Christmas TV

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Saturday 21st December 1985

BBC1

8.30am The Family-Ness
8.35am Children of Fire Mountain
9.00am Saturday SuperStore
12.15pm Grandstand
5.05pm News, Weather
5.15pm Sport/Regional News
5.20pm The Krankies Elektronik Komik
5.50pm Bob's Full House
6.25pm Film : Carry On Follow that Camel (1967)
8.00pm Juliet Bravo
8.50pm Only Fools and Horses...
9.20pm News and Sport
Weather
9.35pm Edge of Darkness
11.20pm Film : Dead Cert (1974)
12.50am Weather

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Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1984

11.10am A Lineside Look at Model Railways
with Bob Symes

12.00 Film : Gnomes (1980)

1.00pm Channel Four Racing
from Kempton Park

3.00pm Channel Four's Year of Gold

4.00pm Film : The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
starring Gary Cooper

6.00pm That's Street Entertainment!

7.00pm News Summary and Weather followed by
Rigoletto English National Opera

9.30pm Ian Breakwell's Christmas Diary
The Monarch of Misrule

9.45pm Film : La Vérité (1960)
starring Brigitte Bardot

12.10am Closedown

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CHANNEL 4
Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1984

11.10am Il Poverello - The Story of St Francis of Assisi

12.00 Film : The Custard Boys (1979)
starring Chris Chescoe

1.30pm The World of Children

1.50pm Film : Jour de Fête (1949)
starring Jacques Tati

3.20pm Film : The Young Visiters (1984)
starring Tracey Ullman

5.00pm The Queen

5.10pm Giselle ballet

7.10pm News Summary and Weatherfollowed by
Loriot

8.00pm Brookside

8.30pm See How They Run

10.00pm Jean Sibelius
The Early Years/Maturity and Silence

11.55pm Ian Breakwell's Christmas Diary

12.15am Closedown

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CHANNEL 4

Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1984

2.00pm Los Villancicos

3.30pm Wet Paint
artistic documentary

3.55pm Class of '39

5.30pm Greenland - the Vikings Return

6.00pm Film : Dark Enemy
starring Rory MacFarquhar

7.30pm News Summary and Weather

7.35pm Making a Splash

8.00pm The Mating Call

9.00pm Placido
A Year in the Life of Placido Domingo

10.45pm Ian Breakwell's Christmas Diary
Victorian Values

10.55pm Film : A Place of One's Own
starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason

12.40am Closedown

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Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1984

ITV LONDON

6.25am TV-am
Good Morning Britain's Boxing Day Spectacular

9.25am The Pied Piper of Hamelin
puppet version told by Robert Hardy(Repeat)

9.55am Cartoon Time

10.05am Film : Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
starring Danny Kaye

12.00 The Cresta Run
Sandy Gall tells the story of the 100 year old St Moritz Toboggan Club

1.00pm ITN News

1.05pm The World's Greatest Escape Artist
Chris Shayland performs many stunts, David Frost presents

2.00pm TV Film : Kim
starring Peter O'Toole and Bryan Brown

4.40pm Crossroads

5.10pm ITN News and Sport

5.30pm Name That Tune, with Lionel Blair, Maggie Moone and Kaluki

6.00pm This Is Your Life, with Eamonn Andrews

6.45pm Coronation Street

7.15pm The Mike Yarwood Show
with Mike Yarwood, Cliff Richard

8.15pm Minder
Around the Corner, starring George Cole and Dennis Waterman

9.15pm Film : Airplane! (1980)
starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty and Lloyd Bridges

10.50pm ITN News

11.05pm Elton John in Central Park

12.10am Peace
a Christmas message from Gill Nevill

12.20am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

12.10am Closedown

ITV CENTRAL

9.55am Laurel & Hardy

4.45pm Name That Tune

5.30pm Crossroads

ITV ANGLIA

12.10am Soumi — Land of the Finns

ITV GRANADA

12.10am Benson

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Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1984

ITV LONDON

6.25am TV-am : Good Morning Britain's Christmas Party
With Nick Owen, Anne Diamond, Wincey Willis, Rustie Lee, Gyles Brandreth, Eve Pollard and Jeni Barnett
The Caring Christmas Campaign comes to a successful end and we meet the winner of the 'Design a Card for Santa' competition.
Dr Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, brings a Christmas message plus carols with the Good Morning Britain kids
Cartoon Special is at 6.25 and News with Gordon Honeycombe at 7.00, 8.00 and 9.00
Roland Rat Superstar phones children in hospital to wish them a Merry Christmas

9.25am Dangermouse Double Bill
Once Upon a Time Slip & The Long lost Crown Affair
with the voices of David Jason and Terry Scott (Repeat)

9.45am Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
Ringo Starr reads the stories. In Dirty Objects, James the Red Engine learns it is unwise to speak rudely to other engines. You never know what will happen next.

