Christmas TV

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Re: Christmas TV

Monday 30th December 1985

BBC2

11.10am Film : Forty Guns to Apache Pass (19)
12.45pm Racing from Newbury
2.45pm What's Up, Chuck?
3.15pm Sanders Rides the World
3.45pm Film : Welles Directs - Chimes at Midnight (19)
5.35pm Ski Jumping
6.10pm One of Our Bombers is No Longer Missing
7.00pm The Compleat Beatles
9.00pm Whistle Test - The View Ahead
9.10pm Film : Ragtime (19)
11.40pm Weatherview

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Re: Christmas TV

New Year's Eve Tuesday 31st December 1985

BBC2

9.00am Pages from Ceefax
11.45am Film : Maverick Queen (1956)
1.10pm Everest, the Final Challenge
2.00pm What's Up, Chuck?
2.30pm Motor 100
3.45pm Around the World in Seven Minutes and Four Times on Saturday
4.35pm Film : Welles Directs - The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
6.00pm Call My Bluff
6.30pm Film : Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
8.05pm 85 Whistle Test 86

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1985

ITV LONDON

6.15am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
with Anne Diamond and Nick Owen
Special Panto Guest : Nicholas Parsons
News with Gordon Honeycombe 6.15, 6.30, 7.00, 7.30, 8.00, 8.30, 9.00.
Weather with Wincey Willis 6.28, 6.58, 7.28, 7.58, 8.28, 8.58.
Sport: Richard Keys 6.35, 7.34.
Lizzie Webb: 6.20.
News Topics 6.45, 7.07, 7.45, 8.13, 8.45
Regional Report 7.15.
Pop Video with Julie Brown 7.55.
Tuesday Specials: Christmas Past with Irene Handl, who looks back to the best of her childhood memories 8.17
Gyles Brandreth on Christmas Traditions.
Pop Special. A profile of pop group AHA. 8.45.
Film Review with Paul Gambaccini 8.54.
Wacaday 9.04.

9.25am Thames News
followed by
Fraggle Rock
Marooned
Boober and Red have never been the closest of friends, until they are trapped in a cave-in. Discovering that they may perish together brings many changes.
Fulton Mackay is the Captain (Repeat)

9.50am Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
Thomas's Christmas Party
Thomas and his friends from the engine shed say thank you to an old lady and everyone has a happy Christmas. Ringo Starr tells the story(Repeat)

10.00am The Night Before Christmas
cartoon
'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Disney cartoon in which Santa goes to visit
some children all tucked up in bed. At the sound of Santa's trumpet all the toys come to life and have a big party

10.05am The Battle of the Monster Trucks
Spectacular action from America as huge, customised trucks race against each other. Watch Bigfoot, UFA-1, Psycho and others — the biggest, meanest
monster machines ever created...

10.55am Film : Never Never Land (1980)
starring Petula Clark and John Castle
When eight-year old Jennie is dumped on relations by her recently divorced father, she finds in the home of her Auntie Bee and Uncle Jim a
very sympathetic friend in her cousin Joe. There are three children in the family and their lives are disrupted by the addition of another child.
So the older two, Angela and Walter, make life exceedingly difficult for Jennie and Joe. But they have a way out. Joe, who is in love with the idea of
Peter Pan and his statue in London's Kensington Gardens, takes Jennie with him into the land of fantasy and Peter Pan and Wendy and the Lost Boys

12.30pm God Bless Us Every One!
with Frank Finlay, Jane Lapotaire, a celebration from All Saints' Church, Kingston-upon-Thames
People have worshipped in All Saints' Church at Kingston upon-Thames for more than 1000 years. From this historic church comes a
celebration in words and music, spanning 600 years of reflection on the Birth of Christ, from the beauty of the medieval carol to Sir John Betjeman's
contemporary view of Christmas. Frank Finlay and Jane Lapotaire are joined by children from Coombe Hill Junior School for a reading from Dickens'
timeless tale A Christmas Carol

1.00pm News at One

1.20pm Thames News

1.30pm Film : Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Special Edition) (1977)
starring Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Roy Neary, a film repair man for an electricity company, witnesses unidentified flying objects
near his home in Indiana. This encounter sets in motion a startling chain of dramatic events, and Neary tries desperately to understand what has happened.
He is baffled by the apparent governmental cover-up that blocks his efforts

