Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1996


BBC2

6.55am Film : Breakfast for Two (1937)
starring Barbara Stanwyck (b&w)

8.00am Barbara Stanwyck : Fire and Desire
Actress Sally Field presents a tribute to silver screen legend
Barbara Stanwyck

8.50am Film : Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan

10.15am Film : Little Dorrit : Nobody's Fault (1987)
part one starring Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Sarah Pickering

1.05pm Cinderella
Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli sings the title role in a staging of Gioacchino Rossini's two-act opera

3.45pm Choir of the Year
from more than 200 choirs, just eight remain to battle it out in
the youth semi-final of the competition

4.25pm Film : The Italian Job (1969)
starring Michael Caine, Noel Coward

6.00pm Euro 96 When Football Came Home
A look back at the European football championships held in
England in June

7.00pm Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld UK
Jeremy Clarkson goes investigating to find out who has been
responsible for the demise of the British car industry

7.30pm A Tribute to Mohamed Amin
Michael Buerk presents a profile of Mohamed Amin, the
cameraman who died when a hijacked airliner crashed into the Indian Ocean last month

8.00pm An Audience with Charles Dickens
The Trial from Pickwick
Fourth of five programmes featuring readings by Simon Callow

8.30pm Swan Lake
Director and choreographer
Matthew Bourne's challenging reworking of Tchaikovsky's
Swan Lake has become a hit in London's West End

10.30pm Steptoe and Son
Another chance to see the Christmas 1973 edition of the classic comedy

11.15pm Gogs
The last in the series featuring the animated Stone-Age family.
Domestic bliss is disturbed when baby is accidentally swapped
for a gorilla

11.25pm Film : Crumb (1995)
Documentary, showing as part of the Fine Cut series, providing
an insight into the world of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb,
creator of characters such as Fritz the Cat

1.30am Film : The Seventh Victim (1943)
starring Kim Hunter, Tom Conway
followed by
Weatherview

2.50am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1996

BBC2

6.45am Film: The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
The first in a double bill of musicals produced by Arthur Freed
and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

8.30am Film : The Band Wagon (1953)
concluding the double bill of musicals produced by Arthur Freed
and starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse

10.20am The Simpsons Christmas Special
Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
Homer needs to earn some extra cash

10.45am The Sunday Show
To end the series. Donna McPhail presents a compilation of show highlights, with Dennis Pennis 's celebrity interrogations, Jenny Ross on a pop pilgrimage to trace Icelandic star Bjork's roots, and a festive hangover cure from Bez

11.15am Affairs to Remember
People recall their magic movie moments

11.20am Ballet
Documentary-maker Frederick Wiseman turns his cameras on the American Ballet Theatre as they prepare for their European tour

2.10pm The Year in Flight
Julian Tutt reviews an eventful year in aviation, with action from the Farnborough Air Show, news of major projects in the Far East, the final passenger flight made by the Viscount, and a flypast for Heathrow
Airport's 50th birthday

3.00pm Gogs
Continuing the animated saga of the Gogs The family tries to ward off disease

3.10pm Film : Casablanca (1942)
starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman

4.50pm Choir of the Year
First of a four-part search for Britain's top amateur choir in Sainsbury's Choir of the Year competition

5.30pm The Queen
Her Majesty makes her address to the Commonwealth.
With signing, subtitles

5.40pm Today's the Day Christmas Special
Two celebrity teams made up of members of classic television comedy shows do battle in this festive edition of the nostalgia quiz using clips and facts from Christmases past

6.10pm An Audience with Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (part 2).
Simon Callow re-enacts Christmas dinner with the Cratchit family in the second scene selected from Charles Dickens 's best-loved seasonal story

6.40pm Ariodante
from the London Coliseum, David Alden directs the English National Opera in an acclaimed production of Handel's three-act work, conducted by Ivor Bolton starring Lesley Garrett Joan Rodgers ,
Ann Murray

9.40pm Saint-Ex
This one-off seasonal special edition of Bookmark is a drama- documentary telling the story of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of classic children's fable The Little Prince and fearless aviator, who mysteriously disappeared during the Second World War

