Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1989

CHANNEL 4
6.00am The Channel Four Daily
The Creation
a recording of Joseph Haydn's Creation

7.00am Dennis
cartoon

7.25am Aladdin
an animated feature

8.45am Countdown Masters

8.55am Dai Mouse
read by David Jason

9.10am Poetry Book
poems read by Paul Scofield, Alan Bennett, Derek jacobi and others

9.25am Sesame Street
Big Bird attempts to uncover a secret in this special edition shown annually in the US

10.30am The Adventures of Tintin
Shooting Star

10.35am The Batman
Chapter 3 (b&w)

11.00am Silent Mouse
the true story of the Christmas carol Silent Night(Repeat)

12.00 The Greatest (little) Show on Earth
documentary about Australia's Flying Fruit Fly Circus, a troupe of 40 performing children

1.00pm George and Rosemary
cartoon

1.10pm Olivier Tribute, Film : Pride and Prejudice (1940)
starring Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson, Edmund Gwenn

3.25pm Birthday
Dame Judi Dench with the poetry of The Rev Alan Ecclestone

3.40pm An Evening For Armenia
opera and ballet stars in a gala in aid of the British Red Cross Armenian Eathquake appeal at the Royal Opera House(Repeat)

5.10pm The Queen

5.25pm News Summary and Weather

5.30pm Film : The Snowman (1982)

6.00pm The Little Sweep
a short opera

7.00pm Circus of the Sun

8.00pm Brookside

8.30pm Cheers Home is the Sailor(Repeat)

9.00pm Olivier Tribute , Film : Richard III (1954)
starring Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Claire Bloom, John Gielgud

11.55pm La Nativité du Seigneur
Messiaen's organ masterpiece celebrates the glory of Christmas

1.00am The Prince's Trust 88 Rock Gala(Repeat)

2.35am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1989

CHANNEL 4

6.00am The Channel Four Daily : Early Morning
Hallelujah!
The Bob Jones Show - the best of American gospel(Repeat)

6.30am Christmas Box(Repeat)

7.00am Dennis
cartoon

7.26am The Gnomes' Great Adventure
feature length adventure

8.51am Countdown Masters

9.00am Channel 4 Racing : The Morning Line
preview of the Boxing Day horse racing

9.25am Sesame Street
with special guests Billy Joel & Marlee Maitlin

10.25am The Adventures of Tintin
Shooting Star

10.35am The Batman
Chapter 4 (b&w)

10.55am Film : Road to Singapore (1940)
starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour (b&w)

12.30pm Channel 4 Racing
from Kempton Park 12.45, 1.15, 1.45, 2.20 & 2.50 races

3.15pm Film : The Red Shoes (1948)
starring Moira Shearer, Marius Goring

5.40pm News Summary and Weather

5.45pm Swan Lake Royal Festival Ballet

8.00pm Matters of Taste
documentary about Elizabeth David

9.00pm The Fabulous Singlettes
an outrageous Australian group recreate the songs of the Supremes and others

10.00pm Short and Curlies : Unusual Ground Floor Conversion
short British film

10.15pm Rotten Apples
comedy set in a police station in a border town in N.Ireland

11.15pm Olivier Tribute : Film : The Prince and The Showgirl (1957)
starring Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Sybil Thorndike

1.25am Film : At the Circus (1939)
starring the Marx Brothers(b&w)

3.00am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1990

BBC1

7:00am News, Regional News and Weather

7.15am Children's BBC
Touché Turtle(Repeat)

7.20am Wizbit
The magical adventures of Wizbit and the residents of Puzzleopolis.
with Paul Daniels. (Repeat)

7.45am New Adventures of Mighty Mouse
The evil Cardigan captures Pearl Pureheart (Repeat)

8.00am News, Regional News and Weather

8.15am Fireman Sam
Animation. Christmas preparations stop when the crew are
called out to save Sarah and James.
Narrated by John Alderton (Repeat)

8.35am St Nicholas and the Children
An adventure fairy tale.
On Christmas Eve, young Pierre and Estelle are forced to cross through the haunted forest in search of food for their sick grandmother(Repeat)

9.00am News, Regional News and Weather

9.05am The Chipmunks
Cartoon. Alvin dreams of the spirits of Christmas past, present and future

9.35am Charlie's Christmas Project
Children's drama. Charlie wasn't asking for an expensive present -
all he wanted was to look after a dog called Arfie (Repeat)

