monday 30th December 1985

BBC1

6.00am CeefaxAM
6.50am Breakfast Time
9.20am The Littlest Hobo
9.45am Why Don't You....
10.10am The Hunter
10.15am Play Chess
10.25am Paddington
10.30am Play School
10.50am The New Adventures of Wonder Woman
11.40am The Montreux Rock Festival
12.30pm News
12.40pm Regional News
Weather
12.45pm Holiday Air 85
1.45pm Little Misses and the Mister Men
2.00pm Film : Treasure Island (1950)
3.30pm Tom and Jerry
3.47pm Regional News
3.50pm Caterpillar Trail
4.05pm Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends : Attack of the Arachnoid
4.30pm Alice Through the Looking Glass
5.05pm Blue Peter Review of the Year
5.35pm News, Weather
5.50pm Regional news magazines
6.00pm The World's Strongest Man
7.00pm Film : The Black Stallion (1979) Première
8.55pm News, Weather
9.10pm Yes Minister
10.10pm Silas Marner (The Weaver of Raveloe)
11.45pm Film Hitchcock - I Confess (1953)
1.20am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 29th December 1985

BBC1

8.55am Play School
9.15am Articles of Faith
9.30am This is the Day
10.00am Asian Magazine
10.30am See Hear!
10.55am The Pink Panther Show
11.10am Film : The Alamo (1960)
1.55pm News Headlines
Weather news for farmers
2.00pm EastEnders Omnibus
3.00pm Film : The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
4.40pm The Christmas Rock Gospel Show
5.15pm Earthstars
5.55pm Oliver Twist
6.25pm News, Weather
6.35pm Songs of Praise
7.15pm Film : Gandhi (1982) Première
8.40pm News, Weather
10.30pm Review of the Year 1985
11.45pm Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 28th December 1985

BBC1

8.30am The Family-Ness
8.35am Children of Fire Mountain
9.00am Saturday Superstore
10.50am Film : Hambone and Hillie (1983) Première
12.15pm Grandstand
5.05pm News, Weather
5.15pm Sport/Regional News
5.20pm The Krankies Elektronik Komik
5.50pm Film : Watership Down (1978)
7.20pm Les and Dustin's Laughter Show
7.55pm Film : Death on the Nile (1978)
10.10pm News and Sport, Weather
10.25pm Barry Norman's Guide to American Soaps
11.15pm Film : Hitchcock - The Wrong Man (1956)
1.00am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Friday 27th December 1985

BBC1

8.00am Pages from Ceefax
9.05am Chigley
9.20am The Littlest Hobo
9.45am The Hunter
9.50am Play Chess
10.00am Charlie Brown
10.25am Willo the Wisp
10.30am Play School
10.50am A Merry Mirthworm Christmas
11.15am Disneyland's 30th Anniversary Celebration
12.15pm Tom and Jerry
12.20pm Junior Kick Start
12.50pm News, Weather
1.00pm Sport 85
2.00pm Tom and Jerry
2.10pm Film : Ben Hur (1959)
5.35pm Grange Hill for Christmas
6.05pm News, Weather
6.20pm Superdance 85
7.00pm Wogan
7.40pm Christmas Blankety Blank
8.15pm Dynasty : The Homecoming
9.05pm Nine O'Clock News
Weekend Weather
9.20pm Stanley Baxter's Christmas Hamper
10.10pm Film : High Risk (1981) Première
11.40pm Film : Hitchcock - Suspicion (1941)
1.15am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1985


BBC1

8.00am Ceefax

8.35am Play School
A Magic Box for Boxing Day!

