Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

Friday 28th December 1984

BBC2

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

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Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 29th December 1984

BBC2

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

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Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 30th December 1984

BBC2

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

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Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Monday 31st December 1984

BBC2

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

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1984

ITV LONDON (Thames)

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

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

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

10.30am Film : Benji (1974)
starring Edgar Buchanan

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

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

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

1.20pm Thames News
with Robin Houston

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

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


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

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

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

5.45pm News at 5.45

6.00pm Thames News
with Tina Jenkins, John Andrew

6.25pm Help!
Viv Taylor Gee with community action news

6.35pm Crossroads

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

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

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

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

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

10.40pm ITN News

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

12.40am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

9.25am Sesame Street

10.25am Cartoon
(until 10.30)

1.20pm Calendar News
(until 1.30)

6.00pm Calendar
(until 6.35)

ITV CENTRAL

9.30am London Calling

10.25am Christmas Message

6.00pm Crossroads

6.25pm Central News

ITV ANGLIA

9.25am Sesame Street

10.25am Cartoon
(until 10.30)

6.00pm About Anglia

ITV GRANADA

9.25am Sesame Street

10.25am Cartoon
(until 10.30)

6.00am Crossroads

6.25pm Granada Reports

ITV TYNE TEES

9.25am Sesame Street

10.25am Cartoon
(until 10.30)

6.02pm Crossroads

6.25pm Northern Life

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Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1984

ITV LONDON

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

3.00pm The Queen
The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth

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

5.25pm ITN News

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

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

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

10.40pm ITN News

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

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

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

1.00am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1984

ITV LONDON

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

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

9.55am Cartoon Time

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

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

1.00pm ITN News

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

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

4.40pm Crossroads

5.10pm ITN News and Sport

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

6.00pm This Is Your Life, with Eamonn Andrews

6.45pm Coronation Street

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

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

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

10.50pm ITN News

11.05pm Elton John in Central Park

12.10am Peace
a Christmas message from Gill Nevill

12.20am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

12.10am Closedown

ITV CENTRAL

9.55am Laurel & Hardy

4.45pm Name That Tune

5.30pm Crossroads

ITV ANGLIA

12.10am Soumi — Land of the Finns

ITV GRANADA

12.10am Benson

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CHANNEL 4

Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1984

2.00pm Los Villancicos

3.30pm Wet Paint
artistic documentary

3.55pm Class of '39

5.30pm Greenland - the Vikings Return

6.00pm Film : Dark Enemy
starring Rory MacFarquhar

7.30pm News Summary and Weather

7.35pm Making a Splash

8.00pm The Mating Call

9.00pm Placido
A Year in the Life of Placido Domingo

10.45pm Ian Breakwell's Christmas Diary
Victorian Values

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

12.40am Closedown

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CHANNEL 4
Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1984

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

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

1.30pm The World of Children

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

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

5.00pm The Queen

5.10pm Giselle ballet

7.10pm News Summary and Weatherfollowed by
Loriot

8.00pm Brookside

8.30pm See How They Run

10.00pm Jean Sibelius
The Early Years/Maturity and Silence

11.55pm Ian Breakwell's Christmas Diary

12.15am Closedown

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Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1984

11.10am A Lineside Look at Model Railways
with Bob Symes

12.00 Film : Gnomes (1980)

1.00pm Channel Four Racing
from Kempton Park

3.00pm Channel Four's Year of Gold

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

6.00pm That's Street Entertainment!

