Christmas TV

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1982

ITV LONDON

9.30am Cockleshell Bay

9.40am Rainbow

9.55am Stainless Steel and the Star Spies

10.45am Dangermouse

11.05am Film : Black Beauty (1971)
with Mark Lester

1.00pm ITN News

1.05pm Racing from Kempton
(1.10, 1.40, 2.15 races)

2.30pm Film : Hollywood : The Gift of Laughter

5.15pm ITN News and Sport

5.30pm Give Us a Clue
presented by Michael Aspel

6.00pm Coronation Street

6.30pm The James Bond Film : Moonraker
starring Roger Moore, Richard Kiel and Lois Chiles

9.00pm The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show

10.00pm ITN News

10.15pm Film : California Suite (1978)
starring Michael Caine, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith,
Walter Matthau, Jane Fonda and Elaine May

12.15am Closedown : Sit Up & Listen
with Barbara Leigh-Hunt

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

12.10am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Regarding christmas sunday not being boxing day altho to me it still is.
Whats the idea behind monday then being boxing day.

Ill see if i can find the tsw channel regional variations i always like to fin the most complete listings.

regarding christmas day 1982, it would be great if you had the tsw (and channel) regional variations for the itv schedule, as they had opted out of the black hole film to show the in laws.

By the way, it may have been called christmas sunday back then, i have always called it boxing day even if 26th december fell on a sunday.

[George 1978]

Re: Christmas TV

I can understand Ulster, Scottish and Grampian opting out but not TSW - on Christmas Day, Scottish and Grampian used to have the Scottish Moderator's Christmas Message, just like they did for most of the 1970s, and I suppose that prior to TV-am going on the air, this could be scheduled before the main programmes started, but once breakfast television started, this was a bit more difficult. I am certain that STV hardly have any opt-outs on Christmas Day nowadays apart from adverts and continuity.

As you mentioned, Central used to have a local Christmas message - I don't know whether any other regions had this, although it might be a Midlands' equivalent of YTV and the London Christmas Line getting a mention. Central also did an Easter one up until around 1985, although I am certain that this could have been shown just before Closedown. I have this feeling that it was a local clergyman - perhaps the Bishop of Birmingham, sitting in a TV studio, doing a speech for the best part of ten minutes.

TSW opted out of The Black Hole because its Managing Director Kevin Goldstein-Jackson, (who had only just joined the company from Anglia), was quoted in The Times as the film being not good enough for Christmas Day, or "a load of rubbish" as he said. However, there had been plans for TSW to have shown it in January 1983, but I had not come across any rescheduling in old newspaper TV schedules. However, they had learnt their lesson, as TSW and Channel had shown it along with the rest of the network when it was shown on Christmas Day in 1985 - ironically enough, it was Scottish that had opted out of it that time.

Central only opted out of Dollar Bottom to show the Christmas Message - they kept the remainder of the network schedule intact, and they had even shown Sesame Street at 9.30 am along with the rest of the network as well, just like they did on some days during the 1982 Christmas season as well. They never shown that during ordinary school holidays, and they had washed their hands of it by the end of May 1984, probably because of the American style of education would be assumed to mislead youngsters in Great Britain. It is ironic in a way that Central didn't want anything to do with Sesame Street considering ATV's association (if you excuse the pun) with The Muppet Show - ATV became Central at the start of 1982 due to company restructuring and a change of shareholding, and more regional identity, and of course, Kermit the Frog was the only character to appear in both The Muppet Show and Sesame Street.

I just wished that I lived just over ten miles north of where I lived, and get Yorkshire Television instead.

[Arran]

Re: Christmas TV

If you look at the Christmas Eve schedule it's noteworthy how TSW, Ulster, STV, and Grampian have most of the opt-outs.

Any idea why Ulster didn't show the Dollar Bottom? Central decided to use the time for it's Christmas message followed by the Nutcracker which is a local event.