11.00pm Film : Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin
Première

12.40am Film : Play It Again, Sam (1972)
starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton

2.10am Weatherview

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1996

BBC2

7.05am Film : Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
starring Barbara Stanwyck

8.45am Film : For Me and My Gal (1942)
starring Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly

10.25am Film : King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
starring Tyrone Power, Terry Moore

12.05pm Film : Ferngully : the Last Rainforest (1992)
Première

1.15pm Behind the Reporting Line
The BBC's foreign affairs editor.John Simpson shows how he
covered the Russian elections in June and the latest conflict in
Afghanistan

2.05pm Yehoudi Menuhin - 80th Birthday Concert
Sir David Attenborough introduces a gala birthday tribute to the
acclaimed violinist Yehudi Menuhin from London's Royal Albert Hall

4.15pm Affairs to Remember
In this documentary accompanying the Affairs to Remember film season, viewers relate their romantic encounters and reflect on cinematic romance

4.45pm Carols from King's
A celebration of Christmas from King's College Chapel, Cambridge

6.00pm Film : Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
starring Judy Garland

7.50pm Being There
Antartica
The continent of Antarctica is a place of extremes. It is colder,
wilder and more desolate than any other place, and for most
of the year the most appalling conditions imaginable scour the icy Wasteland

8.20pm Gogs
Continuing the five-part animated saga of the Gogs.
The Stone-Age family discover that when it comes to sheltering from the elements, caves are far more effective than leaves

8.30pm An Audience with Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (part 1)
Continuing actor Simon Callow's re-enactment of the public
readings of the novelist Charles Dickens

9.00pm Arena
Caesar' s Writers
The legendary Sid Caesar was one America's favourite TV
stars in the fifties

10.00pm Film : Blazing Saddles (1974)
starring Gene Wilder

11.30pm Film : Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
starring Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Anjelica Huston
Première

1.15am Film : The Producers (1968)
starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder

2.55am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1996

BBC1

6.00am Children's BBC
Joe 90
Puppet adventures (Repeat)

6.25am Santa and the Tooth Fairies
animation (Repeat)

6.50am Noddy
animation

7.20am Playdays
the Patch Stop

7.40am Christopher the Christmas Tree
cartoon(Repeat)

8.00am Christmas Time
animation

8.30am Little Mouse on the Prairie
animation

8.55am Round the Twist
Fantasy drama (Repeat)

9.20am A Flintstone Christmas Carol
animation(Repeat)

10.10am Film : An American Tail : Fievel Goes West (1991)
animation

11.20am Lyddie
Drama, set in Canada in the 1860s, telling the story of a young girl's journey of self-discovery, from a country farm to the heart of the
industrial age. Based on the novel by Katherine Paterson

12.50pm News and Weather

12.55pm Regional News, Weather

1.00pm Neighbours

1.20pm Just William
William and the White Elephants
First of three schoolboy dramas, based on the stories by
Richmal Crompton

1.50pm Film : Never Say Never Again (1983)
starring Sean Connery

4.00pm The Wrong Trousers

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1996

BBC1

6.00am Children's BBC
Joe 90
Puppet series(Repeat)

6.25am Christinas Time
animation(Repeat)

6.50am Playdays
Why, Poppy and Peggy contact relatives around the world(Repeat)

7.10am Fireman Sam
Sarah and James are trapped
animation (Repeat)

7.35am Christmas Time
cartoon

8.00am The Littlest Pet Shop
animation

8.20am Eek the Cat
cartoon (Repeat)

8.45am Sweet Valley High
Teenage drama

9.05am The Mask
animation

9.30am Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Samuel Claus is haunted by voices

10.20am On Christmas Day in the Morning
Diane-Louise Jordan is joined by singer Doris Troy and actor
Christopher Timothy for a selection of carols at the Wintershall estate in Surrey, Britain's biggest nativity scene

11.20am Film : The Wizard of Oz (1939)
starring Judy Garland

1.00pm News and Weather

1.05pm Top of the Pops
The chart-topping Spice Girls introduce the stars and the
top-selling songs of the year, plus the Christmas number one

