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  • Re: Christmas TV

    Wednesday 30th December 1981

    BBC1


    9.50am Jackanory
    10.05am The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
    10.25am Why Don't You...?
    10.50am Play Chess!
    11.00am Go with Noakes
    11.30am King of the Rocket Men
    11.40am The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries
    12.30pm News After Noon
    12.45pm Fingerbobs
    1.00pm Behind the Greasepaint
    1.30pm An American Adventure
    2.30pm Film : Tommy the Toreador (1959)
    3.53pm Regional News
    (excluding London)
    3.55pm Play School
    4.20pm Mighty Mouse
    4.25pm Jackanory
    4.40pm Cheggers Plays Pop
    5.10pm The Devil and Daniel Mouse
    5.35pm Ivor the Engine
    5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
    5.50pm Cartoon : Alias St Nick
    (London and South East only)
    News (All other English regions)
    6.00pm Barney's Choice
    6.45pm Angels
    7.35pm Seconds Out
    8.05pm Tales from The Thousand and One Nights
    10.00pm Main News, Weatherman
    10.10pm Robinson Cruising
    11.05pm Iris
    11.40pm Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko
    12.05am Weatherman
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    • Re: Christmas TV

      New Year's Eve Thursday 31st December 1981

      BBC1

      9.20am Gymnast
      9.45am The Perishers
      9.50am Jackanory
      10.05am The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
      10.25am Why Don't You....?
      10.50am Play Chess!
      11.00am Mary Chipperfield's Wildest School on Earth
      11.30am King of the Rocket Men
      11.40am The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries
      12.30pm News After Noon
      12.42pm Regional News
      (excluding London and SE)
      News Headlines (London and SE only)
      12.45pm King Rollo
      12.50pm Stop - Go!
      1.00pm Holiday Double Bill
      Film : Saddle the Wind (1958)
      Première
      2.20pm Film : The Outriders (1950)
      3.53pm Regional News
      (excluding London)
      3.55pm Play School
      4.20pm Mighty Mouse
      4.25pm Jackanory
      4.35pm Charlie Brown
      5.00pm Blue Peter Review of the Year
      5.35pm Ivor the Engine
      5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
      5.50pm Bugs Bunny in Jack Wabbit and the Beanstalk
      (London and South East only)
      Regional News (All other English regions)
      6.00pm Top of the Pops: All the Number Ones of 1981
      6.35pm The Dick Emery Christmas Show
      7.25pm TV Film : Elvis - The Movie (1979)
      Première
      10.10pm Main News, Weatherman
      10.20pm Pick of 81
      11.20pm 81 Take 2
      11.55pm Across the Years
      12.05am Hi There 82!
      12.58am Weather
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      • Re: Christmas TV

        Saturday 19th December 1981

        ​ BBC2


        3.00pm Film : Cliff Richard in The Young Ones (1961)
        4.45pm Play Away
        5.10pm The Sky at Night
        5.30pm Film : Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
        7.00pm News and Sport, Weather
        7.15pm Did You See...?
        7.55pm The Royal Opera presents Samson et Dalila
        10.20pm Playhouse Special: Gentle Folk
        11.35pm Midnight Movie
        Film : Breezy (1973)
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        • Re: Christmas TV

          Sunday 20th December 1981

          BBC2


          1.30pm Horizon
          2.30pm Harold Lloyd
          3.45pm Ski Sunday
          4.20pm Adventures of the Small Carp
          4.40pm Daredevils of the Red Circle
          5.00pm News Review
          5.30pm Rugby Special
          6.30pm The Money Programme
          7.15pm The World About Us
          8.05pm News on 2
          8.10pm Miss Julie
          9.00pm Grand Slam
          9.25pm The Borgias
          10.15pm Film : The Man who Fell to Earth (1987)



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          • Re: Christmas TV

            Monday 21st December 1981

            BBC2


            11.00am Play School
            11.25am Closedown
            2.35pm Harold Lloyd
            3.55pm Star Movie
            Film : The Dark Mirror (1946)
            5.15pm Howard Shelley
            5.25pm Under Sail
            5.40pm Daredevils of the Red Circle
            6.00pm The Record Breakers
            6.25pm Cartoon Two
            6.35pm Living in the Past
            7.05pm News Summary, Weather
            7.10pm One Hundred Great Paintings
            7.20pm Tales of Twelve Cities
            8.10pm Dave Allen
            9.00pm Paul Scofield in If Winter Comes
            10.00pm Horizon
            11.05pm Stephane Grappelli
            11.35pm Late News, Weather
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            • Re: Christmas TV

