Christmas TV

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 27th December 1981

BBC2

2.35pm A Fortnight at the Crucible,
highlights of this year`s championship, with David Vine & John Spencer

4.25pm Film : The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
starring Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville and Robert Helpmann

6.10pm News Review Special

6.40pm The World About Us
John Palling's view of pets

7.30pm One Hundred Great Paintings
The Pastoral Concert by Giorgione/Titian, with John Jacob

7.40pm Newswith Jan Leeming

7.45pm The Golden Conch
an animated film from China

8.20pm My Music
hosted by Steve Race

8.50pm The Silent World of Marcel Marceau
the mime artist talks to Donny MacLeod

9.45pm Grand Slam
bridge presented by Jeremy James

10.15pm Film : Save the Tiger (1973)
starring Jack Lemmon and Jack Gilford

11.55pm Olivia Newton-John
with Elton John and Cliff Richard

12.50am Closedown

[darren]

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Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1981

BBC2

12.45pm Racing from Wincanton
1.00 The Coral Bookmakers Handicap Steeplechase (2m)
1.30 The Coral Golden Hurdle (Qualifier, Handicap. 2m)
2.00 The Better Bet Coral Steeplechase (Handicap. 2m 5f)
At the end of a memorable National Hunt year we also look back today at
some of the greatest achievements and the courageous efforts of both
horse and man. Introduced by Julian Wilson
Commentators : Peter O'Sullevan, Richard Pitman

2.15pm Cartoon Two
Many Moons
Narrated by Robert Morley

2.25pm Harold Lloyd
Movie Crazy
A starry-eyed small-town boy causes havoc in Hollywood as he tries to
crash the movies

3.50pm Film : Wonderful Life (1964)
starring Cliff Richard with Walter Slezak, Susan Hampshire,
The Shadows
When Johnnie and his friends lose their jobs entertaining the
passengers on a Mediterranean cruise, they suddenly find
themselves in the middle of a very exotic film set. The result
is unexpected ...

5.40pm Strange Sickness
a cartoon from China
A young caterpillar is forced to adopt a disguise to get into the hospital
for useful insects, after eating a cabbage leaf covered in insect spray

6.00pm Sky at Westminster Abbey
A full-length version of the first televised concert in Westminster Abbey,
which took place earlier this year and featured the group Sky

7.25pm Arena : Superman
The Comic Strip Hero
This evening Arena patrols the skies above Metropolis in search of the
legend that is Superman ...
Meet Kirk Alyn, the first celluloid Superman and Christopher Reeve the
latest; Dr Fredric Wertham, Superman's greatest living adversary
Joanne, the model for Lois Lane; Dave 'Darth Vader' Prowse, who turned a
13-stone weakling into The Man of Steel and Superman's creators, the
legendary Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster

8.15pm News and Sport
with Jan Leemingand David Cass
Weather

8.25pm One Hundred Great Paintings
Today a new theme: Music
Piero Della Francesca (1420-1492)
The Nativity
National Gallery, London

8.35pm New York City Ballet
From the award-winning series Dance in America the great dancer
Edward Villella introduces the New York City Ballet in Jewels by
George Balanchine, the master choreographer of the 20th century

9.15pm The Levin Interviews
Bernard Levin talks to the four members of the Amadeus Quartet and
they play Schubert's Quartet Movement in c minor.
In 250 years of quartet playing, no group of musicians has stayed
together as long as the Amadeus Quartet. They are about to
celebrate their 35th year of playing, teaching and making records all
over the world. If one player had to stop for any reason, they would all
stop, for, as second violinist Siegmund Nissel says, ' I could not
contemplate playing quartets with someone else'

10.10pm Film : How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
starring Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi and Terry-Thomas
Stanley Ford, creator of a successful strip cartoon character 'Bash
Brannigan, Secret Agent', lives an idyllic bachelor life in a
luxurious home, smoothly run by his manservant, Charles.
But one night at a party Stanley gets very drunk and wakes up
next morning to find himself married to a beautiful blonde

