Christmas TV

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 27th December 1986

BBC1

8.30am Family-Ness
8.35am The Muppet Babies
9.00am Saturday Superstore
10.45am Film : tom thumb (1958)
12.15pm Grandstand
5.05pm News, Weather
5.15pm Sport/Regional News
5.20pm Bob's Christmas Full House
5.55pm Film : Escape to Athena (1979)
7.50pm Hi-de-Hi!
8.35pm The Paul Daniels Magic Christmas Show
9.25pm Casualty
10.15pm News and Sport
Weather
10.30pm Film : The Italian Job (1969)
12.05am Movie Classics
Film : Dr Strangelove (1964)
1.40am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 28th December 1986

BBC1

8.55am Play School
9.15am Umbrella
9.30am This Is the Day
10.00am Asian Magazine
10.30am Carnival of the Animals
10.55am Film : Two-Way Stretch (1960)
12.25pm Film : Carry On Jack (1963)
1.55pm News Headlines
1.58pm Weather for farmers
2.00pm EastEnders Omnibus
3.30pm The Great Safari Bird Rally
4.00pm Aled Jones and Friends
4.40pm Film : The Railway Children (1970)
6.25pm News, Weather
6.35pm Songs of Praise
7.15pm Last of the Summer Wine : Merry Christmas Father Christmas
7.50pm Film : Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (1982) Première
9.45pm News, Weather
10.00pm New World
12.10am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Monday 29th December 1986

BBC1

6.30am Ceefax AM
7.00am News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
7.15am The Flintstones
7.40am The Pink Panther Show
8.00am News and Weather
8.15am Misterjaw Supershark
8.20am The Monkees
8.45am Goldilocks and the Three Bears
8.55am Regional News and Weather
9.00am News and Weather
9.05am Play Chess
9.15am Dungeons and Dragons
9.35am Why Don't You...?
10.00am News and Weather
10.05am Neighbours
10.25am Children's BBC
10.30am Play School
10.50am Willo the Wisp
10.55am Five to Eleven
11.00am News and Weather
11.05am The Dukes of Hazzard
11.55am Open Air
12.55pm Regional News and Weather
1.00pm One O'Clock News
1.25pm Neighbours
1.50pm Bertha
2.05pm Film : Shipwreck! (1978)
3.50pm Henry's Cat
4.05pm Wizbit
4.15pm The Mysterious Cities of Gold
4.45pm Jonny Briggs
5.00pm Blue Peter Review of the Year
5.30pm Rolf Harris Cartoon Time
6.00pm Six O'Clock News
Weather
6.35pm Regional news magazines
7.00pm Wogan
7.35pm The Golden Oldie Picture Show
8.00pm Terry and June
8.30pm Three Up, Two Down
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News
Regional News, Weather
9.30pm Stanley Baxter's Picture Annual
10.25pm 1986: Review of the Year : A Newsnight special
11.45pm Movie Classics
Film : My Darling Clementine (1946)
1.25pm Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 30th December 1986

BBC1

6.30am Ceefax AM
7.00am News and Weather Regional
7.15am The Flintstones
7.40am The Pink Panther Show
8.00am News and Weather Regional
8.15am Misterjaw Supershark
8.20am The Monkees
8.45am Poor Little Me
8.55am Regional News and Weather
9.00am News and Weather
9.05am Play Chess
9.15am Dungeons and Dragons
9.35am Why Don't You...?
10.00am News and Weather
10.05am Neighbours
10.25am Children's BBC
10.30am Play School
10.50am Willo the Wisp
10.55am Five to Eleven
11.00am News and Weather
11.05am The Dukes of Hazzard
11.55am Open Air
12.55pm Regional News and Weather
1.00pm One O'Clock News
1.25pm Neighbours
1.50pm Pigeon Street
2.05pm Film : The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
3.30pm Tom and Jerry
3.50pm Panto-time!
4.05pm The All New Popeye Show
4.25pm Jonny Briggs
4.40pm The Really Wild Show
5.10pm Grange Hill
5.35pm It's Not Just Zammo : A Newsround Drugwatch special
6.00pm Six O'Clock News
6.30pm Regional news magazines
7.00pm No Place Like Home
7.30pm EastEnders
8.00pm Ernie Wise introduces the Morecambe and Wise Classics
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News
9.30pm Slip-up*
11.05pm Films of the Year**
11.45pm Movie Classics
Film : Forbidden Planet (1956)***
1.25am Weather

Due to the death of former Prime Minister Harold MacMillan programmes were changed to the following

*9.30pm Harold MacMillan 1894-1986
*10.20pm Mr & Mrs Edgehill
**11.40pm Films of the Year
12.20am The New Year's Honours

***Film : Forbidden Planet (1956) was moved to BBC Two at 11:50pm

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Wednesday 31st December 1986

