Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1975

BBC1

9.05am Chigley
A Present for Lord Belborough(Repeat)

9.20am Boss Cat (Repeat)

9.45am Hong Kong Phooey
a new series of comedy cartoons

10.05am Holiday Star Trek
The Paradise Syndrome

10.55am Film : Let It Be (1970)
with The Beatles

12.13pm WeatherMichael Fish

12.15pm Boxing Day Grandstand
(12.15 Rugby League: Leeds v Keighley,
12.55 Football Focus,
1.10, 1.40, 2.10 Racing from Kempton Park,
1.25, 1.55 Racing from Wincanton)

2.35pm Film : tom thumb (1958)
with Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young and Terry-Thomas

4.10pm It's a Christmas Knockout
special festive competition between teams from Great Britain,
Belgium, Holland and Italy from the Olympic Ice Rink,
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy

5.00pm Newswith Richard Whitmore
WeatherMichael Fish

5.10pm Football and Sports Results
with Frank Bough

5.15pm Disney Time
Bing Crosby introduces excerpts from
Jungle Book
Lady and the Tramp
The Apple Dumpling Gang
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Donald's Snow Fight
Melody Time
Return of the Big Cat
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing

6.05pm Dad's Army
My Brother and I

6.45pm Film : The Railway Children (1970)
starring Jenny Agutter, Dinah Sheridan and Bernard Cribbins

8.30pm Mike Yarwood Christmas Show
special guest Lulu

9.15pm Film : The Lion in Winter (1968)
starring Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole

11.25pm Newswith Richard Whitmore Weather Michael Fish

11.35pm Diane Solomon Show
with special guests Johnny Nash, George Melly and the
Pontypridd Male Choir

12.15am Weatherman

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1975

BBC2

10.35am Nai Zindagi- Naya Jeevan
a magazine for Asian viewers (shown last Sunday on BBC1)

11.00am Play School
Story : The Christmas Spiders

11.25am Closedown

4.05pm Film : Oliver Twist (1948)
starring Alec Guinness

5.55pm Carols from King's
a Ceremony of Nine Lessons and Carols from the Chapel of
King's College. Cambridge

7.15pm The Magic Moving Picture Show
films from the turn of the century introduced by John Huntley(Repeat)

8.25pm Amahl and the Night Visitors
A Christmas opera

9.15pm Cartoon World

9.55pm News on 2, Weather

10.00pm The Old Grey Whistle Test:
Queen's Christmas Concert live from the Hammersmith Odeon

11.00pm Christmas with Bogart Film : Beat the Devil (1953)
starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida(b&w)

12.30am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1975

BBC2

11.00am Play School
The Story of Christmas

11.25am Closedown

1.25pm Yes to Man
by Alan Ecclestone

1.30pm Christmas Day Play Away
with Brian Cant

2.05pm Prince Charles Pilot Royal ...
a second chance to see a remarkable film on the flying career of
Prince Charles

3.00pm The Queen
speaks to the Commonwealth

3.05pm Swan Lake
starring Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev

4.45pm In Deepest Britain
a nostalgic look back to the heat of last summer

5.35pm Nice One
A Cockney Wedding

5.50pm Film : The Yearling (1946)
starring Gregory Peck

7.55pm Great Big Groovy Horse
a rock-musical romp through the legend of The Wooden Horse of Troy

8.45pm The Evacuees
by Jack Rosenthal, International Emmy Award Winner 1975

10.00pm News on 2, Weather

10.05pm Poems and Pints
spoken and sung by Max Boyce,
Ryan Davies. Mari Griffith, Philip Madoc

10.30pm Presents Past
or The Art of the Tin Toy

11.00pm Film : Guys and Dolls (1955)
starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blane

1.25am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1975

BBC2

11.00am Play School

11.25am Closedown

3.00pm Chronicle
La Trinidad Valencera (repeat)

4.15pm Big Top Ballet
Royal Ballet in Elite Syncopations

5.00pm Film : Ring of Bright Water (1969)
with Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna

6.45pm News on 2, Weather

6.50pm Get Happy
the music of Harold Arlen

7.40pm Trinity Tales
Six tall stories on the Road to Wembley
Story 6: The Man of Law's Tale

8.30pm Mozart's The Magic Flute
film version directed by Ingmar Bergman

10.50pm News Headlines, Weather

10.55pm Christmas with Rutland Weekend Television
from Britain's tiniest TV network -an evening of mini-spectacular
programmes with Rutland's own favourite stars including Eric Idle,
Neil Innes