9.00am Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse
An animated film version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous novel.
Featuring the voices of Peter O'Toole, Helen Morse , Ron Haddrick
Dr Mortimer is not satisfied with the coroner's verdict that
Sir Charles Baskerville 's death on the moors was caused by
a heart attack and engages Sherlock Holmes to investigate

10.10am Take Two Christmas Special
The programme that gives you the opportunity to comment on BBCtv
with Josephine Buchan

10.50am Film : Swallows and Amazons (1974)
starring Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser For the Walker children,
a holiday in the Lake District becomes the adventure of a lifetime
when they set sail to camp on an island in the middle of the lake

12.20pm Junior Kick Start
The final heat of BBC Television's junior motorcycling competition
when a dozen more riders, aged between 8 and 15, compete
for the Lombard Tricity Trophy

12.50pm News with Jan Leeming Weather

1.00pm Ziggy's Gift
Ziggy - a little guy in a big world, overweight and underwhelmed -
takes a job as a street-corner Santa, but he finds himself working
for a con man

1.25pm Film : The Great Escape (1963)
starring Steve McQueen, James Garner
Richard Attenborough, Stalag Luft North was - seemingly -
escape proof, the highest security camp run by the Germans
during World War II. In an attempt to contain unwilling PoWs,
the Nazis collected them into one camp, but unwittingly brought
together the finest escape team in military history.
This spectacular and tense classic war film includes one of
the strongest casts ever assembled in the 1960s

4.10pm Disney Time
The traditional Christmas visit to the world of Walt
Disney films introduced by Jan Francis
Films include: Peter Pan, Bambi, The Black Cauldron
Jungle Book, Pinocchio, The Adventures of Natty Gran

4.50pm Final Score
All the headline makers and day's results

5.05pm Newswith Jan Leeming

5.15pm Comedy Classic : Open All Hours
starring Ronnie Barker and David Jason with Lynda Baron

5.45pm Bob's Christmas Full House
starring Bob Monkhouse
A special festive edition of this exciting comedy quiz show.
Four contestants each represent a charity and for every number
lit, there is a cash reward which is donated to that charity.
A Golden Holiday is on offer for the winner of the Full House

6.20pm The Paul Daniels Magic Christmas Show
In a special holiday programme, Paul Daniels presents a magical
version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs featuring Debbie
McGee as Snow White and Fenella Fielding as the Wicked Queen;
and, with the accent on youth, introduces his remarkable guests.
From the USA, Lance Burton combining swordplay and magic
with incredible results; The Jazzy Jumpers, skipping as you have
never seen before; and, from China, the intriguing skills of
gymnast, Zhou Shurong and a special guest appearance by
Sooty with Matthew Corbett

7.10pm Eastenders

7.40pm 'Allo 'Allo!
General Von Klinkerhoffen has taken personal control of the
district. The Resistance decide that their operations will be
inhibited by the General's presence and so decree that he
must be blown up. The Colonel comes to a similar conclusion,
deciding on poison, while Herr Flick is no longer prepared to
tolerate the General's interference and elects to terminate the
General's appointment with a poisoned dart

8.30pm In Sickness and in Health
starring Warren Mitchell and Dandy Nichols
Alf and Else are invited to Christmas dinner at the church hall -
thereby missing the free beano for pensioners at the local pub.
Alf feels he ought to have his share of both, and achieves as
much by conniving with his mate Arthur. Also using devious
means, Rita is forced to stay to look after them over the
Christmas period which ends with a knees-up at the church hall

9.00pm Tenko Reunion
Five years after their release from internment, the women return
to Singapore for a reunion, unaware of the intrigue that is to involve
them in treachery and murder.

10.50pm Newswith Jan LeemingWeather

11.05pm Films of the Year
Barry Norman reflects on 1985's outstanding releases and
chooses his ten favourite films. These are just some of the
contenders - Amadeus, A Passage to India Witness
A View To A Kill, Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome
and Back To The Future.
Which would you choose? He'll also be picking out awful
moments from this year's movies and assessing current
trends and tastes

11.45pm Film : Hitchcock - Strangers on a Train(1951)
The first of four films for the festive season from the master of
suspense, tonight starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
with Leo G. Carroll
On a train from Washington to New York, tennis star Guy Haines
is provoked into conversation by a rich - and obviously neurotic -
young man, Bruno Anthony. Guy wants to divorce his wife,
Bruno hates his father. Half jokingly Bruno suggests the perfect
crime - they will each commit the other's murder....

1.25am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1985

BBC1

8:00am Pages from Ceefax

8:35am Play School
It's Christmas Day!