9.55am Quick Draw McGraw
cartoon

10.05am Playdays
The Christmas Tree Stop(Repeat)

10.25am Barney
Cartoon. Barney surprises Mr Prophet with a very special
Christmas present.(Repeat)

10.35am Film : The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
musical, starring Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven

12.55pm Regional News and Weather

1.00pm News with Andrew Harvey
Weather Michael Fish

1.15pm Neighbours

1.40pm Film : The Italian Job (1969)
starring Michael Caine

3.15pm Children's BBC
Buried Treasure
cartoon

3.25pm Blue Peter
presented by Yvette Fielding, John Leslie and Diane-Louise Jordan

3.50pm Film : Masters of the Universe (1987)
starring Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella

5.35pm Neighbours

6.00pm Newswith Andrew Harvey
Weather Ian McCaskill

6.15pm Regional News magazines

6.30pm Wogan in Hollywood
The legendary George Burns is probably the most revered comic in
the world. Despite open heart surgery, at 94 years of age he has
lost none of his magic sparkle as Terry Wogan discovers

7.10pm The Paul Daniels Magic Show
Paul Daniels hosts this special Christmas edition.
Presenting their unique style of magic will be his guests -
the Great Bosconi, Peter Hartly, Chester Baker and Sakura

8.00pm All Creatures Great and Small
Brotherly Love,
starring Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison

9.30pm Newswith John Humphrys
Regional News, Weather Ian McCaskill

9.50pm Film : Blind Date (1987)
starring Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger Première

11.25pm Christmas with the Gulf
As midnight approaches, families throughout the country have gathered together to rejoice at the coming of Christmas but this year many families are apart. Tonight, live by satellite, friends and relatives in Aldershot, Hampshire, and Fallingbostel in Germany join servicemen and women in the Gulf for a joint celebration of the birth of the infant Jesus

12.25am Midnight Caller
Do You Believe in Miracles?
starring Gary Cole, Wendy Kilbourne(Repeat)

1.10am Weather

1.15am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1990

BBC1

7:00am Children's BBC
Wizbit
More magical adventures in Puzzleopolis, with Paul Daniels.
Christmas in August? Anything is possible in Puzzleopolis (Repeat)

7:30am Playdays
The Christmas Tree Stop(Repeat)

7:50am Jingle Bell Rap
Now here's the story of a father and son,
It's Christmas Day and there's a lot to be done,
The rock group's strumming, But the singer's not humming,
Here comes Santa to get things buzzing!

8:10am Film : The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981)
followed byWeather

9:30am Shout for Joy!
from St Francis Church, Birmingham
Local children join the congregation in Handsworth to celebrate
Christmas Day Mass

10:30am Noel's Christmas Presents
Noel Edmonds has travelled all over the world to give 12 very unusual presents to some very special people. With special guests Arthur Bostrom Frank Bruno and David Essex

11:30am Christmas Comedy Cracker
'Allo 'Allo!
Rene, a cafe proprietor in occupied France, suddenly finds himself
at the centre of an underground organisation (Repeat)

12:05pm The Two Ronnies
Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett offer a crackerful of jokes.
With all the news that's fit to laugh at and Little Big Shot, a searing tale set in Chicago in the 20s, when men were men and Ronald Reagan was just an OAP. With their special guest Phil Collins
(Repeat)

12:55pm Dad's Army
The Love of Three Oranges
Walmington-on-Sea's Home Guard decide to help at the vicar's bazaar to raise money for comforts for the troops (Repeat)

1.30pm Top of the Pops Christmas Special
with Mark Goodier and Anthea Turner

2.30pm EastEnders
A special Christmas delivery holds a surprise for Diane.
Ian is determined to drive Wicksy away - dead or alive

3:00pm The Queen
Her Majesty speaks to the Commonwealth

3:05pm Film : ET - The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote Première

5:00pm Newswith Jill Dando and
WeatherSuzanne Charlton

5:10pm Only Fools and Horses
Rodney Come Home

6:25pm Bruce Forsyth's Christmas Generation Game
A fun-packed bumper edition with four couples competing for prizes.
With Rosemarie Ford and celebrity guests

7:30pm Bread
A comic slice of Merseyside life by Carla Lane

8:20pm Birds of a Feather
Falling in Love Again starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson

9.35pm News with Jill Dando
WeatherSuzanne Charlton

9:45pm Film : Baby Boom (1987)
starring Diane Keaton, Harold Ramis Première

11:30pm Yes Minister
Party Games
Rumours of a Cabinet re-shuffle dampen the seasonal festivities

12:30am Christmas Presence
It's over for another year. Writer, Poet and broadcaster
Adrian Plass asks, "Why do we do it?"

