Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 29th December 1987

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM
6.55am Weather
7.00am Breakfast Time
8.30am Going for Gold
8.55am Regional News; Weather
9.00am News, Weather
followed by
Neighbours
9.20am Children's BBC
Laurel and Hardy
9.30am Why Don't You...?
9.55am Bananaman
10.00am News, Weather
10.05am Boss Cat
10.30am Play School
10.55am Five to Eleven
11.00am News, Weather
followed by
The Littlest Hobo
11.25am Charlie Brown
11.50am Cartoon
12.00 News, Weather
followed by
Montreux Rock Festival 1987
12.55pm Regional News, Weather
1.00pm One O'Clock News, Weather
1.30pm Neighbours
1.50pm Holiday Movie
Film : Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
3.35pm Cartoon
3.50pm Children's BBC
Paddington Special
4.20pm Simon and the Witch
4.35pm Film Special : The Glitterball (1977)
5.35pm Rolf Harris Cartoon Time
6.00pm Six O'Clock News, Weather
6.35pm Regional news magazines
7.00pm Telly Addicts
7.30pm EastEnders
8.00pm The Guinness Book of Records Hall of Fame
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News
Regional News, Weather
9.30pm Cagney and Lacey
10.20pm Review of the Year 87
11.35pm Movie Classic
Film : Splendor in the Grass (1961)
1.35am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Wednesday 30th December 1987

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM
6.55am Weather
7.00am Breakfast Time
8.15am The Faces of 87 - Breakfast Time looks
back at the year's headline-makers.
8.30am The Flintstones
8.55am Regional News; Weather
9.00am News, Weather
followed by
Neighbours
9.20am Children's BBC
Laurel and Hardy
9.30am Why Don't You ?
9.55am Bananaman
10.00am News, Weather
followed by
Children's BBC
10.05am Boss Cat
10.30am Play School
10.55am Five to Eleven
11.00am News
Weather
followed by
The Littlest Hobo
11.25am Charlie Brown
11.50am Cartoon
12.00 News, Weather
followed by
Montreux Rock Festival 1987
12.55pm Regional News and Weather
1.00pm One O'Clock News
Weather
1.30pm Neighbours
1.50pm Holiday Movie
Film : Hannibal Brooks (1969)
3.30pm The Pink Panther Show
3.45pm Children's BBC
Wishing Well
3.50pm Space Baby
4.20pm Tales of the Mouse Hockey League
4.45pm Film Special : A Ghost of a Chance (1968)
5.35pm Rolf Harris Cartoon Time
6.00pm Six O'clock News
Weather
6.35pm Regional news magazines
7.00pm Wogan
7.45pm What a Carry On!
8.10pm Dallas
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News
Regional News, Weather
9.30pm Great Ormond Street - A Fighting Chance
10.45pm Films of the Year
11.30pm Movie Classic
Film : On the Waterfront (1954)
1.15am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Thursday 31st December 1987

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM
6.55am Weather
7.00am Breakfast Time
8.30am The Flintstones
8.55am Regional News; Weather
9.00am News, Weather
followed by
Neighbours
9.20am Children's BBC
Laurel and Hardy
9.30am Why Don't You..?
9.55am Bananaman
10.00am News, Weather
followed by
Children's BBC
10.05am Charlie Brown Special
10.30am Play School
10.55am Five to Eleven
11.00am News, Weather
followed by
The Littlest Hobo
11.25am A Mirthworm Masquerade
11.50am Cartoon
12.00 News, Weather
followed by
Montreux Rock Festival 1987
12.55pm Regional News and Weather
1.00pm News, Weather
1.15pm Cartoons
1.30pm Neighbours
1.50pm Holiday Movie
Film : The Champ (1979)
3.50pm Children's BBC
A Paddington Special
4.15pm Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince
4.35pm Around the World with Willy Fog
5.05pm Blue Peter Review of the Year
5.35pm Rolf Harris Cartoon Time
6.00pm News, Weather
6.15pm Regional News
6.20pm A Question of Sport
6.55pm Top of the Pops
7.30pm EastEnders
8.00pm Ernie Wise Introduces The Morecambe and Wise Classics
8.45pm Film : Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
10.50pm News
Regional News; Weather
11.00pm Comedy Classic : To the Manor Born
11.30pm EastEnders
12.05am Happy New Year
12.10am Movie Classic
Film : High Society (1956)
2.00am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 19th December 1987

