Christmas TV

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 29th December 1979

BBC1

9.30am Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
12.12am Weather
12.15pm Grandstand
5.10pm Bugs Bunny
5.35pm News, Weatherman
5.45pm Sport/Regional News
5.50pm Doctor Who : The Horns of Nimon : Part 2
6.15pm Jim'll Fix It
6.50pm Film : The Pride and the Passion (1957)
9.00pm Dallas
9.50pm News, Weather
10.00pm Match of the Day
11.00pm Parkinson
12.00 Weatherman

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 30th December 1979

BBC1

9.05am Ragtime
9.20am The Sunday Gang
9.40am Dinky Dog
9.50am Playhouse
10.20am What a Mess
10.25am Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan
10.55am The Edinburgh Military Tattoo of 1979
12.10pm A Church to Yourself
12.25pm Christianity Explored
12.55pm Farming
1.20pm There's No Business Like Snow Business
1.45pm News Headlines
1.50pm The World About Us
2.40pm Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Part 1)
5.00pm Emu's Broadcasting Company (EBC1)
5.25pm The Old Curiosity Shop
5.55pm News, Weatherman
6.05pm Holiday
6.40pm Songs of Praise
7.15pm The Lennie and Jerry Show
7.55pm Saint Joan
10.50pm The Last Right
11.25pm The Man with No Name
2.25am Weatherman

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Monday 31st December 1979

BBC1

10.00am What a Mess
10.05am Jackanory
10.20am Captain Caveman
10.30am Why Don't You....?
10.55am Magic Roundabout
11.00am Zorro
11.25am Mickey Mouse Club
11.55am Greatest Heroes of the Bible
12.45pm Midday News, Weather
1.00pm Year of the Horse
1.50pm How Do You Do?
2.05pm Film : Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
3.53pm Regional News (excluding London)
3.55pm Play School
4.20pm Touche Turtle
4.25pm Jackanory
4.35pm Playhouse
5.10pm Blue Peter Review of the Year
5.40pm Evening News, Weatherman
5.50pm Tom and Jerry (London and South East only)
Regional News (All other English regions)
6.00pm Pinocchio
7.35pm Larry Grayson's Generation Game
8.25pm Film : Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Première
10.30pm News, Weatherman
10.40pm The 70s Stop Here!
12.00 Big Ben
12.01am A Toast to the 80s

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 22nd December 1979

BBC2

1.25pm Christmas Matinee
Film : Cleopatra (1963) part 1
3.15pm Play Away
3.40pm Horizon
5.10pm Something Else
5.50pm A Diary of Britain
6.35pm The Beatles at Christmas : Film : Help! (1965)
8.00pm News and Sport, Weather
8.15pm Four Clowns
9.50pm Hinge and Bracket
10.35pm News on 2, Weather
10.45pm Kelly at Christmas : Film : Anchors Aweigh (1945)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 23rd December 1979

BBC2

2.25pm Rugby Special
3.25pm Christmas Matinee
Film ; Cleopatra (1963) part 2
5.28pm Rugby League Results
5.30pm The Beatles at Christmas: The Beatles At Shea Stadium
6.20pm Shakespearein Perspective
6.45pm News Review
7.15pm The BBC Television Shakespeare : Henry V
10.05pm The Much Loved Music Show Christmas Special
10.55pm Kelly at Christmas : On the Town

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1979

BBC2

11.00am Play School
with Sarah Long, Stuart McGugan and Elizabeth Millbank

11.25am Closedown

2.10pm Watch
The Nativity told with puppets and music

2.40pm Christmas Matinee : Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
starring Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson

4.45pm The Great Toy Robbery
cartoon

4.55pm The Sounds Of Christmas
with The Goldsmiths Choral Union conducted by Brian Wright
Recorded highlights of a concert from the Royal Albert Hall, London,
attended by the Prime Minister, The Rt Hon Mrs Margaret Thatcher

5.40pm The Beatles at Christmas: Yellow Submarine (1968)
full-length animated feature continuing our festive season of films
celebrating the most famous pop group of them all starring
The Beatles

7.00pm The Mid-Evening News
including a news summary with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing
Weather