BBC1

6.30am Ceefax AM
7.00am News and Weather
7.15am The Flintstones
7.40am The Pink Panther Show
8.00am News and Weather
8.15am Misterjaw Supershark
8.20am The Monkees
8.45am Bottles
8.55am Regional News and Weather
9.00am News and Weather
9.05am Play Chess
9.15am Dungeons and Dragons
9.35am Why Don't You...?.
10.00am News and Weather
10.05am Neighbours
10.25am Children's BBC
10.30am Play School
10.50am Henry's Cat
10.55am Five to Eleven
11.00am News and Weather
11.05am Fame
11.55am Open Air
12.55pm Regional News andWeather
1.00pm One O'Clock News
1.25pm Neighbours
1.45pm Bertha
2.00pm Film : Young Winston (1972)
4.20pm Film : The Camel Boy (1984) Première
5.25pm World Superdance
6.00pm Six O'Clock News
Weather
6.15pm Regional News
6.25pm Every Second Counts
7.00pm The World's Strongest Man
8.00pm Dallas
8.50pm The Main News
Regional News, Weather
9.00pm Dave Allen
9.50pm Day After the Fair
11.25pm Wogan
12.05am Happy New Year
12.10am Film : Gigi (1958)
2.05am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 20th December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
11.00am Carols for Christmas.
11.50am Film : 2001 : A Space Odyssey (1968)
2.05pm Harold Lloyd'sWorld of Comedy
3.40pm Film : Anna Neagle in Piccadilly Incident (1946)
5.20pm Sounds of Christmas
6.10pm International Bridge Club
6.40pm Cameo
6.50pm NewsView, Weather
7.30pm Oberon
9.50pm All Passion Spent
10.45pm The Film Club : The Wages of Fear (1953)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 21st December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
10.00am Dastardly and Muttley
10.10am The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
10.30am Blue Peter
11.20am The Childrenof Green Knowe
11.50am Windmill
12.50pm No Limits
1.40pm Rugby Special
2.20pm The Week in the Lords
3.00pm Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
4.10pm BBC Design Awards
5.10pm Music in Camera
5.55pm Thinking Aloud
6.35pm Ski Sunday
7.15pm The Natural World
7.55pm Andre Previn and Gene Kelly
8.35pm The Minnelli Musical
8.50pm James Galway's Christmas Carol
9.45pm Did You See... ?
10.25pm The Great American Picture Show
Film : All That Jazz (1979) Première

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Monday 22nd December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
10.20am The Week in the Lords
11.00am Songs of Praise
12.00 Silent Classics
Film : The Mark of Zorro (1920)
1.25pm See Hear!Christmas Special
2.15pm Film : Peter No-Tail (1981)
3.40pm News and Weather
3.50pm Film : Anna Neagle in They Flew Alone (1942)
5.30pm Domesday Detectives
6.00pm No Limits
7.00pm Film : Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979) Première
9.00pm Cool It
9.30pm The Oldest Goose in the Business
10.30pm The American Film Institute Salute to Billy Wilder
11.40pm Weatherview

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 23rd December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
12.25pm Gharbar
12.50pm Silent Classics
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
2.05pm The Adventuresof Afanti
3.20pm Twist the Cat's Whisker
3.50pm News and Weather
4.00pm Film : Anna Neagle in Yellow Canary (1943)
5.35pm Greg Norman's Golfing Year
6.25pm Film : That Touch of Mink (1962)
8.00pm Herrag - The Herring Gull
9.00pm Moonlighting
9.40pm All Passion Spent
10.35pm Pavarotti's Jubilee
12.30am Weatherview

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Ceefax

12.50pm Silent Classics
Film : Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1920)
starring John Barrymore
This first great American horror film is presented
in a newly tinted version with an organ soundtrack (b&w)

1.50pm Names and Games
four teams of celebrities compete for the Butlins Trophy, presented by
Lennie Bennett and Kathy Taylor, from Somerwest World, Minehead

2.40pm Horowitz in Moscow
a documentary by John Tusa that includes a concert of
works by Scriabin, Rachmaniniv, Mozart, Scarlatti, Schubert,
Liszt and Chopin

4.35pm News , Regional News and Weather

4.45pm Film : The Seven Year Itch (1955)
starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell
Wilder's comic movie established Marilyn in her role as
'sex symbol' and as a major star

6.35pm International Snooker
David Vine presents highlights of the 1986 Embassy
World Professional Snooker Championship

8.00pm Kiri Te Kanawa at Christmas
Kiri Te Kanawa presents a special programme of seasonal
music, both classical and contemporary

9.00pm Season's Greetings
by Alan Ayckbourn with Anna Massey, Nicky Henson, Geoffrey Palmer,
Peter Vaughan and Barbara Flynn
The family have gathered for their traditional merry
Christmas. But like many family Christmasses,
it doesn't go quite as they would have wished ...

