Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1999

BBC1

6:00am Children's BBC
Polka Dot Shorts
Polkaroo and friends exchange presents (Repeat)

6:10am Teletubbies
Snowy Story (Repeat)

6:40am Barney's Christmas Surprise
Barney has a gift (Repeat)

6:45am Christmas Toons
the animated tale, White Christmas(Repeat)

7:10am The True Meaning of Crumbfest
animation about a mouse

7:35am Blue Peter - a Christmas Box of Delights
highlights

8:00am Live and Kicking's Christmas Cracker
with Emma Ledden and Steve Wilson

10:00am Christmas Day Service - Joy to the World
introduced by Diane Louise Jordan

11:00am Film : James and the Giant Peach (1996)
animated fantasyadventure with live action sequencesPremière

12:15pm News and Weather

12:20pm The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show (1977)
with guests including Elton John

1:30pm Christmas Top of the Pops

2:30pm Hooves of Fire
comedy animationabout Robbie the Reindeer narrated
by Robbie Williams

3:00pm The Queen

3:10pm Noel's Christmas Presents

4:00pm Film : Jumanji (1995)
starring Robin WilliamsPremière

5:40pm BBC News and Weather

5:50pm EastEnders

6:20pm Auntie's Cracking New Bloomers
presented by Terry Wogan

7:00pm David Copperfield
1/2 starring Daniel Radcliffe

8:30pm EastEnders

9:00pm The Vicar of Dibley
2/4 Winter, starring Dawn French

9:40pm Before They Were Famous
featuring Julian Clary, Robson Green, Celine Dion, Jonathan Ross,
George Clooney, Ricky Martin

10:20pm BBC Newswith George Alagiah
Weather David Braine

10:30pm The Royle Family
the family gathers to celebrate Christmas

11:10pm They Think It's All Over
comedy sports quiz presented by Nick Hancock with guests David Gower,
Gary Lineker, Rory McGrath, Jonathan Ross

11:45pm Rumours of Angels
Thora Hird and Tony Robinson team up as star and writer of an
alternative telling of the Christmas story

11:50pm Film : The Italian Job (1969)
starring Michael Caine

1:30am Film : A Shock to the System (1990)
starring Michael Caine

2:55am BBC News 24

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Sunday 26th December 1999

BBC1

6.00am Children's BBC
Bump's Christmas Story
Bump sets out to meet Santa (Repeat)

6.10am Postman Pat
Pat has to take to a sledge
(Repeat)

6.30am Noddy and Father Christmas
animation (Repeat)

7.00am Christmas Toons!
the story of Good King Wenceslas (Repeat)

7.25am Santa's First Christmas
animation(Repeat)

7.50am Eek the Cat
Eek receives the wrong present(Repeat)

8.15am Kenan and Kel
comedy, the boys look to their ambitions(Repeat)

8.40am Rotten Ralph
animation special featuring the bad cat (Repeat)

9.05am Woody Woodpecker
a seasonal animated triple bill (Repeat)

9.30am 50/50
festive game-show frolics with Philip Olivier, Adam Ricketts,
Michaela Strachan

9.55am Love Shone Down
from Manchester Cathedral,fun music and praise

10.35am Film : A Goofy Movie (1995)
animationPremière

11.45am Cartoon

12.00 Film : Balto (1995)
animationPremière

1.10pm BBC News and Weather

1.25pm EastEnders

2.45pm Film : Matilda (1996)
starring Mara Wilson
Première

4.15pm Songs of Praise
from Lincoln Christmas market

4.50pm Final Score
a roundup of today's results with Ray Stubbs

5.10pm BBC News and Weather

5.20pm Regional News

5.25pm Vets in Practice - at Christmas

5.55pm Animal Hospital
presented by Rolf Harris

6.25pm David Copperfield
2/2

8.00pm Christmas Casualty
Peace on Earth

9.00pm Film : Mission Impossible (1996)
starring Tom CruisePremière

10.45pm BBC Newswith Peter Sissons
Weather Helen Willetts

11.00pm Match of the Day
hosted by Gary Lineker with Trevor Brooking

12.45am Film : Clockwise (1986)
starring John Cleese, Alison Steadman

2.20am BBC News 24

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Re: Christmas TV

Bank Holiday Monday 27th December 1999

BBC1

6.00am Children's BBC
Teletubbies
Ned's Bicycle (Repeat)

