Christmas TV

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 23rd December 1984

BBC1

9.00am Fingerbobs
9.15am Knock Knock
9.30am Away in a Manger
10.00am Asian Magazine
10.30am Bonanza
11.20am Morning Worship
12.05pm Peace in No Man's Land
12.40pm Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
1.05pm Kung Fu
1.50pm News Headlines, Weather
1.55pm The Rock Gospel Show Christmas Special
2.30pm The Old Man of Hoy
3.10pm Film : Ice Station Zebra (1968)
5.30pm The Prisoner of Zenda
6.00pm News, Weatherman
6.10pm Jimmy Hill appeals on behalf of The Boys' Brigade
6.15pm Songs of Praise
7.15pm Ever Decreasing Circles
7.45pm Big Deal
8.35pm Film : Steptoe and Son (1972)
10.10pm Frank and Selina's Christmas Time
10.45pm News, Weatherman
11.00pm The Hot Shoe Show
11.55pm James Last Christmas Concert
12.45am Weather
12,50am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1984

BBC1

6.30am Breakfast Time
presented by Frank Bough and Selina Scott, with the news read by
Fern Britton, cookery from Glyn Christian, keep fit from Diana Moran
and guest Keith Harris and Orville

9.00am The Busker's Christmas Story
1/3

9.15am Paddington
...and the Christmas Shopping

9.20am Lassie
first of a new animated series

9.45am Charlie Brown

10.10am Jackanory : Cinderella
read by Cherie Lunghi

10.25am Magic Roundabout

10.30am Play School : It's Christmas Eve
with Carol Chell

10.50am Henry's Cat

10.55am The Chucklehounds Christmas

11.05am The Sounds of 84
music from the Montreux Festival

12.05pm Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

12.30pm News, with Moira Stuart

12.35pm Junior Kick Start
1/3

1.00pm Kung Fu
starring David Carradine

1.50pm The Christmas Raccoons
musical cartoon

2.15pm Film : The Cruel Sea (1953)
starring Jack Hawkins

4.15pm Pop Quiz Christmas Special
presented by Mike Read

4.45pm Jackanory
Snowflake, by Paul Gallico, read by Jeremy Irons

5.00pm Blue Peter

5.25pm The Box of Delights
final episode

6.00pm News
with Moira Stuart

6.15pm Jim'll Fix It for Christmas

6.55pm Film : One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975)
starring Peter Ustinov and Helen Hayes

8.25pm Only Fools and Horses

8.55pm Cagney and Lacey

9.45pm News
with Moira Stuart

10.00pm Val Doonican's Very Special Christmas
with Engelbert Humperdinck, Pam Ayres and the Cambridge Buskers

10.50pm Play: Angels in the Annexe
a story of the clash between tradition and new ideas in a school,
by Janey Preger, with Siobhan McKenna and Alfred Molina

11.45pm Midnight Mass of the Nativity
from the Church of St Mary and St John, Wolverhampton

12.45am Weather

12.50am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1984

BBC1

8:00am Pages from Ceefax

8:40am Play School : It's Christmas Day
presented by Carol Chell

9:00am Busker's Christmas Story
The second of three episode 'We've come to see the baby
Missus' A Christopher Lillicrap tells how Bert, Sid and Arthur
bring a birthday present, and King Herod hears he's got a bit
of competition

9:15am Born in Bethlehem
The BBC Welsh Chorus sing popular carols

10:05am Christmas Morning Family Service
from Fisherwick Presbyterian Church, Belfast

11:03am Weather Michael Fish

11:05am Noel Edmonds Live Live Christmas
Breakfast Show
From the top of British Telecom Tower,
Noel Edmonds presents a live outside broadcast, wishing the
United Kingdom a happy Christmas from 625 feet above London.
He is joined by a host of star guests for a morning of comedy,
music, daredevil stunts and highlights of this year's television.
Mike Smith is out and about with the roving outside broadcast
unit and the BBCtv 'hollycopter' makes its way over London to
drop in on viewers' homes and celebrations.