9.55am Emu at Christmas with Rod Hull
Carol Lee Scott, Susan Maughan, Carl Wayne, Freddie Stevens
King Boggle, Princess Hortensia and the faithful Odd Job John make their first visit to the outside world.


10.35am The Christmas Morning Service
from St George's Chapel, Windsor
The Queen and members of the Royal Family are in attendance as Alastair Burnet introduces traditional morning worship, which includes many of the
most loved Christmas carols and hymns, from St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.

11.45am Film : Bugs Bunny's Looney Movie (1981)
Bugs Bunny stars in this wild and rollicking feature length movie, romping with his pals through a three-act film featuring a collection of
Fritz Freleng's cartoons -- some classic, some new.

1.15pm Top Pop Videos of '84
A selection of the years top pop videos from the biggest selling British single releases, featuring Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Wham!,
Duran Duran, and Boy George with Culture Club

2.00pm Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean Special An hour of non-stop action from the greatest-ever ice dance pair. Torvill and Dean's searing interpretation of Bolero at the championships
in Ottawa last March won them their fourth consecutive world title, but their earlier performances are just as memorable.
Their rock roll 'exhibition of 1981 helped inspire the Original Set Pattern rock 'n' roll routine in the 1983 world championships in Helsinki.
You can see both performances in this programme, which also contains previously unscreened highlights from the last four years of their amateur
career. Simon Reed introduces this special Christmas programme

3.00pm The Queen
The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth

3.10pm The James Bond Film : The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
starring Roger Moore
James Bond's search for the dreaded Scaramanga — professional assassin, million dollar killer, the man with the golden gun --
takes him and his lovely assistant Mary Goodnight, via Beirut and Macao, to Hong Kong and Thailand. Knowing that Scaramanga has
stolen a device that is the key to harnessing the sun's energy, Bond sets out to retrieve it

5.25pm ITN News

5.30pm Give Us a Clue
a special Christmas edition of the celebrity charades game, presented by Michael Parkinson, with Una Stubbs, Julia McKenzie, Nicola Paget,
Julie Walters, Lionel Blair, Spike Milligan, Wayne Sleep and Bernie Winters

6.00pm Bring Me Sunshine - A Tribute to Eric Morecambe OBE
introduced by Ernie Wise from the London Palladium in aid of the British Heart Foundation
In the presence of Prince Philip, Patron of the Foundation, and guest of honour Mrs Joan Morecambe, the stars pay tribute to a much-loved
comedian who died earlier this year. The range and quality of artistes appearing make it an outstanding show business event.
They are: Michael Aspel Kenny Ball, Alison Bell, Lionel Blair, Max Bygraves, Cannon & Ball, James Casey, Roy Castle, Petula Clark, Leslie Crowther,
Barry Cryer, Suzanne Danielle, Jim Davidson, Dickie Davies, Frank Finlay, Bruce Forsyth, Jill Gascoine, Cherry Gillespie, Hannah Gordon, The Half Wits,
Susan Hampshire, Dickie Henderson, Benny Hill, Diane Keen, Bonnie Langford, Lulu, Francis Matthews, Fulton Mackay, Nanette Newman,
Des O'Connor, Mick Oliver, Elaine Paige, Michael Parkinson, Bertice Reading, Angela Rippon, Wayne Sleep, Jimmy Tarbuck, John Thaw,
The Tiller Girls (Choreographer Fred Peters) Arthur Tolcher, Bryn Williams, Ernie Wise, Eli Woods, Mike Yarwood

8.30pm Film : Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
starring Harrison Ford and Karen Allen
Returning from a hair-raising adventure in the jungles of South America in 1936, from which he is lucky to escape with his life, buccaneering archaeologist
Indiana Jones learns that Nazi treasure hunters are believed to have found the 'lost' Egyptian city containing the Well of Souls, supposed to be the hiding
place of the 'ark containing the tablets of God's law. Indiana finds the trail to Egypt packed with perils...

