Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1983
CHANNEL 4

2.05pm Film : Major Barbara (1941)
starring Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison

4.35pm Unforgettable Swingtime

5.05pm Brookside

6.00pm News Headlines and Weatherfollowed by
A Wee Bit Cheeky : Arnold Taylor

7.00pm Film : Stormy Weather (1943)
starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller

8.30pm An Evening with Max Wall

9.30pm It's Got to be Funny Hasn't It?
Max Wall Talking to Peter Williams

10.30pm The Worst of Hollywood : Film : Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
starring John Call

12.15am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Bank Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1983

ITV YORKSHIRE

6.25am Good Morning Britain
presented by Nick Owen & Anne Diamond

9.00am Roland's Winter Wonderland

9.25am Regional Weather Forecast
followed by
Sesame Street

10.25am The USSR Gymnastics and Sports Acrobatics Display

11.20am TV Film : Massarati and the Brain (1982)
starring Daniel Pilon, Peter Billingsley, Christopher Hewett

1.00pm ITN News

1.05pm Racing from Kempton

2.30pm Just Amazing!
introduced by Barry Sheene, Kenny Lynch, Suzanne Danielle

3.15pm Film : The Sons of Kate Elder (1965)
starringJohn Wayne, Dean Martin

5.25pm ITN News

5.30pm The Wind in the Willows

7.00pm This is Your Life
introduced by Eamonn Andrews

7.45pm The Mike Yarwood Hour
with guests Janet Brown, Suzanne Danielle, The Three Degrees

8.45pm ITN News

9.00pm Film : The China Syndrome (1979)
starring Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas

11.15pm Shirley Bassey - A Special Lady

12.15am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1983

ITV GRANADA

7.30am The Adventures of Mole
a special story for little children

8.00am TV-am's Boxing Day Show

9.00am Roland's Winter Wonderland

9.25am The Sooty Show Christmas Show
with Matthew Corbett (Repeat)

9.45am The Talking Parcel
animated version of Gerald Durrell's story, voiced by Freddie Jones,
Mollie Sugden, Roy Kinnear and Windsor Davies (Repeat)

10.25am Film : The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)

12.00 Take Over
simulator exploits introduced by Brough Scott, with captains Jenny Lee-Wright, Richard O'Sullivan and Isla St Clair

1.00pm ITN News

1.05pm Racing from Kempton
introduced by Brough Scott, with John Oaksey and Graham Goode (1.10, 1.40, 2.15 races)

2.30pm Film : The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
starring Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen

5.15pm ITN News and Sport

5.30pm Give Us a Clue
with Michael Aspel, Una Stubbs, Lionel Blair, Jane Asher, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jilly Cooper, Bob Geldof, Russel Grant, Tracey Ullman

6.00pm Coronation Street

6.30pm The James Bond Film : The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
starring Roger Moore

8.45pm Eric and Ernie's Christmas Show
with Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Gemma Craven, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Jacobi, Felicity Kendal, Burt Kwouk,
Jennie Linden, Fulton Mackay, Tony Monopoly, Patrick Mower, Nanette Newman, Peter Skellern

9.45pm Minder
Christmas Bonus
Terry and Arthur reminisce while at the Winchester Club, clip show with Dennis Waterman, George Cole and Glyn Edwards

10.45pm ITN News

10.50pm Des O'Connor Tonight
with Jimmy Tarbuck, Marti Caine, Charlie Callas

12.00 Tales of the Unexpected : Death in the Morning
starring Cherie Lunghi, Moray Watson, Carol Drinkwater

12.35am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1983

ITV GRANADA

7.00am Rub-a-Dub-Tub
Christmas Day Special with Bonnie Langford, Michelle Dotrice, Edward Woodward and Alan Dart

8.00am Christmas with TV-am
with a Thought for Christmas from Cardinal Hume & Chris Tarrant at the Queen Mary Hospital for Children

9.00am Roland's Winter Wonderland

9.25am The Night the Animals Talked
animated Nativity parable, with music & words by Sammy Cahn and Julie Styne

9.50am The Fraggles are Coming

9.55am Messengers to Earth
musical fantasy recorded at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Crediton

10.20am Christmas Morning Worship
from St Molua's Church, Belfast

11.20am The Magic Planet
ice skating fantasy spectacular

12.15pm Film : The Capture of Grizzly Adams (1982)
with Dan Haggerty (TV Movie)

2.00pm The Royal Year
ITN compilation

3.00pm The Queen

3.15pm Film : Superman (1978)
starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando

5.40pm Bullseye Christmas Special
presnted by Jim Bowen, with Kenneth Kendall and Anne Diamond

6.25pm ITN News

6.35pm A Royal Concert of Carols
in the presence of the Prince & Princess of Wales, with Marti Webb and Peter Donohoe

