Christmas TV

[80sChav]

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It's a great website that those listings come from - just looked at it for a first glimpse of Christmas Day TV this day - so far, BBC 1 has Midnight Mass, EastEnders, Strictly, TBA, TBA, and TBA. Think I will wait until the Radio and TV Times come out.

Par Soaps - if thay's your thing - it shows how far TV has fallen, especially at Xmas times - even compared to say 9 years or so back when there was still a few decenyt Comedy's like The Royale Family happening I think, George

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These are great, great listings you have posted above, no doubts Darren mate - the vast majority of this would keep me occupied with the Telly for hours

Thanks for the share here mate

80sChav

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BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1997

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1997

BBC1

7.00am News, Regional News and Weather

7.10am Children's BBC
Teletubbies
Making Christmas Cards

7.35am Model Millie
Millie's model park comes to life (Repeat)

7.50am The Busy World of Richard Scarry
animation

8.15am Yakky Duck
Adventures of a little duckling (Repeat)

8.35am Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
animation, Samuel Claus is haunted by voices (Repeat)

9.05am The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
The team find an alien skeleton (Repeat)

9.30am Sweet Valley High
Teenage drama (Repeat)

9.55am Teletubbies
Dipsy's present is a big Christmas cracker

10.20am News, Regional News, Weather

10.30am Film : The Neverending Story (1984)
starring Noah Hathaway

12.00 Joy to the World
A Feast of Christmas Cheer!
The Christmas story celebrated in a gala of carols, comedy, music and dance, at London's Royal Albert Hall. Guests include Cliff Richard,
Diana Rigg, Peter Bowles, Hannah Gordon, Gloria Hunniford and the Chicken Shed Theatre Company

1.00pm News : Weather, Regional News

1.15pm Neighbours
Ruth resolves to leave Erinsborough

1.35pm Film : Problem Child (1990)
starring John Ritter

2.50pm Film : Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
starring Harrison Ford

4.35pm Blue Peter
The team are joined by a band and some school chidren for a spot of carol-singing

5.05pm Neighbours

5.30pm Spice Girls on Top of the Pops
An insight into the chart busting girl group, with interviews, previous performances on the music show. and their latest single

6.00pm News and Weather

6.15pm Regional news magazine

6.30pm Celebrity Ready, Steady, Cook
Comedians Gareth Hale and Norman Pace join chefs Ainsley Harriott
and Antony Worrall Thompson for a festive edition of the cookery show. Which one of the mirth-making duo will be the turkey in the kitchen?

7.00pm All the Best for Christmas
Ronnie Corbett gets into the festive mood with a selection of seasonal
BBC comedy. Among the classic programmes featured are Porridge, The Good Life, Morecambe and Wise, Steptoe and Son and Bottom

7.50pm A Perfect Day for Christmas
A Christmas Eve transmission of the RRC's promotional video, which is being shown several times over the holiday season. The single topped
the chart following Children in Need.

7.55pm The Wildlife Specials
Humpback Whale
Continuing the series celebrating the 40th anniversary of the
BBC Natural History Unit, presented by David Attenborough

8.40pm National Lottery Draw

9.00pm Film : Naked Gun 33⅓ : the Final Insult
starring Leslie Nielsen Première

10.15pm Harry Enfield and Chums
Harry Enfield presents a new festive special with his regular
repertoire of characters, including Kevin the teenager and the Scousers

10.55pm News Justin Webb Regional News
Weather Peter Cockroft

11.15pm Christmas Midnight Mass
A live broadcast from Salisbury Cathedral where worshippers
congregate for a traditional celebration of the First Mass of Christmas

12.35am Film : Please Sir ! (1971)
starring John Alderton, Deryck Guyler

2.15-6.00am BBC News 24

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Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1997

BBC2

7.00am The Phil Silvers Show
Army comedy with Sergeant Bilko
(b/w) (Repeat)

7.25am Film : The Night at the Opera (1935)
starring the Marx Brothers

8.55am Film : Footlight Parade (1933)
starring James Cagney

10.35am Film : Easy to Love (1953)
starring Esther Williams

12.10pm In Between
Documentary exploring the work of award-winning choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh

1.00pm Film : Destry Rides Again (1939)
starring James Stewart

2.30pm Film : Reach for the Sky (1956)
starring Kenneth More

4.45pm Everything to Play For
art series about classical music,featuring conductor Mark Wigglesworth

5.15pm Carols from King's
A celebration of Christmas from the chapel of King's College, Cambridge

6.30pm The First Silent Night
This musical detective story uncovers the origin of the world's
most famous Christmas carol

7.00pm Flatworld
An animated cops and robbers film for the family from
Oscar-winning British director Daniel Greaves , following the trials and tribulations of a much-maligned cat called Geoff, a fish called Chips
and their accident-prone owner Matt Phlatt

7.30pm Christmas Open Rhodes
Chef Gary Rhodes visits the Caribbean island of Grenada to track
down the origins of Christmas spices such as nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon

8.00pm Two Fat Ladies : Christmas
in this Yuletide tour, chefs Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright visit Winchester, where they prepare a feast for the cathedral's choirboys

8.30pm Third Rock from the Sun
Jolly Old St Dick
The aliens' first impression of Christmas is that it's all about
shopping and the killing of defenceless trees
followed by A Perfect Day for Christmas

9.00pm Modern Times
Toy Stories
The documentary series enters the action-packed, rocket-powered,
space-hopping, train-driven, model-mad world of toys in a Christmas special that profiles the people who play with them

9.50pm Sykes
Christmas Party
Eric and Hattie spend Christmas Day at Corky's

10.20pm Arena
The Banana
Tonight's programme considers musa sapientum, the fruit of the wise

11.20pm Film : The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995)
starring Valerie Bertinelli Première

12.50am Film : Carnival of Souls (1962)
starring Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger

2.15am Closedown

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ITV CHRISTMAS TV 1997

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1997

ITV ANGLIA

6.00am GMTV

9.25am The Treasure Seekers

9.55am Percy the Park Keeper : The Rescue Party
animation

10.25am The Forgotten Toys
animation

10.50am News, Regional News and Weather

11.00am Film : To Grandmother's House We Go (1992)
starring Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen Première

12.40pm Lunchtime News,Weather

12.50pm Regional News, Weather

1.00pm Cartoon

1.10pm Movie Magic : Wild Hollywood

2.05pm Film : Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
staring Richard Dreyfuss

4.30pm The Making of The Men in Black

5.00pm Regional News, Weather

5.30pm Early Evening News, Weather

5.45pm Film : Look Who's Talking Now! (1993)
starring John Travolta, Kirstie Alley Première

7.30pm Emmerdale

8.00pm Des O'Connor Tonight

9.00pm Black Velvet Band
starring Nick Berry, Todd Carty

11.00pm News, Weather

11.15pm Christmas Glory

12.15am Film : Rising Damp (1980)
starring Leonard Rossiter, Frances de la Tour

2.05am Instant Replay 97

3.05am The Chart Show

4.00am Funny Business

4.30am Carnival of the Animals

5.00am The Making of Hercules

5.30am Talespin
animation

5.55am Morning News

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Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1997

channel 4

5.55am Children's programmes
Dumb and Dumber cartoon

6.10am Ovide

6.35am Madeleine

7.00am The Babysitters Club

7.30am Two Stupid Dogs

8.00am The Big Breakfast

10.00am Zig and Zag's Big Morning
Smudge

10.30am Dennis

10.45am Film : Tom and Jerry : the Movie (1992) animationPremière

12.15pm Light Lunch

1.20pm Frances Bissell's West Country Christmas

1.50pm Film : Ebbie (1995) Première

3.30pm Film : All Creatures Great and Small (1974) starring Simon Ward, Anthony Hopkins
followed by
News and Weather

5.15pm The Snowman animation

5.45pm Film : Andre (1994) starring Keith CarradinePremière

7.30pm The Real Nativity Show

8.30pm Brookside

9.00pm Five Go Mad in Dorset

9.40pm The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross

10.25pm Whose Line is it Anyway?