11.25pm Long High Summer
the story of the 1975 cricket season by John Arlott

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1975

ITV LONDON

9.40am The Story of Silent Night

10.00am Film : On the Threshold of Space (1956)
with Guy Madison and Virginia Leith

11.30am Mr Satow's Improved Travelling Engine

12.00 The Adventures of Rupert Bear
Rupert and the Lonely Pillar Box

12.10pm Rainbow
Christmas Present Wrapping

12.30pm Mr and Mrs Christmas Party

1.00pm News

1.20pm Lunchtime Today

1.30pm This Week

2.00pm TV Film : Miracle on 34th Street (1973)
with Sebastian Cabot and Jane Alexander

3.50pm General Hospital

4.15pm Sooty Christmas Special Show

4.45pm The Little Match Girl

5.20pm Out of Town

5.50pm News

6.00pm Hallelujah, It`s Christmas

6.35pm Crossroads

7.00pm This Is Your Life

7.30pm Coronation Street

8.00pm Merry Christmas Fred from the Crosbys

9.00pm Safari by Balloon
a Survival Special

10.00pm News

10.15pm The Six Million Dollar Man

11.10pm Not Just Sundays
documentary

11.40pm Midnight Eucharist of Christmas
from St John's Wood

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

9.40am no programme

10.00am The Story of Silent Night

10.25am A Christmas Carol

11.15am Pipet

11.20am Night of Surprises

11.30am Carols in Kirkgate(until 12.00)

12.30pm University Challenge

1.00pm News

1.20pm Calendar News(until 1.30pm)

5.20pm Calendar Christmas(until 5.50pm)

6.00pm Calendar Christmas(until 6.35pm)

10.15pm Happy Anniversary and Goodbyewith Lucille Ball (until 11.10)

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1975

ITV LONDON

9.00am Rainbow
Christmas Music

9.15am A Heavenly Peace
with Adele Leigh

10.00am Service
from Luss Parish Church, Loch Lomond

11.00am A Merry Morning
from St.Luke's Hospital, Bradford

11.45am Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy

1.15pm Jack Parnell and the Big Band Show

2.00pm Chipperfield's Christmas Circus
with ringmaster Roy Hudd

3.00pm The Queen

3.05pm Film : Doctor in Trouble (1970)
starring Leslie Phillips, Harry Secombe, Robert Morley and James Robertson Justice

4.45pm Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo

5.10pm News

5.20pm Bay City Rollers Show
with Gilbert O'Sullivan

6.20pm Christmas Celebrity Squares

7.00pm Crossroads

7.30pm Get Some In!

8.00pm Love Thy Neighbour

8.30pm Film : The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

10.00pm News

10.15pm Film : The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
continued

11.00pm Beneath the Christmas Tree
with Sir Geraint Evans

11.55pm The Gabriel Assignment

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London)

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1975

ITV LONDON

9.50am A Handful of Songs

10.00am Dusty's Trail

10.25am Tabitha and Adam

11.10am Afloat
The Admiral's Cup, 1975

11.40am Rainbow
with Ali Bongo, Christmas Party

11.55am Olga

12.55pm News

1.00pm The Flintstones on Ice

2.00pm TV Film : David Copperfield (1970)
starring Robin Phillips, Susan Hampshire, Richard Attenborough, Ron Moody, Wendy Hiller, Laurence Olivier, Cyril Cusack, Edith Evans,
Pamela Franklin, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson

4.05pm A Christmas Runaround

4.35pm Don't Ask Me

5.05pm Cartoon Fun
Robot Rabbit, There Auto Be a Law

5.15pm News and Sport

5.30pm The New Land

6.30pm Crossroads

7.00pm A Special Who Do You Do ?

