Christmas TV

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1982

BBC1

8:40am The All-New Pink Panther Show
The optimistic, indestructible panther who
is permanently in-the-pink and the Inspector with
unquenchable joi de vivre who hardly ever gets his
man, in a triple helping of comic fantasy.
Supermarket Pink, Animal Crack-Ups &
String Along in Pink

9:00am Carols from Buckfast
In the centenary year of Buckfast Abbey. Devon, Paul Daniels
introduces a programme of music for Christmas.
with Stephanie Lawrence, Cambridge University Chamber Choir

9:45am Christmas Parade
At Hyde Park Barracks The Queen's Life Guard prepares
for Christmas Day ceremonial duties while sons and
daughters of The Household Cavalry and The Scots Guards
enjoy a special television request party, with visits from favourite
personalities. Introduced by Simon Bates and Floella Benjamin

10:35am Christmas Morning Service
from St Chad 's Church, Lichfield

11:38am Weather
Michael Fish

11:40am Raccoons on Ice
The musical cartoon narrated by Rich Little with the voices of
Rita Coolidge and Leo Sayer
For animals and humans alike, the frozen lake in the Evergreen
Forest is a winter paradise. But the horrible Cyril Sneer has plans
to turn the playground into a colossal concrete complex ..

12:05pm Film : Mister Quilp (1975)
starring Anthony Newley , David Hemmings In this highly
entertaining musical version of Charles Dickens ' The Old Curiosity
Shop, Anthony New ley plays Daniel Quilp , the sly and grasping
Cockney moneylender who describes himself as ' so crooked
I have to screw my socks on'. London 1840: Richard Swiveller
becomes involved in the affairs of Nell Trent and her old
grandfather, forced into the clutches of Quilp in order to maintain
his little shop of curios ...
Première

2:00pm Top of the Pops
Christmas Party with Peter Powell
John Peel , Dave Lee Travis together with Steve Wright
Andy Peebles , Richard Skinner Tommy Vance and Mike Smith
presenting their favourite hits of 1982, including a review of this
year's number one records with Mike Read

3:00pm The Queen
speaks to the Commonwealth

3:05pm Film : International Velvet (1978)
starring Tatum O'Neal , Nanette Newman Christopher Plummer
Anthony Hopkins
A love of horses dispels the unhappiness of 14-year-old Sarah,
an orphan sent from America to live with her Aunt Velvet in England.
Determined to buy the last foal sired by Pi, the horse which Velvet
once rode to victory in the Grand National, Sarah takes the first step
on the road to her dream of becoming an Olympic horse-woman
Première

5:10pm News with Jan Leeming Weatherman

5.20pm Jim'll Fix It
Dear Jim, Please may I visit Ken Dodd's jam butty mines?
Sing with Val Doonican?
Help Father Christmas pack his sack?
In this special Christmas edition, Jimmy Savile, OBE, makes these
and other dreams come true.

6:00pm The Paul Daniels Magic Christmas Show
Join Paul Daniels as he entertains in the special company of
Floella Benjamin, Lorraine Chase, Billy Dainty, Jill Gascoine,
Lucinda Green, Rolf Harris, Nerys Hughes, Barbara Kelly,
Patrick Moore, Tim Rice, Barry Took and Kenneth Williams,
and introduces the remarkable skills of his international guests:
from France, the inspired puppetry of Compagnie Philippe Genty;
from the USA, Luisa, the first lady of hula hoops;
from Morocco, The Rios, with their incredible precision acrobatics;
from Great Britain, The Trocaderos, with their sensational 'Globe of Death'.

6.55pm Last of the Summer Wine
All Mod Conned
starring Bill Owen, Peter Sallis and Brian Wilde

7:30pm The Two Ronnies Christmas Show
starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett and
their special guest David Essex

8:15pm Film : Death on the Nile (1978)
starringPeter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Simon MacCorkindale
The great Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot , can hardly guess
how many enemies the beautiful American heiress.
Linnet Ridgeway, has made. And when she is murdered on
her honeymoon cruise, Poirot begins his investigation.
The problem is, everybody on board could have done it and
everybody had a reason for doing it!

10:30pm News with Jan Leeming ; Weatherman

10:40pm Perry Como
An invitation to spend Christmas in Paris with Perry and his friends
and to enjoy some songs for the festive season

11:30pm Ghost Story for Christmas : The Signalman
A ghost story for Christmas by Charles Dickens dramatised
by Andrew Davies with Denholm Elliott as the Signalman,
Bernard Lloyd as the Traveller, Carina Wyeth as the Bride,
Reginald Jessup as the Engine-driver
A lonely signalman is haunted by a hooded figure which warns of danger.
But what is the danger?

12:10am Christmas Night with The Spinners
Tony, Mick, Cliff and Hughie take their Christmas show to
Bradford's Alhambra Theatre.