2.10pm Keeping Up Appearances
special Christmas edition from 1994

3.00pm The Queen
Her Majesty addresses the Commonwealth

3.10pm Noel's Christmas Presents
Noel Edmonds enlists the help of Prime Minister John Major and US President Bill Clinton to turn a young girl's poem for world peace into a spectacular event at Walt Disney World in Florida. Other guests fulfilling people's dreams are singers Chris de Burgh and
Anthony Newley, star of the musical Scrooge

4.15pm Brambly Hedge - Winter Story
animation based on the picture book

4.40pm News, Weather

4.50pm Animal Hospital Goes West
Rolf Harris meets human and animal film stars in the USA

5.40pm Auntie's All-New Christmas Bloomers
Terry Wogan with clips that the stars hoped would never be shown

6.30pm Film : Jurassic Park (1993)
starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough
Première

8.30pm EastEnders
Sparks fly at the Mitchell family dinner. The Jacksons
are faced with tragedy

9.00pm Only Fools and Horses
Heroes and Villains
First of three new episodes in the comedy series starring
David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Buster Merryfield

10.00pm The Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special
A seasonal edition of the comedy starring Dawn French

10.45pm NewsMartyn Lewis
WeatherHelen Young

10.55pm The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
A seasonal edition of the comedy programme first shown in 1970

12.00 Film : Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
starring Peter Sellers

1.35am Christmas Epilogue
The story of the nativity, interpreted through the eyes of people today

1.40am Film : Please Sir! (1971)
starring John Alderton, Deryck Guyler

3.20am Weather

3.25am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1996

BBC1

7.00am News Summary, Regional News, Weather

7.10am Children's BBC
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Animation. Narrated and sung by Burl Ives (Repeat)

8.00am News, Regional News, Weather

8.10am Barney
cartoon fun (Repeat)

8.15am The Bears Who Saved Christmas
animation (Repeat)

8.40am X-Men
cartoon fun with the mutant heroes

9.00am News, Regional News, Weather

9.05am Incredible Games
Futuristic game Show(Repeat)

9.35am Blue Peter
(Repeat)

10.00am Playdays
The Roundabout Stop
(Repeat)

10.25am The Night Before Christmas
An animated version of this classic poem by the makers of the
Enchanted Tales series An orphan's Christmas dreams are dramatically brought to life

11.15am The Making of Jurassic Park
A behind-the-scenes look at Stephen Spielberg 's monster hit movie, featuring exclusive footage of the special effects and computer graphics

12.00 Joy to the World
A Feast of Christmas Cheer! A celebration of the Christmas story from London's Royal Albert Hall , combining carols, comedy, music and dance. With guests Michael Ball, Ben Kingsley, Patti Boulaye, Denis Quilley, Cleo Laine and John Dankworth

1.00pm News and Weather

1.10pm Regional News, Weather

1.15pm Neighbours

1.40pm Film : Star Trek : the Motion Picture (1979)
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy

3.55pm Film : Super Mario Bros (1993)
starring Bob Hoskins,Dennis HopperPremière

5.35pm Neighbours
Jo flies off the handle

6.00pm NewsJennie Bond
WeatherDavid Lee

6.15pm Regional news magazines

6.30pm The Brittas Empire Christmas Special
Surviving Christmas
Brittas organises a special Christmas treat for his staff at the
Whitbury Leisure Centre. It's a team-bonding exercise in the Welsh mountains and a fight for survival

7.00pm All the Best for Christmas with Brian Conley
Stage and television entertainer Brian Conley delves into the BBC
archives to find a collection of some of the funniest moments from Christmas past

8.00pm A Question of Sport Christmas Special
Ally McCoist and John Parrott captain two teams of sporting
celebrities as they answer the questions put to them by David Coleman in this seasonal edition of the show

8.30pm EastEnders
Time is running out for Carol as she tries to keep a promise.
Meanwhile Robbie undertakes an impossible mission and Joe gets a big shock

9.00pm Film : Cliffhanger (1993)
starring Sylvester Stallone, John LithgowPremière