3.55pm The Wind in the Willows
(New Series)
Winter Sports
animation with the voices of Michael Hordern, Richard Pearson, Peter Sallis, David Jason, Ian Carmichael
Animated adventure inspired by Kenneth Grahame's classic tale.
Music by Malcolm Rowe and Keith Hopwood, performed by Ralph McTell and arranged by Brian Ibbetson

4.20pm Splash into Christmas
with Michael Groth, Victoria Studd and Nino Firetto
Splash into Christmas. With only hours to go to Christmas Day, it's party time at Splash as Nino, Victoria and Michael open the doors to an invited
audience and some very special guests

4.50pm Knight Rider
Circus Knights
starring David Hasselhoff
Another adventure with the knight errant and his super-powered car, KITT.

5.45pm News at 5.45

6.00pm Thames News

6.25pm Help!


6.35pm Crossroads

7.00pm Carry On Laughing
Further film extracts featuring the Carry On team in saucy holiday mood —under canvas, in caravans and in a half-completed foreign hotel.
Disaster and laughter are guaranteed with: Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Kenneth Connor, Jim Dale, Sally Leeson, Carol Hawkins,
Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Sidney James, Dilys Laye, Jimmy Logan, Betty Marsden, Terry Scott, Joan Sims, Hike Sommer, June Whitfield,
Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor

7.30pm Whose Baby ?


8.00pm The Best of Morecambe and Wise
with Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Peter Barkworth, Suzanne Danielle, Hannah Gordon, Ann Hamilton, Glenda Jackson, Donald Sinden
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without Eric and Ernie, so join Ernie as he introduces some of the highlights from their past shows

9.00pm Film : Arthur (1981)
starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli and John Gielgud
Arthur Bach, heir to a vast fortune, is an habitual drunk, scandalises high society in New Yorks smartest restaurants and picks up prostitutes
in his chauffeur driven limousine. His family threatens to disinherit him unless he marries wealthy Susan Johnson and gives up his playboy lifestyle.
But then Arthur meets Linda Marolle, who is shoplifting at the time, and falls in love with her.. .

10.45pm ITN News

11.00pm Carols from Christ Church


11.30pm Midnight Mass
Join the nurses, doctors and patients from the Mater Infirmorum Hospital, Crumlin Road, Belfast, for Midnight Mass.
The Most Rev Cahal Daly, Bishop of Down and Conor, is the concelebrant, assisted by Fr Eamonn O'Brien and Fr Anthony McLaverty.
The organist is Robert Leonard

12.30am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

1.20am Calendar News


6.00pm Calendar

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1985

ITV LONDON

6.15am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
with Anne Diamond and Nick Owen
Cartoon time (until 7.15)
News Headlines with Gordon Honeycombe at 7.00,8.00,9.00
Weather with Wincey Willis 6.58,7.58,8.58
TV-am's Christmas Party 7.15

9.25am Christmas Fraggle Rock

9.50am Dangermouse
Journey to the Earth's. . .Cor!

10.00am The Christmas Morning Service
from Kenton Methodist Church

11.00am Disney at Christmas

11.15am Film : The Black Hole (1979)
starring Maximillian Schell, Anthony Perkins

1.00pm Jim Davidson's Top Pop Videos of '85

2.00pm The Royal Year
highlights presented by Anthony Carthew

3.00pm The Queen

3.05pm The James Bond Film : Moonraker (1979)
starring Roger Moore

5.30pm ITN News
with Carol Barnes

5.40pm Name That Tune
with Lionel Blair, Maggie Moone, Alan Braden and his Orchestra

6.10pm Coronation Street

6.45pm Fresh Fields Christmas Special
A Dickens of a Christmas, starring Julia McKenzie and Anton Rogers

7.30pm Minder on the Orient Express
starring Dennis Waterman, George Cole

9.30pm Des O'Connor Tonight
with Joan Collins, Dudley Moore, Alan King & Willie Tyler and Lester

10.40pm ITN News, with Carol Barnes

10.50pm Film : Gregory's Girl (1981)
starring Gordon John Sinclair and Dee Hepburn

12.30am Christmas Night Thoughts
from St Mary's Church, Wimbledon, with Alec McCowen and Paul Miles-Kingston

12.40am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London)

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1985

ITV LONDON

7.00am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
News Headlines : Gordon Honeycombe 7.00,8.00,9.23
Weather with Wincey Willis 7.03,8.03,9.26
Rainbow Brite Special 7.08
Flipper 7.30
Wide Awake Club/Are You Awake Yet ? Pantomime : Frying Pan Meets the Genie of the Kettle!

