Christmas TV

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1973

BBC2

11.00am Play School
Boxing Day outing to a village in Gloucestershire with Carol Chell.
Johnny Ball, Lionel Morton

11.25am Closedown

1.30pm Film : Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
starring James Stewart and Maureen 0'Hara

3.25pm Wide World of Entertainment
featuring The Amazing Chinese Acrobats

4.25pm Smike!
A pop musical freely based upon Nicholas Nickleby

5.20pm Alias Smith and Jones
What Happened at the XST?

6.10pm Man Alive
Sing a Song for Christmas

7.00pm Golf 73
Highlights of a fascinating year introduced by Henry Longhurst and
Harry Carpenter

7.45pm The Pilgrimage of Everyman
A journey to Santiago de Compostela with Edwin Mullins

9.05pm News on 2, Weather

9.10pm Film : No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
starring Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal

10.55pm The Old Grey Whistle Test
Bob Harris introduces this special edition featuring film shot during
Emerson, Lake and Palmer's recent European tour

11.50pm The Dalai Lama
Unique colour film of ceremonies in Tibet that have vanished,
probably forever

12.15am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve 1973 - Monday 24th December 1973 - ITV - Thames Television (London)
9:30am Sing Choirs of Angels
10:15am A Christmas Story
10:35am Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (film)(b-w)
12noon Cartoon
12:05pm Rainbow
12:25pm Michael Bentine
12:40pm News
1:00pm Mr. and Mrs.
1:30pm Jokers Wild
2:00pm The Truth About Spring (film) starring Hayley Mills, John Mills, James MacArthur
3:50pm Babes in the Wood
4:50pm Robert's Robots
5:20pm Clapperboard
5:50pm News
6:00pm All the King's Men by Richard Bennett, Beverly Cross
6:45pm Opportunity Knocks
7:30pm Coronation Street
8:00pm The Family that Lives with Elephants
9:00pm Carry On Christmas
10:15pm Julie Andrews: Julie's Christmas Special
11:15pm Kontakion (ballet)
11:50-12:45am Midnight Mass from St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day 1973 - Tuesday 25th December 1973 - ITV - Thames Television (London)
9:00am Rainbow
9:20am Sally and Jake
9:30am On the Twelfth Day
10:00am A Merry Morning
10:30am Service from Roman Catholic Chapel of St. John Fisher High School, Harrogate
11:00am Lad: a dog (film)
1:00pm Chipperfield's Circus
2:00pm The Glories of Christmas, with Princess Grace of Monaco, Janet Baker, Dora Bryan, Alfred Marks, Gerald Harper
3:00pm The Queen Speaks to the Commonwealth
3:00pm Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (film) starring Rosalind Russell, Susan Saint James, Van Johnson, Robert Taylor
4:50pm Queen of Hearts, with Danny La Rue
6:20pm News
6:30pm All-Star Comedy Carnival
8:00pm Tommy Cooper's Christmas
9:00pm Von Ryan's Express (film) starring Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard
10:00pm News
10:15pm Von Ryan's Express (film continued)

11:20pm Celebration, with Geraint Evans, Barry John

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day 1973 - Wednesday 26th December 1973 - ITV - Thames Television (London)
9:00am Rainbow
9:20am Rupert Bear
9:35am Laurel and Hardy in Babes in Toyland (film)(b-w)
11:35am Ken Dodd
12:35pm Paul Hahn Golf Show
12:55pm Peggy Fleming's Russian Ice Skating Spectacular
1:50pm Where Were You When The Lights Went Out? (1968 film) starring Doris Day, Robert Morse, Terry-Thomas
3:30pm Les Dawson: Sez Les
4:30pm HMS Pinafore: Gilbert and Sullivan
6:15pm News
6:35pm Crossroads
7:00pm This Is Your Life
7:30pm Coronation Street
8:00pm 55 Days at Peking (1963 film) starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven
9:30pm News
9:45pm 55 Days at Peking (film continued)
11:00pm Grierson, documentary
12:00pm Professional Wrestling
12:40am What Was He Like? with Sir Geoffrey Jackson

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1974

BBC1

9.00am Mr Benn
The Frogman

9.15am Boss Cat

9.40am The Hope and Keen Scene
on Christmas starring Mike Hope and Albie Keen with Jennifer Hill
and special guests Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band

10.05am The Languages of Animals
The Royal Institution Annual Christmas Lectures to Young
People by David Attenborough
Part 2 : Beware!