10.40pm News Martyn Lewis
Regional News
Weather Suzanne Charlton

11.00pm The Mrs Merton Show Christmas Special
Caroline Aherne, in the guise of chat show host Mrs Merton,
presents her very own Christmas show. Guests on her sofa tonight include Irish singer Daniel O'Donnell and Noddy Holder, former
lead singer of Slade

11.30pm Christmas Midnight Mass
live from Westminster Cathedral

12.50am Film : The Birds (1963)
starring Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor

2.45am Weather

2.50am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

channel 4

Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1995

6.40am Children's programmes
Ulysses 31

7.05am The Adventures of T-Rex

7.30am Little Dracula

8.00am The Big Breakfast

10.00am Racing : the Morning Line

10.25am Babylon 5

11.20am Children's programmes
California Dreams

11.45am Biker Mice from Mars

12.10pm The Super Mario Brothers

12.20pm Dennis

12.30pm Racing from Kempton Park

3.15pm Dido and Aeneas opera and dance

4.15pm The World of Jim Henson

6.00pm Absolutely Christmas Animals

6.45pm Film on Four Première : No Worries (1993) starring Amy Terelinck

8.30pm Brookside

9.00pm Film : Kes (1969) starring David Bradley

11.05pm Just for Laughs standup humour from the comedy festival in Montreal hosted by Frank Skinner

11.35pm Whose Line Is It Anyway?

12.05am The American Football Big Match

1.20am Film : The Street with No Name (1948) (b&w)

3.00am Rawhide

4.00am The World of Hammer

4.25am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1995
channel 4
6.45am Children's programmes
Ulysses 31

7.05am The Adventures of T-Rex animation

7.35am Little Dracula

8.00am The Big Breakfast Christmas Special
Paul Bradley (Nigel in EastEnders) performs his new single

Best of Big Breakfast 1995 .........................8.05am, 8.35am, 8.50am, 9.30am

The Crunch with Zig znd Zag.......................8.10am, 8.40am

Dame Barbara Cartland's Christmas Message...8.20am

Yo Ho Who Competition .............................9.15am

Gabby talks to Barbara Windsor....................9.55am

10.00am Saved by the Bell : the New Class

10.25am Showtime : Blur in Concert

11.25am A Christmas Carol Oscar-winning animation

11.55am Prince Cinders

12.25pm Beauty fairy-tale spoof

12.30pm Christian Rave Special!

1.25pm Film : Elenya (1992) Première

3.00pm The Alternative Christmas Message Brigitte Bardot

3.15pm Heroes of Comedy

5.45pm Coping with Christmas comic sketches

6.20pm The Queen

6.30pm The Snowman animation

7.00pm Film : Turtle Diary (1985) starring Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley

8.45pm The Other Christmas Story

9.05pm England, My England musical drama

12.00 Film : How to Steal a Million (1966) starring Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole

2.20am Film : Sentimental Journey (1946) (b&w)

4.00am Rawhide

4.55am Close

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1995
channel 4
6.05am Blitz!

7.00am Children's programmes
The Herbs

7.15am Lift Off

7.45am The Great Bang

8.00am The Babysitter's Club

8.30am Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego ?

8.55am Beastly Christmas : Wise Up

9.25am The Big Breakfast
Phillip Schofield arrives

9.30am The Crunch

9.35am Actor Billy Crystal talks about his Christmas

9.45am The Crunch

10.00am An interview with Cliff Richard

10.25am Neil Sedaka sings a carol

10.25am Saved by the Bell : the New Class

10.50am Film : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)

12.50pm Blue Christnmas animation

1.05pm Little House on the Prairie A Christmas They Never Forget

2.00pm Film : Miracle on 34th Street (1947) starring Edmund Gwenn

3.45pm The Mousehole Cat animation

4.25pm The Adventures of Mole animation

5.30pm Hollyoaks

6.00pm The Persuaders!

7.00pm Father Christmas animation

7.30pm Ken Russell's Treasure Island

8.45pm Film : Move Over, Darling (1963) starring Doris Day, James Garner

10.45pm E R

11.40pm Whose Line Is It Anyway?