7.15pm Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Cards Right

7.45pm Jimmy Tarbuck's Christmas All Stars
with Bruce Forsyth, Mike Yarwood, Max Bygraves, Cannon & Ball, Shakin' Stevens, Bonnie Tyler, Michael Barrymore/ Game for a Laugh : Jeremy Beadle, Henry Kelly, Matthew Kelly, Sarah Kennedy/ from America by satellite : Andy Williams, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers,
David Hasselhoff

9.10pm Film : The Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Dyan Cannon

11.00pm ITN News

11.10pm The King's Christmas
with The King's Singers from Harewood House, Yorkshire

11.40pm The Streets of San Francisco
False Witness
with Karl Malden, Michael Douglas

12.30am A Different Christmas
Gillian Reynolds chats to Jimmy Savile at Stoke Mandeville Hospital

12.45am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV Granada except)

11.40pm Benson

12.10am A Different Christmas

12.20am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1983

ITV GRANADA

6.25am Good Morning Britain
A Christmas Eve Special, presented by Michael and Mary Parkinson

8.30am Roland's Winter Wonderland
the gang prepare for Father Christmas's visit

8.40am Data Run's Christmas Party
with Jeremy Beadle, Terry Jones, Man Machine the parcel passing robots and guests
Lynsey de Paul, the Belle Stars, the Lotus Eaters, Tracey Ullman and Madness

9.25am Metal Mickey
Panto Mickey with Irene Handl(Repeat)

9.55am Cartoon Time

10.05am The Monsters' Christmas
New Zealand story about the quest to find monsters' voices that have been stolen by a witch

11.00am The Smurfs Christmas Special

11.25am The Fraggles are Coming

11.30am Terrahawks
Christmas Miracle

12.00 Film Fun at Christmas
with Derek Griffiths(Repeat)

1.00pm Adam Ant-Prince Charming Revue
music, pantomime and theatre from the Dominion Theatre, London

2.20pm Tweety Pie
Gift Wrapped

2.30pm Film : Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
starring Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack

4.25pm ITN News

4.30pm The Krankies at Christmas
with Bernie Winters, Melvyn Hayes, Jimmy Cricket,
Sarah Hollamby, Pepe and the Gang, Barbara Dickson and Modern Romance

5.15pm Knight Rider

6.10pm Punchlines
presented by Lennie Bennett, with Christopher Biggins, Faith Brown, Bob Carolgees,
Diana Dors, Pearly Gates, David Hamilton, Barbara Kelly, Mike Reid, Wincey Willis, Gary Wilmot

6.45pm 3-2-1
Dick Whittington, with Ted Rogers, Dana, Julie Rogers, Kenneth Connor, Chris Emmett, Mike Newman,
Alan Curtis, Charlie Williams, charity edition all the contestants being children

7.45pm Cilla Black's Christmas Eve
with Frankie Howerd, Graham Fletcher, from America by satellite The Bee Gees, Julio Iglesias, George Benson

8.45pm ITN News

9.00pm Hart to Hart
A Christmas Hart with Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers

10.00pm Film : Agatha Christie's Murder Made Easy (1982)
starring Bill Bixby, Lesley Anne-Down, Olivia de Havilland, Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Valentine,Timothy West (TV Movie)

11.45pm Midnight Mass
from St Mary's Cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne

12.40am QuincyThe Golden Hour starring Jack Klugman

1.35am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV Granada except)

12.40am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Saturday 31st December 1983

BBC2

2.10pm Film : Cary Grant in The Pride and the Passion (1957)
4.20pm The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures :
Machines in Motion
5.20pm World Darts
6.25pm Die Fledermaus : Act I
7.30pm News on Two, Weather
7.40pm Interval
7.50pm Die Fledermaus : Act II
9.05pm Interval
9.25pm Die Fiedermaus : Act III
10.20pm Angus McBean
10.45pm World Darts
11.45pm Film : Theatre of Blood (1973)

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Re: Christmas TV

Friday 30th December 1983

BBC 2

1.40pm Film : Judy Garland Stars in The Pirate (1948)
3.20pm The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures :
Machines in Motion
4.20pm Romany
4.50pm Film : Cary Grant in Notorious (1946)
6.30pm George Orwell
7.25pm News Summary, Weather
7.30pm A Year in the Life of the World
9.00pm A Clip Round the Year
9.30pm Film : Michael Caine in Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
11.15pm News on Two, Weather
11.20pm International Basketball
11.55pm Film : The Marx Brothers in Animal Crackers (1930)