8:55am Muppet Babies
Ever wondered what Animal was like as a nipper; or if
Miss Piggy looked glamorous in nappies; or whether
Kermit was born a leader? Now is the chance to find
out in Raiders of the Lost Muppet. Hide 'n' seek is fun, until
Animal disappears and the trail leads the Muppet babies
into the Basement of Doom.

9:20am Knock! Knock!
celebrates Christmas.
Around the Christmas Tree with Bryan Murray and
Shireen Shah and the children of Great Moor Junior School,
Stockport.

9:35am This is the Day
A celebration, in worship and prayer, of the birth of the Saviour.
The speaker is The Rt Rev Jim Thompson , Bishop of Stepney,
and the service is introduced by Linda Mary Evans from a
viewer's home in Birmingham

10:05am Film : The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
starring Walter Brennan, Matthew Garber, Karen Dotrice
Millionaire Mulrooney takes his grandchildren Elizabeth and
Rodney tor a picnic in the Redwood Forest. While wandering
in the woods, Elizabeth meets Jasper, a young gnome and his
grandfather, Knobby, but soon discovers the gnomes have a
serious problem.

11:30am Roland's Yuletide Binge
The BBC are thrilled to present one of the most sensitive
performing artistes, Roland Rat Superstar in a sparkling
celebration of his historic move to the BBC. With Errol, the
hamster Glenis, the guinea-pig Kevin, the gerbil and Little Reggie
Plus their special guests Russell Grant, Frankie Howerd
Jan Leeming, Ian McCaskill, Beryl Reid, Valerie Singleton

11:55am The Noel Edmonds Live Live Christmas Breakfast Show
From the top of London's British Telecom Tower,
Noel Edmonds presents a live outside broadcast uniting
families and friends throughout the world.
British relief workers in Africa are linked with their families in
Britain by the first live television satellite broadcast from
the Sudan.
Mike Smith goes out and about with the BBCtv helicopter camera.
The Krankies play host to the highest Christmas party on a jumbo
jet flying over Britain. Noel is joined by a host of comedy guests for a
morning of fun and family reunions

2:00pm Top of the Pops Christmas Party
Gary Davies, Jonathan King, Janice Long, Dixie Peach, John Peel
and Steve Wright present the most popular hits of 1985.
With Alison Moyet, Paul Young, Feargal Sharkey, King,
Dead or Alive, Billy Ocean, Colonel Abrams and Baltimora
Featuring the No 1 records of the year on video

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

3:10pm Children's Royal Variety Performance
in the presence of HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of
Snowdon, in aid of the NSPCC. A gala, including Floella Benjamin,
Christopher Biggins, Julie Brown, Roy Castle, Fiona Chadwick,
The Cheeky Bits, Keith Chegwin, Bernie Clifton, John Craven,
Jimmy Cricket, Suzanne Dando, Peter Duncan, Wayne Eagling,
Janet Ellis, The Endresz Family, Jan Francis, Rusty Goffe,
The Great Soprendo, The Halfwits, Keith Harris and Orville,
Rolf Harris, Martin Harvey, Rod Hull and Emu, John Inman,
Antony Johns, Casey Lee Jolleys, The Krankies, Bonnie Langford,
Annabelle Lanyon Masquerade, Barbara Newman, Paul Nicholas,
Grant Olding, Su Pollard, Mike Read, Roland Rat, Angela Rippon,
Gian Sammarco, Jimmy Savile OBE, Leo Sayer, Carol Lee Scott,
Wayne Sleep Freddie Stevens, Sue Stevens

4:55pm All Creatures Great and Small
James, Helen and their children share Skeldale House with
the practice. Tristan, now working for the ministry, has picked
up the threads of an old romance and Siegfried looks forward
to the accelerating pace of progress

6:25pm News with Moira Stuart and Weather

6:30pm Hi-de-Hi!
The Great Cat Robbery
Maplin's Holiday Camp, 1960
The entertainment staffs troubles have only just begun,
when they discover there's an emerald necklace hidden
somewhere on the camp

7:30pm Only Fools and Horses. . . To Hull and Back
In this special edition for Christmas, the Trotter family
embark on a money-making adventure which takes them
To Hull and Back starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
and Buster Merryfield

9:00pm The Two Ronnies
starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett
The two Ronnies are back with a crackerful of jokes in the
gift-wrapped first show of a new series.
Plus all the news that's fit to laugh at, and Little Big Shot
- a searing tale set in Chicago in the 1920s when men
were men and Ronald Reagan was just an OAP.
With their special guest Phil Collins

9:50pm News Moira Stuart and Weather Bill Giles

10:00pm Wogan
Terry deserts his little home on Shepherd's Bush Green to
fly out to Denver for Christmas at the Carrington mansion.