STV and Grampian both showed Children's Ceilidh instead of the Journey, presumably because it was a Scottish cultural programme but Border didn't show it.

TSW and STV opted out of Strawberry Ice, although Grampian showed it, for The Messenger and Freetime respectively. These were then followed (co-incidentally?) by Emmerdale. TSW had a habit of moving around programmes but can anybody confirm if STV showed Take the High Road in the same evening timeslot that most of ITV showed Emmerdale?

Why did Grampian decide against showing the film Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood? Was there something they disliked about it?

Ulster was alone in not showing Punchlines! but instead showed a locally produced religious programme.

[George 1978]

Re: Christmas TV

Regarding Christmas Day 1982, it would be great if you had the TSW (and Channel) regional variations for the ITV schedule, as they had opted out of the Black Hole film to show The In Laws.

By the way, it may have been called Christmas Sunday back then, I have always called it Boxing Day even if 26th December fell on a Sunday.

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Sunday 26th December 1982

ITV LONDON

9.00am A Snow White Christmas
animated sequel to the fairy tale

9.50am Day of Days
Dr Robert Runcie looks back to the historic Canterbury service with the Pope

10.20am The Birth of Christ
with Dr John Newton, past-president of the Methodist Conference

10.50am Film : The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)

12.30pm Survival Special: Tiger !, Tiger !

1.30pm University Challenge

2.00pm Film : Benji (1974)
with Edgar Buchanan and Peter Breck

3.30pm The Krankies Christmas Club

4.15pm The Pyramid Game

4.45pm Pop Goes Christmas
with David Essex, Shakin' Stevens, Toyah and many others

5.40pm Bullseye

6.10pm ITN News

6.15pm Children Sing Christmas
introduced by Nanette Newman, from Salisbury Cathedral

7.15pm Film : Bear Island (1979)
starring Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave & Richard Widmark

9.25pm Secombe at Christmas
with Gemma Craven and Christopher Gable

10.25pm ITV News

10.30pm Rod Stewart- Tonight He's Yours
at the Los Angeles Forum last Christmas

12.10am Closedown : Peace on Earth
with Barbara Leigh-Hunt

12.20am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

12.10am Five Minutes

12.15am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Sunday 26th December 1982

ITV LONDON

9.00am A Snow White Christmas
animated sequel to the fairy tale

9.50am Day of Days
Dr Robert Runcie looks back to the historic Canterbury service with the Pope

10.20am The Birth of Christ
with Dr John Newton, past-president of the Methodist Conference

10.50am Film : The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)

12.30pm Survival Special: Tiger !, Tiger !

1.30pm University Challenge

2.00pm Film : Benji (1974)
with Edgar Buchanan and Peter Breck

3.30pm The Krankies Christmas Club

4.15pm The Pyramid Game

4.45pm Pop Goes Christmas
with David Essex, Shakin' Stevens, Toyah and many others

5.40pm Bullseye

6.10pm ITN News

6.15pm Children Sing Christmas
introduced by Nanette Newman, from Salisbury Cathedral

7.15pm Film : Bear Island (1979)
starring Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave & Richard Widmark

9.25pm Secombe at Christmas
with Gemma Craven and Christopher Gable

10.25pm ITV News

10.30pm Rod Stewart- Tonight He's Yours
at the Los Angeles Forum last Christmas

12.10am Closedown : Peace on Earth
with Barbara Leigh-Hunt

12.20am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

12.10am Five Minutes

12.15am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1982

ITV LONDON

9.00am Film : Journey Back to Oz (1972)
cartoon

10.30am Christmas Morning Service
from the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, St John's Wood

11.30am TV Film : Enid Blyton's Island of Adventure (1982)
with Wilfrid Brambell and Norman Bowler

1.00pm Film Fun at Christmas
with Derek Griffiths

2.00pm Andy Williams' Christmas Special

3.00pm The Queen

3.05pm Film : The Parent Trap (1961)
starring Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara & Brian Keith