10.55pm Eurotrash

11.25pm Film : Only You (1994) starring Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr Première

1.05am Film : Mr Vampire II (1986)

2.45am J'Accuse : Santa

3.15am Film : Night Nurse (1931) (b&w) starring Barbara Stanwyck

4.30am Film : Baby Face (1933) (b&w) starring Barbara Stanwyck

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Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1997

CHANNEL 4

5.55am Children's programmes
Dumb and Dumber cartoon

6.10am Ovide

6.35am Madeleine

7.00am The Babysitters Club

7.30am Two Stupid Dogs

8.00am The Big Breakfast

10.00am Film : Dr Dolittle (1967) starring Rex Harrison

12.40pm Diana : a Tribute

1.55pm The Roses of No Man's Land

3.00pm The Alternative Christmas Mesage 13yr old Margaret Gibney

3.05pm Verdi's Requiem with Pavarotti

4.45pm The Nativity animation

5.00pm Countdown Special

5.30pm Film : Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) starring Alec Guinness, Dennis Price
followed by
News and Weather

7.30pm The Damnation of Faust opera

10.05pm The Queen

10.15pm A Splice of Life : 15 Years of Film Four

11.05pm Film : Dracula - Prince of Darkness (1965) starring Christopher Lee

12.45am Film : Lust for a Vampire (1970) starring Ralph Bates

2.30am Film : Front Page Woman (1935) (b&w) starring Bette Davis

4.05am Film : Fashions of 1934 (1934) (b&w) starring Bette Davis

5.25am Those British Faces

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Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1997

ITV ANGLIA

6.00am GMTV
Kids at GMTV
Barney and Friends

6.20am Bananas in Pyjamas

6.30am Barney and Friends

6.50am Fun Song Factory

7.25am Bananas in Pyjamas

8.05am Bug Alert!

8.25am We Wish You a Merry Christmas
with Steve Chalke

9.25am A Child's Christmas

10.25am Film : Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
starring Rick Moranis

12.00 Father Christmas and the Missing Reindeer
animation

12.35pm Film : Homeward Bound : the Incredible Journey (1993) Première

2.10pm Play It for Real

2.55pm News and Weather

3.00pm The Queen

3.10pm Film : The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
starring Michael CainePremière

4.45pm Spice Up Your Christmas
The Spice Girls in concert in Istanbul

5.50pm News, Weather

6.00pm Emmerdale

7.00pm Coronation Street

7.30pm Film : Home Alone 2 : Lost in New York (1992) Première

9.45pm Starting Blocks

10.20pm The Bare Necessities
comedy drama

11.15pm News, Weather

11.25pm Film : Mortal Thoughts (1991)
starring Demi Moore

1.20am Entertainment Now

2.20am The 1997 World Music Awards

4.15am Coronation Street

4.45am Funny Business

5.15am Cartoons

5.30am Talespin
animation

5.55am Morning News

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Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1997

ITV ANGLIA

6.00am GMTV
Kids at GMTV
Our House

6.25am Barney and Friends

7.10am Bananas in Pyjamas

7.35am Bug Alert!

8.00am News, Sport and Weather

8.30am GMTV Special
a look at the rise of the Spice Girls

8.50am Bug Alert!

9.25am The Treasure Seekers

9.55am Tiny Toons
a seasonal animation

10.20am Percy the Park Keeper
After the Storm, animation

10.50pm TV Film : Freaky Friday (1995)
starring Shelley Long

12.30pm Countdown to Tomorrow
the making of the 18th James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies

1.20pm Lunchtime News, Weather

1.30pm Film : Batman : Mask of Phantasm (1993)
animation

2.40pm Film : The Sword in the Stone (1963)
Disney animation

4.10pm The Canterville Ghost

5.40pm News, Weather

5.50pm Emmerdale

6.20pm Film : Forever Young (1992)
starring Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis

8.20pm Coronation Street

8.50pm News with Dermot Murnaghan
Weekend Weather Martyn Davies

9.00pm Dame Edna Kisses It Better

10.00pm Film : Dances with Wolves (1990)
starring Kevin Costner

1.20am Film : 10 (1979)
starring Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Bo Derek