12:35pm Film : Blue Murder at St Trinians (1957)
starring Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Alastair Sim
St Trinian's is under siege, its Headmistress is in prison. The army
has been called in to protect the country from 'these fiends in
human shape' - but it would be more appropriate if somebody
protected the army....

2:00pm Top of the Pops Christmas Special
featuring The Hit Sounds of 84 with this year's top-selling records
starring and introduced by Culture Club Jim Diamond, Duran Duran,
Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw,
Thompson Twins Wham!, Paul Young who all appear live in the
Top of the Pops studio.

3:00pm The Queen
A Christmas Day programme in which HM The Queen
speaks to the Commonwealth

3:10pm Film : Mary Poppins (1964)
Walt Disney's Oscar-winning musical fantasy starring Julie Andrews,
Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns
Julie Andrews stars in Walt Disney's most sumptuous live action
production, a musical version of the famous children's tales
by P. L. Travers. When Jane and Michael ask for a nanny with a
cheery disposition and rosy cheeks, they are in for a big surprise.
For Mary Poppins can not only slide upstairs on bannisters and fly
with an umbrella over London, but also walk through chalk pavement
drawings taking her young charges on magical journey into glittering
and fabulous worlds...
Première

5:25pm News with Jan Leeming andWeather

5:30pm Christmas Blankety Blank
starring Les Dawson the host of the comedy quiz game that everyone
can play at home.
Six Christmas celebrities try to match the contestants' blanks on this
festive edition.
Lorraine Chase, Suzanne Danielle, Ken Dodd, Russell Harty,
Ruth Madoc, Derek Nimmo

6:05pm Hi-de-Hi!
The last of the present series
Maplin's Holiday Camp, Spring 1960
Raffles
Ted decides to raffle Clive's car and switch it for a look-alike banger
before delivering it to the lucky winner

6:35pm The Paul Daniels Magic Christmas Show
Join Paul Daniels for a special festive package of comedy and magic
in which he provides amazing Christmas presents for his surprise
celebrity guests; has a magical encounter with a snowman; stages the
most expensive illusion in the history of entertainment; and introduces
his remarkable guest stars.
From Chicago, the legendary international clown George Carl ;
from Las Vegas, the high-speed juggling sensation Kris Kremo
and from Germany, The Olympiads with their statuesque balancing
skills. Special guest appearance by Robert Maxwell

7:25pm Just Good Friends Special
starring Paul Nicholas (right) and Jan Francis (left)
Penny, having decided that her future with Vince is pointless,
reflects on the events that caused such a dramatic conclusion

8:55pm The Two Ronnies
starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett in a special Christmas
programme of sketches, jokes and songs with their special guest
Elaine Paige also appearing Patrick Troughton, John Owens,
Gerrie Raymond and featuring The Ballad of Snivelling and Grudge
'Oh I'll sing you a song of Snivelling and Grudge Two medieval twisters
Through merrie England they did trudge....'
A film story with Peter Wyngarde as Sir Guy and Michael Cantwell,
Daryl Debeau , Ron Pember John Rutland, Derek Ware

9:55pm News with Jan Leeming and Weather

10:05pm Wogan
Terry Wogan hosts a special Christmas edition with Freddie Starr,
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Elton John and Victoria Principal.

10:55pm All-Time Great Movies
Film : Some Like It Hot (1959)
starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
It's Chicago 1929 - the pre-Depression flapper era dominated
by prohibition, hot music and tough racketeers.
When Joe and Jerry, two under-employed musicians,
witness the St Valentine's Day massacre, they nearly
become victims themselves. The only escape is a jazz
band heading for Florida.
With Curtis and Lemmon in drag, joining Marilyn - a tipsy
ukulele-playing singer in an all-girl band - this spoof gangster
movie is one of Hollywood's most inventive comedies

12:50pm Weather

12:55pm Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1984

BBC1

8.00am Pages from Ceefax

8.40am Play School Pantomime
Cinderella, with Brian Cant and co

9.00am Busker's Christmas Story
final episode, with Christopher Lillicrap

9.15am Film : The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955)
starring Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall & Robert Morley

