Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

Henry Kelly (Christmas Day 1981, 7.40pm) went on to be the first presenter on Classic FM in 1992.

He was also host of a lunchtime game show that I used to watch whenever I could...Going for Gold...in which the prize was a trip to the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.

[George 1978]

Re: Christmas TV

Moira Stuart was a busy lady that year.

Moira is someone who doesn't really celebrate Christmas, and so she would have agreed to come in to work on Christmas Day and Boxing Day to read the news bulletins.

[George 1978]

Re: Christmas TV

One year Sharon Osbourne did an alternative Queen's Speech on C4 against the BBC's real Queen's Speech lokl

That was in 2002 - a year that I was specially interested in watching the Queen's message, as I wanted to see what she had to say, considering it was the same year that she had lost both her mother and sister, and of course it was her Golden Jubilee celebrations as well. She said that it was as full as year as she can remember.

[Zincubus]

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We all used to love Christmas morning when some guy ( Leslie Crowther ?) used to visit a hospital and give every kid a great present !

It was such a lovely feel good program


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HERE IS THE TV LISTINGS FROM 1977 CHRISTMAS DAY.



Christmas Day 1977 - Sunday 25th December 1977 - BBC-1 Television
8:55am Star Over Bethlehem, Christmas music
9:55am Playboard
10:10am Appeal, Wells Cathedral
10:15am Christmas Worship from All Saints Parish Church, Kingston-upon-Thames
11:15am The Bear who Slept through Christmas (cartoon film)
11:40am National Velvet (film) starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney
1:40pm Are You Being Served?
2:10pm Top of the Pops '77 (part 1)
3:00pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
3:05pm Billy Smart's Christmas Circus
4:05pm The Wizard of Oz (film) starring Judy Garland
5:45pm Basil Through the Looking Glass, with Basil Brush and Howard Williams
6:15pm News
6:25pm Family Carols from the Albert Hall
7:15pm Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game
8:20pm The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show
8:55pm The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
10:00pm News
10:05pm Funny Girl (film) starring Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif
12:30pm Weather

Christmas Day 1977 - Sunday 25th December 1977 - BBC-2 Television
12:45pm Sing All Ye Faithful: Carols from St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill
1:30pm News Review presents a continental holiday with deaf children
2:15pm The World About Us: The Predators (wildlife film)
3:00pm Alpha Omega (cartoon)
3:10pm The Lively Arts-in Performance: Coppelia, ballet, music by Delibes
4:40pm In Deepest Britain: Plants and animals by the sea
5:10pm Celebration: Portrait of the Queen's summer Jubilee tour
5:40pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
5:50pm Storm Boy (film) starring Greg Rowe, Peter Cummins, David Gulpilil
7:15pm Thanks for the Memory: The viewer's view of television
9:35pm Christmas Past, introduced by James Cameron
10:05pm Country Holiday: Music with Crystal Gayle, Larry Gatlin, George Hamilton IV, Pete Sayers
10:50pm News
10:55-12:45am The Big Sleep (film) starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall (b-w)

Christmas Day 1977 - Sunday 25th December 1977 - ITV - London Weekend Television (LWT)
8:45am Carol Concert, from Wells Cathedral
9:45am Cartoons
10:00am Parish Mass, from Our Lady of St Oswin's Tynemouth
11:00am A Merry Morning, with Jimmy Tarbuck, Guy Kent, The Wurzels, Roger Stevenson
11:45am Cartoons
12noon Robinson Crusoe and the Tiger (film) starring Hugo Stiglitz
2:00pm Just William
3:00pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
3:10pm To See Such Fun: Four decades of film fun
4:40pm Emu's Christmas Adventure
5:40pm News
5:45pm The Muppet Show: with Julie Andrews
6:15pm Sale of the Century
6:40pm Stars on Christmas Sunday: Bing Crosby, Gracie Fields, Mary O'Hara, Harry Secombe
7:15pm Young Winston (1972 film) starring Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Simon Ward
10:05pm News
10:05pm Stanley Baxter's Greatest Hits (repeat)
11:30pm Celebration: The Joys of Christmas in Words and Music
12:30am Christmas Message from the Archbishop of Cantebury

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PERHAPS ONE REASON THEY ARE NOT SHOWN NOW IS THE BBC HAVE WIPED THEM FROM THERE OLD REELS.
THAT WAS QUITE COMMON BACK THEN.

OR THE TV COMPANIES JUST THINK IT WOULD NOT APPEAL TO KIDS ETC NOW.

Wow

Great work there !!


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Re: Christmas TV

Moira is someone who doesn't really celebrate Christmas, and so she would have agreed to come in to work on Christmas Day and Boxing Day to read the news bulletins.

Thanks for the information. I didn't know that about Moira.

[Jay Mc]

Re: Christmas TV

have a look here

you can see all the listings for Christmas past

https://radiosoundsfamiliar.com/the-...es-archive.php

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas 1982

Christmas Eve 1982 - Friday 24th December 1982 - BBC-1 Television
9:20am Charlie Brown's Christmas
9:45am The Wombles
9:50am Jackanory: Cherryl Campbell reads The Snow Queen
10:05am Why Don't You ...?
10:25am Battle of the Planets (cartoon series): Island of Fear
10:50am Play Chess
11:00am Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946 film) starring Johnny Wesissmuller (b-w)
12:10pm Edgar Kennedy: Rough On Rents (1942 RKO short)
12:30pm News After Noon, with Jan Leeming
12:45pm See-Saw: Pigeon Street: for younger viewers
1:00pm The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964 film) starring Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason
3:55pm Play School
4:20pm Mighty Mouse
4:25pm Jackanory: Jeremy Irons reads Paul Galico Stories: The Small Miracle part 2
4:40pm Hong Kong Phooey
4:55pm Crackerjack: Introduced by Stu Francis, Special Guests: Keith Harris and Orville
5:35pm Paddington
5:40pm Evening News, with Jan Leeming
5:55pm Regional News
6:05pm The Kids International Show
6:35pm 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 Disney film) starring Kirk Douglas, James Mason
8:40pm Christmas with Terry and June
9:10pm Main News, with Jan Leeming
9:25pm Oh Yes I am .... Oh No You're Not!: documentary looking at pantomimes, commentary by Prunella Scales
10:20pm Carry On ... Don't Lose Your Head (1967 film) starring Sidney James, Kenneth Williams
11:50-12:50am Midnight Mass of the Nativity: from the Church of Our Lady and St Joseph Hanwell, Middlesex

Christmas Eve 1982 - Friday 24th December 1982 - BBC-2 Television
11:00-11:25am Play School
2:00pm The Islanders (1/4)
2:30pm Schools Prom, from the Royal Albert Hall
3:10pm The Book Game (new series) introduced by Robert Robinson
3:40pm A Christmas Carol, with Michael Bryant
3:55pm Sellers over Christmas: I'm All Right Jack (1960 film)
starring Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Richard Attenborough
5:40pm K9 and Company: Dr Who spin-off starring Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith
6:30pm The Year They Raised The Mary Rose
7:35pm News Summary
7:40pm A Service of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's
8:40pm The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Walker, written by Elaine Morgan
10:00pm The Old Grey Whistle Test presents Elton John, from the Hammersmith Odeon, London
11:00pm News on 2: with Jan Leeming
11:05pm Russell Harty: at home in Yorkshire
11:50-1:25am The Gathering (TV film) starring Edward Asner, Maureen Stapleton