10.35am Speed Buggy
Speed Buggy is the ' pet' of engineer Tinker and his pals Mark and Debbie

11.00am Roobarb
When it was Christmas

11.05am Holiday Star Trek
Court Martial

11.50am A Summer Friendship
forty boys and girls aged 11 from ten countries meet for the first time to
work and play together for a summer month, without the help of a
common language

12.20pm News, WeathermanBarbara Edwards

12.25pm Pebble Mill Christmas
the songs, comedy, food, games and customs of a
Victorian Family Christmas

12.50pm The Black and White Minstrels Christmas Show
starring The Mitchell Minstrels

1.35pm Film : National Velvet (1944)
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp

3.35pm The Diane Solomon Show
Music and song with Christmas in mind, starring Diane Solomon
with special guests Spike Milligan, Demis Roussos, Arthur Negus

4.15pm Aladdin
starring Michael Aspel, Jacqueline Clarke, Dana, Peter Glaze,
The Goodies, Barrie Gosney, Derek Griffiths, Deryck Guyler,
Jan Hunt, Don Maclean, Pan’s People, Ed Stewart and Richard Wattis

5.15pm National NewsRichard Whitmore
Weather

5.30pm Tom and Jerry
in The Night before Christmas

5.40pm Film : Walt Disney's Kidnapped (1960)
starring Peter Finch , James MacArthur

7.10pm The Dick Emery Christmas Show

7.45pm The Likely Lads
a special Christmas edition

8.30pm Film : Ice Station Zebra (1968)
starring Rock Hudson with Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan,
Tony Bill , Lloyd Nolan

10.50pm Main NewsRichard Whitmore
Weather

11.00pm Andre Previn's Christmas Music Night
Janet Baker joins Andre Previn in a programme specially devised for
relaxation and enjoyment on Christmas Eve, including music by Mozart
and Tchaikovsky and a carol or two

11.55pm The Message of the Angels
Family Eucharist from the parish church of Hale, St Peter, Cheshire

1.00am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1974

BBC1

8.45am Carols from Canterbury
This year's Christmas Carol Service comes from Canterbury Cathedral

9.25am Camberwick Green

9.40am Cartoon Christmas Box
with Paul Jones who unwraps the box to discover new
versions of favourite stories :
The Foolish Frog; Sinbad the sailor, Babar the Elephant

10.25am Christmas Appeal
Dame Flora Robson appeals on behalf of The National Deaf
Children's Society

10.30am Christmas Morning Service
from Killearn Kirk

11.25am A Stocking Full of Stars
with Michael Aspel and Rolf Harris direct from the National Children's
Home at Harpenden

12.25pm Film : Way Out West (1937)
starring Laurel and Hardy

1.25pm Holiday on Ice
Glamour, grace and skill from one of the world's greatest ice shows

2.15pm Top of the Pops
with Tony Blackburn and Jimmy Savile

3.00pm The Queen
speaks to the Commonwealth

3.05pm Billy Smart's Christmas Circus

4.05pm Film : True Grit (1969)
starring John Wayne

6.10pm NationalNewsPeter Woods
WeathermanKeith Best

6.15pm Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game
with Anthea Redfern

7.15pm Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Jessica's First Christmas

8.05pm The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show
with special guest Max Bygraves

8.45pm Film : Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
starring Alec Guinness

11.20pm News Peter Woods
Weather

11.25pm Parkinson Takes a Christmas Look at Morecambe and Wise
with highlights from their award-winning shows