7.05pm Follow The Star
musical nativity play by Wally K Daly (music by Jim Parker), with
Sue Jones-Davies as Mary and Lewis Flander as Herod

8.25pm Itzhak Perlman Plays Bach
filmed record of the celebrated Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman in a
memorable performance of Bach's D Minor Partita at a BBC Radio
lunchtime concert in St John's Smith Square, London

9.00pm Star Over Bethlehem
a satellite transmission linking 8 countries, with Britain being
represented by Trinity Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral.
Tom Fleming and Claire Bloom speak Christopher Fry's narration

10.00pm Late News, Weather

10.05pm Alan Price
special In Concert performance from The Royal Exchange Theatre,
Manchester, starring Alan Price, his singers and musicians,
and featuring such hits as "Don't Stop the Carnival", "Lucky Man"
and "The Jarrow Song"

10.55pm Kelly at Christmas : Singin' In The Rain (1952)
starring Gene Kelly

12.40am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1979

BBC2

11.00am Play School
Story : The Little Drummer Boy

11.25am Closedown

3.00pm The Beatles at Christmas : A Hard Day's Night (1964)
with Wilfrid Brambell Norman Rossington, Victor Spinetti

4.25pm Christmas Day Concert From Amsterdam
the Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz

5.30pm A Christmas Carol
with Michael Hordern

6.30pm Baboushka
A Musical Fable for Christmas byDonald Swann and Arthur Scholey

7.20pm News on 2, Weather

7.30pm The Front Garden
celebration of the English at their favourite pastime

8.30pm The Queen
speaks to the Commonwealth

8.50pm Sutherland and Pavarotti in Recital
from the Avery Fisher Hall. Lincoln Center, New York

10.05pm Face the Music
Sir Robert Mayer guests, with David Attenborough, Robin Ray
and Joyce Grenfell (in her last television appearance)

10.45pm Film : Cabaret (1972)
starring Liza Minelli and Michael York

12.50am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1979

BBC2

10.20am Gharbar
special variety programme of Asian music and dance

10.45am Closedown

11.00am Play School
Story: The Winter Bear

11.25am Closedown

12.10pm Christmas Matine : Henry VIII and his Six Wives (1972)
starring Keith Michell, with Charlotte Rampling,Jane Asher,
Barabara Leigh-Hunt and Donald Pleasance

2.10pm Griffiths the Cue
introduced by David Vine
The most remarkable sports story of the year. Terry Griffiths relives
his 13 days at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, that took him from the
obscurity of the Llanelli League to Professional Snooker Champion
of the World

3.40pm International Gymnastics
the World Championships from Fort Worth

4.35pm The Dick Cavett Magic Show
One of America's top TV personalities, Dick Cavett is also
an enthusiastic amateur magician.
Tonight he introduces some of the world's greatest illusionists

5.50pm The Beatles at Christmas : Let It Be (1970)
with The Beatles

7.10pm Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet : Double Bill
featuring two of the company's most popular ballets :
Les Patineurs : an evocation of the Victorian skating party
and Pineapple Poll: based on W S Gilbert's Bumboat Woman's Story

8.25pm News, Weather

8.40pm Our Day Out
by Willy Russell,
starring Jean Heywood and Alun Armstrong

9.50pm Sing Christmas
with The King's Singers from Bisham Abbey and Leeds Castle

10.35pm Film : Oklahoma! (1955)
with Gordon Macrae, Gloria Grahame and Shirley Jones

12.50am Music at Night
The Christmas Tree Suite by Franz Liszt
On each of the 12 days of Christmas Rhondda Gillespie plays
a movement from this little-known suite for piano.
Old Christmas Song

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Thursday 27th December 1979

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
3.55pm Christmas Matinee
Film : The Blue Max (1966)
6.20pm Peking Opera
7.10pm The Mid-Evening News
Weather
7.20pm Film : My Fair Lady (1964)
10.05pm Leave Him to Heaven
11.10pm Richard Stilgoe
11.35pm Late News, Weather
11.50pm Music at Night