10.40pm ITN News

10.45pm Des O'Connor Tonight
Des O'Connor invites you to join him in a special Christmas edition of his show when he celebrates the festive season with some of the best
international entertainers around. So sit back and enjoy yourself as Des interviews his guests in that unique, relaxed style that's spiced with amusing
anecdotes and jokes. There are also a few surprises to round off 50 minutes of fun that you won't want to miss

11.35pm The Christmas Night Thriller : Home for the Holidays (1972)
starring Walter Brennan, Jessica Walter (TV Film)
Old Benjamin Morgan's four daughters are coming back for Christmas to heir family home --for the first time in nine years.
Benjamin needs them, for he suspects that his young second wife, Elizabeth, is trying to poison him.

12.50pm Peace
To achieve peace, bridges must be crossed and, on this Christmas night, meet some people who are building some of these bridges

1.00am Closedown

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Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1984

ITV LONDON (Thames)

6.25am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
presented by Anne Diamond, Nick Owen includes
Weather with Wincey at 6.28,6.59,7.28,7.59,8.28.8.59
News: Gordon Honeycombe 6.30,7.00,7.30,8.00,8.30,9.00
Sport: Richard Keys 6.39,7.37
Vox Pop 6.35
Mad Lizzie shakes out
Today's the Day :
Jeremy Beadle at 6.51
Wincey's Wall at 6.57,8.57
Caring Christmas
Campagn Update 7.14
Roland Rat at 7.22
Pop Video at 7.54
News Features 7.05,7.33,8.05
Competition Time 6.44,8.27
Monday Specials:
Astrology with Marjorie Orr 8.15
Greaves' TV Choice 8.34
Cinderella-The Roland
Rat Panto 8.37

9.25am Thames News Headlines
Father Murphy
Happiness is. . . starring Merlin Olsen

10.15am Cartoon Time
Mexican Mousepiece/Road to Andalay Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Speedy Gonzales(Repeat)

10.30am Film : Benji (1974)
starring Edgar Buchanan

12.00 Freetime Christmas Special
with Mick Robertson, Kim Goody
Join Mick and Kim for the Freetime Christmas extravaganza Play the game,
meet the stars and find out if the Reindeer Rebels can beat the Snowball Screamers

12.30pm Goodwill to All Men
In the seaside town of Deal, in Kent, the mining community is preparing for Christmas.
But how will it be this year? The miners' strike is now in its ninth month and the programme
shows the preparation for the celebration of the birth of Christ through the eyes of a miner
and his family and through the eyes of the clergy for whom the strike has posed a moral dilemma

1.00pm News at One
Carol Barnes reports on news at home and abroad. Plus weather forecast and Financial Times share index

1.20pm Thames News
with Robin Houston

1.30pm The Birth of Christ A look at the hidden meaning behind some of the paintings most often used to illustrate Christmas cards.
Presenter Oliver Hunkin discusses the birth of Christ as seen by the Old Masters, with passages from the Bible read by Bill Croasdale

1.45pm Scarecrow and Mrs King
The Long Christmas Eve starring Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner


2.45pm Take Over
Could you land the world's fastest passenger plane? Or drive an armoured vehicle at high speed over rough ground?
Suzanne Danielle, Sally James, Peter Davison and Derek Thompson join with four members of the public to find out.
With the aid of a simulator, presenter Brough Scott puts them to the test landing Concorde.
The teams will be competing for a return flight on Concorde to Miami

3.10pm Film : The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
starring Peter Sellers and Christopher Plummer
For years, the priceless jewel known as the Pink Panther has remained on display as the national treasure of the eastern state of Lugash.
Theft is impossible — but, with a combination of a crossbow, aerosol spray, floor wax and a very clever criminal,
the impossible is achieved. General Wadafi, the head of state, insists that Inspector Clouseau, the Suretè detective who recovered the Panther
once before, be called in. Clouseau, already suspended for bungling, is reinstated. He immediately decides that the theft is the work of his old enemy, The Phantom.

5.15pm The Wind in the Willows
A Yuletide Entertainment, animation
The annual Christmas entertainment at Toad Hall is a wonderful opportunity for Toad to show off. Speeches by Toad, songs by Toad and
Toad the star of the show.

5.45pm News at 5.45

6.00pm Thames News
with Tina Jenkins, John Andrew

6.25pm Help!
Viv Taylor Gee with community action news

6.35pm Crossroads

7.00pm What's My Line ? Christmas Special
presented by Eamonn Andrews

7.30pm Coronation Street
It's Christmas Eve and there are presents for all. Vera Duckworth gets the tree she wanted and Rita Fairclough is delighted to receive #
an unexpected visitor. Bill Webster is hoping the season of goodwill will rub off on Kevin

8.00pm Jim Davidson's Falklands Special
A unique film, narrated by John Mills, follows the British entertainer 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic, which, two and-a-half years ago,
was a scene of conflict.