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Re: Christmas TV

Thursday 29th December 1983

BBC2

6.00am Ceefax AM
6.30am Breakfast Time
9.00am The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
9.25am Why don't You....?
9.50am Wacky Races
10.00am Play Chess!
10.10am Jackanory
10.25am Paddington
2.05pm Film : Judy Garland Stars In Everybody Sing (19)
3.25pm The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures :
Machines in Motion
4.25pm Film : Cary Grant in Suspicion (19)
6.00pm George Orwell
6.55pm News Summary, Weather
7.00pm Film : The Gypsy Moths (19)
8.45pm Orpheus In the Underworld
10.45pm News on Two, Weather
10.50pm Film : The Marx Brothers in A Night in Casablanca (19)

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Re: Christmas TV

Wednesday 28th December 1983

BBC2

1.40pm Film : Judy Garland stars in Presenting Lily Mars (1943) Première
3.20pm The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures :
Machines in Motion
4.20pm A Waltons Special : A Day of Thanksgiving on Waltons' Mountain
5.55pm News Summary, Weather
6.00pm World Snooker
8.15pm The Case of the Frightened Lady
9.30pm Film : Michael Caine in Funeral In Berlin (1966)
11.10pm News on Two, Weather
11.15pm Film : The Marx Brothers In Horse Feathers (1932)

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Re: Christmas TV

Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1983

BBC2

12.30pm Racing from Chepstow
(12.40, 1.10, 1.45 2 20 races)

2.35pmDolin, Friends and Memories
Anton Dolin was Britain's first male ballet star.
He died last month in Pans at the age of 79.
In this film, first shown last year in Omnibus, Barry Norman
talked to Sir Anton who recalls his life as a dancer and the
people he knew.

2.55pm The Book Game
The last of four programmes

3.25pm Machines In Motion
1: Driving Forces
Professor Leonard Maunder
The Royal Institution's 154th Annual Christmas Lectures
for Young People.
A six-part series on why and how things move, especially machines

4.25pm Film : The Wiz (1978)
The hit musical starring Diana Ross,Michael Jackson , Richard Pryor
Based on the successful Broadway show, The Wiz retells the magical
story of the Judy Garland classic The Wizard of Oz, this time with an
all-black cast, a soul 'n' disco score, and a New York setting..

6.35pm Bus and Truck
Does anyone know the way to Green-point High?
The television series Fame is based on a real school -the New York
School of Performing Arts.
In this film the pupils at the School write and stage their own musical
and take it on a bus to Brooklyn, uncertain of what facilities they will
find and what reception they will receive.

7.05pm News on Twowith Frances CoverdaleWeather

7.10pm Chronicle
China-Treasures of the Cultural Revolution
During the Cultural Revolution immense effort was put into
archaeological excavations.
The finds that resulted were of world importance. Chronicle has
obtained from Peking extraordinary film that charts the discoveries
made in China between 1966 and 1972.
Presented by Kenneth Shepheard

8.00pm The BBC Television Shakespeare: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

10.20pm Film : Oh God! (1977)Première
starring George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr
One morning Jerry Landers, assistant manager at a Californian
supermarket, receives an invitation in the post for an interview with
God.
Unconvinced by a disembodied voice, Jerry is honoured by a personal
appearance - a senior citizen wearing baggy trousers, anorak, sneakers
and baseball cap, who sports a talent for throwaway gags.
Octogenarian comedian George Burns made his second triumphant
come-back in this sparkling comedy about the perils of divine
intervention.

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1983

BBC1

12.45pm Racing from Wincanton
introduced by Julian Wilson, with Peter O'Sullevan &
Richard Pitman (1.00, 1.35, 2.05 races)

2.20pm Joseph and Child
Arthur Dooley's sculpture

2.35pm The Tale of Beatrix Potter
a biographical play with Penelope Wilton and Michael Hordern

4.30pm The Book Game
with Anthony Burgess, Germaine Greer, Susan Hill &
Adam Mars-Jones

5.00pm Shakespeare in Perspective
The Two Gentleman of Verona
Broadcaster Russell Davies introduces tomorrow's BBC2 comedy
of young love and some fascinating variations on the mating game

5.25pm Film : Mame (1974)
starring Lucille Ball and Robert Preston

7.15pm A Life in the Theatre
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies

8.05pm News Summary with subtitles

8.10pm Romeo and Juliet
Prokofiev's ballet from La Scala, Milan, choreographed by John
Drummond with Carla Fracci, Rudolph Nureyev and
Dame Margot Fonteyn

10.25pm Film : The Ipcress File (1965)
starring Michael Caine, Nigel Green and Guy Dolman

12.15am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1983

BBC2

2:00pm Nobody Minded the Rain
Impressions of Coronation Day
Where were you on 2 June 1953? Perhaps you were one of the
20 million who watched the day's events on television; perhaps
you were one of the hundreds of thousands who braved the cold
and rain to cheer the Queen through the streets of London. Possibly
you were one of the 7,000 people present in Westminster Abbey
for the Service, the most glittering ceremony that our tradition provides.
This programme tells the story of Coronation Day and the
preparations for it through the reminiscences of people who were
there, including Lord Ramsey-then Bishop of Durham, Lord Eccles -
then Minister of Works, Lady Rayne-one of the Queen's Maids of Honour,
together with many citizens who, for one reason or another, have
good cause to remember the day, like the crewmen of the Lowestoft
lifeboat who were among the few that missed the Coronation
celebrations