10.55am Bugs Bunny Double Bill

11.05am The Sounds of 84
with Bananarama, Duran Duran, Slade and Ultravox

12.05pm Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

12.30pm News

12.35pm Junior Kick Start
heat 2 from East Neston, Northants

1.00pm Kung Fu

1.50pm Film : The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
starring James Stewart and Richard Attenborough

4.10pm Olympic Gymnastics 84
highlights show

4.50pm Final Score

5.00pm News
with Jan Leeming

5.15pm Bob's Christmas Full House

5.50pm No Place Like Home
with William Gaunt

6.20pm Film : Escape to Victory (1981)
starring Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Max von Sydow & Pele

8.10pm Dallas

9.00pm News*

9.15pm Miss Marple*
The Body in the Library,
1/3, starring Joan Hickson, with Gwen Watford

10.10pm Dave Allen*

11.10pm Kenny and Dolly : A Christmas to Remember*

11.45pm Golf: The One Club Challenge
on the Old Course, St Andrews, with Peter Alliss

12.35am Weather

12.40am Closedown

*NOTE : The above shows the times the programmes were actually shown, the times published in the Radio Times were as follows

9.00pm Miss Marple,
9.55pm Dave Allen,
10.45pm BBC News
11.00pm Kenny and Dolly: A Christmas to Remember

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Thursday 27th December 1984

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM
6.30am Breakfast Time
9.00am Charlie Brown
9.25am Inch High Private Eye
9.45am Laurel and Hardy
9.50am Lassie
10.15am Jackanory : Puss in Boots
10.30am Play School It's Thursday
10.50am Heads and Tails
11.05am Tom and Jerry
11.15am Bonanza
12.05pm Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
12.30pm Midday News, Weather
12.42pm Regional News
12.45pm Junior Kick Start
1.10pm Kung Fu
2.00pm Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales
2.20pm Film : Courage of Lassie (1946)
3.50pm William - at Christmas
4.05pm Alice in Wonderland
4.30pm Tom and Jerry
4.40pm Culture Club In Concert
5.30pm Grange Hill
6.00pm The Evening News, Weatherman
6.15pm Regional News
6.20pm Tomorrow's World
6.50pm Top of the Pops Review of 1984
7.50pm The Kenny Everett Christmas Show
8.20pm Porridge
9.00pm Miss Marple: The Body in the Library : Part 2
9.55pm The Main News, Weatherman
10.10pm Review of the Year 1984
11.30pm Golf: The One Club Challenge
12.20am Weather
12.25am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Friday 28th December 1984

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM
6.30am Breakfast Time
9.00am Charlie Brown
9.25am Inch High Private Eye
9.45am Laurel and Hardy
9.50am Lassie
10.15am Jackanory : Jack and the Beanstalk
10.30am Play School : It's Friday
10.50am Little Misses and the Mister Men
11.05am Cartoons
11.15am Bonanza
12.05pm Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
12.30pm Midday News, Weather
12.42pm Regional News
12.45pm Junior Kick Start
1.10pm Kung Fu
2.00pm Tom and Jerry
2.15pm The Summer Olympics
3.50pm Henry's Cat
3.55pm William - at Christmas
4.05pm Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince
4.30pm Pop Quiz Special
5.05pm Film : The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972) Première
6.00pm The Evening News, Weatherman
6.15pm Regional News
6.20pm Christmas Knockout 1984
7.10pm Film : North Sea Hijack (1980)
8.45pm The Main News
Weekend Weather
9.00pm Miss Marple : The Body in the Library : Part 3
9.55pm Manilow's Christmas Magic
10.45pm All-Time Great Movies
Film : Brief Encounter (1945)
12.10am Harty Goes to Hollywood
1.00am Weatherman
1.05am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 29th December 1984