10:40pm Film : Absence of Malice (1981)
starring Paul Newman, Sally Field
A prominent Miami union leader has disappeared without trace.
Frustrated by the lack of clues, ruthless government inspector
Elliot Rosen puts the pressure on Michael Gallagher, a wholesale
liquor merchant whose father was a gangster. Turning the screws
tighter, Rosen leaks that Gallagher is a prime suspect to Megan Carter,
an ambitious reporter on the Miami Standard.
With the law, the press, and the mob against him, Gallagher is forced
to take extreme measures ...
Première

12:35am Weather

12:40am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1985

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM

6.50am Breakfast Time
with Frank Bough, Selina Scott, Nick Ross, Debbie Greenwood
& Mike Smith, with guests Roland Rat and the Choir of Westminster Abbey

9.20am The Littlest Hobo
The Pearls
Hobo helps the captain of a boat when he finds villains
among the crew

9.45am The Hunter
School Days, Fool Days
Horace plays hookey and helps the Hunter blow the lid off the
Fox's latest felony.

9.50am Play Chess
Bill Hartston introduces the knight's move, and more
easy checkmates

10.00am Charlie Brown
A Charlie Brown Christmas
There are fairy lights on Snoopy's kennel and the children
have decided to put on a play, but Charlie Brown still wants
to know what Christmas is really about

10.25am Magic Roundabout

10.30am Play School
Story: A Close Shave for Father Christmas

10.50am Tom and Jerry

11.05am Charles in Charge
A special Christmas edition starring
Home for the Holidays
It is Christmas Eve and the Pembroke household is
buzzing with activity.
Grandma Irene is expected for her annual visit and
Charles is all set to leave to spend the holiday with
his parents in Vermont - or is he?

11.30am See Hear!
Christmas Special

12.20pm Junior Kick Start
The second heat of BBC Television's junior motorcycling
competition features 12 more talented riders from Cleveland,
Hampshire, Tyne and Wear, Kent, the Isle of Man,
Shropshire, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire,
Pembrokeshire and Lancashire as they attempt to conquer
a difficult course at Easton Neston in Northamptonshire

12.50pm Newswith Richard Whitmore
Weather, Bill Giles

1.00pm A Song for Christmas
Cliff Richard is the star guest in the climax of this year's
Children's Christmas Carol Competition, presented by
Paul Coia and Josephine Buchan.
Six finalists perform their own carols in front of a judging
panel of celebrities chaired by Peter Skellern

1.45pm Mr Benn

2.00pm Film : The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania live a sad young girl and
an unhappy prince. Trapped in their different worlds, they
need only to meet to fall in love ...
Bryan Forbes 's musical version of Cinderella has all the
enchantment of the original fairy tale, while beautifully
photographed and wittily scripted.
Gemma Craven in her film debut and Richard Chamberlain
in his first musical receive fine support from an impressive
British cast

4.20pm Keith and Orville's Christmas
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

5.00pm Carols from King's
The traditional world-famous Service of Nine Lessons and Carols
recorded specially for television in the Chapel of King's College,
Cambridge. The Choir of King's College, Cambridge

6.00pm News with Richard Whitmore
Weather

6.15pm Jim'll Fix It for Christmas
In this special Christmas edition, Jimmy Savile OBE fixes it for ...
a pumpkin to be a coach, Bo-Peep to find her sheep, and a
panto horse to win the 3.15.