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
11.00am Carols for Christmas
12.05pm The Sky at Night
12.25pm Saturday Cinema
Film : Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
2.00pm Film : Time Masters (1982)
3.20pm Fred Astaire : Putting on His Top Hat
4.05pm International Bridge Club
4.35pm Film : The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
6.55pm News View, Weather
7.25pm Beethoven's Missa Solemnis
9.15pm The Film Club : The Cannes Film Festival
Film : Le Cinéma Dans Les Yeux (1987)
10.50pm Film : When Father Was Away on Business (1985)

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Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 20th December 1987

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
9.15am Now on Two
9.40am Whirlybirds
10.05am Odysseus The Greatest Hero of Them All : The Faces of the Dead
10.20am The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
10.40am Now It's You
10.45am Blue Peter Omnibus
11.35am Aliens in the Family
12.00 Windmill
1.00pm No Limits : Powerplay Awards
2.00pm Rugby Special
2.40pm 100 Great Sporting Moments
3.00pm Film : Treasure Island (1950)
4.35pm The Story of Afanti
5.05pm Music in Camera
5.45pm The Great Philosophers
6.30pm Ski Sunday
7.15pm The Travel Show Christmas Special
7.50pm The Natural World
8.45pm American Film Institute Salute to Barbara Stanwyck
9.35pm It's My Pleasure
10.05pm Film : Ragtime (1981)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Monday 21st December 1987

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
11.50am Film : Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
1.20pm Songs of Praise
2.00pm News, Weather
followed by
American Basketball
2.45pm News, Weather
followed by
Fred Astaire : Change Partners and Dance
3.40pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
3.50pm Fred Astaire Dances - Film : Three Little Words (1950)
5.30pm Jack High
6.00pm Future World - Film : Forbidden Planet (1956)
7.35pm Cartoon
7.40pm Thinking Aloud
8.20pm Venturers
9.00pm Absurd Person Singular
10.55pm The Million Dollar Hijack
12.20am Film : Barbara Stanwyck in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)
1.45am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 22nd December 1987

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
12.35pm Film : Tarzan Finds a Son (1939)
1.55pm News, Weather
followed by
See Hear Christmas Special
2.45pm News, Weather
followed by
Christmas in the City
3.40pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
3.50pm Fred Astaire Dances - Film : Roberta (1935)
5.30pm Jack High
6.00pm No Limits
7.00pm Open to Question
7.40pm The Sounds of Christmas
8.30pm Entertainment USA
9.00pm Moonlighting
9.50pm Horowitz Plays Mozart
10.40pm The Million Dollar Hijack
12.10am Film : Barbara Stanwyck in The File on Thelma Jordan (1950)
1.50am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Wednesday 23rd December 1987

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
12.10pm Film : Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
1.30pm The Admiral's Cup
2.00pm News, Weather
followed by
The Natural World
2.50pm Holiday Outings
3.05pm News, Weather
followed by
Jacqueline du Pre Masterclass
3.40pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
3.50pm Fred Astaire Dances -
Film : The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
5.20pm Cartoon
5.30pm Jack High
6.00pm Film : The Wizard of Oz (1939)
7.40pm A Little Piece of England
8.10pm Two Loves
9.00pm Yes, Prime Minister
9.30pm The Home-made Xmas Video
10.00pm Catch a Fallen Star
10.40pm Film : Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry Wrong Number (1948)
12.10am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1987

BBC2

9.00am Ceefax

1.00pm Film : Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
starring Johnny Weissmuller & Maureen O'Sullivan
The jungle is disturbed by three big game trappers in search of
animals for a circus. The chance discovery that Tarzan's son, Boy,
has great natural ability as an animal trainer spells trouble

2.10pm The Admiral's Cup
From Christchurch Bay to the Fastnet Rock
For two weeks, the world's best yachtsmen battled for the
top prize in ocean racing, the Admiral's Cup.
Bob Fisher reports on the Olympic style inshore races and
then joins the fleet as it sets out for the famous offshore race.
They sailed 605 miles from Cowes to the Fastnet Rock, off
southern Ireland, and then to the finish at Plymouth

2.40pm Jacqueline du Pre Masterclass
The second of four programmes recorded in 1979 at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, in which the late Jacqueline
du Pre worked with students on one of the major sonatas in the
cello repertoire, the Brahms Sonata in E minor.

