Christmas TV

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

CHANNEL 5

Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1998

6.00am Children's Programmes
The Wind in the Willows

6.20am Roobarb

6.30am Dappledown Farm

7.00am Wimzie's House

7.30am Milkshake

7.35am Havakazoo

8.00am George of the Jungle
triple bill

8.30am What-a-Mess

9.00am Loggerheads

9.30am USA High

9.50am Alpha Zone Christmas Special

10.20am The Revelation Game

10.50am Film : Scrooge (1951)
starring Alastair Sim (colourised)

12.30pm Family Affairs

1.00pm Michael Flatley Talking with David Frost

2.05pm Film : Major Barbara (1941)
starring Rex Harrison, Wendy Hiller (b&w)

4.05pm Film : Calamity Jane (1953)
starring Doris Day, Howard Keel

6.00pm 5 News

6.05pm Performance : Bryn Terfel

6.35pm Family Affairs

7.05pm Night Fever

8.00pm Fort Boyard

9.00pm Film : Noises Off (1992)
starring Michael Caine

10.55pm Melinda's Big Night In

11.35pm Film : Vixen (1968)Première

12.55am Film : Hickey and Boggs (1972)
starring Bill Cosby, Robert Culp

2.55am Film : Sweet Hostage (1975)

4.40am Prisoner

5.30am Alpha Zone

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

CHANNEL 5

Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1998

6.00am Children's Programmes
The Wind in the Willows

6.20am Roobarb

6.30am Dappledown Farm

7.00am Wimzie's House

7.30am Milkshake

7.35am Havakazoo

8.00am George of the Jungle
triple bill

8.30am What-a-Mess

9.00am Loggerheads

9.30am USA High

10.00am The Gods of Olympus

10.20am Sunset Beach

11.10am Leeza

11.55am Russell Grant's Postcards

12.00 5 News at Noon

12.30pm Family Affairs

1.00pm The Bold and the Beautiful

1.30pm Sons and Daughters

1.50pm Film : A Different Kind of Christmas (1996)
starring Shelley King, Bruce Kirby Première

3.40pm Film : The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
starring John Neville, Eric Idle

6.00pm 100 Per Cent

6.30pm Family Affairs

7.00pm 5 News

7.10pm Project Grizzly

8.10pm Xena - Warrior Princess

9.00pm Film : Behind Closed Doors (1994)

10.50pm Melinda's Big Night In

11.30pm Stags and Hens

12.30am Film : Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) Première

2.00am Film : The High Price of Passion (1986)

3.50am Night Stand

4.30am The Road

4.40am Prisoner

5.30am 100 Per Cent

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

CHANNEL 4

Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1998

5.30am Children's programmes
Next Door

5.35am Two Stupid Dogs

6.00am Sesame Street

7.00am Ovide

7.30am Magic Schoolbus

8.00am The Big Breakfast

10.00am The Bigger Breakfast
Saved by the Bell

10.30am Eerie Indiana

11.00am Madison

11.30am Babylon 5

12.30pm Petrushka

1.05pm Racing from Kempton Park

3.20pm Wine Hunt

3.50pm Fifteen to One Highlights

4.30pm Countdown

4.55pm Ricki Lake followed by
News Headlines

5.30pm Film : The African Queen (1951) starring Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn

7.30pm Ideal Home?

8.30pm Film : Little Women (1995) starring Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon Première

10.45pm Jo Brand's Christmas Log

11.40pm Film : Walking and Talking (1996) starring Catherine Keener, Anne HechePremière

1.15am Terry Prachett's Discworld

4.05am Homicide

4.55am Joyride (until 5.10am

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

CHANNEL 4

Sunday 27th December 1998

4.55am Children's programmes
Sharky and George

5.20am Two Stupid Dogs

5.45am Droopy

6.05am Dumb and Dumber

6.30am Camberwick Green

6.50am Frootie Tooties

6.55am Dog City

7.25am Christmas T4
Jingle Bell Rock

8.00am Claymation Christmas Special

8.20am Johnny Bravo

8.50am Sister Sister Sunday

9.20am Sister Sister

9.50am Sister Sister

10.20am Sister Sister

10.50am Planet Pop

12.00 Hollyoaks

12.30pm Late Lunch Behaving Badly

1.35pm The Waltons

2.35pm Blue Christmas

2.50pm The Heron and the Crane

3.00pm Film : Hello, Dolly! (1969) starring Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau followed by
News and Weather