              Tuesday 22nd December 1981

              BBC2


              11.00am Play School
              11.25am Closedown
              2.00pm The King's Army
              2.30pm Harold Lloyd
              3.45pm Antiques Roadshow
              4.25pm Everybody's Doin' It
              4.45pm In Search of ... William the Conqueror
              5.40pm Daredevils of the Red Circle
              6.00pm Grange Hill
              6.25pm The Waltons
              7.10pm News Summary, Weather
              7.15pm One Hundred Great Paintings
              7.25pm A Question of Equality
              8.10pm Russell Harty
              9.00pm Film : The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
              11.40pm Late News, Weather







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                Wednesday 23rd December 1981

                BBC2

                ​ 10.20am Gharbar
                10.45am Closedown
                11.00am Play School
                11.25am Closedown
                2.00pm The King's Army
                2.30pm Harold Lloyd
                3.55pm One Man and His Dog
                4.35pm Howard Shelley
                4.40pm Vikings!
                5.10pm To Oulton with Love
                5.40pm Daredevils of the Red Circle
                6.00pm Grange Hill
                6.25pm Life on Earth
                7.20pm News Summary, Weather
                7.25pm One Hundred Great Paintings
                7.35pm Grapevine
                8.10pm Strangeways
                9.00pm Film : White Christmas (1954)
                10.55pm Late News, Weather
                11.00pm Schalcken the Painter


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                • Re: Christmas TV

                  Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1981

                  BBC2

                  11.00am Play School

                  Story : The Christmas Spiders presented by Carol Leader, Ben Thomas

                  11.25am Closedown

                  2.50pm Harold Lloyd

                  Girl Shy
                  Shy boy Harold is distracted from writing his book on love-making
                  when he learns the girl he loves is to marry a scheming bigamist (b&w)


                  3.55pm Film : Summer Holiday (1963)
                  starring Cliff Richard
                  Four young London Transport workers borrow a double-decker bus
                  for their Continental holiday. The trip to Athens, in spite of misadventures,
                  proves to be their best summer holiday ever


                  5.40pm All Creatures Great and Small
                  1/14 Plenty to Grouse About
                  Parasites ... red tape ... a tubercular cow ... and Siegfried takes
                  an instant dislike to Mr Murray who ill-treats a dog, as a vet's
                  life in Skeldale Surgery continues


                  6.35pm Film : The Belstone Fox (1973)
                  starring Eric Porter, Jeremy Kemp and Heather Wright
                  Tag, an orphan fox-cub, is adopted by a professional huntsman
                  and reared with a litter of hound puppies. From this strange
                  beginning Tag retains the instincts of a fox yet becomes the constant
                  companion to Merlin, a puppy hound. When the new season starts
                  the fox becomes a victim of the hunt - but proves too wily for the
                  hunters and disaster strikes


                  8.15pm News with Moira Stuart Weather

                  8.20pm One Hundred Great Paintings
                  Raphael (1483-1520)
                  Madonna in the Meadow at the Kunsthistorisches Museum


                  8.30pm Christmas Eve with Pam Ayres and Fivepenny Piece
                  Music and comedy from Berkshire and Lancashire, when Pam Ayres
                  meets Fivepenny Piece in a celebration of Christmas. The meeting is
                  on neutral ground at Cheshire's brand new Spectrum Arena


                  9.00pmStar Over Bethlehem
                  A musical celebration for Christmas Eve. Seven nations come together
                  in a live global concert united by the man-made star of today - the
                  communications satellite.
                  From The Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem; Mount Royal in Montreal,
                  Canada; St Martin's Old Church. Garmisch, W Germany; Virginia Beach,
                  USA; Cathedral of St Pierre , Geneva, Switzerland; St Andrew's
                  Church Nairobi, Kenya; St Martin-in-the-Fields,
                  Trafalgar Square, London​


                  10.00pm The Old Grey Whistle Test
                  presents Toyah in a special Christmas Eve concert live from the
                  Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, with stereo sound on Radio 1
                  Introduced by Anne Nightingale