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

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

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

12.10am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 21st December 1985

BBC1

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

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Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 22nd December 1985

BBC1

8.55am Play School
9.15am Articles of Faith
9.30am This is the Day
10.00am Asian Magazine
10.30am Former Glory
11.50am See Hear!
12.40pm Farming
1.05pm News Headlines
1.10pm Rockspell
2.00pm EastEnders Omnibus
3.00pm Tom and Jerry
3.10pm Botham Over Britain
3.40pm The Treble
4.45pm Sky-dive to Autana
5.30pm Oliver Twist
6.00pm Sir Richard Attenborough
President of the Muscular Dystrophy Group appeals on its behalf.
6.05pm News
6.15pm Songs of Praise
7.15pm Film : The Jazz Singer (1980) Première
9.05pm News, Weather
9.20pm TV Film : Shadowlands (1985)
10.50pm Do They Know it's Christmas?
11.20pm Manilow's Christmas Magic
12.10am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Monday 23rd December 1985

BBC1


6.00am Ceefax AM
6.50am Breakfast Time
9.20am The Littlest Hobo
9.45am The Hunter
9.50am Play Chess
10.00am Charlie Brown
10.25am Roobarb
10.30am Play School
10.50am Songs of Praise
11.50am The Pink Panther Show
12.10pm Tom and Jerry
12.20pm Junior Kick Start
12.50pm News
1.00pm Regional News
Weather
1.05pm Pebble Mill at One
1.45pm Pigeon Street
2.00pm Film : That's Action (1977)
3.45pm Tom and Jerry
3.52pm Regional News
3.55pm Cinderella
4.10pm Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
4.35pm SuperTed
4.40pm Jonny Briggs
5.00pm John Craven's Newsround
5.05pm Blue Peter
5.35pm Rolf Harris Cartoon Time
6.00pm Six O'Clock News
Weather
6.35pm Regional news magazines
7.00pm Wogan
7.35pm The Golden Oldie Christmas Show
8.00pm The 1973 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News
9.25pm The Monday Film : The Fog (1980)
10.55pm Dame Vera Lynn
11.35pm Taxi
12.00 Weather

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Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1985

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM

6.50am Breakfast Time
with Frank Bough, Selina Scott, Nick Ross, Debbie Greenwood
& Mike Smith, with guests Roland Rat and the Choir of Westminster Abbey

9.20am The Littlest Hobo
The Pearls
Hobo helps the captain of a boat when he finds villains
among the crew

9.45am The Hunter
School Days, Fool Days
Horace plays hookey and helps the Hunter blow the lid off the
Fox's latest felony.

9.50am Play Chess
Bill Hartston introduces the knight's move, and more
easy checkmates

10.00am Charlie Brown
A Charlie Brown Christmas
There are fairy lights on Snoopy's kennel and the children
have decided to put on a play, but Charlie Brown still wants
to know what Christmas is really about

10.25am Magic Roundabout

10.30am Play School
Story: A Close Shave for Father Christmas

10.50am Tom and Jerry

11.05am Charles in Charge
A special Christmas edition starring
Home for the Holidays
It is Christmas Eve and the Pembroke household is
buzzing with activity.
Grandma Irene is expected for her annual visit and
Charles is all set to leave to spend the holiday with
his parents in Vermont - or is he?

11.30am See Hear!
Christmas Special

12.20pm Junior Kick Start
The second heat of BBC Television's junior motorcycling
competition features 12 more talented riders from Cleveland,
Hampshire, Tyne and Wear, Kent, the Isle of Man,
Shropshire, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire,
Pembrokeshire and Lancashire as they attempt to conquer
a difficult course at Easton Neston in Northamptonshire

12.50pm Newswith Richard Whitmore
Weather, Bill Giles

1.00pm A Song for Christmas
Cliff Richard is the star guest in the climax of this year's
Children's Christmas Carol Competition, presented by
Paul Coia and Josephine Buchan.
Six finalists perform their own carols in front of a judging
panel of celebrities chaired by Peter Skellern

1.45pm Mr Benn

2.00pm Film : The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania live a sad young girl and
an unhappy prince. Trapped in their different worlds, they
need only to meet to fall in love ...
Bryan Forbes 's musical version of Cinderella has all the
enchantment of the original fairy tale, while beautifully
photographed and wittily scripted.
Gemma Craven in her film debut and Richard Chamberlain
in his first musical receive fine support from an impressive
British cast

4.20pm Keith and Orville's Christmas
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

5.00pm Carols from King's
The traditional world-famous Service of Nine Lessons and Carols
recorded specially for television in the Chapel of King's College,
Cambridge. The Choir of King's College, Cambridge

6.00pm News with Richard Whitmore
Weather

6.15pm Jim'll Fix It for Christmas
In this special Christmas edition, Jimmy Savile OBE fixes it for ...
a pumpkin to be a coach, Bo-Peep to find her sheep, and a
panto horse to win the 3.15.