9.00pm Film : Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)

Dick Harper, an aerospace engineering executive, and his wife Jane have a model middle-class American marriage, .a child, a dog, a black maid,
a large new house and some extensive debts. But 1976 is a slack year for aerospace activities and when Dick is summarily fired by his boss, the
Harpers face an immediate crisis: no company car or credit cards, an unfinished swimming pool, a sudden influx of massive bills... and no cash.
Jane tries part-time modelling while Dick carries a spear at the opera. When nothing slows their panic-stricken descent into poverty,
Dick and Jane decide to turn to a life of crime...

10.40pm ITN News

10.50pm Joy to the World presented by David Pickering with Jean Alexander, Jeremy Brett, Johnny Briggs, David Burke, Kid Creole, Betty Driver,
Jane Eaglen, Julie Goodyear, Don Henderson, David Pickering, Rosalie Williams
David Pickering, 12-year-old Chorister of the Year, takes . you on a magical tour of Christmas past and present. Baker Street, Coronation Street,
11.40pm The Blessing of the Crib and the First Mass of Christmas
from the Church of John the Baptist, Newcastle upon Tyne Maxwell Deas introduces this service. The vicar is the Rev John Dudley, assistant priest the
Rev Anthony Magness,honorary assistant priest the Rev Graham Emery. Organist and choirmaster is Geoffrey Watson, deputy organist Trevor Steven

12.40am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

9.25am Sesame Street

10.25am Cartoon
(until 10.30)

1.20pm Calendar News
(until 1.30)

6.00pm Calendar
(until 6.35)

ITV CENTRAL

9.30am London Calling

10.25am Christmas Message

6.00pm Crossroads

6.25pm Central News

ITV ANGLIA

9.25am Sesame Street

10.25am Cartoon
(until 10.30)

6.00pm About Anglia

ITV GRANADA

9.25am Sesame Street

10.25am Cartoon
(until 10.30)

6.00am Crossroads

6.25pm Granada Reports

ITV TYNE TEES

9.25am Sesame Street

10.25am Cartoon
(until 10.30)

6.02pm Crossroads

6.25pm Northern Life

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New Year's Eve Monday 31st December 1984

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
12.45pm Racing from Newbury
2.45pm International Basketball
4.15pm The Real Good Life
4.45pm Telly Quiz
5.15pm Film : Chaplin - The Circus (1928)
6.25pm Bilko on Parade
6.55pm My Music
7.25pm Global Report
9.00pm Film : Day for Night (1973)
10.50pm 84 Whistle Test 85
1.30am Closedown

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Sunday 30th December 1984

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
1.50pm Film : Chaplin - City Lights (1931)
3.15pm Rugby Special
4.00pm One Man and His Dog
4.45pm Geoffrey Smith's World of Flowers
5.10pm Film : The Wizard of Oz (1939)
6.50pm Cartoon
7.00pm Ski Sunday
7.35pm News on Two, Weather
7.45pm The Natural World
8.35pm The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert
9.45pm The Times at 200
10.35pm Film : Looking for Mr Goodbar (1977) Première
12.50am Closedown

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Saturday 29th December 1984

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
3.15pm The Chaplin Revue
4.35pm Film : Bearheart of the Northwest (1978)
5.55pm The Saturday Alternative : The Royal Ballet in Romeo and Juliet
8.10pm Saturday Review 1984
9.25pm Fanny and Alexander
11.45pm Hammer Horror
Film : The Mummy (1959)
1.15am Closedown

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Friday 28th December 1984

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
1.45pm Richard Rodgers : The Sound of his Music
3.25pm Film : Chaplin - A King in New York (1957)
5.15pm News Summary, Weather
5.20pm Penrose
5.50pm Telly Quiz
6.20pm Choir of the Year 1984
7.30pm Diving
8.00pm Do They Mean Us?
8.45pm Fanny and Alexander
10.05pm Hammer Horror Double Bill
Film : The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
11.25pm Film : Dracula (1958)
12.50am Closedown

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Thursday 27th December 1984

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
12.45pm Film : The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
2.20pm Schools Prom 84
3.10pm Cartoons
3.25pm Film : Chaplin - Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
5.25pm News Summary, Weather
5.30pm Telly Quiz
6.00pm Film : Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
8.00pm Former Glory
9.00pm The Best.... and Worst of Entertainment USA
9.55pm M*A*S*H : Goodbye, Farewell and Amen
11.50pm Lindisfarne Christmas Show
12.35am Closedown