                  11.05pm Late News with Moira Stuart Weather

                  11.15pm Russell Harty at Home
                  Join Russell in his Yorkshire home for a Christmas Eve party with
                  Cilla Black,
                  The Cambridge Buskers, Dame Edna Everage, Madge Hindle, Arthur
                  Marshall, Edna O'Brien, The Great Soprendo, John Tovey, Giggleswick
                  and Settle Brass Band, Keasden Carol Singers, Kirkby Lonsdale
                  Handbell Ringers​


                  12.05am Liszt's Christmas Tree Suite
                  played by Rhondda Gillespie (piano)
                  Many of the 12 short movements are based on traditional
                  Christmas songs and the work was intended for family music
                  making
                  (Repeat)

                  12.50am Closedown


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                  • Re: Christmas TV

                    Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1981

                    BBC2

                    11:00am Play School
                    Story : The Christmas Story presented by Carol Leader, Ben Thomas

                    11.25am Closedown

                    2:00pm Harold Lloyd in The Freshman (1925)

                    In his uniquely riotous way Harold plays an intrepid college boy
                    intent on becoming Most Popular Man on Campus


                    3:10pm A Charlie Brown Christmas
                    Charlie Brown is depressed by the modern spirit of Christmas - even
                    Snoopy has gone commercial! ' What you need is involvement'
                    advises Lucy for five cents. So Charlie Brown is asked to direct the
                    Christmas play ...
                    (Repeat)

                    3:35pm Film : Uproar in Heaven (1961)
                    This cartoon film from China relates the misadventures and
                    misfortunes of mischievous Monkey before he sets out on his epic
                    journey to India to help bring back the tablets of the Buddha and
                    how he incurred the wrath of the celestial Jade Emperor and was
                    flung out of Heaven for stealing the peaches of immortality


                    5:25pm Joseph and Child
                    Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Born is the King of Israel.
                    But who actually delivered the new-born King? Arthur Dooley 's
                    sculpture Joseph and Child, commissioned by the Church of St
                    Joseph the Worker in Kirkby, shows Joseph holding up the child he
                    has helped to deliver.
                    This film tells how Dooley developed his ideas into a remarkable
                    sculpture
                    (Repeat)

                    5:40pm Sounds of Christmas
                    Richard Stilgoe introduces a concert of carols and Christmas music
                    from the Royal Albert Hall, London. featuring The London
                    Choral Society conductor Nicholas Cleobury with The King's Singers,
                    The English Brass Ensemble, The Haberdashers' Aske's School Boys' Choir


                    6:35pm The Queen
                    speaks to the Commonwealth, with subtitles for the hard-of-hearing

                    6:45pm One Hundred Great Paintings
                    Tonight's Christmas choice is: Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
                    Virgin and Child with St Anne at the Louvre, Paris.
                    Giorgio Vasari, the first biographer of Leonardo, wrote, 'The heavens
                    often rain down the richest gifts on human beings naturally, but
                    sometimes with lavish abundance bestow upon a single individual
                    beauty, grace and ability, so that whatever he does, every action is
                    so divine that he outdistances all other men'


                    6:55pm Film : Dersu Uzala (1975)
                    In 1902 a Russian army unit, commanded by Captain Arsenyev, is
                    conducting a survey of the huge forest on Russia's Pacific
                    seaboard. When a strange old man emerges from the forest they are
                    at first inclined to ridicule him, but Dersu Uzala 's uncanny
                    instinct for survival soon earns their respect
                    a Russian film with English subtitles


                    9:15pm News on 2
                    with Moira Stuart
                    Weather

                    9:25pm Margot Fonteyn introduces the London Festival Ballet
                    in two ballets that go back to the Edwardian world of Elgar and the
                    high spirits of Vienna with the music of Johann Strauss. The
                    Sanguine Fan Carlton House Terrace, a summer evening 1905​


                    10:30pm Country Holiday
                    A sing-along of Country Music songs from the circus ring of The
                    Hippodrome, Great Yarmouth led by Little Ginny, Lome Gibson,
                    The Mintings, Pete Sayers, Tammy Cline and George Hamilton IV
                    The 35 songs in 45 minutes include medleys of juke-box favourites
                    and Hank Williams songs


                    11:15pm Jack Lemmon in : The War Between Men and Women (1972)
                    with Barbara Harris, Peter Wilson, a brilliant writer and cartoonist,
                    avoids and allegedly detests women. But a chance meeting - due
                    to his massive shortsightedness - sends him into the arms of an
                    attractive assistant at an eye specialist....
                    Humour and romantic complications are the order of the day in this
                    cynical, occasionally abrasive comedy, based on the writings of
                    James Thurber. A character brilliantly portrayed by Jack Lemmon
                    in his inimitable bitter-comic style
                    Première

