Christmas TV

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Monday 22nd December 1980

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Closedown
3.30pm Christmas Matinée
Film : That Certain Age (1938)
6.35pm One Hundred Great Paintings
6.45pm News Summary
Weather
6.55pm Film : Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie (1966)
9.00pm Alan Price
9.30pm The Pinch
10.15pm Dire Straits
11.15pm News on 2, Weather

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 23rd December 1980

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Speak for Yourself
11.50am Closedown
3.55pm Schools Prom
4.45pm Christmas Matinée
Film : The Desert Song (1953)
6.35pm One Hundred Great Paintings
6.45pm News Summary, Weather
6.55pm Napoli
8.45pm Country Holiday
9.25pm Ireland: A Television History
10.20pm Christmas with the Fivepenny Piece
10.50pm News on 2, Weather
10.55pm Film : Walter Matthau in Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Tuesday 23rd December 1980

BBC2

11.00am Play School
11.25am Speak for Yourself
11.50am Closedown
3.55pm Schools Prom
4.45pm Christmas Matinée
Film : The Desert Song (1953)
6.35pm One Hundred Great Paintings
6.45pm News Summary, Weather
6.55pm Napoli
8.45pm Country Holiday
9.25pm Ireland: A Television History
10.20pm Christmas with the Fivepenny Piece
10.50pm News on 2, Weather
10.55pm Film : Walter Matthau in Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1980

BBC2

10.20am Gharbar
In a special Christmas Eve edition of Gharbar, Rajni Kaul talks about
how Asians celebrate Christmas in this country and presents a
selection of music and dance by some of the well-known artists from
the sub-continent

10.45am Closedown

11.00am Play School

11.25am Closedown

3.55pm Christmas Matinee: The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
with Mario Lanza, David Niven and Kathryn Grayson

5.30pm The Long, Short and Tall Stories
Children's books, with Michael Rosen, Nina Bawden and Quentin Blake

5.55pm Sounds of Christmas
concert from the Royal Albert Hall, presented by Richard Stilgoe

6.45pm One Hundred Great Paintings
Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party. with Milton Brown

6.55pm News and Weather

7.00pm Moving Pictures
a journey through time, with John Wells, Anharad Rees and
Alison Steadman

7.35pm Sky
in Rhythm on 2 featuring John Williams
Herbie Flowers, Kevin Peek. Tristan Fry, Francis Monkman
Part 1 of a concert given by this popular group earlier this year

8.15pm Moon June
a love story by Brian Thompson,
starring June Barry and Roderick Smith

8.55pm Instant Sunshine
in Roads to Stardom with Peter Christie , David Barlow
Miles Kington , Alan Maryon-Davis
Three doctors and a journalist make up this lighthearted vocal and
instrumental group. When chance first brought them together in
the heady days of the late 60s they little dreamt that in a mere ten
years they would still be doing the same sort of show. It's not so
much that stardom has eluded them, as that they have eluded
stardom. After more than 70 television appearances, five radio
series, four records, a book, and offers from British and American
impresarios, nothing seems to change, usually because they can't
find the letter.
This film charts some of their epic journeys to the brink of success
and back again

10.00pm The Old Grey Whistle Test
Ian Dury and the Blockheads in a special Christmas Eve concert,
direct from the Dominion Theatre, London
Introduced by Anne Nightingale

11.00pm News on 2, Weather

11.05pm Film : A New Leaf (1971)
with Elaine May and Walter Matthau

12.50am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1980

BBC2

11.00am Play School
The Shepherds on the Hill, with Carol Chell, Carol Leader
and Fred Harris

11.25am Closedown

3.10pm A Year in the Life of an Exmoor Man
Tom Rook lives at Porlock on the edge of Exmoor. He has never
lived anywhere else, and never wanted to. Over the years he has
become an important member of the community that lives and
works on the moor.
The film follows Tom's year, from sheep-shearing to lambing, from
puppy-walking to the hounds in full cry, from Porlock Show to the
point-to-point - men and beasts move against the backdrop of the
moor.
Indeed, so deeply is Tom woven into that pattern of life, that the
film emerges as a portrait of Exmoor itself, its wide slopes of bracken
and heather, its secret coombes, and its people.