12.20am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1974

BBC1

9.05am Barnaby
Having lost her way Nordine is persuaded to work for Mr Pimolou's
circus and has to be rescued by Barnaby and Crow

9.15am Boss Cat
A film cartoon series about the gang of Alley Cats captained by the
ever-resourceful and formidable Boss Cat (Top Cat)

9.40am Holiday Star Trek
Cat's Paw

10.30am Film : Help! (1965)
starring the Beatles

12.00 Boxing Day Grandstand
(12.05 Football Focus
12.15 Rugby League; 12.55 Motor Racing
1.05 Racing from Kempton
1.25 Racing from Wincanton
1.40 Racing from Kempton
1.55 Racing from Wincanton
2.10 Racing from Kempton)

2.30pm Film : Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
special Boxing Day presentation of the famous feature film starring
Dick Van Dyke , Sally Ann Howes

4.50pm The Sporting Superstars
Seven top professional athletes from the arenas of British sport confront
each other over two days at the National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace,
for total prize money of £9,000 and the Wilkinson Sword Trophy

6.05pm NewsPeter Woods
WeathermanKeith Best

6.15pm Cilla
Boxing Day edition starring Cilla Black with her special guest
David Essex also starring Gerald Harper, The Wombles,
Irving Davies Dancers

7.00pm Film : The Magnificent Seven (1960)
starring Yul Brynner Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz,
Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn

9.05pm Steptoe and Son

9.45pm Main NewsPeter WoodsWeather

9.55pm Christmas with Kojak
The Chinatown Murders
A special feature-length film starringTelly Savalas

11.30pm The Good Old Days
Christmas edition of Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the
Famous City Varieties Theatre, Leeds

12.25am Weatherman
Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1974

BBC2

11.00am Play School
Story : The Bell Tower

11.25am Closedown

5.30pm Tchaikovsky Night
Bernard Haitink conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra

6.20pm News on 2, Weather

6.25pm Oh Happy Day
Away from the worries of recent history, thousands of Americans
celebrated their July freedom with front-porch music of the
down-home kind, right in the middle of Washington.

7.00pm The Flat- 1974
Julian Wilson introduces the highlights of the 1974 Flat Racing Season

7.40pm Amahl and the Night Visitors
A Christmas opera with words and music by Gian-Carlo Menotti

8.30pm The Best of Not Only...But Also
starring not only Peter Cook but also Dudley Moore

9.10pm Getaway
The Golden Girls of Garie Beach
A Christmas Special from Australia with Ray Barrett and Diana Fisher

10.05pm The Old Grey Whistle Test
presents Elton John 's Christmas Concert broadcast live in stereo
from the Hammersmith Odeon

11.00pm Poor Christmas
with Roy Hudd

11.20pm Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1974

BBC2

11.00am Play School
Story : Christmas in the Stable

11.30am Closedown

2.55pm To You and All Mankind . . .
reflections on Christmas Day by The Rev Dr Howard Williams
Bloomsbury Baptist Church

3.00pm The Queen
speaks to the Commonwealth

3.05pm Golf 74
Harry Carpenter and Peter Alliss discuss the current trends in world
golf and look back on another fascinating year

4.05pm La Traviata
music by Giuseppe Verdi

6.10pm Film : Henry V
starring Laurence Olivier

8.25pm Evel Knievel
David Frost introduces another chance to see one of the more bizarre
events that took place in America this year: the attempt by the
motor-cycle dare-devil Evel Knievel to pilot his sky-cycle across the
Snake River Canyon

8.45pm Futtock's End
with Michael Hordern and Ronnie Barker

9.30pm News on 2 , Weather

9.35pm Face the Music
Christmas edition of television's musical quiz invites you to match your
musical wits against Joyce Grenfell,Robin Ray, Bernard Levin