9.25am Fraggle Rock
The Minstrels (Repeat)

9.50am Sooty's Christmas Special
Matthew Corbett with guests Richard Cadell and Bernie Clifton

10.15am Santa Claus- The Movie : Behind the Scenes
Sue Robbie talks to Dudley Moore

10.40am Film : The Great Race (1965)
starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood

1.25pm ITN News
with Anne Leuchars

1.30pm First Annual Stuntman Awards
introduced by Lee Majors

2.40pm Film : Superman (1978)
starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder and Gene Hackman

5.15pm ITN News and Sport

5.30pm The Krypton Factor Celebrity Special
presented by Gordon Burns, with karate's Jeoff Thompson, oarswoman Beryl Crockford, Richard Ellison and Virginia Holgate

6.00pm Crossroads

6.30pm This Is Your Life
presented by Eamonn Andrews

7.15pm Give Us a Clue
presented by Michael Parkinson, with Una Stubbs, Lionel Blair, Judith Chalmers, Frazer Hines, Ian Ogilvy, Jack Watling, Lizzie Webb and June Whitfield

7.45pm Coronation Street- The First Twenty-Five Years

8.45pm ITN News
with Anne Leuchars

9.00pm Movie Première : Who Dares Wins (1982)
starring Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Edward Woodward & Richard Widmark

11.20pm Dizzy in Concert
Dizzy Gillespie with Marian Montgomery, Bud Shank and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, introduced by Benny Green

12.20am Christmas Night Thoughts

12.30am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

12.20am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1985
CHANNEL 4

2.35pm Launder and Gilliat : Film : Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)
starring Alastair Sim, Gordon Harker (B&W)

4.15pm Film : Pest from the West (1939)
starring Buster Keaton (B&W)

4.35pm Taize : That Little Springtime
documentary about the ecumenical religious community of Taize in France and its founder, Brother Roger

5.00pm Peace on Earth
narrated by Dame Flora Robson with readings by Laurence Olivier (Repeat)

6.00pm Altarpieces
Seeking the Blessed

6.30pm Film : The Snowman (1982)animation of Raymond Briggs's Book introduced by David Bowie

7.00pm News Summary and Weather
followed by
Gymnastics
the Kraft International from Wembley Arena

8.00pm Brookside

8.30pm Carols for Christmas
with David Willcocks, Aled Jones, Gerald Finley

9.35pm Launder and Gilliat : Film : The Lady Vanishes (1938)
starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave

11.25pm The Pointer Sisters in Paris

12.35am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1985

11.00am Film : Mister Skeeter (1985)
starring Peter Bayliss (TV Movie)

12.30pm Wil 6
adapted by Meredith Edwards from a story by Huw K. Evans

1.20pm Film : Happy Anniversary (1962)
starring Pierre Etaix

1.35pm A Closer Encounter
an Assignment Adventure film

2.35pm Film : The Marx Brothers at the Circus (1939) (B&W)

4.15pm Film : Nothing But Pleasure (1940)
starring Buster Keaton (B&W)

4.35pm The Queen

4.45pm Film : The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
starring Douglas Fairbanks (B&W)

7.40pm News Summary and Weather

7.45pm The Mind of David Berglas
Christmas Special

8.45pm Fonteyn and Nureyev : The Perfect Partnership

10.40pm Mel Brooks Hails Sid Caesar

11.40pm Weber's, Missa Sancta

12.25am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1985

11.00am Christ Stopped at Eboli
Four part Italian/French TV version of Rosi's acclaimed film

12.00 The Heart Has Its Reasons
a profile of Jean Vanier founder of L'Arche a community for the mentally handicapped which he began in France in 1964 (Repeat)

12.55pm Channel Four Racing
from Kempton Park 1.10, 1.40, 2.10, & 2.45 races

3.00pm Launder and Gilliat : Film : The Rake's Progress (1945)
starring Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle(B&W)

5.20pm Christmas Cracker
multi award winning seasonal animaton

5.30pm Incantation : Music of the Andes

6.30pm News Summary and Weather followed by
A Frame With Davis
with Steve Davis, Max Boyce & Emlyn Hughes

7.00pm Treasure Hunt Special
with Kenneth Kendall, Anneka Rice, Wincey Willis from Florida USA