4.10pm Film : Blue Skies (1946)
starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby

5.50pm Little Swallow
A spoilt baby swallow spurns the food his mother brings him, but
finally learns his lesson, animation

6.05pm Film : The Band Wagon (1953)
starring Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan and Cyd Charisse

7.55pm News Summary

8.05pm Tosca
Italian film of the Puccini opera, with Placido Domingo and
Raina Kabaivanska

10.10pm The Queen

10.20pm One Hundred Great Paintings:
Seurat's La Grande Jatte, with Milton Brown

10.30pm Film : The Front Page (1974)
starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett

12.15am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1980

BBC2

11.00am Play School
Story: The King Who Built a Tower to the Moon
presented by Carol Chell, Carol Leader and Fred Harris

11.25am Closedown

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

2.15pm The Story of Christmas
An award-winning cartoon

2.25pm Film : The Berkleys of Broadway (1949)
starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

5.50pm Monkey
The Fires of Jealousy
Or how the Queen of Fire fanned the flames of Monkey's anger

6.35pm One Hundred Great Paintings
This week's subject: Outdoor Life Eakins (1844-1916)
Max Schmitt in a Single Scull at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York.
Written and presented by Milton Brown

6.45pm In the Country
Presented by Angela Rippon
Where the Dream Begins (9/16)
'I like this place in all its moods; I like the way it's been edited by wind
and age.'
The place is Dartmoor, the creative environment of Brian Carter, artist,
writer and poet.
Angela and Brian have in common a love of this austere landscape.
Each, in their own way, has explored every corner of this wild, remote
and beautiful countryside. Through his pictures, poetry and prose
Brian recalls images of Dartmoor as it was in his boyhood. These
were the days before the tourist when the moor was still a
secret landscape - a dreamscape measured by the seasons,
inhabited by characters like the badger, otter and the fox

7.15pm News Summary, Weather

7.25pm Ballet : The Nutcracker
With Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gelsey Kirkland, with artists of the
American Ballet Theatre.
The National Philharmonic conducted by Kenneth Schermerhorn
For his first major venture into choreography, Mikhail Baryshnikov chose
one of the world's most popular ballets, The Nutcracker, to Tchaikovsky's
enchanting score.
Baryshnikov says of the ballet: 'It is more than the spirit of Christmas. It
has suspense, romance, fantasy - something for everyone. It also has, I
think, the most glorious ballet music ever written.'

8.45pm Plain Murder
London, 1929: a foggy November day, and the grim spectre of
unemployment threatens three young men from the Universal Advertising
Agency until Morris comes up with the perfect solution: Murder!

10.25pm The World Land Speed Record
These 40 Glorious Years
Raymond Baxter takes a nostalgic took back to the days when Campbell,
Cobb and Segrave were national heroes. To the days when Britons held
the world's land speed record almost unchallenged. Nonagenarian
Sammy Davis , a former motor racer and journalist, recalls those
heroes. He was at school with Sir Malcolm Campbell - and
Campbell's daughter Jean Wales has more personal memories
of her brother Donald

11.10pm Film : The Secret Life of an American Wife (1968)
starring Walter Matthau

12.45am Closedown

[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)

[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

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

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

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

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1980

ITV LONDON

9.30am Cloppa Castle
White Elephant, with the puppets of Cloppa Castle (Repeat)

9.40am Rainbow
Nightdreams

9.55am Clapperboard
with Chris Kelly

10.30am Frank Muir's Christmas Extraordinary
Frank Muir, Valerie Pitts

11.00am Disneyland's 25th Anniversary
with Danny Kaye, Michael Jackson, The Osmonds, Adam Rich

12.00 Free Time
with Mick Robertson

12.30pm Take the High Road

1.00pm News at One

1.20pm Thames News

1.30pm The Walt Disney Classic
Chip 'n' Dale, with Donald Duck

1.40pm Film : Quo Vadis ? (1951)
starring Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov

4.45pm Christmas Nativity
Manorfield School, Poplar, presents the Greatest Story Ever Told

5.15pm Crossroads

5.45pm News at 5.45

6.00pm Thames News

6.30pm Give Us a Clue for Christmas
with Michael Aspel, Una Stubbs, Lionel Blair

7.00pm Christmas at Robin's Nest
No Room at the Inn, with Richard O`Sullivan, Tony Britton, David Kelly, Barbara Murray

7.30pm Coronation Street

8.00pm London Night Out Christmas Special
Tom O'Connor presents Cilla Black, Arlene Phillips' Hot Gossip, Mark Ryan, the New Black Abbots, Bernie Winters and Schnorbitz, the St Bernard, The Dymeks

9.00pm Film : Family Plot (1976)
Hitchcock`s last film, starring Karen Black, William Devane, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris

10.15pm News at Ten

10.30pm Film : Family Plot (1976) continued

11.30pm Midnight Mass
from St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough, Cleveland