5.40pm Mini Night
The Mini Job : the Making of The Italian Job

6.10pm The Mini Man

7.10pm The Mini Years

7.40pm Arthouse : The Lost Supper

8.40pm Film : Edward Scissorhands (1990) starring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder

10.35pm The Johnny Vegas Television Show

11.20pm Film : The Horseman on the Roof (1995) starring Juliette BinochePremière

1.50am Terry Pratchett's Discworld

2.15am Soul Music animation

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

channel 4 1998

Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1998

5.20am Super Mario Brothers

5.35am Two Stupid Dogs

5.55am T4 from Lapland
Sesame Street

7.00am Madeline

7.25am Animal Alphabet

7.30am Magic Schoolbus

8.00am Biker Mice from Mars

8.30am The Magic Keeper

9.00am The Morning Line

10.00am Junior Golfer of the Year

11.00am Trans-world Sport

12.00 The Monkees

12.30pm Racing from Kempton Park

3.15pm The Nativity animation

3.30pm Countdown Grand Final

4.15pm Granpa

4.50pm Alice through the Looking Glass

6.25pm Brookside

8.20pm Bernstein

9.20pm Film : The Cruel Sea (1953) (b&w) starring Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden

11.40pm Because It's a Lonely World

12.40am One Amazing Night

2.30am Film : The Gambler (1997) starring Michael Gambon Première

4.10am NYPD Blue

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

channel 4

Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1998

5.25am Children's programmes
Gagarin

5.35am Two Stupid Dogs

5.55am Sesame Street

7.00am For Better, for Worse

7.30am Max Bear's Christmas

8.00am The Big Breakfast

9.55am Film : Swallows and Amazons (1974)

11.40am Bill's New Frock

12.15pm Famous Fred animation

12.45pm Father Christmas animation

1.15pm Film : tom thumb (1958) starring Russ Tamblyn

3.00pm Alternative Christmas Message
Neville and Doreen Lawrence parents of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence

3.10pm Film : The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966) starring Frankie Howerd, Reg Varney

4.50pm Countdown Grand Final

5.35pm Gilbert and Sullivan : the Very Models

5.55pm The Queen

6.05pm Hansel and Gretel opera followed by
News and Weather

8.00pm Bernstein

9.00pm Film : Remember Me? (1996) starring Robert Lindsay, Rik Mayall, Imelda StauntonPremière

10.35pm Film : The Omen (1976) starring Gregory Peck, Lee Remick

12.40am Film : The Fly (1958)

2.15am Film : Return of the Fly (1959)

3.45am Film : Cry of the City (1948)

[darren]

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Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1998

channel 4

5.10am Children's programmes
Sharky and George

5.35am Two Stupid Dogs

5.55am Sesame Street

7.00am For Better, for Worse

7.30am The Magic Keeper wordless film with classical music

8.00am The Big Breakfast

10.00am The Bigger Breakfast
Buzz

10.30am Eerie Indiana

10.55am The Secret World of Alex Mack

11.30am Moesha

12.00 Madison

12.35pm Ted Hughes : In His Own Words

1.05pm The Real Nativity Show

2.05pm Film : Annie (1982) starring Albert Finney, Carol Burnett

4.30pm The Snowman animation

5.00pm The Bear animation

5.30pm Countdown

6.00pm A Perfect Carry On

7.00pm Heroes of Comedy : Tony Hancock

8.00pm Burnt Bits

8.30pm The Christmas Italian Kitchen

9.00pm Rising Damp

9.30pm Father Ted Christmas Special

10.35pm Snow Graham Norton

11.15pm David Blaine's Street Magic

12.10am Film : Black Christmas (1974) starring Olivia Hussey

2.00am Film : Theatre of Blood (1973) starring Vincent Price, Diana Rigg

3.50am Film : House of Wax (1953) starring Vincent Price

[George 1978]

Re: Christmas TV

Can't wait for Christmas 1999 to be posted on here - it was the end of the last millennium, as well as a few life-changing moments for myself at the time!