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Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1984

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax

12.45pm Racing from Wincanton
with Julian Wilson (1.00, 1.30, 2.00 races)

2.15pm In Pursuit of the Boar
narrated by Joss Ackland

3.05pm Film : The Great Dictator (1940)
starring Charlie Chaplin, with Paulette Goddard

5.05pm The Big H
Leeds schoolchildren in a drama by Tony Harrison with music by
Dominic Muldowney

5.50pm Telly Quiz
third programme of the celebrity quiz hosted by Jerry Stevens

6.20pm Ingrid
biographical documentary about Ingrid Bergman

7.25pm Hay Fever
Noel Coward's play, starring Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington,
Patricia Hodge, Benjamin Whitrow, Joan Sims, Susan Wooldridge
and many others

9.00pm Pavarotti at Madison Square Garden
with music by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra

10.15pm Innings of the Year
Viv Richards' 189 not out v England at Old Trafford on 31 May

10.45pm Film : The Third Man (1949)
starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles

12.30am Closedown

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Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1984

BBC2

9:00am Pages from Ceefax

1:55pm Film : Chaplin - A Dog's Life (1918)
starring Charlie Chaplin is the tramp in this classic
two-reeler co-stars the 'Tramp' with scraps, a mongrel.
Both are temporarily down on their luck - but a little charm
and imagination wins the day.... The music to the film is, once
again, by Chaplin.

2:35pm Polar Bear Alert
Polar bears are among the world's most dangerous animals.
For most of the year they are out on the ice of Hudson Bay -
until it melts, when they come ashore and Churchill,
Manitoba, becomes reluctant host to them for two months.
They saunter down Main Street, plunder the rubbish dump,
and break into homes - posing problems for the Bear Patrol

3:25pm Film : Chaplin - Limelight (1952)
starring Charlie Chaplin
once a star, is now only a theatrical memory. Returning home drunk
one evening, he fortuitously saves a young ballet dancer from suicide.
Their subsequent friendship alters the course of both their careers.
Chaplin's moving portrait of a once-famous music-hall comedian
was the last film he made in America and includes his famous joint
appearance with Buster Keaton.

5:35pm Telly Quiz
with Jerry Stevens who asks
Easy, Medium or Hard?
Medium : Who or what have Big Fry and 007 got in common?
The answer is not in today's quiz but Team Quaker,
Salt Cellar and Mal's Lot still have a great deal to compete about

6:05pm The Nutcracker
From the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Scottish Ballet presents a sparkling
production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. After a sumptuous
Christmas party Clara helps the Nutcracker Prince defeat an army
of giant mice and is transported to the Land of Snow

7:50pm The Master of Mouton
Russell Harty visits Baron Philippe de Rothschild at Chateau Mouton
in the heart of the Medoc and gives a personal glimpse of the most
colourful member of the Rothschild dynasty

8:40pm The Queen
A Christmas Day programme in which
HM The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth.
With open subtitles and sign language interpretation for the
deaf and hard-of-hearing.

8:55pm Film : Kaos (1984)
This visually stunning film brings to life four of Luigi Pirandello's short
stories. Tales of love, sorrow and laughter, shaded by superstition and
gentle irony and dominated by the harsh landscapes of Sicily,
lead to an imagined episode in the writer's own life.
(An Italian film with English subtitles)
Première

12.00 Closedown

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Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1984

BBC2

9.00am Ceefax

1.45pm On the Tracks of the Wild Otter

2.35pm Film : The Gold Rush (1925)
with Charlie Chaplin

3.45pm The Telly Quiz
presented by Jerry Stevens

4.15pm The First Noels
final part of the series tracing the history of Christmas carols,
presented by Sir Geraint Evans

4.35pm Alias St Nick, cartoon

4.45pm Film : Little Women (1949)
starring June Allyson, Margaret O`Brien, Elizabeth Taylor & Janet Leigh

6.40pm Long Beach Olympiad
documentary, narrated by Ray Moore, about Olympic Yachting

7.30pm News Summary
with subtitles

7.35pm Born in Bethlehem
the BBC Chorus with Aled Jones in Bethlehem, with readings
by Isla Blair and narration by Martin Jarvis

8.25pm Lena Horne: the Lady and Her Music
one-woman show recorded at the Nederlander Theater, NY

10.00pm Film : The Quiet Man (1952)
starring John Wayne and Maureen O`Hara

12.10am Closedown