12.30pm Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

12.00 The Riordans
(until 12.30)

1.20pm Calendar News
(until 1.30)

5.15pm Give Us a Clue for Christmas
(until 5.45)

6.00pm Calendar

6.35pm Crossroads
(until 7.00)

ITV GRANADA (as ITV London except)

12.00 The Riordans
(until 12.30)

1.20pm Granada Reports
(until 1.30)

5.15pm Give Us A Clue for Christmas

6.00pm Granada Reports on Christmas Eve

6.30pm Crossroads(until 7.00)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1980

ITV LONDON

9.00am A Merry Morning
children's party with Don Maclean, Guys and Dolls, Eddie Idris, The Chuckle Brothers, Pepe and Friends

9.45am Christmas Eucharist
from Canterbury Cathedral, using the new Alternative Service Book

10.45am A Christmas Star
cartoon incorporating carols(Repeat)

11.10am A Christmas Runaround
with all the contestants on ice skates, presented by Mike Read

11.40am Film : Digby-the Biggest Dog in the World (1973)
with Jim Dale, Spike Milligan, Angela Douglas

1.15pm Christmas Crossroads

1.45pm Billy Smart's Christmas Circus
from Winkfield near Windsor, with Keith Harris

3.00pm The Queen

3.10pm Film : George and Mildred (1980)
starring Yootha Joyce, Brian Murphy, Stratford Johns

5.05pm 3-2-1 Pantomime
presented by Ted Rogers, Chris Emmett, Mike Newman with Nicholas Parsons, Derek Batey,
Sheila Steafel, Bill Maynard, Mike Reid, Jacqui Scott, Bob Carolgees

6.00pm The James Bond Film: The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
starring Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland

8.30pm The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
with Peter Barkworth,Gemma Craven, Peter Cushing, Jill Gascoigne,Hannah Gordon,
Alec Guinness, Glenda Jackson, Peter Vaughan

9.30pm This Is Your Life
presented by Eamonn Andrews

10.00pm Janet and Company
Janet Brown with Roy Kinnear, Frank Windsor, Rod Hull and Emu

10.30pm News

10.40pm Film : A Touch of Class (1973)
starring Glenda Jackson and George Segal

12.30am It's Christmas In England
carols from St Richards with St Andrews School, Ham , Surrey

12.45am Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

ITV GRANADA (as ITV London except)

10.40pm Liza Minnelli in Concert in New Orleans

12.15am It's Christmas!

12.25am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1980

ITV LONDON

9.00am Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of the Living Lies
musical cartoon, with Burgess Meredith

9.25am The Sooty Christmas Show
with Matthew Corbett

9.50am Rainbow Christmas Show
with Geoffrey Hayes, Stanley Bates, Jane Tucker, Rod Burton,
Freddy Marks, Roy Skelton

10.15am Film : The Last Giraffe (1979)
starring Susan Anspach, Simon Ward

12.00 Christmas Star Games
with Michael Aspel, from the Sobell Sports Centre, North London

1.00pm ITN News

1.05pm Boxing Day Racing from Kempton Park
introduced by Brough Scott (1.10, 1.40, 2.15 races)

2.30pm Film : Zulu Dawn (1979)
starring Burt Lancaster, John Mills, Simon Ward, Peter O'Toole

4.45pm The Roman Invasion of Ramsbottom
musical play performed by the Children's Music Theatre

5.45pm News at 5.45

6.00pm Survival Special : Penguin Christmas
narrated by David Niven

7.00pm Film : Earthquake (1974)
starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner

9.30pm The Thoughts of Chairman Alf- at Christmas
On Yer Actual Boxing Day, starring Warren Mitchell

10.00pm ITN News

10.15pm An Audience with Dame Edna Everage

11.15pm Benson

11.45pm The Electric Theatre Show
presented by Mike Riddoch

12.15am It's Christmas
carols sung by children from the Effra Creative Arts Centre, London


ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

11.15pm The Pirates of Penzance

12.00 Superstar Profile : Dudley Moore

12.30am Closedown

ITV GRANADA (as ITV London except)

11.15pm The Pirates of the Pirates of Penzance
with Spike Milligan, Ian Wallace, Vivienne Ross (Repeat)

12.00 Film : Five Card Stud (1968)
starring Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum

1.45am Closedown

[akb48fan]

Re: Christmas TV

I've said it once before Darren and I'll say it again - many thanks for all the listings you've put up on this thread. Just looking through all of them I can quite easily see that the rot was starting from the beginning of the 90's on both ITV and the BBC. A couple of good programmes each year on an otherwise poor festive schedule.