12:40am Weather

12:45am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1982

BBC1

9.20am Charlie Brown's Christmas
Charlie is depressed by the modern Christmas spirit -
even Snoopy has gone commercial!

9.45am The Wombles

9.50am Jackanory
The Snow Queen with Cheryl Campbell

10.05am Why Don't You...?
Your ideas, games and activities presented by the children
of the Bristol Why Don't You gang.

10.25am Battle of the Planets
A cartoon series of science-fiction adventure stories. Island of Fear

10.50am Play Chess
Chess puzzles, an introduction to some of the greatest
players in chess history, and a brand new
Girls v Boys Challenge Match

11.00am Film : Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)
Starring Johnny Welssmuller, Johnny Sheffield
When a series of savage killings take place in the jungle,
Tarzan tracks down the murderous tribe of ' leopard men'
responsible. Leading the cult is its deadly high priestess,
Lea, the Leopard Woman

12.10pm Edgar Kennedy in Rough on Rents
To pay off his gambling debts, Edgar rents out the apartment
while wife and mother-in-law are away ...
An RKO film

12.30pm News with Jan LeemingWeather

12.42pm Regional News
Financial Report and News(London and SE only)

12.45pm Pigeon Street
A See-Saw programme
Springtime for Hugo

1.00pm Film : The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
starring Sophia Loren , Stephen Boyd Alec Guinness ,
James Mason, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus , philosopher-emperor
of Rome, summons his governors to announce the succession to
the throne. Pestilence is ravaging the imperial city, barbarians are
at the gate and the rivalries of prospective heirs threaten to destroy
the empire

3.53pm Regional News(not London)

3.55pm Play School
Story: The Friendly Beasts
An old English Christmas carol

4.20pm Mighty Mouse
Feudin' Hillbillies

4.25pm Jackanory
The Small Miracle: part 2
with Jeremy Irons

4.40pm Hong Kong Phooey
The Incredible Mr Shrink
A comedy cartoon series starring super hero Hong Kong Phooey
and his very necessary assistant Spot, the cat.

4.55pm Crackerjack
Introduced by Stu Francis with special guest star Keith Harris
also featuring Shakatak The Rockolas with Mike Read Los Martinos
Leigh Miles and Julie Dorne Brown

5.35pm Paddington
Christmas

5.40pm Evening News with Jan Leeming ; Weatherman

5.55pm Regional News
Tom and Jerry (London and SE only)
The Night Before Christmas

6.05pm The Kids International Show
This talented group of children from all nations entertains
you with great songs for all the family

6.35pm Film : 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
starring Kirk Douglas , James Mason with Paul Lukas , Peter Lorre
1868: a terrifying monster is attacking ships in the Pacific and
when marine scientist Professor Arronax sets out to investigate
he finds he has embarked on an adventure beyond his wildest dreams.
Captured with his assistant and harpooner Ned Land by the fanatical
Captain Nemo, Arronax discovers a fantastic underwater world-complete
with real monsters.

8.40pm Christmas with Terry and June
starring Terry Scott and June Whitfield

9.10pm Main News with Jan Leeming ; Weekend Weather

9.25pm Oh Yes I Am...Oh No You're Not!
Ladies from Watford and Bradford beware! You are particularly
at risk from the forays of marauding comics in search of the
pantomime dame - so confess Terry Scott and John Inman
Widow Twankey , Mother Goose , the Ugly Sisters, Dame Trot,
continue a tradition which goes back in particular to the Victorian
music-hall. In this documentary, filmed at pantomimes throughout
the country, you can see Terry Scott and John Inman stripped down
to their bloomers; Windsor Davies remove his moustache;
Melvyn Hayes and George Lacy (one of the oldest dames in the
business) pad their overblown bosoms; Ugly Sisters Simon Barry
and Alan Vicars apply balloons for bottoms; Nat Jackley show his
frilly knickers and The Rev Reg Ames from Pinner proving skirts
are fun. Giving their verbal support are the late Arthur Askey ,
Cyril Fletcher and pantomime writer John Morley.

10.20pm Film :Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1966)
starring Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale,
Charles Hawtrey, Peter Butterworth, Joan Sims
A hilarious carry-on is guaranteed when Sir Rodney Ffing and
Lord Darcy decide to lend a hand to the noble heads of France
during the revolution of 1789. Known only by the sign of the
Black Fingernail, the pair effect a number of spectacular rescues-
but the malevolent Citizen Camembert, head of the secret police,
and his assistant Bidet, are soon on their trail. The elusive
Black Fingernail, master of disguise, strikes again and again in this
rollicking farce from the Carry On team

11.50pm Midnight Mass of the Nativity
from the Church of Our Lady and St Joseph , Hanwell, Middlesex.
the traditional Christmas liturgy celebrated by the three choirs and
congregation of this London parish