12.05am Film : The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
starring Herbert Lom and Heather Sears
The tragic and frightening tale of the mad, disfigured musician who
terrorises a London opera house.
In the third screen version of this classic horror story, Herbert Lom
steps into the shoes previously occupied by Lon Chaney and Claude Rains

1.30am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1981

BBC2

11:00am Play School
Story : The Christmas Story presented by Carol Leader, Ben Thomas

11.25am Closedown

2:00pm Harold Lloyd in The Freshman (1925)
In his uniquely riotous way Harold plays an intrepid college boy
intent on becoming Most Popular Man on Campus

3:10pm A Charlie Brown Christmas
Charlie Brown is depressed by the modern spirit of Christmas - even
Snoopy has gone commercial! ' What you need is involvement'
advises Lucy for five cents. So Charlie Brown is asked to direct the
Christmas play ...(Repeat)

3:35pm Film : Uproar in Heaven (1961)
This cartoon film from China relates the misadventures and
misfortunes of mischievous Monkey before he sets out on his epic
journey to India to help bring back the tablets of the Buddha and
how he incurred the wrath of the celestial Jade Emperor and was
flung out of Heaven for stealing the peaches of immortality

5:25pm Joseph and Child
Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Born is the King of Israel.
But who actually delivered the new-born King? Arthur Dooley 's
sculpture Joseph and Child, commissioned by the Church of St
Joseph the Worker in Kirkby, shows Joseph holding up the child he
has helped to deliver.
This film tells how Dooley developed his ideas into a remarkable
sculpture(Repeat)

5:40pm Sounds of Christmas
Richard Stilgoe introduces a concert of carols and Christmas music
from the Royal Albert Hall, London. featuring The London
Choral Society conductor Nicholas Cleobury with The King's Singers,
The English Brass Ensemble, The Haberdashers' Aske's School Boys' Choir

6:35pm The Queen
speaks to the Commonwealth, with subtitles for the hard-of-hearing

6:45pm One Hundred Great Paintings
Tonight's Christmas choice is: Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
Virgin and Child with St Anne at the Louvre, Paris.
Giorgio Vasari, the first biographer of Leonardo, wrote, 'The heavens
often rain down the richest gifts on human beings naturally, but
sometimes with lavish abundance bestow upon a single individual
beauty, grace and ability, so that whatever he does, every action is
so divine that he outdistances all other men'

6:55pm Film : Dersu Uzala (1975)
In 1902 a Russian army unit, commanded by Captain Arsenyev, is
conducting a survey of the huge forest on Russia's Pacific
seaboard. When a strange old man emerges from the forest they are
at first inclined to ridicule him, but Dersu Uzala 's uncanny
instinct for survival soon earns their respect
a Russian film with English subtitles

9:15pm News on 2
with Moira Stuart
Weather

9:25pm Margot Fonteyn introduces the London Festival Ballet
in two ballets that go back to the Edwardian world of Elgar and the
high spirits of Vienna with the music of Johann Strauss. The
Sanguine Fan Carlton House Terrace, a summer evening 1905

10:30pm Country Holiday
A sing-along of Country Music songs from the circus ring of The
Hippodrome, Great Yarmouth led by Little Ginny, Lome Gibson,
The Mintings, Pete Sayers, Tammy Cline and George Hamilton IV
The 35 songs in 45 minutes include medleys of juke-box favourites
and Hank Williams songs

11:15pm Jack Lemmon in : The War Between Men and Women (1972)
with Barbara Harris, Peter Wilson, a brilliant writer and cartoonist,
avoids and allegedly detests women. But a chance meeting - due
to his massive shortsightedness - sends him into the arms of an
attractive assistant at an eye specialist....
Humour and romantic complications are the order of the day in this
cynical, occasionally abrasive comedy, based on the writings of
James Thurber. A character brilliantly portrayed by Jack Lemmon
in his inimitable bitter-comic stylePremière