10.50pm Harty's Christmas Party
at GiggleswickIan Botham, Ken Livingstone, Sue Lawley,
Ned Sherrin and Fred Trueman

11.45pm The Minnelli Musical
Film : Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
starring Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien

1.35am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1986

BBC2

12:20pm The Minnelli Musical
Film : The Pirate (1948)
starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly
With its 19th-century Caribbean island setting, sumptuous
costumes and Cole Porter songs, including 'Be a clown' and
'Love of my life', The Pirate has long been acclaimed as one of
Minnelli's most original works and as a great Hollywood musical

2:00pm The Christmas Day Concert
Live from Amsterdam
This year's traditional concert from the Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam consists of Symphony No 5 by Gustav Mahler
with Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra conductor Bernard Haitink

3:20pm Film : Hoppity Goes to Town (1941)
The classic animated feature film
Just 45 inches from Broadway, in a weedy patch of earth
surrounded by the cement-and-steel world created by the
menace they fear most - the human race - lives a community
of little people called insects. The construction of a huge skyscraper
threatens the bug community and Hoppity the grasshopper goes
out into the world to seek a Shangri-La

4:35pm Comic Roots
This film is being shown again as a tribute to
Billy Dainty who died last month aged 59

5.05pm The Queen
HM The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth. With open
subtitles and sign-language interpretation for people who
are deaf or hard-of-hearing

5:15pm Film : Billy Wilder Directs - The Fortune Cookie (1966)
starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
When TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming
a football match his wily brother-in-law sees a golden
opportunity to sue for a million dollars in damages

7:20pm Aaron Copland : A Self Portrait
A celebration of America's greatest living composer, made as
a tribute on his 85th birthday

8:20pm Film : Edith and Marcel (1983)
starring Evelyne Bouix, Marcel Cerdan Jr, Jean-Claude Brialy
Edith Piaf and world middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan
were the idols of France in the 1940s, and their passionate, destructive
obsession with each other was an open secret. Claude Lelouch 's musical
film version of two parallel love stories is highlighted by songs recorded
by Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour , who re-creates his role in Piafs life.
Boxer Marcel Cerdan Jr plays his own father.
(A French film with English subtitles)
Première

10:55pm Classic Ghost Stories
Five chilling tales for dark winter nights, told by Robert Powell
Tonight: The Mezzotint

11:10pm Film : Billy Wilder Directs - Fedora (1978)
starring William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, Jose Ferrer
Stephen Collins, Michael York, Henry Fonda
The fabulous, enigmatic film star Fedora has committed suicide.
At her lavish lying-in-state in Paris, Hollywood producer Barry
Detweiler recalls how, two weeks before, he had travelled to Corfu
in a desperate bid to lure the beautiful actress out of retirement

1:00am Weatherview

1:10am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Ceefax

12.25am Popeye the Sailor cartoon

12.45am Film : Gulliver's Travels (1977)
animation

2.00pm Tchaikovsky Competition 1986
from Moscow

3.20pm Surfers Do It Standing Up
Newquay at the time of the World Championships

4.00pm Film : The Band Wagon (1953)
starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse

5.50pm The Most Swirling, Swinging, Sliding, Spinning, Up-and-Down
Ride of Your Life
the thrills of the rollercoaster

6.20pm Choir of the Year 1986
second semi-final from Buxton Opera House

7.00pm Cricket: Fourth Test
day 1 from Melbourne

7.25pm Laurens van der Post at 80

8.30pm Onegin
a ballet by John Cranko to Tchaikovsky's music danced by the
National Ballet of Canada

10.05pm Film : Some Like It Hot (1959)
starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon

12.00 Classic Ghost Stories : The Ash Tree
told by Robert Powell

12.15am Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 27th December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
11.45am Popeye Meets Ali Baba and His 40 Thieves
12.00 The David Lean Film : Great Expectations (1946)
1.55pm The Sky at Night
2.15pm The David Lean Film : This Happy Breed (1944)
4.05pm The David Lean Film : In Which We Serve (1942)
5.55pm Testament to the Bushmen
6.45pm Travellers in Time
7.25pm News and Sport
Weather
7.45pm A Walk Through the Thirties
8.10pm Cricket: Fourth Test
Australia v England
8.35pm Swallows
9.55pm Ludwig van Beethoven
10.15pm All Passion Spent
11.10pm Comic Relief

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 28th December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
10.00am Film : The Water Babies (1978)
11.30am The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
11.55am Windmill
12.55pm No Limits
1.55pm Oh Yes I Am....Oh No You're Not
2.50pm Music in Camera
3.20pm Thinking Aloud
4.00pm TV Film : The Pyrates (1986)
5.25pm Testament to the Bushmen
6.15pm Tomorrow's World 21st Birthday Special
7.15pm Madama Butterfly
9.45pm Film : Sophie's Choice (1982) Première
12.10am Cricket: Fourth Test
Australia v England
12.35am Classic Ghost Stories : The Wailing Well

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Monday 29th December 1986

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
10.00am Songs of Praise
10.40am Harold Lloyd
11.05am Jaws - The True Story
11.55am Film : The Minnelli Musical - Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
1.40pm Fifty Not Out - BBC Television Sport 1936-1986
3.40pm News and Weather
3.50pm The David Lean Film : Bridge on theRiver Kwai (1957)
6.25pm The Big Snit
6.35pm Cricket : Fourth Test
Australia v England
7.00pm Film : Bugsy Malone (1976)
8.30pm Just Another Day
9.00pm Film : Billy Wilder Directs - Buddy Buddy (1981) Première
10.35pm Judy Garland: The Concert Years
11.50pm Classic Ghost Stories
Oh, Whistle, and I Come to you, my Lad
12.05am Weatherview