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Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1985
BBC1
8.00am Ceefax
8.35am Play School
A Magic Box for Boxing Day!
9.00am Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse
An animated film version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous novel.
Featuring the voices of Peter O'Toole, Helen Morse , Ron Haddrick
Dr Mortimer is not satisfied with the coroner's verdict that
Sir Charles Baskerville 's death on the moors was caused by
a heart attack and engages Sherlock Holmes to investigate
10.10am Take Two Christmas Special
The programme that gives you the opportunity to comment on BBCtv
with Josephine Buchan
10.50am Film : Swallows and Amazons (1974)
starring Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser For the Walker children,
a holiday in the Lake District becomes the adventure of a lifetime
when they set sail to camp on an island in the middle of the lake
12.20pm Junior Kick Start
The final heat of BBC Television's junior motorcycling competition
when a dozen more riders, aged between 8 and 15, compete
for the Lombard Tricity Trophy
12.50pm News with Jan Leeming Weather
1.00pm Ziggy's Gift
Ziggy - a little guy in a big world, overweight and underwhelmed -
takes a job as a street-corner Santa, but he finds himself working
for a con man
1.25pm Film : The Great Escape (1963)
starring Steve McQueen, James Garner
Richard Attenborough, Stalag Luft North was - seemingly -
escape proof, the highest security camp run by the Germans
during World War II. In an attempt to contain unwilling PoWs,
the Nazis collected them into one camp, but unwittingly brought
together the finest escape team in military history.
This spectacular and tense classic war film includes one of
the strongest casts ever assembled in the 1960s
4.10pm Disney Time
The traditional Christmas visit to the world of Walt
Disney films introduced by Jan Francis
Films include: Peter Pan, Bambi, The Black Cauldron
Jungle Book, Pinocchio, The Adventures of Natty Gran
4.50pm Final Score
All the headline makers and day's results
5.05pm Newswith Jan Leeming
5.15pm Comedy Classic : Open All Hours
starring Ronnie Barker and David Jason with Lynda Baron
5.45pm Bob's Christmas Full House
starring Bob Monkhouse
A special festive edition of this exciting comedy quiz show.
Four contestants each represent a charity and for every number
lit, there is a cash reward which is donated to that charity.
A Golden Holiday is on offer for the winner of the Full House
6.20pm The Paul Daniels Magic Christmas Show
In a special holiday programme, Paul Daniels presents a magical
version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs featuring Debbie
McGee as Snow White and Fenella Fielding as the Wicked Queen;
and, with the accent on youth, introduces his remarkable guests.
From the USA, Lance Burton combining swordplay and magic
with incredible results; The Jazzy Jumpers, skipping as you have
never seen before; and, from China, the intriguing skills of
gymnast, Zhou Shurong and a special guest appearance by
Sooty with Matthew Corbett
7.10pm Eastenders
7.40pm 'Allo 'Allo!
General Von Klinkerhoffen has taken personal control of the
district. The Resistance decide that their operations will be
inhibited by the General's presence and so decree that he
must be blown up. The Colonel comes to a similar conclusion,
deciding on poison, while Herr Flick is no longer prepared to
tolerate the General's interference and elects to terminate the
General's appointment with a poisoned dart
8.30pm In Sickness and in Health
starring Warren Mitchell and Dandy Nichols
Alf and Else are invited to Christmas dinner at the church hall -
thereby missing the free beano for pensioners at the local pub.
Alf feels he ought to have his share of both, and achieves as
much by conniving with his mate Arthur. Also using devious
means, Rita is forced to stay to look after them over the
Christmas period which ends with a knees-up at the church hall
9.00pm Tenko Reunion
Five years after their release from internment, the women return
to Singapore for a reunion, unaware of the intrigue that is to involve
them in treachery and murder.
10.50pm Newswith Jan LeemingWeather
11.05pm Films of the Year
Barry Norman reflects on 1985's outstanding releases and
chooses his ten favourite films. These are just some of the
contenders - Amadeus, A Passage to India Witness
A View To A Kill, Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome
and Back To The Future.
Which would you choose? He'll also be picking out awful
moments from this year's movies and assessing current
trends and tastes
11.45pm Film : Hitchcock - Strangers on a Train(1951)
The first of four films for the festive season from the master of
suspense, tonight starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
with Leo G. Carroll
On a train from Washington to New York, tennis star Guy Haines
is provoked into conversation by a rich - and obviously neurotic -
young man, Bruno Anthony. Guy wants to divorce his wife,
Bruno hates his father. Half jokingly Bruno suggests the perfect
crime - they will each commit the other's murder....