12:35am Film : The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
starring George Segal, Alec Guiness

2:20pm Weather

2:25pm Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1990

BBC1

7.00am Children's BBC
Wizbit
with Paul Daniels(Repeat)

7.25am The Nightingale
Christopher Plummer narrates Hans Christian Andersen 's
well-loved story(Repeat)

7.50am Playdays
The Christmas Tree Stop(Repeat)

8.10am The Island of Nevawuz
animated story set on an uncharted island

9.00am The Man Called Flintstone
feature length Flintstones special

10.30am World Cup 90
It was the month the nation talked of little other than football.
Desmond Lynam reflects on the personalities and action of Italia 90, featuring England's spectacular progress to the semi-finals, Scotland's dramatic exit and Ireland's historic first tournament.

11.30am Film : Are You Being Served ? (1977)
starring Mollie Sugden, John Inman
The staff of Grace Brothers go on holiday in this cinema spin-off from the BBC comedy hit

1.00pm The Good Life
Silly But It's Fun (Repeat)

1.30pm Newswith Chris Lowe
Weather Bernard Davey

1.35pm Film : The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
starring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine

3.30pm Disney Time
with Phillip Schofield

4.10pm Jim'll Fix It for Christmas
Can I be St George ? Make our teacher fly? Work at Walt Disney World?
Can I meet the Turtles? Jim Savile makes these and other dreams come
true in this Christmas special

4.55pm Final Score
Results and football pools service with Ralph Dellor

5.10pm News with Chris Lowe
WeatherBernard Davey

5.25pm The Russ Abbot Christmas Show
with special guest Les Dennis

6.05pm Spielberg : Film : Back to the Future (1985)
starring Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd

8.00pm Bergerac Special
There for the Picking
starring John Nettles

9.40pm Smith and Jones
with Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones

10.10pm Newswith Chris LoweRegional News
WeatherBernard Davey

10.25pm Film : Poltergeist II (1986)
starring Jo Beth Williams, Craig T Nelson Première

11.55pm Toto - Live in Paris
The supergroup Toto in a rare live appearance

12.50am Weather

12.55am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1990

BBC2

8.00am NewsFollowed by
English Towns
Saffron Walden, Essex

8.50am Film : Tarzan Escapes (1936)
starring Johnny Weissmuller

10.15am Laurel and Hardy
From Soup to Nuts

10.35am Songs of Praise Christmas Special
from Prague, Czechoslovakia

11.25am Golf 90
for European golf the new decade began where the 80's ended -
on a high note. Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam continued their winning
ways in superb style. Peter Alliss looks back on a great year

12.40pm Film : Nickelodeon (1976)
starring Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds

2.35pm Beethoven Symphonies
Symphony No 2 in D, Op 36

3.15pm Film : La traviata (1982)
starring Teresa Stratas and Placido Domingo
(An Italian film with English subtitles)

5.00pm Carols from King's
The world-famous choir of King's College, Cambridge sings
many of the carols that have made the 'sound of King's a memorable part of Christmas

6.00pm Film : A Passage to India (1984)
starring Judy Davis, Victor Banergee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox

8.40pm The Making of the Trials of Life
Once More into the Termite Mound

9.30pm Madonna in Concert
In August 1990, Madonna's "Blond Ambition" tour reached
Barcelona

10.50pm The Fabulous Singlettes
a musical comedy starring Naomi Eyres, Alison Jiear, Simone Dee

11.25pm Film : This is Spinal Tap (1984)
a rockumentary by Marti DiBergi

12.45pm Brendel Plays Schubert
The Middle Temple Hall in London is the splendid setting for a performance by Alfred Brendel of Schubert's Piano Sonata
in A major(Repeat)

1.30am Weatherview

1.35am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1990

BBC2

8:00am Film : Summer Holiday (1948)
starring Mickey Rooney, Gloria de Haven

9:30am Film : Watership Down (1978)
The animated screen version of Richard Adams 's bestselling novel