Christmas Eve 1982 - Friday 24th December 1982 - ITV - Thames Television (London)
9:30am Sesame Street
10:30am A Handful of Songs: Keith Field, Maria Morgan
10:40am One Upon a Time: Mark Wynter tells the story of Puss-in-Boots
10:55am The Dollar Bottom, with Robert Urquahart, Rikki Fulton. A humorous tale set in Scotland in 1953.
11:30am A Christmas Treat: Author Edna O'Brien reads her own story 'The Dazzle'.
12noon Aldabra - Island of Giant Tortoises (documentary)
1:00pm ITN News at One
1:20pm Thames News
1:30pm The Journey: Kim Goody, Gordon Neville, Robin Askwith
2:00pm We Six Kings: The King's Singers, from Nostell Priory, Yorkshire
2:30pm Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1975 film) starring Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn
4:15pm Strawberry Ice: Spectacular fantasy on Ice
5;15pm The Goodies Christmas Special: Snow White 2
5:45pm ITN News
6:00pm Thames Weekend News
6:30pm Punchlines: Lennie Bennett hosts

Christmas Eve 1982 - Friday 24th December 1982 - ITV - London Weekend Television (LWT)
7:00pm A Christmas Lantern: Cliff Richard, Wayne Sleep
8:00pm In Loving Memory: Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny
8:30pm The Stanley Baxter Hour
9:30pm ITN News
9:45pm A Christmas Carol: Operetic setting for Dickens' classic tale
11:45-12:30pm Watchnight Service: from St Andrew's and St George's Church of Scotland, Edinburgh

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Christmas Day 1982 - Saturday 25th December 1982 - BBC-1 Television
8:40am The All-New Pink Panther Show
9:00am Carols from Buckfast
9:45am Christmas Parade: Hyde Park Barracks: The Queen's Life Guard
10:35am Christmas Morning Service: from St Chad's Church, Lichfield
11:40am Raccoons on Ice (musical cartoon) narrated by Rich Little, voices of Rita Coolidge and Leo Sayer
12:05pm Mister Quilp (1975 film) starring Anthony Newley, David Hemmings
2:00pm Top of the Pops '82: Christmas Party with Peter Powell, John Peel, Dave Lee Travis, Steve Wright,
Andy Peebles, Richard Skinner, Tommy Vance, Mike Smith and Mike Read
3:00pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
3:05pm International Velvet (1978 film) starring Tatum O'Neal, Nanette Newman, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins
Written, Produced and Directed by Bryan Forbes
5:10pm News, with Jan Leeming
5:20pm Jim'll Fix It: Jimmy Savile
6:00pm The Paul Daniels Magic Christmas Show:
6:55pm Last of the Summer Wine: All Mod Conned: Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde
7:30pm The Two Ronnies Christmas Show: Guest: David Essex
8:15pm Agatha Christie's Death On The Nile (1978 film) starring Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot
10:30pm News, with Jan Leeming
10:40pm Perry Como: Christmas in Paris
11:30pm The Signalman: Ghost Story for Christmas
12:10-12:40am Christmas Night with The Spinners: at the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford

Christmas Day 1982 - Saturday 25th December 1982 - BBC-2 Television
2:10pm The Islanders (2/4)
2:40pm Gold From the Deep: The Salvage of the Century: HMS Edinburgh: Narrated by Robert Powell
3:40pm The Book Game
4:10pm 25 Years in Space: A Horizon Special
5:20pm Sellers Over Christmas: The Millionairess (1960 film) starring Peter Sellers, Sophia Loren
6:45pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
6:50pm News on 2, with Jan Leeming
6:55pm The World About Us: On the Tracks of the Wild otter
7:45pm The World of James Joyce
9:35pm Richard Baker's Christmas Dozen: The Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Davis
10:40-12:35am Fedora (1978 film) starring William Holden. Produced, Directed & Screenplay by Billy Wilder

Christmas Day 1982 - Saturday 25th December 1982 - ITV - London Weekend Television (LWT)
9:00am Journey Back to Oz (1971 film) starring Liza Minnelli, Mickey Rooney
10:30am Christmas Morning Service: from Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady St. John's Wood, London
11:30am Enid Blyton's The Island of Adventure (1981 film)
1:00pm Film Fun at Christmas, with Derek Griffiths
2:00pm Andy Williams' Christmas Special
3:00pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
3:05pm The Parent Trap (1961 Disney film) starring Hayley Mills
5:25pm ITN News
5:35pm 3-2-1: Christmas Special: host Ted Rogers
6:35pm Game for a Laugh: Henry Kelly, Matthew Kelly, Sarah Kennedy, Jeremy Beadle
7:25pm Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Cards Right
8:00pm The Black Hole (film) starring Maximillian Schell, Anthony Perkins
9:50pm Chas & Dave's Christmas Knees-up
10:50pm ITN News
10:55pm Cleo and John: Cleo Laine and John Dankworth
11:55pm The Triple Echo (1972 film) Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed

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Christmas Sunday 1982 - 26th December 1982 - BBC-1 Television
9:00am See-Saw: The Flumps
9:15am Knock Knock
9:45am The Song and the Story, with Isla St. Clair
10:10am Asian Magazine
10:40am Sunday Worship: from St. Michael's Parish Church, Amersham
11:25am See Hear!
11:35am The Edinburgh Military Tatoo in 1982
12:45pm Junior Kick Start: Heat 1 (new series)
1:15pm World Cup '82: Jimmy Hill
1:45pm News Headlines
1:50pm Orphan Train (1979 TV film) starring Jill Eikenberry, Kevin Dobson
4:05pm Cheggers Plays Pop: Keith Chegwin
4:30pm The All-Star Record Breakers: Roy Castle
5:20pm Disney Time: with Rolf Harris
6:05pm News, with Jan Leeming
6:15pm Songs of Praise for Christmas: from Exeter Cathedral
7:15pm Hi-de-Hi!: Eruptions
8:00pm Airport 77 (1977 film) starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant
9:50pm News
10:00pm Call Me Kiri: Kiri Te Kanawa
11:00pm Men v Women: Golf tournament (new series)
11:50-12:25am The Ice House (repeat)

Christmas Sunday 1982 - 26th December 1982 - BBC-2 Television
12:55pm Horizon: The mysterious Mr Tesla
1:45pm The Islanders (3/4)
2:15pm The Lusitania File: A Newsnight special: reporter Peter Hobday
3:05pm World Cup Chess
3:35pm The Book Game: introduced by Robert Robinson
4:05pm Sellers Over Christmas: Two-Way Stretch (1960 film) starring Peter Sellers
5:30pm News Review, with Jan Leeming
6:05pm The Ghost Downstairs, starring Cyril Cusack
7:05pm Cricket: Fourth Test: Australia v. England
7:30pm The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
8:00pm The Barchester Chronicles: part 7 (final part): starring Donald Pleasance, Nigel Davenport
8:55pm News on 2, with Jan Leeming
9:00pm Bach Goes East
10:00pm Agatha Christe's Spider's Web: starring Penelope Keith
11:45-12:40am Glen Campbell in Dublin (RTE Production)