6.25am See It, Saw It
highlights from the comedy series

6.50am Christmas Toons!
Santa Claus is Coming to Town,
animation

7.15am The Busy World of Richard Scarry
a triple bill of animated adventures set in Busytown (Repeat)

7.40am Sleeping Beauty
animated version with music by Tchaikovsky(Repeat)

8.10am The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
animated tales

8.35am Chipmunks Christmas
festive animation
(Repeat)

9.00am Bob the Builder
Bob's White Christmas, animation

9.10am Tweenies
Corner Shop

9.30am Rotten Ralph
animation(Repeat)

10.00am The First Snow of Winter
cartoon tale of a little duck who misses the annual migration south
(Repeat)

10.30am Film : Salt Water Moose (1996)
Première

12.00 Hooves of Fire
(Repeat)

12.35pm Cartoon

12.40pm BBC News and Weather

12.50pm Regional News

12.55pm Film : Dunston Checks In (1996)
comedy starring Jason Alexander, Faye Dunnaway,
Eric Lloyd, Rupert Everett

2.15pm EastEnders

3.40pm Film : The Flintstones (1996)
starring John Goodman

5.00pm BBC News and Weather

5.15pm Regional News

5.20pm The Other Half Celebrity Special
with Dale Winton, guests Wendy Richard, Adam Woodyatt,
Jenny Powell, Paul Ross, Kriss Akabussi, Sherrie Hewson

6.00pm Celebrity Ready Steady Cook
with Fern Britton, guests Chris Eubank, Frank Bruno,
chefs Paul Rankin, Ross Burden

6.30pm Film : Spice World (1997)
starring the Spice GirlsPremière

8.00pm EastEnders

8.30pm Changing Rooms
with Carol Smillie, Graham Wynne, Linda Barker

9.00pm The Vicar of Dibley
3/4 Spring, starring dawn French

9.40pm Harry Enfield presents Kevin's Guide to Being a Teenager
with Harry Enfield, Kathy Burke, Louise Rix, Stephen Moore,
Duncan Preston

10.20pm BBC Newswith Michael Buerk,
Regional News,
Weather with Sally Cummings

10.40pm Around the World in 80 Minutes - Century in Song
documemtary which blends music with newly restored archive film to
provide a decade-by-decade journey through the 20th Century

12.05am Film : Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973)
starring Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H Corbett

1.40am BBC News 24

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Re: Christmas TV

Bank Holiday Tuesday 28th December 1999

BBC1

6.00am Children's BBC
Poddington Peas
the peas find that Santa has forgotten them(Repeat)

6.05am Christmas Toons!
Silent Night, a snowman comes to life
(Repeat)

6.30am TeletubbiesOur Pig Winnie
(Repeat)

6.55am The Busy World of Richard Scarry
(Repeat)

7.20am Bob the Builder
Wendy decides to clean out the fish tank

7.30am Tweenies
Can't Go There,
Fizz has nowhere to play

7.50am See It Saw It - the King's Choice
comedy sketches(Repeat)

8.15am The Flintstones Comedy Show
fun in Bedrock (Repeat)

8.40am Goosebumps
A Night in Terror Tower (part 1)(Repeat)

9.05am Justin's Story
1/4
documentary series following 14 year-old Justin's attempts to be a
pop star

9.30am CBBC - Proms in the Park
highlights of a concert in London's Hyde Park designed to
introduce young people to classic music, with Charlotte Church
and S Club 7, introduced by Katy Hill (Repeat)

10.35am Film : Prancer (1989)
seasonal drama

12.15pm BBC News
Regional News; Weather

12.30am Film : Angus (1989)
starring Kathy Bates Première

1.50pm Film : Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
Première

3.20pm Film : Porridge (1979)
starring Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale

4.50pm Final Score
results and soccer reports with Ray Stubbs

5.10pm BBC News; Weather

5.25pm Regional News

5.30pm World's Strongest Man
hosted by John Inverdale

6.00pm Lily Savage's Blankety Blank
with guests Donald Sinden, Roy Barraclough, Honor Blackman,
Barbara Windsor, Anthea Turner, Tim Vincent