3.15pm Film : The Sound of Music (1965)
starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer Julie Andrews is in
sparkling form as the convent girl whose sense of fun makes the
Mother Superior doubt her suitability as a nun. Sent to be governess
to the children of the Von Trapp family, Maria soon wins their
confidence, undermining their father's stern discipline - as well as his
plans for a second marriage

6.00pm Carols from King's
The celebration of lessons and carols from the Chapel of King's
College, Cambridge, is world famous. The service this year includes,
for the first time, readings from the Apocryphal Bible that reach back
to the beginning of the Christmas story.

7.00pm Paper Kisses
The story of a tragic love affair starring John Hallam, Rosalind Elliot
A bundle of love letters, discovered by chance in the wall of a barn
in the Yorkshire Dales, reveals two lives. Written 100 years ago by
Lizzie Sutcliffe , a lodging-house keeper in Blackburn, to Tom Anderson,
a farmer in Carleton near Skipton, they tell a classic tale of love,
seduction and betrayal

8.00pm Priddy the Hedgehog
This year's animal drama from wildlife film-makers John and
Simon King features a female hedgehog called Priddy, who lives
on the Mendip Hills.
All the adventures that happen to Priddy in this film have been
experienced by one hedgehog or another in real life.

9.00pm Antonio Stradivari Gala Celebration 1737-1907
featuring Pinchas Zukerman, Yo-Yo Ma, Anne-Sophie Mutter and
Charles Beare, with Vivaldi`s Four Seasons performed
by the ECO/Menuhin at the Barbican Hall

10.25pm Film : The Bostonians (1984)
starring Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave & Madeleine Potter
Premiere

12.20am Film : There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray & Joan Bennett

1.40am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1987

BBC2

9.10am Film : The Cheaters (1945)
starring Joseph Schildkraut Billie Burke
Eugene Pallette. Mr Pidgeon faces financial ruin.
Salvation beckons when a rich uncle dies ...

10.35am Film : White Christmas (1954)
starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen
Old army buddies Phil Davis and Bob Wallace are rehearsing their
new show when they meet the glamorous Haynes sisters. With
more than professional interest Phil and Bob follow them to their
next engagement at the Columbia Inn in Vermont....

12.30pm Golf 87 - A Momentous Year
A look back with Peter Alliss at some of the glorious moments
of the golfing season.

1.45pm The Natural World
Icebird
Narrated by Tony Soper
When spring comes to the Antarctic millions of penguins leap
from the sea and walk as many as 80 kilometres over the ice to
their traditional nesting-sites

2.35pm Jacqueline du Pré Masterclass
Dvorak Cello Concerto in D minor with Lilly Canel and
Joanna Borrett Accompanist Clifford Benson

3.10pm Film : La traviata (1982)
starring Teresa Stratas
Placido Domingo Verdi's romantic tragedy about the love of a
young nobleman for a courtesan gave Italian director Franco Zeffirelli
the opportunity to unite the two loves of his life - opera and film
(An Italian film with English subtitles)

4.55pm White Nights of Dance
Leningrad in June - where it stays light all night. Two of the world's
great dance companies meet for a festival of ballet - the first-ever
combined appearance of a Soviet and a western company - filmed
in the parks, squares and palaces of this beautiful Russian city

6.10pm Amsterdam Christmas Concert
given earlier this afternoon in the Concertgebouw
Mahler Symphony No 9 in D conducted by Bernard Haitink,
with the Concertgebouw Orchestra

7.40pm Mother Teresa
It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing.
Mother Teresa In 1950 a 40-year-old nun founded the Congregation
of the Missionaries of Charity to help the sick and dying in the slums of
Calcutta

8.35pm Garbo
A Biographical Portrait
This feature-length study of the great Swedish actress blends
film clips, stills and interviews with her contemporaries plus
recent footage of Garbo documents and other memorabilia

10.35pm The Story of Recluse
starring Stewart Granger, Peter Capaldi, Cristina Higueras
An entertaining tale of a gambler, a young man, a pretty girl
and the games they all play

11.25pm The Queen
The Christmas day programme in which HM The Queen
speaks to the Commonwealth.
With open subtitles and sign-language interpretation for
people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing

11.35pm Julian Lloyd Webber
plays the Cello Concerto in E minor,
Op 85 by Elgar with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

12.25am Weather

12.30am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1987

BBC2

9.00am Ceefax

11.50am International Snooker
Snooker 87: Highlights of the BBC's Year of Snooker
David Vine recalls highlights from the Masters World
Championship, Grand Prix and United Kingdom Championship