11:00am Gotta Dance, Gotta Sing
Great scenes from the history of the movie musical. A parade of stars ranging from Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer in 1927 to Barbra Streisand

11:45am The Famous Teddy Z
Season's Greetings from Al Floss. Teddy (Jon Cryer ) and Laurie (Jane Sibbett ) are ordered to stay in the office on Christmas Day

12:10pm Beethoven Symphonies
Symphony No 3 in E Flat, Op 55, the "Eroica"

1:00pm Drift, the Mute Swan
is life on the Somerset wetlands the tranquil existence that it
appears to be? Narrated by John King (Repeat)

2:00pm Christmas Day Concert
Chris de Souza introduces the traditional concert live from the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

3:10pm Animation Now
Try Again and Succeed. Orson Welles narrates the story of a
baby eagle leaving the nest

3:20pm Henry Moore and Landscape
study of the relationship between sculpture and nature.

3:50pm Film : Powaqqatal (1988)
Philip Glass's score accompanies this film without
plot or dialogue Première

5:25pm Joyce Grenfell 1910-1979
Celia Johnson narrates a celebration of the talented
comedienne's happy life(Repeat)

6:25pm The Cunning Little Vixen
Simon Rattle conducts Leos Janacek's enchanting opera in praise of nature, in the recent production fromthe Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden

8:15pm The Queen
Her Majesty speaks to the Commonwealth

8:20pm Film : Jean de Florette (1986)
(In French with English subtitles) Première

10:20pm Amnesty International Benefit Concert
with Sting, Sinead O'Connor, Peter Gabriel, and New Kids on the Block

11:30pm Film : Notorius (1946)
starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains

1:10am Weatherview

1:20am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1990

BBC2

8.00am English Towns
Lewes, East Sussex (Repeat)

8.40am Film : Tarzan Finds a Son (1939)
starring Johhny Weissmuller

10.00am Film : Summer Stock (1950)
starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly

11.55am How are the Kids ?
A series of six films about the exploitation of children

12.00 Greenclaws (Repeat)

12.15pm The Unanswered Question
Leonard Bernstein at Harvard

2.00pm The Transformers
1/3. The Butterflies of Zagorsk

3.00pm Beethoven Symphonies
Symphony No.4 in B Flat Op 60

3.35pm Laurel and Hardy
Bacon Grabbers

3.55pm Beethoven Symphonies
Symphony No.5 in C Major Op 67

4.30pm Cricket
Second Test Australia v England

5.00pm Le Nozze di Figaro
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

8.00pm Film : Manon des Source (1986)
starring Yves Montand, Daniel Auteil
French film with English subtitlesPremière

9.50pm A Life in Pieces
Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling (Peter Cook) chooses his 12 Christmas gifts

9.55pm The Ship
This epic story of a river and its people by Bill Bryden , winner of
the first annual Gulliver Award for his contribution to Scottish theatre, celebrates shipbuilding on the Clyde - the pride, hardship, personal tragedies, resilience, highly-coloured language and wit

11.35pm Classic Hitchcock : Film : Suspicion (1941)
starring Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine

1.10am Weatherview

1.20am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1990

ITV LONDON

5.10am Christmas Comes to Pacland
Santa Claus develops sleigh trouble on Christmas Eve and crash-lands in Pacland, home of Pac-Man, the video game
character, and his family in this story (Repeat)

5.40am Cartoon Time
Animated fun from some favourite cartoon characters

5.55am ITN Morning News

6.00am TV-am
Good Morning Britain
presented by Martin Frizell for the first hour and by Lorraine Kelly and Mike Morris from 7.00am

8.50am Wacaday
presented by Timmy Mallett

9.25am Disney Cartoon Time
The Cookie Carnival
The Grasshopper and the Ant
The Ant and the Merbabies
(Repeat)

9.55am Thames News and Weather

10.00am The New Adventures of He-Man - the Movie (1990)
A feature-length edition of the series in which cartoon hero He-Man and his friends defend the Universe. Transported to
the Triax system, He-Man must battle against his old enemy, Skeletor (TV Movie)

11.45am Disney Cartoon
Donald Duck in The Art of Self Control

12.00 Christmas Eve with Dana
Dana is celebrating Christmas Eve or Heilige Nacht, Austria's Holy Night, with the Aschauer family in the mountain village of Hallstatt in Austria.
Join her as she shares the religious traditions that make Christmas Eve a reflective, holy and joyous celebration