3.30am Collins and Maconie's Movie Club

3.55am Sound Bites
Late-night music

4.05am Comedy Central

5.30am Talespin

5.55pm Morning News

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Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1997

BBC1

6.00am Children's BBC
Christopher the Christmas Tree
(Repeat)

6.25am Santa's First Christmas
(Repeat)

6.50am The Legend of Prince Valiant
(Repeat)

7.15am Eek! the Cat
(Repeat)

7.35am Free Willy

8.00am A Monster Christmas
(Repeat)

8.30am The Demon Headmaster Takes Over TV
A panto with an all-Starcast

9.20am Casper

9.40am Teletubbies
Christmas Carols

10.05am Christmas at the Castle
Fern Britton celebrates Christmas at York's Castle Museum, with Archbishop of York, Dr David Hope, David Bellamy, Gary Barlow,
Adiemus and York Minster choir

11.05am Film : Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
starring Gene Wilder

12.40pm Peter and the Wolf
The Royal Ballet school's production of Prokofiev's orchestral fairy tale, narrated by Anthony Dowell

1.10pm News and Weather

1.15pm Top of the Pops
The stars and the top-selling songs of the year, introduced by Jayne Middlemiss , Zoe Ball and Jo Whiley

2.15pm The Two Ronnies Christmas Show
seasonal selection of classic sketches and songs featuring the talents
of comic duo Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. With guest David Essex
3.00pm The Queen
Her Majesty addresses the Commonwealth

3.10pm Noel's Christmas Presents
A boy meets Star Wars creator George Lucas a scout leader visits the African home of Baden-Powel and a wish to see elephants in their natural habitat becomes a reality. Noel Edmonds brings more
surprises to deserving people

4.10pm Film : The Flintstones (1994)
starring John Goodman, Elizabeth PerkinsPremière

5.30pm Animal Hospital
Rolf Harris, Shauna Lowry and Steve Knight are joined by friends
old and new at the RSPCA's Harmsworth hospital this Christmas

6.00pm Auntie's New Festive Bloomers
Terry Wogan presents clips that the stars hoped would never be shown. Including out-takes from Tom Jones, I'm Alan Partridge,
Can't Cook Won't Cook , Blue Peter, EastEnders and Men Behaving Badly

6.40pm NewsJustin Webb
Weather Peter Cockroft

6.50pm Film : The Mask (1994) Première
followed byA Perfect Day for Christmas

8.30pm EastEnders
Tony learns Terry and Irene's secret. Will Phil regret his behaviour?

9.00pm One Foot in the Grave
Endgame
Victor's plans for a quiet autumn break in the West Country
have an eerie and utterly terrifying conclusion

10.10pm NewsAnna Ford
Weather Peter Cockroft


10.20pm Men Behaving Badly
Christmas Day in Gary and Tony's flat: a day spent lying in
front of the telly in a self-induced coma

11.05pm They Think It's All Over
Nick Hancock hosts the irreverent sports quiz, David Gower,
Gary Lineker, Lee Hurst and Rory McGrath are joined by Sooty and Matthew Corbett, and footballer Graeme Le Saux

11.40pm I Hate Christmas Too!
A contemporary Christmas fable, featuring Samuel West
and Peter Capaldi

11.45pm Film : Airplane! (1980)
starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen

1.10am Film : Carry On Loving (1970)
starring Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey

2.40pm News 24

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Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1997

BBC1

6.30am Children's BBC
The Greedysauras Gang
Animated antics of five dinosaurs (Repeat)

6.35am William's Wish Wellingtons
Cartoon (Repeat)

6.40am Bump's Christmas Story
animation

6.50am Spot's Magical Christmas
animation (Repeat)

7.20am Poddington Peas
animation(Repeat)

7.25am The Toy Symphony
animation (Repeat)

7.50am White Christmas
animation (Repeat)

8.15am Eek! the Cat
animated feline fun

8.40am Sweet Valley High
High Teenage drama(Repeat)

9.00am North and South on Tour
Gail Porter meets the boy band on tour and looks at how
the comedy series No Sweat turned them into pop stars