5.25pm ITN News

5.35pm 3-2-1
with Ted Rogers

6.35pm Game for a Laugh

7.25pm Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Cards Right

8.00pm Film : The Black Hole (1979)
starring Maximillian Schell, Anthony Perkins and Robert Forster

9.50pm Chas and Dave's Christmas Knees-Up

10.50pm ITN News

10.55pm Cleo and John
Cleo Laine and John Dankworth

11.55pm Christmas at Radio GOSH
at Great Ormond Street Hospital

12.05am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1982

ITV LONDON

9.30am Sesame Street

10.30am A Handful of Songs

10.40am Once Upon a Time

10.55am The Dollar Bottom
starring Robert Urquhart

11.30am A Christmas Treat
read by Edna O'Brien

12.00 Aldabra-Island of Giant Tortoises

1.00pm News at One

1.20pm Thames News

1.30pm The Journey

2.00pm We Six Kings
The King's Singers from Nostell Priory

2.30pm Film : Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)

4.15pm Strawberry Ice
spectacular fantasy on ice

5.15pm The Goodies Christmas Special
Snow White part 2

5.45pm ITN News

6.00pm Thames Weekend News

6.15pm Cartoon Time

6.30pm Punchlines!
with Lennie Bennett

7.00pm A Christmas Lantern
with Cliff Richard, Una Stubbs, Robert Hardy,
Christopher Timothy, Mike Reid and Wayne Sleep

8.00pm In Loving Memory
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

8.30pm The Stanley Baxter Hour

9.30pm ITN News

9.45pm A Christmas Carol
Thea Musgrave operatic version

11.45pm Watchnight Service
from St Andrew's and St George's Church of Scotland, Edinburgh

12.30am Closedown

REGIONAL VARIATIONS

TVS
1.20pm TVS News
6.00pm Coast to Coast.

ANGLIA
1.20pm Anglia News, Weather
6.00pm About Anglia.

TSW
9.25am Carols of Cornwall
1.20pm TSW New s
4.15pm The Messengers
4.45pm Emmerdale
5.15pm The Waiters;
6.00pm Today South West
12.30am Postscript
12.35am Weather and Shipping Forecast

HTV
1.20pm HTV News
6.00pm West : HTV News;
6.00pm Wales : Wales at Six

CENTRAL
10.55am Christmas Message
11.05am The Nutcracker
1.20pm Central News
6.00pm Central News

GRANADA

1.20pm Granada Reports
6.00pm Granada Reports
12.30am Lou Grant
1.00am Close

TYNE TEES
9.20am The Good Word
9.25am NE News
1.20pm NE News, Lookaround
6.00pm Northern Life

YORKSHIRE
1.20pm Calendar News, Weather
6.00pm Calendar, Weather

ULSTER
10.55am Cartoon Time
11.05am Stingray
1.20pm Lunchtime
4.13pm Ulster News
6.00pm Good Evening, Ulster
6.30pm What the Churches Say
9.44pm Weather

STV
1.20pm STV News
1.30pm Children's Ceilidh
4.15pm Freetime;
4.45pm Emmerdale
6.00pm Scotland Today
9.43pm STV News

GRAMPIAN
9.25am First Thing
1.20pm North News
1.30pm Children's Ceilidh
2.30pm Film: Charlotte's Web (1973)
6.00pm North Tonight, Weather
9.43pm Reflections

BORDER
1.20pm Border News
6.00pm Lookaround Friday

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Friday 31st December 1982

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
2.05pm Etosha- the Place of Dry Water
2.55pm Common Sens
3.55pm Film : Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life (1956)
5.50pm North Face -Ben Nevis
6.35pm People v Scott
7.35pm News Summary, Weather
7.40pm Film : Paper Moon (1973)
9.20pm Janet Baker: Full Circle
10.35pm News on 2, Weather
10.45pm Film : Hands of the Ripper (1971)
12.10am The Old Grey Whistle Test : Pick of the Year