12.50am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Thursday 23rd December 1982

BBC1

9.20am Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales
9.45am The Wombles
9.50am Jackanory
10.05am Why Don't You...?
10.25am Battle of the Planets
10.50am Play Chess!
11.00am Film : Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
12.10pm Leon Erroll in Beware of Redheads
12.30pm News After Noon, Weather
12.57pm Regional News
Financial Report, and News Headlines (London and SE only)
1.00pm Pebble Mill at One
1.50pm Chigley
2.05pm Film : Anna Karenina (1948)
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Mighty Mouse
4.25pm Jackanory
4.40pm Huckleberry Finn and his Friends
5.05pm Blue Peter
5.35pm Paddington
5.40pm Evening News
6.00pm Regional news magazines
6.25pm Nationwide
7.15pm Tomorrow's World
7.40pm Top of the Pops
8.10pm Wildlife for All Seasons
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News, Weatherman
9.25pm Tenko
10.20pm Sinatra in Concert for The Americas
11.50pm News Headlines, Weatherman

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Wednesday 22nd December 1982

BBC1

9.20am The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special
9.45am The Wombles
9.50am Jackanory
10.05am Why Don't You...?
10.25am Battle of the Planets
10.50am Play Chess!
11.00am Film : Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
12.10pm Edgar Kennedy in Sock Me to Sleep
12.30pm News After Noon
12.57pm Regional News
Financial Report, and News Headlines (London and SE only)
1.00pm Pebble Mill at One
1.45pm Chock-a-Block
2.00pm Film : Life with Father (1947)
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Mighty Mouse
4.25pm Jackanory
4.40pm The Record Breakers
5.05pm Break Point
5.35pm Willo the Wisp
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
6.00pm Regional news magazines
6.25pm Nationwide
6.50pm Young Messiah
7.30pm Top Secret
8.00pm Dallas
8.50pm Points of View
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News, Weatherman
9.25pm The Pirates of Penzance
11.00pm The Mike Harding Show
11.33pm News Headlines
11.35pm Phil Silvers : Sergeant Bilko
12.00 Weatherman

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 21st December 1982

BBC1

9.20am Bugs Bunny
9.45am The Wombles
9.50am Jackanory
10.05am Why Don't You..?
10.25am Battle of the Planets
10.50am Play Chess!
11.00am Film : Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
12.15pm Leon Errollin I Can't Remember
12.30pm News After Noon, Weather
12.57pm Regional News
Financial Report, and News Headlines (London and SE only)
1.00pm Pebble Mill at One
1.45pm Heads and Tails
2.00pm Songs of Praise
2.35pm International Show Jumping
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Mighty Mouse
4.25pm Jackanory
4.40pm Rentaghost
5.10pm Screen Test
5.35pm The Amazing Adventures of Morph
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
6.00pm Regional news magazines
6.22pm Nationwide
6.45pm Angels
7.10pm Olivia Newton-John In Concert
8.10pm Squadron
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News
9.25pm Ho! Ho! Ho!
9.55pm Film : French Connection II (1975)
11.50pm News Headlines, Weatherman

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Monday 20th December 1982

BBC1

12.30pm News After Noon
12.57pm Regional News
Financial Report, and News Headlines (London and SE only)
1.00pm Pebble Mill at One
1.45pm Trumpton
2.00pm See Hear!
2.50pm International Show Jumping
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Mighty Mouse
4.25pm Jackanory
4.40pm Playhouse
5.10pm Blue Peter
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
6.00pm Regional news magazines
6.25pm Nationwide
6.55pm Angels
7.20pm Tales of the Gold Monkey
8.10pm Panorama
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News
9.25pm International Show Jumping
10.50pm Film 82
11.23pm News Headlines
11.25pm Claire Rayner's Casebook
11.50pm Weatherman

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 19th December 1982

9.00am The Flumps
9.15am Knock Knock
9.30am This is the Day
10.00am Asian Magazine
10.30am Magic Rays of Light
11.20am Russian Language and People
11.45am Delia Smith's Cookery Course
12.10pm See Hear!
1.00pm Farming
1.25pm Business Club
1.50pm News Headlines
1.55pm Bonanza
2.40pm Cartoons
2.55pm Sir Ralph at 80
3.45pm International Show Jumping
4.55pm Match of the Day
5.55pm News, Weatherman
6.05pm Beau Geste
6.35pm David Jacobs
appeals on behalf of LIBRA
(Lions International Blood Research Appeal)
6.40pm Songs of Praise
7.15pm Hi-de-Hi!
7.45pm Sunday Film : The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
10.05pm News, Weather
10.15pm Omnibus
11.05pm Sunday Night
11.40pm Barbara Mandrell
12.20am Weatherman