                    1.05am Closedown
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                    • Re: Christmas TV

                      Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1981

                      BBC2

                      12.45pm Racing from Wincanton

                      1.00 The Coral Bookmakers Handicap Steeplechase (2m)
                      1.30 The Coral Golden Hurdle (Qualifier, Handicap. 2m)
                      2.00 The Better Bet Coral Steeplechase (Handicap. 2m 5f)

                      At the end of a memorable National Hunt year we also look back today at
                      some of the greatest achievements and the courageous efforts of both
                      horse and man. Introduced by Julian Wilson
                      Commentators : Peter O'Sullevan, Richard Pitman


                      2.15pm Cartoon Two
                      Many Moons
                      Narrated by Robert Morley


                      2.25pm Harold Lloyd
                      Movie Crazy
                      A starry-eyed small-town boy causes havoc in Hollywood as he tries to
                      crash the movies​


                      3.50pm Film : Wonderful Life (1964)
                      starring Cliff Richard with Walter Slezak, Susan Hampshire,
                      The Shadows
                      When Johnnie and his friends lose their jobs entertaining the
                      passengers on a Mediterranean cruise, they suddenly find
                      themselves in the middle of a very exotic film set. The result
                      is unexpected ...


                      5.40pm Strange Sickness
                      a cartoon from China
                      A young caterpillar is forced to adopt a disguise to get into the hospital
                      for useful insects, after eating a cabbage leaf covered in insect spray


                      6.00pm Sky at Westminster Abbey
                      A full-length version of the first televised concert in Westminster Abbey,
                      which took place earlier this year and featured the group Sky


                      7.25pm Arena : Superman
                      The Comic Strip Hero
                      This evening Arena patrols the skies above Metropolis in search of the
                      legend that is Superman ...
                      Meet Kirk Alyn, the first celluloid Superman and Christopher Reeve the
                      latest; Dr Fredric Wertham, Superman's greatest living adversary
                      Joanne, the model for Lois Lane; Dave 'Darth Vader' Prowse, who turned a
                      13-stone weakling into The Man of Steel and Superman's creators, the
                      legendary Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster


                      8.15pm News and Sport
                      with Jan Leemingand David Cass
                      Weather

                      8.25pm One Hundred Great Paintings
                      Today a new theme: Music
                      Piero Della Francesca (1420-1492)
                      The Nativity
                      National Gallery, London


                      8.35pm New York City Ballet
                      From the award-winning series Dance in America the great dancer
                      Edward Villella introduces the New York City Ballet in Jewels by
                      George Balanchine, the master choreographer of the 20th century


                      9.15pm The Levin Interviews
                      Bernard Levin talks to the four members of the Amadeus Quartet and
                      they play Schubert's Quartet Movement in c minor.
                      In 250 years of quartet playing, no group of musicians has stayed
                      together as long as the Amadeus Quartet. They are about to
                      celebrate their 35th year of playing, teaching and making records all
                      over the world. If one player had to stop for any reason, they would all
                      stop, for, as second violinist Siegmund Nissel says, ' I could not
                      contemplate playing quartets with someone else'​


                      10.10pm Film : How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
                      starring Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi and Terry-Thomas
                      Stanley Ford, creator of a successful strip cartoon character 'Bash
                      Brannigan, Secret Agent', lives an idyllic bachelor life in a
                      luxurious home, smoothly run by his manservant, Charles.
                      But one night at a party Stanley gets very drunk and wakes up
                      next morning to find himself married to a beautiful blonde​


                      12.05am Film : The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
                      starring Herbert Lom and Heather Sears
                      The tragic and frightening tale of the mad, disfigured musician who
                      terrorises a London opera house.
                      In the third screen version of this classic horror story, Herbert Lom
                      steps into the shoes previously occupied by Lon Chaney and Claude Rains


                      1.30am Closedown
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                      • Re: Christmas TV

                        Sunday 27th December 1981

                        BBC2

                        2.35pm A Fortnight at the Crucible,
                        highlights of this year`s championship, with David Vine & John Spencer

                        4.25pm Film : The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
                        starring Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville and Robert Helpmann