[darren]

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Christmas 1983

Christmas Eve 1983 - Saturday 24th December 1983 - BBC-1 Television
8:35am Inch-High Private Eye (repeat)
9:00am From All of Us to All of You: Clips from Disney cartoons, including Snow White and Peter Pan
9:45am The Happy World of Hanna-Barbara:
Gene Kelly introduces Hanna-Barbara cartoons clips including The Flintstones and Huckleberry Hound
10:50am A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1946 film) starring Bing Crosby
12:30pm Bonanza
1:20pm Around the World with Dot (1982 Australian cartoon)
2:30pm The Magic of Lassie (1978) starring James Stewart, Mickey Rooney
4:10pm The Dukes of Hazard
5:00pm News, read by Jan Leeming
5:10pm Some Mother's Do 'Ave 'Em (repeat)
5:55pm Pop Quiz: team captains: Dave Edmunds, Roger Taylor,
guests: Mari Wilson, Limahl, Lee John (Imagination, Midge Ure (Ultravox)
6:30pm The Little and Large Show: guests Jimmy Cricket, Joe Brown, magician Martin Daniels, Cleo Rocos,
Chas and Dave (singing Melancholy Baby)
7:10pm Flash Gordon (1980 film) starring Sam Jones, Toplo, Melody Anderson, Brian Blessed
8:55pm Val Doonican's Christmas Party: guests, Howard keel, The Nolans, Sky, Wall Street Crash
9:40pm Bergerac: guest actress Liza Goddard
10:35pm News, read by Jan Leeming
10:45pm The Good Old Days: Edwardian-type entertainment from the City Varieties, Leeds
with: Leonard Sachs, guests: Danny La Rue, Valerie Masterson, Robert White, Bernard Cribbins, Barry Cryer,
The Clark Brothers, and a newcomer from Paris, the comedy-magician Caetan Bloom
11:45-12:45am Midnight Eucharist: from the Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin, Blackburn

Christmas Eve 1983 - Saturday 24th December 1983 - BBC-2 Television
1:05pm Scrooge (1951 film) starring Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison
2:30pm Shakespeare in Perspective: Roy Hudd previews The Comedy of Errors
2:55pm The Book Game: literary quiz, chaired by Robert Robinson
3:25pm That Touch of Mink (1962 film) starring Doris Day, Cary Grant
5:00pm The BBC Television Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors: with Roger Daltrey, Michael Kitchen
6:55pm Sky at Drury Lane
7:45pm News, read by Jan Leeming
7:55pm Cider With Rosie, written by Laurie Lee, with Rosamary Leach as the writer's mother (repeat from 1971)
9:30pm Private Lives: chat show with Maria Aitken, compilation of the best moments
10:00pm Whistle Test Live: Paul Young, from the Hammersmith Odeon (also on Radio 1 in stereo)
10:45-12:35pm To Cach a Thief (1955 Hitchcock film) starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly

Christmas Eve 1983 - Saturday 24th December 1983 - ITV - TV-am
6;25-8:40am Good Morning Britain (from TV-am) Michael and Mary Parkinson
8:40-9;25am Data Run's Christmas Party: panto quiz with Jeremy Beadle (from TV-am)

Christmas Eve 1983 - Saturday 24th December 1983 - ITV - London Weekend Television (LWT)
9:25am Metal Mickey (repeat)
9:55pm Cartoon Time
10:05am The Monsters' Christmas (New Zealand story)
11:00am The Smurfs' Christmas Special
11:25am The Fraggles are Coming: Curtain-raiser for a new puppet series
11:30am Terrahawks
12noon Film Fun at Christmas: with Derek Griffiths
1:00pm Adam Ant: Prince Charming Revue: from London's Dominion Theatre
2:20pm Tweety Pie (cartoon)
2:30pm Jason and The Argonauts (1963 film) starring Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Honor Blackman
4:25pm News from ITN
4:30pm The Krankies at Christmas: Guests Bernie Winters, Melvyn Hayes, Jimmy Cricket, Sarah Hollamby, Pepe and the Gang
Barbara Dickson, and Modern Romance
5:15pm Chips: Larry Wilcox, Erik Estrada
6:10pm Punchlines:
guests: Diana Dors, Christopher Biggins, Faith Brown, Barbara Kelly, Mike Reid, Bob Carolgees and Spit the Dog
6:45pm 3-2-1: Dick Whittington pantomimie, hosted by Ted Rogers
guests: Billy Dainty, Julie Rogers, Kenneth Connor and Dana
7:45pm Cilla Black's Christmas Eve
8:45pm Nws from ITN
9:00pm Hart to Hart: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers
10:00pm Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy (1981 tv film) starring Bill Bixby, Lesley-Anne Down, Olivia de Havilland,
Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Valentine, Timothy West
11:45-12:40pm Midnight Mass: from St Mary's Cathedral, Newcastle

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Christmas Day 1983 - Sunday 25th December 1983 - BBC-1 Television
8:35am The Christmas Raccoons (musical cartoon)
9:00am Carols from Newby Hall: guests Grace Kennedy, Robert White, and the Cambridge University Chamber Choir
9:50am Away in a Manger: Christmas through the eyes of primary schoolchildren
10:20am Christmas Morning Family Service: from The Mint Methodist Church, Exeter.
11:20am The Little Convict: Rolf Harris as Jake the Peg
12:35pm Ziggy's Gift (animated film)
1:00pm Bugs Bunny (cartoon)
1:05pm Glitterball (1977 Children's Film Fountain)
2:00pm Top of the Pops 1983: featuring number one hits by:
Michael Jackson, Shakin' Stevens, Men at Work, Duran Duran, Bucks Fizz, Lionel Richie, David Bowie
3:00pm The Queen's Christmas Day Message to the Commonwealth
3:15pm Blankety Blank: Terry Wogan with
guests: Sabina Franklyn, Roy Kinnear, Ruth Maddoc, Patrick Moore, Beryl Reid, Freddie Starr
3:50pm Treaure Island (1950 Disney film) starring Robert Newton, Bobby Driscoll
5:25pm News, read by Jan Leeming
5:25pm Jim'll Fix It: Jimmy Savile
6:15pm Songs Of Praise Special: from Peterborough
7:15pm The Two Ronnies:
serial - The Adventures of Archie, with Carol Hawkins as the Blonde
guest: Elton John
8:05pm All Creatures Great and Small
9:35pm Only Fools and Horses
10:05pm News, read by Jan Leeming
10:15pm Better Late Than Never (1983 film) starring David Niven, Maggie Smith, Art Carney
11:45-12:15am The Spinners at York, the seasonal setting is the Victorian street at the Castle Museum.