6.30pm 2000 to 1
another instalment of the millennium quiz show

7.00pm Molly's Zoo at Christmas
festivities at Twycross Zoo, narrated by Griff Rhys Jones
7.30pm EastEnders

8.00pm Ballykissangel
The Wedding, Minto seizes the chance to give Dillon a stag
party that he will never forget

8.50pm BBC News with Michael Buerk.
Regional News
9.00pm Jonathan Creek
Miracle in Crooked Lane
starring Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin

9.50pm The French and Saunders Christmas Special 1999

10.20pm BBC Newswith Michael Buerk
Weatherwith Peter Cockroft

10.30pm Match of the Day
introduced by Gary Lineker with Mark Lawrenson

11.50pm They Think It's All Over
comedy sports quiz(Repeat)
followed by Weatherview

12.30am Film : Don't Just Lie There, Say Something! (1973)
comedy

2.00am BBC News 24

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1999

BBC2

6.05am Film : Good King Wenceslas (1994)
Première

7.35am Grace under Fire
Mother Christmas
Grace's mum has definite ideas about how little girls should behave

8.00am People's Century
1933 Master Race (b&w/colour)(Repeat)

8.55amPeople's Century
1939 Total War(b&w/colour)(Repeat)
then One Man and his Dog - Previews

9.55am Film : Christmas in Connecticut (1992)
starring Dyan Cannon, Kris Kristofferson, Tony CurtisPremière

11.25am News, Weather

11.35am The American Civil War
The Universe of Battle,
documentary series, this episode is about the Battle of Gettysburg

1.05pm Film : Jane Eyre (1996)
starring William Hurt, CharlotteGainsbourgPremière

3.05pm Agas and their Owners
documentary about how many owners are obsessed with their
culinary status symbol(Repeat)

3.55pm The First Silent Night - the Road to Fame
a film exploring the carol, Silent Night, its origins and its
rise to worldwide fame

4.45pm Seeing Salvation
Saviour of the World,a look at Rueben's nativity painting,
Adoration of the Magi

4.55pm Carols from King's

6.10pm Film : Some Like It Hot (1959)
starring Marilyn Monroe,Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

8.05pm Seeing Salvation
A Child Born to Die,
Neil McGregor considers how pieces of art such as Bruegel's 'Adoration
of Kings' can be seen to foreshadow Christ's fate

8.15pm Goodness Gracious Me
Last year's Christmas special of the Asian comedy sketch starring
Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal, Nina Wadia(Repeat)

9.00pm Arena
Blondes - Jayne Mansfield

9.55pm Home Stories
tracing the history of the Sunflower House,
near Stevenage, Hertfordshire

10.15pm Film : Clueless (1995)
starring Alicia Silverstone

11.50pm Film : Cape Fear (1962)
starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum

1.30am Film : The Female Jungle (1955)
starring Jayne Mansfield, Lawrence Tierney(b&w)

2.40am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1999

BBC2

6:25am Film : Harvey(1950)
starring James Stewart (b&w)

8:05am Film : An American in Paris (1951)
musical starring Gene Kelly then
One Man and His Dog - the Previews

10:00am The Simpsons
Homer v Patty, and Selma with the guest voices of Mel Brooks
and Susan Sarandon

10:25am The Big Knights
Alchemy,
animation with the voices of Timothy West and Prunella Scales

10:35am Jim Henson's The Storyteller
The Luck Child, based on a Russian folk tale

11:00am Christmas Oratoria
1/6
Bach's Christmas Oratoria performed by the Monteverdi Choir
and the English Baroque Soloists, conducted by Eliot Gardiner

11:30am They Said It Couldn't Be Done
wildlife pioneering programmes with David Attenborough talking
to the film-makers and the showing the film, today 'Mzima - Portrait
of a Spring' by Alan Root and his wife who used home-made methods
to film underwater

12:30pm Don Quixote
animation featuring the voice of Simon Callow

1:00pm Jim Henson's The Storyteller
Sapsarrow, a princess flees to escape marriage

1:25pm Wives and Daughters
(Repeat)