7.00pm Telly Addicts Christmas Special
The Pains are the Telly Addict family of 1985.
During their journey to that title they have beaten
15 other families and have answered
over 300 questions about television correctly.
Tonight they meet a panel of television specialists.
Nina Myskow. TV critic
Barry Took. Points of View
Michael Grade. Controller, BBC1
Larry Grayson, avid viewer
Can the Pains beat the experts?

7.30pm Eastenders

8.00pm Kenny Everett's Christmas Carol
The snow is falling in gentle flakes, the gaslight is flickering
on ancient mantles, and Charles Dickens is spinning in his grave.
Tonight Kenny presents his salute to the master's Christmas
Carol with Michael Barrymore
Peter Cook , Spike Milligan Willie Rushton , John Wells and
surprise guests, who appear as ghosts and other almost
earthly beings

8.30pm A Question of Sport
Bill Beaumont and Emlyn Hughes captain two teams of
celebrities from the world of entertainment. Guests include
BBCl's Bergerac, John Nettles ; from Big Deal, Ray Brooks -
alias Robby Box ; and comedians Eddie Large and Stan Boardman
David Coleman questions their knowledge of the faces, facts and
feats, reviving memories of the greatest - and the funniest -
moments in sport

9.00pm Terry and June
starring Terry Scott and June Whitfield

9.30pm Newswith Richard Whitmore Weather

9.45pm Cagney and Lacey
Entrapment
The criminals play a dirty game, so why not the cops?
That question hangs above a partnership, when Cagney steps
over the limits to ensnare an elusive drugs dealer and asks
Lacey to fabricate her account of the arrest. And what price
the Isbecki-Petrie team, when a chance remark hits close to home?

10.30pm Val Donican's Christmas Party
Val invites you to join him and his guests in a programme of
music and fun for all the family. with his guests Pat Boone
James Galway, Janet Brown, Stockton's Wing

11.20pm The Good Life Christmas Special
Tom and Barbara, Margo and Jerry, plan their respective
Christmases - but neither goes according to plan.

11.50pm The First Communion of Christmas
from the Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfrid at Ripon.
For 1,300 years Christians have gathered on this site for worship.
Join the congregation as they celebrate the birth of Jesus in the
ancient minster. Introduced by Canon David Ford

12.50am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Monday 23rd December 1985

BBC1


6.00am Ceefax AM
6.50am Breakfast Time
9.20am The Littlest Hobo
9.45am The Hunter
9.50am Play Chess
10.00am Charlie Brown
10.25am Roobarb
10.30am Play School
10.50am Songs of Praise
11.50am The Pink Panther Show
12.10pm Tom and Jerry
12.20pm Junior Kick Start
12.50pm News
1.00pm Regional News
Weather
1.05pm Pebble Mill at One
1.45pm Pigeon Street
2.00pm Film : That's Action (1977)
3.45pm Tom and Jerry
3.52pm Regional News
3.55pm Cinderella
4.10pm Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
4.35pm SuperTed
4.40pm Jonny Briggs
5.00pm John Craven's Newsround
5.05pm Blue Peter
5.35pm Rolf Harris Cartoon Time
6.00pm Six O'Clock News
Weather
6.35pm Regional news magazines
7.00pm Wogan
7.35pm The Golden Oldie Christmas Show
8.00pm The 1973 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News
9.25pm The Monday Film : The Fog (1980)
10.55pm Dame Vera Lynn
11.35pm Taxi
12.00 Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 22nd December 1985

BBC1

8.55am Play School
9.15am Articles of Faith
9.30am This is the Day
10.00am Asian Magazine
10.30am Former Glory
11.50am See Hear!
12.40pm Farming
1.05pm News Headlines
1.10pm Rockspell
2.00pm EastEnders Omnibus
3.00pm Tom and Jerry
3.10pm Botham Over Britain
3.40pm The Treble
4.45pm Sky-dive to Autana
5.30pm Oliver Twist
6.00pm Sir Richard Attenborough
President of the Muscular Dystrophy Group appeals on its behalf.
6.05pm News
6.15pm Songs of Praise
7.15pm Film : The Jazz Singer (1980) Première
9.05pm News, Weather
9.20pm TV Film : Shadowlands (1985)
10.50pm Do They Know it's Christmas?
11.20pm Manilow's Christmas Magic
12.10am Weather