Christmas Day 1983 - Sunday 25th December 1983 - BBC-2 Television
2:00pm Nobody Minded the Rain: Coronation Day 2nd June 1953 (repeat)
3:00pm The Book Game
3:30pm The Great Palace: The Story of Parliament (8/8)
4:20pm Henry's Cat: (Bob Godfrey and Stan Hayward cartoon)
4:25pm Meet Me In St. Louis (1944 film) starring Judy Garland singing The Trolley Song
6:15pm The Natural World: Winter Days
7:05pm News, read by Jan Leeming
7:15pm Cinderalla: Rossini's two-act opera La Cenerentoia
9:50pm The Queen's Christmas Day Message to the Commonwealth
10:05pm The Bob Monkhouse Show: guest Norman Wisdom, and the Rusian-American comedian Yakov Smirnoff,
music from Bertice Reading, and the Harry Stoneham Band
11:00-12:10am The Marx Brothers in Duck Soup (1933 film)(b-w)

Christmas Day 1983 - Sunday 25th December 1983 - ITV - TV-am
7:00am Rub-a-Dub-Tub Christmas Day Special, with Bonnie Langford, Michele Dotrice, Edward Woodward, Alan Dart
8:00am Christmas with TV-am:
- Thought for Christmas from Cardinal Hume
- Christ Tarrant at the Queen Mary Hospital for Children, in Carshalton, Surrey
9:00am Roland Rat's Winter Wonderland

Christmas Day 1983 - Sunday 25th December 1983 - ITV - London Weekend Television (LWT)
9:25am The Night the Animals Talked (animated parable) music and lyrics by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne (repeat)
9:50am The Fraggles are Coming: trailer for new puppet series
9:55am Messengers to Earth: musical fantasy, music by Lou Lewis.
Recorded at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Crediton, Devon (repeat)
10:20am Christmas Morning Worship: from St. Molua's Church, Belfast
11:20am The Magic Planet: Ice-skating spectacular
12:15pm The Capture of Grizzly Adams (1981 TV film) starring Dan Haggerty, Kim Darby, Noah Bery, Keenan Wynn
2:00pm The Royal Year: An ITN compilation of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh's' visit to the Caribbean, US, Kenya,
India and Bangladesh. Plus the Prince and Princess of Wales' tours of Australi, New Zealand and Canada
3:00pm The Queen's Christmas Day Message to the Commonwealth
3:15pm Superman (1978 film) starring Christopher Reeve
5:35pm Bullseye Christmas Special: host Jim Bowan, guests; Kenneth Kendall, Anne Diamond
6:20pm News from ITN
6:30pm A Royal Concert of Carols: The Prince and Princess of Wales, Songs from Marti Webb, Piano Peter Donohoe
7:15pm Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Card's Right
7:45pm Jimmy Tarbuck's Christmas All Stars: guests, Bruce Forsyth, Mike Yarwood, Cannon and Ball,
Michael Barrymore, Shakin' Stevens. Plus 'Game for a Laugh' special,
and from the US by satellite: Andy Williams, Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, The Temptations, The Four Tops
9:10pm Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978 film) starring Peter Sellers
11:00pm News from ITN
11:10pm The King's Christmas: The King's Singers at Harewood House, Yorkshire.
11:40pm The Untouchables: Crime drama with Robert Stack as Eliot Ness (repeat)
12:25am A Different Christmas: from Stoke Mandeville Hospital, with Gillian Reynolds and Jimmy Savile

[darren]

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Christmas 1984

Christmas Eve 1984 - Monday 24th December 1984 - BBC-1 Television
6:30am Breakfast Time: Frank Bough, Selina Scott, News from Fern Britton
9:00am Busker's Christmas Story (1/3)
9:15am Paddington and the Christmas Shopping (repeat)
9:20am Lassie (animated) first in new series
9:45am Charlie Brown (repeat)
10:10am Jackanory: Cherie Lunghi reads the story of Cinderella
10:25am Magic Roundabout
10:30am Play School: presented by Carol Chell
10:50am Henry's Cat
10:55am The Chuckleheads Christmas
11:05am The Sounds of 84: Music from the Monteaux Pop Festival
12:05pm Wait Till You Father Gets Home: (Hanna-Barbera cartoon)
12:30pm News, with Moira Stuart
12:35pm Junior Kick Start
1:00pm Kung Fu
1:50pm The Christmas Raccoons (musical cartoon) (repeat)
2:15pm The Cruel Sea (1952 film) starring Jack Hawkins (b-w)
4:15pm Pop Quiz Christmas Special: introduced by Mike Read
4:45pm Jackanory: Jeremy Irons reads Paul Gallico's Snowflake
5:00pm Blue Peter
5:25pm The Box of Delights: (final episode)
6:00pm News, with Moira Stuart
6:15pm Jim'll Fix It For Christmas: guests Tommy Steele, darts player John Lowe
6:55pm One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975 film) starring Peter Ustinov
8:25pm Only Fools and Horses: Del is smitten by the lovely Heather and goes as far as buying a ring.
But events do not go according to plan. (repeat)
8:55pm Cagney and Lacey: Mary Beth is held hostage by a crazed killer in a railway sidings
9:45pm News, with Moira Stuart
10:00pm Val Doonican's Very Special Christmas: guests Engelbert Humperdinck, Pam Ayres, The Cambridge Buskers
10:50pm Angels in the Annexe (play) by Janey Prager, starring Siobhan McKenna, Alfred Mollina
11:45-12:45pm Midnight Mass of the Nativity, from the Church of St Mary and St John, Wolverhampton

Christmas Eve 1984 - Monday 24th December 1984 - BBC-2 Television
1:45pm On the Tracks of the Wild Otter: (documentary) (repeat)
2:35pm The Gold Rush (1925 film) starring Charlie Chaplin (b-w)
3:45pm Telly Quiz: presented by Jerry Stevens
4:15pm The First Noels: Sir Geraint Evans with the choir and congregation of Peterborough Cathedral
and the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
4:35pm Alias St Nick (cartoon)
4:45pm Little Women (1949 film) starring June Allyson, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh
6:40pm Long Beach Olypiad: 1984 Olympic Yachting Regatta, Ray Moore narrates
7:30pm News summary
7:35pm Born in Bethlehem: BBC welsh Choir with Aled Jones, reader Isla Blair, narrator Martin Jarvis
8:25pm Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, recorded at the Nederlander Theatre, New York
10:00-12:10am The Quiet Man (1952 film) starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald

Christmas Eve 1984 - Monday 24th December 1984 - ITV - TV-am
6:25-9:25am Good Morning Britain: Anne Diamond, Nick Owen, Newsreader: Gordon Honeycombe