2:45pm Vintners' Tales with Jancis Robinson
profile of Claud Douard who looks after a restaurant's wine cellar

2:55pm The Simpsons
Bart's Comet
a comet is heading for Springfield

3:15pm Film : White Christmas (1954)
musical starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye

5:10pm Film : Singin In the Rain (1952)
musical starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds

6:50pm Cecilia and Bryn at Glyndebourne
concert by Cecilia Bartoli and Bryn Trefel from Glyndebourne
Opera House, East Sussex

8:20pm The Queen

8:30pm Film : Il Postino (1994)
Oscar and Bafta-Award winning romantic drama in Italian with
English subtitlesPremière

10:15pm Film : RKO 281 (1999)
starring Liev Schreiber as Orson Welles Première

11:45pm Film : Citizen Kane (1941)
starring Orson Welles(b&w)

1:40am Film : The Trial (1962)
starring Orson Welles

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Sunday 26th December 1999

BBC2

6.25am Film : Tea for Two (1950)
starring Doris Day

8.00am People's Century
1945 : Brave New World(Repeat)

8.50amPeople's Century
1948 : Boom Town(Repeat)

9.45am Seeing Salvation
The Prince of Peace.
A look at how Botticelli's Mystic Nativity heralded a new beginning

9.55am The Simpsons
Selma's Choice

10.20am Jim Henson's The Storyteller
The Soldier and DeaththenOne Man and His Dog - the Previews

10.50am Christmas Oratio
Part Two

11.20am The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Arrows of Time : Back to the Future, the story of human timekeeping

12.20pm The American Civil War
Valley of the Shadow of Death (Repeat)

1.25pm Film : Great Day in the Morning (1956)
Western

2.55pm They Said It Couldn't Be Done
Kingdom of the Ice Bear : the Frozen Ocean

3.55pm The Cat Show
Shauna Lowry and Matt Allwright from the National Cat
Club Show, Olympia

4.45pm Film : Pillow Talk (1959)
starring Doris Day

6.25pm The Boat
U Boat dramain German with English subtitles (Repeat)

7.15pm Steptoe and Son
from Christmas 1973(Repeat)

8.00pm The Burgess Variations
a two part film portrait of Anthony Burgess, author of
A Clockwork Orange

9.00pm Arena
Blondes - Diana Dors

10.10pm The Royle Family
(Repeat)

10.50pm Definitely Dusty
documentary about Dusty Springfield

11.50pm Film : La Dolce Vita (1960)
starring Marcello Mastroianni(b&w)

2.45am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Bank Holiday Monday 27th December 1999

BBC2

6.25am Quantum Leap
A Liitle Miracle,
Christmas Eve 1962, miserly millionaire Michael Blake
receives a visitation

7.10am Match of the Day
(Repeat)

8.50am People's Century
1947 : Freedom Now(Repeat)

9.45am People's Century
1945 : Fallout (Repeat)

10.40am News, Weather

10.50am Christmas Oratorio
part 3

11.15am The Royal Institution ChristmasLectures
Arrows of Time : Catching the Waves

12.15pm The American Civil War
Most Hallowed Ground (Repeat)

1.25pm Film : Twelve o'Clock High (1949)
starring Gregory Peck (b&w)

3.35pm Film : Moonfleet (1955)
starring Stewart Granger

5.00pm The Simpsons
A Star is Burns,
Marge suggests a festival to boost Springfield's tainted public image

5.20pm They Said It Couldn't Be Done
In Flight Movie,David Attenborough looks at another wildlife film

6.00pm One Man and His Dog
presented by Robin Page and Gus Dermody with celebrity captains
Clarissa Dickson Wright, Michaela Strachan, John Craven

7.10pm The Boat
continuing the U boat drama, in German with English subtitles

8.00pm The Burgess Variations 2/2
profile of Anthony Burgess

9.00pm Arena
Blondes - Anita Ekberg

10.00pm Film : The Truth About Cats and Dogs (1996)
starring Uma Thurman, Janeane Garofaio

11.30pm Glastonbury 99
highlights of last summer's Glastonbury concert includes REM,
Manic Street Preachers, the Corrs, Fun Lovin' Criminals, The Beautiful South, Al Green