8.00pm Viv
a portrait of cricketer Viv Richards

9.00pm Golden Hours and Sad Partings
Villers-Sur-Mer

10.00pm Film : A Delicate Balance (1973)
starring Katherine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick

12.30am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Saturday 20th December 1986

BBC1

8.30am The Family-Ness
8.35am The Muppet Babies
9.00am Saturday Superstore
12.15pm Grandstand
5.05pm News, Weather
5.15pm Sport/Regional News
5.20pm Bob's Full House
5.55pm Film : Oliver! (1961)
8.15pm The Paul Daniels Magic Show
9.00pm Casualty
9.50pm News and Sport, Weather
10.05pm Sir Harry - A Celebration
11.15pm Film : Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)
1.05am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Sunday 21st December 1986

BBC1

8.55am Play School
9.15am Morning Worship
10.00am Asian Magazine
10.30am Ideas Unlimited
11.05am Buongiomo Italia!
11.30am Parent Programme
11.45am See Hear! Christmas Special
12.35pm Farming
12.58pm Weather for farmers
1.00pm News Headlines
1.05pm The Dukes of Hazzard
1.50pm Cartoon
2.00pm EastEnders
3.00pm Film : Rooster Cogburn (19)
4.45pm Domesday
5.25pm David Copperfield
5.55pm Lifeline
6.05pm News, Weather
6.15pm Songs of Praise
7.15pm All Creatures Great and Small
8.50pm News, Weather
9.05pm The Singing Detective
10.25pm Shout!
11.15pm O'Donnell Investigates ... Booze
11.45pm The Sky at Night
12.05am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Monday 22nd December 1986

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM
6.30am News Headlines
followed by
The Flintstones
6.55am Weather
7.00am Breakfast Time
8.40am Watchdog
8.55am Regional News andWeather
9.00am News and Weather
9.05am Yogi Bear
9.10am Play Chess
9.20am Wacky Races
9.30am Alice in Wonderland
10.00am News and Weather
10.05am Neighbours
10.25am Children's BBC
10.30am Play School
10.50am Willo the Wisp
10.55am Five to Eleven
11.00am News and Weather
11.05am The Dukes of Hazzard
11.55am Junior Kick Start
12.20pm A Song for Christmas
12.55pm Regional News andWeather
1.00pm One O'Clock News
Weather
1.25pm Neighbours
1.50pm Bertha
2.05pm Film : One Million Years BC (19)
3.40pm Cartoon
3.50pm Henry's Cat
4.10pm SuperTed
4.15pm Odysseus the Greatest Hero of Them All : The Showdown
4.30pm Blue Peter
5.00pm The Box of Delights
6.00pm Six O'Clock News
Weather
6.35pm London Plus
7.00pm Wogan
7.35pm The Golden Oldie Christmas Show
8.00pm Comedy Classic : Porridge
8.30pm Three Up, Two Down
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News
Weather
9.30pm Film : North Sea Hijack (19)
11.05pm Bette Midler - Art or Bust!
12.05am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 23rd December 1986

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM
6.30am The Flintstones
News Headlines
6.55am Weather
7.00am Breakfast Time
8.40am Watchdog
8.55am Regional News and Weather
9.00am News and Weather
9.05am Paddington
9.10am Play Chess
9.20am A Charlie Brown Christmas
9.45am London Snow
10.00am News and Weather
10.05am Neighbours
10.25am Children's BBC
10.30am Play School
10.50am Willo the Wisp
10.55am Five to Eleven
11.00am News and Weather
11.05am The Dukes of Hazzard
11.55am Junior Kick Start
12.20pm A Song for Christmas
12.55pm Regional News andWeather
1.00pm One O'Clock News
1.25pm Neighbours
1.50pm Pigeon Street
2.05pm Film : The Jungle Book (1942)
3.50pm Jimbo and the Jet Set
4.00pm Panto-time! Aladdin
4.10pm Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper
4.35pm Grange Hill
5.00pm The Box of Delights
6.00pm Six O'clock News, Weather
6.35pm Regional news magazines
7.00pm Telly Addicts
7.30pm EastEnders
8.00pm A Question of Sport
8.30pm Kenny's Christmas Cracker
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News
Regional News, Weather
9.30pm In Sickness and in Health
10.00pm Movie Classics
Film : North by Northwest (1959)
12.15am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1986