9.25am Casper Classics
Cartoon fun with the friendly ghost (Repeat)

9.40am Teletubbies
Po's present is a frosty cloud

10.10am Film : Superman III (1983)
starring Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor

12.10pm Paul McCartney's Standing Stone : the Documentary
Film following the creation of Paul McCartney 's new symphonic work,
from the very beginnings of the piece through to the first performance
at the Royal Albert Hall in London

1.00pm News and Weather, Regional News

1.10pm Neighbours
Lance finds a way to stay in Ramsay Street. Lisa opts for a career change

1.30pm Disney Time
introduced by Keith Chegwin and Jayne Middlemiss

2.10pm Film : Hook (1991)
starring Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams

4.25pm Pink Panther
cartoon capers (Repeat)

4.50pm Final Score
Today's football results and sporting news with Ray Stubbs

5.10pm News and Weather, Regional News

5.25pm Neighbours

5.50pm Big Break
Jim Davidson hosts a Boxing Day edition of the snooker game show. Playing for charity are The Generation Game's Melanie Stace, singer Darren Day and former EastEnders actress June Brown, while Peter Ebdon, Ronnie O'Sullivan and Ken Doherty help out with the shots, and John Virgo acts as referee

6.20pm Film : Beethoven's 2nd (1993)
starring Charles Grodin Première

7.40pm EastEnders
Frank comes to Pat's rescue, and Tiffany pushes Grant too far

8.10pm Blankety Blank
The celebrity panel game returns for a Christmas show with the
Birkenhead bomb-site Lily Savage as the new hostess

8.40pm News Edward Stourton
Weekend WeatherPeter Cockroft

9.00pm The Vicar of Dibley
seasonal edition of the comedy. Geraldine encourages Alice and
Hugo to further their relationship and receives an unexpected proposal herself

9.40pm Before They Were Famous II
Angus Deayton takes another dip into the archives to find clips
of the stars that they would rather forget

10.15pm Film : True Lies (1994)
starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee CurtisPremière

12.35am Unplugged : Oasis
Tonight's programme captures one of Britain's most popular bands
of the nineties, Oasis

1.20pm Film : Carry On Girls (1973)
starring Sidney James, Joan Sims
followed by
Weather

2.45am BBC News 24

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Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1997

BBC2

7.00am Film : A Christmas Carol (1938)
starring Reginald Owen

8.10am Film : David Copperfield (1935)
starring W C Fields, Lionel Barrymore

10.15am Today's the Day Christmas Special
Roy Hudd and Amanda Barrie do battle with Loyd Grossman
and Lynda Barron in this festive edition of the nostalgia quiz using clips from Christmases past

10.45am Jinnah
A documentary about Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of
Pakistan, whose birthday is celebrated today

11.35am Film : Mrs Miniver (1942)
starring Greer Garson , Walter Pidgeon

1.45pm Everything to Play For
Settling Old Scores
The series exploring the world of a young conductor continues
with Mark Wigglesworth leading the BBC National Orchestra of
Wales playing Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

2.15pm Shooting Stars
Christmas edition of the offbeat game show

2.45pm The Simpsons
Simpson and Delilah
A hair-growth product transforms Homer's life

3.10pm Film : White Christmas (1954)
starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney

5.05pm Close Up on James Stewart
Charlton Heston and Rod Steiger recall their favourite moments from
James Stewart's film career

5.25pm Film : Madame Butterfly (1995)
Adaptation of the classic Puccini opera, starring Ying Huang , Richard TroxellPremière

7.30pm The Queen
Her Majesty's message to the Commonwealth with signing and subtitles

7.40pm Cardigans at Christmas
A feast of old chestnuts from the glory days of Christmases past
with this look at the rise and demise of the Christmas light- entertainment spectacular

8.30pm A Christmas Dickens
Bob Sawyer's Party
Dickens's affection for The Pickwick Papers led him to turn this comic encounter with the zealous landlady Mrs Raddle into one of his funniest and most popular entertainments