7.00pm Telly Addicts Christmas Special
The Pains are the Telly Addict family of 1985.
During their journey to that title they have beaten
15 other families and have answered
over 300 questions about television correctly.
Tonight they meet a panel of television specialists.
Nina Myskow. TV critic
Barry Took. Points of View
Michael Grade. Controller, BBC1
Larry Grayson, avid viewer
Can the Pains beat the experts?

7.30pm Eastenders

8.00pm Kenny Everett's Christmas Carol
The snow is falling in gentle flakes, the gaslight is flickering
on ancient mantles, and Charles Dickens is spinning in his grave.
Tonight Kenny presents his salute to the master's Christmas
Carol with Michael Barrymore
Peter Cook , Spike Milligan Willie Rushton , John Wells and
surprise guests, who appear as ghosts and other almost
earthly beings

8.30pm A Question of Sport
Bill Beaumont and Emlyn Hughes captain two teams of
celebrities from the world of entertainment. Guests include
BBCl's Bergerac, John Nettles ; from Big Deal, Ray Brooks -
alias Robby Box ; and comedians Eddie Large and Stan Boardman
David Coleman questions their knowledge of the faces, facts and
feats, reviving memories of the greatest - and the funniest -
moments in sport

9.00pm Terry and June
starring Terry Scott and June Whitfield

9.30pm Newswith Richard Whitmore Weather

9.45pm Cagney and Lacey
Entrapment
The criminals play a dirty game, so why not the cops?
That question hangs above a partnership, when Cagney steps
over the limits to ensnare an elusive drugs dealer and asks
Lacey to fabricate her account of the arrest. And what price
the Isbecki-Petrie team, when a chance remark hits close to home?

10.30pm Val Donican's Christmas Party
Val invites you to join him and his guests in a programme of
music and fun for all the family. with his guests Pat Boone
James Galway, Janet Brown, Stockton's Wing

11.20pm The Good Life Christmas Special
Tom and Barbara, Margo and Jerry, plan their respective
Christmases - but neither goes according to plan.

11.50pm The First Communion of Christmas
from the Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfrid at Ripon.
For 1,300 years Christians have gathered on this site for worship.
Join the congregation as they celebrate the birth of Jesus in the
ancient minster. Introduced by Canon David Ford

12.50am Weather

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Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1985

BBC1

8:00am Pages from Ceefax

8:35am Play School
It's Christmas Day!

8:55am Muppet Babies
Ever wondered what Animal was like as a nipper; or if
Miss Piggy looked glamorous in nappies; or whether
Kermit was born a leader? Now is the chance to find
out in Raiders of the Lost Muppet. Hide 'n' seek is fun, until
Animal disappears and the trail leads the Muppet babies
into the Basement of Doom.

9:20am Knock! Knock!
celebrates Christmas.
Around the Christmas Tree with Bryan Murray and
Shireen Shah and the children of Great Moor Junior School,
Stockport.

9:35am This is the Day
A celebration, in worship and prayer, of the birth of the Saviour.
The speaker is The Rt Rev Jim Thompson , Bishop of Stepney,
and the service is introduced by Linda Mary Evans from a
viewer's home in Birmingham

10:05am Film : The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
starring Walter Brennan, Matthew Garber, Karen Dotrice
Millionaire Mulrooney takes his grandchildren Elizabeth and
Rodney tor a picnic in the Redwood Forest. While wandering
in the woods, Elizabeth meets Jasper, a young gnome and his
grandfather, Knobby, but soon discovers the gnomes have a
serious problem.