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1998


ITV CENTRAL

6.00am GMTV
News

6.10am Bananas in Pyjamas

6.20am Fun Song Factory

6.40am Barney and Friends

7.00am News and Sport

7.30am Beetleborgs
animation

8.25am Beast Wars

9.25am CITV
Cartoon

9.35am House of Toons

10.00am Brilliant Creatures

10.20am Film : Little Giants (1994)
starring Rick Moranis, Ed O'Neill

12.20pm Lunchtime News, Weather, Regional Weather

12.30pm Film : The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
starring Elijah Wood

2.30pm Film : On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
starring George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas

5.00pm Early Evening News

5.10pm Film : Man of the House (1994)
starring Chevy Chase, Farrah FawcettPremière

7.00pm Wish You Were Here . . ?

7.30pm Coronation Street

8.00pm Police, Camera, Action!

9.00pm Cadfael
The Pilgrim of Hate

10.30pm News, Weather, Regional Weather

10.45pm The Things We Do for Love
Black Butterflies

11.50pm Film : Slipstream (1989)
starring Mark Hamill

1.45am The Haunted Fishtank

2.15am Film : The Man Upstairs (1992)
starring Katharine Hepburn, Ryan O'Neal

3.55am Film : Assignment Redhead (1956) (b&w)

5.25am Leahy in Concert

5.55am Morning News

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 27th December 1998

ITV CENTRAL

6.00am GMTV
News and Weather

6.10am Bananas in Pyjamas

6.30am Our House

6.50am Big George

7.15am Fun Song Factory

7.40am Barney and Friends

8.00am Diggit
Timon and Pumbaa

8.20am Pepper Ann

8.50am Recess

9.25am CITV
Old Bear Christmas Special

9.55am Mole's Christmas
animation

10.25am Percy the Park Keeper
animation

11.00am Morning Worship
from St Marks Church, Belfast

12.00 Back to Bethlehem

12.30pm Dinosaurs

12.55pm Regional News, Weather

1.00pm News, Weather

1.15pm New Labour in Focus
Tony Benn's Video Dairies

2.15pm Murray and Martin's F1 Christmas Special

3.15pm Coronation Street omnibus

4.45pm Regional News and Sport, Weather

4.55pm News, Weather

5.05pm The Crazy World of Joe Pasquale

5.35pm Film : Dumbo (1941)

6.45pm Kids Say the Funniest Things

7.30pm Coronation Street

8.00pm You've Been Framed!

8.45pm Cider with Rosie

10.45pm Christmas at St Albion's

10.55pm News, Weather, Regional Weather

11.10pm You're Only Human with Jeff Green

11.40pm Film : Deliver Them from Evil : the Taking of Alta View (1992)
starring Harry Hamlin, Teri Garr

1.30am Box Office America

2.30am The MTV Europe Music Awards 1998

4.00am The Making of Slipstream

4.25am Cybernet

4.55am Film : Pride of the Bowery (1941) (b&w)

5.55am Morning News

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1998

ITV CENTRAL

6.00am GMTV
News

6.10am The Big Garage

6.30am The Fun Song Factory

6.50am Barney and Friends

7.10am Diggit
101 Dalmatians
7.35am Jungle Cubs
8.20am Timon and Pumbaa
8.50am Recess

9.25am SM : TV

11.30am CD : UK

12.30pm News, Weather

12.40pm Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales

1.05pm Film : Raise the Titanic (1980)

3.05pm Film : Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)

4.45pm News and Sport, Weather

5.00pm Film : Richie Rich (1994)
starring Macaulay CulkinPremière

6.40pm The Moment of Truth

7.45pm Film : A View to a Kill (1985)
starring Roger Moore

10.05pm News, Weather, Regional Weather

10.15pm Foul Play

11.15pm Dreaming of a Wright Christmas

12.10am Film : Gremlins (1984)
starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates

2.10am Entertainment Now

3.10am Film : The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
starring Fred MacMurray (b&w)