                        6.10pm News Review Special

                        6.40pm The World About Us

                        John Palling's view of pets

                        7.30pm One Hundred Great Paintings
                        The Pastoral Concert by Giorgione/Titian, with John Jacob

                        7.40pm Newswith Jan Leeming

                        7.45pm The Golden Conch
                        an animated film from China

                        8.20pm My Music
                        hosted by Steve Race

                        8.50pm The Silent World of Marcel Marceau
                        the mime artist talks to Donny MacLeod

                        9.45pm Grand Slam
                        bridge presented by Jeremy James

                        10.15pm Film : Save the Tiger (1973)
                        starring Jack Lemmon and Jack Gilford

                        11.55pm Olivia Newton-John
                        with Elton John and Cliff Richard

                        12.50am Closedown
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                        • Re: Christmas TV

                          Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1981

                          BBC2

                          11.00am Play School

                          Story : Sam's Woolly Hat

                          11.25am Closedown

                          12.30pm The World About Us
                          The Last Great Race on Earth
                          The 1,200 mile Alaska Dog Sled Race from Anchorage to Nome.
                          Narrator : Ian Wooldridge

                          1.20pm Harold Lloyd in The Kid Brother (1927)

                          2.40pm The End of an Era
                          The story of Wimbledon 1981 about Bjorn Borg

                          4.00pm Horizon
                          Painting by Numbers, a documentary about computer graphics

                          5.00pm Holiday Musical : The Great Caruso
                          starring Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth

                          6.45pm News Summary
                          with Richard Bakerwith subtitles for the hard of hearing
                          followed by Weather

                          6.50pm One Hundred Great Paintings
                          Roman Landscape -Annibale Carracci (1550-1609)

                          7.05pm From Magna Carta to Microchips : Principles, Standards and Methods
                          the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for Young People
                          1/6

                          8.05pm Scoop of the Year
                          Barry Norman takes a light-hearted look back at 1981 and tests
                          the memories of Graeme Garden, Diane Harron, Derek Jameson,
                          Miles Kington, Richard Stilgoe and Jane Walmsley

                          9.00pm Guernica
                          The Long Exile

                          9.45pm Jack Lemmon in Irma La Douce (1963)
                          also starring Shirley MacLaine

                          12.10am Closedown
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                          • Re: Christmas TV

                            Tuesday 29th December 1981

                            BBC2


                            11.00am Play School
                            11.25am Closedown
                            2.30pm Harold Lloyd
                            3.55pm Holiday Musical
                            Film : Can-Can (1960)
                            6.00pm The Waltons
                            6.45pm News Summary, Weather
                            6.50pm One Hundred Great Paintings
                            7.00pm T
                            he Royal Institution Christmas Lectures :
                            From Magna Carta to Microchips
                            8.00pm Newsnight
                            8.50pm Film : Jack Lemmon in The Apartment (1960)
                            10.50pm Late News, Weather
                            11.00pm The Best of Dean Martin
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                            • Re: Christmas TV

                              Wednesday 30th December 1981

                              BBC2

                              10.20am Gharbar
                              10.45am Closedown
                              11.00am Play School
                              11.25am Closedown
                              1.30pm Harold Lloyd
                              2.55pm Skydancer
                              3.25pm Vikings!
                              3.55pm Holiday Musical
                              Film : Song of Norway (1970)
                              6.10pm Life on Earth
                              7.05pm From Magna Carta to Microchips
                              8.05pm News Summary
                              8.10pm Global Report
                              10.10pm Film : Jack Lemmon in The April Fools (1969)
                              Première
                              11.40pm Late News, Weather



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                              • Re: Christmas TV

                                New Year's Eve Thursday 31st December 1981

                                BBC2

                                11.00am Play School
                                11.25am Closedown
                                12.30pm Racing from Cheltenham
                                2.45pm Bugs Bunny
                                2.50pm Harold Lloyd
                                4.00pm Holiday Musical
                                The Pirate (1948)
                                5.40pm All Creatures Great and Small
                                6.35pm Cowboy's Flute
                                6.55pm News Summary, Weather
                                7.00pm The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures :
                                From Magna Carta to Microchips
                                8.00pm Peter Ustinov and Natalie Wood at The Hermitage
                                9.30pm Hinge and Bracket's New Year's Eve Party
                                10.20pm Film : Jack Lemmon in The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
                                Première
                                11.55pm Late News, Weather
                                12.05am The Old Grey Whistle Test : Pick of the Year








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