12.10am Glam Top Ten

1.40am Film : Cavalcade (1933) (b&w)

3.40am Rawhide

4.35am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1995

ITV CARLTON

6.00am GMTV
News

6.05am Features special

7.00am News

7.30am Barney

8.00am Galaxy High

8.55am Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

9.25am Mole's Christmas
animation

9.55am Talespin
animation

10.20am The Forgotten Toys
animation

10.50am The Snow Queen
animation

12.20pm News and Weather

12.30pm Emmerdale

1.00pm Take That at Earls Court

2.05pm Film : The Return of the Pink Panther (1974)
starring Peter Sellers

4.10pm Film : Her Alibi (1989)
starring Tom Selleck

5.50pm News, Weather

6.00pm Goldeneye : the Secret Files

7.00pm Christmas in Emmerdale

8.00pm Michael Barrymore's My Kind of People

8.30pm Cadfael
The Virgin in the Ice

10.00pm The Beatles Anthology

11.00pm News, Weather

11.10pm Film : Dead Poets Society (1989)

1.35am Film : Midnight Crossing (1988)
starring Faye Dunaway

3.20am Film : Tricks of the Trade (1988)

5.00am It's Christmas, It's Number One

5.55am Morning News

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1995

ITV CARLTON

6.00am GMTV
News

6.05am Features Special

7.00am News

7.05am Barney

7.30am Tom and Jerry Kids

8.00am Galaxy High

8.30am Starla and the Jewel Riders

8.55am Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

9.25am Christmas Morning Worship
live from Arundel Cathedral, Sussex

10.25am The Little Engine That Could
animation

11.00am Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales

11.30am Film : Herbie Rides Again (1974)
starring Helen Hayes, Stefanie Powers

1.05pm Cartoon

1.15pm News and Weather

1.25pm Coronation Street

1.55pm Take That at Earls Court

3.00pm The Queen

3.10pm Film : Ghostbusters II (1989)
starring Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd

5.00pm News ; Weather

5.05pm The Wind in the Willows
animation

6.30pm Christmas in Coronation Street

7.30pm Robson and Jerome Christmas Special

8.00pm Film : Sister Act (1992)
starring Whoopi GoldbergPremière

9.55pm News, Weather

10.00pm Outside Edge

11.00pm Film : Scenes from a Mall (1991)
starring Bette Midler, Woody Allen Première

12.35am Film : Trenchcoat (1983)
starring Margot KidderPremière

2.15am Film : Cartouche (1961)
starring Jean-Paul Belmondo

4.15am Film : Snow White (1989)

5.55am Morning News

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1995

ITV LWT

6.00am GMTV
The Sunday Review

7.00am The Sunday Programme

8.00am Disney Adventures

9.25am Film : Bigfoot (1987)
part onePremière

10.15am Link

10.30am This Sunday

11.00am Morning Worship

12.30pm The Elf Who Saved Christmas

1.00pm News and Weather

1.05pm Regional News, Weather

1.10pm Hollywood's Greatest Stunts

2.10pm Film : The Sword in the Stone (1963)
Disney animation

3.40pm Film : The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
starring Roger Moore

6.00pm News, Weather

6.10pm Regional News, Weather

6.15pm Michael Ball

7.15pm Christmas Heartbeat
A Winter's Tale

8.15pm You've Been Framed Christmas Special

8.45pm Taggart
Flesh and Blood

10.15pm News, Weather, Regional Weather

10.25pm The Cabelle Family Christmas
with Cher

11.55pm This Christmas Eve

12.55am Film : Running against Time (1990)

2.40am Film : Agatha Christie's Dead Man's Folly (1986)

4.25am Film : The Elm-Chanted Forest (1986) animation

5.55am Morning News

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1995
BBC2
7.00am Film : City Lights (1931)
starring Charlie Chaplin (b&w)

8.25am Film : Mame (1974)
starring Lucille Ball, Robert Preston

10.30am The Voyage of Charles Darwin
A six-part documentary drama series, showing over the next week,
based on the naturalist's five-year voyage of adventure and scientific discovery to South America and the Galapagos