BBC1

8.30am The Perishers
8.35am The Littlest Hobo
9.00am Saturday SuperStore
10.45am Take Two
11.25am The Kids from Fame in Concert
12.12 pm Weather
12.15pm Grandstand
5.05pm News, Weatherman
5.15pm Sport/Regional News
5.20pm Jim'll Fix It
5.55pm Film : The Towering Inferno (1974)
8.35pm Dynasty
9.25pm News and Sport
Weatherman
9.40pm Come On Down!
10.30pm Match of the Day
11.20pm Diced Carrott
12.00 All - Time Great Movies
Film : High Noon (1952)
1.25pm Weather
1.30am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 30th December 1984

BBC1

9.00am The Flumps
9.15am 'Olympic' Challenge
10.00am Asian Magazine
10.30am Bonanza
11.20am Morning Worship
12.05pm See Hear!
12.30pm Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
12.55pm Tom and Jerry
1.00pm News Headlines, Weather
1.05pm Wildlife on One
1.30pm The Rock Gospel Show from America
2.05pm Film : Zulu (1964)
4.15pm Jackanory
HRH The Prince of Wales tells his own story
The Old Man of Lochnagar
4.35pm Holiday
5.10pm This Office Life
6.30pm News, Weather
6.40pm Songs of Praise
7.15pm Last of the Summer Wine
7.45pm Big Deal
8.35pm Film : Kramer vs Kramer (1979)
10.20pm News, Weatherman
10.35pm The Touch
11.25pm It's Max Boyce
11.55pm Golf: The One Club Challenge
12.45am Weather
12.50am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Monday 31st December 1984

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM
6.30am Breakfast Time
9.00am Charlie Brown
9.25am The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
9.45am Why Don't You... ?
10.10am Jackanory : Peter Pan
10.25am Paddington
10.30am Play School
10.50am Postman Pat
11.05am Tarzan and the Sifu
11.25am Bonanza
12.15pm Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
12.40pm Midday News, Weather
12.50pm Kung Fu
1.40pm Peter Sellers Double Bill
Film : Heavens Above! (1963)
3.35pm Film : I'm All Right Jack (1959)
5.15pm Blue Peter Review of the Year
5.45pm A Question of Sport
6.15pm News, Weatherman
6.25pm Film : Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr (1981) Première
8.00pm Ernie Wise introduces the Morecambe and Wise Classics
9.00pm The Main News, Weatherman
9.15pm Give Us a Break
10.50pm Halls of Fame
11.40pm Live into 85
12.10am All-Time Great Movies
Film : Singin' in the Rain (1952)
1.50am Weather
1.55am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 22nd December 1984

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
2.50pm Saturday Cinema 1
Film : The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
4.15pm Saturday Cinema 2
Film : It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
6.20pm Shakespeare in Perspective
6.45pm News and Sport, Weather
7.00pm The First Noels
7.15pm Born in the USA
8.15pm The Saturday Alternative : Much Ado about Nothing
10.45pm Arena Special
12.00 Hammer Horror
Film : Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)
1.35am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 23rd December 1984

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
2.05pm Horizon
2.55pm Music from St George's
3.45pm One Man and His Dog
4.30pm Geoffrey Smith's World of Flowers
4.55pm News Review
5.25pm The First Noels
5.40pm Ski Sunday
6.15pm Little Nezha Fights Great Dragon King
7.15pm Princes' Progress
7.40pm News on Two, Weather
7.45pm The Natural World
8.35pm Fanny and Alexander
10.10pm Film : Torn Curtain (1966)
12.20am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1984

BBC2

9.00am Ceefax

1.45pm On the Tracks of the Wild Otter

2.35pm Film : The Gold Rush (1925)
with Charlie Chaplin

3.45pm The Telly Quiz
presented by Jerry Stevens

4.15pm The First Noels
final part of the series tracing the history of Christmas carols,
presented by Sir Geraint Evans

4.35pm Alias St Nick, cartoon

4.45pm Film : Little Women (1949)
starring June Allyson, Margaret O`Brien, Elizabeth Taylor & Janet Leigh

6.40pm Long Beach Olympiad
documentary, narrated by Ray Moore, about Olympic Yachting

7.30pm News Summary
with subtitles

7.35pm Born in Bethlehem
the BBC Chorus with Aled Jones in Bethlehem, with readings
by Isla Blair and narration by Martin Jarvis