1.30am Film : Seven Woman (1966)
starring Anne Bancroft

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Re: Christmas TV

Bank Holiday Tuesday 28th December 1999

BBC2

6.25am Quantum Leap
1971 : Sam finds himself in the act of committing a robbery

7.05am Film : The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
starring Doris Day

8.50am People's Century
1951 : Asia Rising (Repeat)

9.45am People's Century
1957 : Skin Deep (Repeat)

10.40am News, Weather

10.50am Crazy Dancing
film telling the story of some dance crazes

11.40amThe Royal Institute Christmas Lectures
Arrows of Time : Quantum Leap

12.40pm The Big Knights
Lost Doris, animation

12.50pmThe Big Knights
Clockwork Knights

1.00pm Racing from Chepstow
4 races including the Welsh Grand national

3.00pm Film : Send Me No Flowers (1964)
starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day

4.35pm The Rodgers and Hart Story
narrated by Jonathan Pryce

5.30pm Film : Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)
starring Lloyd Bridges

7.00pm The Boat
third episode of the U boat drama, in German with English subtitles

7.50pm Vintners' Tales with Jancis Robinson
Jancis Robinson meets Nigel Wilson, a Fellow in Classics at
Lincoln College, Oxford, who is the college's expert
wine steward (Repeat)

8.00pm They Said It Couldn't be Done
Too Close for Comfort
David Attenborough talks to camerman Mike Richards about
the arduous nature of filming chimpanzees in the dark,
wet forests of West Africa, before showing the film

8.40pm Home Stories
the inside story of an Edwardian blue-brick detached house in
Birmingham told by occupiers past and present

9.00pm Film : The Sting (1973)
starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw

11.05pm The Best of Jools's Hootenannies
highlights of Jools Holland's previous six annual shows featuring
BB King, Tom Jones, Sharleen Spiteri, Eric Clapton, Sting, Dr John,
Paul Weller, Blur, Catatonia, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Chaka Demus
and Pliers, Manic Street Preachers

12.35am Fallen Angels
Fly Paper

1.05am Fallen Angels
The Black Bargain

1.35am Film : Clash by Night (1963)
crime drama (b&w)

2.50am CLOSEDOWN

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1999

ITV CARLTON/ MERIDIAN

6.00am GMTV
including at
8.30am Lorraine Kelly
looks forward to the holiday television

9.25am CITV
Santa's Last Christmas
animation, Santa and his elves oversleep leaving only a few days to make all the toys for Christmas

9.55am Top Ten of Everything
Ben Jones, Vanessa Bewley look at the most popular Christmas cards, best-selling festive singles,
with music by Atomic Kitten, Another Level

10.25am The Worst Witch
the very first episode (Repeat)

10.55am News, Regional News, Weather

11.05am The Christmas Storykeepers
animation

12.30pm Regional News, Weather

12.40pm Lunchtime News, Weather

1.00pm Regional News(Carlton) or Shortland Street(Meridian)

1.30pm Clueless
US High-school comedy

1.55pm From Mickey to Infinity - and Beyond
Neil Buchannan looks at the history of animation

2.50pm Film : The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
starring Michael Caine

4.20pm Regional News

4.50pm ITV News, Weather

5.05pm Film : Forever Young (1992)
starring Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis

ITV LWT/ MERIDIAN

7.00pm Emmerdale

7.30pm Coronation Street

8.00pm The Bill
When the Snow Lay Round About

9.00pm Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire ?
Chris Tarrant with the first of four editions

9.30pm Is That Your Final Answer ?
a look behind the scenes of Who Wants to be a Millionaire

10.30pm Dark Ages War
Rewald's agony is prolonged when war is declared on the Vikings

11.00pm ITV Nightly News, WeatherSian Lloyd

11.15pm Bethlehem Year Zero
Martyn Lewis reads the news headlines of this day 2,000 years ago, a star is reported over Bethlehem

11.30pm Christmas Glory
a celebration of Christmas from Westminster Abbey introduced by the Duke of Edinburgh. Andrea Bocelli, Bryn Terfel,
Trevor McDonald and the Archbishop of Canterbury are among those using readings, poetry and traditional carols to tell the story of the Nativity