4.40am CD : UK

5.30am The Little Engine That Could
animation

5.55am Morning News

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1998

ITV CENTRAL

6.00am GMTV
Bananas in Pyjamas

6.25am Big Garage

6.50am Our House

7.10am The Fun Song Factory

7.35am Barney and Friends

8.00am GMTV Christmas Special

9.25am Christmas Day in the Morning

10.20am CITV
Sooty and Co Christmas Special

11.00am Percy the Park Keeper
animation

11.35am The Forgotten Toys
animation

12.05pm The Willows in Winter
animation

1.30pm News, Weather

1.45pm The Spice Girls Live at Wembley

3.00pm The Queen

3.10pm Christmas Disney Time
introduced by Suggs

4.10pm Jack and the Beanstalk

5.45pm News , Weather

6.00pm Emmerdale

7.00pm Coronation Street

8.00pm You've Been Framed at Christmas

8.30pm Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire?

9.30pm Christmasses from Hell

10.30pm News, Weather, Regional Weather

10.40pm Film : The Godfather Part II (1974)

2.20am Film : Shout at the Devil (1976)
starring Lee Marvin, Roger Moore

4.45am Movie Magic : Wild Hollywood

5.35am Cartoon Time

5.55-6.00am Morning News

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1998

ITV CENTRAL

6.00am GMTV

9.25am News, Regional News

9.35am CITV
House of Toons

10.00am Rocky and the Dodos

10.15am Art Attack Christmas Cracker

10.50am The Snow Queen
feature length animation

12.20pm Regional News, Weather

12.30pm Lunchtime News, Weather

1.00pm The Baldy Man
with Gregor Fisher

1.30pm Charlotte Church - Voice of an Angel

2.00pm Children's programmes
Paddington

2.10pm Animaniacs

2.35pm Hey Arnold!

3.00pm In the House with Cleopatra and Friends

4.00pm Premiere
arts guide

4.30pm Regional News, Regional Weather

5.00pm Early Evening News

5.15pm Film : Sister Act 2 : Back in the Habit (1993)
starring Whoopi Goldberg

7.00pm Emmerdale

7.30pm The Bill

8.30pm Heartbeat : Echoes of the Past

9.30pm The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
You Can't Be Too Careful

10.35pm News, Weather, Regional Weather

10.50pm This Is Celine Dion

11.30pm Christmas Glory

12.30am Film : Brief Encounter (1945)
starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard

2.05am Christmas on Division Street

3.50am Film : Spooks Run Wild (1941)

5.05am Hurricanes
animation

5.30am Mumfie's White Christmas

5.55am Morning News

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1998

BBC2

6.10am Film : The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
starring Frank Sinatra (b&w)

8.05am Film : Young at Heart (1955)
starring frank Sinatra

10.00am Perfectly Frank
first of 12 short films accompanying the Frank Sinatra film
season in which fans and friends pay tribute

10.05am The West
The Grandest Enterprise under God:
1868-74
Americans set out to unite post-Civil War east and west with a
1,775-mile railway from Omaha to Sacramento that promised work for immigrant labourers, land for poor farmers and a lucrative business for hunters

11.30am The Royal Institute Christmas Lectures
Staying Alive : the Body in Balance
Sense and Sensitivity
First in a series of five daily science talks, intended to be of particular interest to children

12.30pm Cricket : the Ashes
Action from the crease at Melbourne as the Fourth Test reaches day three

1.00pm Racing
presented by Claire Balding from Chepstow
(1.10, 1.40, 2.15 & 2.40 races)

3.00pm Film : The Pride and the Passion (1957)
starring Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren

5.10pm Cardigans at Christmas
looking at past Christmas TV offerings including Christmas Night
with the Stars and Val Doonican

6.00pm Dance Night
Royal Ballet dancer Deborah Bull and comedian Alexei Sayle
introduce an evening devoted to exploring the many facets of
dance from ballroom and ballet to modern and clubbing

6.05pm Dance Ballerina Dance
with Deborah Bull, Adam Cooper, Lynn Seymour in a
sequence of movements that traces the changing role of
female ballet dancers over the past century

6.55pm Torvill and Dean
Another chance to see Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean's
Bolero ice-dance routine

7.05pm You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
Alexei Sayle sets out to prove that you don't have to be a
professional to perform waltz, jive or salsa