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 18th December 1982

BBC1

9.10am The All-New Pink Panther Show
9.30am Saturday Superstore
12.12pm Weather
12.15pm Grandstand
5.10pm News, Weatherman
5.20pm Sport/Regional News
5.25pm The Dukes of Hazzard
6.15pm The Saturday Film : The Likely Lads (1976)
7.45pm Three of a Kind
8.15pm News and Sport
Weatherman
8.30pm Shogun
10.45pm International Show Jumping
11.35pm Cannon
12.25am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1981

ITV LONDON

9.15am Disney Classic

9.25am Once Upon a Time
Mark Wynter tells the story of Dick Whittington

9.40am Emmet Otter's Jug Band
an animated story by Jim Henson

10.30am Tiswas
with Sally James and Gordon Astley

12.00 World of Sport
introduced by Dickie Davies (12.05 On the Ball, with Ian St John,
12.30 Ice Hockey from Moscow, 1.00, 1.30, 2.05 Racing from Kempton Park,
1.10 Magic Moments, a look back at the sporting year)

2.20pm Film : Paint Your Wagon (1969)
starring Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood

4.55pm Sports Results

5.05pm Metal Mickey
Mickey organises a pantomime

5.35pm News from ITN

5.45pm Family Fortunes
Give Us a Clue v It Ain't Half Hot Mum, presented by Bob Monkhouse

6.30pm Russ Abbot's Christmas Madhouse

7.15pm Film : The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
starring Robert Powell and David Warner

9.10pm News from ITN

9.15pm Tales of the Unexpected
with Denis Quilley and Simon Cadell

9.45pm An Audience with Dudley Moore

10.45pm Salute to Fred Astaire
hosted by David Niven, with Gene Kelly and Audrey Hepburn

12.30am Closedown
with Claire Rayner

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1981

ITV LONDON

9.00am Worzel's Christmas Special

10.00am Christmas Family Worship
from Duke Street Baptist Church, Richmond, Surrey

11.00am The Dazzle
Edna O'Brien reads her story about a boy and his wonderful bedroom

11.30am We Six Kings
The King's Singers from Nostell Priory

12.00 Film : The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963)
starring Patrick McGoohan and Susan Hampshire

1.45pm A Wedding in the Family
an unusual view of this year's royal wedding

3.00pm The Queen

3.15pm Film : Dr No (1962)
starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress and Joseph Wiseman

5.15pm This Is Your Life
presented by Eamonn Andrews

5.45pm News from ITN

5.50pm Film : The Muppet Movie (1979)
with Mel Brooks, Bob Hope, James Coburn and Telly Savalas

7.40pm Game for a Laugh
with Henry Kelly, Matthew Kelly, Sarah Kennedy and Jeremy Beadle

8.30pm It'll Be Alright on the Night 3
presented by Denis Nordern

9.35pm Film : Harry and Walter Go to New York(1976)
starring Michael Caine, James Caine, Elliott Gould

11.40pm Rising Damp

12.10am Star in the Sky
carols sung by the children of St Richard's with St Andrew's School, Ham

12.20am Closedown


ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1981

ITV LONDON

9.30am Little Blue

9.40am Get Up and Go
with Beryl Reid and Mooncat

9.55am Chorlton and the Wheelies

10.25am Clapperboard

11.00am TV Film : Christmas Lilies of the FielD (1979)
with Billy Dee Williams

12.30pm Abolish Christmas!
debate between Bill Grundy and Dr John Rae, head of Westminster School

1.00pm News

1.20pm Thames News

1.30pm Morris with Music in Ulster
with Johnny Morris

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

4.15pm Ad Lib

4.45pm Theatre Box : You Must Believe All
This musical play based on Dickens' Holiday Romance,
by Adrien Mitchell, music by Andrew Dickson, with Alasdair Cameron, Alex Lowe & Sandra Osborn

5.45pm News

6.00pm Thames News

6.35pm Crossroads

7.00pm Give Us a Clue
with guests including Terry Scott

7.30pm Only When I Laugh
with James Bolam, Peter Bowles and Christopher Strauli

8.00pm London Night Out
presented by Tom O'Connor, with the choir of Winchester Cathedral,
Basil Brush, Jenny Lee Wright and Rolf Harris

9.00pm Film : Scrooge (1970)
starring Albert Finney

10.15pm News from ITN

10.30pm Film : Scrooge (1970)
continued

11.25pm Midnight Communion
from Newcastle Cathedral

12.30am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

1.20pm Calendar News
(until 1.30)

6.00pm Calendar
(until 6.35)

12.25am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Thursday 31st December 1981

BBC2

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

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Wednesday 30th December 1981

BBC2

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

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 29th December 1981

BBC2

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

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1981

BBC2

11.00am Play School
Story : Sam's Woolly Hat

11.25am Closedown

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

1.20pm Harold Lloyd in The Kid Brother (1927)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9.00pm Guernica
The Long Exile

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

12.10am Closedown