11.30am Celebrity Mantlepiece
Reflections on the treasures kept on his mantelpiece by the late actor Michael Hordern

11.45am Film : The Adventure of Quentin Durward (1955)
starring Robert Taylor

1.20pm Anne Frank Remembered
The International Emmy award-winning account of the life of
Anne Frank , the 15-year-old who kept a diary through her two years in hiding in Amsterdam during the Second World War
Narrated by Kenneth Branagh

3.20pm Film : My Fair Lady (1964)
starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison

6.05pm The Gurkhas
Soldiers of myth and mystery, the Nepalese men who swear
allegiance to the Queen have fought for Britain for 180 years, winning a total of 26 Victoria Crosses along the way and inspiring
fear in enemy armies. Ian Wooldridge considers what makes these men from the foothills of the Himalayas such good soldiers

7.05pm Pride and Prejudice : from Page to Screen
Another chance to see Andrew Davies , who adapted Jane Austen's
Pride and Prejudice for the recent TV series, and other members of the production team discussing the novel's dramatisation

7.35pm Sylvie Guillem
A new three-part series, showing on consecutive nights, in which
French dancer Sylvie Guillem invites directors and choreographers to explore new ways of bringing dance and movement to the screen.
Tonight's piece, entitled Smoke, is a duet created by Swedish choreographer Mats Ek for Sylvie and his brother, the dancer
Niklas Ek

8.00pm The Abbey
The second of a three-part series in which Alan Bennett explores Westminster Abbey

8.55pm Close Up
Screen writing teacher Robert McKee chooses a scene from Erich von
Stroheim's silent classic Greed

9.00pm A to Z of ATV
An alphabetical compendium of classic clips and famous faces from
over a quarter of a century of the channel ATV, including Morecambe
and Wise, Crossroads, Sunday Night at the London Palladium and The Prisoner (Repeat)

9.20pm Victoria Wood - as Seen on TV Special
A repeat showing of a 1987 special edition of the comedy show,
written by and starring Victoria Wood , and featuring such classic sketches as Acorn Antiques

10.00pm Film : Screen Two : The Hour of the Pig (1993)
starring Colin Firth Première

11.55am Film : Faust (1994)
starring Petr CepekPremière

1.30am Film : The Body Snatcher (1945)
starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi

2.35am Weatherview

2.45am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1995

BBC2

7.05am Christmas with Cliff

7.45am Film : A Christmas Carol (1938)
starring Reginald Owen

8.50am Film : 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
starring Kirk Douglas , James Mason

10.55am Top Gear Rally Special
A review of last month's RAC Rally in which team-mates
Colin McRae and Carlos Sainz started on equal points in this
final race of the world championship


11.40am Treasures in Trust
In the year in which the National Trust celebrated its 100th birthday,
Ian Holm introduces some of the characters who carry out its work on Trust properties

12.55pm The Hills are Alive
The Sound of Music Phenomenon
An exploration of one of the best known films in the world, and
those whose lives have been changed by seeing it

1.35pm Victory Stills
The mixed emotions of VE Day in captured on camera at public
and private celebrations (b/w)

1.55pm Memories and Celebrations
VE and VJ50
Highlights of this year's celebrations commemorating the end of the war. The programme recalls a memorable royal balcony appearance, street parties, a network of beacons across the country, the thousands of
people milling in the Mall and, of course, the singing of Cliff Richard and Vera Lynn

3.00pm Tricks on Two
Celebrities watch magic tricks by British magicians(Repeat)

3.10pm La Bohème
Giacomo Puccini's opera in four acts is given a fresh reworking in this production for Australian Opera by Baz Luhrmann

5.05pm Today's the Day Christmas Special
Stars from the world of entertainment do battle in this festive edition
of the nostalgia quiz using clips and facts from Christmases past with Martyn Lewis

5.35pm Some Enchanted Evening
Julie Andrews hosts a centenary celebration from Broadway of
legendary lyricist Oscar Hammerstein

7.00pm Screen Two : Jane Austen's Persuasion
A film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about the enduring power of love