9.00pm Arena
Cigars - out of the Humidor
In 1962, before John F Kennedy signed the embargo banning the importation of cigars into America from Cuba, the President ordered 1,200 Havana cigars, according to Pierre Salinger, his former press secretary

10.00pm Gogs
Animated adventures of a Stone Age family known as the Gogs

10.10pm Film : La Reine Margot (1994)
starring Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil Jean-Hugues Anglade
In French with English subtitles
Première

12.25am Close Up on James Stewart
Another celebrity chooses a treasured movie moment from the
film career of the late James Stewart

12.35am Film : The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
starring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern

2.30am Closedown

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Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1997

BBC2

7.15am The Phil Silvers Show
Phil Silvers as Sgt Bilko (b&w)

7.40am Film : Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Busby Berkeley musical (b&w)

9.15am Film : Oliver Twist (1948)
starring Alec Guiness, Robert Newton (b&w)

11.05am Film : Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
starring Mary Tyler Moore, Julie Andrews

1.20pm Christmas in Vienna
Placido Domingo and Sarah Brightman star in a concert of
traditional festive music featuring the Vienna Symphony Orchestra

2.20pm Everything to Play for
A Matter of Survival
Mark Wigglesworth travels to snowy St Petersburg to uncover the
origins of Shostakovich's massive Leningrad Symphony

2.50pm Salome
opera, Luc Bondy 's production of Richard Strauss's masterpiece

4.45pm Film : The Far Country (1955)
starring James Stewart

6.20pm Land of the Tiger
Concluding the wildlife documentary series presented by writer
Valmik Thapar

7.10pm A Christmas Dickens
Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings
Concluding the series of readings by Simon Callow
followed by
Winter on Two

7.45pm The Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet perform two ballets of vastly differing styles

9.00pm The Hunt
With the debate on fox hunting gaining particular topicality,
this documentary, in the Under the Sun series, looks at how the controversial issue, which conjures up quintessential images of
traditional rural England for some and an outdated and barbaric practice for others, is under threat

10.10pm Steptoe and Son
Seasonal episode from 1974 of the classic comedy about a
rag-and-bone man and his terminally frustrated son

10.55pm Stella Street
Another visit to the the celebrity-populated avenues of Surbiton

11.05pm Film : The Browning Version (1994)
starring Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine
Première

12.35pm Film : The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
followed by
Weatherview

2.05pm Closedown

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BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1998

Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1998 BBC1 7.00am News Regional News; Weather 7.10am Children's BBC Tales of the Tooth Fairies animated fun (Repeat) 7.15am Teletubbies (Repeat) 7.40am Moomim animation (Repeat) 8.05am Taz-Mania animation 8.35am Blue Peter Children's magazine(Repeat) 8.55am Sweet Valley High teenage drama (Repeat) 9.20am The Fame Game Justin has his first photo shoot (Repeat) 9.55am The Teletubbies Christmas in Spain, Laa Laa makes a snowball 10.20am News Regional News and Weather 10.30am Film : All I Want for Christmas (1991) starring Lauren Bacall, Leslie Nielsen 11.55am The New Adventures of Superman Return of the Prankster 12.45pm Good Neighbours fans reminisce about their favourite moments from "Neighbours" 12.55pm News and Weather Regional News 1.10pm Neighbours Bill tells Susan that he wants to leave home 1.35pm Film : Lassie : A New Generation (1994) starring Jon Tenney, Helen Slater Première 3.05pm Live and Kicking Mystery Toons A Live and Kicking Murder Mystery A Christmas party at an English country mansion goes horribly wrong when the host mysteriously dies 3.45pm Film : The Santa Clause (1994) starring Tim Allen Première 5.15pm Neighbours (Repeat) 5.40pm Whatever You Want . . . for Christmas Gaby Roslin presents a Christmas special of the dream-fulfilment show 6.30pm News with Peter Sissons Weather Michael Fish 6.55pm Regional News 7.00pm Celebrity Ready, Steady Cook a special Christmas edition Lily Savage and Barbara Windsor join chefs Antony Worrall Thompson and Ainsley Harriott, with Fern Britton 7.30pm EastEnders Grant's freedom is in the balance as Tiffany gives her version of what happened on the stairs 8.00pm Animal Hospital first of three festive editions, with Rolf Harris 8.30pm Birds of a Feather Holy Ground concluding the final series 9.10pm News with Peter Sissons Regional News, Weather Michael Fish 9.30pm Jonathan Creek Black Canary starring Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin 11.00pm The Frank Skinner Christmas Show featuring Mel C, Aled Jones and a special mystery guest 11.40pm Christmas is Coming Watchnight from Edinburgh, live from St Giles Cathedral on Edinburgh's Royal Mile 12.40am Film : Carry On Again Doctor (1969) starring Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Sid James followed by Weather 2.10-6.00am BBC News 24