11:30am Roland's Yuletide Binge
The BBC are thrilled to present one of the most sensitive
performing artistes, Roland Rat Superstar in a sparkling
celebration of his historic move to the BBC. With Errol, the
hamster Glenis, the guinea-pig Kevin, the gerbil and Little Reggie
Plus their special guests Russell Grant, Frankie Howerd
Jan Leeming, Ian McCaskill, Beryl Reid, Valerie Singleton

11:55am The Noel Edmonds Live Live Christmas Breakfast Show
From the top of London's British Telecom Tower,
Noel Edmonds presents a live outside broadcast uniting
families and friends throughout the world.
British relief workers in Africa are linked with their families in
Britain by the first live television satellite broadcast from
the Sudan.
Mike Smith goes out and about with the BBCtv helicopter camera.
The Krankies play host to the highest Christmas party on a jumbo
jet flying over Britain. Noel is joined by a host of comedy guests for a
morning of fun and family reunions

2:00pm Top of the Pops Christmas Party
Gary Davies, Jonathan King, Janice Long, Dixie Peach, John Peel
and Steve Wright present the most popular hits of 1985.
With Alison Moyet, Paul Young, Feargal Sharkey, King,
Dead or Alive, Billy Ocean, Colonel Abrams and Baltimora
Featuring the No 1 records of the year on video

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

3:10pm Children's Royal Variety Performance
in the presence of HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of
Snowdon, in aid of the NSPCC. A gala, including Floella Benjamin,
Christopher Biggins, Julie Brown, Roy Castle, Fiona Chadwick,
The Cheeky Bits, Keith Chegwin, Bernie Clifton, John Craven,
Jimmy Cricket, Suzanne Dando, Peter Duncan, Wayne Eagling,
Janet Ellis, The Endresz Family, Jan Francis, Rusty Goffe,
The Great Soprendo, The Halfwits, Keith Harris and Orville,
Rolf Harris, Martin Harvey, Rod Hull and Emu, John Inman,
Antony Johns, Casey Lee Jolleys, The Krankies, Bonnie Langford,
Annabelle Lanyon Masquerade, Barbara Newman, Paul Nicholas,
Grant Olding, Su Pollard, Mike Read, Roland Rat, Angela Rippon,
Gian Sammarco, Jimmy Savile OBE, Leo Sayer, Carol Lee Scott,
Wayne Sleep Freddie Stevens, Sue Stevens

4:55pm All Creatures Great and Small
James, Helen and their children share Skeldale House with
the practice. Tristan, now working for the ministry, has picked
up the threads of an old romance and Siegfried looks forward
to the accelerating pace of progress

6:25pm News with Moira Stuart and Weather

6:30pm Hi-de-Hi!
The Great Cat Robbery
Maplin's Holiday Camp, 1960
The entertainment staffs troubles have only just begun,
when they discover there's an emerald necklace hidden
somewhere on the camp

7:30pm Only Fools and Horses. . . To Hull and Back
In this special edition for Christmas, the Trotter family
embark on a money-making adventure which takes them
To Hull and Back starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
and Buster Merryfield

9:00pm The Two Ronnies
starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett
The two Ronnies are back with a crackerful of jokes in the
gift-wrapped first show of a new series.
Plus all the news that's fit to laugh at, and Little Big Shot
- a searing tale set in Chicago in the 1920s when men
were men and Ronald Reagan was just an OAP.
With their special guest Phil Collins

9:50pm News Moira Stuart and Weather Bill Giles

10:00pm Wogan
Terry deserts his little home on Shepherd's Bush Green to
fly out to Denver for Christmas at the Carrington mansion.

10:40pm Film : Absence of Malice (1981)
starring Paul Newman, Sally Field
A prominent Miami union leader has disappeared without trace.
Frustrated by the lack of clues, ruthless government inspector
Elliot Rosen puts the pressure on Michael Gallagher, a wholesale
liquor merchant whose father was a gangster. Turning the screws
tighter, Rosen leaks that Gallagher is a prime suspect to Megan Carter,
an ambitious reporter on the Miami Standard.
With the law, the press, and the mob against him, Gallagher is forced
to take extreme measures ...
Première

12:35am Weather

12:40am Closedown