3:00pm The Book Game
The second of four conversational games about books and writers
in which Anthony Burgess , Germaine Greer , Susan Hill and Adam
Mars-Jones try to identify recited extracts, and then give vent to their
literary likes and dislikes

3:30pm The Great Palace : The Story of Parliament
The People of the Palace

4:20pm Henry's Cat
Christmas Dinner

4:25pm Film : Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
starring Judy Garland with Margaret O'Brien Mary Astor Leon Ames
Meet Me in St Louis is perhaps Vincente Minnelli's best-loved
musical, featuring Judy Garland in numbers like 'The boy next
door' and 'Have yourself a merry little Christmas' and, of course,
the classic 'Trolley song'. It traces the life and loves of a middle-class
St Louis family through the four seasons, investigating the trials and
tribulations of growing-up

6:15pm The Natural World : Winter Days
Narrated by Robert Powell
A season of death and decay, or months of magic? When the sun
departs and winter days arrive, how does our wildlife cope with the cold?
There are many strategies for survival. Some prepare carefully, making
food stores, laying up fat, going underground, hibernating. Others adapt,
migrate, develop anti-freeze, flee. Some just shiver to survive, but all
behave in ways that ensure that life triumphs over death. Award-winning
cameraman Hugh Miles explores the still, silent, but stormy beauty of
this most challenging season of the year. It is a season to survive

7:05pm News on Two with Jan Leeming, Weather

7:15pm Cinderella
Rossini's delightful comic opera based on the classic pantomime
story provides a special musical treat for opera lovers at Christmas

9:50pm The Queen
The Christmas Day programme in which Her Majesty speaks to the
Commonwealth (with open subtitles and sign language interpretation
for the deaf and hard-of-hearing)

10:05pm The Bob Monkhouse Show
Bob Monkhouse presents the last of the present series in which he
introduces the best of comic talent from around the world.
This week his special guests are Norman Wisdom and from the
USSR via Los Angeles 'The Russian Comic', Yakov Smirnoff with
music from Bertice Reading and The Harry Stoneham Band

11:00pm Film : The Marx Brothers in Duck Soup (1933)
The postage-stamp republic of Freedonia, threatened by a
revolution, appoints Rufus (Groucho) T. Firefly as its dictator.
With Chico and Harpo as double agents working for the rival
state of Sylvania, Freedonia is about to get a traumatic taste
of Marxist rule!

12:10am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1983

BBC2

1.05pm Film : Scrooge (1951)
starring Alistair Sim

2.30pm Shakespeare in Perspective
comedy with Roy Hudd


2.55pm The Book Game
chaired by Robert Robinson, with Anthony Burgess, Germaine Greer,
Susan Hill and Adam Mars-Jones, Freddie Jones reads the extracts

3.25pm Film : That Touch of Mink (1962)
starring Cary Grant and Doris Day

5.00pm The BBC Television Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors, starring Roger Daltrey and Michael Kitchen
as the two pairs of twins, with wendy Hiller, Cyril Cusack, Charles Gray,
Suzanne Bertish and Joanne Pearce

6.55pm Sky at Drury Lane with guest Patrick Ros

7.45pm News with Jan Leeming

7.55pm Cider with Rosie
starring Rosemary Leach in the 1971 production

9.30pm Private Lives
highlights from the series with Maria Aitken

10.00pm Whistle Test Presents
Paul Young from the Hammersmith Odeon

10.45pm Film : To Catch a Thief (1955)
starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in Hitchcock's thriller

12.35am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Friday 23rd December 1983

BBC2

3.55pm Film : Cary Grant in The Grass is Greener (1960)
5.35pm News Summary, Weather
5.40pm A Waltons Special : Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain
7.15pm Championship Darts Special
8.20pm Global Report
8.50pm M*A*S*H
9.15pm The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert
10.30pm Film : The Marx Brothers In Monkey Business (1931)
11.45pm News on Two, Weather
11.50pm The Old Grey Whistle Test : Pick of the Year

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Thursday 22nd December 1983

BBC2

3.30pm Film : Cary Grant In Mr Blandings Builds his Dream House (1948)
5.00pm The World Chess Championships
5.35pm News Summary, Weather
5.40pm Sports Review of 1983
7.25pm Callas An International Celebration
9.25pm The Great Palace: The Story of Parliament
10.15pm Christmas at Cromore
11.05pm News on Two, Weather
11.10pm Film : The Roads of Exile (1978) (Part Two)