1.05am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1981

BBC2

11.00am Play School
Story : The Christmas Spiders presented by Carol Leader, Ben Thomas

11.25am Closedown

2.50pm Harold Lloyd
Girl Shy
Shy boy Harold is distracted from writing his book on love-making
when he learns the girl he loves is to marry a scheming bigamist (b&w)

3.55pm Film : Summer Holiday (1963)
starring Cliff Richard
Four young London Transport workers borrow a double-decker bus
for their Continental holiday. The trip to Athens, in spite of misadventures,
proves to be their best summer holiday ever

5.40pm All Creatures Great and Small
1/14 Plenty to Grouse About
Parasites ... red tape ... a tubercular cow ... and Siegfried takes
an instant dislike to Mr Murray who ill-treats a dog, as a vet's
life in Skeldale Surgery continues

6.35pm Film : The Belstone Fox (1973)
starring Eric Porter, Jeremy Kemp and Heather Wright
Tag, an orphan fox-cub, is adopted by a professional huntsman
and reared with a litter of hound puppies. From this strange
beginning Tag retains the instincts of a fox yet becomes the constant
companion to Merlin, a puppy hound. When the new season starts
the fox becomes a victim of the hunt - but proves too wily for the
hunters and disaster strikes

8.15pm News with Moira Stuart Weather

8.20pm One Hundred Great Paintings
Raphael (1483-1520)
Madonna in the Meadow at the Kunsthistorisches Museum

8.30pm Christmas Eve with Pam Ayres and Fivepenny Piece
Music and comedy from Berkshire and Lancashire, when Pam Ayres
meets Fivepenny Piece in a celebration of Christmas. The meeting is
on neutral ground at Cheshire's brand new Spectrum Arena

9.00pmStar Over Bethlehem
A musical celebration for Christmas Eve. Seven nations come together
in a live global concert united by the man-made star of today - the
communications satellite.
From The Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem; Mount Royal in Montreal,
Canada; St Martin's Old Church. Garmisch, W Germany; Virginia Beach,
USA; Cathedral of St Pierre , Geneva, Switzerland; St Andrew's
Church Nairobi, Kenya; St Martin-in-the-Fields,
Trafalgar Square, London

10.00pm The Old Grey Whistle Test
presents Toyah in a special Christmas Eve concert live from the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, with stereo sound on Radio 1
Introduced by Anne Nightingale

11.05pm Late News with Moira Stuart Weather

11.15pm Russell Harty at Home
Join Russell in his Yorkshire home for a Christmas Eve party with
Cilla Black,
The Cambridge Buskers, Dame Edna Everage, Madge Hindle, Arthur
Marshall, Edna O'Brien, The Great Soprendo, John Tovey, Giggleswick
and Settle Brass Band, Keasden Carol Singers, Kirkby Lonsdale
Handbell Ringers

12.05am Liszt's Christmas Tree Suite
played by Rhondda Gillespie (piano)
Many of the 12 short movements are based on traditional
Christmas songs and the work was intended for family music
making(Repeat)

12.50am Closedown

[darren]

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Wednesday 23rd December 1981

BBC2

10.20am Gharbar
10.45am Closedown
11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
2.00pm The King's Army
2.30pm Harold Lloyd
3.55pm One Man and His Dog
4.35pm Howard Shelley
4.40pm Vikings!
5.10pm To Oulton with Love
5.40pm Daredevils of the Red Circle
6.00pm Grange Hill
6.25pm Life on Earth
7.20pm News Summary, Weather
7.25pm One Hundred Great Paintings
7.35pm Grapevine
8.10pm Strangeways
9.00pm Film : White Christmas (1954)
10.55pm Late News, Weather
11.00pm Schalcken the Painter