8.40pm Close Up
Actor and director Richard Attenborough chooses a scene from
Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (Repeat)

8.50pm The Queen
Her Majesty the Queen's Christmas message with signing and subtitles

9.00pm The Abbey
A three-part series, showing on consecutive evenings, in which Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey

10.00pm Film : Farewell My Concubine (1993)
starring Leslie Cheung , Zhang Fengyi
In Mandarin with English subtitles
Première

12.30am Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in
A compilation of highlights to celebrate the 25th anniversary of
the anarchic comedy show which, during the late sixties and early seventies, won two Emmy awards and a cult following

1.30am Film : A Night at the Opera (1935)
with the Marx Brothers

3.00am Weatherview

3.10am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1995

BBC2

7.30am Children's BBC
William's Wish Wellingtons
cartoon

7.35am The Foxy Christmas Story
animated tale

7.45am Spot's Magical Christmas
cartoon

8.10am Playdays
the poppy stop

8.30am Bitsa
Hosted by Caitlin Easterby and Simon Pascoe

8.45am Jackanory
The traditional story of Jack and the Beanstalk has been given
a new twist by writer Adrian Mitchell. Read by Rik Mayall

9.10am The Animals of Farthing Wood
animation

9.35am A Monster Christmas
Musical animation (Repeat)

10.05am Blue Peter

10.30am Grange Hill
School drama series(Repeat)

10.55am The Queen's Nose
Comedy drama

11.20am Weekend Break
The last of three episodes of a teenage comedy drama

11.40am Star Trek
The Conscience of the King
A mass killer, long believed dead, may well have returned to
continue his evil deeds

12.30pm Fantasy Football League
with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel

1.00pm Dreaming of Ajax
Gary Lineker looks at the footballing success of European champions
Ajax FC of Amsterdam. With comment by Paul Gascoigne, Kevin Keegan, Johann Cruyff and Dennis Bergkamp

1.45pm The O Zone
pop news magazine

1.55pm Film : Donovan's Reef (1963)
starring John Wayne

3.40pm The Making of The Trials of Life
Once More Into the Termite Mound.
David Attenborough tells some of the amazing stories behind the
filming of his acclaimed natural history series, from swimming with
killer whales to avoiding becoming an animal's meal(Repeat)

4.30pm Christmas in Vienna 1995
The great opera tenors Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras are
joined by singing star Natalie Cole in this festive concert of traditional and modern Christmas music

5.30pm Space Precinct
Friends
Castle's life is threatened by a gang of high-tech criminals

6.15pm Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave
A brand new comedy thriller from Oscar-winning animator Nick Park

6.45pm Rannoch the Red Dear
For a year John and Simon King followed the fortunes of a red deer
stag. This film portrays all aspects of Rannoch's life in story form

7.35pm Red Rum - a National Treasure
A look at the life of Britain's favourite racehorse, Red Rum, who
died in October

8.15pm On the Road Again
In the last of the series, Simon Dring completes the last leg of
his joumey on the hippy trail to India

8.45pm The Mrs Merton Show
Caroline Hook , in the guise of chat show host Mrs Merton ,
presents her very own Christmas show. Guests on her sofa include chef Gary Rhodes , Coronation Street's Mike and Alma Baldwin
(Johnny Briggs and Amanda Barrie ) and Euro MP Glenys Kinnock
9.15pm Three Fights, Two Weddings and a Funeral ,
Pauline Calf's Wedding Video starring Steve Coogan

9.50pm Bottom
Holy
A festive episode, starring and written by Adrian Edmondson
and Rik Mayall
Christmas comes early, and with Richie's cooking and
Eddie's decorations, what could go wrong?

10.20pm Screen Two : The Hawk (1992)
starring Helen Mirren, George CostiganPremière

11.45pm Unplugged : Phil Collins
The versatile singer and drummer performs cover versions
and some of his greatest hits

12.35am A Classic Ghost Story
The Stalls of Barchester
Chilling drama based on the short story by M R James

1.20am Film : La Beauté du Diable (1950)
in French with English subtitles

2.55am Weatherview

3.05am Closedown