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Thursday 30th December 1982

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
2.05pm The Incredible Heap
2.55pm Common Sense
3.55pm Film : Kirk Douglas in Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
5.40pm Film : Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
7.10pm Cricket : Fourth Test
7.35pm News Summary, Weather
7.40pm Joyce in June
8.50pm Falstaff
9.00pm John Denver-his Guitar and his Music
9.55pm Film : All the President's Men (1976)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Wednesday 29th December 1982

BBC1

9.20am Bugs Bunny
9.45am The Wombles
9.50am Jackanory
10.05am Why Don't You..?
10.30am Battle of the Planets
10.50am Play Chess!
11.00am Film : Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)
12.10pm Leon Erroll in Tattle Television
12.30pm News After Noon
Weather
12.42pm Regional News
Financial Report, and News Headlines (London and SE only)
12.45pm Chock-a-Block
1.00pm The All-New Pink Panther Show
1.20pm The Way of the Wind
3.00pm Desert Island Discs
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Huckleberry Hound
4.25pm Jackanory
4.40pm Rentaghost
5.10pm Screen Test
5.35pm Ivor the Engine
5.40pm Evening News ; Weatherman
5.50pm Regional news magazines
6.00pm Banjo the Woodpile Cat
6.25pm Team Disco Dance Championships
7.10pm Film : When the North Wind Blows (1974)
9.00pm Main News ; Weatherman
9.15pm Sink or Swim
9.45pm Review 82
11.10pm Men v Women
An International Golf Challenge
12.00 Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Bank Holiday Tuesday 28th December 1982

BBC1

9.20am Heads and Tails

9.35am The All-New Pink Panther Show
Yankee Doodle Pink, Beach Bummer, The Pinkologist

9.55am The Wombles
told by Bernard Cribbins

10.00am Jackanory
with Kenneth Williams

10.15am Why Don't You..?
Why don't you just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead?

10.40am Battle of the Planets
Save the Space Colony

11.00am Tarzan and the Mermaids
starring Johnny Welssmuller Brenda Joyce
While fishing Tarzan lands a beautiful mermaid-like girl,
who has fled from marriage to a villain

12.05pm Lucky Ducky


12.12pm WeatherJim Bacon

12.15pm Grandstand
introduced by David Coleman including 12.55* News Summary
Today's timetable
12.20 Football Focus. 12.45 Cricket
1.00 Racing. 1.25 Speedstar
1.35 Racing. 1.55 Speedstar
2.15 Racing. 2.35 Rugby League
*Timings subject to alteration

3.30pm Film : The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Christmas favourite starring Judy Garland with Frank Morgan
Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley
Follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful world of Oz.
There you'll join the Tin Woodman, the vulnerable Scarecrow
and the Cowardly Lion. Plus, of course, Dorothy, as they battle with
the Wicked Witch of the West

5.10pm NewsRichard WhitmoreWeatherman

5.15pm Final Score


5.25pm Pop Quiz
introduced by Mike Read
What was this year's first No I? Which of tonight's guests
are in the charts now?
What is Captain Sensible's real name?
The teams : David Essex, star and star-maker Mari Wilson, without
the Wilsations but with her beehive, Leo Sayer , the only person
ever to get the answer to a lyrics question before Mike had finished
reading it against
Hank Marvin, who this year celebrates 25 years with The Shadows
Captain Sensible, ' Happy talk-er, and John Taylor of Duran Duran

5.55pm The Superteams
The Ferguson Superteams Championship
David Vine and Ron Pickering return to our most popular venue, the
ancient city of Bath, for the first of four Superteams programmes
which will decide not only the British title but the Superteams
Championship of the World
First Semi-final: Fighters v Bat'n'Ball
Fighters :
Brian Jacks , Alan Minter, John Conteh, Maurice Hope
Dave ' Boy' Green, Pierre Harper, Charles Longdon, Hughes Vic Charles
Coach Jackie Pallo
Bat'n'Ball :
Jehangir Khan, Phil Kenyon, Mike Corby, John Feaver, Kevin Jolly,
Tony Knowles, Collis King, Desmond Haines
Coach Tony Lewis