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 22nd December 1981

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
2.00pm The King's Army
2.30pm Harold Lloyd
3.45pm Antiques Roadshow
4.25pm Everybody's Doin' It
4.45pm In Search of ... William the Conqueror
5.40pm Daredevils of the Red Circle
6.00pm Grange Hill
6.25pm The Waltons
7.10pm News Summary, Weather
7.15pm One Hundred Great Paintings
7.25pm A Question of Equality
8.10pm Russell Harty
9.00pm Film : The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
11.40pm Late News, Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Monday 21st December 1981

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
2.35pm Harold Lloyd
3.55pm Star Movie
Film : The Dark Mirror (1946)
5.15pm Howard Shelley
5.25pm Under Sail
5.40pm Daredevils of the Red Circle
6.00pm The Record Breakers
6.25pm Cartoon Two
6.35pm Living in the Past
7.05pm News Summary, Weather
7.10pm One Hundred Great Paintings
7.20pm Tales of Twelve Cities
8.10pm Dave Allen
9.00pm Paul Scofield in If Winter Comes
10.00pm Horizon
11.05pm Stephane Grappelli
11.35pm Late News, Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 20th December 1981

BBC2

1.30pm Horizon
2.30pm Harold Lloyd
3.45pm Ski Sunday
4.20pm Adventures of the Small Carp
4.40pm Daredevils of the Red Circle
5.00pm News Review
5.30pm Rugby Special
6.30pm The Money Programme
7.15pm The World About Us
8.05pm News on 2
8.10pm Miss Julie
9.00pm Grand Slam
9.25pm The Borgias
10.15pm Film : The Man who Fell to Earth (1987)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 19th December 1981

BBC2

3.00pm Film : Cliff Richard in The Young Ones (1961)
4.45pm Play Away
5.10pm The Sky at Night
5.30pm Film : Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
7.00pm News and Sport, Weather
7.15pm Did You See...?
7.55pm The Royal Opera presents Samson et Dalila
10.20pm Playhouse Special: Gentle Folk
11.35pm Midnight Movie
Film : Breezy (1973)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Thursday 31st December 1981

BBC1

9.20am Gymnast
9.45am The Perishers
9.50am Jackanory
10.05am The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
10.25am Why Don't You....?
10.50am Play Chess!
11.00am Mary Chipperfield's Wildest School on Earth
11.30am King of the Rocket Men
11.40am The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries
12.30pm News After Noon
12.42pm Regional News (excluding London and SE)
News Headlines (London and SE only)
12.45pm King Rollo
12.50pm Stop - Go!
1.00pm Holiday Double Bill
Film : Saddle the Wind (1958) Première
2.20pm Film : The Outriders (1950)
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Mighty Mouse
4.25pm Jackanory
4.35pm Charlie Brown
5.00pm Blue Peter Review of the Year
5.35pm Ivor the Engine
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
5.50pm Bugs Bunny in Jack Wabbit and the Beanstalk
(London and South East only)
Regional News (All other English regions)
6.00pm Top of the Pops: All the Number Ones of 1981
6.35pm The Dick Emery Christmas Show
7.25pm TV Film : Elvis - The Movie (1979) Première
10.10pm Main News, Weatherman
10.20pm Pick of 81
11.20pm 81 Take 2
11.55pm Across the Years
12.05am Hi There 82!
12.58am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Wednesday 30th December 1981

BBC1

9.50am Jackanory
10.05am The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
10.25am Why Don't You...?
10.50am Play Chess!
11.00am Go with Noakes
11.30am King of the Rocket Men
11.40am The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries
12.30pm News After Noon
12.45pm Fingerbobs
1.00pm Behind the Greasepaint
1.30pm An American Adventure
2.30pm Film : Tommy the Toreador (1959)
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Mighty Mouse
4.25pm Jackanory
4.40pm Cheggers Plays Pop
5.10pm The Devil and Daniel Mouse
5.35pm Ivor the Engine
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
5.50pm Cartoon : Alias St Nick (London and South East only)
News (All other English regions)
6.00pm Barney's Choice
6.45pm Angels
7.35pm Seconds Out
8.05pm Tales from The Thousand and One Nights
10.00pm Main News, Weatherman
10.10pm Robinson Cruising
11.05pm Iris
11.40pm Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko
12.05am Weatherman