12.35am Film : Beaches (1988)
starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey

2.50am Club@Vision
dance music guide

3.30am Box Office America
film news

3.55am Film : Make Mine Music (1946)
Disney musical animation featuring ten short stories including,
The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met, Peter and the Wolf, All the Cats Join In

5.15am Cartoon

5.30am Clueless(LWT) or 5.25am Dinosaursprehistoric comedy (Meridian)

5.55am ITV Morning News

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1999

ITV LWT/ MERIDIAN

6.00am GMTV
Jellikins
animation narrated by Rik Mayall

6.15am The Big Bug Show
insect animation

6.40am Jellikins
more fun

7.00am Diggit with Paul
"Des" Ballard, Fearne Cotton, includes cartoons Jungle Cubs, Timon and Pumbaa, Hercules and Recess

8.00am Christmas Day on GMTV
The Rev Steve Chalke and Anne Davies select favourite carols

9.25am SM : TV Live
with Ant and Dec, Steps, S Club 7, Five, Westlife plus episodes of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Pokemon

12.05pm Film : Pinocchio (1940)
Disney animation

1.45pm News, Weather

2.00pm Dame Thora Hird : My Favourite Hymns

3.00pm The Queen

3.10pm Film : Ace Ventura : Pet Detective (1993)
starring Jim Carrey

4.45pm News, Weather

5.05pm Gladiators : the Final Battle
with Ulrika Jonsson and John Fashanu

6.00pm Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire?
with Chris Tarrant

6.30pm Emmerdale

7.30pm Coronation Street

8.30pm Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire?
with Chris Tarrant

9.00pm A Touch of Frost
Line of Fire (part 1) starring David Jason

10.30pm Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire?

11.00pm ITV News, WeatherSian Lloyd

11.10pm Bethlehem Year Zero
Today's news, Herod's regime is on the brink of collapse and a miracle baby is born

11.25pm Film : Charade (1963)
starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau

1.35am Film : Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)
starring Dudley Moore

3.05am Film : National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
starring Chevy Chase

4.40am Animaniacs
comic cartoon chaos

5.00am Dover
behind-the-scenes look at the port (Meridian)

5.30am Clueless (LWT) or

5.30am Dinosaurs Scent of a Reptile (Meridian)
Charlene grows a scent gland and looks forward to attracting a mate

5.55am News

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Sunday 26th December 1999

ITV LWT/MERIDIAN

6.00am GMTV
News and Weather

6.10am The Big Garage

6.25am Bananas in Pyjamas
young fun

6.45am The Wiggles

7.05am Barney and Friends
dinosaur deeds

7.25am The Big Bug Show

7.45am Jellikins
animation

8.00am Diggitincluding at
8.10am 101 Dalmatians
8.35am Pepper Ann
9.10am Recess

9.25am Archbishop of Canterbury : My Favourite Hymns
Dr George Carey talks to John Stapleton about his future hopes and chooses his favourite hymns

9.55am Sunday Morning
Daniel O'Donnell presents hymns chosen by viewers for Christmas worship from Essex

10.55am The Searchers
docusoap following seven sceptical teenagers on a course in Christianity

11.25am The Day I Met an Angel
people talk about their belief in the existence of angels including Bill Roache, Gabby Logan

12.25pm Trisha : Home for Christmas
Trisha Goddard plays fairy godmother to people hoping to be reunited with loved ones for Christmas

1.25pm News, Weather

1.35pm The Timekeepers of the Millennium
children's comedy drama, penultimate part

2.00pm Film : The Shaggy Dog (1994)
Disney fantasy

3.40pm Stepping Out
featuring the pop band Steps

4.45pm Faeries
feature length animation

6.15pm ITV News, Weather
Sian Lloyd

6.25pm You've Been Framed Christmas Special
Lisa Riley presents

6.55pm Stars and Their Lives
Carol Vorderman presents this one off show in which viewers are invited to guess the identity of a mystery celebrity through a series of intriguing clues.
But the celebrity in question receives a few surprises of her own when long lost relatives and a former beau are wheeled on

7.30pm Coronation Street

8.00pm Heartbeat
Full Circle

9.00pm The Turn of the Screw
drama starring Pam Ferris, Jodhi May and Colin Firth