Christmas Eve 1984 - Monday 24th December 1984 - ITV - Thames Television (London)
9:25am Thames News, followed by Father Murphy
10:15am Cartoon Time
10:30am Benji (1974 film)
12noon Freetime Christmas Special
12:30pm Goodwill to All Men
1:00pm ITN News at One, with Carol Barnes
1:20pm Thames News, with Robin Houston
1:30pm The Birth of Christ: Oliver Hunkin
1:45pm Scarecrow and Mrs King
2:40pm Take Over, presented by Brough Scott, with Suzanne Danielle, Sally James, Peter Davison, Derek Thompson
together with four members of the public as they test their skill with a simulator in landing Concorde and
driving a Scorpion reconnaissance vehicle.
3:10pm The Return of the Pink Panther (1974 film) starring Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer
5:15pm The Wind in the Willows
5:45pm ITN News
6:00pm Thames News
6:25pm Help: Viv Taylor Gee with community action news
6:35pm Crossroads
7:00pm What's My Line: host Eamonn Andrews
on the panel: George Gale, Barbara Kelly, Jilly Cooper, Ernie Wise, Patrick Mower
7:30pm Coronation Street
8:00pm Jim Davidson's Falklands Special
9:00pm Fun With Dick and Jane (1977 film) starring Jane Fonda, George Segal
10:40pm ITN News
10:50pm Joy to the World: David Pickering 12-yr-old Chorister of the Year
11:40-12:40am The Blessing of the Crib and the First Mass of Christmas,
from the Church of John the Baptist, Newcastle upon Tyne

==============================================

Christmas Day 1984 - Tuesday 25th December 1984 - BBC-1 Television
8:40am Play School: presented by Carol Chell
9:00am Busker's Christmas Story (2/3) CHristopher Lillicrap reads the updated story of the Nativity
9:15am Born in Bethlehem: carols (shown yesterday)
10:00am Christmas Morning Family Service: from Fisherwick Presbyterian Church, Belfast
11:05am The Noel Edmonds Live Live Christmas Breakfast Show: from the top of the British Telecom Tower
12:35pm Blue Murder at St. Trinians (1957 film) starring Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Terry-Thomas
2:00pm Top of the Pops 1984: Culture Club, Jim Diamond, Duran Duran, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Howard Jones,
Nik Kershaw, The Thompson Twins, Wham, and Paul Young
3:00pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
3:10pm Mary Poppins (1964 film) starring Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns
5:25pm News, with Jan Leeming
5:30pm Christmas Blankety Blank: host Les Dawson,
on the panel: Lorraine Chase, Suzanne Danielle, Ken Dodd, Russell Harty, Ruth Madoc, Derek Nimmo
6:05pm Hi-de-Hi
6:35pm The Paul Daniels Magic Christmas Show:
guests: George Carl, clown from Chicago; Kris Kremo, a high speed juggler from Las Vegas;
and the Olympiads, a balancing act from Germany
7:25pm Just Good Friends
8:55pm The Two Ronnies: guest singer Eliane Paige
9:55pm News, with Jan Leeming
10:05pm Wogan: Terry Wogan's guests: Freddie Starr, Kiri Te Kanawa, Elton John, Victoria Principal
10:55-12:50am Some Like It Hot (1959 film) starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe

Christmas Day 1984 - Tuesday 25th December 1984 - BBC-2 Television
1:55pm A Dog's Life (1918 film) starring Charlie Chaplin
2:35pm Polar Bear Alert (documentary) (repeat)

3:25pm Limelight (1952 film) starring Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom
5:35pm Telly Quiz, presented by Jerry Stevens
6:05pm The Nutcracker: Scottish Ballet's production of Tchaikovsky's famous ballet, starring Elaine McDonald
Recorded at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, with the Scottish Ballet Orchestra
7:50pm The Master of Mouton: Russell Harty makes a pilgrimage to the Medoc to meet Baron Philippe de Rothchild
at the Chateau Mouton.
8:40pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
8:55-12:00midnight Kaos (1984 film) starring Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano


Christmas Day 1984 - Tuesday 25th December 1984 - ITV - TV-am
6:25-9:25am Good Morning Britain: Anne Diamond, Nick Owen, Newsreader: Gordon Honeycombe

Christmas Day 1984 - Tuesday 25th December 1984 - ITV - Thames Television (London)
9:25am Dangermouse Double Bill (repeat)
9:45am Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
9:55am Emu at Christmas
10:35am Christmas Morning Service, from St George's Chapel, Windsor, introduced by Sir Alastair Burnet
11:45am Bugs Bunny's Looney Movie (1981 film)
1:15pm Top Pop Videos of '84
2:00pm Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean Special
3:00pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
3:10pm The Man with the Golden Gun (1974 James Bond film) starring Roger Moore
5:25pm ITN News
5:30pm Give Is a Clue: presented by Michael Parkinson
Una Stubb's team: Julia Mckenzie, Nicola Paget, Julie Walters
Lionel Blair's team: Spike Milligan, Wayne Sleep, Bernie Winters
6:00pm Bring Me Sunshine - A Tribute to Eric Morecambe OBE, introduced by Ernie Wise
8:30pm Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981 film) starring Harrison Ford
10:40pm ITN News

10:45pm Des O'Connor Tonight: guests Hank Marvin, Mireille Matthieu
11:35pm Home for the Holidays (1972 film) starring Walter Brennan
12:50-1:00am Peace: Gill Nevill meets some of the people who are attempting to bring some peace
to different parts of the globe.

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas 1985

Christmas Eve 1985 - Tuesday 24th December 1985 - BBC-1 Television
6:50-9:20am Breakfast Time: Frank Bough, Selina Scott, Nick Ross, Debbie Greenwood, Mike Smith
9:20am The Littlest Hobo (repeat)
9:45am The Hunter
9:50am Play Chess
10:00am Charlie Brown (cartoon) (repeat)
10:25am Magic Roundabout (repeat)
10:30am Play School
10:50am Tom and Jerry (cartoon)
11:05am Charles in Charge: Adventures of a male nanny
11:30am Sea Hear (repeat)
12:20pm Junior Kick Start: Heat Two
12:50pm News, with Richard Whitmore
1:00pm A Song for Christmas: presented by Paul Coia and Josephine Buchan
1:45pm Mr Benn (repeat)
2:00pm The Slipper and the Rose (1976 film) starring Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven. Directed by Bryan Forbes
4:20pm Keith and Orville's Christmas Circus: Fantasy story with special guest, Dana
5:00pm Carols from Kings: Lessons and carols with the choir of the King's College Chapel, Cambridge
6:00pm News, with Richard Whitmore
6:15pm Jim'll Fix it for Christmas: Jimmy Savile, guests Chas and Dave
7:00pm Telly Addicts Christmas Special: The incredible Pain family in a special challenge from a team
comprising of Nina Myskow, Barry Took, Michael Grade, Larry Grayson
7:30pm Eastenders
8:00pm Kenny Everett's Christmas Carol: tribute to Charles Dickens with Michael Barrymore, Peter Cook,
Spike Milligan, Willie Rushton, John Wells
8:30pm A Question of Sport
9:00pm Terry and June
9:30pm News, with Richard Whitmore
9:45pm Cagney and Lacey: The two New York policewomen investigate the case of disappearing street musicians.
10:30pm Val Doonican's Christmas Party: guests Pat Boone, James Galway, Janet Brown, Stockton's Wing
11:20pm The Good Life Christmas Special (repeat)
11:50pm The First Communion of Christmas: from the Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfred, Ripon
12:50am Weather