12.25pm Home and Away
Adam conceives a dastardly plan to keep Grant out of the iron-man competition. Bobby and Matt discover the identity of Shane's murderer

12.55pm Thames News and Weather

1.00pm ITN News at One
presented by John Suchet
ITV National Weather
Trish Williamson

1.20pm Disney Cartoon
Old King Cole
Characters from Mother Goose attend King Cole's party(Repeat)

1.30pm Film : A Very Brady Christmas (TV Movie-1988)
starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson

3.15pm ITN News Headlines

3.20pm Thames News Headlines

3.25pm Families
Mrs Grandby's unfounded suspicions about Mike look as though they might possibly have some grounding in truth. Mike discovers that Andrew and Amanda are
romantically involved and in his ignorance is very pleased for her

3.55pm Rolf Meets Bugs & Friends in Hollywood
Rolf Harris goes to Hollywood to the home of many of the world's favourite cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, Wile E Coyote, Tweety Pie, Pepe Le Pew.
He meets the creators of many of the Warner Brothers cartoon greats - Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng.
A group of children join Rolf for some drawing and a sneak preview of the newest cartoon blockbuster -Steven Spielberg's "Tiny Toons"

5.10pm Blockbusters
with Bob Holness

5.40pm ITN News at 5.40
ITV National Weather

6.00pm Home and Away(Repeat)

6.30pm Thames News

7.00pm Wish You Were Here . . . ?
Judith Chalmers celebrates Christmas in a showpiece Cotswold village
John Carter reports on summer holidays in an all-too-often overlooked part of France and
Anneka Rice goes underwater to take a diving course off the island of Gozo

7.30pm Coronation Street
Jack has some last-minute preparations for Christmas and comes up with the ideal present for Vera

8.00pm Des O'Connor Tonight
with guests Bob Monkhouse, Sir Robin Day, Susan Hampshire,Bananarama, Jethro, and Bernie Clifton

9.00pm The Ruth Rendell Mystery
Put on by Cunning
World-renowned flautist Manuel Carmargue is about to marry his 30 year old fiancee when tragedy strikes.
He is found drowned in a lake in the grounds of his house. Although "death by misadventure" is recorded the intrepid
Inspector Wexford's suspicions are aroused when Carmargue's estranged daughter arrives to claim her inheritance; and
further when the fiancee tells him of the doubts her future husband expressed about the identity of his daughter

11.00pm ITN News, ITV National Weather

11.15pm After Henry
A Quiet Christmas, starring Prunella Scales (Repeat)

11.45pm Midnight Mass
from St Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, Daventry

12.40am Christmas Eve at the Movies : Grandview USA (1984)
starring Jamie Lee Curtis, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze

2.30am Christmas Eve at the Movies : The Electric Horseman (1979)
starring Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine
followed by ITN News Headlines

4.40am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1990

ITV LONDON

4.40am Film : A Christmas Carol (1985)
An Australian cartoon adaption of Charles Dickens' Classic tale about miserly Ebenezer Scrooge

5.55am ITN Morning News

6.00am TV-am
News Bulletin

6.05am Cartoon Carnival
including
The Adventures Of Parsley
Little Misses
Grumblie Grimlies
Portland Bill
plus many more

7.00am News Bulletin

7.05am Top Banana Special
Mike Brosnan with more fun and games for children in a special Christmas edition

7.57am Thought for Christmas

8.00am Cliff Richard Christmas Day Special
Cliff sings, tells the Christmas story, shows some clips from his latest tour and introduces the Choirboy of the Year

9.00am Alvin and the Chipmunks
Another amusing adventure

9.25am Cartoons at Christmas
Three Tweety-Pie cartoons (Repeat)

9.50am Telethon - Thanks to You
Find out how your donations to Telethon '90 have made it an extra special Christmas for people in need all over Britain

10.45am Find a Family Update
The children featured in ITV's campaign to find permanent homes for youngsters in care spend their first Christmas with their new families at
a party being held specially for them by Lord Montagu at his home in Beaulieu, in the New Forest

11.00am Christmas Family Communion
from All Saints Church, Fulham, West London

12.00 The Disney Club Christmas Special
Snow, log fires, presents, seasonal songs and cartoons - all the right ingredients for Christmas Day.
Gordon Inglis, John Eccleston, and Andrea Boardman are in the mountain resort of Aspen in Colorado together with Dannii Minogueand the British band
Breathe. Join them for the show which also includes two festive cartoons