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Friday 28th December 1979

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
4.25pm Christmas Matinee
Film : Moby Dick (1956)
6.15pm Lieutenant Kije
6.30pm The Light Princess
7.35pm Mid-Evening News
Weather
7.50pm In the Country
8.15pm Kate
9.00pm Not the Least of Not the Nine O'Clock News
9.35pm The Bobby Bare Music Show
10.20pm Late News, Weather
10.35pm The Man You Loved to Hate
12.05am Something Else
12.45am Music at Night

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 29th December 1979

BBC1

1.20pm Saturday Cinema
Film : National Velvet (1944)
3.20pm Play Away
3.45pm Film : Little Women (1949)
5.45pm Cricket : Australia v West Indies
6.15pm Die Fledermaus
9.40pm Spirit of Asia
10.00pm TV Film : Our Town (1977)
11.45pm News on 2, Weather
11.50pm Film : Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
1.25am Music at Night

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 30th December 1979

BBC2

2.25pm Coppelia
2.40pm New Year Matinee
Film : The Yearling (1946)
4.45pm Ski Sunday
5.20pm Rugby Special
6.10pm News Review
6.40pm Cricket : Australia v West Indies
7.10pm News on 2, Weather
7.15pm Film : Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
9.50pm John Everett Millais (1829-1896)
10.50pm Film : Don't Look Now (1973)
12.35am Music at Night
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saturday 29th december 1979 bbc1 is actually bbc 2
the guide im usiing had it as bbc 1.

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 30th December 1979

BBC2

2.25pm Coppelia
2.40pm New Year Matinee
Film : The Yearling (1946)
4.45pm Ski Sunday
5.20pm Rugby Special
6.10pm News Review
6.40pm Cricket : Australia v West Indies
7.10pm News on 2, Weather
7.15pm Film : Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
9.50pm John Everett Millais (1829-1896)
10.50pm Film : Don't Look Now (1973)
12.35am Music at Night

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Monday 31st December 1979

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
2.05pm Petrushka
2.25pm Turn-round
3.15pm International Basketball
3.55pm New Year Matinee
Film : The Singing Nun (1966)
5.30pm The Chinese Nightingale
5.40pm The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures :
Atoms for Enquiring Minds
6.40pm Cricket : Australia v West Indies
7.10pm The Brothers Lionheart
7.35pm Mid-Evening News, Weather
7.45pm Schools Prom
8.25pm The World About Us
9.15pm News on 2, Weather
9.25pm Things to Come
10.00pm The Old Grey Whistle Test
10.40pm Film : Sunset Boulevard (1950)
12.25am Music at Night

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1979

ITV Granada

9.30am Walt Disney Classics
Ferdinand the Bull, Tea for Two Hundred, Pluto and the Armadillo

9.50am It Happened One Christmas
starring Marlo Thomas, Wayne Rogers, Orson Welles, Cloris Leachman

11.35am A Family Circus Christmas
animated story about a boy who dreams of riding with Santa on his sleigh

12.00 Jamie and the Magic Torch
Wishes

12.10pm Once Upon a Time
The Dog and His Reflection told by Peter Davison, puppet story

12.30pm A Christmas Runaround
presented by Mike Reid

1.00pm News at One

1.20pm Granada Reports

1.30pm Film : Ben-Hur (1959)
starring Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet

5.20pm News

5.30pm Granada Reports

6.05pm You're Only Young Twice
Christmas at Paradise Lodge, starring Peggy Mount, Pat Coombs, Lally Bowers, Diana King, Charmian May

6.35pm Crossroads

7.00pm Give Us a Clue
Michael Aspel with guests Beryl Reid, Dickie Davies

7.30pm Coronation Street

8.00pm London Night Out Christmas Special
with Tom O'Connor, Petula Clark, Topo Gigio, The Nolan Sisters, The Irving Davies Dancers, Dick Franco

9.00pm Film : The Tamarind Seed (1974)
starring Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Sylvis Sims

10.15pm ITN News

10.30pm Film : The Tamarind Seed (1974)
continued

11.30pm Midnight Communion
from Hexham Abbey, Northumberland

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV Granada except)

1.20pm Calendar News
(until 1.30)

5.30pm Calendar
(until 6.05)

ITV LONDON (as ITV Granada except)

5.30pm Thames News