Christmas Eve 1985 - Tuesday 24th December 1985 - BBC-2 Television
1:40pm What's Up Chuck?: top Hollywood animator Chuck Jones traces the rise to stardom of Warner Brothers' Bugs Bunny.
2:10pm Sport 85: presented by Harry Carpenter
3:00pm Peter No-Tail (1981 animated film)
4:20pm Dr. Doolittle (1967 film) starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough
6:40pm It's Your 20th Anniversary Charlie Brown
7:30pm The New-Born King: from Westminster Cathedral, with Aled Jones, Eirian James and Benjamin Luxon
with the Westminster Cathedral Choir
8:30pm Call My Bluff
9:00pm Rush - The Fallow Deer (documentary)
10:00pm Charles and Diana - A Working Year
10:30pm The Innocents (1961) starring Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, Peter Wynegarde, Megs Jenkins
12:05pm Weather

Christmas Eve 1985 - Tuesday 24th December 1985 - ITV - TV-am
6:15-9:25am Good Morning Britain: with Anne Diamond, Nick Owen; Newsreader: Gordon Honeycombe

Christmas Eve 1985 - Tuesday 24th December 1985 - ITV - Thames Television (London)
9:25am Thames News followed by Fraggle Rock (repeat)
9:50am Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends (repeat)
10:00am The Night Before Christmas (Disney cartoon)
10:05am The Battle of the Monster Trucks
10:55am Never Never Land (1980 film) starring Petula Clark
12:30pm God Bless Us Every One: A Christmas celebration from All Saints Church, Kingston-upon-Hull
1:00pm ITN News at One, with Leonard Parkin
1:20pm Thames News
1:30pm Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Special Edition) (1978 film) starring Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr
3:55pm The Wind in the Willows
4:20pm Splash into Christmas, with Michael Groth, Victoria Studd, Nino Firetto
4:50pm Knight Rider
5:45pm ITN News, with Martyn Lewis
6:00pm Thames News
6:25pm Help! Viv Taylor Gee with news of a 24hour information service run by Thames Telvision, LWT and Capitol Radio
6:35pm Crossroads
7:00pm Carry On Laughing: highlights from films in the Carry On series
7:30pm Whose Baby? presented by Bernie Winters. On the panel Henry Cooper, Nanette Newman, Kenneth Williams,
discovering the identities of the famous parent of parents of a selection of babies.
8:00pm The Best of Morecambe and Mise:
guests: Peter Barkworth, Suzanne Danielle, Hannah Gordon, Ann Hamilton, Glenda Jackson, Donald Sinden
9:00pm Arthur (1980 film) starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud
10:45pm ITN News, with Pamela Armstrong
11:00pm Carols from Christ Church: with the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
11:30-12:30am Midnight Mass: from the Mater Infirmorum Hospital, Belfast

==============================================

Christmas Day 1985 - Wednesday 25th December 1985 - BBC-1 Television
8:35am Play School
8:55am Muppet Babies (cartoon)
9:20am Knock! Knock!
9:35am This is the Day
10:05am The Gnome-Mobile (1967 Disney film) starring Walter Brennan
11:28am Weather
11:30am Roland's Yuletide Binge: guests Russell Grant, Frankie Howerd, Jan Leeming, Ian McCaskill, Beryl Reid,
and Valerie Singleton
11:55am The Noel Edmonds Live Live Christmas Breakfast Show:
from the top of the British Telecom Tower, includes the first live television satellite broadcast from the Sudan
in which British relief workers are linked with their families in this country.
2:00pm Top of the Pops Christmas Party
3:00pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
3:10pm Children's Royal Variety Performance, in the presence of Princess Margaret, introduced by Mike Smith,
guests include: Roy Castle, Jan Francis, Rolf Harris, Paul Nicholas, Su Pollard, Gian Sammarco and Wayne Sleep.
4:55pm All Creatures Great and Small (feature-length episode)
6:25pm News, with Moira Stuart
6:30pm Hi-de-Hi: (first of new series)
The entertainments staff of Maplins are at loggerheads over the casting of poolside entertainment.
7:30pm Only Fools and Horses: (feature length episode)
Del accepts a commission to go to Amsterdam to collect a cache of diamonds only to discover that the boys in blue
have knowledge of the proposed trip and seal off the ports.
9:00pm The Two Ronnies (new series) includes "Little Big Shot" a drama set in Chicago during the 1920s
9:50pm News, with Moira Stuart
10:00pm Wogan: Terry Wogan is in Denver with the cast of Dynasty.
10:40-12:35pm Absence of Malice (1981 film) starring Paul Newman, Sally Field
12:35pm Weather

Christmas Day 1985 - Wednesday 25th December 1985 - BBC-2 Television
11:30am Supercharged: Restored Grand Prix cars from the period between 1924 and 1939
test driven by John Watson (repeat)
12:20pm The Man in the Santa Claus Suit (1978 film) starring Fred Astaire
1:55pm Christmas Day Concert, live from Concertgebouw, Amsterdam in a performance of Mahler's Symphony no.7
3:30pm Three in the Wild: first of three programmes depicting the lives of Britain's wild creatures.
features Shak, the Red Fox. (repeat)
4:30pm Citizen Kane (1941 film) starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten
6:25pm A Prize Performance. Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket are at Cheltenham Ladies' College, where
Dame Hilda is guest speaker on Speech Day. Dr Hinge assumes the invitation was forthcoming because Hilda is a
distinguished old girl.
7:20pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
7:30pm Kiri Te Kanawa at Christmas
8:20pm Edge of the Wind, by Don Webb, with Sir John Mills, Omar Sharif, Lucy Gutteridge
9:25pm Film Buff of the Year, with Robin Ray
10:00-11:55pm Diva (1982 film)
11:55pm Choirs at Midnight: with the Vienna Boys Choir, Les Peititas Chateurs de Paris, The Tolz Boys' Choir,
and the Winchester Cathedral Choir
12:55am Weather

Christmas Day 1985 - Wednesday 25th December 1985 - ITV - TV-am
6:15am Good Morning Britain: Anne Diamond, Nick Owen
7:15-9:25pm TV-am's Christmas Party

Christmas Day 1985 - Wednesday 25th December 1985 - ITV - Thames Television (London)
9:25pm Christmas Fragggle Rock (repeat)
9:50pm Dangermouse
10:00pm The Christmas Morning Service: from Kenton Methodist Church
11:15pm The Black Hole (1979 film) starring Maximillian Schell, Anthony Perkins
1:00pm Jim Davidson's Top Pop Videos of '85
2:00pm The Royal Year: Anthony Carthew narrates
3:00pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
3:05pm Moonraker (1979 James Bond film) starring Roger Moore
5:30pm ITN News, with Carol Barnes
5:45pm Name That Tune, with Lionel Blair
6:10pm Coronation Street
6:45pm Fresh Fields Christmas Special: Julia McKenzie, Anton Rodgers
7:30pm Minder on the Orient Express: Dennis Waterman, George Cole
9:30pm Des O'Connor Tonight: guests: Joan Collins, Dudley Moore, Alan King, Willie Tyler and Lester
10:40pm ITN News with Carol Barnes
10:50pm Gregory's Girl (1980 film) starring Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn
12:30-12:40am Christmas Nights Thoughts: from St Marys Church, Wimbledon, with Alec McGowan, Paul Miles Kingston

[staffslad]

Re: Christmas TV

Thanks, Darren, I actually remember this Christmas and its TV schedule.