7.45pm Rising Damp Special

8.15pm Film : The Great Train Robbery (1969)
with Clint Walker, Kim Novak and Zero Mostrel

10.00pm News

10.15pm Les Dawson's Christmas Box
with guests The King's Singers

11.15pm Russell Harty Goes Upstairs Downstairs

11.45pm Witness to Yesterday
Nell Gwyn

12.15am The Gabriel Assignment

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

9.15am Film : Gulliver's Travels

10.35am Born Free

11.25am A Handful of Songs(until 11.40am)

5.30pm Supersonic Christmas Special(until 6.30pm)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 18th December 1976BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1976



BBC1

8.50am Ragtime
9.05am Indoors Outdoors
9.30am Multi-coloured Swap Shop
12.13pm Weather
12.15pm Grandstand
5.05pm News, Weatherman
5.15pm Sport/Regional News
5.20pm Basil in Neverland
5.50pm Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game
6.40pm Film : Return of the Seven (1966)
8.15pm The Black and White Minstrel Christmas Show
9.00pm Starsky and Hutch
9.50pm News, Weather
10.00pm Match of the Day Special (Football & Show Jumping)
11.20pm Saturday Night at the Mill
12.10am Weatherman

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Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 19th December 1976BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1976



BBC1

8.55am Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan
9.25am Playboard
9.40am Lippy Lion
Touche Turtle and Wally Gator
10.05am Alison Uttley and Little Grey Rabbit
10.35am Zarabanda
11.00am Sunday Worship
11.45am Film : Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
1.00pm Farming
1.25pm Erica on Embroidery
1.38pm An ABC of Music
1.50pm News Headlines
1.55pm Film Matinee : The Railway Children (1970)
3.40pm Laurel and Hardy : The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case
4.10pm The Waltons
5.00pm Little Lord Fauntleroy
5.30pm Write On!
5.55pm News, Weatherman
6.05pm On the Move
6.15pm Handel: Messiah
7.25pm The Brothers
8.15pm Film of the Week : Hello, Dolly! (1969)
10.40pm News, Weather
10.50pm Films of the Year
11.30pm The Bloxham Tapes
12.20am Weatherman

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Re: Christmas TV

Monday 20th December 1976

BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1976


BBC1

10.20am The Wombles
10.25am The Great Grape Ape Show
10.50am Pepe le Pew
10.55am Flash Gordon
11.35am Film : Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
12.45pm Midday News, Weather
1.00pm Pebble Mill
1.45pm Chigley
1.55pm Film : Challenge to Lassie (1949)
3.10pm The Olympia International Show Jumping Championship
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Deputy Dawg
4.25pm Jackanory
4.40pm Blue Peter
5.05pm John Craven's Newsround
5.10pm Three Gifts for Cinderella
5.35pm The Wombles
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
5.55pm Nationwide
6.45pm Some Mothers do 'Ave 'Em
7.40pm Angels
8.30pm Panorama Review of 1976
9.30pm Main News, Weather
9.55pm The Monday Film : Shaft (1971)
11.30pm Signs of Trouble
11.55pm Weatherman/Regional News

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Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 21st December 1976


BBC1

10.20am The Wombles
10.25am The Great Grape Ape Show
10.50am Wild Wild World
10.55am Flash Gordon
11.30am Film : Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
12.45pm Midday News, Weather
1.00pm Pebble Mill
1.45pm Mary, Mungo and Midge
2.00pm When Comedy was King
3.20pm FoaFe
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Huckleberry Hound
4.25pm Jackanory
4.40pm Animal Magic
5.00pm John Craven's Newsround
5.15pm Charlie Brown
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
5.55pm Nationwide
6.45pm The Superstars
7.55pm Film : Hondo (1953)
9.15pm Mastermind
9.45pm Main News, Weather
10.10pm East Lynne
11.10pm My Children,My Children
12.10am Weatherman/Regional News

BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1976

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Re: Christmas TV

Wednesday 22nd December 1976

BBC1

10.25am Magic Roundabout
10.30am The Great Grape Ape Show
10.50am Country Search
11.10am Daffy Duck
11.20am Flash Gordon
11.35am Film : Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
12.45pm Midday News, Weather
1.00pm Pebble Mill
1.45pm Fingerbobs
2.00pm Film : The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
3.45pm Yankee Dood It
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm The Wombles
4.25pm Jackanory
4.40pm Goober and the Ghost Chasers
5.00pm John Craven's Newsround
5.10pm The Winter Warrior
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
5.55pm Nationwide
6.50pm Film : Grand Prix
9.35pm Main News, Weather
10.00pm The Liver Birds
10.40pm The Signalman
11.20pm Harry 0
12.10am Weatherman/Regional News