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BBC1

christmas day 1998 friiday 25th of december

6.00am Children's BBC
Teletubbies (Repeat)

6.25am Noddy in Toyland
a Christmas special mixing live-action and animation

7.20am PJ's Unfunny Bunny Christmas
a rabbit's quest for the true spirit of Christmas(Repeat)

7.45am Scrooge Koala's Christmas
a lost reindeer brings the festive spirit to the outback

8.10am Alvin and the Chipmunks
animation (Repeat)

8.35am To me......to You
festive challenges with the Chuckle Brothers

9.00am Rotten Ralph
animated adventures

9.30am Teletubbies
Nativity Play, the Teletubbies make a Snowtubby

10.00am Celebrate Christmas
Deborah McAndrew presents carols and festive music for Christmas
morning from Lesley Garrett, Charlotte Church,
Ladysmith Black Mambazo and others

11.00am Film : Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
starring Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth PerkinsPremière

12.50pm Top of the Pops
The stars and the top-selling songs of 1998 plus this
year's Christmas number one

1.50pm News and Weather

1.55pm The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
(from 1973) starring André Previn, Hannah Gordon

3.00pm The Queen
Her Majesty addresses the Commonwealth

3.10pm Noel's Christmas Presents
Noel Edmonds once again journeys around Britain and the
world to spring surprises and give some very unusual presents to some very special people

4.10pm Animal Hospital
a special edition for Christmas Day with Rolf Harris

4.15pm The First Snow of Winter
animation, featuring the voices of Sorcha Cusack,
Miriam Margoyles, Dermot Morgan

5.15pm News, Weather

5.25pm EastEnders
The first of tonight's two offerings from Albert Square. Grant
finally opens up to his brother, and Bianca is taken by surprise

5.55pm Auntie's Spanking New Christmas Bloomers
Terry Wogan reveals more moments to bring a festive blush to
the stars of the BBC's most popular programmes, including
EastEnders, Changing Rooms, Jonathan Creek, Can't Cook Won't Cook and Dalziel and Pascoe

6.30pm Changing Rooms at Christmas
A special yuletide edition of the interior-design challenge show.
Carol Smillie is on the isle of Arran, where two neighbours try to
give each other's living rooms a special festive feel, with the help of design experts Linda Barker and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

7.00pm Film : Babe (1995)
starring James CromwellPremière

8.30pm EastEnders
Bianca and Grant are forced to put aside their difference

9.00pm Before They Were Famous III
Angus Deayton takes another dip into the archives to find
clips of the stars that they would rather forget

9.40pm Newswith Huw Edwards
Weather Michael Fish

9.50pm Men Behaving Badly
Performance
first of three new episodes starring Martin Clunes, Neil Morrissey,
Caroline Quentin, Leslie Ash

10.35pm They Think It's All Over
hosted by Nick Hancock with Gary Lineker, David Gower, Rory McGrath, Jonathan Ross, Phil Cornwell, Colin Montgomerie

11.10pm A Many Splintered Thing
adult romantic comedy starring Alan Davies

11.40pm The People's Nativity
a reading of the Christmas story withTom Jones, Barbara Windsor,
Alan Titchmarsh, Des Lynam

11.45pm Robbie Williams : For One Night Only
At the end of a successful year that has established him as one
of the country's leading solo artists, Robbie Williams entertains family and friends in a special television concert

12.35am Film : Carry on Girls (1973)
starring Sidney James, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor

2.05am BBC News 24