7.35pm Best Ballroom
the waltz, by ballroom aces Marcus and Karen Hilton

7.45pm The Magic of Dance
Out in the Limelight. Home in the Rain, the final episode from
Dame Margot Fonteyn's 1979 history of dance

8.35pm Infanta
A girl explores her own garden world Performed by Ella Horton Chandler and choreographed by Rosemary Lee

8.40pm Eric and Ernie
the classic "Singin' in the Rain" routine by comedy duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise

8.45pm The Art of Touch
TV première of this award-winning piece performed by
Siobhan Davies Dance Company

9.35pm Nussin
A dance-based short film with no dialogue, set around a snowy railway station in the Czech Republic. The obsession of two couples for ballroom dancing leads to murder

10.25pm Film : Strictly Ballroom (1992)
starring Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice

11.55pm Film : A Chorus Line (1985)
starring Michael Douglas
followed by
Weatherview

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 27th December 1998

BBC2

6.00am Film : Home Sweet Home (1945)
musical comedy (b&w)

7.30am Children's BBC
Bump's Christmas Story
animated yuletide tale(Repeat)

7.40am Teletubbies
special Sunday edition of the pre-school series

8.20am The Wizard of Oz
animated magical series (Repeat)

8.40am Fievel's American Tails
cartoon capers with the mouse
(Repeat)

9.05am The Queen's Nose
Harmony and Dino decide to set a trap
Last in the series

9.35am The Wayne Manifesto
Australian drama about a 12-year-old boy.
Wayne discovers his first chest hair

10.05am The Midas Touch
Feature-length children's drama. An old witch grants an orphan's
wish to be rich but there are bad consequences as well as good

11.20am The Making of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Cameras go behind the scenes to follow the progress of Professor
Nancy Rothwell from audition to performance as she takes on the daunting task of presenting this year's series of lectures for young people

12.20pm Cricket - the Ashes
Action from Melbourne on the second day of the Fourth Test.
With Richie Benaud, Ian Chappell and Tony Greig

12.50pm Film : Quo Vadis (1951)
starring Deborah Kerr, Robert Taylor

3.35pm Choir of the Year
The final of the competition, presented by Howard Goodall
from Buxton Opera House in Derbyshire

4.25pm Simon Rattle - Moving On
As Simon Rattle, one of the world's most popular conductors,
prepares to leave the City of Birmingham Orchestra, where he has been principal conductor for 18 years, cameras follow him on his
final tour with the orchestra and at home, recording the contributions of friends and colleagues

5.15pm The Cat Show
102nd National Cat Club Show
at Earls Court, presented by Steve Knight, Wendy Leavesley

6.05pm Rex the Runt
The Trials of Wendy
Wendy is put on trial for shooting Vince, adult animation

6.15pm Star Trek : Voyager
The Gift
Kes undergoes a strange metamorphosis and her new powers
soon pose a threat to her unsuspecting crew mates

7.00pm Ray Mears's World of Survival
The Red Centre
Concluding the series that examines some of the world's most
inhospitable areas

7.30pm The Car's the Star
In the Soviet Union it was a status symbol, while in Britain it
became a national joke, but does the Lada really deserve its comic reputation?

7.50pm Earth Story
A World Apart
Concluding the exploration of our understanding of the planet

8.40pm Reeves and Mortimer - Xmas Shooting Stars
Comedians Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer present a special
edition of the celebrity quiz, with Ulrika Jonsson, Mark Lamarr
and George "Santa Claus" Dawes

9.20pm Ted and Ralph
special one-off comedy based on the antics of two of the most
popular characters from The Fast Show, written by and starring Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson

10.30pm Merry Mind the Buzzcocks
Host Mark Lamarr and team captains Sean Hughes and Phill Jupitus
are joined by Boy George, Noddy Holder, Jonathan Ross and Sleeper's Louise Wener in a festive edition of the pop quiz

11.10pm Film : I Shot Andy Warhol (1995)
starring Lili Taylor

12.45am Andrea Bocelli : a Night in Tuscany
The tenor Andrea Bocelli is one of the world's great opera stars
Tonight he returns to Tuscany, where he grew up, for a special
open-air music concert at the Piazza dei Cavalieri in Pisa
followed by
Weatherview

1.45am Closedown