I see Moira is doing her Christmas duty again.

On Christmas Eve I recall watching Close Encounters in the afternoon, then getting ready to go out. I got back just in time to catch The Innocents before going to bed.

On Christmas Day, look at the schedule clash between Only Fools and Horses and Minder. That surely seriously brassed off plenty of people without video recorders that year.

Moonraker was this year's Bond film. Was this still the time when cinema releases had to be 5 years old before being shown on TV? If so, maybe this was Moonraker's first showing on TV.

Again, there's plenty I would want to watch, and mercifully this is still long before the days of celebrities thinking they can dance and being cheered on by an audience who seem to be hyper on too many sugary drinks and snacks.

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1986

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM

6.30am News
followed by
The Flintstones
Nothing But the Tooth

6.55am Weather

7.00am Breakfast Time
with Frank Bough and Jeremy Paxman

8.55am Regional News and Weather

9.00am News and Weather

9.05am Paddington
Christmas, narrated by Michael Hordern

9.10am Play Chess
the bishop with Bill Hartston

9.20am Babar and Father Christmas
It is Christmas time in the land of the elephants.
Babar wants to persuade Father Christmas to
visit his kingdom, and sets off to find him.
However, Rataxes the rhinoceros is determined
to reach Father Christmas and thwart Babar's plans

9.45am Jackanory : London Snow
part 2 of Paul Theroux's tale, with Elizabeth Spriggs

10.00am News and Weather

10.05am Neighbours

10.25am Children's CBBC
Phillip Schofield with birthdays and programme news

10.30am Play School
with Stuart Bradley and Elizabeth Watts

10.50am Henry's Cat
The Christmas Dinner

10.55am Five to Eleven
with Joanna Lumley

11.00am News and Weather

11.05am Keith and Orville's Christmas Circus
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

11.45am Cartoon
The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

11.55am Junior Kick Start
The final heat of BBCtv's junior motorcycling competition
when six more riders aged up to 14 compete for the
Norwich Union trophy. The competitors, who have all
qualified via regional events, attempt to master a challenging
course at Easton Neston in Northamptonshire

12.20pm A Song for Christmas
Last of three programmes.
Elaine Page is the star guest in the climax of this year's
Children's Christmas Carol competition presented by
Phillip Schofield

12.55pm Regional News and Weather

1.00pm One O'Clock News


8:00am Play School
Presented by Stuart Bradley & Elizabeth Watts
Story: The Nativity

8:20am The Muppet Babies
The Great Cookie Robbery
Gonzo wrestles with his conscience when he eats a
whole box of biscuits that he was meant to share

8:45am Roland Rat - The Series Christmas Special
Yes ratfans, it's time to put on your party hat and boogie
on down to the Ratcave where Kevin the gerbil, Errol the
hamster, Fergie the ferret and all the gang celebrate in style

9:10am Papa Panov's Special Day
Alan Rothwell tells the story of shoemaker Papa Panov

9:25am This is the Day
Unto Us a Child is Born - linking together the viewing
community Linda Mary Evans joins patients and staff
on Ward 76 at Bristol Maternity Hospital

9:55am Weather
John Kettley

10:00am Film : The Pure Hell of St Trinians (1960)
starring Cecil Parker, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell
Their latest trick is their best ever - the girls of St Trinian's
have burned down their school and are on trial at the Old Bailey.
With the girls under lock and key, the authorities can relax -
but for how long?

11:30am Christmas Morning with Noel
From the top of the British Telecom tower high above London.
Noel Edmonds presents a live outside broadcast uniting
families and friends throughout the United Kingdom

1:25pm Every Second Counts
presented by Paul Daniels

2:00pm The Top of the Pops Christmas Party
In this special Christmas Day edition Simon Bates,
Gary Davies, Janice Long and Peter Powell present
the most popular hits of 1986.
Also appearing The Pet Shop Boys, Billy Ocean,
Doctor and the Medics, Chris de Burgh and Boris Gardiner.
and featuring the year's No 1's on video

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

3:10pm Film : Annie, the Musical (1981)
starring Albert Finney Carol Burnett and Aileen Quinn as
Annie Little orphan Annie is a survivor at 10 years old;
she needs to be, when all there is to look forward to is
'Maybe' and 'Tomorrow'. But luck comes Annie's way and
she is adopted - albeit temporarily - into the safe-keeping
of millionaire Daddy Warbucks
Première

5:15pm News with Jan Leeming and Weather, John Kettley

5:25pm Russ Abbot Christmas Show
starring Russ Abbott. Special guest star Les Dennis
featuring Bella Emberg, Maggie Moone, Tom Bright
Suzy Aitchison, Gordon Kennedy

6:00pm Just Good Friends
starring Paul Nicholas and Jan Francis

6:35pm EastEnders (Part 1)
"Nothing can go wrong, Den. I want this to be the best
Christmas we've ever had at the Vic..."

7:05pm Only Fools and Horses
starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Buster Merryfield
In this special edition for Christmas, Del's plan is upset by
the upper set

8:25pm Miss Marple : The Murder at the Vicarage
starring Paul Eddington, Cheryl Campbell, Robert Lang, Polly Adams.

10:00pm EastEnders (Part 2)
'They should bring back hanging for people like Den Watts. ...'

10:30pm News with Jan Leeming and Weather

10:40pm Film : Educating Rita (1983)
starring Michael Caine Julie Walters
Rita White is 26 years old, married and a hairdresser.
Her husband's main preoccupations are drinking in smoky
pubs and trying to get Rita pregnant. She, however, has other ideas
Première

12:30am Weather

12:35am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

ITV CHRISTMAS TV 1987


Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1987

ITV LONDON

6.00am TV-am
presented by Kate Burley and Mike Morris

7.00am Good Morning Britain

9.00am Wacaday

9.25am Thames News

9.30am Children's ITV
A Child's Christmas in Wales
play based on a Dylan Thomas story, with Denholm Elliott

10.25am ITN News Headlines

10.30am Santa Barbara

11.00am The Vladimir Experience
John Taylor reports on the experiences of Russian gymnasts

11.30am Tidings of Comfort
the work of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen

12.00 The Sullivans

12.30pm ITN News

12.50pm Thames News

1.00pm Disney at Christmas : Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
starring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire & James MacArthur