1.00pm Ronn Lucas Special - Who's in Charge Here?
Ventriloquist Ronn Lucas live on stage, plus the adventures of puppet Buffalo Billy as he goes to Hollywood

2.00pm Torvill & Dean with the Russian Allstars
An ice spectacular from Nottingham ice rink

3.00pm The Queen

3.05pm The James Bond Film : Moonraker (1979)
Roger Moore as James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide

5.25pm ITN News and ITV National Weather

5.30pm Strike It Lucky Christmas Special
Specially for Christmas all the contestants in this game show are children. Hosted by Michael Barrymore

6.15pm Ken Dodd at the London Palladium
Ken Dodd is joined by his Diddymen and Roby Gasser with his performing seals Adolph and Dixie

7.30pm Coronation Street
While Alf reaches for his stomach pills, the Duckworths seek refuge, Curly finds a soulmate, Alec bites off more than he can
chew, and Gail has some news for the family

8.00pm Movie Première starring Eddie Murphy : Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogamil's near-fatal shooting and the series of
"alphabet crimes" associated with it Première

10.00pm French Fields
Noel Noel
When it comes to Christmas the French can take it or leave it. Hester is determined to make them take it.
However when her own family arrives in France they want to leave again by the earliest ferry

10.45pm ITN News and ITV National Weather

11.00pm Christmas Night at the Movies : What's Up Doc? (1972)
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid over-night bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn

12.50am Christmas Night at the Movies : Murder Me, Murder You (1983)
Mickey Spillane's private eye Mike Hammer (Stacy Keach) probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.
starring Stacy Keach, Tanya Roberts, Don Stroud

2.40am Christmas Night at the Movies : Feel the Motion (1986)
Tina Lehmann is an auto mechanic who dreams of becoming a pop star.
One day after work she sneaks onto the set of the TV music programme 'Formel Eins' with her demo tape, and lands a job as a go-fer. Her boyfriend
Stevie Dromberger, who has been drafted into the army, doesn't like the attention she's receiving from the celebrity guests, and goes AWOL when
he thinks she is dating the singer Limahl starring Sissy Kelling, Frank Meyer-Brockmann, Ingolf Lück

ITV Central.................Film : Scorpio (1973)

4.35am Sounds Like Christmas
a documentary about the business of selling records at Christmas. It focuses on tracks deliberately made for Christmas release

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1990

5.35am Cartoon Time
animated double bill (Repeat)

5.55am ITN Morning News

6.00am TV-am

6.00am News Bulletin

6.05am Animated Classic
an episode from Black Beauty

7.00am News Bulletin

7.05am Timmy Mallet's World Travel Special
Timmy explores New York

7.30am Alvin and the Chipmunks
another cartoon caper

8.00am Top Banana
with Mike Brosnan

9.00am Denver the Last Dinosaur
animated adventures

9.25am Christmas Duckula
A Christmas Quacker
Duckula's "Tremendous Terence Bumper Book" leads him into a space adventure

9.50am T-Bag's Christmas Ding-Dong
T-Bag finds herself out in the cold when her cousin Vanity Bag decides she wants to be the star of a new opera

10.20am Daffy Duck
Stork Naked(Repeat)

10.30am Disney Christmas Première : Candleshoe (1977)
Small-time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler
Priory is the resting place for a hoard of treasure. Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. Bundage recruits urchin Casey Brown
to dupe Lady St. Edmund into thinking that she is her long-lost granddaughter, so she can search for clues to the location of the treasure.
Unbeknownst to Bundage and her ladyship, Lady St. Edmund is flat broke, and Priory and the children help her ladyship try to keep her home and pride.
Joined by Casey, they do all the chores and Priory acts as the butler, gardener, chauffeur and an old major all at the same time!
starring Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes Première

12.25pm ITN News, ITV National Weather

12.30pm The Disney Christmas Première : Return to Oz (1985)
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King
destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.
Starring Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean MarshPremière

2.30pm Beatrix Potter : The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
The magical Beatrix Potter tale about the adventures of a young pig. The idea for the tale, shot in Cornwall,
came to the author in 1894 when she saw a pig loaded on board a ship in Falmouth.
Starring Tim Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French,Thora Hird, Geoffrey Bayldon