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 29th December 1981

BBC1

9.25am Gymnast
9.50am The Perishers
9.55am Jackanory
10.05am The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
10.25am Why Don't You....?
10.50am Play Chess!
11.00am Go with Noakes
11.30am King of the Rocket Men
11.40am The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries
12.30pm News After Noon
12.45pm Over the Moon
1.00pm Behind the Greasepaint
1.30pm Daffy Duck
1.35pm Winnie the Pooh and the Hunny Tree
2.00pm Film : A Distant Trumpet (1964)
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Mighty Mouse
4.25pm Jackanory
4.40pm John Diamond
5.35pm Ivor the Engine
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
5.50pm Cartoon : The Pups' Christmas (London and South East only)
Regional News (All other English regions)
6.00pm Pop Quiz
6.35pm Tomorrow's World
7.05pm Film : The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
8.50pm Main News, Weatherman
9.00pm TV Film : Artemis 81 (1981)
12.05am Weatherman

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1981

BBC1

9.05am Chock-a-Block (Repeat)

9.20am Gymnast
David Vine and Nik Stuart discuss Parallel Bars (Repeat)

9.45am The Perishers
featuring Leonard Rossiter as "Boot"(Repeat)

9.50am Jackanory with Kenneth Williams reading
Count Backwerdz on the Carpet (Repeat)

10.05am The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Tall Timber Treachery (Repeat)

10.25am Why Don't You . . . ?
presented by the children of the Scottish "Why Don't You" gang

10.50am Play Chess!
6/10 Perpetual Check and Stalemate

11.00am Go with Noakes
John Noakes and Shep continue their voyage of discovery round
the British coastline(Repeat)

11.30am King of the Rocket Men
5/12 Fatal Dive(b&w)

11.40am The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries
Part One : Voodoo Doll,starring Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson
and Janet Louise Johnson

12.27pm Weather Anne Purvis

12.30pm Grandstand
introduced by David Coleman
(12.35 Football Focus
1.05, 1.40, 2.15 Racing from Chepstow
1.25, 2.00 International Badminton )

2.40pm Film : The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
The story of Cinderella, the British film musical starring Richard
Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, Annette Crosbie, Edith Evans,
Christopher Gable, Michael Hordern, Margaret Lockwood,
Kenneth MorePremière

5.00pm Final Score
introduced by David Coleman

5.10pm Evening NewsRichard Baker
Weatherman

5.20pm Grange Hill
Christmas Special

5.45pm K9 and Company
starring Elisabeth Sladen and John Leeson as the voice of K9

6.35pm Christmas Terry and June
with Terry Scott and June Whitfield

7.05pm Film : Battle of Midway (1942)
starring Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford

9.10pm Val sings Bing
with Val Doonican

9.55pm Only Fools and Horses . . .
with David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Leonard Pearce

10.30pm Main Newswith Richard Baker
Weatherman

10.40pm Films of the Year
Barry Norman looks back on the films of 1981

11.20pm Men v Women
an International Golf Challenge

12.10am Weatherman

12.15am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Only there are far more channels now thnx to freeview.

but the channels back in the 70's 80's and 90's we had probably have better christmas telly than those same channels now.

i have just come from wh smith to get some of the latest editions of the christmas tv listings magazines. No doubt that the programmes listed will never be as great as what is listed on here.

[George 1978]

Re: Christmas TV

I have just come from WH Smith to get some of the latest editions of the Christmas TV listings magazines. No doubt that the programmes listed will never be as great as what is listed on here.