1.25am Weather
Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1985
BBC1
8.00am Ceefax
8.35am Play School
A Magic Box for Boxing Day!
9.00am Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse
An animated film version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous novel.
Featuring the voices of Peter O'Toole, Helen Morse , Ron Haddrick
Dr Mortimer is not satisfied with the coroner's verdict that
Sir Charles Baskerville 's death on the moors was caused by
a heart attack and engages Sherlock Holmes to investigate
10.10am Take Two Christmas Special
The programme that gives you the opportunity to comment on BBCtv
with Josephine Buchan
10.50am Film : Swallows and Amazons (1974)
starring Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser For the Walker children,
a holiday in the Lake District becomes the adventure of a lifetime
when they set sail to camp on an island in the middle of the lake
12.20pm Junior Kick Start
The final heat of BBC Television's junior motorcycling competition
when a dozen more riders, aged between 8 and 15, compete
for the Lombard Tricity Trophy
12.50pm News with Jan Leeming Weather
1.00pm Ziggy's Gift
Ziggy - a little guy in a big world, overweight and underwhelmed -
takes a job as a street-corner Santa, but he finds himself working
for a con man
1.25pm Film : The Great Escape (1963)
starring Steve McQueen, James Garner
Richard Attenborough, Stalag Luft North was - seemingly -
escape proof, the highest security camp run by the Germans
during World War II. In an attempt to contain unwilling PoWs,
the Nazis collected them into one camp, but unwittingly brought
together the finest escape team in military history.
This spectacular and tense classic war film includes one of
the strongest casts ever assembled in the 1960s
4.10pm Disney Time
The traditional Christmas visit to the world of Walt
Disney films introduced by Jan Francis
Films include: Peter Pan, Bambi, The Black Cauldron
Jungle Book, Pinocchio, The Adventures of Natty Gran
4.50pm Final Score
All the headline makers and day's results
5.05pm Newswith Jan Leeming
5.15pm Comedy Classic : Open All Hours
starring Ronnie Barker and David Jason with Lynda Baron
5.45pm Bob's Christmas Full House
starring Bob Monkhouse
A special festive edition of this exciting comedy quiz show.
Four contestants each represent a charity and for every number
lit, there is a cash reward which is donated to that charity.
A Golden Holiday is on offer for the winner of the Full House
6.20pm The Paul Daniels Magic Christmas Show
In a special holiday programme, Paul Daniels presents a magical
version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs featuring Debbie
McGee as Snow White and Fenella Fielding as the Wicked Queen;
and, with the accent on youth, introduces his remarkable guests.
From the USA, Lance Burton combining swordplay and magic
with incredible results; The Jazzy Jumpers, skipping as you have
never seen before; and, from China, the intriguing skills of
gymnast, Zhou Shurong and a special guest appearance by
Sooty with Matthew Corbett
7.10pm Eastenders
7.40pm 'Allo 'Allo!
General Von Klinkerhoffen has taken personal control of the
district. The Resistance decide that their operations will be
inhibited by the General's presence and so decree that he
must be blown up. The Colonel comes to a similar conclusion,
deciding on poison, while Herr Flick is no longer prepared to
tolerate the General's interference and elects to terminate the
General's appointment with a poisoned dart
8.30pm In Sickness and in Health
starring Warren Mitchell and Dandy Nichols
Alf and Else are invited to Christmas dinner at the church hall -
thereby missing the free beano for pensioners at the local pub.
Alf feels he ought to have his share of both, and achieves as
much by conniving with his mate Arthur. Also using devious
means, Rita is forced to stay to look after them over the
Christmas period which ends with a knees-up at the church hall
9.00pm Tenko Reunion
Five years after their release from internment, the women return
to Singapore for a reunion, unaware of the intrigue that is to involve
them in treachery and murder.
10.50pm Newswith Jan LeemingWeather
11.05pm Films of the Year
Barry Norman reflects on 1985's outstanding releases and
chooses his ten favourite films. These are just some of the
contenders - Amadeus, A Passage to India Witness
A View To A Kill, Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome
and Back To The Future.
Which would you choose? He'll also be picking out awful
moments from this year's movies and assessing current
trends and tastes
11.45pm Film : Hitchcock - Strangers on a Train(1951)
The first of four films for the festive season from the master of
suspense, tonight starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
with Leo G. Carroll
On a train from Washington to New York, tennis star Guy Haines
is provoked into conversation by a rich - and obviously neurotic -
young man, Bruno Anthony. Guy wants to divorce his wife,
Bruno hates his father. Half jokingly Bruno suggests the perfect
crime - they will each commit the other's murder....
1.25am Weather
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