3.30pm Film : Lorna Doone (1990)
John Ridd was just a boy when the villainous Carver Doone callously murdered his father. Now a young man, John has
two driving passions: his thirst for revenge against the outlaw Doones, and his love for the beautiful Lorna, daughter of his
sworn enemies starring Sean Bean, Polly Walker

5.15pm ITN News and Sport,
ITV National Weather with Sian Lloyd

5.30pm The Krypton Factor Special
stars of some of the best loved TV dramas take part in this special to try and win £5000 for their chosen charity.
Jon Isles (DC Dashwood in The Bill)
Glenda McKay (Rachel Hughes in Emmerdale)
Philip Middlemiss (Des Barnes in Coronation St)
Annie Miles (Sue Sullivan in Brookside)
Host is Gordon Burns with guest Gwyneth Strong

6.00pm Christmas Cluedo
Your chance to play armchair detective. Santa arrives at Arlington Grange with a sackful of surprises for the
assembled guests which reminds them all of dirty deeds that they would rather forget. One guest has murder in
mind. But who did it? What was the weapon? And in which room did it take place? Celebrities in the studio
cross examine the likely culprits to discover the truth

6.45pm This Is Your Life
Whose story is in the big red book tonight?
A specially extending Boxing Day edition with Michael Aspel

7.30pm Coronation Street
Vera takes a hand in patching up a broken relationship, while lodger Curly comes clean about his intentions

8.00pm Movie Première : Dirty Dancing (1987)
Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's
dance instructor Johnny Castle starring Patrick SwayzePremière

9.50pm The Bill
Safe as Houses
Sun Hill CID are babysitting supergrass Lennie Powell but Burnside's snout has news from all of them

10.20pm ITN News, ITV National Weather

10.30pm Boxing Night at the Movies
Police Academy 2 : Their First Assignment (1985)
When a new gang moves into town it's up to the screwball police team to stop them
Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf
followed by ITN News Headlines

12.10am Boxing Night at the Movies : Return of the Seven (1966)
Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped.
One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets
Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico
starring Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos

2.00am Boxing Night at the Movies : Robbery Under Arms (1985)
Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel "Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood.
Made by the South Australian Film Corporation during the mini-series boom of the 1980s and lensed in the Flinders Ranges, it stars Sam Neill
as the infamous Captain Starlight

4.00am America's Top 10
Top 10 Acts of the Sixties (until 4.30am)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

CHANNEL 4 CHRISTMAS TV 1990


Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1990

6.00am Early Morning
Bobby Jones Gospel

6.30am The Art of Landscape

7.00am The Gnomes' Great Adventure

8.25am CrossTalk

9.25am Christmas Eve on Sesame Street

10.25am Batman and Robin
Part 1 (a 15 part vintage serial) starring Robert Lowery and John Duncan

10.55am Christmas Without Snow

11.25am Blenheim 3-Day International

12.30pm A Family of Flowers

1.30pm Nigel Kennedy Plays The Four Seasons

2.30pm Film : Camelot (1967)
musical starring Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave

5.45pm Billy the Fish
based on the Viz cartoon

6.00pm A Grand Day Out
Wallace and Gromit

6.30pm Tonight with Jonathan Ross

7.00pm News Summary and Weather followed by
Monsignor Michael

8.00pm Brookside

8.30pm The Wonderful World of Dogs

9.30pm The Creation

11.30pm The Other Side of Gerry Sadowitz

11.45pm Chinese Ghost Stories
Zu Warriors

1.40am Birthday

2.00am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1990
CHANNEL 4

6.00am Early Morning
Bobby Jones Gospel

6.30am The Art of Landscape

7.00am Trans World Sport

8.00am Christmas on the Box

8.25am The Oprah Winfrey Show

9.16am Countdown Masters

9.25am Sesame Street

10.25am Batman and Robin
Part 2

10.45am And the Lighthouse Made Three
Australian animation

10.55am Cirque du Soleil

12.00 Arnold Palmer : Signing Off

1.00pm Lisa Stansfield - All Around the World

2.00pm Talking Turkey

2.50pm Max Wall : A Life Class

3.20pm The Huge Adventures of Trevor a Cat
Australian children's animation

3.30pm Film : W C Fields : It's a Gift (1934)