BBC1

6.00am Ceefax AM

6.30am News
followed by
The Flintstones
Nothing But the Tooth

6.55am Weather

7.00am Breakfast Time
with Frank Bough and Jeremy Paxman

8.55am Regional News and Weather

9.00am News and Weather

9.05am Paddington
Christmas, narrated by Michael Hordern

9.10am Play Chess
the bishop with Bill Hartston

9.20am Babar and Father Christmas
It is Christmas time in the land of the elephants.
Babar wants to persuade Father Christmas to
visit his kingdom, and sets off to find him.
However, Rataxes the rhinoceros is determined
to reach Father Christmas and thwart Babar's plans

9.45am Jackanory : London Snow
part 2 of Paul Theroux's tale, with Elizabeth Spriggs

10.00am News and Weather

10.05am Neighbours

10.25am Children's CBBC
Phillip Schofield with birthdays and programme news

10.30am Play School
with Stuart Bradley and Elizabeth Watts

10.50am Henry's Cat
The Christmas Dinner

10.55am Five to Eleven
with Joanna Lumley

11.00am News and Weather

11.05am Keith and Orville's Christmas Circus
starring Keith Harris with Orville, Cuddles and Dippy
and special guest star Dana also featuring
Eli Woods , Ronnie Brody, Los Martinos,
Robbie Barnett and the Circus Dancers

11.45am Cartoon
The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

11.55am Junior Kick Start
The final heat of BBCtv's junior motorcycling competition
when six more riders aged up to 14 compete for the
Norwich Union trophy. The competitors, who have all
qualified via regional events, attempt to master a challenging
course at Easton Neston in Northamptonshire

12.20pm A Song for Christmas
Last of three programmes.
Elaine Page is the star guest in the climax of this year's
Children's Christmas Carol competition presented by
Phillip Schofield

12.55pm Regional News and Weather

1.00pm One O'Clock News
with Martyn Lewis
Weather : John Kettley

1.25pm Neighbours
Jim is furious with Nick.
Des gets a disappointment at work

1.50pm Little Misses
Little Miss Tiny
Narrated by Pauline Collins and John Alderton

2.00pm Rolf Harris Cartoon Time
A special seasonal edition featuring three classic
Christmas cartoons: Bedtime for Sniffles
Mister and Mistletoe and The Night Before Christmas

2.25pm Film : The Wizard of Oz (1939)
starring Judy Garland with Frank Morgan Ray Bolger
Bert Lahr , Jack Haley Follow the yellow brick road to
the wonderful world of Oz. There you'll join the Tin Man,
the vulnerable Scarecrow and the cowardly Lion. Plus,
of course, the enchanting Dorothy, as the foursome battle
with the Wicked Witch of the West

4.05pm Daffy Duck
Daffy Duck Hunt
The Iceman Ducketh

4.20pm The Box of Delights
Last of three episodes
Fire and Flood
The power and magic of the box allows Kay to travel back
in time. But he who dares to go must face terrible dangers

5.20pm Jim'll Fix It
Dear Jim,
Please can I ...
Collect the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree?
Run a baby clinic?
Find Aladdin's lamp?
Be a Christmas parcel?
Jimmy Savile makes these and other dreams come
true in this special Christmas edition

6.00pm News with Andrew Harvey
Weather, Bill Giles

6.15pm Regional News

6.20pm Film : Mr Mum (1983)
starring
Michael Keaton, Teri Garr
Jack Butler is the traditional sort of husband and father -
and happy with his lot as breadwinner to his wife, Caroline,
and three young kids. But when he gets fired and she takes
a job, Jack finds his life is turned upside down

7.50pm Childwatch Update
Esther Rantzen presents an update on Childwatch,
the programme which examined cruelty to children and
launched ChildLine last October

8.00pm The Two Ronnies
starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett in a special
Christmas programme of sketches, jokes and songs
Special guest Elaine Paige and Patrick Troughton

9.00pm Nine O'Clock Newswith Andrew Harvey
Weather

9.20pm Dallas
Proof Positive
Not even the Oil Baron's Ball can bring peace and goodwill
to Dallas, as Parmalee makes his move, and the foundations
of Ewing Oil begin to shake

10.10pm Wogan
with Larry Hagman and Linda Gray

10.45pm Christmas Eve with Val Doonican
Val, at home and in the studio, prepares for a traditional
Christmas with music and fun to start the holiday in a
relaxing mood with his guests, including snooker star
Dennis Taylor and Scots percussion virtuoso Evelyn Glennie