8.25pm Lena Horne: the Lady and Her Music
one-woman show recorded at the Nederlander Theater, NY

10.00pm Film : The Quiet Man (1952)
starring John Wayne and Maureen O`Hara

12.10am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1984

BBC2

9:00am Pages from Ceefax

1:55pm Film : Chaplin - A Dog's Life (1918)
starring Charlie Chaplin is the tramp in this classic
two-reeler co-stars the 'Tramp' with scraps, a mongrel.
Both are temporarily down on their luck - but a little charm
and imagination wins the day.... The music to the film is, once
again, by Chaplin.

2:35pm Polar Bear Alert
Polar bears are among the world's most dangerous animals.
For most of the year they are out on the ice of Hudson Bay -
until it melts, when they come ashore and Churchill,
Manitoba, becomes reluctant host to them for two months.
They saunter down Main Street, plunder the rubbish dump,
and break into homes - posing problems for the Bear Patrol

3:25pm Film : Chaplin - Limelight (1952)
starring Charlie Chaplin
once a star, is now only a theatrical memory. Returning home drunk
one evening, he fortuitously saves a young ballet dancer from suicide.
Their subsequent friendship alters the course of both their careers.
Chaplin's moving portrait of a once-famous music-hall comedian
was the last film he made in America and includes his famous joint
appearance with Buster Keaton.

5:35pm Telly Quiz
with Jerry Stevens who asks
Easy, Medium or Hard?
Medium : Who or what have Big Fry and 007 got in common?
The answer is not in today's quiz but Team Quaker,
Salt Cellar and Mal's Lot still have a great deal to compete about

6:05pm The Nutcracker
From the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Scottish Ballet presents a sparkling
production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. After a sumptuous
Christmas party Clara helps the Nutcracker Prince defeat an army
of giant mice and is transported to the Land of Snow

7:50pm The Master of Mouton
Russell Harty visits Baron Philippe de Rothschild at Chateau Mouton
in the heart of the Medoc and gives a personal glimpse of the most
colourful member of the Rothschild dynasty

8:40pm The Queen
A Christmas Day programme in which
HM The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth.
With open subtitles and sign language interpretation for the
deaf and hard-of-hearing.

8:55pm Film : Kaos (1984)
This visually stunning film brings to life four of Luigi Pirandello's short
stories. Tales of love, sorrow and laughter, shaded by superstition and
gentle irony and dominated by the harsh landscapes of Sicily,
lead to an imagined episode in the writer's own life.
(An Italian film with English subtitles)
Première

12.00 Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1984

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax

12.45pm Racing from Wincanton
with Julian Wilson (1.00, 1.30, 2.00 races)

2.15pm In Pursuit of the Boar
narrated by Joss Ackland

3.05pm Film : The Great Dictator (1940)
starring Charlie Chaplin, with Paulette Goddard

5.05pm The Big H
Leeds schoolchildren in a drama by Tony Harrison with music by
Dominic Muldowney

5.50pm Telly Quiz
third programme of the celebrity quiz hosted by Jerry Stevens

6.20pm Ingrid
biographical documentary about Ingrid Bergman

7.25pm Hay Fever
Noel Coward's play, starring Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington,
Patricia Hodge, Benjamin Whitrow, Joan Sims, Susan Wooldridge
and many others

9.00pm Pavarotti at Madison Square Garden
with music by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra

10.15pm Innings of the Year
Viv Richards' 189 not out v England at Old Trafford on 31 May

10.45pm Film : The Third Man (1949)
starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles

12.30am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Thursday 27th December 1984

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
12.45pm Film : The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
2.20pm Schools Prom 84
3.10pm Cartoons
3.25pm Film : Chaplin - Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
5.25pm News Summary, Weather
5.30pm Telly Quiz
6.00pm Film : Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
8.00pm Former Glory
9.00pm The Best.... and Worst of Entertainment USA
9.55pm M*A*S*H : Goodbye, Farewell and Amen
11.50pm Lindisfarne Christmas Show
12.35am Closedown