1.35pm Gymnastics Compilation
Two months ago one of the greatest exhibitions of modern gymnastics
was witnessed in six days of competition in Rotterdam. In total 14 gold
medals were decided. See how they were all won, how some were lost
and how Britain's gymnasts fared on the world stage

2.25pm Film : Peter No-Tail (1981)
An animated feature film.
In a barn, deep in the countryside, five kittens are born.
Four of them find homes immediately, but who would
want a cat with no tail?
A watery death threatens, but instead Peter No-Tail finds
himself a stowaway in a car bound for the big city and a new world

3.45pm Jacqueline du Pre Masterclass
In the last of a series of masterclasses recorded in 1979 at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama,
Jacqueline du Pre works with students on the cello version of the
Cesar Franck Sonata in A major originally written for violin and piano

4.20pm The Story of Royal Broadcasting
Yesterday's Christmas broadcast by the Queen carries on a tradition
started by her grandfather, George V , in 1932 which was the first
royal landmark for the fledgling BBC. Then in 1937, George V's
coronation procession marched across several thousand small
screens and 'the magic of television' had arrived.
The development of royal broadcasting is traced through a nostalgic
look back over the first 50 years of the BBC's coverage

5.20pm Film : Oliver! (1968)
starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Mark Lester and Jack Wild
This adaptation of Dickens's famous story about little orphan
Oliver and his adventures with the Artful Dodger and master
pickpocket Fagin won six Academy Awards

7.40pm Cinderella, Nuryev's Paris Opera
The Paris Opera Ballet in Rudolf Nureyev 's new version of
the fairytale. Music by Serge Prokofiev

9.45pm When We Are Married
by J. B. Priestley
Three middle-aged couples are celebrating what should be the
happiest day of their married lives, when they receive news that
rocks them to their respectable foundations

11.45pm Film : Garbo as Queen Christina(1933)
The first of five films starring the great actress.
Tonight with John Gilbert
Arguably Garbo's most celebrated role as the 17th-century
Swedish monarch Queen Christina who - dressed in man's clothes -
finds herself sharing a room in a remote village inn with a handsome
Spanish nobleman

1.25am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 27th December 1987

BBC2

9.00am Ceefax

9.15am Babar Comes to America
told by Peter Ustinov
Babar, king of the elephants, and his queen, Celeste, go
sightseeing in New York while little Arthur makes his own plans

9.40am Sebastianthe Incredible Drawing Dog
with Michael Barrymore Tall Hat Joe
Today's story is about civil servant Joe, who was asked to
keep lots of secrets 'under his hat'. But when a gust of wind
blows off his hat....

9.45am The Mole in a Dream
Mole gets himself mixed up with an electronic buff whose
life revolves around electric gadgets

10.15am Molly's Pilgrim
Molly and her parents have gone to the USA from Russia but the
children in her new school make her feel uncomfortable because
she is different. Molly teaches them a lesson ...

10.35am Charlie Brown
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown is having a personality crisis - but always on
hand to help are his friends Lucy, Schroeder and Linus

11.25am Film : Arabian Adventure (1979)
starring Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea and Oliver Tobias

1.00pm No Limits

2.00pm The Bolshoi Ballet
This special Omnibus presents an exclusive insight into the most
famous ballet company in the world

4.10pm The Great Philosophers
The last in a 15-part history of western philosophy. Wittgenstein
with John Searle , Professor of Philosophy at the University of
California in Berkeley

4.55pm Did You See...?
Ludovic Kennedy 's personal selection of the television
highlights of 1987

5.45pm Film : Bush Christmas (1983)
starring Nicole Kidman and Mark Spain Premiere

7.15pm Mary Rose
Harry, an Australian soldier, returns to the cold, disused house he
ran away from when he was 12. He has heard the house is haunted,
perhaps by his mother

8.55pm Global Report: A Year of Transition
A Year of Transition
The headlines of 1987 have told of profound and
unsettling change. But what sort of year has it been for
everyday people caught in the midst of these changes?

10.25pm Film : Still of the Night (1982)
starring Meryl Streep Roy Scheider
The mystery begins when the dead body of George Bynum
is found in a parked car in Manhattan's Upper East Side

11.55pm Film : Garbo as Ninotchka (1939)
continues a season of films starring the legendary actress with
Melvyn Douglas. 'Garbo laughs' said MGM's publicity handouts.
After 13 years as the tragic heroine the great star persuaded the
studio to let her play the title role in this brilliant satirical comedy.
Garbo plays Comrade Ninotchka who is sent to Paris to investigate
the dubious antics of a Soviet trade delegation.

