Christmas TV

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Wednesday 31st December 1980

BBC2

10.20am Gharbar
10.45am Closedown
11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
1.00pm Racing from Cheltenham
3.15pm The Shepherd
4.10pm For Valour
4.25pm New Year Matinée
Film : Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
6.10pm The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures :
The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules
7.10pm One Hundred Great Paintings
7.20pm Mid-Evening News
Weather
7.30pm Treasures from Chatsworth
8.10pm In This Your Honour
10.10pm Film : Clark Gable in It Happened One Night (1934)
11.55pm News on 2, Weather
12.00 Big Ben
12.01am The Old Grey Whistle Test

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 30th December 1980

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
4.10pm New Year Matinée
Film : The Pickwick Papers (1952)
5.55pm The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures :
The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules
6.55pm The Innes Book of Records
7.20pm One Hundred Great Paintings
7.30pm Mid-Evening News
Weather
7.40pm Showaddywaddyshow
8.20pm Pot Black
8.45pm Maria Marten
9.40pm Ireland: A Television History
10.30pm Film : Clark Gable in The Misfits (1961)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Monday 29th December 1980

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
4.15pm New Year Matinée
Film : The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
6.00pm The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures
The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules
7.00pm Rugby Special
7.30pm Mid-Evening News
Weather
7.40pm Captain Beaky's World of Words and Music
8.35pm One Hundred Great Paintings
8.45pm Maria Marten
9.40pm International Snooker
11.15pm A Child's Voice
11.45pm News on 2, Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 28th December 1980

BBC2

1.30pm Film : Fred Astaire in Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
3.15pm Tennis : Borg v McEnroe : The Wimbledon Final 1980
4.25pm Quietly into 1981
5.00pm The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls
6.10pm Ireland: A Television History
7.05pm News on 2, Weather
7.15pm Call Me Flicka
8.15pm "... not in a Thousand Years"
9.15pm Maria Marten
10.10pm Young Musician 1980
10.15pm Great American Picture Show
Film : Nashville (1975) Premiere

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 27th December 1980

BBC2

1.30pm Film : Fred Astaire in You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
3.05pm Play Away
3.30pm Film : Fred Astaire in Silk Stockings (1957)
5.25pm Paradise Lost
6.00pm The Brute Force Challenge
6.45pm News and Sport, Weather
7.00pm A Carnival in the Caucasus
7.50pm Sky
8.30pm A Prisoner in the Caucasus
9.35pm Great American Picture Show
Film : The Godfather (1972)