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Thursday 23rd December 1976

BBC1

9.05am Roobarb
9.10am The Great Grape Ape Show
9.30am Country Search
9.50am The Spectacular Edinburgh 1976 Military Tattoo
11.05am Bugs Bunny
11.10am Flash Gordon
11.30am Film : Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
12.45pm Midday News, Weather
1.00pm Pebble Mill Christmas
1.50pm Barnaby
2.00pm Film : Scaramouche (1952)
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Astronut
4.25pm Jackanory
4.40pm Blue Peter
5.05pm John Craven's Newsround
5.15pm The Oddball Couple
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
5.55pm Nationwide
6.40pm Gemini Man
7.30pm Top of the Pops
8.00pm Sykes
8.30pm Happy Ever After
9.00pm Starsky and Hutch
9.50pm Main News, Weather
10.15pm Omnibus
11.20pm The Spinners at Christmas
12.10am Weatherman/Regional News

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1976

BBC1

9.20am Teddy Edward
told by Richard Baker (Repeat)

9.25am Ring-a-Ding

9.35am The Great Grape Ape Show
Public Grape No1 and Bailey's Comets in Madagascar Mix-up(Repeat)

9.55am Country Search
The Hill Shepherd

10.20am The Zoo
A Portrait of an Institution by David Attenborough

11.10am Bugs Bunny

11.15am Flash Gordon
part seven : Shattering Doom
In which Flash Gordon faces death by eletrocution in King Vultan's
furnace-room, and Emperor Ming arrives to demand the
return of his daughter, Princess Aura

11.35am Film : Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)
starring Johnny Weismuller

12.45pm Midday News
WeatherKeith Best

1.00pm Pebble Mill Christmas Special
60 minute special with guests including Acker Bilk

2.00pm Film : Hans Christian Andersen(1952)
with Danny Kaye

3.40pm Babar Comes to America
told by Peter Ustinov

4.10pm The All Star Record Breakers
introduced by Roy Castle , with Toni Arthur, Keith Chegwin,
John Craven, Bernard, Cribbins, Maggie Henderson, Jan Hunt
Lesley Judd, Pat Keysell, Susan King, Johnny Morris, John Noakes,
Peter Purves, Julie Stevens

5.00pm Evening Newswith Peter Woods
Weatherman

5.10pm Tom and Jerry (London & South East only) orRegional News

5.15pm Jim'll Fix It
Christmas Special

6.00pm Film : Walt Disney's Million Dollar Duck (1971)
starring Dean Jones

7.30pm Are You Being Served ?
The Father Christmas Affair

8.00pm Porridge
The Desperate Hours

8.40pm Kojak
A Shield for Murder
A special feature film starring Telly Savalas with Geraldine Page

10.15pm Mastermind
The Final

10.50pm Late News with Peter Woods
Christmas Weather Keith Best

11.00pm Andre Previn's Christmas Music Night
Janet Baker and Andre Previn in a special Christmas edition of
television's popular music programme

11.55pm Christmas Midnight Communion
from Burnley Parish Church, Lancashire

12.55am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1976

BBC1

8.40am Ragtime
with Maggie Henderson and Fred Harris

8.55am Sing Noel!
Pupils of schools from Essex join together in the beautiful Parish Church
of Thaxted to tell again the Christmas story in familiar carols, readings
and paintings

9.45am Hong Kong Phooey
TV or not TV and Stop Horsing Around
Comedy cartoons(Repeat)

10.09am WeatherKeith Best

10.10am Angela Rippon
appeals for Television for the Deaf

10.15am Christmas Morning Service
from Coventry

11.15am Rod Hull and Emu
Sing a Christmas Song
guest star Rolf Harris

11.45am Four Clowns
featuring Laurel and Hardy,
Charlie Chase and Buster Keaton

1.20pm Holiday on Ice
introducted by Brian Matthew

2.10pm Top of the Pops
with Noel Edmonds and Dave Lee Travis

3.00pm The Queen
speaks to the Commonwealth

3.15pm Billy Smart's Christmas Circus

4.15pm Film : Oliver! (1968)
with Ron Moody, Oliver Reed,
Harry Secombe, Shani Wallis, Mark Lester
and Jack Wild

6.35pm Evening NewsPeter Woods

6.45pm Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game
with Anthea Redfern

7.45pm The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
A star-studded holiday special starring Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise
with special guests Elton John, John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Kate O'Mara,
Marion Montgomery, The Nolans

8.45pm Film : Airport (1970)
with Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg and Jacqueline Bisset

10.55pm NewsPeter Woods

11.00pm The Parkinson Magic Show
with Fred Kaps, Ricky Jay and Richiardi jnr

12.10am Weatherman

12.12am Closedown