10.20pm When the Angels...
and the Wise Men and the Shepherds grew up
Kenneth More tells the story of what has happened to the children
that appeared in a televised nativity 18 years ago

11.05am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1974

BBC2

11.00am Play School
Story: Jenny's Smile

11.25am Closedown

2.55pm Cartoon World- Zagreb 74

3.50pm Little Mermaid

4.20pm Look, Stranger
The World of Blaster Bates

4.50pm A Forest Tale : Friends for Life
Storyteller : Frank Duncan

6.00pm Scatsophrenia
An alley cat's dream

6.10pm Return to the River Kwai
What really happened on the River Kwai?
In this programme, John Coast , author and ex-POW, revisits the
scenes of his enforced labour, together with three of his former
Japanese captors

7.00pm Lord Peter Wimsey
Murder Must Advertise

8.30pm 'I’ve Cracked It'
A study in puzzles you can do and puzzles you can't

9.00pm A Christmas Box from Joseph Cooper
The master of the dummy keyboard tonight plays the real one and is
joined by Joyce Grenfell, Neville Marriner, The Academy of
St Martin-in-the-Fields in a programme of melody (sometimes hidden)
and monologue

10.00pm The Moon Shines Bright on Charlie Chaplin
by Robert Hughes

10.50pm News on 2, Weather

10.55pm Test Cricket from Australia
by satellite The Third Test Australia v England from Melbourne
highlights of the first day's play

11.25am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1974

ITV LONDON

9.30am The Forgotten Pioneer

9.55am The Ugly Duckling

10.15am Film : Follow That Dream

12.00 Hickory House

12.15pm Amazing Enough It's Rod Hull and Emu

12.30pm Charles Dickens' World of Christmas

1.00pm First Report

1.15pm Hark Now Hear the Angels Sing

1.45pm Look Who's Talking

2.45pm Film : The Three Worlds of Gulliver

4.30pm Magpie Christmas Special

5.15pm The Little Match Girl

5.50pm News

6.00pm The Dickens of a Christmas

6.35pm Crossroads

7.00pm The Val Doonican Show

7.30pm Film : The Gypsy Moths

9.30pm Markheim

10.00pm News at Ten

10.20pm Trial by Jury

11.00pm The Mass of the Nativity

12.20am Close

ITV Yorkshire (as ITV London except)

9.00am A Christmas Story

9.25am European Skating Gala

10.20am Gidget Makes the Wrong Connexion

11.10am George Mitchell's Wandering Minstrel Show (until 12.00)

6.00pm Calendar(until 6.35)

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1974

ITV LONDON

8.45am Carols in Kirkgate

9.20am A Story from the Bible

9.30am Sooty's Christmas Party

10.00am A Service for Christmas Morning

11.00am A Merry Christmas

11.30am Film : Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)

1.15pm Christmas Rock With 45

2.00pm David Nixon's Christmas Magic

3.00pm The Queen

3.05pm Film : Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines

5.35pm News

5.45pm Meet Peters and Lee

6.15pm The Tommy Cooper Hour

7.15pm This Is Your Life

7.50pm Film : The Undefeated

10.00pm News

10.15pm Private Lives

10.45pm For This Christmas Only

11.45pm What Was He Like ?

11.55pm Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

11.45 no programme

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1974

ITV London

9.00am On the Twelfth Day

9.20am Film : The Man Called Flintstone (1966)

10.45am The Blind Horn's Hat

11.10am Christmas Clapperboard

11.40am Rainbow

12.00 Born Free

12.55pm News

1.00pm Chipperfield's Christmas Circus

2.00pm Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo

2.30pm Film : The Great Race (1965)

5.15pm The Golden Shot

6.15pm News and Sport Results

6.30pm Whodunnit ?

7.15pm Film : The Valley of Gwangi (1969)

9.00pm Tonight with Danny La Rue

10.00pm News

10.15pm Heroes of our Time ?

11.25pm Night Gallery

11.50pm What Was He Like ?