4.45pm The Queen

4.55pm News Summary and Weather

5.00pm Faerie Tale Theatre : : Jack and the Beanstalk

5.55pm The Further Adventures of Billy the Fish
part 1

6.00pm Film : The Snowman (1982)

6.30pm A Different World

7.00pm Father Oleg, Mother Russia

8.00pm The Coronation Street BirthdayLecture

9.00pm Carmen on Ice

10.30pm Nigel Kennedy Plays Bruch

11.15pm He Turned Up

12.15am Chinese Ghost Stories : Rouge

2.05am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1990
CHANNEL 4


6.00am Early Morning
Bobby Jones Gospel

6.30am The Art of Landscape

7.00am Ali's Special Day

7.30am Kaboodle

8.00am The Christmas Tree Train

8.25am Ric

8.30am The Turkey Caper

9.00am Channel 4 Racing : The Morning Line

9.16am Countdown Masters

9.25am Sesame Street

10.25am Batman and Robin
part 3

10.50am Ibza - A Short Film About Chilling

11.30am Tony Jacklin's Pro-Celebrity Golf Challenge

12.35pm Channel 4 Racing
from Kempton Park

3.10pm Western/Petronella

3.30pm Film : W C Fields : International House (1933)

4.50pm News Summary and Weather

4.55pm Faerie Tale Theatre : The Princess Who Had Never Laughed

5.55pm The Further Adventures of Billy the Fish
part 2

6.00pm The Wonder Years
Pottery Will Get You Nowhere

6.30pm Tonight with Jonathan Ross

7.00pm Padre Pablo

8.00pm Brookside

8.30pm The Oprah Winfrey Show
Bob Hope's All American Tribute to Oprah Winfrey

9.25pm Tchaikovsky - Fate

11.00pm Film : Requiem for Dominic (1990)
starring Felix Mitterer

12.40am Dancedaze

1.40am The Other Side of Gerry Sadowitz

1.55am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1991

BBC1

7.00am News , Regional News ; Weather

7.15am But First This
with Simon Parkin, Philippa Forrester, Esther McVey
Mycroft
cartoon

7.30am The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
animation

8.00am News and Regional News ; Weather

8.35am Jingle Bell Rap
cartoon(Repeat)

9.00am Newsand Regional News ; Weather

9.05am Defenders of the Earth
cartoon (Repeat)

9.25am Mozart is Alive and Well and Living in Milton Keynes
last of three programmes marking Mozart's bicentenary (Repeat)

10.05am Playdays
the Playground Stop

10.25am Barney
cartoon(Repeat)

10.35am Film : Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
starring Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes

12.55pm Regional News ; Weather

1.00pm One O' Clock News
followed by Weather

1.15pm Neighbours
A friend of Adam's could be more trouble than he's worth

1.40pm Film : Christmas Comes to Willow Creek(1987)
starring John Scneider and Tom Wopat Première

3.10pm Tom and Jerry
The Night Before Christmas

3.20pm Film : Scrooged (1988)
starring Bill MurrayPremière

4.50pm Tinsel Toons
Tony Robinson presents a special seasonal edition of animated
classics featuring the California Raisins, Flintstones,
Captain and the Kids and Popeye

5.35pm Neighbours
(Repeat)

6.00pm Newswith Philip Hayton
WeatherMichael Fish

6.15pm Regional news magazines

6.30pm Big Break - a Celebrity Christmas Special
Jim Davidson welcomes three snooker giants, Stephen Hendry ,
Steve Davis and Jimmy White , who play for charity with celebrity contestants - the glamorous Linda Lusardi , former
Coronation Street star Jean Alexander and entertainer Charlie Drake. With snooker virtuoso John Virgo

7.00pm EastEnders
Frank's looking for a last-minute baby sitter, Grant's hiding something inedible in the fridge, and Ian wants to inject some drama into
the season

7.30pm Only Fools and Horses
A two-part Christmas special entitled
Miami Twice
1: The American Dream

8.20pm 'Allo 'Allo
special Christmas edition
Rene finds himself in great danger when Yvette confides that she is pregnant. Could this be why Rene is planning to fly to England
tout de suite?

9.05pm News with Philip Hayton
Regional News
WeatherMichael Fish

9.30pm Film : No Way Out (1987)
starring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean YoungPremière

11.20pm Midnight Eucharist
from Southwark Cathedral

12.30am Film : The Italian Job (1969)
starring Michael Caine

2.05am Weather

2.10am Closedown