6.55pm Film : Grease (1978)


8.45pm The Kenny Everett Television Show
The Kenny Everett magic returns to your screens with another
bagful of colourful characters, hilarious sketches, superstar guests
and camera tricks, all designed to get you laughing and to make a
few quid for Kenny's mortgage. Will Sid Snot nut Gizzard Puke?
Will Cupid cross her legs? Will Marcel remove that false chin?
Will the Building Society foreclose?
All this and less in a special holiday edition

9.15pm Main News Richard WhitmoreWeatherman

9.25pm The Deadly Game
by James Yaffe
Adapted from the novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt starring
George Segal with Trevor Howard , Robert Morley Emlyn Williams,
Alan Webb
Set in Switzerland, two retired lawyers and a retired judge meet
once a week to enjoy an exquisite dinner and play their own, very
particular parlour game. Howard Trapp, an American travelling
salesman, caught in a blizzard, stumbles on the house and is
encouraged to join in the game

10.15pm Men v Women
An International Golf Challenge
The second of six matches in a series especially made for BBC1
between Beth Daniel and Jan Stephenson, and Bernhard Langer and
Greg Norman played at the Woburn Golf and Country Club for the
Cathay Pacific Airways Trophy
Today's match : Beth Daniel v Bernhard Langer
Commentator Peter Alliss

12.55am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1982

BBC1

9.20am Trumpton

9.35am The All-New Pink Panther Show

9.55am The Wombles

10.00am Jackanory

10.15am Why Don`t You...?

10.40am Battle of the Planets

11.00am Film : Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)
starring Johnny Weissmuller

12.10pm Weather

12.15pm The Wonderful World of Disney

1.00pm The Pups' Christmas

1.10pm Junior Kick Start

1.35pm News ; Weather

1.40pm Film : Ben-Hur (1959)
starring Charlton Heston

5.05pm News; Weather

5.10pm Final Score

5.20pm Blankety Blank
with Terry Wogan

5.55pm Film : King Kong (1976)
starring Jessica Lange

8.05pm The Funny Side of Christmas
excerpts from BBC comedy shows

9.35pm Film : Convoy (1978)
with Kris Kristofferson and Ali McGraw

11.25pm Films of the Year
with Iain Johnstone

12.05am Staus Quo Perform...
their 20th anniversary concert

12.55am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Sunday 26th December 1982

BBC1

9.00am The Flumps

9.15am Knock Knock, Who's There ?
Christmas stories

9.45am The Song and the Story
Sing a Song of Christmas

10.10am Asian Magazine

10.40am Sunday Worship
from St Michael's Parish Church, Amersham

11.25am See Hear!
The Queen's Message for the deaf, with sub-titles and sign language

11.35am The Edinburgh Military Tattoo of 1982

12.45pm Junior Kick Start

1.15pm World Cup '82
highlights with Jimmy Hill

1.45pm News; Weather

1.50pm TV Film : Orphan Train (1979)
with Jill Eikenberry and Kevin Dobson

4.05pm Cheggers Plays Pop

4.30pm The All Star Record Breakers

5.20pm Disney Time

6.05pm News ; Weather

6.15pm Songs of Praise for Christmas
from Exeter Cathedral, with Geoffrey Wheeler

7.15pm Hi-de-Hi!

8.00pm Film : Airport 77(1977)
with Jack Lemmon and James Stewart

9.50pm News ; Weather

10.00pm Call Me Kiri
with Placido Domingo, Doreen Wells, Norma Burrowes
and Harry Secombe

11.00pm Men v Women
International Golf Challenge, from Woburn, 1/6

11.50pm The Ice House
repeat of John Bowen's ghost story

12.25am Weather