12.00 Closedown

ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

11.25pm Corridor 400
with Suzanne Pleshette

12.25am Closedown

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Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1975

BBC1

8.45am Teddy Edward
told by Richard Baker (Repeat)

8.50am The Mister Men
Mr Happy told by Arthur Lowe(Repeat)

9.00am Banana Splits(Repeat)

9.35am Before the Ark
3/8 Detective Story (Repeat)

10.05am The Engineer Through the Looking Glass
Royal Institution Lectures by Professor Eric Laithwaite
6 : It's My Own Invention

11.05am Away in a Village
Three weeks in the life of a Dorset village as it prepares for Christmas
3 : I'll Have a Bash at Gaspar...

11.40am Holiday Star Trek
Operation Annihilate (Repeat)

12.30pm Foghorn Leghorn
Crockett Doodle Do (cartoon)

12.35pm Laurel and Hardy
Thicker than Water (b&w)

12.55pm News, Weather Barbara Edwards

1.00pm Pebble Mill Christmas Special
with guests Roy Hudd, Stan Boardman,The Haworth Brass Band

2.05pm Film : Jumbo (1962)
starring Doris Day, Stephen Boyd

4.05pm Bugs Bunny
Jack Wabbit and the Beanstalk (cartoon)

4.15pm The Crackerjack Pantomime : Robinson Crusoe
starring Don Maclean, Peter Glaze, Jan Hunt and Ed Stewart
with special guests Windsor Davies, Don Estelle,
John Inman, John Laurie

5.20pm Newswith Peter Woods, Weatherman

5.35pm Tom and Jerry : (London & South East)
or
Regional News (All other English Regions)

5.45pm Jim'll Fix It
A Christmas Special with Jimmy Savile OBE

6.30pm Film : Walt Disney's The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)
starring Fess Parker and Jeffrey Hunter

7.55pm The Dick Emery Christmas Show

8.25pm Porridge
No Way Out, starring Ronnie Barker

9.10pm Kojak : A Question of Answers
a new full-length film for Christmas Eve, starring Telly Savalas

10.45pm Newswith Peter Woods, Weather

11.00pm André Previn's Christmas Music Night
Janet Baker and Andre Previn in a programme devised for relaxation
and enjoyment on this Christmas Eve

11.50pm Midnight Mass of the Nativity
from St Eugene's Cathedral Diocese of Derry

1.15am Closedown

[darren]

Re: Christmas TV

Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1975

BBC1

9.00am Ragtime
with Maggie Henderson and Fred Harris (Repeat)

9.15am Hark the Herald Angels Sing
The Christmas Story told in carols

10.00am The Happy Prince
cartoon

10.24am WeatherBarbara Edwards

10.25am Keith Michell
appeals on behalf of the NSPCC

10.30am Christmas Morning Service
from St George's Chapel, Windsor

11.45am Rod Hull and Emu
Sing a Christmas Song

12.20pm Laurel and Hardy
Pack Up the Troubles (b&w)

1.20pm Holiday On Ice
Your annual rink-side seat at one of the world's most spectacular
touring ice extravaganzas

2.10pm Top of the Pops
introduced by Tony Blackburn and Noel Edmonds

3.00pm The Queen
speaks to the Commonwealth

3.05pm Billy Smart's Christmas Circus

4.05pm Film : The Wizard of Oz (1939)
starring Judy Garland

5.45pm National News
with Kenneth Kendall and Weatherman

5.50pm Bruce Forsyth & the Generation Game
with Anthea Redfern

6.55pm Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

7.40pm The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
with special guests Diana Rigg, Des O'Connor, Gordon Jackson,
Diane Solomon,Robin Day, Brenda Arnaur

8.45pm Film : Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford Première

10.30pm The Good Old Days
Christmas edition of Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the
Famous City Varieties Theatre, Leeds

11.20pm Newswith Kenneth Kendall Weather

11.30pm Parkinson meets Bob Hope

12.30am Weather