11.00pm ITV News, Weather Sian Lloyd Regional Weather

11.10pm The South Bank Show : Bing Crosby
a special profile of the film star and singer's career

12.15am Bethlehem Year Zero
the news headlines, read by Martyn Lewis, of this day 2,000 years ago.
The baby Jesus is recognised as the potential King of the Jews

12.35am Film : I Love Trouble (1994)
romantic comedy starring Nick Nolte, Julia Roberts

2.50am Film : Greyhounds (1994)
action drama

4.35am Cybernet computer news

5.00am Animaniacs (LWT) or 5.00am Dinosaurs (Meridian)

5.20am Cartoon (LWT)

5.30am Clueless

5.55am ITV News

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Re: Christmas TV

Bank Holiday Monday 27th December 1999

ITV CARLTON/ MERIDIAN

6.00am GMTV
News

6.10am Bananas in Pyjamas
fun with B1 and B2

6.15am The Wiggles

6.35am The Big Bug Show
insect adventures

6.55am Barney and Friends
fun with the purple dinosaur

7.10am Jellikins

7.30am Beetleborgs
computer animated action

7.50am Pokemon
a double bill of animated adventures

8.50am Beast Wars
cartoon adventures

9.25am CITV
Pokemon (Repeat)

9.50am Fun House
hosted by Pat Sharp

10.20am Stepping Out (Repeat)

10.50am The Foxbusters
animation(Repeat)

11.05am Film : Escape to Witch Mountain (1995)
children's drama starring Robert Vaughan

12.45pm Lunchtime News, Weather

12.55pm Laugh with the Carry Ons (Carlton)or 12.55pm Shortland Street (Meridian)

1.20pm Sharpe
Sharpe's Regiment starring Sean Bean(Meridian) (Repeat)or

1.25pm Film : Follow that Dream (1962) (Carlton)

3.20pm Film : The Goonies (1985)

5.15pm News, Weather

5.30pm I Was There
featuring significant events of the last 60 years

6.30pm Des O'Connor Tonight Christmas Special
with Pierce Brosnan, Robson Green, Charlotte Church, Celine Dion, Frank Skinner, Joe Pasquale and the cast of Mamma Mia

7.30pm Coronation Street

8.00pm OK! TV
a look into the lives of well-known celebrities presented by Fiona Phillips

8.30pm Merry Christmas, Mr Bean
starring Rowan Atkinson

9.00pm Airline at Christmas
docusoap

10.00pm Dark Ages
comedy series double bill
Witch, followed by
The End of the World

11.00pm ITV Nightly News, Weather
Martyn Davies

11.10pm Bethlehem Year Zero
with David Jessel, the headlines as they might have been read 2000 years ago

11.25pm Film : Police Academy 2 : Their First Assignment (1985)
comedy

1.05am Film : Missing (1981)
starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek

3.20am World Sport Special
sports magazine

3.50am Club@Vision
clubbing news(Repeat)

4.35am ITV Nightscreen (Carlton)or 4.35am Taxi US comedy series (Meridian)

5.00am Scooby and Scrappy Doo
cartoon fun

5.25am Clueless
US comedy series(Carlton) or 5.30am Clueless (Meridian)

5.55am ITV Morning News

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Bank Holiday Tuesday 28th December 1999

ITV CARLTON/ MERIDIAN

6.00am GMTV
News

6.10am Bananas in Pyjamas
fun with the fruity friends

6.15am The Wiggles
educational singing and dancing

6.35am The Big Bug Show
more insect antics

6.55am Barney and Friends
the big dinosaur returns

7.10am Jellikins
more capers with the 3-D friends

7.30am Beetleborgs
computer- animated action

7.50am Pokemon
double bill of animated adventure

8.50am Beast Wars
action with the cartoon creatures

9.25am CITV
Pokemon
another fun adventure (Repeat)

9.50am Fun House
the madcap game show

10.15am Stepping Out
with Steps (Repeat)

10.40am Film : Freaky Friday (1995)
starring Shelley Long

12.15pm Lunchtime News, Weather

12.30pm Film : Frankie and Johnny (1966)
musical starring Elvis Presley (Carlton)