1.50am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1987

BBC2

9.00am Film : Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20s (1965)
A fun-filled festival of the best work of the immortal team of
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy , made during comedy's golden age

10.25am Film : Lassie Come Home (1943)
starring Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor Poverty
forces the Carraclough family to sell Lassie, their beloved collie.
But neither distance nor chains can stop Lassie finding her way
back. and Lassie

11.50am Songs of Praise
from Covent Garden and Kingston, Jamaica

12.30pm Film : The Good Companions (1933)
starring Jessie Matthews John Gielgud
The film which established Jessie Matthews as an international
star was this lively treatment of J. B. Priestley's novel.
When a spinster, a joiner and a rebellious schoolmaster join a
concert party, the result is unexpected success for the troupe
Premiere

2.20pm The Bolshoi in the Park
Another chance to enjoy the historic visit of the
Bolshoi Ballet Company

4.35pm Showreel '87
Earlier this year 600 amateurs competed for the BBCtv and
Radio Times Awards for Amateur Film and Video Makers with
prizes totalling £9,000. Today, and over the next three days,
Sue Robbie presents a selection of the semi-finalists and on
Friday the winners will be announced.

5.15pm 100 Great Sporting Moments : Red Rum, 1973
When 'Rummy' jumped the final fence in the 1973 Grand National,
he was still 15 lengths behind Crisp - a seemingly impossible handicap

5.30pm Jack High
The Gateway Masters Bowls Tournament from Beach House Park,
Worthing. Two matches tonight, both of which decide who
goes through to the semi-finals

6.00pm On the Piste
follows the fortunes of two sets of skiers - a group of accident-prone
beginners in Soil, and members of the aristocratic and expensive
Downhill Only Club in the faded elegance of Wengen.

7.00pm Film : National Velvet (1944)
starring Elizabeth Taylor Mickey Rooney Donald Crisp
Velvet Brown wins a hunter in a raffle and decides to turn him
into a champion racehorse with the help of her young friend Mi.
Their dreams are fulfilled when the animal is entered in the
Grand National

9.00pm An Evening with Kiri Te Kanawa
A gala concert from the Royal Albert Hall , London, presenting
a blend of classical music and songs from My Fair Lady. In the
first of two programmes Kiri Te Kanawa sings favourite arias of
Mozart, Gounod, Charpentier and Puccini

9.55pm Flying for Fun
A dramatised version of Jack Parham's book about flying a very small,
very slow aeroplane around southern England in the 1930s.
His experience of that time profoundly influenced artillery targeting
methods during and after the Second World War, but this film conveys
his sense of joy and wonder at flying simply for fun

10.30pm Screen Two
A look ahead to a new season of outstanding productions

10.40pm Film : Woody Allen - Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
continues a season of films by the master of I American comedy.
Tonight also starring Mia Farrow

12.00 Film : Garbo as Camille (1936)
starring Greta Garbo Robert Taylor
Marguerite Gautier is known in Paris as the Lady of the
Camellias because of her love of the delicate blossoms

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 29th December 1987

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
12.05pm TV Film : Lassie - Peace Is Our Profession (1970) Première
1.35pm World Cup Rugby Special
2.35pm Sign Extra
3.00pm News, Weather
followed by
Showreel 87
3.40pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
3.50pm Film : Fred Astaire Dances - Flying Down to Rio (1933)
5.15pm 100 Great Sporting Moments
5.30pm Jack High
6.00pm Film : The Silent One (1985) Première
7.35pm The Fish Course Challenge
8.05pm L'heure espagnole
9.00pm Songs from 'My Fair Lady'
10.00pm Film : Shoot the Moon (1982) Première
12.00 Film : Garbo as Anna Karenina (1935)
1.30am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Wednesday 30th December 1987

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
12.00 Film : Hambone and Hillie (1983)
1.25pm 100 Great Sporting Moments
1.40pm World Cup Rugby Special
2.55pm News, Weather
followed by
Showreel 87
3.35pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
3.45pm Film : Fred Astaire Dances : The Gay Divorcee (1934)
5.30pm Jack High
6.00pm TV Film : Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
7.40pm Natural Concern
8.10pm L'enfant et les sortilèges
9.00pm Film : The Killing Fields (1984) Première
11.15pm Beethoven Piano Sonata
11.45pm Film : Garbo as Marie Walewska (1937)
1.35pm Weather