11.30pm The First Mass of Christmas
from Clifton Cathedral, Bristol

12.35am Weather

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1986

BBC1

8:00am Play School
Presented by Stuart Bradley & Elizabeth Watts
Story: The Nativity

8:20am The Muppet Babies
The Great Cookie Robbery
Gonzo wrestles with his conscience when he eats a
whole box of biscuits that he was meant to share

8:45am Roland Rat - The Series Christmas Special
Yes ratfans, it's time to put on your party hat and boogie
on down to the Ratcave where Kevin the gerbil, Errol the
hamster, Fergie the ferret and all the gang celebrate in style

9:10am Papa Panov's Special Day
Alan Rothwell tells the story of shoemaker Papa Panov

9:25am This is the Day
Unto Us a Child is Born - linking together the viewing
community Linda Mary Evans joins patients and staff
on Ward 76 at Bristol Maternity Hospital

9:55am Weather
John Kettley

10:00am Film : The Pure Hell of St Trinians (1960)
starring Cecil Parker, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell
Their latest trick is their best ever - the girls of St Trinian's
have burned down their school and are on trial at the Old Bailey.
With the girls under lock and key, the authorities can relax -
but for how long?

11:30am Christmas Morning with Noel
From the top of the British Telecom tower high above London.
Noel Edmonds presents a live outside broadcast uniting
families and friends throughout the United Kingdom

1:25pm Every Second Counts
presented by Paul Daniels

2:00pm The Top of the Pops Christmas Party
In this special Christmas Day edition Simon Bates,
Gary Davies, Janice Long and Peter Powell present
the most popular hits of 1986.
Also appearing The Pet Shop Boys, Billy Ocean,
Doctor and the Medics, Chris de Burgh and Boris Gardiner.
and featuring the year's No 1's on video

3:00pm The Queen
HM The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth

3:10pm Film : Annie, the Musical (1981)
starring Albert Finney Carol Burnett and Aileen Quinn as
Annie Little orphan Annie is a survivor at 10 years old;
she needs to be, when all there is to look forward to is
'Maybe' and 'Tomorrow'. But luck comes Annie's way and
she is adopted - albeit temporarily - into the safe-keeping
of millionaire Daddy Warbucks
Première

5:15pm News with Jan Leeming and Weather, John Kettley

5:25pm Russ Abbot Christmas Show
starring Russ Abbott. Special guest star Les Dennis
featuring Bella Emberg, Maggie Moone, Tom Bright
Suzy Aitchison, Gordon Kennedy

6:00pm Just Good Friends
starring Paul Nicholas and Jan Francis

6:35pm EastEnders (Part 1)
"Nothing can go wrong, Den. I want this to be the best
Christmas we've ever had at the Vic..."

7:05pm Only Fools and Horses
starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Buster Merryfield
In this special edition for Christmas, Del's plan is upset by
the upper set

8:25pm Miss Marple : The Murder at the Vicarage
starring Paul Eddington, Cheryl Campbell, Robert Lang, Polly Adams.

10:00pm EastEnders (Part 2)
'They should bring back hanging for people like Den Watts. ...'

10:30pm News with Jan Leeming and Weather

10:40pm Film : Educating Rita (1983)
starring Michael Caine Julie Walters
Rita White is 26 years old, married and a hairdresser.
Her husband's main preoccupations are drinking in smoky
pubs and trying to get Rita pregnant. She, however, has other ideas
Première

12:30am Weather

12:35am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1986

BBC1

8.00am Ceefax

8.35am Play School

8.55am The Muppet Babies

9.20am It's Your Move

9.45am Take Two Christmas Special

10.30am Film : Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
starring Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes

12.45pm Junior Kick Start
the final

1.15pm News with Jan Leeming Weather

1.30pm Film : The Guns of Navarone (1961)
starring Gregory Peck

4.00pm Disney Time

4.45pm Final Score

5.05pm Blankety Blank
with Les Dawson and Lynda Baron, Frank Carson,
Samantha Fox, Little and Large and Wendy Richard

5.40pm Barnum
starring Michael Crawford
including 6.50-7.00pm News ; Weather

7.45pm 'Allo 'Allo

8.30pm Bergerac

10.00pm News with Jan Leeming Weather

10.15pm Film : The Verdict (1982)
starring Paul Newman

12.20am Film : The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan

2.00am Weather