2.05pm Film : Clambake (1967)
starring Elvis Presley (Carlton) or

2.05pm Film : Flash Gordon (1980) starring Sam J Jones (Meridian)

3.50pm Film : Gold (1974)
starring Roger Moore, Susannah York(Carlton)

4.05pm Sharpe
Sharpe's Siege starring Sean Bean (Repeat)(Meridian)

6.05pm Year of Promise
Carol Vorderman updates viewers on ITV's Year of Promise campaign with Patsy Palmer, Glen Murphy, Patrick Robinson, Nicholas Owen, Dermot Murnaghan

6.35pm Regional News

6.45pm ITV Evening News, Weather Martyn Davies

7.00pm Emmerdale

7.30pm Down Wembley Way (Carlton) or

7.30pm Decision Time consumer issues show presented by Simon Biagi, Gwenan Edwards (Meridian)

8.00pm Christmas Soap Secrets
presented by Lisa Riley

9.00pm Film : Pretty Woman (1990)
starring Richard Gere, Julia Roberts

11.10pm ITV Nightly News, Weather Martyn Davies

11.20pm Regional News ; Weather

11.30pm Film : Police Academy : Mission to Moscow (1994)
comedy

1.05am Football Extra
all the league highlights

2.05am The Haunted Fishtank
TV news and reviews

2.40am Film : The Virgin Soldiers (1969)
comic drama starring Hywel Bennett

4.20am Box Office America
US movie rundown

4.55am ITV Nightscreen

5.05am Scooby and Scrappy Doo
cartoon fun(Meridian)

5.20am Clueless
US high-school comedy (Carlton)

5.30am Clueless(Meridian)

5.55am ITV Morning News

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

CHANNEL 4
Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1999

5.50am Children's programmes
Animal Alphabet today's letter is J(Repeat)

5.55am Sesame Street pre-school educational fun

7.00am Big Spot chart-topper Lolly demonstrates her skating skills

7.25am Insecktors double-bill, Flynne is captured by the Kruds(Repeat)

8.00am The Big Breakfast with Johnny Vaughan, Liza Tarbuck, Sara Cox and Richard Bacon

10.00am The Bigger Breakfast with Dermot O'Leary, Josie Turner
Malibu Scott is suspicious when a photographer promises to make Samantha a famous model

10.35am Buzz entertainment magazine

11.10am Dawson's Creek Bessie seeks help to deliver her baby(Repeat)

12.05pm The Bigger Breakfast Dermot O'Leary and Josie Turner round of the morning's fun

12.25pm Film : The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1959) fantasy adventure starring Kerwin Matthews

2.20pm Christmas on the Line service from the Calvary Baptist Church, Accra, Ghana
which is on the Greenwich Meridian

3.20pm Collectors' Lot with Debbie Thrower, Sarah Greene

3.50pm Fifteen to One elimination quiz

4.30pm Countdown with Richard Whiteley

4.55pm Pet Rescue Christmas Awards with Anna Meredith, Mike Wilkinson

5.25pm Andi Meets Toy Story 2 Andi Peters with a look behind the scenes of the forthcoming movie

6.25pm TFI Friday with Chris Evans
followed by News Summary

7.30pm Massive Landmarks of the 20th Century The Cuban Missile Crisis, comic retrospective re-enacted
by Desmond Oliver Dingle, Raymond Box

8.00pm Christmas at River Cottage with Hugh Fearnley-Whittinstall

8.30pm Brookside

9.00pm Christmas Top Ten Noddy Holder with a rundown of the greatest yuletide hits

10.35pm Snow Graham Norton a festive celebration of comedy and chat with Graham Norton

11.15pm Something for the Weekend Christmas Show festive fun presented by Denise Van Outen

11.55pm TFI Friday (Repeat)

1.00am 4 Later
Vidzilla Nige and Stef introduce the cult classic

1.05am Film : Godzilla (1954) horror adventure in Japanese with English subtitles (b&w)

3.00am Vidzilla previewing the next Godzilla film

3.05am Godzilla Rides Again (1955) science-fiction horror in Japanese with English subtitles (b&w)

4.30am The Real Jesus Christ (Repeat)

5.25am Countdown (Repeat)