3.20pm Disney at Christmas : Symphony Hour
with Mickey and Goofy

3.25pm Thames News

3.30pm Sons and Daughters

4.00pm Disney at Christmas : Santa's Workshop
cartoon

4.10pm Film : Mr Horatio Nibbles (1971)
starring Lesley and Gary Smith

5.15pm Blockbusters

5.45pm News

6.00pm Thames News

6.25pm Help- Christmas Line

6.35pm Crossroads

7.00pm Sporting Triangles
presented by Nick Owen, Jimmy Greaves and Tessa Sanderson, with Frank Bruno, Dennis Taylor, Aiden J Harvey and Andy Gray

7.30pm Only When I Laugh

8.00pm Strike It Lucky

8.30pm TV Film : A Masterpiece of Murder (1986)
starring Bob Hope and Don Ameche

10.15pm News

10.30pm A Duty Free Christmas

11.30pm Midnight Eucharist
from Norwich Cathedral

12.30am Film : Vertigo (1958)
starring James Stewart and Kim Novak

2.50pm News Headlines followed by
The All-Time Christmas Top Ten

4.00am Lindisfarne Rock 'n' Roll Christmas Party
from City Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

5.00am A Good Tree

5.30am CNN Headline News

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

12.00 Lunchtime News (until 12.30)

12.50pm Calendar News (until 1.00)

6.00pm Calendar (until 6.35)

2.50am Closedown


Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1987

ITV Central

6.00am TV-am

9.25am Disney at Christmas : Pluto's Christmas Tree

9.40am Fat Tulip's Fat Christmas

10.00am Christmas Family Worship

11.00am Disney at Christmas : Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)

11.30am Disney at Christmas : Dumbo (1941)

12.40pm The James Bond Film : The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
with Roger Moore

3.00pm The Queen

3.10pm Disney at Christmas : Alice in Wonderland (1951)

4.30pm ITN News

4.35pm Disney at Christmas : Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

6.45pm Christmas Blind Date

7.30pm Coronation Street

8.00pm It'll Be Alright on Christmas Night

9.00pm Inspector Morse

11.00pm ITN News

12:15am Film : Airplane II The Sequel (1982)

1.50am The Roxy

2.20am America's Top Ten

2.50am Phil Collins - Live at Perkins Palace

3.50am Central Jobfinder '87

Yorkshire

ANGLIA (as Central except)

12.15am Jay Leno and the American Dream

1.00am Night Network

4.00am Film : Diamonds (1975)

GRANADA (as Central except)

1.50am All Time Christmas Top 10

3.00am Closedown

THAMES/LWT (as Central except)

12.15am Jay Leno and the American Dream

1.00am Night Network

4.00am Film : Diamonds

TVS

12.15am Jay Leno and the American Dream

1.00am Night Network

4.00am Closedown

YORKSHIRE

1.50am Barbara Dickson at the Royal Albert Hall

2.50am As Central

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1988

ITV LONDON

5.00am ITN Morning News

6.00am TV-am
Saturday Sport

7.30am Wideawake

9.25am Motormouth on Christmas Eve
with Andres Arnold, Julian Ballantyne, Neil Buchanan, Tony Gregory, Caroline Hanson


12.00 Physical Pursuits
three teams take part in quizzes and games, presented by Eamonn Holmes, Emlyn Hughes and Jane Bennett

1.00pm ITN News with Sue Carpenter followed by
LWT News and Weather

1.05pm Saint and Greavsie
specially extended Christmas edition

1.50pm Disney at Christmas : Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)

2.20pm Film : The Ugly Dachsund (1966)
starring Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette & Kelly Thordsen

4.05pm 3-2-1 Christmas Special
with Ted Rogers and Christopher Biggins, Geoff Capes, Suzanne Mizzi, Linda Nolan and Maria Whittaker

5.05pm ITN Newswith Sue Carpenter

5.10pm LWT News and Weather

5.15pm The Cannon and Ball Show
with Dennis Waterman, Kim Wilde, Chris de Burgh, Brother Beyond and Linda Lusardi

6.15pm Bobby in Wonderland
Bobby Davro with Dave Lee and Bernie Winters

7.05pm Watching Special
starring Emma Wray . Paul Brown, Liza Tarbuck

8.05pm Movie Première : Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of Four (1983)
starring Ian Richardson and David Healy (TV Movie)
(NB This was shown in place of the originally planned 1987 version following a late change to the schedules)

9.50pm ITN News

10.00pm LWT Weather

10.05pm The Great British Farce : No Sex Please- We're British (1973)
starring Ronnie Corbett and Beryl Reid

11.45pm Midnight Mass
from St John's Roman Catholic Church, Banbury, Oxon

1.00am ITN News Headlines
followed by
Film : Otley (1968)
starring Tom Courtenay

2.40am ITN News Headlinesfollowed by
Night Network
with the best of 1988's videos, Spike Milligan in the bunker and Communard Richard Coles reviewing the big screen new releases (ends at 5.00)

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

12.00 UFO
Destruction (until 1.00pm)

5.00am Christmas Cartoons

5.30am Christmas Comes to Pacland

ITV HTV (as ITV London except)

12.00 Chatterbox Christmas Party
with Aled Jones, Michael Quill, Josie White (until 1.00pm)


Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1988

ITV HTV

5.00am ITN News Headlines followed by
Christmas Cartoons
The Great Santa Claus Caper
The Big Bad Wolf tries to take over Santa's business

5.30am Christmas Comes to Pacland
Santa Claus crash lands in Pacland

5.55am ITN News Headlines

6.00am TV-am
Christmas Robbins

7.00am Puff the Magic Dragon

7.30am Christmas with TV-am

8.30am Black Beauty

9.25am Motormouth on Christmas Day
with Andrea Arnold, Julian Ballantyne, Neil Buchannan, Tony Gregory, Caroline Hanson including Disney cartoons

10.05am Film : The Little Troll Prince (1987)

11.00am Christmas Morning Worship
from St John's Church, Lemsford, Hertfordshire

12.00 Disney at Christmas : Moving Day

12.15pm The Great British Pop Machine
with French and Saunders celebrating the booming success of British pop music

1.15pm Mr Majeika
Have Yourself a Wizard Little Christmas, starring Stanley Baxter

2.15pm Bullseye Christmas Special


3.00pm The Queen

3.05pm Christmas Blind Date
presented by Cilla Black

3.55pm Movie Première : The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
starring Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill

6.05pm Save The Children


7.15pm Coronation Street

7.45pm 10 Years of Alright on the Night
with Denis Nordern

8.45pm London's Burning
Ding Dong Merrily

10.15pm ITN News

10.25pm One More Audience With Dame Edna

11:30pm Christmas Night at the Movies : The Squeeze (1977)
starring Stacy Keach

1.20am Film : Our Man Flint (1966)
starring James Coburn

3.15am Film : In Like Flynn (1985)
starring Jenny Seagrove

GRANADA, TSW, CENTRAL (as London except)

11.15pm - 1.15am Film : The Liquidator (1965)

TVS (as London except)

11.15pm - 1.15am Film : The Liquidator (1965)

3.15am TV Film : Robbers of the Sacred Mountain (1980)